In 459 B.C., in mid-autumn, on the outskirts of Qufu South City, at the foot of Yishan Mountain, three ginkgo trees stood in the shape of "Pin", a school, and fell under the tree.

This mountain is incredible, although the reputation of later generations is not obvious, but it has always had the reputation of "Zou Lu Xiuling" and "Dainan Wonder". That Lao Tzu also came here to practice, and other Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi, Li Bai, Du Fu, Ouyang Xiu and others also loved Yishan, leaving footprints and ink treasures.

What's more, a generation of kings Qin Shi Huang also went east to Yishan, and discussed with the courtiers about the matter of chan wang sacrificing mountains and rivers, and made stone carvings, the inscription is as follows:

The emperor established the country, the beginning of the Wei dynasty was in the past, and the heir was called the king;

crusade against rebellion, intimidating the four poles, and martial righteousness;

Rong Chen was edicted, and after a short time, he destroyed the six violent powers;

Twenty six years, recommended high trumpets, filial piety is revealed;

Both dedication to Taicheng, but to descend to the favor, personally patrol the distance;

Climbing in the mountain, the ministers and followers, the salty thinking is long;

Remembering the troubled times, dividing the land and building the state, in order to open disputes;

Meritorious battles are made every day, bleeding in the wilderness, since the beginning of Taigu;

There are no tens of thousands in the world, and the five emperors cannot be forbidden;

The current emperor, one family in the world, the army will not rise;

Disasters are eliminated, Qianshou Kangding, and Lize lasts for a long time;

The ministers recited, carved this music stone, to the brokerage.

It can be seen that this Yishan has a prominent reputation.

This mountain, one day the mountain spring is called Chaotian Spring, on the boulder that comes out of the sky nearby, the spring water gathers, does not dry up and does not overflow, and the bubbling clear stream is inexhaustible all year round. There are five boulders standing side by side at the top of Wuhua Peak, if there are buds and hibiscus, the clouds are in the sky. The sea-exploring stone stands proudly on the peak, stretches out the head and leads the neck, arches to the east and stands, and confronts the Jinping rock that stands dozens of zhang on the wall. It is said that when the wind is clear and the sun is clear, standing on the stone and looking into the distance, the East China Sea is thousands of acres, and it can be seen in a trance.

This school occupies a large area, with two sets of wooden thatched houses.

One of them is a set of five rooms, with a chimney on each side of the roof, a kitchen in the middle room, and two rooms on the left and right, which is a place for students to eat and live. The design of the hut is very interesting, from under the stove in the kitchen, there is a flue on each side to the chimney, which winds through the kang of the hut, and at the exit there is a wooden board that resembles a gate. If it is a summer day, the plank is fully opened, and the hot smoke from cooking and burning flows quickly from under the kang and comes out of the chimney, and the kang will not be hot. If it is a cold day, the plank is closed, leaving only a small part of the gap, the hot smoke of cooking can only linger in the flue under the kang due to the small outlet, and the heat of the hot smoke is transferred to the kang, so that when you sleep at night, the kang is very hot.

The other set is also a conjoined five-room, the middle set is the teacher's reading office room, and the left and right sides are for the disciples to learn and use.

The two houses are built with south-facing light and an open site in the front and back. There is a field in the backyard on the north side, with some wooden swords and some stone locks on the side, and a field in the front yard on the south side has several rows of tables and chairs. The entire compound is surrounded by wooden fences. At the middle gate, four big characters are written on the wooden archway "Mo's School".

At this moment, in the backyard of the Mo Academy, there are more than a dozen teenagers practicing martial arts, about ten to thirteen or fourteen years old, there are those who use swords, some who use swords, and those who play with the stone lock to polish their strength, and there is a young man in white standing on the side, carrying and supervising these teenagers.

In the front yard, there were more than a dozen fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers sitting upright on chairs, and in front of them was a man with a slightly dark face, dressed in a blue-brown linen robe, holding a roll of bamboo slips, teaching there.

At this time, I saw a person walking in from outside the gate, wearing a gray robe, walking calmly, but smiling, with a feather fan in his hand, showing his graceful demeanor. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled at the man who was teaching: "Mo Zhai, haven't you finished class yet?" ”

"It turns out that Fei Ge is back, wait a while, I'll be fine." The man, known as Mo Zhai, responded.

Brother Fei nodded with a smile and walked to the backyard: "Zimu, haven't you finished class yet?" I am back. ”

"Yo, it turns out that Fei Ge is back." The man in white smiled, stepped forward and hugged Fei Ge, "But I've been out for a while." Then he turned his head and shouted to the group of teenagers, "Stop for now, today is a holiday, your Uncle Fei is back, come and pay a visit." ”

The group of little teenagers heard that they didn't need to practice one by one, and quickly put down the utensils in their hands, regardless of wiping the sweat on their faces, they ran over one after another, surrounded Brother Fei, and called "Uncle Fei" with gossips, and the young and naughty stepped forward, and asked with a smile: "Uncle Fei, but I haven't seen you for a long time, we always miss you, this time when you come back, do you have anything strange and delicious?" ”

Brother Fei opened the package and scolded with a smile: "A group of little monkey cubs, think I'm imagining that the delicious food in my package is true, right?" With that, he took out the desserts from the package and scattered them on the table.

A group of children flocked to grab it. When one of the children saw this, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Everyone has mercy, the big brothers in the front yard haven't yet!" ”

Brother Fei smiled and touched the child's head: "It's still Monsan, don't worry, keep it for them, Uncle Fei knows the virtue of these little wolves, so he kept a hand, haha!" With that, he took out a piece of dessert from his bag and handed it to Monsan.

"Thank you, Uncle Fei!" That Monson is very sensible.

At this moment, the class in the front yard was also over, and a group of big teenagers came to Fei Ge one after another, saluting and greeting very politely. Brother Fei took out the remaining desserts and handed them to one of the slightly older teenagers: "Feng Li, divide these desserts, this is a specialty of the Jin Kingdom, and the taste is still good." ”

The young man named Fengli thanked Fei Ge and took some desserts to share with the brothers.

At this time, the man named Mo Zhai came over, stepped forward and hugged Fei Ge, and joked with a smile: "Fei Ge came back this time, but it added a bit of elegance." ”

"Haha, Mo Zhai is making fun of me again, no matter how much I add elegance, I can't catch up with you if I pat the horse, you are called elegant!"

At this point in the book, everyone may also understand that this Mo Zhai is Zimo back then, but Fei Ge is his childhood playmate Tengfei, and so is Zimu.

It is said that after the departure of his master Chi Songzi, Zimo went into retreat for three years, and after leaving the customs, he said goodbye to his parents, saying that he wanted to travel for a long time.

This son Mo heard the name of Confucius in Qufu for a long time, so he ran directly to Qufu. At this time, Confucius was rumored to have died for many years, and Zimo came to the present to worship, and also worshiped on behalf of his father. He went to find Confucius's disciples, wanting to understand the essence of Confucius's Confucianism.

After some inquiry, I learned that there is a Zengzi in Qufu City, that Zengzi is a disciple of Confucius, since the age of 16 apprenticeship, quite a true biography of Confucius, and very filial piety, known for filial piety, after the death of Confucius, his tomb for three years, if his father is mourned, won the praise of the world. That Zengzi set up a "Zengzi School" in Qufu City to spread and carry forward Confucius's thoughts, and Confucius's grandson Kong Ling also studied under him.

It is implied in the book that this Kong Ling, whose name is Zisi, is the son of Confucius's son Kong Li, whose father died early, and Confucius entrusted Kong Ling to Zengzi before he died, so that he could take care of it. This Kong Ling is also very good, extremely intelligent, worthy of being the grandson of Confucius, Zengzi can pass on the knowledge almost immediately, and is good at listening to the opinions of others. Later generations of "The Mean", "The Book of Filial Piety" and other famous works are from his hands, and his disciples accept disciples, that disciple is also good, and then for a generation of saints, Mencius is also.

After Zimo found enough information, he found the Zengzi School, recommended himself to him, and prepared to listen to Confucianism in his school, but he had a small request, he came to listen to the lecture by himself, and only paid the tuition fee but did not apprentice for the time being. That Zeng Zi was not happy when he heard it, and asked him, since he didn't learn from the teacher, what else did he come to learn? This Zimo then told him that he already had a teacher, and if he had that teacher, he could not worship other teachers. That Zeng Zi was curious, so he talked about it, but this talk made Zeng Zi very surprised by Zimo's knowledge, up to astronomy, down to geography, before talking about history, and then talking about law, this Zimo is so young but contains all things in his chest, which can be called omniscient and omniscient, and finally the two discussed that this Zimo was listening to Zeng Zitang. That Zeng Zizi is an extraordinary person, not only carried forward the thought of Confucius, but also integrated his own understanding of the teacher's homework, and Zimo benefited a lot from listening to his teaching. During recess, the two also discussed with each other.

The problem of listening to learning is solved, but it also has to solve the stomach problem, so that Zimo used his spare time, in order to solve the problem of the cost of traveling abroad, he chose a venue, showed his martial arts, this martial arts was immediately recognized by the surrounding people, three days later, he rented a venue to start recruiting apprentices, and the object was some teenage children. At first, the time was to teach some martial arts every two days, and take two days off to let the children practice at home, and I also went to Zeng Zi to be an auditor.

After three years of this, I had a general understanding of Confucianism, and I also knew some of Confucius's ideas. There are many benefits to these ideas, but there are some aspects that I disagree. But anyway, after all, Confucius also has some relationship with himself, Zengzi's virtue is very admirable, and Kong Ling's age is similar to his own, in terms of generation, the two are the same generation, and they can talk about it in words, in daily life, Zimo calls Kong Ling Zisi's senior brother, when Zimo and Zeng Zi discuss, Kong Ling will often join in, it can be said that "the threesome must have my teacher", this Confucianism has joined Zimo, a new force, but also Zengzi and Kong Ling benefited a lot. Later, many of the sources of Kong Ling's idea of moderation came from Zimo.

Three years later, in 461 BC, Zimo was 20 years old. According to the etiquette system at that time, when you are 20 years old, you must perform the crown ceremony. Zimo took a moment to rush back to Huishan, and Zijian chose an auspicious day, invited nearby relatives and neighbors to witness, and offered offerings to heaven and earth and ancestors. During the crown ceremony, relatives and friends will be crowned three times in turn, and three hats will be worn in turn, and a cloth crown made of black linen material will be added first, which means that they have the qualifications to participate in politics and can assume social responsibilities. Then add a leather cloth made of white deerskin, which is a military hat, which means that from now on you will serve in the military to defend the territory of Sheji; Finally, a plain crown with red and black is added, which is a top hat that was common in ancient times, indicating that you can participate in the sacrificial ceremony from now on. After some preparations, Zijian said to Zimo, "Today, you have the gift of a weak crown, it means that you have become a real adult, and your every move must be in line with the etiquette law. ”

After that, if you call Zimo again, you will call it Mo Zhai. After passing the crown and giving the word, Mo Zhai made an appointment with his childhood friend and went to Qufu City together. Returning to Qufu City, Mo Zhai came to Zengzi School and informed Zengzi that the school he was going to teach martial arts was changed to a school taught in both civil and martial arts. When Zengzi heard this, he sighed: "If you enter the Confucian Sect with your talents, the Confucian Sect will surely create brilliance again." But I also know that the golden scales are not things in the pool, and it is difficult for Confucianism to keep you. Go, go and break out of the world, Zijian gave birth to a good son! ”

"How does the gentleman know the name of his father?" Hearing Zengzi's words, Mo Zhai was shocked.

"Hahahaha." Zeng Zi stroked his beard and laughed, "How did I not know? You look so similar to Senior Brother Zijian, but your face is slightly darker, and then I wrote to communicate with your father, and it is really as I judged. Zeng Zi stood up and patted Mo Zhai on the shoulder, "Your parents' matchmaking gift is still my matchmaking, but your father didn't tell you, he wants you to grow up independently, and I also know your teacher, indeed, with Chi Songzi and his old man as your teacher, you can't worship under my door." ”

When Mo Zhai heard this, he leaned down and bowed: "Mo Zhai today knows that his father is also a Confucian and has seen his uncle. ”