Sitting in the cabin, Cui Xian whispered, "Do you want to wear a concubine to go out in the future?" ”

In the early and middle Tang Dynasty, well-educated and famous families, including Cui Youjie's Qinghe Cui family, Zheng Lang's Xingyang Zheng family, their women also had to go out, but it was not good to meet strange men, so they wore a curtain. This curtain is also the curtain.

The people of the Tang Dynasty were open, and the curtain became thinner and thinner, and later no one wore the surname Suo. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, all the famous families were destroyed, the etiquette and religion were all abolished, and there was no famous family after the Song Dynasty. However, under the influence of Concubine Li Yu's concubine, a few women began to wrap their feet in order to please their husbands.

Neither is Zheng Lang's liking.

And Cui Xian did a good job.

Except for a few people in the family, you almost never talk to strange men, what else?

"No, you don't."

However, Cui Xian still paid attention to it, next to Zheng Lang, far away from the other officials.

The boat made a slight crashing sound in the water, and after sailing for a while, the boatman shouted, "Zheng Zhizhou, it's here." ”

"Trouble boatman."

The boatman made a brother cry out at a loss.

Zheng Lang ordered a few officials to carry a few things ashore, and after walking not far, there was a village, about fifty families, some poor and some rich, just look at the houses, five or six tiled houses, and the others were all thatched houses.

The official went straight through the village and walked to the west entrance of the village, when Yuan Zhen asked, "Doctor Zheng, are you going to Xie Xiaozi's house?" ”

"Hmm."

It's a touching journey. This son's father died early, and his mother pulled him Chengren, and finally let him marry a family, but he married a bad daughter-in-law and came back, and he was very unfilial to his mother. After his wife gave birth to a son, he became more and more bad. This man could not bear his wife's disobedience to his mother and sent her out. Later, he raised his old mother and fed his son, and sometimes he would rather not have enough to eat himself, but also feed his mother well.

This kind of raising is that in the past ten years, filial piety has touched all the people in Fangyuan, even officials with mixed qualifications like Wang Zhizhou have also come to visit and give some funding.

Passing through a piece of green bamboo, I came to a few thatched huts, and under an ancient acacia tree at the door, there was an old woman sitting, who was weaving hemp with a reeling cart. Zheng Lang walked over, sang a fat song, and asked, "May I ask the eldest lady, is this the home of Xie Chun Xie Xiaozi?" ”

The old woman stood up and looked at him suspiciously.

"I'm Shinchishu."

"See Shinchishu," the old woman wants to give a gift.

Zheng Lang waved his hand, Cui Xian had already rushed forward, helped the old woman up, and said: "Eldest lady, you don't need to give a gift, it is our couple who should give a gift, when you come to Taiping Prefecture, the concubine heard about the eldest lady, the family is poor, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have a man in the prime of life, but the eldest lady actually pulled her son to grow up Chengren, it is not easy." ”

The old woman made Cui Xian boast and didn't know what to say.

Zheng Lang asked, "Where is Xie Chun?" ”

"Champion Gong, work in the fields."

"Can you show us around?"

"Okay." Before the old woman left, Cui Xian took another step forward and said, "Auntie, let the concubine help you." ”

"I dare."

"Big lady, be helped." As he spoke, he picked up the old woman and walked forward.

The officials looked at each other, this trick is good, if it spreads, it will shake the township tomorrow. No wonder the champion wants to bring his wife out, seeing that there is not, if Zheng Lang comes to help, it will be faked, but Cui Xian can be helped, but there is no problem.

The idea is good, but who can do it like Cui Xian, and she doesn't dislike an old woman. This also has to be hearty, although her heart is very suspicious, and the old woman may not have some sincerity, but for Zheng Lang, she is very sincere.

There is also this cleverness, improvisation, and decisiveness, which is not something that ordinary women can have.

Knowing that such a husband and wife will win the hearts of a large number of people, but few people can learn it.

After walking more than a mile, I came to a rice field, where a swarthy middle-aged man was working, and a ten-year-old boy helped his father with the weeds in the field.

Seeing a large group of officials, as well as a few teenagers, a beautiful little lady helped the old lady to come, and the man hurriedly walked to the ridge of the field, and gave a salute at a loss, a very honest person. Zheng Lang said: "Can you go back first, I brought some things for you." ”

"Champion Gong, the little one doesn't dare to accept it, the mother will raise me to be honest and benevolent, and it is right to honor her, and I can't accept it."

"Who doesn't know that it should be, but there are a few people who can do it, including me, when I was a child, I was naughty many times, which made a few mothers worried, and I went to the capital to cause trouble many times, Xie Dalang, you make me ashamed, I deserve it," he said, taking his hand and going back.

Xie Chun was frightened and said, "There is still mud on the little hands." ”

"The mud is good, without the mud, how can everything grow, these big hands covered with mud and hard work, in my eyes, are the most beautiful hands."

The officials are even more embarrassed, what a touching sentence, see it, a few onlookers around the peasants all shed tears, why didn't they say it before?

I was really stunned, watching Zheng Lang holding Xie Chun's hand, Cui Xian helped the old woman back, several ordinary people were speechless, and finally said: "Good Zhizhou, go, go and take a look." ”

Leaving the affairs in his hand, he wiped his eyes with the corners of his clothes, and walked towards the Xie family after him.

When he arrived at the door of Xie's house again, Zheng Lang asked the officials to open a few things, first rewarding, a very generous reward, a hundred taels of money, and a hundred horses of silk.

There is a more important thing, a tablet, Zheng Lang is extremely penny, and wrote a touching and tearful "Mother and Filial Son", which is also his golden mean, yin and yang are relatively compatible, without the care of the elders, correct teaching, how can the filial piety of the next generation. Without the filial piety of the subordinates, how can the elders have the confidence to be kind to the younger generations.

This is the correct view of human ethics, benevolence and filial piety, constituting the organic whole of Confucian filial piety, if you live in a family environment like Shun, and then ask your son to be very filial, it is really a bit difficult.

The officials were carrying the stone stele, and Zheng Lang said again: "Xie Dalang, Your Majesty said to me this spring, let me see Jiangnan on his behalf, the people of Jiangnan are simple, and you are the simplicity that Your Majesty wants to see." Sit down, and let me draw a picture for you and the eldest lady, and give it to Your Majesty later. ”

The onlookers bombed the camp.

For the emperor to see! Then he looked at the three generations of the Xie family with envy.

Xie Chun was so anxious that he knelt down and asked Zheng Lang to hold him.

This move is very important in Zheng Lang's heart, not only to move his filial piety, but also the most important point, Dehua Quanzhou people's customs!

Let Xie Chun set an example of filial piety.

Jiang Xing'er took out her painting tools, Zheng Lang took the pen, and first drew a sketch of the Xie family's three, followed by the background of the Xie family's poor grass shed. After the sketch was drawn, Zheng Lang gave a deep salute to the old woman, and did not put the Zhizhou shelf at all, so he led everyone to leave.

Re-boarded.

The boat went forward, and this time the place to go back was Zhujiazhuang.

But the family visited was unexpected by all the officials.

It was a very controversial female surname that was visited. There is a family in Zhujiazhuang that has four sons, the family is poor, and it is difficult to raise four sons, not only to pull them Chengren, but also to provide them with marriage, so after the eldest son got married, both husband and wife fell.

The eldest son had to take over the work of his parents, pull his three younger brothers, and one of his own children, tired and tired, and also collapsed.

Before he died, he just held his wife's hand, and his eyes were not closed for a long time.

The wife seemed to understand her husband's thoughts, and changed to an ordinary woman, who was very young at that time, and had some appearances, so she changed her marriage early. However, this woman did not, but how could she support this family with her weak shoulders?

So he went to the county town to make a few dollars by selling laughter, only in the middle and upper appearance, and the money from selling laughter was less, in order to get more money, he quarreled with guests, or begged cheekily, a very controversial figure back then. However, it was her extremely bitter money that continued to maintain the vitality of the family, and helped the second child marry a family affair in a beautiful manner.

Someone outside was gossiping, and the third child was gradually sincere and benevolent at that time, and couldn't stop people's mouths, so when he heard it, he knelt down at people and begged: "Don't say bad things about my sister-in-law, please." ”

Under the leadership of such a sister-in-law, what else do the second brother and brother-in-law have to say, to assist the sister-in-law to continue to support this family. It wasn't until the third child got married that the woman ended her career as a joker. Then to the fourth child became a pro again.

The fourth daughter-in-law wanted to be strong, the fourth reprimanded, and the sister-in-law defended the fourth daughter-in-law, in the face of such a sister-in-law, the fourth brother and daughter-in-law finally repented and knelt down at her to repent.

Since then, there has never been any quarrel in the family.

But it was her bad experience in the county that the Xie family was exempted from taxes, but the Zhu family was never exempted from taxes, and no officials came to visit.

When Zheng Lang heard it, he immediately paid attention to it, sent a servant to inquire, and then sighed.

Like the Xie family, he gave 100 pieces of money, 100 horses of silk, and 100 stones, but it was replaced by "Righteous Sister-in-law". It is also necessary to draw pictures, these are ordinary characters, ordinary deeds, but more touching than heroic deeds. I used Dehua Quanzhou, and after the map was handed to the capital, I don't know if the bigwigs in the DPRK and China would use it.

Seeing Zhu's sister-in-law, who was only in her forties, she was about overworked and had white hair on her head, Cui Xian, Jiang Xing'er, and Si'er bent down together and bowed deeply, and said, "I've seen my sister-in-law." ”

Back then, she made a living by laughing, and she should have some looks, but now she looks like this.

Under this seemingly humble body, what a noble person's surname is hidden! Cui Xian has been thinking carefully, and when she saw the old state of Zhu's sister-in-law, she was finally moved.

"You killed me......" A woman who was very noisy back then, but she was frightened by this faction, a champion wife, two champion concubines, gave a deep gift to herself, did she dare to accept it?

"This is what you deserve, how can we say that we are juniors, and after twenty or Chinese New Year's Eve years, we will still make a big gift to you, but for you, it is too late, and it will be unjust......," Zheng Lang said.

As soon as he spoke, more than a dozen people in the Zhu family cried like tears.

Walking out of Zhu's house, Lu Gongzhu said softly: "Doctor Zheng, my heart is so blocked. ”

"It's not blocked, it's moving, there are too many noble and humble little people like this, I only chose three from the middle, this is the hope of the surname."

I don't think that only scholars have personality, and small people also have the personality of small people, the dignity of the surname, and the highlights of the surname.

It is not only morality, but also a spiritual cleansing for several of his students.

Re-boarded, changed places.

What I saw just now was filial piety, and what I saw this time was benevolence.

Therefore, this time the text was replaced by "The Good Man Fu".

Lu Ning, a second-class wealthy family in Lujiazhuang, suffered unfairly.

The family is very honest, kind-hearted, often do good deeds, build roads and bridges, sometimes take money out to support orphans and widows, the family has more than 200 acres of land, rented some land to tenant farmers, the result of kindness, rent often can't be asked.

The Lu family just smiled, very much like the eldest lady, but it was more thorough than Zheng Lang's aunt, because of honesty, let the county be designated as a second-class rich family, how could it be second-class, the third-class is reluctant. The tax is heavy, and the heart is good, so I have to work hard by myself. However, the county orders of the successive Dangtu counties are as if they have not seen it.

There is always a need to collect taxes, and it is not that they can't get by, the more they collect their own political achievements, and the more honest people are like this, the more they have to be taxed. So the husband and wife with their son had to work in the fields and have to deal with errand labor.

I heard a friend of the Lu family's son mention it to Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang sent someone to ask, and sure enough, he unearthed this person.

Looking at the inscription, Lu Ning immediately declined and said, "Zheng Zhizhou, the little one doesn't dare." ”

Zhu Xie's family doesn't know, but Lu Ning is a master household, and he has seen some of the world, and as soon as Zheng Lang's monument comes out, it is possible that no math students will come to see it in the future, praise themselves one after another, and even leave their names in the annals of history. It's not just as simple as painting a portrait for the emperor to see, where do you dare to accept it!

"Why don't you dare, it's your usual good deeds, and the reward you get, come, take me to see the bridge you built."

Lu Ning was ashamed and uneasy and took Zheng Lang to a small river, and built a stone arch bridge along the river, and it was this stone arch bridge that allowed the villages on both sides of the river to come and go smoothly. Zheng Lang said: "This is a good thing. A few days ago, I went to Linjiang Temple and heard that someone donated hundreds of acres of land. The true meaning of the Buddha family is empty, the incense of Linjiang Temple is enough to make the monks worry about food and clothing, why do they need so much fertile land? Every time there is more fertile land, the poor people will have less vitality, how to come to the Buddhist family to purify all sentient beings. If it is karma, then this is the real karma and demonic obstacles. ”

When it comes to Linjiang Temple, they don't dare to make a sound.

Zheng Lang said again: "Only Lu Dalang is the one who really does good deeds and crosses the afterlife." It's not the karma of the next life, but today let me hear about the good deeds you have done, which is the present life. ”

"The little one dares to have this delusion."

"You don't do it deliberately, you are sincere, and only then will good retribution come."

Saying that, he walked back. Sima Guang suddenly said: "Doctor Zheng, I know better what Dr. Zheng said about the golden mean, just like we just came to Taiping Prefecture and saw some things that made me feel very confused and gloomy." Today, however, there are so many bright spots. Sure enough, there is yin and yang, good and evil. ”

"It was so. And I also have other intentions, because I am trapped in foreign enemies, I am a gentle official, and the court is eager for wealth, from top to bottom, and I do not exclude wealth from profit. There was nothing wrong with that, and the Master had no objection to seeking money. But a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way. However, seeking profit will forget righteousness, in this context, we should pay more attention to morality, keep pace with the times. ”

Suddenly, my eyes lit up.

He finally thought of the core of the mean.

Very important.

The big wave girl of the Wei family said that the unity of knowledge and action is to do it when you know it, which is not at all the unity of knowledge and action that Wang Yinyang said, it is a way of expressing thoughts, just like what Zheng Lang said. What's the core idea?

I know the important surname of wealth, to rob a bank, it can also be said that knowledge and action are one, I know the function of unlocking, picking people's locks and stealing other people's things, it can also be said to be learning and applying.

can anger Wang Yangming and Confucius.

Therefore, the unity of knowledge and action of Wang Yin and Yang is very complicated, not only a form and behavior, but also a kind of thought and a system, which constitutes the Confucian system of Wang Xue.

It can also be said that Zheng Lang's moderation is inclusive and modulating, but it can be interpreted like that, and it is even more mysterious than Sima Guang's moderation in history.

We have to look for this core all the time, and only with this core can we interpret it.

Today finally gave him inspiration.

The main reason is that he is too young, and he can't be counted in his previous life, but he really thinks seriously in this life, and when he is old, his thinking is perfect, and he will not be so difficult.

said: "Lu Dalang, I'll go to your house and sit down and remember something." ”

"It's a small honor."

"Don't be small, call me one."

It's tantamount to saying it in vain.

Zheng Lang said to Xing'er again: "Prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone for me." ”

Wang Anshi said: "Doctor Zheng, do you want to remember anything?" ”

"What I want to remember is the core of the Mean in the Cultivation Commentary that I just remembered."

After saying the sentence, everyone's eyes lit up.

Mean, how many people haven't heard of this?

Xing'er polished the ink, and Cui Xian looked at her husband with bright eyes. After getting along for a long time, she didn't want to fight, on the contrary, because she was talented and knew a lot, she knew the vastness of her husband's knowledge, and gradually became a little worshipped.

"Sima Saburo, I said you remember. Lu Sanlang, Wang Sanlang, you can also ask questions. ”

"Well," Sima Guang replied happily.

"Tolerance and adjustment, advancing with the times, straightforward and gentle, simple and not arrogant, is the principle of the mean."

Wang Anshi frowned, he knew what he knew, but what is this keeping pace with the times? Since the teacher asked me to ask, I asked directly.

"Keep pace with the times......" Zheng Lang groaned, if this is said well, it will be amazing. And these four words are precisely the most important of the four "mantras"! "First of all, let me ask you a question, does one plus two equal two plus one?" ”

"Yes." Wang Anshi said, the two results are the same, both are equal to three.

"But in Confucianism, one plus two will never be equal to two plus one, or even one plus one will never be equal to one plus one."

The words were not shocking and endless, just one sentence, and all the officials were dumbfounded when they heard it together.