Chapter 1: A Gentleman's Cooking?

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Yingchuan County is a beautiful place, green mountains and green waters, fertile land, although after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but compared with the desolation of other places has been prosperous and lively, and the people here are simple, look at the people who come and go, although they are small people in the streets, but they are also humble and polite, a faction.

The reason why Yingchuan people are humble and polite is because of the world-famous Yingchuan Academy.

Since its establishment, Yingchuan Academy has cultivated countless scholars, who either serve as officials in one place or live above the court. Therefore, whether it is the local or the court, there are countless people who support Yingchuan Academy.

In Yingchuan Academy, a middle-aged Confucian student was speaking in the school:

The king said, "Yes." Those who have the people. Although the country of Qi is small, why do I love a cow? That is, he can't bear to covet him, and if he is not guilty, he will die, so he will change it with sheep. ”

He said: "The king is no different from the love of the people." Small is easy to big, and he knows the evil? If the king hides his innocence and dies, what will happen to the cattle and sheep? Wang smiled and said: "What is the sincerity? I don't love it. And it is easy to be a sheep, and it is appropriate for the people to say that I love it. ”

He said: "There is no injury, it is a benevolent technique, and the cow is not seen the sheep." A gentleman is also to beasts, seeing their life, and not being able to bear to see their death; Hearing its voice, I can't bear to eat its flesh. It is a gentleman who cooks far away. ”

After the middle-aged Confucian finished speaking, he glanced at the students in the hall and asked slowly, "Do you know what this 'gentleman is far away from cooking' means?" ”

In the hall, a student stood up, bowed to the middle-aged Confucian student, and said, "Sir, the student thinks that Mencius means to persuade the gentleman to stay away from the place where he kills and cooks, let alone to make these actions with his own hands. ”

The middle-aged Confucian nodded slowly, he agreed with the student's words very much. When the student saw the appreciation in his eyes, his heart was also full of joy.

"Sir, the student also has an understanding, which is slightly different from Brother Zizhan."

A thin young man at the corner also stood up and saluted the middle-aged Confucian student.

"Feng Xiao, just say it."

"Mr. Xie." The young man saluted the previous student again and continued, "Jia's point of view is different from that of Brother Zizhan, and I ask Brother Zizhan not to blame. ”

"It's okay, my brother's understanding may not be accurate, maybe Fengxiao's idea is correct." The student originally complained a little in his heart about the young man's near-demolition of the stage, but the young man apologized to him before elaborating, and most of the resentment in his heart couldn't help but disappear.

"Good. Jia thinks that a gentleman is also a human being, and he also wants to eat meat, and if he wants to eat meat, killing is indispensable, if he explains it like this, then it will become a gentleman who can't bear to kill, but it's just a 'far cook', and he can't see it out of sight, and he eats the meat made by the cook, is that too hypocritical? Mencius was a man of great benevolence and righteousness, and if he explained as Brother Zizhan explained, Mencius would have become a hypocrite. ”

"It makes sense."

"Is Mencius a hypocrite of hypocrisy and hypocrisy?"

The students in the hall also discussed one after another, most of them agreed with the boy's statement, and a few students stared at the boy, curious about what new explanation he had.

The middle-aged Confucian was not annoyed when he saw that Guo Jia overturned the ancient explanation of this sentence, but asked with interest: "Then how does Fengxiao explain this sentence?" ”

The young man secretly said, it is worthy of the era of academic openness in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he may be blown out by others if he is replaced by the Two Song Dynasty.

That's how the students understand it. Mencius's intention was to persuade gentlemen to have a benevolent and righteous heart. The beasts died in the cook's kitchen, and the gentleman stayed away from the cook's kitchen because he couldn't bear to see them die. Seeing its life, I can't bear to see its death, I can't bear to hear its voice, I can't bear to eat its flesh. Unbearable is benevolence, not the dirt of the cook, but the heart of benevolence and righteousness. The boy gushed endlessly, and when he said these words, his white face was full of confidence.

Bang bang bang.

When the students in the hall heard this, they applauded.

"What Brother Feng Xiao said is very good." Even the student who was called Zizhan praised.

The middle-aged Confucian lowered his head and thought, unmoved by the sound on the side, and couldn't help but sigh after a while.

"Feng Xiao, your explanation is very good. Unexpectedly, the old man (the ancients did not live long, so when they reached the age of forty, they called themselves old husbands) did a lifetime of learning, which is not as good as your ignorant student for more than ten years. Feng Xiao is also talented. ”

This young man's name is Guo Jia, the word Fengxiao, he is from the future, I don't know why he suddenly came to the era of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and suddenly possessed Guo Jia. The original Guo Jia's memories were combined with his own memories, and he gradually adapted to this era. At first, he wondered why he had a table character at the age of eighteen, but later remembered that it was because he was friendly with Xun Yu of the Yingchuan Xun clan, and his father Xun Qi admired Guo Jia's talent very much.

The middle-aged Confucian student praised Guo Jia for a few words and then continued to lecture.

Soon, two hours passed, and by noon, the school class was over. Guo Jia packed his bags and was about to go back to his house for dinner, when he was suddenly stopped.

"Bonghyo!"

Guo Jia looked back, and the person who stopped him looked twenty-four or five years old, with a special demeanor, seven feet long, and a gray Confucian shirt, which was even more dignified, and the person who came was Xun Yu.

"Wen Ruo, I won't go to your house for dinner if you say anything today!" Guo Jia picked up the burden and took a step back, as if Xunfu was a place for ghost shasa to cultivate.

Xun Yu didn't have a good breath and said, "Fengxiao, is my family so unbearable for you?" ”

Guo Jia smiled, "Wen Ruo, you know that I am a person who hates etiquette." Your Xun family is a well-known method of heavy etiquette, and going to your house for a meal will kill me. ”

There was also a young man standing next to Xun Yu, with a dignified body and a dignified appearance, dressed in a gray Confucian shirt that looked down-and-out and generous.

Guo Jia was stunned when he saw him, and then looked at Xun Yu again.

"Hey, I forgot to introduce it to my brother. Fengxiao, this is Chen Qun, the word is long, and he is also my friend. Brother Changwen listened to your explanation of Mencius's words before, and was very touched, so I want to get to know you, and today I want you to make friends. ”

"Jia, I've seen Brother Changwen." Guo Jia saluted Chen Qun.

Chen Qun also immediately returned the salute: "I've seen Brother Fengxiao." ”

"Okay, Fengxiao, come with me to my little courtyard, how about the three of us have a drink?" Xun Yu said.

After that, Guo Jia directly pulled Xun Yu and Chen Qun up, "Didn't you say that you couldn't go to your other courtyard, let's go, hurry up, the food in your house is very delicious." ”

Xun Yu and Chen Qun looked at each other and smiled, this Guo Fengxiao.

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