Li Yuxu hurried towards the school while eating coarse grain pancakes.
When he arrived, many friends had already taken out small stools, talking to each other and waiting for Mr. Wang to arrive.
"Third brother, here!"
I saw a child slightly smaller than Li Yuxu waving towards Li Yuxu. Li Yuxu did not hesitate, walked forward quickly, also took off the small stool from behind, opened it and sat down.
"Give."
Li Daocheng's eyes almost narrowed when he saw half a piece of whole grain pancake, and he said sweetly:
"Thank you, Third Brother."
Li Yuaxu smiled and touched his head and said:
"Eat quickly."
Li Yuaxu didn't need to say anything, Li Daocheng had already started to chew on it.
Compared with Li Yuaxu, Li Daocheng's life experience was even worse, except that his younger brother was forcibly taken to the mountain and recognized other people as his parents.
His mother was not from the Li family, but was picked up by his father outside.
His mother was originally a qi-training monk, but due to the counterattack of monsters in the past few years, she was possessed by some evil spell, which caused her to become somewhat demented.
His father was a kind man. After he took this female cultivator home, he took good care of her. From then on, it became a vulgar joke that he fell in love with her for a long time.
After Li Daocheng was born, the cultivators from the Li family on the mountain came to test their qualifications. As a result, the cultivator from the Li family saw a strange female cultivator whose cultivation level was not low, so he kept asking questions.
Such actions stimulated the female cultivator. The female cultivator, who was already looking like a normal person, suddenly went crazy, injured several villagers, and ran away.
His father was worried that he was in danger, so he had no choice but to look for him. As a result, both of them never returned, and Li Daocheng became an orphan.
Also, everyone in Lijia Village has the same surname. Although there are some scheming among the common people, they are all related by relatives and can be regarded as simple and honest. So one family will take him to have a meal today, and another family will send him a meal tomorrow. He has been eating like this for several years. Only then did Baijiafan survive.
This child is also very sensible. When he was a child, he really had no choice but to do this. In recent years, as he has grown up, this child does not like to trouble people much. After all, no one's family is very rich.
Before Wang Chong came, he began to go down to the river to touch some fish and shrimps, pick some wild vegetables, and stay hungry until he was full. Unless he really couldn't find anything to eat and couldn't bear the hunger, he would shamelessly ask for help. A neighbor's aunt and uncle asked for a meal.
He also always said that he would pay it back when he grows up, and he is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed.
Later, when Wang Chong arrived, the courtyard arranged by Mr. Li became Li Daocheng's home.
Oh... when Wang Chong came, Li Daocheng was not called by this name yet. He only had a nickname of "little bastard".
The name "little bastard" came from the fact that after Li Daocheng found out the reason for his parents' disappearance, he wanted to go to the mountains to seek justice. As a result, he was almost beaten to death by those cultivators who called him "little bastard".
Later, I don't know whether it was to remind him of this hatred, or to lament his miserable fate, so the child called himself 'little bastard', and this became his nickname.
It wasn't until Wang Chong arrived, and after studying with Wang Chong to gain wisdom, he understood the truth and knew that even if he ruined himself, his enemies wouldn't suffer any loss, so he asked Wang Chong to help him choose a normal name.
Li Yuaxe, Li Daocheng, and the eldest girl Li Xiuling are the three five elements spirits in this village.
But after a while, Li Daocheng was munching on a whole-grain pancake with his head down, when a crisp and cold voice suddenly sounded:
"Sir, you're not hungry either. Why don't you always have enough to eat?"
With some cake crumbs still stuck to his mouth, Li Daocheng looked up and saw Li Xiuling, he just smiled silly and said:
“When I’m scared of being hungry, I always feel like I don’t have enough to eat.”
Li Xiuling is the oldest among all the children who come to study. She is already thirteen years old, and her eyebrows are already slightly longer.
Although she is not beautiful, she has a slender figure, well-distributed facial features, and a cold face from time to time, which makes her look like an iceberg beauty.
Although Li Xiuling said something unpleasant, she still took out a vegetable dumpling wrapped in a handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it to Li Daocheng.
Li Daocheng was not polite and took it directly. After saying "Thank you, sister", he lowered his head and started eating again.
Li Xiuling shook her head, also took out a small stool and sat behind the two of them.
This place is said to be a school, but in fact it is just a slightly flat piece of land next to Wang Chong's courtyard, covered with a thick layer of river sand.
The few willow trees around serve as a shield from the wind and sun.
Just when Li Daocheng stuffed the last bite of vegetable dumplings into his mouth, he saw Wang Chong striding over with his hands behind his back.
Everyone stood up quickly, saluted Wang Chong, and said in unison:
"Thank you sir."
Wang Chong smiled and returned the salute.
"Hello students, please sit down."
"Thank you, sir."
After many children and teenagers saluted, they all took their seats, put their hands in front of their knees, and sat upright.
As before, Wang Chong first talked about the Analects of Confucius for more than an hour, and then talked about arithmetic for half an hour, and then talked about agriculture and water conservancy for half an hour before announcing the end of school.
Although Wang Chong worshiped the Taoist ancestor, Huang-Lao's philosophy, which is the core of Taoism, emphasizes inaction and is not suitable as a primary school.
On the contrary, Confucianism is the most suitable for teaching children after cutting out some of the false teachings of loyalty and submissiveness.
Wang Chongben wanted these people to know how to resist, what it means to be "innately good" and what everyone is equal to.
Therefore, this New Confucianism, with Confucianism as its skin and modern equality as its bones, was simply tailor-made by Wang Chong for the people of this world.
As for how much trouble this knowledge will cause in the future, Wang Chong will not care.
"Congratulations, sir."
Everyone stood up and saluted. Wang Chong waved his hand and returned to the yard. Many children then dispersed in twos and threes.
Just when Li Yuaxu and Li Xiuling were about to leave, Li Daocheng held them back.
"Sister Ling, third brother, please wait."
The two of them were a little confused when they saw that Li Daocheng asked them to stay while looking around for those who left together.
After the people were almost gone, Li Daocheng took the two of them to a secluded place and said:
"Sister Ling, third brother, do you want to become immortals?"
Li Daocheng asked suddenly, and both Li Yuaxu and Li Xiuling were stunned.
Li Daocheng did not wait for the two to answer and continued:
"Mr. Wang is also an immortal. I live with him and I often see Mr. Wang practicing immortality at night."
Li Daocheng was also a very smart boy. There were seventy or eighty people from the whole village who came to listen, but Wang Chong only named three of them. He knew that the three of them were somewhat different from the others in Wang Chong's mind.
After Wang Chong completed the foundation building, cultivated the innate Taoist body, and began to refine Qi, there were naturally some extraordinary phenomena, but they were noticed by Li Daocheng who lived together.
This boy has long wanted to become a disciple, but he was afraid that he would be rejected by Wang Chong if he was alone, and it would be difficult to talk about it in the future, so he thought of bringing the two of them together, so that even if he was rejected, it would not be too abrupt. .
Little did he know that he was overthinking this. Wang Chong had originally intended to fish. Otherwise, with his ability, even if Li Daocheng was a hundred times smarter, he would never have been able to figure out the slightest clue.
Now the boy had thought more and was ready to bring the two of them together, but it happened to suit Wang Chong's wishes.
