In the evening of that day, because Zhuangzi's crutches were washed away by the water when he fell into the river, Meng Zhong helped him back to Zhuangzi's residence.

Seeing Zhuangzi and Meng Zhong return to the residence from afar, Zhuang Bo took Wu Ying, Xiang Liao, Le Jin, Meng Sui and other scholars who lived in the residence went out to greet him.

When Zhuangzi and Meng Zhong approached, Zhuang Bo was shocked to find that the crutches in Zhuangzi's hand disappeared. After saluting Zhuangzi, he asked Meng Zhong in confusion: "Meng Zhong, where is the Master's cane?"

Meng Zhong had no choice but to explain with a embarrassed expression: "Because of my negligence, the Master accidentally fell into the water, and the Master's cane was washed away by the water flow..."

After hearing this, Wu Ying, Xiang Liao, Le Jin, Meng Sui and others were stunned, and Zhuang Bo was stunned and his face turned red after being stunned, and he shouted angrily: "I'm called the servant master, how dare you..."

As soon as he said this, Zhuang Bo's voice stopped abruptly because he saw Zhuangzi reaching out to stop him. At the same time, he patted Meng Zhong with his hands holding him and signaled that the latter would help him walk inside.

Seeing that Zhuangzi was intending to defend Meng Zhong, Zhuang Bo's face was filled with anger. He thought he could guess that there must be something inside that he didn't understand.

What is the truth? Zhuang Bo has no time to ask. Seeing Meng Zhong helping Zhuangzi walk towards Juwen, he instructed the sects: "Meng Sui, Wu Ying, Hua Hu, you three will go to Mengbo City immediately and ask the doctors in the city to come to Juwen to diagnose Master. Xiang Liao, Le Jin, Le Xu, you three will immediately boil a pot of water and cook a pot of fish soup for Master to drive away the cold."

"Yes!" The sects bowed and took the order.

After giving the order, Zhuang Bo returned to the main house where Zhuangzi lived and asked Meng Zhong what had happened.

After listening to Meng Zhong's story, Zhuang Bo had to admit that it was impossible to blame Meng Zhong for this matter - if you want to blame, Zhuangzi blames himself for being idle. You said that even if you want to let go of the fish in the fish basket net, you have to consider that you are over 70 years old.

It is obvious that Meng Zhong, a disciple - although Zhuangzi does not admit it for the time being - is right next to him, why do you have to do it yourself?

Of course, Zhuang Bo naturally did not dare to speak out loud. He could only blame Meng Zhong and warned Meng Zhong to be optimistic about Zhuangzi in the future so that similar accidents would occur again.

Meng Zhong certainly accepted this humbly.

It is no exaggeration to say that when he saw Zhuangzi falling into the river today, he was also scared to death. A few days ago, he contradicted Zhuangzi, and he did not have as much emotional fluctuations as today.

About half an hour later, Xiang Liao, Le Jin, Le Xu and others cooked fish soup and brought it to Zhuangzi's bed.

After Zhuangzi drank the fish soup, he continued to rest.

In the evening, Meng Jian, the elder of the Meng family, took famous doctors in Jingbo City in a carriage and came to visit Zhuangzi.

It turned out that when Meng Sui, Wu Ying and Hua Hu arrived in Jingbo area, it was too late and Jingbo City had closed the city gate, so Meng Sui took Wu Ying and Hua Hu to ask for help from his grandfather Meng recommended.

After hearing the reason, Meng Jian immediately used his influence from the Meng family in Jingbo, and asked the city gate guards to open the city gate, and then found a well-known doctor in the city, and carried the latter in a carriage without stopping.

As for why Meng Jian followed, I thought I wanted to understand the situation. After all, Meng Sui, Wu Ying, and Hua Hu didn't know why Zhuangzi fell into the water. Meng Jian was worried that this matter would involve Meng Zhong.

However, after I arrived at Zhuangziju and learned the truth, Meng Jian realized that he had a false alarm.

After the diagnosis, the doctor said to Zhuang Bo, Meng Jian, and Meng Zhong, "The Master was not seriously injured. He was just a little scared and had a little physical weakness... The Master was old and it was normal for his physical weakness. I prescribed a medicine list for nourishing qi and replenishing blood for Master. After taking the medicine, he would be fine after taking a few days of rest."

Everyone was relieved after hearing this.

However, the doctor then warned: "In addition, the Master is old and has a false alarm today, and it may not be the same in the future. Therefore, I hope that people around you will be more vigilant in the future and do not have similar accidents again."

When Meng Zhong nodded in an awkward expression, Zhuang Bo felt thoughtful.

In fact, Zhuang Bo also knew that Meng Zhong was not blamed for today's affairs. After all, it was just because Meng Zhong was the only one who followed Zhuangzi at that time. Therefore, when Meng Zhong was busy with other things, he could not avoid taking care of Zhuangzi's side.

Therefore, Zhuang Bo felt that in the future, except for Meng Zhong following him, it would be better to send a few more people to watch Zhuangzi anytime and anywhere, so as not to happen again. Of course, this matter must be approved by Zhuangzi. After all, Zhuangzi's mentality is different from that of twenty years ago, and he doesn't like too many people to follow him.

Because it was already dark at this time, Zhuang Bo received Meng Jian and the doctor and lived in the residence.

During this period, the elder Meng Zheng general Meng Zhong and Meng Sui called him to the front and asked with a smile: "So, have you both become disciples of Zhuangzi?"

Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "The Master has not yet admitted that we are disciples, but just teach us."

"Haha, that's enough." Meng Jian stroked his beard and looked relieved.

In his opinion, since he has learned from Zhuangzi, he is Zhuangzi's disciple. As for whether Zhuangzi himself admits it, he thinks it is only a matter of time - he has started teaching, will he not admit it?

So he instructed Meng Zhong and Meng Sui and said, "It seems that Master has not yet recognized that you are his disciples, but that you have not achieved anything for the time being. As long as you sincerely ask Master, Master will eventually admit it in the future... Zhonger, Suier, I am very much looking forward to you. Among the contemporary juniors of my Meng family, I am optimistic about you and Meng Qing's son "Menghu"..."

"Menghu?"

Meng Sui's face showed a rather exaggerated expression.

Although they are all friends with great relationships, if Meng Zhong is more talented than him, he admits it, but if Meng Hu is more talented than him, then Meng Sui will never accept it - what will that guy have if he is not serious all day long?

I laughed but didn't say anything.

Among the contemporary Meng family, he is most optimistic about Meng Zhong, followed by his grandson Meng Sui. As for Meng Hu, a junior who can live with his father Meng Qing several moves in his teens will be an ordinary person in the future?

"The future of my Montessori clan is probably going to fall on these three boys."

Meng Jian stroked his beard and thought to himself.

Afterwards, the three of them chatted for a while, from the Zhuangzi incident to the "summer festival" and "feasting ceremony" held by the Montessus tribe a while ago.

According to Meng Jian, Meng Zhong's mother Ge, during the summer festival and feasting ceremony, she took a fancy to a young woman from the Hua family named "Yú", and hoped that the former would marry her eldest son Meng Bo.

The trouble is that it is not just Ge who fell in love with Hua Yu. The latter has a lot of admirers because of his outstanding appearance and his mother's family's status in the Hua family, both from the Montessori and from other families.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. For example, Meng Zhong's mother, Ge, had other admirers in addition to Meng Qu, but in the end, Meng Quying married Ge.

Yes, it is to win, not to marry.

In the intermarriage of various families, if "a woman is attracted by several men at the same time", then each family will jointly hold a similar competition to allow these young men to compete, and the final winner will marry the woman.

As for what to compete, it seems to be a competition of martial arts, but in fact it is a test of morality.

Yes, this form similar to the competition is called "Shooting Etiquette".

The archery ceremony is a kind of etiquette that was continued by the Zhou ritual, which is divided into four types: "big shot", "bin shot", "yan shot", and "village shot". Among them, the Zhou emperor used "big shot", the princes and ministers of various countries used "bin shot", and the banquet was "yan shot", and the nobles used "village shot" - families such as the Montessus, Ge, and Hua, and the head of the family was the title of the scholar-official.

Although the specifications and etiquettes may be different, the essence of "Shooting" is the same. According to records, those who shuoting will have to follow the etiquette when advancing and retreating. The inner ambition is straight, the outer body is straight, and then hold the bow and arrow to be firm. Hold the bow and arrow to be firm, and then you can speak in the words, which can be observed.

Simply put, we judge the character of a person by "the posture and emotions when raising a bow and shooting an arrow" and "whether he can hit the target" - the world believes that as long as a person's heart is correct, the bow and arrow he shoots will definitely hit the target, otherwise, he will not be able to hit it.

The Zhou royal family once used archery rituals to test and encourage the princes. Later, archery rituals gradually became a common ritual in the secular world.

Especially Confucianism, the escalating ritual is defined as one of the "gentleman's etiquette". [PS: If the mind is not right, you cannot hit it. This is correct. If you are distracted, you must not hit it. But if you do not hit it, you must be "misbehaved" and you feel that it is too idealistic no matter how you look at it.]

In short, in order to win the woman named Hua Yu, Meng Bo, Meng Bo, was now asked by the brothers' mother Ge, to be strictly trained by Meng Hu's father "Meng Qing". He hoped that his son could achieve excellent results in the "Shooting Ceremony" held by various families after the October Autumn Harvest and marry the eldest daughter-in-law of Ge, whom he likes.

Oh, Meng Hu's father Meng Qing, also known as Meng Hu's eldest son, Sima, the current family of the Montessori family, is the best among the Montessori family in terms of weapons and bows and horses.

"Uncle Meng Qing..."

After looking at Meng Sui, Meng Zhong couldn't help but pray for his brother secretly.

You know, Meng Hu's father Meng Qing was a very serious and stern man. Not to mention Meng Zhong and Meng Sui, even if Meng Qing's son Meng Hu saw his father, he would be as scared as a mouse when he saw a cat, and even tremble.

Now that my mother entrusted Mengbo to Mengqing, it goes without saying that Mengqing would teach Mengbo extremely strictly, and maybe Mengbo would even lose her skin.

Of course, if Meng Bo can win the simplicity of the simplicity ceremony in the future and marry Hua Yu, the current hardship will be worth it.

"Apart from this, there is no major problem in the clan, and you two don't need to worry. You are here to serve the Zhuangzi and ask him for advice." Meng Jian stroked his beard and reminded.

Meng Zhong and Meng Sui nodded.

Before going to bed at night, Meng asked Meng Zhong, "A Zhong, is your brother good at archery?"

Meng Zhong shook his head.

In fact, after the Montessors' children reach ten years old, Sima, the family in the clan, will start teaching the most basic martial arts of these clans, and bowing techniques are also included.

However, since his father's father had already taken on most of the farming work for his mother Ge, he did not have much time to train in this area. Even though Ge asked Sima Mengqing to teach his family alone, Meng Zhong could not guarantee what kind of achievements his brother Meng Bo could achieve in the end.

"I hope my brother can win in the archery ceremony and there will be no changes."
Chapter completed!