"Hey, Mr. Kong, what are you busy with recently?" the boss asked.
"It's just polluting the air every day, so what else can you do to busy yourself with?" the man said without raising his head.
"I heard my husband say every day, 'I am born with talents that will be useful.' With your great talent, you will one day be successful." The hotel owner actually respects this weirdo.
The man sneered and said: "If there is no Ouyang Xiu today, how can I succeed?"
Everyone was stunned and didn't know what he meant, but Li Wei understood it. This is the origin of the idiom "to get ahead". In the second year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu served as the chief examiner of the imperial examination. When marking the papers, he was judged by one of them. Ouyang Xiu was deeply attracted by the literary talent of this article and thought it should be ranked first. He passed the article to his colleagues for viewing, and everyone praised it. However, Ouyang Xiu felt that this examination paper was very much like that of his student Zeng Gong, so in order to avoid suspicion, he Make it number two.
After the results were released, it was etiquette for the students who passed the exam to thank the examiner. Unexpectedly, the person who came in second place was not Zeng Gong, but the young student Su Shi. Only then did Ouyang Xiu realize that there was a misunderstanding. Ouyang Xiu admired Su Shi very much, so he wrote to his friend. The letter said: Reading Su Shi's article makes me ashamed. It's so happy! I should make way for Su Shi and make him a head higher than me.
It seems that this person must have a good foundation in ancient Chinese.
While he was talking, he drank a plate of peanuts and three ounces of white wine, but did not open the bill. He only said hello to the boss, then walked out of the store slowly with his hands folded.
After the weirdo went out, Hu Zhijun couldn't bear it anymore and asked the hotel owner: "Who is this person? He is so strange?"
The boss smiled and said: "You two must be from other places? Have you never heard about Kong Erlengzi?"
Li Wei also smiled and said: "The boss has good eyesight. If you bring us half a catty of wine while we drink it, can you tell us about Kong Erlengzi?"
The boss smiled and gave them another half a catty of rice wine. He sat next to him and told them about Kong Erlengzi.
This Kong Erlingzi, whose real name is Kong Shao, is from Huangsha Village, Chengguan Town, Huangsha City. He was once a child prodigy known to local women and children. Both his parents were illiterate and made a living by selling fruits and vegetables.
Kong Shao was very smart in his childhood. From the age of five, he could verbally calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within one hundred. When his father sold vegetables every day, he would always put him on the shaft of the cart and let him do the accounting.
Every time his parents weighed the fruits and vegetables, as long as they quoted the weight, he could immediately calculate the amount of money, and it was exactly the same. The aunties who bought fruits and vegetables at the market were amazed. Soon, the little prodigy Kong Shao The name spread throughout the market, and some people came not only to buy vegetables, but to verify whether the child prodigy was as magical as the legend said. Kong's father's business was much better than other vegetable vendors because of little Kong Shao.
The story of the child prodigy Kong Shao soon reached the ears of Luo Changgui, the principal of Huangsha Middle School. He was curious and went to the vegetable market to see what the child prodigy looked like and how talented he was.
Luo Changgui was slightly disappointed when he saw the big-headed child sitting on the shaft of the car, dangling his calves and eating his fingers. He believed that the so-called prodigy must be a gimmick for the child's father to attract business.
He was about to walk away when he saw an old lady coming to buy apples. Apples were priced at 1.5 yuan per catty. The old lady brought eight apples and put them on the weighing plate. The fruit seller had just reported the jinliang: three jins and three liangs. The big-headed kid took out his fingers from his mouth and said, "Four dollars and ninety-five cents, Lao Kong, hurry up, I'm starving to death."
While collecting the change, the fruit seller comforted him: "Hurry, hurry, they will be sold out soon. I will take you to eat mutton and soak it today."
The big-headed boy curled his lips like an adult and said, "You've said this three times. It's weird to believe you."
The fruit seller said sheepishly: "Business is good today, I will definitely take you there, I won't lie to you."
The boy snorted and said, "I'll trust you again."
All this was seen by Luo Changgui, and he screamed in his heart that it was amazing, so he turned around and walked to the fruit stall, wanting to give this prodigy another try.
He said to the fruit seller: "I want all of your apples, and I'll give you a discount."
The fruit seller said: "If you want them all, I'll give you a discount of 1.3 cents per catty."
Luo Changgui wanted to give the child prodigy a hard time, so he deliberately lowered the price of the apples to one yuan and three cents. The fruit seller put all the apples into a large plastic bag and weighed it exactly eight kilograms, but Luo Changgui took out one with a scar.
Yes, I said this cannot be calculated. After weighing again, it became seven pounds and three ounces.
This is three digits multiplied by two digits. Let alone a five-year-old child, even a high school student would have to work hard to calculate it orally.
Unexpectedly, after hearing his father's announcement, the little prodigy curled and stretched his fingers, muttered something, and soon said: "Ten dollars and one cent, you can pay ten dollars."
Just now, when Luo Changgui was calculating the price, people could tell that the man wearing glasses was trying to embarrass the little prodigy. Many people gathered around to watch the fun. When the apples were weighed, people also began to calculate the price, but many people calculated the price later.
I forgot the previous number and failed to calculate it. Two young people calculated it, but the results were different from those of the children. Their results were not consistent and they even got into a dispute. At this time, an old man came with
With a calculator, I used a calculator to calculate 10.01. The child’s calculation was not bad at all. People applauded the little prodigy excitedly.
But the little prodigy said angrily: "Hey, that guy with glasses, please pay. Lao Kong and I are going to eat mutton dip."
Luo Changgui took out ten yuan and gave it to the fruit seller, and said to the boy with a smile: "Kid, do you want to go to school?"
"It's boring, I won't go." The little boy, without even looking at Luo Changgui, kept urging his father: "Lao Kong, hurry up, I'm starving to death."
That day, Luo Changgui treated his father and son to a meal of mutton dip, and he had no choice but to propose that Kong Shao go to school. Kong Shao's father said: "He is only five years old, not yet old enough to go to school."
Luo Changgui said: "His IQ is higher than that of a middle school student, so age is not a problem."
Finally, Luo Changgui recruited Kong Shaote into the junior high school. In order to solve Kong Shaote's life problems, he also asked his father to work as a purchaser in the middle school cafeteria.
Kong Shao entered middle school and had no problem with mathematics at all, but he couldn't read. Luo Changgui was a very talented person and taught him to read personally. This little guy's memory was amazing. No matter how complicated the Chinese characters were, as long as Luo Changgui had taught him
He memorized it once and for all, and in only half a year, he could read one or two thousand characters.
This kid became obsessed with reading all of a sudden. He would read any book he encountered, and as long as he had read it, he would remember it. He said that reading was much more interesting than arithmetic. One day, he picked up a propaganda book on the street.
He began to read the book on aphrodisiacs, but there were many questions in it that he couldn't understand. For example, the book said that as long as he drank the medicine called "Dragon Spirit and Tiger Fierce", a man's vagina would be
Doubled in size, he couldn't understand why a man would make his penis so big?
During the Chinese class, the teacher asked whoever had any questions they didn't understand and could ask them. This little guy actually asked this question. The Chinese teacher was a young girl who had just graduated, and she suddenly made a big fuss.
She thought that Kong Shao was deliberately playing hooligan, so she reported Kong Shao to the principal Luo Changgui. When Luo Changgui asked, she found out that this little guy had actually read that kind of brochure.
He told Kong Shao that not all books can be read. Books are like food. Some are good for people to eat, and some are poisonous. People will get sick if they eat them.
Luo Changgui specially borrowed dozens of classic classics from the Guannan County Library for Kong Shao to read. After Kong Shao read these ancient works, he became obsessed with classical literature, and Luo Changgui helped him open the county library.
With his library card, Kong Shao would go to the library to read every weekend and would spend the whole day reading, and would borrow several books when he came back.
He grew up all of a sudden, had his own thoughts and understanding of things, and often said amazing things.
Six years later, Kong Shao, who was only eleven years old, took the college entrance examination and was admitted to Yenching University with the top score in liberal arts in Weiyang City. At that time, it was a sensation in Qin Province.
Luo Changgui also became famous because of this. He published two monographs on education. When Jinsha City was established, he served as the Director of Education of Jinsha City.
Kong Shao studied literature and management at Yenching University at the same time. After four years, he obtained two master's degrees. He was recommended by the school to the University of California in the United States for further study, but he majored in environmental protection. He said: The biggest problem of mankind is the environmental protection.
The destruction of the environment, for which mankind will pay a heavy price. He has learned various new technologies applied to environmental management, with the purpose of minimizing the degree of human damage to the environment.
Five years later, Kong Shao returned with a doctorate certificate. He refused invitations from many research institutions in the capital and returned to his hometown of Jinsha City resolutely because he knew that his hometown of Jinsha City was in ruins due to over-exploitation of gold mines.
The degree of environmental damage is very serious.
When he first returned to Jinsha City, the leaders attached great importance to him. At that time, Jinsha City had just been established, and its first mayor was Dai Changwu. Twenty-year-old Kong Shao became his first secretary.
On the second day after he became secretary, Kong Shao took out a Jinsha City environmental management report that contained tens of thousands of words. Dai Changwu didn’t even read it and said impatiently: “You know what the most important job is now? It’s development.
Economy, environmental management? You want me to shut down all the gold mines in Jinsha City? Childish!"
Kong Shao didn't expect Secretary Dai to have such an attitude towards environmental governance. If the environment deteriorates, what's the use of economic development? When no one can live here, what's the point of talking about the economy? How could he not understand such a simple truth?
Kong Shao made a move that made everyone laugh. He made eleven copies of the report. When the Municipal Standing Committee was convening, he broke into the venue and forced a copy to each standing committee member without caring about it.
Secretary Dai scolded him and insisted on talking about the importance of environmental protection for an hour at the meeting. Dai Changwu was so angry that he slammed the door and left.
The next day, Kong Shao was transferred to the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau as a clerk. After this incident became a joke in Jinsha City, they gave him a nickname: Kong Erlengzi.