Xu Yuanqing was dressed in terry brown and holding a hoe in his hand. Hearing the voice of a familiar little baby, he naturally looked over here.
"Hey, it's the Xie family's little sweetie!"
Xu Yuanqing smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Are you here to see your father?"
Xie Rongzhao patted Cheng Jingzhou's arm and motioned for her to put her down.
"Master Xu, I just came to see my father, but what are you doing?"
Xu Yuanqing then took stock of his and the book boy's current predicament. He didn't feel embarrassed, he just smiled.
"We are digging bamboo shoots, and we are thinking about eating fried bamboo shoots. It will taste very delicious."
Xie Rongzhao nodded half-knowingly: "Are you the cook of this academy? So the academy only eats bamboo shoots every day?"
Xu Yuanqing didn't expect that this little girl could guess his identity as a cook, but he still asked with a smile: "Do you think it's disgraceful for me to be a cook?"
Xie Rongzhao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "Of course not. Dad said that of all the things in this world, being a human being is both the easiest and the most difficult. Nobles have their luxury, and commoners have their own ways of living. It's all the same. There is no such thing as high or low among people.”
Xu Yuanqing raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that a little girl could say so much, let alone that the girl's father could say such words.
He has come into contact with many people, and among the scholars, seventy-eight out of ten are people who look down on warriors and have low status.
And this student who could say, "We are all human beings, there is no such thing as high or low" actually made him want to give it a try.
"Do you know where your father is?"
Xie Rongzhao was stunned, and then looked at Cheng Jingzhou as if asking for help.
Cheng Jingzhou is not a child. Mr. Xu's eyes are pure and strong, and he doesn't look like a cook.
"Old gentleman, I'm sorry. We have just found out where my uncle lives at the foot of the mountain. Guabao is young and has only been away from her father for more than two months. She already misses her very much. It happened that I came to Fucheng for business, so I brought her here to visit. of."
Xu Yuanqing stroked his beard, feeling twice as fond of this young man.
You can tell from his dress that he comes from a good family, and it is rare for him to still be respectful and polite in his current appearance.
"Forget it, we have dug a lot, and we happen to be going back, so let's go up the mountain together."
"yes."
After Cheng Jingzhou finished speaking, Guabao pulled Liu Sanlang's sleeve and said, "Third cousin, go and help Mr. Xu. He just fell ill a while ago."
Liu Sanlang touched her head and said submissively: "Okay."
Cheng Jingzhou was not as strong as Liu Sanlang.
Liu Sanlang helped carry a basket of bamboo shoots, while Cheng Jingzhou took a hoe and a bamboo knife in his hands.
In this way, only Xu Yuanqing and Xie Rongzhao, the old and the young, were empty-handed.
Xu Yuanqing wiped his hands with a clean handkerchief, and then he took Xie Rongzhao's hand very naturally, and an old man and a young man walked slowly behind a few boys.
"Master Xu, you work here, can you read?"
Xu Yuanqing nodded: "I have studied for several years."
"Oh, have you read the Classic of Filial Piety?"
Xu Yuanqing became more interested: "Of course I have read it, little dear, do you have something to ask me?"
Cheng Jingzhou glanced back after hearing this, wanting to tell Guabao not to talk nonsense, but he happened to meet Guabao's clear and bright eyes, and for a moment he forgot to tell him.
"Those who love their relatives do not dare to do evil to others; those who respect their relatives do not dare to be rude to others. I have read it in a book at home, but I don't understand what it means."
Xu Yuanqing was in a good mood. Parents who can prepare filial piety scriptures for their children to read at home must also be filial sons and should be wise and sensible.
"The meaning of this sentence is actually very simple, that is, people who can love their parents will not hate other people's parents, and people who can respect their own parents will not neglect other people's parents. That's why we always have to promote filial piety. "
"Does being filial to your parents mean that you want them to obey your wishes?"
"Well, that's pretty much what it means."
Xie Rongzhao was as curious as the baby and said, "Then if parents want something that doesn't belong to them, children should try their best to give it to them?"
This time, Xu Yuanqing was silent for a moment before saying: "Of course it cannot be too illusory. As long as it exists in this world, children should try their best to find it for their parents. Only in this way can they be filial sons."
Xie Rongzhao was unhappy and pouted, "That's not right!"
Xu Yuanqing was a little curious: "What's wrong?"
"What if a father or a mother is unloving? If a parent wants the life of his child, must he give it to him? If he does not give it, it is a violation of filial piety, but if he gives it, doesn't it mean that he is putting his parents at risk? In a situation where you don’t know right from wrong and treat your heirs harshly?”
Xu Yuanqing, who was always eloquent, was choked by her words.
After all, no student had ever asked him such a question before.
Moreover, the ancients often said: Everyone in the world has parents.
For this reason, as a child, you should stay on your own terms and not contradict your parents.
But the question this child asked was really difficult to solve.
If you don't follow your parents' wishes, it is unfilial.
But if the parents' wishes are followed, then it is a serious crime for the parents to murder their own children and they will be sent to jail. According to Guabao, how can he be considered a filial son if he puts his parents in jail?
Xu Yuanqing felt that he had provoked a little kid with an abnormal mind.
It was Cheng Jingzhou who helped out from the front and said, "Baby, your example is not appropriate. This kind of question only makes things difficult for Mr. Xu."
Xie Rongzhao pouted and muttered: "Why is it inappropriate? There are such people in the world!"
Although her voice was low, Xu Yuanqing, walking side by side with her, naturally heard her clearly.
His face was calm, but he was a little strange in his heart. How could a four or five-year-old child see such a person with his own eyes? Even if they met, how could she be sure that the other person was such a person?
Just with her childish mind?
Xu Yuanqing had nothing to do, so he sent the bookboy to return everything to the courtyard, while he and the little boy went to look for her father.
Xu Yuanqing also wanted to see what kind of scholar could teach such an eccentric child as Xie Guabao.
As a result, after meeting Xie Xiuwen face to face, Xu Yuanqing really felt that it was fate.
"Chief, my little girl is ignorant, please bother me."
Xu Yuanqing waved his hands indifferently, twitching the corner of his mouth slightly, and then looked at the little baby who had hugged Xie Xiuwen's thigh and refused to let go: "Little dear, this is the world-famous one you told me on the way. The most beautiful and smartest father in the world?"
After Xie Xiuwen heard this, he froze.
Baby, this is too cool, isn't it?
The key is that he also boasted about it to Mr. Xu Shan, whom he greatly admired. This will make him how to behave in the future!
