Zuo Aoran was very surprised and thought: "Who are you? Dare you let me pick up your shoes?" Zuo Aoran even wanted to pull out his fist and beat him up, but Zuo Aoran thought about it again.
The old man was old and frail, but he was young and strong, so he restrained his anger and went under the bridge to help him pick up his shoes.
Zuo Aoran handed the shoes he picked up to the old man. Unexpectedly, the old man didn't even say thank you. He took the shoes back, looked at them, and then threw them under the bridge again. He also said to Zuo Aoran: "Go and get me."
Pick up your shoes and give them to me."
At this moment, Zuo Aoran became angry, and he opened his mouth to greet the eighteen generations of ancestors of the old man in front of him. But Zuo Aoran held back, because Zuo Aoran suddenly remembered something. He had read a piece of Zhang Liang's unofficial history.
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The letter records: In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Zhang Liang failed to murder Qin Shihuang in Bolangsha, so he fled to Xiapi to live in seclusion. Once when he was crossing a stone bridge, he saw an old man throwing his straw sandals into the rushing river. The old man shouted
Zhang Liang picked it up. Zhang Liang picked up the shoes out of respect for the old man. Unexpectedly, when he just handed the shoes to the old man, the old man threw the shoes into the river and asked Zhang Liang to go again.
So, Zhang Liang took the trouble to pick up the straw sandals. In this way, three times in a row, Zhang Liang finally put the straw sandals on the old man's feet respectfully. The old man smiled with satisfaction. Through this little thing, the old man saw that Zhang Liang
Because of his moral character, he taught him the world-famous "Tai Gong's Art of War". After that, Zhang Liang assisted Liu Bang and made suggestions for him, and finally unified the world.
Could it be that the old man in front of him was testing himself? Thinking of this, the old man Zuo Aoran gave a salute, turned and walked under the bridge, and picked up the old man's shoes. The old man still threw the shoes Zuo Aoran had picked up under the bridge.
Ao Ran took the trouble to pick up the shoes again.
When Zuo Aoran picked up the shoes for the third time, the old man did not throw the shoes off the bridge again. Instead, he stretched out his feet and said, "Put the shoes on for me!" Zuo Aoran thought to himself, I will give them first.
You put them on, if you are not a capable person, see how I deal with you. Zuo Aoran thought in his heart, his hands were not idle, and he put on the shoes for the old man silently.
Zuo Aoran's respectful obedience won the old man's approval that the child could be "taught". So the old man said to Zuo Aoran: "Where does your family live? Can you take me to meet your parents?"
Zuo Aoran said to the old man: "My name is Zuojiazhuang in front of you. Are you thirsty or hungry? Come and sit in my house."
The old man nodded and said: "Okay, okay, okay, I want to ask your parents how you raised such a good child?" So Zuo Aoran called Xue Jiao back, and the two of them supported the old man and walked towards their home.
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As soon as he returned home, Zuo Aoran asked his servants to report that an old man wanted to see his parents. When Xue Jiao and Zuo Aoran helped the old man to take care of the living room, Zuo Aoran's parents were already waiting in the living room.
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As soon as they entered the living room, everyone was seated separately. Zuo Yuwen took the lead in saluting the old man and asked: "My surname is Zuo, my given name is Shangyu and I am below, and my courtesy name is Hanwen. I don't know what your surname is? What's the important thing to do here?" The old man saw this.
A wealthy man was actually so polite to a bad old man like me. He nodded secretly and his attitude was no longer as arrogant and rude as before.
These little moves of the old man have already been seen in Zuo Aoran's eyes. Zuo Aoran also nodded secretly and said to himself: "I really guessed not wrong. This old man seems to be really an expert. So what?"
Who is it? Old Immortal Nanhua? Yu Ji? Zuo Ci? Or someone else?"
The old man replied: "I am from Zhan County, Shangdang County, Bingzhou. My surname is Li Mingyan, and my surname is Bincai. I passed by here today and accidentally dropped my shoes under the bridge. Fortunately, I met Guizi who picked up my shoes and helped me put them on.
I can’t thank you enough, Mr. Zheng.”
Zuo Yuwen stood up again and saluted: "I'm overly complimentary, old man. This is what a dog should do."
Li Yan said: "I have something to ask of you. I wonder if Zuo Yuanwai can agree to it?"
Zuo Yuwen smiled slightly and said, "What do you want, old man? No matter what, as long as I can help you, I will never refuse."
Li Yan said: "I want to take Mr. Zuo as my disciple. I wonder if Mr. Zuo will agree?"
Zuo Yuwen was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately nodded in agreement. Zuo Aoran didn't think so, because after Zuo Aoran heard the old man report his name, Zuo Aoran racked his brains to think, but no matter Zuo Aoran
No matter what Ran thought, he never thought that the name Li Yan had appeared in the Three Kingdoms information. Zuo Aoran knew that he was not a know-it-all and could not remember the names of everyone in the Three Kingdoms, but even the name Li Yan appeared in the Three Kingdoms.
It has never appeared in the novel.
Zuo Aoran thought of this, stepped forward and saluted: "Old man, if you want to accept me as your disciple, let me ask you, what can you give me?"
Upon hearing this, Zuo Yuwen reprimanded: "Ran'er must not be rude!"
After Li Yan heard this, he smiled and praised: "It doesn't matter, you kid has an appetite for me. How about I teach you the "power of maneuvering" to ensure that you are like a fish in water in the officialdom, you can have both sides, and even the lintel of the Zuo family?"
"The villain's skills will harm the country and the people, if you don't learn them," Zuo Aoran said with a frown.
Li Yan was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "How about I teach you how to use strategic tactics to turn the battlefield upside down and win without fighting?"
"Scholar Youyou, talking on paper!" Zuo Aoran said disdainfully.
Li Yan secretly praised in his heart, and he continued: "How about I teach you the "power of the gods" to ensure that you live a long life every year?"
"Don't learn cold-blooded skills." Zuo Aoran said disgustedly.
Li Yan then said: "Then I will teach you the "power of martial arts" to ensure that you are invincible across the battlefield and can take the heads of enemy generals just like picking out objects from a bag, how about it?"
"The courage of an ordinary man is useless!" Zuo Aoran said disdainfully.
Li Yan said again: "How about I teach you the "business skills" to ensure that you make a lot of money in the shopping mall and be rich enough to reach your country?"
Zuo Aoran hesitated for a moment and said: "Money is something external to the body. If you have it, your talents will be useful, and you will get it back after all the money is gone." I don't want to learn this!"
Li Yan was helpless and said to Zuo Aoran: "Little boy, I have convinced you. Tell me, what do you want to learn?"
Zuo Aoran said proudly: "What I want to learn is the "power of a general", to command millions of soldiers and be invincible wherever the sword points."
Everyone looked at this child who was only five and a half years old in shock. Did these words really come from this child? Everyone felt like they were falling into a dream.
Li Yan came back to his senses, laughed loudly and said: "I can teach you any of the things you mentioned as a teacher, but you have to stay away from your parents and live with the teacher back to Bingzhou. The shortest term can be eight years, and the long term can be ten years."
Five years. But if you want to succeed, you have to pay a big price, and the most a teacher can do is teach you. Everything else requires your own efforts. Whether you succeed or not depends on you. Can you
Are you willing?"
At this time, Zuo Aoran did something that shocked everyone. He came to Li Yan, knelt down on the ground, kowtowed respectfully three times, and said: "Disciple Zuo Aoran
Ran pays homage to the master."
When Zuo Aoran's parents saw that Zuo Aoran had knelt down to become a teacher, they felt a mixture of sadness and joy in their hearts. They were happy that their child finally had a teacher, but sad that their child, who had just turned five years old, couldn't bear to leave his hometown. But so did the two elders.
A reasonable person, for the sake of his child, had no choice but to prepare Zuo Aoran's clothes with tears in his eyes and prepare to send his son away.
