Fish Intestine Sword

At that time, Gong Zi Guang briefly told Zhu about this episode. Zhu said straightforwardly, "Then ...... can't you reason with him and ask him to give up his position, which is much better than assassination?" The man has always been arrogant and can never be convinced with a few words. If I ask for help, he will kill me first." Zhu said, "If that's the case, I should go and help you, but my mother is still here, so how can I leave her behind?" Gong Zi Guang said, "You don't have to worry about that, I'm here for you. If anything happens to you, your mother will be my mother, and I will serve her well." Zhu agreed to do so. He asked Gong Zi Guang, "What is Wang Shuo's favorite thing? First of all, we must know his habits, and if we follow his habits, we can think of ways to get close to him." After thinking about it, Gong Zi Guang said, "He loves to fish." So Zhu went to a restaurant by Taihu Lake to learn how to cook fish, and every day he thought about how to cook the most delicious fish. After three months of dedicated study, he became an expert fish cook and then went to work as a cook for Duke Guang.

When the king of Wu was happy, he said to him: "I have a cook from Taihu Lake who specializes in cooking big fish. The fish he cooks is especially tasty, better than anything else. Please come to my house one day and try the taste." When King Wu's bureaucrat heard that there was fish to eat, he agreed happily.

The next day, the king of Wu brought a hundred guards to Gong Zi Guang's house for dinner. A hundred guards protected the king like a wall of iron. The cook had to search every dish before the guards followed him to serve it. When Zhu served a carp with sweet and sour sauce, the king of Wu suddenly stood up and said loudly, "Good, good, good! You are something!" Gong Zi Guang was so frightened that his face turned white, but he struggled to look calm and looked at Zhu with his eyes. Then King Wu added, "As soon as I smelled it, I knew you were a good cook." He picked up his chopsticks and tasted it, but it was so fresh and tender that he ate half of it in one go. When he was leaving, he said, "The fish is really good! It's really good!"After Gong Zi Guang invited King Wu Shuang to eat the fish, he asked Wu Zi Xu, "Shuang has already tasted the sweet and sour carp made by Zhu Zhu, but how can I do it?" Wu Zixu said, "I don't think it can be that easy. His son, Qing Ji, is a famous warrior. He alone is not easy to deal with, and his brothers, Yu and Zhuyong, are both in charge of the army. We have to find a way to get rid of these three people before we can start." Although Gong Zi Guang wanted to get the throne as soon as possible, he had to wait patiently after hearing Wu Zixu's words.

In 516 BC (4 years of King Jing of Zhou, 11 years of King Bureaucrat of Wu, and 13 years of King Ping of Chu), King Ping of Chu died, and Prince Zhen [born of Meng Ying] reigned as King Zhao of Chu. When Wu Zixu heard this letter, he cried a lot. Gong Zi Guang said, "Why do you cry when your enemy is dead?" Wu Zixu said, "I am not crying for him. You think I had suffered a great wrong and suffered a great deal of hardship, and I had planned to take revenge on the foul ruler. But before my revenge was avenged, he was quietly buried. How can I let him off so easily? Why did he die before I could go?" Gong Zi Guang also shed tears. Wu Zixu hated him so much that he did not sleep well for three or four days. When he couldn't sleep, he came up with an idea and went to tell Gong Zi Guang, "While Chu is in mourning, you should go and persuade the king of Wu to send an army to fight there. Tell him that if he defeats Chu, he will be the hegemon! In this way, you can send Mao Yu and Candle Yong out."