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Song-Ming -> Romance of the Three Kingdoms -> Lady Cai Renounces Jingzhou; Zhuge Liang Burns Xinye -> 4

郗慮郗慮孔融曹操:「:「仲尼。」:「顏回。」使。」孔融:「?」:「?」One of the clients of the Imperial Inspector Chi Lu, whom Kong Rong had always treated contemptuously and disdainfully, happened to hear this apostrophe and told his patron who carried the tale to Cao Cao. Chi Lu also added to it, saying, "Kong Rong habitually speaks disrespectfully of the Chief Minister and has been very friendly with Mi Heng. In fact the insults that Mi Heng had hurled at you had been deliberately arranged and intrigued by Kong Rong. Kong Rong and Mi Heng seemed to admire each other hugely, and Mi Heng used to say, 'Confucius is not dead, because Kong Rong is he,' and the other used to reply, 'And his treasured disciple, Yan Hui, has risen again, because Mi Heng is he.'" Chi Lu's tale angered Cao Cao, who ordered the execution of the high minister. Now Kong Rong had two sons, both young, who were sitting at home playing chess, when one of their servants ran in and said, "Your father has just been carried off for execution. Why do you not run away?" The youths replied, "When the nest is pulled down, are the eggs left unbroken?"


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