The master and apprentice went down to Taiyue, traveled all the way west, approached dusk, and came to a city at the western foot of Mount Tai, Dujunyi (now Shiheng Town, Feicheng City, Shandong Province).

Looking at the sky, Yu Huali said to Mozi: "Look at this small city, the population should not be much, Master, it seems that we need to find a family to spend the night." ”

Mozi nodded: "Go and ask, if any family is willing to stay, we will pay some money and food in return." ”

The fowl went into the city, and in the middle of the city, when he saw a large house, he went up and pulled the knocker. After a short time, an old man opened the door, squinted his eyes, stared at the bird, rubbed his eyes again, looked again, and asked, "This little brother, I don't know why I came to knock on the door?" ”

"Uncle, Master and I came from out of town, passing by here, and want to stay with you for one night, do you think it is feasible? I'm willing to pay for some food. "Bird slippery arch.

"It turned out to be passing, so come in, there's nothing to entertain, just some coarse tea and light rice. As for the food or anything, there is no need, and it is not easy to go out. The old man opened the door and invited the fowl into the house.

Fowl Huali let the master in first, and Mozi arched his hand to the old man and said, "Disturb the old man!" ”

Follow the old man in. As he walked, the old man said, "It just so happens that we are also going to have dinner, so let's eat together." After that, he shouted to the back room, "Old woman, add two more pairs of dishes and chopsticks, and two of them are passing by in a hurry to stay at our house for one night." ”

"Yes, old man. It's just that I didn't prepare any dishes, and I was a little shabby. An old woman's voice came from the kitchen.

"Auntie, you don't have to prepare, it's just a daily routine." Mozi smiled at the kitchen.

As soon as the voice fell, an old woman walked in with some dishes and chopsticks: "Sit down, eat first, it's not enough for me to make some more." "At that time, the people were simple and simple, and there were not so many utilitarian people.

"Thank you, auntie, you can also sit down and eat together, this is really annoying." Mozi got up and gave way.

After dinner, the old woman helped the old woman to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and the old man let Mozi take care of himself, and he came to the house, lit the oil lamp, took the inkstone, and grinded it.

As soon as Mozi saw that the old man seemed to be writing, he stepped forward and said, "I'll sharpen the ink for you." ”

The old man glanced at Mozi, nodded, and chattered: "Young man, listen to your accent is not nearby, where are you going?" ”

"I am the Song State Huishan clan, and my disciples went to pay homage to Taiyue, and now I got off Mount Tai, and I was going to go to the Jin Kingdom, and I happened to pass by here. Look at the old man's inkstone, it is not a mortal thing, and it seems that the old man is not an ordinary person. Mozi smiled.

"Good eyesight, lad!" The old man praised, "My ink inkstone, it was brought by a friend from She County, Yueguo, it doesn't matter whether the gift is expensive or not, the key is that this affection is deep!" As he spoke, the old man took out a pair of blank bamboo slips, unfolded them, and lit up the oil lamp, "Alas, as I get older, my eyes are getting worse and worse, and I can't read a word clearly." Then he took out a pair of bamboo slips, but the bamboo slips had already been written.

Mozi glanced at it with his eyes, but it was a historical chronicle, and then looked at the table, where there were a lot of bamboo slips, and the bamboo slips were marked with the mark "Spring and Autumn Five" on the outside. Mozi's eyes lit up and asked, "Uncle, is your book Mr. Zhongni's "Spring and Autumn"?" ”

The old man raised his head and looked at Mozi: "Young man, do you also know this book?" It's not easy, no wonder you can be that guy's master. ”

"So what are you going to do here? Is it a copy or a write? Mozi asked.

"This "Spring and Autumn Period" was written by my friend, recording the major events that occurred every year from the first year of Lu Yin to the twenty-seventh year of Lu Aigong, I think some of its events are too simple, so I want to take advantage of my lifetime to make annotations for it, so that people can understand history more clearly."

"I don't know what to call the old man? Your deeds can be called immortal, boy Mo Zhai admires it very much! With that, Mozi got up and bowed to the old man.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, my surname is Qiu Mingming, because my father was a historian of Zuo, so I sometimes call myself Zuo Qiu Ming." The old man replied with a smile.

After sitting down again, Mozi continued to grind the ink: "Uncle Zuoqiu, I don't know if the kid can take a look at the part you annotated." ”

"Well, it's all there, see for yourself." This Zuo Qiu Ming didn't hide his secrets, let Mozi see it himself.

"Thank you, Uncle Zuoqiu!" Mozi casually took a bamboo slip, which was marked "Zuo Chuan Xuan Gong Twenty-one Years", opened it and saw that the content of "Spring and Autumn" began on the left, and then "Zuo Chuan" annotated:

In the spring of the twentieth year, Di invaded the guard. The Song people, the Qi people, and the Chu people are allied on the deer. Summer, great drought. In the autumn, Song Gong, Chu Zi, Chen Hou, Cai Hou, Zheng Bo, Xu Nan, and Cao Bo will meet in Yu. Ruling the Song Dynasty to cut the Song Dynasty. Winter, Gong Felling. The Chu people made Yi Shen come to offer victory. There are two months out of ten, and the princes of the guild are allied to be thin. Shi Song Gong.

In the spring of the twenty-first year, the Song people were the alliance of Lushang, in order to seek the princes in Chu. Chu people Xu Zhi. Gongzi Muyi said: "Small countries compete for alliances, and disaster is also a disaster." Song Qi died, but fortunately he was defeated. ”

Summer, great drought. The public wants to burn the witches. Zang Wenzhong said: "It's not a drought preparation. Repair the city, depreciate food and save money, and persuade the dividators, which is also a task. What is a witch? If the heavens want to kill it, then don't give birth; If it can be a drought, it will be burned. "Obey it. It's a year, hungry but not harmful.

In autumn, the princes will be Song Gong Yu. Ziyu said: "Woe to it! How can you be worthy? So Chu ruled the Song Dynasty to cut down the Song Dynasty.

Winter, will be in the thin to release. Ziyu said: "It's not enough, it's not enough to punish you." ”

Ren, Su, Su, Su, Xuan, Feng, surname. The priest of the great and the blessed to serve the summers. The people must destroy the sentence, and the sentence must run, because it becomes the wind. Cheng Feng said to the public: "Chongming worship, protect the small widow, and Zhou Li; Barbarian and cunning summer, Zhou disaster also. If the sentence is sealed, it is a worship and cultivation, and it is also a disaster relief. ”

"Uncle Zuoqiu, your annotations are really detailed." Pointing to the bamboo slips, Mozi smiled and said, "This fish is the ancestor of the kid." ”

"Oh, it turns out that the little brother is also a famous queen, but he is disrespectful." Zuo Qiu Ming arched his hand.

"Don't dare, don't dare." Mozi returned the favor.

Knowing that Mozi was a descendant of Ziyu, Zuo Qiu Ming spoke more, and seemed to have a common language. This conversation, that Zuo Qiu Mington was surprised, put down the pen in his hand, and stared at Mozi with cloudy eyes: "It seems that the little brother is definitely not very human!" This knowledge, knowing astronomy and geography, can talk about Yao Shun Shang Tang in the past, and then talk about social development. I don't know who the little brother is taught by? ”

"The kid has been taught by a different person since he was a child, and he has traveled in many ways, combined with the historical situation, he just has a little opinion." Mozi said modestly.

"Haha, little brother doesn't need to be modest, with your talent, not inferior to Lu Guo Kong Zhongni, no less than the old man of the Zhou Dynasty, and you are different from them, although I don't talk to you much, but the words have been revealed, that is you are proficient in the art of war, the trick of attacking and defending the city. If any country is placed, it is enough to achieve hegemony on its own! ”

"Oops! Uncle Zuoqiu, don't spread your words, otherwise the kid's life will be in danger! Mozi joked, "I'm just a cloth cloth, and I'm still far from the court." Besides, how can the overlord be realized by one person, look at the Jin Wengong, that is the monarch is wise, virtuous, and can share weal and woe, just Zhao Yu and other five sages, so as to continue the hegemony for a hundred years. Look at the Duke of Qi Huan again, regardless of the previous suspicions, open his heart and accept Guan Zhong, so as to become his hegemony. And Wu Guofu was poor, although he was as capable as Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, but later he was so mediocre that he lost his country. ”

"The little brother can see it thoroughly, and he can't get old." Zuo Qiu Ming nodded.

"The old man has an overreputation." Mozi said politely, "If it is fair, if you write this book, its merits will be sung for hundreds of generations, and future generations will have their own evaluation." ”

"What do future generations say, the old decay can't be seen!" Zuo Qiu Ming rubbed his eyes, smiled and said, laughed, lifted the pen and dipped it in ink, and continued to write Zuo Chuan.

Mozi sat on the side, and when he saw that there was less ink, he sharpened it for it, and just watched this Zuo Qiu Ming solve the problem for the Spring and Autumn Period. After more than an hour, Zuo Qiu Ming put down his pen and stretched: "Alas, I am old and my eyes are sick, and it is not easy to write something." ”

"Uncle, I'm not praising you, you are writing this history book from memory, it's really amazing, how familiar you have to be with these histories to do it." Mozi said with sincere admiration.

"I used to be a historian in the country of Lu, and in my free time, I read history books, and when I read more, I remembered them all. It's nothing, practice makes perfect. Zuo Qiu Ming shook his wrist, "I have only written about Xianggong for ten years, and there is still a lot to write, and I don't know if my eyes can survive." ”

Hearing Zuo Qiu Ming's eyes emphasized many times, Mozi carefully looked at Zuo Qiu Ming's eyes, and saw that those eyes were dim and bloodshot. "The essence of the five internal organs and six internal organs are all focused on the essence of the eyes. The essence of the cave is the eye, the essence of the bone is the pupil, the essence of the tendons is the black eye, the essence of the blood is the network, the essence of the qi is the white eye, the essence of the muscle is the restraint, and the essence of the muscles and bones is tied to the vein, which belongs to the brain and comes out of the item later. "What does Mozi mean when he says this? Roughly speaking, the socket of the eye is the eye, the essence of the bone is formed into the pupil, the essence of the tendon is formed into the black eye, the essence of blood is formed into the red of the eye, the essence of qi is formed into the white eye, and the essence of the muscle is formed into the eye cell, which wraps and gathers the essence of the tendons, bones, blood, and qi and merges with the veins of the eye to form the eye system. Another popular understanding is that the eyes are the manifestation of essence, and the essence of the kidneys is manifested in the pupil. The black eyes outside the pupil are determined by the liver essence, because the liver is open to the eyes. The heart is manifested in the blood veins of the eyes, the lungs are manifested as white eyes, and the essence of the spleen is manifested in the restraint of the entire eye system.

"Uncle, when you were writing the left biography, you leaned over the book case for a long time, the heart meridian and lung meridian were compressed, the spleen and liver were also squeezed by the ribs, and the kidney meridian was affected by the tension on one side and the pressure on the other, and you sat cross-legged, and the blood veins in the lower limbs were not smooth. The compression of the heart meridian causes blood in the eyeballs, the lungs are compressed and the whites of the eyes are cloudy, and the kidney meridians and liver meridians are squeezed, and the vision is affected. When you write later, make a wooden chair and raise the bookcase so that you can sit up straight and relieve physical fatigue. In addition, you can massage these acupuncture points, such as Eye Ming, Zhuzhu, Fish Waist, Silk Bamboo Kong, Pupil Zimiao, Eyeball, Sibai, Cheng Weeping, and Temples, which will relieve eye fatigue. Mozi explained and demonstrated.

Zuo Qiu Ming followed Mozi step by step, did it a few times, and then opened his eyes, and sure enough, he felt that his eyes were a lot clearer, and he was overjoyed: "This massage method is really useful, I really want to thank you for my life!" ”

"What do you want to thank, with your old man's great merits, I am just doing a little bit." Mozi laughed.

It was late at night, and Zuo Qiu Ming prepared a set of guest rooms for Mozi's master and apprentice to rest early.

On the second day, Mozi had breakfast with Bird Slippery and said to Zuoqiu Ming: "Uncle Zuoqiu, I bothered for a night last night, and there was nothing to reciprocate, let me make a set of tables and chairs for you!" ”

"Oh? Does the little brother still do carpentry? It's a handiwork! Zuo Qiu Ming said.

"In order to make a living, I learned something from my father when I was a child." Mozi laughed.

"But this carpentry requires a lot of tools and instruments, and I don't have one. The nearest carpenter is twenty or thirty miles away! Zuo Qiu Ming said.

"It's okay, I have my own way, you wait a while, I'll go to the mountains to find some wood." Mozi replied, and after saying that, he beckoned Yu Huali to leave Zuo Qiu Ming's house and go straight to the mountain.

"Master, what Uncle Zuoqiu said is right, we don't have saws, axes, axes, and chisels, how can we make those tables and chairs?" Bird Slip asked.

Mozi raised the ink knife in his hand, "Don't I have this!" ”

"I see!"