The Huo family's children's design to capture and kill Jiangyang's thieves to avenge their father seemed to have grown wings, and it spread throughout the entire Shaoxing Mansion within two or three days. Of the ten pirates from Quanzhou, nine were killed on the spot, and only one escaped.

"How is this possible?" In the wine shop at the fork in the road, a passing scholar couldn't help but shoot the case after hearing it: "I heard that people in this neighborhood like to litigate and are used to talking big, but now it seems that this is really the case!" ”

"You pedant is rude, why not?" Xiao Er didn't dare to beak when he heard it, but the shopkeeper was not happy: "Don't you hear that Qin Wuyang killed someone at the age of thirteen?" That Huo Xiaoguan is also thirteen this year, and he is avenging his father and killing some Jiangyang thieves, why not? ”

Because of such a heroic boy from his hometown, the shopkeeper felt quite honored, and the scholar who heard this foreign accent was undecent, and he wanted to refute it.

"Qin Wuyang killed only one person, but this Huo family child killed nine people...... Don't say the same thing, don't say it the same day, don't believe it, students don't believe it! ”

"You can't read as a student, so you must be very poor." Another drinker in the wine shop, who also looked like a scholar, said slowly: "Have you ever read the anthology of Liu Hedong?" ”

"Liu Hedong?" The young scholar was stunned: "The student reads the book of sages and learns the way of Cheng Zhu, is Liu Hedong a master of science?" ”

Today's Prime Minister Shi Gong Mi Yuan, but he started by overthrowing the former Prime Minister Han Yanxuan, when he first came to power, he was only in his early forties, and he had no clue about governance, so he only grabbed two Everything, all those supported by the former Prime Minister Han Yanxuan, he opposed them together, and destroyed everything that was implemented by the former Prime Minister Han Yanxuan. Han Yanxuan belittled Qin Hui and changed his nickname to "Miao Chou", so he praised Qin Hui and reverted to his nickname "Loyalty". Han Yanxuan dismissed Zhu Xi and denounced Zhu Zi's learning as pseudo-learning, so he pulled Zhu Xi's disciple Zhen Dexiu into the court and vigorously advocated science. As a result, the style of science flourished, and the younger scholars specialized in Zhu Xi's theory.

"I don't even know much about the book of Liu Hedong...... the drinker smiled when he heard this: "Then I don't know the "Tongqu Biography", Wuna scholar, I advise you to go back and study hard for another ten years, and then come out to travel thousands of miles!" (Note 1)

The scholar held his head high and was about to say, a man who looked at him unpleasantly jumped up bare-chested, snatched the boning knife for cutting donkey meat from the board, pointed at the scholar and shouted: "You thief bird, Hugh is noisy in Lao Tzu's ears, that night I helped in Huojiazhuang, personally killed two or three thieves, look at your thief's eyebrows, it is clear that it is a bit like the fleeing Jiangyang thief, and eat me with a knife!" ”

The scholar was a Taoist in his stomach, how could he have seen such a ploppy behavior, bluffed to cover his face with his sleeves, and ran out of the wine shop, only to hear a noise behind him, he was afraid, the soles of his feet became more and more anxious, and his sleeves blocked his eyes, and he never saw a pit under his feet, and he fell hard, and it was easy to get up, and when he saw that no one was chasing behind him, he limped up to his own donkey.

"Rotten wood cannot be carved, and rotten wood cannot be carved." He drank twice from the donkey to the wine shop, looked down at the dust on his body, and said hatefully: "Insult Sven, insult Sven!" ”

The laughter in the wine shop became louder and louder, and this Xiucai was also a stubborn temper, and he tilted his head and thought about it for a long time, and when the donkey saw that a grass donkey (Note 2) was walking in front of his head, Xingzi immediately sent it, and no one restrained him, so he followed in three steps and two steps.

"I Li Zhizheng just don't believe it, there is really such a thing in this world!" The scholar was tossed twice, and then he came to his senses, and he pulled the reins hard, but the donkey chased after him, and where was he willing to stop, and the scholar realized that the donkey had made a difference, and he panicked, and searched his intestines and scraped his stomach for a long time, but he could not think of any way to deal with the disobedient donkey in the words of the sage.

After he stabilized the donkey, half an hour had passed, he looked at the sky, looked for a farmer in the field and asked, "Is there a Huojiazhuang near here?" ”

The Zhuang Ke raised his head: "The pedant is asking about the Huo family Xiaolang who avenged his father?" ”

"Exactly, please show me the way!" The scholar nodded again and again, but muttered in his heart, this foolish man and foolish woman in the field all know that this Huo family Xiaolang, could it be that his revenge for his father is true? It's just that I don't know if these countrymen know the name of their teacher, so I'll have to ask later.

"Pedant, I see that you are not a wicked person, so I will show you the way." The Zhuang guest looked the scholar up and down a few times, saw his arm that was a little thinner than a woman, and then shook his head: "I changed the others, I will pull down the tie first, and then I will talk about it, I inquired about the Huo family a few days ago, but they are all Jiangyang thieves, and the Huo family said that the escaped thieves can be exchanged for ten thousand yuan!" ”

Listening to his nagging, but he didn't show the way for a long time, the scholar was anxious: "You said, how should the Huo family Zhuangzi go!" ”

Zhuang Ke originally wanted to ask for some money, but when he saw that the scholar didn't understand things, he pointed indiscriminately: "Go over there, the pedant just go, and ask after ten miles." ”

The scholar arched his hand, and did not thank him, but after walking a few steps, he stopped again, and when the farmer saw him turn back, he only said that he realized that he had lied, and his face was a little panicked. The scholar didn't pay attention, and asked again: "Do you know that the real public is dedicated?" ”

"Where do I know what is true and false, but I know about this field." Zhuang Ke heard that he was not a Xingshi question, and grinned.

The scholar shook his head: "The morality of the true public article is set in the world, you fool doesn't know it, but you are talking nonsense there." 'Villain, Fan Xuye', 'Villain, Fan Xu'! (Note 3)

After the scholar left, the Zhuang Ke spat on the ground and sneered twice: "I dare to say that I am a villain, don't blame me for pointing in the wrong direction and letting you, a thief, walk ten miles more!" ”

It wasn't until the sun went down that the scholar limped to the front of Huojiazhuang, he was discouraged, and his robe was already dirty, and he asked clearly before the village, so he came to knock on the door of Huo's house.

Zhuang Ding, who opened the door, was very curious when he saw his appearance: "Is there something wrong with the pedant?" Why this embarrassment? ”

The scholar straightened his clothes to make his house as decent as possible, and then said unhurriedly: "The student heard the rumors in the countryside that it was your little master who was thirteen years old, so he designed to capture and kill his father's enemy, but the student didn't believe it, so he came to ask." ”

Zhuang Ding changed color when he heard this: "I only said that you are a distinguished guest from afar, but I don't know that you are a sour Ding who doesn't know the world!" How can you ask the little master of my family, get out of here, or eat my big fist in a sand bowl, Mo Dao is our Zhuangzi who deceived the foreigners! ”

"The student didn't come to ask, you Zhuang Ding, you are so rude!" The scholar flicked his sleeves: "You just have to ask your little master to come out......"

Note 1: Liu Zongyuan told the story of a six-year-old boy who killed two bandits in "The Legend of the Children's District". In fact, most of the Song Confucians were not so pedantic, but after the Yuan Dynasty vigorously guided the so-called Four Books and Five Classics, in the Ming Dynasty, the reading area of readers really narrowed, and there are many examples in the "History of Confucianism".

Note 2: Call the donkey a male and the grass donkey a female.

Note 3: Fan Chi asked Confucius how to grow vegetables, and Confucius said to his face that he was not as good as a vegetable farmer, and commented behind his back that Fan Chi was a villain. The Analects of the Analects of the Thirteenth Chapter.