Chapter 40: Three Hundred Obediences
Tang De was very happy about the words given by Pei Qing and immediately expressed his acceptance. He also respectfully thanked Pei Qing. Then he could not suppress his inner joy and believed that he could fully display his life's wisdom from now on.
So Tang De tried to write a poem to express his ambition. Not long after he walked out of Juyi Hall, he saw a chicken coop, where there was a mighty and majestic rooster. He immediately became inspired and had a great mouth: "The red crown on his head does not need to be cut, and he will go to the future with snow-white clothes. He never dared to speak lightly in his life, and he sang thousands of doors and doors opened."
Tang De was still unsatisfied. He picked up a piece of dry wooden stick, drew the image of a big rooster on the ground, and then wrote the poem aside.
At this moment, a cheer came from behind: "Okay, the painting is good, the writing is not bad, the poem is simple, and what is even more rare is that it has profound meaning and shows the noble ambition of Mr. Lucky. It is really amazing. I really don't know when such a master with three masters in poetry, painting and calligraphy appeared in the village?"
When Tang De heard the sound, he turned around and saw that the other party had seen him before, because he was there when Pei Qingmao was awarded the talent not long ago. Pei Qing also introduced that this person was a person in charge of internal affairs in the parable. His surname was Xie, and he seemed to be from the Xie family of Chen State.
"It turned out to be Mr. Xie. His wise eyes are like a torch. He can see through Tang's intention at first sight. It seems that he is also a person who loves poetry. Since that's the case, you might as well ask Mr. Xu to give advice." Tang De liked his favorite poetry and essays in his life. Now, when he suddenly saw his fellow disciples, he was immediately happy and pulled Xie Lingyun to appreciate his poems.
Xie Lingyun also liked this, so he smiled and said, "We are all people who love poetry, but they just talk to each other..."
So the two of them discussed each other's poems and essays for three hours. The more they talked, the more they felt speculative, and they appreciated each other, and their feelings became stronger...
During this period, Deng Dang and his 300 people also received the news that Pei Qing was elected as Maocai, and they were shocked because they also knew that under normal circumstances, Maocai would only be recommended by officials, but Pei Qing, as a commoner, was directly elected as Maocai, which was really unexpected.
And another point, now is the time for them to make a choice. They had agreed with Pei Qing that once Pei Qing was successfully recommended, they would unconditionally be loyal to Pei Qing and would never make plans to join Sun Ce in the future.
This will have a bad impact on their reputation, because they had no intention of betraying Sun Ce. As long as they find a way to find Sun Ce and explain the whole story clearly, they will be forgiven by Sun Ce and will be members of the Sun family army in the future. If Pei Qing was not available, this would be their life trajectory. However, once they decide to be loyal to Pei Qing, they will have to be charged with traitors from now on.
But if they leave like this, their reputation will be worse, and the crime of ungratefulness and untrustworthy are not something they can bear.
"Brother Deng, what should we do now? Have you made a decision?" Zheng Chang, the soldier beside Deng Dang, asked.
Deng Dang sighed and said slowly: "No matter how we make a decision, we are destined to be traitors. But if we really choose, I think we know in our hearts how courtesy the eldest master Pei treats us at the beginning? Although we helped him fight, he spared our lives and saved us several times. At the same time, he rewarded us with many things. There are actually not many things we have received in Sun Yuzhou. Since we are destined to let go, we can naturally let down those who have less kindness, because in this way we can find ways to repay us in the future. However, the eldest master Pei treats us with great kindness, so we can only repay it with death!"
After hearing this, Zheng Chang nodded and said, "Brother Deng thought the same as me. In fact, I had already made a decision before this. If Brother Deng insisted on leaving, I naturally could not stop him, but I had to choose to stay. In fact, to say something that should not be said, only Brother Deng was once a personal soldier in Sun Yuzhou, and was also selected as a personal soldier on the first day of Sun Yuzhou's death. He did not receive any good treatment at all. Most of us just joined the army. At most, only half a year of training was trained. And everyone fought to the death on the battlefield. Everyone killed at least one enemy, no coward, which was also considered to repay Sun Yuzhou's affection. Besides, just like Brother Deng said just now, we can find a way to repay Sun Yuzhou's kindness in the future, but we cannot repay the kindness of the boss to us at all, and we can only repay it with death. Therefore, I, Chang Zheng, raised his hands to agree with Brother Deng's decision."
"I agree, too."
"I agree too..."
Each of these three hundred people expressed their opinions, and everyone proposed to be loyal to Pei Qing, and they must not do anything to be sorry to Pei Qing. Although their voices are loud and small, everyone's faces are very firm.
At the end, Deng Dang made a statement and said, "Okay! Since everyone has made such an unanimous decision, let's take action immediately and go to see the boss together. Oh, I'm wrong. Now the boss has been hailed as a Maocai. As long as he is appointed as an official in the future, he will be the worst county magistrate. Therefore, we must at least respect the respectful title of the county magistrate, respect the 'Ming Gong' and explain our feelings to him."
After saying that, Deng Dang took the lead and took everyone to the Juyi Hall to pay homage to Pei Qing.
"The villain is waiting to pay homage to Gong Ming." When Deng Dang and others saw Pei Qing, they not only called Gong Ming Ming, but also held military salutes from the following. This was already very obvious and they wanted to declare their loyalty to Pei Qing.
"You already know my business?"
Pei Qing had a faint smile on the surface, but he felt extremely excited in his heart, because this was a regular army of 300 people, and it was once commanded by Sun Jian, the tiger of Jiangdong. You should know that during the entire process of attacking Dong Zhuo, only Sun Jian's army won several victories, and also killed Hua Xiong, a general under Dong Zhuo. He was deeply afraid of Dong Zhuo and believed that except for the two Yuans and Sun Jian, there was nothing else in the world.
"Yes, we have heard of this. After this, we decided to pay our loyalty to Gong Ming in accordance with the previous agreement. If Gong Ming does not abandon him, we are willing to follow the three hundred righteous deeds of Gong Ming, and to protect Gong Ming, and will not refuse. If we violate this oath, we will all die without a place to bury us!"
"If you violate this oath, you will die without a place to die..." Three hundred people shouted to swear allegiance to Pei Qing. Although there were not many people, they were bold and majestic, which was moving.
Pei Qing hurriedly bowed and said, "What kind of virtue is Qing? You can treat me like this! I, Pei Qing, don't forget my brothers' affection. Next, I would like to ask my brothers to do me a favor, take off a hair, and register my name. If I call out whose name within one day, please go to the Juyi Hall to find me in order, which may be of some help to your growth."
Chapter completed!