"My little brother is overrated, how can I be so noble, it's just to support my family for a few pennies." The boatman listened to Mozi's words and smiled innocently.

"Life in the world is inseparable from the word food and clothing, of course the ferrying everyone must be rewarded, otherwise the stomach should not drink the northwest wind?" Mozi also smiled, "It is your mentality that creates your merits!" ”

While talking and laughing, the boat arrived on the other side of Pushui, and it was seen that there was a city not far away. The bird paid a few pennies and gave a few more to show gratitude.

The boatman was very grateful and looked at the sky: "Two little brothers, it's not early, and I won't rest or ferry." It just so happens that my home is in Acheng, let's go together! ”

This is a good thing, it is always good to have a familiar person to lead the way, and the bird slippery helped the boatman to tie the boat, and the three of them rushed to Ah Cheng. When they arrived in the city, the kind-hearted boatman invited Mozi's master and apprentice to his home for some light meals before leaving. It happened that it was time for his stomach to eat, so Mozi didn't pretend and agreed to the boatman.

followed the boatman to the house, and the boatman smiled and said: "The two little brothers sit down first, don't be polite, I'll let me prepare some food." Ziqi, come and pour tea for the two uncles. ”

Only then did Mozi notice that in the corner of the courtyard, there was a boy leaning against a big tree, holding a bamboo slip in his hand, and he was watching with relish. When the boy heard his father's cry, he put down the bamboo slip and poured two bowls of water, and said, "Two uncles, please use tea!" ”

Mozi looked at the boy with interest: "Your name is Ziqi?" How old is this year? What kind of book do you read, so fascinated. ”

The boy scratched his head: "My name is Yin Ziqi, I am twelve years old this year, it was a bamboo slip that my father picked up, and no one came to look for it and kept it." The book is headed by 'Political Suo', so I call it 'Political Suo'. ”

"Political Suo?" Mozi was stunned for a moment, how could this name sound so familiar, "Can you show me your book?" ”

"Absolutely." Yin Ziqi took the book and handed it to Mozi.

Mozi took a look, and sure enough, the frontispiece of the volume began with "Eight Chapters of Political Suo", and when he saw the content, he couldn't help but suddenly open up, and said with a smile: "Ziqi, I guess this book should not be called "Political Suo", if it is as expected, its full name should be called "Eight Suo", and you are just one of them. ”

"Uncle, do you know this book?" Ziqi asked.

"I've only heard of it, but I haven't read it, this "Eight Suo" has eight volumes, namely "Dao Suo", "Zheng Suo", "Mu Suo", "Tian Suo", "Di Suo", "Water Suo", "Mountain Suo", "Lin Suo", your "Political Suo" is about how to govern the country, but for the king to use for the government." Mozi smiled and said, "This kind of ancient book is obscure, can you understand it?" ”

Ziqi rubbed his nose with the back of his hand: "I can only understand a little bit, and I don't know a lot of words." ”

"Oh? So how do you recognize the other words? Mozi was curious. Because in this era, there are very few people who can read and write, look at this, there should be no one in Ziqi's family who is literate, so no one teaches this, how can Ziqi know words?

"I didn't know any of them, but since my father picked up this book and came back, I liked the circles on it and wanted to understand them. I heard that Yi Zai knew how to read and write, so I went to ask for advice when I was fine, and I recognized some of them after coming and going. Ziqi's words made Mozi very impressed.

"It's nice to have a desire to learn! Slippery, you go to make some bamboo chips to use to make bamboo slips. Mozi commanded.

After dinner, the bamboo slices of the fowl were also ready, and Mozi said to the boat family: "Your Ziqi is very studious, and he still looks a little tired of the book "Political Suo", my disciple and I will spend the night at your house tonight, and by the way, I will sort out the book for Ziqi, what do you think?" ”

"That's thanks to the little brother, I picked up the bamboo slips, I can't read, I wanted to burn it as firewood, but Ziqi liked it, so I played with him, but I didn't expect that I could understand it by groping. If the little brother can understand, he will trouble the little brother to tell him, so that he can always take the fish I caught and send it to Yi Zai, which will make it difficult for me to eat the fish. The big brother of the boat family said honestly.

"Haha, I didn't expect Ziqi to be so young, but he also knows personnel, it's rare!" Mozi smiled, "This also shows that Ziqi is very wise, and I will connect the bamboo compendium tonight." ”

After a short rest, Mozi built a fire outside the courtyard, set up a stand, and put the bamboo slices on it to bake.

"Uncle, what are you doing here? Why roast it over fire? Ziqi stood by the side, curiously watching Mozi bake bamboo chips.

"There is water in this bamboo, if it is not dried, it will be deformed for a long time, I also have a simple treatment, and there are many procedures for normal treatment." Mozi said, "This treatment is called 'finishing', after the completion is good, you can use the cowhide rope to weave the connection, we will use the hemp rope to weave the connection this time, if there is a break in the future, you will weave it yourself." ”

This roast was baked until late at night, and Mozi asked Ziqi to go to bed first, and he was alone in weaving bamboo slips.

The next morning, as soon as the sun came up, Ziqi got up and rushed to see the bamboo slip, and saw that the bamboo slip had been braided, rolled up and put on the table. I opened the bamboo slip, which was blank, and smelled the unique fragrance of the bamboo slip, and my face was full of intoxication.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Yin Ziqi looked back to see that it was Yu Huali who came over with a pen and ink, and at the same time found that Mozi was standing behind him at some point, "Uncle!" ”

"Hmmm! Do you like it? ”

"Like! Love it so much! ”

"You bring "Political Suo", and I'll sort it out." Mozi commanded.

After paving the "Zhengsuo", and spreading out the blank bamboo slips, corresponding to the "Zhengsuo", Mozi began to write with a pen, and what Mozi did was to explain the book, and at the same time to make a mark on some of the more difficult to recognize words. Every time he explained, he explained it to Yin Ziqi in detail.

Slowly, near noon, half of the book was written, and most of the time was spent on oral explanations for Ziqi. At this moment, two shouts came from outside the door: "Yin Ziqi! Yin Ziqi! We're here to bring you beef! Hurry up and bring it to Nayi Zai, and ask him about the contents of the book! ”

As soon as the voice fell, the courtyard door was savagely pushed open by a person. Two young men came in from outside, with their arms open, walking and shaking, carrying a piece of beef in their hands.

"Ziqi! What are you doing? We call you and you don't agree! One of them seemed dissatisfied with Ziqi not responding and shouted. Then I felt an extra hand on my mouth, covering it tightly, and a soft "Shhhhh Don't be silent, Ah, look! ”

This person called Ah He looked fixedly, and quickly covered his mouth, carried the beef, and tiptoed forward, and came to Ziqi to see that a young man was writing, explaining the meaning while writing.

This explanation is very detailed, before that Ziqi once told himself and Zishuo, although that Ziqi is also half-understood, but what he listened to is also relish, today I heard this detailed and clear explanation, just like a bear blind man eating honey, wonderful. After listening to this lecture, everyone forgot to eat, and the eldest brother of the boat family came over several times and wanted to ask Mozi to eat, but he was forced back by the sharp eyes of Ah He and Zishuo.

After another two hours, the annotation of this "Political Suo" was finally completed. In the end, Mozi also added a part of his own "Shangxian" thought at the end, which can also coincide with "Zhengsuo".

Mozi put down the brush and closed the bamboo slip: "How is it, Qi, is there anything else you don't understand?" ”

"Thank you Uncle for your advice! Ziqi basically wrote it down, and his previous doubts were solved. Yin Ziqi said respectfully.

"My name is Mo Zhai, and my disciples call me Mozi. Will you follow me and accept my Momen Avenue? Mozi asked again.

"Is my uncle going to live in Acheng permanently?" Ziqi asked.

"Nope! My footprints will be all over the world. ”

Just when Ziqi wanted to answer, the eldest brother of the boat family came over again, and happened to hear these words, so he spoke: "Little Brother Mo, my Yin family is such a son, and Ziqi is still young, and now that the world is chaotic, I won't go out with you." ”

"Father!" Ziqi looked at his father with some regret, and then looked at Mozi, his mouth opened, and finally there was no squeak.

"Understood!" Mozi smiled and patted Ziqi on the shoulder, "Since your father doesn't agree, you can read more at home, read this "Political Suo" thoroughly, and I also added some of my statecraft ideas at the end, if possible, you can go to the Mo Academy at the foot of Qufu Yi Mountain or the Luoyi Yique Mo Academy, mention my name, and they will accept you." ”

"Yes!" Ziqi's eyes were red.

"Okay, let's eat first, don't eat all day, aren't you hungry? Ah He and Zishuo should also eat some together! "The big brother of the boat family called.

As soon as Mozi got up to move, he saw the two young men who came behind him fall to their knees and leaned over there.

This time it was Mozi who was at a loss, when these two people first came, Mozi already knew, but he didn't say anything when he saw him listening very carefully, and at this moment he saw them kneeling in front of him, he was stunned, and asked, "Why are you doing this?" ”

The two of them didn't speak, they just kowtowed, but they didn't get up. Mozi looked at Ziqi and the boatman, they were also inexplicable, thought for a while and said, "Do you have any difficulties that you need my help with?" ”

The two men remained silent. Mozi is not easy to use, and I don't know what these two half-sized children want, and when they couldn't figure it out, Bird Slippery came to Mozi's side: "Master, I think these two seem to want to apprentice." ”

As soon as these words came out, the two of them immediately raised their heads, revealing eager eyes.

Mozi then understood, nodded, sat down again, and stared at the two of them carefully, but this careful look was amazing, these two people turned out to be bone spirits, but they were geniuses who practiced martial arts, looking at the facial bones, they were clearly people of great wisdom. With a judgment in his heart, he spoke, "Is that what you think? ”

"Yes! Precisely! Please also ask Master to be gracious and agree! The two of them kowtowed again.

"But I don't even know your details, how do you accept apprentices?"

When he asked these questions, he made the heads of these two people fall even more to the ground, and he did not explain.

This made Mozi very puzzled: "Why don't you speak?" ”

The more you ask, the more you don't say it. In the end, it was the eldest brother of the boat family who spoke: "Little Brother Mo, I guess they are embarrassed to talk about their life experience." ”

Why is that? Is there anything unspeakable? ”

"That's what happened!" The eldest brother of the boat family explained the reason why these two did not speak.

It turned out that these two, one was called Gao He, and the other was called County Zishuo, a local person. These two parents were originally from an official family, and later died due to the war, and the two families are friends, so these two have also known each other since childhood, played together, and since the parents left, they have depended on each other. But this Acheng city, the ability of the city is limited, the people's life is very bad, once poor it is easy to cause chaos, so the cycle of evil deeds, this Acheng is more and more unpopular with the court, the more poor, the more chaotic, and here is the border of Qi, mixed people. In this way, in order to survive, these two helpless children learned some bad habits, bullied the weak, and ran rampant in the village, gradually making people annoying.

The two of them once saw Yin Ziqi walking on the road carrying a fish, so they wanted to snatch the fish. This fish was taken by Ziqi to give it to Yi Zai for advice, this was robbed, and Ziqi was angry and desperately resisted, don't look at Ziqi's young age, but this resistance also made Gao He and County Zishuo suffer, and asked viciously why he didn't want to give them the fish. This Ziqi said the reason. Unexpectedly, the two of them were stunned when they heard that Ziqi was using fish like this. Ziqi took advantage of his inattention and ran away with the fish.

When Ziqi went home and learned from his father about what happened today, his father wanted to go to the two boys to settle accounts, but then he thought about it, Ziqi didn't have any big losses, and those two boys were gangsters, once they were entangled with them, I was afraid that they wouldn't have to think about peace in the future, so they didn't go.