Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 334 Answer

  Although the rain and fog were hazy, Fei Qian's eyes lit up, and he recognized a slightly familiar tall figure.

  Fei Qian trotted forward for two steps, ignoring the yellow mud staining the hem of his robe, and when he left the gate of the camp, he bowed his head and said, "I'm late to welcome you, please forgive me!"

  Ma Yan also led the crowd to salute Fei Qian.

  Yesterday, I felt that Ma Yan was tall and strong, but today he was wearing a military uniform, which made him look even more fierce.

  Ma Yan bowed his hands solemnly and said: "Yesterday, I was so rude, I still hope that the envoy Haihan." After speaking, he took the wild pheasant from the woman in military uniform and offered it with both hands.

   This is not refusal to accept it, nor is it stingy, or for the sake of saving trouble, it seems to be sending back the gift that Fei Qian sent.

   This is the "gift of returning the pheasant".

  It evolved from the "Returning Jade Ceremony" in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes and kings were all entrusted by the Zhou Dynasty in the early days. To a certain extent, they were all brothers. There are four etiquettes of "sending jade", "citing jade", "receiving jade" and "returning jade".

In fact, it is an exquisite jade, and then the envoy takes it to the country where the envoy is sent, indicating that the princes and kings of the envoy are as noble as exquisite jade. This is "sending jade"; Make a resignation to show modesty, that is, "ciyu"; then the envoy offered again, and the princes and kings "received the jade" after fasting; He will return this piece of jade as a gift to the envoy king, which is "returning the jade".

  Bringing the same piece of jade around conveys good wishes, without spending too much money or increasing the burden on both parties. The "reciprocity of courtesy" in Zhou Rites is a simple and profound etiquette of reciprocity.

  The rank of princes and kings is jade, so the mutual gifts between scholar-bureaucrats are wild pheasants.

   Fei Qian smiled slightly, took the wild pheasant with both hands, and handed it to Jia Qu, who rushed over afterward, and Xuxu used his hands to lead to the camp gate, inviting Ma Yan and others to enter the camp.

But Ma Yan did not move, but turned half of his body, gestured to the people behind him, and said: "Mr. , I have some doubts, please ask Fei Shijun to fulfill..."

   "Dare to ask Mr. Fei, why did you come? And why are you fighting?"

  The Ma family is said to be a family, but in fact it is already very thin, basically similar to a larger family. There were not many people in their prime of life, including Ma Yan, there were only six or seven people, the rest were either old or young, and some family members hid in the three carts behind.

  All the members of the Ma family, including Ma Yan, watched quietly, waiting for Fei Qian's answer.

   "Ah... the rain has stopped!" Fei Qian said suddenly.

  It was only then that everyone realized that the rain had stopped at some point, and the air was filled with a unique fresh smell, like the smell of hope.

   "Shuye, summon the whole army!" Fei Qian ordered.

   "Wei!" Although Huang Cheng didn't know what Fei Qian wanted to do, he still agreed immediately, and immediately issued an order.

  A drummer rushed to the camp gate, tore off the oilcloth that blocked the rain, grabbed the drumstick, and beat the drum.

  The slightly dull sound of rumbling war drums resounded over the camp, and the soldiers hurriedly got out of the tents and began to line up in the open space outside the camp.

  The last sound of the three-tone drum fell, and the army formation was also arranged. The veterans surrounded the periphery, taking into account the maintenance of order, and the newly recruited soldiers stood in the middle, facing the temporary high platform.

  Huang Cheng stood together with several military marquis and the group of Mayan and others from Shangjun.

  Fei Qian stood on a high wooden platform, looking from the left to the right, and from the front to the back. Among the crowd, there were familiar faces and unfamiliar faces.

   "Perhaps some people have heard that we are planning to return to Shangjun, and some have heard that there are already barbarians in Shangjun, and the land has been abandoned. Even if we go back, what else can we do?

   "Some people say how cruel the Hu people in Shangjun are. They like to drink raw blood and eat raw meat. They are like evil spirits with green faces and fangs. People like us will die if we go.

   "Some people say that I'm just a son of a family who doesn't understand anything. I want to exchange your flesh and blood for some false fame, and exchange your life for my promoted official position..."

  Several people in the army subconsciously avoided Fei Qian's brighter and brighter eyes.

"Maybe you don't know me completely yet. I'm Fei Qian, Fei Ziyuan, from Heluo. Huang Cheng and Huang Shuye, who led everyone to practice before, are from Jingxiang. Those veterans standing around you include Bingzhou and Si Li, and Shangjun, and most of you are from Hedong."

"Look at Zuize next to you, maybe he is not from the same place, maybe you didn't know him before, but on the battlefield, he can block the swords and guns from Japan for you, and clear the obstacles for you to advance, He is your brother, your family, and your life! Do you need to think about it when doing these things, oh, this is not from my hometown, should I go to the other side to help the villagers?"

  Fei Qian's speech was interesting, and there was a slight laughter from the army formation.

   "Why is that? That's because we all know that no matter who you are, no matter where you lived before, standing here today, we have a common name, we are-"

   "Han Chinese!"

"Whether it's in Sili, Hedong, or even Shangjun or Jingxiang, they are all called Han people! They all drink the same water, eat the same food, speak the same language, and use the same language. with the same words..."

"Our ancestors lived under the same sky, our fathers lived here on the same land, we also live here, and even our children and grandchildren also live on this piece of land that belongs to us! We are all Han Chinese! We are Friends are brothers and relatives!"

   "And there, in Shangjun, there is also such a piece of land that belongs to our Han people, but it was snatched away by the Hu people a few years ago..."

  “There used to be wheat seedlings planted by our Han people, there were houses repaired by our Han people there, and roads opened up by our Han people were once there...

"Where we laughed and cried, we shed sweat on that land, we shed blood there, we left the bones of our loved ones on that land, and we also left Our deepest pain...

  “Today, we stand here and gather together, not because we are warlike, but because we can’t forget our homeland and the land we Han people once had!”

  "We Han people don't bully others, so don't come to bully us!"

   "Even if we bullied people, this group of barbarians...don't even try to bully us!"

   "Now, we're coming back!"

  Fei Qian said word by word, "...The debt from that year, now it's time to pay back!"

   Those members of the Ma clan who stood with Huang Cheng, no matter men, women or children, were all weeping...

   The Han Dynasty perished because of its strength, but wouldn’t it also perish if it was weak?

   Take money to continue, can you buy it if you buy it?

  (end of this chapter)