"Well, it's well written."
Xiao Jinlian smiled playfully when he received his father's praise.
Seeing his daughter's smile, Sima Ao's face darkened slightly.
"Even if you know how to do it, you can't make noise in class, as it will affect other people's listening to the class." Sima Ao scolded his daughter, Xiao Jinlian, for getting carried away.
"What does the word '天' mean?" Sima Ao asked his daughter.
"Sky: refers to the sky or the sun, moon and stars above a person's head, and also refers to the boundless sky." Xiao Jinlian answered.
"Well, that's a good answer. People in ancient times believed that Heaven is a God with will; Heaven is the master of all things and has supreme authority. Therefore, Heaven is called the 'God of Heaven'; the king who rules the mortal world is called the Son of Heaven. ', which means adhering to God's will to govern the world. The meaning of God's judgment is very broad."
"Oh, it turns out that the word '天' means so many things." Little Jinlian was only seven years old and could not fully understand what her father said.
"Then Mr. Father, 'husband' can come forward, why is 'heaven' not allowed to come forward? If 'husband' takes the lead, it can be up to heaven?" Xiao Jinlian blinked her big round eyes and looked at her father (Sima Ao) ), as if waiting for his father's answer.
Hey, this daughter would suddenly ask such a question?
Sima Ao was slightly stunned.
Just as Sima Ao opened his mouth to answer his daughter's question, a clear child's voice said: "'Husband' refers to an adult man or a married man. If 'husband' doesn't stand out, how can he stand upright? Even though the word 'husband' stands out, , but it cannot be bigger than the sky, because 'sky' is the biggest. Since sky is the biggest, then the word 'tian' must be capped and cannot come out; if it comes out, it means that there is something bigger than it above."
The clear children's voice seemed to come from outside the window.
Sima Ao approached Zhang Tai and looked outside. He saw a boy about seven or eight years old, lying outside the window with his ears raised, eavesdropping on his lecture.
When Sima Ao walked to the window sill, the students also ran to the window sill and looked around.
The boy knew he had been discovered and ran away in terror.
During class the next day, Sima Ao walked to the window and looked around, but he didn't see the boy from yesterday.
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I don't know how many days passed, but Sima Ao found the boy lying outside the window with his ears raised, eavesdropping on his lecture.
This time, Sima Ao did not walk towards the window sill, but left the academy, walked around the outside of the window sill, and quietly came behind the boy.
"You answered very well last time. What's your name?" Sima Ao asked appreciatively.
The boy turned around in astonishment and looked at Sima Ao for a while.
Just when the boy was about to run away in fear again, Sima Ao stopped the boy. "You don't have to run, I won't hurt you."
With Sima Ao's words, the boy was no longer so afraid.
My name is Monkey Boy. I came here while escaping. "The boy replied.
It is not difficult to tell that he is a child from a runaway family. He is dressed in shabby, travel-stained clothes and has a thin body. His bloodless face shows that he is suffering from malnutrition.
Although the boy is thin and pale, his eyes are bright, giving him a sense of aura.
"How long have you been listening to the class outside the window?" Sima Ao asked again.
The boy thought Sima Ao was going to punish him, so he was so frightened that he ran away again.
Sima saw it and added: "You don't have to be afraid, I just want to know and I won't punish you."
The boy then stopped and refused to leave.
"It's been three months." The little boy replied with a slightly trembling voice.
"Have you ever gone to school before?" Sima Ao asked the boy again.
The boy shook his head.
Sima Ao was a little unbelievable. He never went to school and only listened to three months of classes. He understood so many truths and knew so many words?
"You like school very much, right?" Sima Ao asked again.
The boy nodded.
"If you really want to go to school, you can come to my college. I won't charge you tuition, but you have to work for me." Sima Ao said to the boy.
The boy looked at Sima Ao in disbelief and asked, "Is it true?"
Sima Ao smiled and said: "Of course it is true. You are the most logically thinking child I have ever seen. You have become my student. I believe that you will become a great person in the future."
The boy excitedly gave Sima Ao the apprenticeship ceremony. "Bear sir."
Sima Ao brought the boy back to the college and told the students that the boy would be a student here from now on, and asked his daughters Xiao Jinlian, Fat Ya, and Li Changshou to teach the boy more.
After class, the classmates asked the boy out of curiosity: "Are you the one who eavesdropped on our class outside the window a few days ago?"
The boy nodded shyly.
"Hey, thief!"
There are several student jokes that the boy is a thief.
The boy was so sad that he didn't speak.
"You are not allowed to say that to him. My husband taught us to help each other and love each other, and not to laugh at others. He just doesn't have money to go to school and wants to go to school." Xiao Jinlian came over and scolded the boy, laughing at the boy's classmates.
"That's right!"
Fat Ya and Li Changshou also came to help.
Little Jinlian is your husband’s daughter, who dares to offend her?
Those classmates were so scared that they ran away quickly!
Little Jinlian blinked her bright eyes and asked the boy in a sweet voice, "Hey, what's your name?"
The boy secretly glanced at the little golden lotus and replied tremblingly, "My name is Monkey Boy."
What is a monkey frog?
Li Changshou thought to himself, I have only heard of bullfrogs, but never of monkey frogs.
"It's not a 'frog', it's a 'baby' baby." the monkey baby added.
Li Changshou was dizzy and still couldn't distinguish between 'frog' and 'baby'.
"Haha! Is your name uglier than mine?" Fat Ya couldn't help laughing.
"Where are your parents? Why did they give you such an unpleasant name?" Xiao Jinlian asked again.
"My parents died when I was very young, so I don't know what my surname is, and I don't know if I have a name. I came here fleeing from the famine. The adults who fled the famine with me saw that I was thin. If you run quickly, call me Monkey Boy."
The boy told Xiao Jinlian, Li Changshou, and Fat Ya how he got his name.
When the monkey boy said that his parents died when he was very young, he cried sadly.
"Ugh! You're so pitiful, you don't even have a name."
Xiao Jinlian, Fat Ya, and Li Changshou all felt sympathy for the monkey baby's life experience.
Wow...what a miserable life experience!
After hearing the tragic life experience of the monkey baby, Fat Ya also followed the monkey baby and cried sadly!
"Don't be sad, this will be your home from now on." The boy told Xiao Jinlian, Li Changshou, and Fat Ya how he got his name.
"My father is a good man. He allows you to go to school here because he treats you as one of his own, so you don't have to be sad." Little Jinlian comforted the monkey baby.
"Yes! From now on, we will be your good friends and we will help you."
"Yeah!"
Fat Ya and Li Changshou also comforted the monkey baby.
During the process of fleeing from famine, refugees are often driven out, disliked, and bullied by some local people. Without a place to stay, they can only help each other.
Monkey Boy has experienced this at a young age and has never felt the care and warmth of outsiders.
The monkey baby now feels the care and warmth of outsiders, and it is difficult to suppress his inner emotions. The more Xiao Jinlian, Fat Ya, and Li Changshou comfort him, the harder the monkey baby cries.
The day after the monkey baby was taken in, a large number of refugees fleeing famine poured into Kyoto.
Prefect Liu was afraid that these refugees fleeing famine would disturb the public order in the city and would not allow these refugees to enter the city.
In order to frighten and drive away these refugees, Liu Taishou ordered the soldiers guarding the city to shoot arrows, and many refugees died tragically under the arrows.
(End of chapter)
