Jinshan Prefecture, Liyang County, Jiuquan Town, there is a legend about a child prodigy.
The child prodigy can talk in three months, walk in six months, and can answer questions fluently at one year old.
When the child prodigy was three years old, he had never heard of a book. Suddenly one day, he asked his family for one.
The family found the book and brought it over. The child prodigy smiled brightly and said: "If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles. If you don't accumulate small streams, you can't reach the rivers and seas. Today is the beginning of my dream!"
When the family members heard this, they were shocked. They looked at each other and said, "A poor family wants to give birth to a noble son?"
When the child prodigy was six years old, he could recite the four books by heart and answer questions and answers from the Five Classics without fear. The name of the child prodigy began to appear.
The surrounding prefectures and counties heard about it, and there were a lot of spectators. They asked and answered questions. Sure enough, they read through the Four Books and Five Classics.
Wang Xu of Liyang was famous in Jinshan Mansion, and everyone said: "There are no sages in ancient times like this."
This year, the child prodigy was eight years old and had reached the stage of enlightenment.
"Zhuang Bao met Mencius and said, "I saw the king's violence, and the king said that he was happy, but there was no response to the violence, so how could he be happy?" Mencius said, "The king is very happy, and the people of Qi are almost the same. The happiness of one person is not as good as the happiness of others."
If you share it with others."
The eight-year-old clone Wang Xu, who was abandoned by the original body and conceived in the Confucian world, was reading Mencius in his room.
Mencius spoke in a subtle way, and his doctrines are covered in points. Each time you read it carefully, you will have different thoughts. The meaning of life is all here.
"Confucius said Cheng Ren, Mencius said Yi. Compared with Confucius, Meng Sheng's theory is more popular with me. Only Mencius is the only one among the four books. I can only get a glimpse of it." Wang Xu held up a book by Mencius. Although Confucius, Mencius
, Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming among the kings of Zhu are also called Yasheng, but they are still worse than Mencius.
Mencius' sacrifice of life for righteousness represents the Confucian character. No matter how dirty the scholars are behind the scenes, they must maintain this character on the surface.
Wang Xu studied Mencius diligently, not only learning Mencius' ideas, but also thinking about the Confucian rules of the game behind the ideas.
"Xu'er" was just thinking when the door was pushed open from the outside and a woman in her thirties walked in.
Seeing this woman, Wang Xu stood up from behind the desk and said respectfully: "I have met my mother."
The woman in front of him is Wang Xu's biological mother in this life, Mrs. Wang. Wang Xu does not dare to forget the grace of giving birth to her.
"Xu'er, you are eight years old this year. When it is time to go to elementary school, Old Master Liu in the town is looking forward to you going to school." Mrs. Wang pulled Wang Xu to sit down and looked at Wang Xu with a happy face.
She has no heirs. She is in her forties and only has a child like Wang Xu. Of course, she is afraid of falling when she holds it in her hands, and she is afraid of melting when she holds it in her mouth. Not to mention how pampered she is.
Fortunately, Wang Xu had the memory and thinking of his original body, otherwise if it were a real eight-year-old child with such a pampered mother, he would most likely become a playboy.
There is no way to avoid being a dandy. Over the years, Wang Xu has never been rejected for any request he has made. With such a doting mother, plus having no worries about food and drink, a heroic man has to die in the gentle countryside.
"Mom, the school in the town." Wang Xu thought about the private schools in the town and the old master who was drunk all day long. He shook his head and sighed: "It's better not to go!"
It is true that knowledge is not just about reading books, it also requires the teaching of famous teachers.
But with Wang Xu's level, let alone an old scholar, even an ordinary scholar cannot teach him.
It would be better not to go to a private school in the town. It's not that Wang Xu underestimated the old master, but that the old master was really not very good.
Over the years, Jiuquan Town has not even had a scholar, let alone a scholar, for more than ten years.
The big reason is that this old Master Liu is not solid in knowledge, and the so-called scholar's reputation is something that the county masters gave him because they saw him taking exams for decades and couldn't stand it.
In terms of knowledge alone, Master Liu is at the level of an old boy. He also likes to mix his personal work with teaching and mix in the lectures that he thinks are right. Isn't this wrong?
"Xu'er, what are your plans?" Mrs. Wang knew that Wang Xu had his own opinions since he was a child and could not be treated like an ordinary child. Wang Xu said that if the private schools in the town were not good, then they must not be good.
"My child has also considered that although we do not have Jinshi in Liyang County, there is a great scholar who has retired to hermitage. The great scholar Xue Mushan, Senior Xue, is currently building a grass house in Sanjian River. Only he can be my first teacher."
When Wang Xu said this, Mrs. Wang became a little more bitter.
Xue Mushan is a great Confucian scholar of our time. Because of the constant quarrels in the imperial court, he retired bravely and became a hermit.
Not to mention Liyang County, no one in the entire Jinshan Prefecture knows that Xue Mushan has retired to Sanjian River, and which student can be his disciple.
"Xu'er, why don't you ask your father to invite Mr. Zhang from the county?" Mrs. Wang said tangledly. Mr. Zhang from the county is a well-known civil servant and has often praised Wang to others.
Asahi.
Based on the conditions of the Wang family, if the family wealth is dissipated, it is possible for Wang Xu to follow Zhang Juren and become enlightened.
As for Xue Mushan, with the Wang family's little wealth, they simply looked down upon him. We were not relatives, and even if Wang Xu had been known as a child prodigy since he was a child, he still couldn't ask a contemporary scholar to be his teacher.
"Zhang Juren"
Wang Xu still shook his head, then noticed the worried look on Mrs. Wang's face, and said quickly: "Mom, don't panic, my child is planning, and now he has some clues about how to let Xue Daru accept me as his disciple."
"Really?" Mrs. Wang didn't believe it.
"Of course it's true. Can a child still deceive his mother?"
Wang Xu smiled brightly. If under normal circumstances, he wanted to take Xue Mushan as his teacher, it would not be enough to have the name of a child prodigy. He must at least have the reputation of a scholar to be taken seriously by the other party.
However, Xue Mushan is different from others. He comes from a wealthy family in the north and has three major hobbies: horses, calligraphy, and falconry.
When he was a boy, Xue Mushan read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles. He once rode alone all over the world and visited Kyushu.
Now that he is old, Xue Mushan has given up his hobby of horse riding, leaving only calligraphy and falconry.
Wang Xu was conceited, and his calligraphy by Yan Zhenqing, a master of the Tang Dynasty, was enough to impress Xue Mushan. As long as his calligraphy came into Xue Mushan's sight, it shouldn't be difficult to recruit a disciple.
The difficulty is that outsiders cannot enter the Sanjian River where Xue Mushan lives in seclusion, and he cannot come out. Only birds and animals can pass through.
Wang Xu must find a high-quality falcon as a qualification for promotion, so that he can lure Xue Mushan out.
He has already asked people to inquire about falcons. Liyang County is mountainous and there are many falcons. If he has an idea, he will take action.
It's just that there is no need to rush this matter. It took three to five months too quickly and a year and a half too late. It's not something that can be solved by just solving it.
"Oh, it's all my fault that my parents are incompetent. If I were from the Wang family and a wealthy family, how could I not hire a proper teacher for you?" After hearing Wang Xu's words, Mrs. Wang fell into self-blame.
My parents in this life have a deep love for Wang Xu.
Wang Xu has been an orphan since he was a child. He has never been cared for so much. His heart felt warm for no reason. He couldn't help but said: "Mom, don't worry. In fact, I have expected this little setback. It's nothing."
"puff"
Mrs. Wang suddenly burst into laughter, and Wang Xu was a little overwhelmed by the laughter.
Could it be that he said something wrong? No, when he chose a poor family to give birth to a clone, the main body thought that he might encounter difficulties in the early stage.
There are two levels between a poor family and an aristocratic family. People from aristocratic families don't have to worry about their masters at all. Their ancestors already have great Confucians who are familiar with them, so that the disciples of the younger generation can learn from them.
He chose a poor family to give birth to his clone, so he knew that the road in the early stage would be more difficult, but all roads lead to Rome. After getting through the early stage, there would still be different roads leading to the same destination.
"You are only a few years old, but you have already expected it. Could it be that you were thinking in your mother's womb and actually said some nonsense?" Mrs. Wang burst into tears and smiled, reaching out and tapping Wang Xu's forehead, just like coaxing a child.
Wang Xu's face turned bitter. His memory and thinking were inherited from his original body. Sometimes he couldn't help but treat himself as an adult, forgetting that this clone was only eight years old.
Fortunately, he always behaved maturely and Mrs. Wang didn't think much about it.
It seems that I have to be more careful when speaking in the future, otherwise some words may fall into other people’s ears and they may not become suspicious.
"Mother, the child has gone out first." Wang Xu ran away as Mrs. Wang cried. As a son of a human being, it felt good to have someone caring about him.