"That? Taishi said? Where do people come from? Zhou Jingwang asked.

Taishi said! Man is from heaven and earth! ”

"From heaven and earth?"

"The teacher said! Man and all things, as well as heaven and earth, sun and moon, and starry sky, all come from the Tao? ”

"From the Tao?"

"From the Tao!"

"Then Taishi said? What is the Tao? Zhou Jingwang asked again.

The crown prince shook his head violently, and said honestly: "The teacher's knowledge is too profound, and the retainers didn't understand. ”

"Didn't get it?" Zhou Jingwang angrily patted the bamboo slips on the table and shouted, "It's not that you didn't understand, you didn't listen attentively, right?" ”

"Father!" Seeing that his father was angry, the crown prince Ji Meng hurriedly fell to the ground and kowtowed, explaining: "Erchen really didn't understand. Not only did his son not understand, but even the martial arts teacher him! He! He didn't understand either! ”

"What?" King Zhou Jing asked in disbelief: "Is he the great god of the Lu Kingdom?" He didn't even understand? ”

"The son does not dare to deceive his father! Not only did Erchen not understand, but even the martial arts teacher he? He didn't understand either! And! Father! Taishi's Tao is too difficult to understand! Both Erchen and the martial arts teacher asked him to explain clearly, the result! The more he explained, the more confused Erchen and the martial arts teacher became. ”

"What else is going on? Why didn't he mention it to the widow? Zhou Jingwang said suspiciously.

Since he regarded Lao Tzu as a secret adviser, Lao Tzu has never talked to him about any "Tao"?

"Don't know? Listening to Taishi, it was the first time for him to preach, tell us! But? Father? It seems that Ji Kuo can understand some ......"

"Can he understand?" Zhou Jingwang couldn't believe it anymore, and said to himself: "You don't understand? He can't understand the cornerstone of the great god of Lu Guo? Ji Kuo, a child, can he understand? ”

The crown prince nodded affirmatively and said, "He said he understood!" ”

"He understood?"

"But when Taishi asked him to speak, he couldn't say it again......"

"Can't tell?"

Taishi said! Maybe? This is called 'only understanding, not speaking'......"

"Can only be passed on by will, but not by words?"

Sending away the crown prince Ji Meng, King Zhou Jing immediately sent someone to invite Taishi Li Er.

He also wanted to know more about Fang Jishi, what kind of person is this great god of Lu State?

Although he had the courage to leave Fang Jishi in the palace, and made him the martial arts teacher of the prince and the little prince, gave him a mansion, and pardoned Helian's capital crime, he still had no bottom in his heart.

Could it be to lure wolves into the house and raise tigers for trouble?

It's been so many days, and the little eunuch who was placed in the palace hasn't come with any useful news. What about Taishi Lier? Didn't come to report on the work? This, this, this? What's going on here?

This Lear! Won't he come over and report to me if he's free today? When he comes, the widow must give him a beating.

King Zhou Jing was unhappy and ruthless in his heart.

Lao Tzu had a good night's sleep, and after breakfast, he went into the library again to sort out the ancient books that had not yet been restored.

In fact! He didn't sort out the ancient books next to each other, he did it purposefully to sort out and restore them.

The ancient books he sorted out and restored were generally the books he needed. When he was thinking about a philosophical question, he gave up sorting and fixing. When he wrote the Tao Te Ching, he gave up sorting and repairing.

In fact! The work of the storage room is not to restore ancient books, but to guard and organize ancient books, and it is the librarian, not the restoration expert.

Restoring ancient books is a complete obligation, a personal hobby.

In fact! To put it bluntly, the job in the storage room is an idle job, and the salary is not high. If you change to a person who mixes his days, his work is very leisurely, and he usually just does hygiene. When the royal family or the court officials come to consult the ancient books, you just go and get them for them. When you're fine, you can just lie there and sleep.

Lao Tzu came to work in the storage room, firstly, to have a job, and secondly, to read and learn knowledge. Sorting out ancient books is his love for ancient books and the rescue protection of ancient books. There are many ancient books, all of which are unique, and if they are not restored in time, if there is no professional knowledge in this area, there will be no one to restore them in the future.

Lao Tzu engaged in the restoration of ancient books with a sense of historical mission.

The envoy came to call him, and Lao Tzu had to put down the work at hand and follow the envoy to see King Zhou Jing.

When King Zhou Jing saw Lao Tzu coming, his face gloomy on the spot.

Lao Tzu hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed to say hello, his heart was spinning rapidly: Why is King Zhou Jing angry? Is it because of the prince's business? Or is it because of Fang Jishi's show of science and education films to the prince?

"Excuse me! Throne! ”

Lao Tzu got up, came to the seat on the side and sat down, his eyes looking at King Zhou Jing.

Zhou Jingwang looked at Lao Tzu very angrily, and when he saw Lao Tzu's white hair and innocent face, he couldn't help but shake his head and sighed.

"I said Lear? You? Alas! You? Zhou Jingwang was angry, grabbed the bamboo slip on the table, and patted it gently.

"Smack!"

"You? Tell me about it? What is the Tao? ”

"Dao?" Lao Tzu was taken aback, and he didn't think about it for a while, how could King Zhou Jing ask him "Dao"?

"What is the Tao?" King Zhou Jing asked again.

"What is the Tao?" Lao Tzu also responded.

"I ask you what is the Word? You still ask me? You? What are you talking about? I heard that the gods of Lu were stumped? What is Tao? Tell me about it? ”

"Oh? Oooh oh! ...... "Lao Tzu then understood the reason why King Zhou Jing was angry. Originally! He had come to ask for the Word.

Good!

I'm going to preach to King Zhou Jing!

I still don't believe it? No one can understand my word?

"Lord! This is something that the minister is working on and has not yet been officially finalized. Isn't it? He was asked by the cornerstone of the great god of Lu Guo? I? I said it, and I made a fool of myself! Lord! ”

"Then tell the widow about it? Let's see if the widow can understand? What is that 'Tao' of yours? Only then did Zhou Jingwang change his face and become normal.

"That's right! Lear thinks! Everything is changed by the Tao, including people, including the earth, the sun and the moon, the starry sky, everything! Lear thinks! The world is changing. Now it's this East, and a few years later it's another East. Like people! People also change, and then change and go......"

"Wait!" Zhou Jingwang interrupted: "Why have people changed? Man is a man now, and he will be a man in the future! People are always people! The widow you said disagreed: 'The world is changing. Now it's this East, and a few years later it's another East. 'The widow thinks! People are always people! ”

Lao Tzu shook his white hair and explained, "Lord! What I mean by that! Person! It comes from between heaven and earth, and like all things, it comes from between heaven and earth, from the Tao. This is what it means that after death, people return to nature.

It's not that people come from the union of their parents, from the source of their parents, but that they are! The source of humanity and the source of all things.

Man comes from the natural world, from the interaction between heaven and earth. And what about after death? It returns to nature, becomes soil, becomes nutrients for animals and plants, and then becomes something else......"

"Oh?" Only then did King Zhou Jing understand what Lao Tzu meant.

(End of chapter)