During the Spring and Autumn Period, King Chu Yuan advocated Confucianism and recruited wise men. I don't know how many people in the world went home after hearing the news. In Jishishan, Xiqiang, there was a wise man named Zuo. His parents died when he was a child, and he studied hard. He cultivated the ability to help the world and learned to serve the people.
At that time, Zuo was almost fifty years old, because there were few benevolent policies and many bullies in China at that time, so he never wanted to be an official. Later, he heard that Wang Muren of Chu Yuan was honest and thirsty for talents, but he took a bag of books, bid farewell to his neighbors in the countryside and went directly to Chu.
It's already winter, and it's raining and snowing. Coupled with the biting cold wind, I walked left all day, my clothes were soaked, and I could hardly keep out the cold. Seeing that it was getting dark, he saw a hut in the bamboo forest in the distance. There was a little light outside the window, and Tao Bo was overjoyed. He ran to the hut and knocked on the door all night, and went out of the house. Zuo walked into the room and looked up and down. I saw that the furniture in the room was simple and shabby, and a bed was full of books. Zuo asked the man's name, but he knew that his parents had died since childhood. He only loves reading all his life and wants to save the country and the people. In a few words, it was very speculative, meaning "meet each other late", so he became sworn brothers. Zuo saw that he was handsome and knowledgeable, so he advised him to go to Chu to apply for a job, which was the same idea.
One sunny day, the two men took some dry food to Chu. Go out for a walk and spend the night. Seeing that the dry food is running out and it is snowing again, this is not a day. Zuo thought, if this dry food is provided to one person, it can still reach Chu, otherwise both of them will starve to death. He knew that his knowledge was not as profound as Yang Jiaoai's, and he was willing to sacrifice himself to realize Yang Jiaoai's reputation. Ye wants to deliberately lie on the ground and ask Yang Jiaoai to move a big stone and sit down and rest. By the time the big stone was moved, Zuo had already taken off his clothes and was lying naked in the snow, with only one breath left. Yang Jiaoai is a great country. Zuo told him to put on his clothes, take away the dry food and become famous quickly. Say it and die.
When Yang Jiaoai arrived in Chu, he was recommended to Wang Yuan by doctor Pei Zhong. When Guan Jiao was summoned to pay his respects, he went to Daxichen and worshipped as a Chinese medicine practitioner. He was given two pieces of gold 120 and silks and satins 100.
Gave up his official position to look for Zuo's body. After finding Zuo's body, Yang Jiaoai bathed in Zuo's fragrant soup and chose an auspicious place for burial. Yang Jiaoai kept the tomb here. The tomb and Jing Ke's tomb are not far apart. According to legend, after Jing Ke stabbed the king of Qin, the elves stayed after his death. When Zuo was buried next to him, ghosts and ghosts had an argument.
One night, I dreamed that my left side was black and blue. Telling the story of Jing Ke's violence, Yang Jiaoai woke up and said, "Jing Ke is hateful. My brother can't beat him alone. Let my brother help you. " Say, commit suicide. It was night: storms, thunder and lightning, and faint shouts and killings. Dawn: Jing Ke's grave has burst open.
When King Chu Yuan learned the news, he built a loyalty and righteousness temple for them, which was recorded on the tablet and has been burning incense ever since.
High mountains and Running water
During the Warring States Period in Zhong Ziqi and Yu Boya, there was a man named Yu Boya who played the piano very well. One day, while he was playing the piano in the deep forest, a woodcutter named Zhong Ziqi came over. As soon as Yu Boya played the piano, Zhong Ziqi said, "I'm as clumsy as Mount Tai." Yu Boya was surprised because he tried to show the mountain in his heart and he was recognized. Yu Boya thought: I will change the theme, and I will show water. See if you can still hear me. Who knows, Zhong Ziqi said, "The ocean is like a river." No matter what Yu Boya plays, Zhong Ziqi can hear music. So they became good friends and bosom friends. However, it was not long before Zhong Ziqi died. When Yu Boya lost his bosom friend and was extremely sad, he broke his piano and vowed never to play again. This story later formed the idiom "high mountains and flowing water" and a common word in daily life, "bosom friend".
Friends who are ready to die for each other
Poets Zheng Shaogu and Geoffrey are thousands of miles apart. They have never met before, but they admire each other and give answers. Zheng Shaogu once wrote a poem praising Geoffrey: "Talking about Geoffrey at sea, the spring breeze sits all over Lu Zhu Sheng." It means: when commenting on poetry, even Confucius' disciples in Shandong will listen, just like the same. Later, Zheng Shaogu passed away, and Geoffrey was shocked by the bad news. He was very sad. He rushed to Fujian to deal with the funeral and comfort his relatives.
Cheng Ying and Gongsun Chujiu.
Tu'an Gu, the general, was cruel and overbearing, and made a loyal doctor, Zhao Dun. With his encouragement, the King of Jin ordered the Zhao family to be beheaded. Overnight, Zhao Dun and his son Zhao Shuo, family, handmaiden, etc. all arrived. Counting more than 300 mouths, he fell in a pool of blood and became a ghost. Zhao Shuo's wife, Princess Zhuang Ji, survived because she was the sister of the monarch and was sent back to live in the inner palace. At this time, she was pregnant.
A few months later, Princess Zhuang Ji gave birth to a baby boy named Wu Zhao, but all this failed to escape Tu'an Gu's eyes. He has ordered the blockade of the inner palace. In the name of seeing a doctor, the princess called Zhao's close friend and village doctor to the inner palace, tearfully demanding that the child be rescued from the palace. Cheng Ying put Wu Zhao in the medicine cabinet and prepared to take him out of the palace. Han Biao, the commander of the garrison, was very impressed by Cheng Ying's justice. He let Cheng Ying and Wu Zhao go and drew his sword and committed suicide. Unable to find the whereabouts of Zhao's orphan, he was very angry and announced that he would kill all the babies in this country within six months.
In order to save the orphans of Zhao State and all the innocent babies in Jin State, I negotiated with the retired old doctor, Sun, and deceived them with false appearances: I let my son replace the orphans of Zhao State, and the old man Sun was responsible for saving the orphans, and then reported to him personally. After listening to the report, he brutally killed the old man Gongsun and the "orphan of Zhao". Jin witnessed a bloody massacre from top to bottom, but dared to speak out in anger. People gnash their teeth behind Cheng Ying's back and beg for honor. In the face of all this, Cheng Ying can only endure grief and indignation and bear it silently.
For more than ten years, Cheng Ying has painstakingly educated and trained Wu Zhao to be a young man with both civil and military skills. In order to get close to Tu'an Gu, he asked Wu Zhao to admit that Tu'an Gu was his adoptive father. Finally one day, he told Wu Zhao the truth. With the help of the general who came back from the garrison, he drew his sword and stabbed his enemy, telling him that he was an orphan of Zhao and must not be hacked.