The Rise of the Cold Gate in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 27
A piece of "Bei Ya Ji Ji Ji" caused Xiao Qinzhi's reputation to skyrocket at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his salary also increased accordingly. When he left the "Yilan" courtyard, someone took his place to make way.

If this is not counted, then Diao Kui took the initiative to hold Xiao Qinzhi's hand and join hands to go out, does it count?

Celebrities in the Eastern Jin Dynasty liked to "hold hands". When they met someone they liked or admired, they would take the initiative to hold hands to show their enthusiasm. Wang Xizhi often held hands with Xie An and traveled together in the mountains and rivers of Kuaiji.

Before Wang Gong and Wang Chen fell out, they often held hands and appeared together on camera.

Huan Wen is the one who plays the "hand in hand" trick the most, because he has a habit of collecting famous people, and every time he collects a famous person, he has to take the initiative to "hold hands" once.

The eldest son of a top-ranking family took the initiative to hold the hand of a poor family boy, which was a huge favor. It was too late for someone else to envy him, but Xiao Qinzhi felt as if a needle was pricking his back, and his whole body was uncomfortable.

Being held by a big man, what's the matter?

So, under the envious eyes of the crowd, Xiao Qinzhi suddenly stopped, looked at the fat old man behind him, and saluted Diao Kui with "both hands", showing shame in a serious face, and said:
"Brother Shi, we have been driving for a whole day. So far, no water has entered, but I heard my brother beating a drum in his stomach, and just now I remembered my aunt's warning before we left. I really have to ask you, Brother Shi."

The fat old eight looked at Xiao Qinzhi, with misty eyes, and a question mark wrinkled on his ignorant fat face.

In fact, the fat old man was already hungry. He was so big that he already consumed a lot. He ate a little in the morning and two bites at noon, but he couldn’t wait for dinner at night. back.

But the fat old man wanted face, begging for food from his master was absolutely impossible, but his stomach was not up to snuff, so he just let out a "grumbling" sound, everything was self-evident.

There was a snickering sound, and the fat old man, who was surrounded by people, turned red instantly with embarrassment, covered his stomach, and desperately refused to admit it:
"Brother, fourth brother, I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry, really, I'm not hungry!"

Diao Kui laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay."

Xiao Shu looked at the embarrassed fat old man, patted his shoulder, and said coldly:

"Eighth brother, I'm hungry too."

The fat old eight wanted to cry but said without tears: "Second brother, I—I'm really not hungry."

The fat old man thought that Xiao Shu was caring about him, but he didn't know that Xiao Shu had an idea, and started to pretend to be "forced", and said indifferently: "The sage also eats five grains, so he is hungry."

Xiao Qin was stunned, wasn't this what he said when he was joking with old man Cui during class.Old man Cui always liked to brag about saints, and he wished that the saints he boasted could fly in the sky. Xiao Qinzhi countered that saints are human beings who also eat five grains.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Shu listened to it, remembered it in his heart, and applied it flexibly to this occasion, but let alone, Xiao Shu's "forced" words are concise and to the point, but also have profound meanings, and the pretense is absolutely perfect.

The fat old eight was dizzy and didn't know what it meant.

But there is a circle of "clear talk" talents around, who almost have no chance to show themselves. They are very interested in this topic, and someone immediately speaks out, quoting "Lao Tzu", and asking:

"It's because the sage is behind his body and first, and outside his body to survive. Isn't it because of his selflessness? That's why he can become selfish."

"What's the explanation?"

Xiao Shu didn't even finish reading the Analects, and asked him that "Lao Tzu" was obviously beyond the outline, but it didn't prevent him from continuing to pretend. Xiao Shu slowly raised his head, looked up at the sky at 45 degrees, his face was expressionless, and he didn't speak.

Immediately, someone continued: "A mediocre body of a hundred years, how long?"

He also quotes from "Bei Ya Ji Inscription" that "Thousands of sages and sages are still remembered today, and they have been sick for more than a hundred years."

Discussion: "Xiao Shixiong just wrote a poem. The sages came out thousands of years ago. If they can last for a long time, how can there be no sages in a hundred years? Therefore, the sages are human beings. They should eat five grains, so they are hungry. It is correct."

"No!" said a young man in a blue Confucian robe. Seeing that he had a refined temperament, delicate features, and a slender figure, he was a head taller than Xiao Qinzhi, with a faint smile on his face, polite and approachable. Show arrogance.

Archway:
"Holy is not holy, Dao is not Dao, how can we say the same thing?"

Everyone knows this young man. His name is Xu Miao, and his style name is Xianmin. His father, Xu Zao, is a doctor of Wujun County Studies.

Xu's ancestral home was in Dongguan, and he was a Confucian family, good at Confucian classics.When Yongjia traveled to the south, Xu Miao's ancestor Chengzhi and his fellow villager Zang Kun led their children and more than a thousand families and settled in Jingkou.

Xu Zao was an upright man with great righteousness, and because he was born in a poor family, he was not good at flattery and compliments, so he was never reused, so he lived in seclusion in Wujun, where he gave lectures, taught Confucian classics, and passed on "Luo Sheng Yong", with a little bit of cultivation. Born, but also happy.

Xu Zao adhered to the "way of a sage" and insisted that "there is no distinction between teaching and learning". His disciples spread all over the three Wus, among them there are many descendants of the Lu and Gu clans of the Jiangdong clan, as well as the descendants of the poor.

Most of the children from poor families are pragmatic and seek "classic learning", while the children from Jiangdong's clan are more likely to learn "Luo Shengyong".

What is "Luo Shengyong"?
As the name suggests, it is the recitation of Mandarin poetry in Luoyang. Although the north and the south are black with each other, you look down on me and I look down on you.

But it is undeniable that the main components of the Eastern Jin court were northerners, and most of the northerners communicated with Luoyang official dialect. Xu Zaomen begged for "Luo Shengyong".

Although Xu Zao lived in seclusion in Wu County to teach, he settled in Jingkou, so Xu Miao is also a Jingkou surname. This is equivalent to the policy of the college entrance examination in later generations. You must return to your country of origin to participate.

If Xu Miao wanted to become an official, he had to participate in the Jinling County Selected Products, so he met his friend Zhao Yunfei and went north to Jingkou, and came to Bei Yaji in advance to see the world and get acquainted.

When everyone saw that it was Xu Miao, they immediately felt resentment. No matter how you say it, Xu Zao is a northerner after all, so how could he go to Wu County to teach?
Could it be that teaching in Jingkou will lose a bowl of food?
Is it impossible to be a doctor of county studies in Jinling County?
Someone ridiculed: "Xu Xianmin, Wujun's mountains and rivers support people, and the Jingkou is full of waves. You come from Wujun, can the road be smooth?"

Someone else sarcastically said: "Yu Jingkou of Wu County is also a saint but not a saint; the way of Wu County and Yu Jingkou's Tao are also Dao and not Dao. How can we say the same thing?"

Xu Miao was obviously young, and he was stupefied for a while, so he couldn't speak. Zhao Yunfei who was standing beside him reprimanded him: "The saint said: There is no class in teaching, and there is nothing that cannot be taught!"

"Since that's the case, why don't you teach the barbarians etiquette?"

"Hey!" As soon as these words came out, tonight was destined to have no end, and there was bound to be a fierce "talk".

At the entrance of the "Yilan" courtyard, there was a great possibility of a verbal dispute. This was the first time Xiao Qinzhi encountered such a situation. He frowned immediately, kept silent again and again, and watched from the sidelines.

Fortunately, Diao Kui spoke up in time, stopped the argument, looked at the bewildered fat old man, and said with a smile: "You see, Xiao Shidi is famished, so let's go to Xiyuan first, fill his stomach, and discuss the rest. "

It means to continue the discussion after dinner, anyway, there is plenty of time in the evening.

Both sides shut their mouths one after another, stared at each other, and both looked at the fat and cute fat old man, and smiled.

The bewildered fat eighth has once again become a tool man for no reason.

(End of this chapter)