Chapter 12 I want to be a child general
[Determined to become a general, starting from being a child king, pretending to be a ghost to scare the stepmother]
One day, I listened to my father chatting with my grandfather, and talked about a little eunuch who said that he was extremely intelligent, ambitious, and had a great sense of justice, and scolded Wang Zhen, the great eunuch in the Yingzong period, saying that this eunuch would be ambitious, and would also benefit the community.
I couldn't help but say, "It's Liu Jin, right?" ”
The father was very different and said, "How do you know as a child?" ”
I sneered and went out.
At this time, I was thinking about a question, I can't just continue to learn for the sake of the saints, but also open peace for all generations.
So, I started to make time to go out and make friends.
Soon I started playing with a group of children on the street, and because of my fists, kicks, and swordsmanship, I quickly conquered them. They are convinced of me and let me call me at my disposal.
So, at that time, these children made a lot of large and small battle flags according to my requirements, and under my command, everyone arranged the formation in the shape of the river map, and as soon as I waved the flag, it became the shape of Luoshu.
At that moment, I felt like I was a general commanding thousands of troops, and under my command, the children turned left and right, and they were very proficient in Heluo and Jitian gossip.
One accidentally bumped into my grandfather and my father, who knew that I had the ambition to open peace for all generations, but my father was very disapproving.
Grandpa came down to me and said: "You should seriously continue to learn for the saints now, and when you are older, grandpa will take you to Shanhaiguan to see you and them, and it is better to learn the art of war." Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to achieve success. ”
Yes, my grandfather was reasonable, so I immediately cut off with my friends and began to devote myself to the study of sacred studies.
At that time, there were several family elders who studied together, and I had two things that everyone admired.
First, I liked to joke the most, but after my grandfather's persuasion, I was determined to change my temperament, and I immediately changed from a playful boy to a humble gentleman.
These elders of the same clan were surprised and shocked, so they also followed the same path of sacred learning as I did, and became silent.
The other point is that at the beginning, everyone was at the same level, but after a while, it became clear that everyone felt that the gap between them and me was getting bigger and bigger, and the reason for this was my 'useless work'.
My grandfather often told me a Taoist saying that "there is no use in use, and there is no work in reactive work", the so-called "training for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while", you must be reluctant to do "useless work", and it will be difficult to achieve anything in the end.
And my "useless work" is to win the strength of all families, which is due to the accumulation I have gained when I was a child, and I have gained a lot by using what the teacher said and then corroborating it with the books of the hundred schools of thought.
For example, benevolence, Confucianism talks about benevolence, and Mohism also talks about benevolence, but Confucian benevolence is poor love, etc., which means that a person's love for his parents, relatives and friends and passers-by is different, which is definitely true, while Mohist love is no different, etc., Mozi's words are untenable, because his statement is contrary to human feelings.
Grandpa likes to say a sentence in the "Book of Songs": "The stone of the mountain can attack the jade".
Therefore, if I use his family's words to confirm the sacred learning, it will naturally be easy to attack the jade.
At this point, I would like to highlight my grandfather, who was a little more useful in his education than my father.
Because "most of them are children's feelings, they are happy to play, and they are afraid of detention and inspection." Like the beginning of the sprout of grass and trees, the comfortable is reached, and the destruction is weak. ”
My grandfather taught me this boy, and he guided me according to my temperament, so as to stimulate my interest in learning, so that I was eager to learn, and even forgot to eat and sleep in order to learn.
My father, on the other hand, only knew how to educate me with a straight face, which made me think of Mr. Chen Baisha on my grandfather's 60th birthday from time to time, and I felt very unhappy.
Okay, here I will mention my classmate again, he is my uncle Wang Desheng, and my uncle is a very progressive person. In my impression, in order to explore the Tao and enlighten the Tao, he often locked himself in his room to meditate on knowledge, which I admired very much. He doesn't talk much, but he can often say it thoroughly, our classmates are not long, because he realized the road of humanity, decided to return to his hometown to support his parents, his father praised his actions, saying that there is a gentleman's style of the Wang family.
Later, whenever I returned to my hometown, I would visit him. Because he was a good thinker, I couldn't make up my mind about many things, so I would write letters to him for advice. At that time, I was able to set my mind to study sacred studies, which had a lot to do with my uncle Wang Desheng.
Originally, my peaceful study life could continue very quietly, but the next two events made my calm heart turbulent.
First, my grandfather was homesick, and at the same time, he was afraid of delaying my studies, so he went back to his hometown.
But what happened next was the first major blow in my life, when my mother passed away.
I know that my mother is very diligent in martial arts, she is not good at physique, and she may have hurt her vitality because of it, but I didn't expect her old man to leave, what should I do?
Then, under the pressure of the family, my father only had a continuation, and he had a concubine, and at this time he was promoted to the main room, and I was extremely disgusted with her in my heart.
My father told me the story of Wang Xiang again, and my childhood prophecy will be fulfilled again.
One day, my father said, "You are much luckier than Old Master Zhu, who lost his father at the age of 14 and was raised by his father's friend. ”
As I was talking, my stepmother came in, I quietly rolled my eyes at her, my stepmother's surname is He, this daughter doesn't like me either, she always cleans me up after my father goes out, I am very painful, it seems that I really want to force me to be Wang Xiang, I am very unwilling.
But I accidentally discovered one thing, my stepmother believed in Buddhism, and she believed in ghosts and gods, and was reprimanded by my father.
My eyes lit up, a plan was born, I said, to persuade the mother to be good, start now!
I met a man who sold owls before, and I took out the money I had prepared and bought the owls first, why did I buy them? We'll find out later.
Then I went to the door of the witch Zhang Xiangu, who had already inquired clearly, and gave her five coins of silver, and told her that my stepmother would come to her soon, and so on.
Zhang Xiangu took the silver and agreed with her mouth.
Then I went home pretending to be nothing, and when everyone was not looking, I sneaked into my stepmother's bedroom and hid the owl under the covers.
After a while, the stepmother returned to the bedroom. Soon I heard the strange cries of birds and the screams of my stepmother.
I immediately pushed the door in, only to see my stepmother sitting in front of the bed crying, I pretended to be obedient and asked carefully, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”
The stepmother trembled and said, "Oh my God! I went into the house to take a nap, but when I lifted the quilt, an owl flew out of the quilt, and I just opened the window and drove the bird out. ”
I said casually, "Won't you just fly it?" ”