"Sir, it's okay for Xiao Wu to do such a thing, why do you have to practice yourself!"

Liu Zhi took the children of the pig house together, picking up pig manure all over the mountains, picking up pig manure is different from picking up cow dung, the cow eats long fiber plants, and the manure pulled out is very strong, and can build a whole piece at once, and the pig eats mostly tender leaves, and the manure after digestion is loose, so there is no need to use a nail rake like picking up cow dung, but to use a kind of thing like a hoe, this thing seems to be called a hoe, but it is not as long as a hoe, and the weight is lighter, and it is generally used for weeding and loosening the soil in the vegetable garden. It can also be used to pick up pig manure. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"How can this be called practicing oneself, this is called observing the suffering of the toiling masses!"

Liu Zhi listened to it, stretched his waist, hooked his body to pick up dung, it really hurt his waist, for a person like him who has been sitting in front of the computer for a long time, this is really a chore, modern people just have a lot of problems, either this problem is that problem, nothing is wrong and it is easy to have a muscle strain, it is simply unbearable.

"Sir, my father said that a scholar cannot do rough work, are you a scholar?"

Xiao Wu stopped and asked suspiciously.

Liu Zhi glanced at him and said with a smile: "Of course I am a scholar, but I am not as weak as ordinary readers, you see, everyone must have the ability to support themselves by themselves, especially in this era of war and chaos, no matter how many books you read, you can't farm and won't work, so if the tenants who farm for you go to war, then how do you support yourself?" ”

Xiao Wu thought for a while and replied: "They can spend money to go into the city to buy food, my father said that I want me to study hard, and I will get ahead in the future, I can't be a farmer all my life!" ”

Liu Zhi smiled at him and said: "It's very good that you have this ambition, what your father said is also right, books must be read, but reading is not necessarily to get ahead, but to improve your knowledge, so that you can have a deeper understanding of the world with the help of other people's wisdom." ”

"Sir, why can you learn about the wisdom of others by reading?"

Liu Zhi saw that he seemed to be full of problems, so he found an open space and sat down, so that he also sat next to him, Xiao Wu is only in his early tens this year, and he is the son of Master Li in the pigsty, his mother ran away with someone because of ****, and the father and son fell into the streets, and were rescued by Liu Zhi and brought to Langya Mountain.

After the two sat down, Liu Zhi continued: "You see, a book must be written by someone, right? ”

Xiao Wu nodded, he could still understand this.

Liu Zhi then continued: "Then the person who writes may be a person who is still alive now, or a person who has died, because books can exist for a long time, but human life is limited, for example, the "Book of Songs" and "Analects" that everyone in the world likes to read, their authors are not from our dynasty, but written by people hundreds of years ago, they have long since died, but the things they left behind have been preserved, turned into books, and become the knowledge inside, so that we can flip through them!" ”

Xiao Wu seems to understand whether he understands or not, Liu Zhi's words are too long, he has repeatedly sorted it out several times in his heart, but he doesn't quite understand, after all, he is just a child in his early tens, although he is many times stronger than those bear children in later generations, and he is sensible earlier, but he has not read a book, so he can't understand what Liu Zhi said.

Seeing this, Liu Zhi took a knife from his body and held it in his hand.

"Sir, what are you doing here?"

Xiao Wu was taken aback, stood up suddenly, and looked at Liu Zhi with a frightened face, looking very scared.

Liu Zhi smiled and said, "Xiao Wu, don't be afraid, I don't want to hurt you, I just want to show you something to help you understand what I said before!" ”

As he spoke, he used his knife to carve words on the stone beside him, his knife was a Swiss steel knife, very sharp, although the rock was also very hard, but he easily cut it.

Liu Zhi carved on it for a while, and then wrote a line of words, he is used to reading from left to right, so this line of words is also written from left to right, if it is seen by others, I am afraid that it will feel very incomprehensible, because these words are read from right to left at all.

The people in Langya Pavilion know his habit, so the information copied to him is generally reversed in the order of writing, and sometimes when some urgent information is too late to copy, he will also be reminded that it is written from right to left.

There is also a difference in the way of writing, the ancient writing is from the top to the bottom, with a column in paragraphs, while in later generations from left to right, in a line of paragraphs, that is, from vertical writing, to horizontal writing.

In fact, the reason why Chinese characters are written vertically, the main reason is that bamboo slips were used as writing tools in the past, and bamboo slips were woven one by one, so when writing, they were naturally written vertically from top to bottom, and later with the popularity of paper, this way of writing was still retained, until 1909, when the first horizontal book "Transliteration Rhyme Mark" appeared in China, and then the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed from vertical to horizontal, but in many places, especially when writing calligraphy works, Generally, it is still written vertically.

Although he didn't write vertically properly, he carved a line of words, no, it was a horizontal word.

"What did you write on this stone, sir?"

Xiao Wu doesn't know how to read, and he can't even write his own name, Li Xiaowu, so naturally he doesn't know what Liu Zhi wrote.

After Liu Zhi finished writing, he took a few looks, and always felt that something was wrong, half of his words were simplified and half were traditional, which looked so awkward!

"Tranquility is far-reaching, indifferent is ambitious!"

This sentence came from Huainanzi of Liu An of the Western Han Dynasty, and was later quoted by Zhuge Liang after Liu Bei's three visits to the thatched house, so that it was well known to the world.

"What does this mean, sir?"

Liu Zhi replied: "This is the principle of life taught to us by the sages, this sage is a figure hundreds of years ago, he is long gone, but these things he left behind, but they are still preserved, just like the words I carved on this stone, maybe hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, it will be preserved here, and then my people may be long gone, but these things can be preserved for a very long time, future generations will see them, learn them, this is equivalent to teaching my knowledge to them." ”

"Sir, didn't you say that this was the knowledge of the sages of hundreds of years ago? How is your knowledge again? ”

Liu Zhi: "・・・・・・"