[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

The next day, Cui Song went to the public office with poor sleep and a bit of sluggishness.

He "successfully raided" last night, and tried to close his eyes and muddle through on the grounds that "it's too early to go to bed", but the subsequent development failed as he wished.

After finally ending the quarrel, he and Guo Jia went smoothly again... insomnia.

As a result, he pressed Guo Jia to rest with his eyes closed, and the two tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

After dawn, he dragged Guo Jia to eat the food together, coercing Guo Jia to continue to rest, and went to the public office to fight.

Since his nephew Cui Yan was recruited by Cao Cao, he served as Cao Cao's liaison. In a broad sense, he can be regarded as Cui Song's peer, working in a public office.

Under Cui Song's request, Cao Cao tolerantly turned a blind eye and moved Cui Yan's office to Cui Song's next door. Later, the wall was demolished, separated only by a bamboo curtain.

After learning about this, Cui Yan's face turned blue, and the majestic face that originally resembled the director of the teaching department suddenly became a legend in the city that only children cry at night.

Cui Song also heard about this, but he still hangs around in front of Cui Yan every day.

On this day, when he finished his official business, it happened that Boss Cao sent someone to give summer relief benefits to his subordinates, so he asked the attendants to remove the paperwork, rearranged the short tables, and invited Cui Yan to come over to eat melons.

Cui Yan's gloomy expression changed for a few days, and finally he had no choice but to let his little uncle, who was a circle younger than him, do what he did—even though he had become more upright in the past few years and couldn't get used to seeing him. He dared to speak out against people and things, but Cui Yan, who was educated in Confucianism, always had a heart of respect for Cui Song, who was a higher seniority.What's more, the deep memory from childhood made him very frightened by some of Cui Song's expressions, and he was defeated before he could reply.

Now being greeted by his uncle, even if he didn't want to, he could only step forward.

Cui Song asked him to sit, and he sat down at the seat next to him; asked him to eat melon, he carefully picked the smallest courgette, covered his face with his sleeve, and ate it slowly to avoid the juice from falling.

Seeing his upright appearance, Cui Song felt exhausted.

"It's just you and me here, why are you so restrained?"

After finishing speaking, it seems that he wants to start an "unrestrained" head, change the sitting position into squatting, support the short table with one hand, and hold the melon in the other hand. There is no other difference between young people on TV, except that their postures are better.

When Cui Yan saw his "improper" appearance, his forehead jumped violently.

He endured again and again, but finally he couldn't hold back the desire to remonstrate. He carefully placed the melon with a towel, put it beside him, and said with a salute:

"This is the public office, and I still look at my uncle...to look at my appearance."

Cui Song continued to tilt, and lazily yawned:

"Ji Gui and I are our own family members, why bother to see each other like this?"

...Shouldn't it be a modest remark if you don't need to see outsiders? Is it appropriate to put it in this situation?

In the depths of Cui Yan's mind, a storm filled with pictures and texts of "Li" similar to this kind of semantics whizzed past, and the string called reason was crumbling.

"Uncle, please be careful."

Cui Song noticed the patience in Cui Yan's tone, and smiled slightly: "I neither pick my feet nor spit, how can I be disrespectful?"

Pick, pick...?

Even in his mind, Cui Yan couldn't say the second word.

He unconsciously followed Cui Song's words and thought of the corresponding picture, and suddenly felt dizzy.

Before he developed the symptoms of "heatstroke", he shook his beard and stared at Cui Song quite sadly:

"Although my uncle was open-minded in the past, he never had such... absurd words and deeds. Hearing that Guo Hou's 'death check', he sometimes behaved inappropriately. Uncle and Guo Hou have a close personal relationship, so don't accept Guo Hou's influence..."

Cui Song's move was intended to be a bit of a test, but when he heard his nephew blame Guo Jia without thinking, he was slightly annoyed, and at the same time he was a little more speechless.

Since Cui Song confronted Guo Han and Yang Guan face to face, Guo Jiafeng's murder situation has eased a lot.However, probably Chen Qun and Guo Jia were born at odds.In this life, he didn't have many entanglements with Guo Jia. Chen Qun, who had only worked with Cui Song for a while, treated Cui Song with a polite attitude, but he was only cold-eyed and cold-eyed towards Guo Jia.

Naturally, history appealed to Guo Jia's move of "doing no justice and prosecuting".

However, Cui Song counted Guo Jia's words and deeds in detail, and felt that apart from fishing at the adviser's banquet, occasionally not paying attention to the etiquette of public service, drinking and throwing around everywhere, seeing people who hate him too lazy to pretend to be a snake, and only maintaining a superficial politeness, he didn't seem to be Nothing out of the ordinary?

Cui Song, who has given countless auras to his close friends in his heart, can only see the advantages of Guo Jia, and automatically divides the above-mentioned actions into "small things", completely ignoring this court complaint in his heart.

And Guo Jia, as recorded in history, is "comfortable" and calm, and will not change himself because of Chen Qun's few words.

Now, seeing that Cui Yan blamed Guo Jia for his "inappropriate" words and deeds, and even concealed dissatisfaction in his words, Cui Song immediately stopped laughing and said solemnly:

"Ji Gui, what is a courtesy?"

Cui Yan hurriedly bowed to him: "The rites are the shoes[1], the guidelines, the virtues, and the behavior of people."

This is Cui Yan's understanding of etiquette, well-behaved, just like himself, upright and straightforward.

Cui Yan thought that his answer would satisfy his uncle, but Cui Song sat up straight, shook his head and said:

"No. Courtesy is the sincerity of the heart, the kindness of neighbors, and the discipline of oneself."

Cui Yan was taken aback by the explanation he had never heard before, and then thought about it.

"When two people sit opposite each other, do it politely. This 'ritual' means respect. At that time, people regarded squatting as immodest, and thought it was an expression of contempt and disrespect for each other. Let me ask Ji Gui, I sit squatting for comfort. , do you despise you?"

These words vaguely made Cui Yan aware of his uncle's intentions:

"...No."

"If it's not Ji Gui who is here today, but Sikong and Shengshang, will I sit like this, crooked?"

Cui Yan lowered his head and waved away the devil image in his mind: "...No."

No matter how uninhibited my uncle is, he still knows how to behave, and he will not act presumptuously in front of outsiders.

While he was restless, Cui Song heard the words with a smile:

"People have relatives and estrangements, and etiquette is divided into internal and external, is it not?"

Cui Yan paused, then sighed, "Exactly."

Cui Song changed the subject: "If you stick to etiquette, would it be rude for Ji Gui to criticize his uncle and judge his elders? Is it rude to comment lightly on Sikong's faults, but just to say that he committed a crime? Hearsay, wild guesses, and malicious guesses about Guohou's character , is it rude?"

Three consecutive rudenesses made Cui Yan startled, and bowed his head with his sleeves down.

"Yan committed the crime, just for remonstrance..."

Cui Song pressed his shoulder and stopped the words behind him:

"Etiquette is self-discipline, not a tool for attacking and interrogating."

Rituals are not just a tool for rulers to govern the people, but also a benchmark for self-discipline.

Everyone has manners, and everyone's manners are different.People use etiquette to regulate their words and deeds, to abide by principles, and not to cross boundaries easily. This is the original intention of etiquette.

Using "rituals" to frame others is not called "rituals", it is called moral kidnapping, meddling in other people's business.

Except for a few issues of principle, those who use their own ideas to measure the other party, hold on to the other party's behavior, and criticize the other party with courtesy will only attract the disgust of others.

In history, Cui Yan was finally killed, except for the matter of falsely discussing the establishment of the crown prince, at least half of the reasons were his outspoken admonitions and courteous interrogation.

After listening to the harsh words for a long time, even his casual emotion was considered by Cao Cao as irony and dissatisfaction with him, and he was finally bestowed upon him to death.

Cui Song knew Cui Yan's temperament and his respect for etiquette, so he had a try.

Cui Yan is not a fool, since the first time he met Cao Cao, Cui Song blocked him when he was about to speak out, and he received his strange gaze, so he vaguely sensed the key point.

Now being induced by Cui Songxun and reasoning, he sensed Cui Song's painstaking efforts, bowed down, and solemnly said:

"Yan was arrogant and unreasonable. Fortunately, my uncle corrected me. I am really ashamed."

Cui Song's brows and eyes were slightly relaxed, and he said familiarly: "Sikong wants to keep you as the second son of the assistant, remember to be cautious in your words and deeds, and don't call yourself a teacher of virtue."

"Yan, remember."

After solving Cui Yan's uneasy factors, Cui Song asked Cao Cao for a few days off, strictly supervised Guo Jia's daily work and rest, and took care of his meals, medication and even daily life.

During this period, there were many secret messages passed on to him, which were instantly destroyed after reading.

One of the news is related to Xun Yu who is far away in Xudu.

That day, he made a "questionnaire" for Cao Ang and sent it to Xun Yu privately.When Xun Yu saw the "questionnaire", he was shocked.Knowing that it was Cui Song's handwriting, he quickly wrote to ask what happened.

Cui Song recorded his conversation with Cao Ang that day, as well as Guo Jia's understanding and evaluation of Cao Ang's army commander, on the silk, and asked the informant to keep it and send it to Xun Yu again.

His intention is very straightforward: If the former comrades are no longer strangers...just find another one.There is no "fragrant grass" anywhere in the world, and it is not difficult to find new ones after kicking the old ones.

Cui Song, who made up a rhyming allegory casually and secretly pulled the string without telling the big boss, didn't feel any pain in his conscience.Not only did he not, but he also felt his conscience throbbing.

In the end, although the boss is humorous, talented and caring for his subordinates... But he is really ruthless when he is cruel. Even though the cause of Xun Yu's death cannot be fully determined in history, given the situation at that time, Boss Cao must at least bear half of the blame. responsibility.

Not to mention Cui Yan, Kong Rong, Mao Jie, Yang Xiu and others who were killed directly or indirectly afterwards.

Although Cui Song respected and loved Boss Cao very much, he did not dare to pin his hopes on the misty future. needs.

More than a month later, when the sky was sunny and cloudless, Cao Cao suddenly ordered to go to Wuhuan, which caused an uproar in the government and the court.

The author has something to say: [1] Li, Lu also. The 3 characters come from "Shuowen".