Section 2: The Son of the Poor Door

If you are in charge of the army in the future, you will have more teachers of benevolence and righteousness, and do more good deeds for the people of the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info - Deng Ming

One day in the fourth lunar month of the first year of Renshou, in a certain Liu family's field in Xiaoyang Village, Wei County, Bianzhou, Liu Renliang's father, Liu Yimin, was tending to the crops.

The noon sun was already quite scorching, Liu Yimin was still sweating on his upper body, but Liu Yimin did not rest, and kept farming.

It was only when he coughed so hard that he stopped to rest a little and drink saliva.

In the distance, Liu Yimin's second brother, Liu Yiping, was carrying some cloth on horseback.

Liu Yiping gave up his fathers' agricultural livelihood of facing the loess and digging from the soil with their backs to the sky, and did a small business of running cloth, and his life was better than that of his eldest brother Liu Yimin.

"Big brother, the sun is so hot, you don't have to rest for a while." Liu Yiping greeted Liu Yimin from afar.

"Heh, second brother, people are wrong for a while, and people are wrong for a year." Liu Yimin said, coughing violently again.

"Hey, have you finished taking the three pairs of medicines that my brother caught you last time? The result? ”

"It's good, but each pair of Chinese medicine actually costs 200 yuan and five baht, so let the second brother break the bank."

Liu Yimin thought that the medicine was good, and wanted to grab the medicine to eat, but he knew the price of the medicine, and felt that it was too expensive, so he didn't take it.

"Big brother, don't say that, you don't know when your illness will get better." Liu Yiping said, took out fifty Kaihuang five baht coins, and wanted to hand them to the eldest brother.

"Don't, don't, second brother, don't do this, I don't want it, drink more water for the eldest brother's cough, I'll go pick herbs and make Ma Biansha to boil water and drink it."

Looking at the stubborn appearance of the eldest brother, Liu Yiping had no choice but to take back the money, and the three pairs of medicines used 600 Kaihuang five baht money, but Liu Yiping ran the profits of the business for three months, and he also had a family to support, and the business was small and profitable, so he couldn't help the eldest brother much.

"Second brother, you go south and north, you are well-informed, last night the eldest brother dreamed that a big python climbed onto the roof beam of the house, it was a big python, the waist is as thick as a bucket, you tell the eldest brother what is the evil of this master?"

"On weekdays, we call the snake a small dragon, such a big python should be second only to the existence of the dragon, the dragon is the Son of Heaven, and this big python should be the official in front of the Son of Heaven, right......"

Liu Yiping was talking, and Liu Yimin's fat sister-in-law next door to the neighbor stepped forward and shouted as she ran: "Da Liu, Da Liu, your daughter-in-law has given birth, she is a male baby, go home and take a look." ”

What? The daughter-in-law gave birth to a son.

Liu Yimin was so happy that he didn't care about anything, and ran towards home.

When he got home, Liu Yimin hugged his chubby son in the hands of the midwife, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

"Second brother, this is the eldest brother's first son and your eldest nephew, you can give it a name."

"Big brother, I don't have much ink in my chest, let Mr. take it, I'll take a word, I hope that the eldest nephew will be able to do things in the future with square and square as the criterion, and his word will be called regular."

"Regular, regular, good, get good."

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It's a pity that Xiao Zhengze has not yet reached the age of three, and his father Liu Yimin died of serious illness, leaving behind his mother Liu Huang and an unborn posthumous son.

Later, Liu Huang added a little brother to Xiao Zhengze, and Liu Huang led two young sons, orphans and widows to live a difficult life.

Xiao Zhengze has been working in the fields since he was more than four years old: herding cattle, mowing grass, feeding pigs, doing everything, cooking on the fire when he comes home, leading his younger brother, etc.

When Xiao Zhengze was five years old, a wealthy family in the village hired a tutor to teach his son-in-law to read.

When Xiao Zhengzheng is free, he listens outside the window, writes and draws as he goes. In the house, the tutor Deng Ming had already noticed the little rules that he had been secretly studying outside the house for days. Deng Ming didn't care much and asked too much, and still taught the course as usual.

Eight or nine days passed, and on this day Deng Ming suddenly became interested, and when he saw that Xiao Zhengze still came to listen to the class outside the window, he called Xiao Zhengze in and asked, "Why is the boy at home?" Love to learn? How old is it? Why not please sir? ”

Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhengze was not in a hurry, raised his head, and said in a low voice: "I am the eldest son of Liu Yimin's family at the head of the village, the word is regular, five years old, my father died early, only my widowed mother and second brother remained, my family is poor and studious, and I can't ask Mr. to teach and learn." ”

"Oh, what has the boy gained after listening to it for a few days?"

"I have memorized all the three articles of the Analects in the past few days, such as learning, politics, and township party, and I have benefited a lot from Mr.'s explanation."

Deng Ming narrowed his eyes and said, "Oh, then I'll memorize the three articles and listen to them first." ”

After listening to Xiao Zhengzheng recite word for word, Deng Ming was not too surprised, there are few children with good memory, but not nothing. The kid in front of him has a good memory, but he just meets one condition to be able to inherit his mantle, I don't know how his understanding is?

"Tongzi, what do you mean when you say the township party?" In the township party, Deng Ming only read and taught the entire ancient text, and did not give any explanation, he intended to take a test of the small rules.

"Mr. Yu, the article of the Township Party mainly says that the appearance, speech, movement, clothing, food, housing and transportation of the Confucian Saint, praise the Confucian Saint as a righteous man and gentleman who conforms to etiquette in every move, and the righteous should take the Confucian Saint as a model, and when he grows up, he must be a person like him."

Deng Ming's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and sighed: "The children can be taught, the children can be taught." ”

"Boy, you see that I taught this rich son to be the owner of the family, and give 150 Kaihuang coins every month as a scholarship, if you want to learn from the old man, I will only charge you fifteen Kaihuang coins every month as a scholarship."

"Sir, the boy's family is poor, let alone fifteen coins per month, I'm afraid I can't even get five coins a month."

"Hey......" Deng Ming sighed.

In fact, Deng Ming is not an ordinary person, he is the son of Deng Kun of the Taishi of the Chen Dynasty, and he has obtained the true biography of his father, and Deng Ming is proficient in all kinds of scriptures, poetry and songs, astronomical calendars and six arts.

The Chen Dynasty's Jingshi Jiankang City was broken by the Sui Dynasty army, the Chen Dynasty died, Deng Kun hanged himself and died of martyrdom, Deng Ming was unwilling to be an official of the Sui Dynasty and traveled the world.

For the sake of Xiao Zhengzheng, a good seedling, Deng Ming found Zhengzheng's uncle.

Xiao Zhengzheng's uncle Liu Yiping said with bitterness: "Sir, if it was in the past, fifteen big money, I could afford it, but now that the old emperor is dead, and the new emperor is on the throne, he takes silk to tie flowers, and uses cloth to spread the ground, and the cloth is tight, and I can't get into the cloth to do business, it's difficult." ”

"Xiao Zheng is a good seedling, I will learn from Sage Confucius, as long as I give me thirty big money at a time, I will let Zhengzheng study for five or six years and no longer charge a literary fund, if he learns my skills, your Liu family will definitely glorify your ancestors."

"Okay, Mr. values my nephew so much, don't say it's thirty dollars, even if the tuition fee for these five years costs a hundred dollars, I will also give it to Mr." Liu Yiping was resolute.

In addition to doing things and helping the family, Xiao Zhengze seized the time, studied diligently, and seized the time to read a lot of good books with Deng Ming.

Whenever he was not working, Xiao Zhengzheng stretched out his fingers to write and draw in the air and on the ground to consolidate the knowledge he had learned.

Six years later, Xiao Zhengze grew taller, eleven years old, and was half the size of a child.

Deng Ming said goodbye to Xiao Zhengze: "Apprentice, in the past six years, all the skills of the teacher have been taught to you, you can study with logistics and learn new knowledge diligently." ”

"Sir, Zheng Zheng is reluctant to let you go, I still want to hear you talk about "Zuo Chuan"."

"The world gathers and scatters, it is normal to be around, you are eleven years old, give you a name for the teacher, your word is regular, to be right, your name is called benevolence, benevolence is the track, if you are in charge of the army in the future, you must prosper more benevolent and righteous teachers, and do more good things for the people of the world."

"Follow the teachings of the gentleman."