When the young man saw that he had changed his words, he happily told what had happened: Seven days ago, an envoy named Aman came to the Lion Kingdom, and brought three difficult questions, and the young king of Ai sent someone to solve them within seven days. If you can't answer within the stipulated time limit. The Lion Kingdom is going to send troops to attack the Child-Friendly Country. Three days passed, and not one of the kings and ministers could answer one of the questions.

The king felt that no one in such a big child-friendly national competition could answer only three small questions, which was really detrimental to the national character, so he decided to recruit talents.

The recruitment list clearly stipulates: if someone can solve three problems, those over 30 years old will be rewarded with a lot of money; Those under the age of thirty will be recruited as colts.

The king's move was based on the hope that "under the great reward there will be a brave man".

But three days have passed in a blink of an eye, and still no one dares to unveil the list.

There is only one day left before the deadline, and if no one reveals the list, the young king will be disgraced in front of the envoys of the lion kingdom, and the common people will also suffer from war.

At this critical moment when the whole country was worried and the monarch and subjects were worried, a descendant named Li Laosan unveiled the emperor's list.

The young king was overjoyed, and immediately announced that the minister of Wenwu and the envoy of the Lion Kingdom, A Man, entered the palace. Seeing that the unveiler was a young man in his twenties, Ah Man laughed and said: "You have no beard on your cheeks, and you still have milk in your mouth, how capable can you be, go back and invite your father to come!"

Li Laosan said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "If the adult wants to take over the next life, he can accompany him, but if he wants to worship his godfather, the next life has to retire." "

Seeing that he was really extraordinary, Ah Man had to look at him differently.

Ah Man pointed to a thing in the iron cage that looked like a mouse and was like a buffalo and asked Li Laosan, "Do you know what this thing is?"

Li Laosan quickly released a cat from his sleeve, and as soon as the cat came out of the cuff, he pounced straight towards the behemoth.

When the thing saw the cat, it was so frightened that it ran back and forth desperately, and in a short time it took on its original form, which was actually a large mouse not much smaller than the cat.

Li Laosan said: "No matter how big the mouse is, he is afraid of the cat, you don't even understand this truth, and you dare to come to my young country to act as a messenger, it's really beyond your strength!"

Ah Man was unwilling to fail, and hurriedly took out a three-foot-long round wooden stick with the same thickness at both ends, and said: "You answered the first question well, now can you identify this stick, which end is the root and which end is the tip?"

Li Laosan confidently took the wooden stick, gently put it into the goldfish tank in front of the palace, and said: "The floating end is the tip, and the sinking end is the root."

The king asked, "What is the reason?"

"There is a saying that 'trees knot roots, bamboo knots shoots'. The roots of the tree are hard and strong, and if you put it in the water, it will sink, but the one that floats must be the tip. "

When the king and the civil and military officials saw that Li Laosan had solved two problems in a row, they couldn't help but cheer for him.

Although Ah Man secretly admired the intelligence and ability of this descendant, he still said calmly on the outside: "Don't be too happy, as the saying goes, whoever laughs last will laugh the best, and this third question is the most difficult." "

Ah Man motioned to his entourage and brought two mares with the same appearance, size, and mane and said, "One of these two horses is the mother of the other, can you tell which of them is whose cub?"

Li Laosan said with confidence: "As long as they are led to the stable, I can distinguish them." "

"Housheng, you can't help but be overconfident, right? Do you see it with your eyes, or do you touch it with your hands?"

You don't have to look closely, you don't have to touch it with your hands, just tie them to the ends of the trough with the same length of bridles, and divide the hay into three parts, two less and one more, one less in front of them, and one more in the middle of the manger. "

"Can you be more specific and clearer?"

Li Laosan thought for a while and said: "It is the mother who buries her head and eats the small portion in front of her, and she puts down the forage in front of her and doesn't eat it, and the first one to grab the middle portion of the forage must be the cub, there is no doubt about it." "

Then the king asked, "What is the explanation for this?"

Hou Sheng said with tears in his eyes: "Although horses are animals, but their love for their children is no different from people, of course the mother has to eat because of hunger, but she will only eat a small portion of her own, and will never compete with her own children for food, even if the ignorant children come to rob their parents of food, they will starve, so that the children are full and well-fed." Horses are no exception. It's both instinct and nature. "

"Well said, well argued! What an instinct, what a nature!" Ah Man changed his arrogant attitude of despising everything and seeing no one at the beginning, and sincerely praised this "milky in his mouth".

When the king and the civil and military ministers were triumphant, the envoy of the lion kingdom suddenly changed his words and said, "It's a pity that there are too few descendants like him who love the young country and know instinct and nature, and even fewer of the younger generations who understand human nature. "

There is a saying: a word makes people laugh, and a word makes people jump. As soon as Ah Man's words came out, several young ministers jumped up and reprimanded the envoys in front of them for ignoring the etiquette of diplomatic relations and daring to insult the people in front of the king.

But Ah Man said: "I am not insulting but exalting, in fact, the subjects of the young country are not even as good as animals." "

The king, who had been sitting and listening, was also on fire, and if it weren't for the rule of "the two countries do not kill each other", he would have ordered the beheading of the noon gate to show the public.

There is a saying: capital sins can be avoided, but living sins cannot be escaped. If you don't give him a good look, maybe he'll have to say something even more unpleasant. Thinking of this, the king coughed lightly, and the entire palace fell silent.

When everyone had paid attention, the king first asked the envoy to "watch" him, and then said in a soft voice: "The ancients, the ministers of the upper state, that is, the princes of the lower kingdom, and the sons of the upper kingdoms, are the doctors of the lower kingdoms. Although this is true, our size is a country, fat and thin are individuals, respect and humility are kings, strong and weak are people, and beating dogs depends on the face of the master. As an envoy of the upper state, you dare to use the words of 'inhumane' to 'exalt' the subjects of the lonely king, it is really too deceitful, today in front of all Aiqing, if you can speak clearly and clearly, it will be fine, if not, Hugh blames the lonely king for being ruthless!"

The envoys of the Lion Kingdom were not intimidated by the words of the young king, but said in a crepe: "Peng Osprey calls for food, the crow feeds back, and benevolence; The deer has antler and calls, the butterfly picks flowers and gathers the crowd, and the righteousness is also; The wild goose is positioned, the lamb kneels to report, and the ceremony is also; The jackal is a sacrifice to the beast, the cat is a sacrifice to the fish, and the wisdom is also; The dog is the vigil, the chicken is the morning, and the letter is also. Animals are among all things, and they still know the five virtues; How can man be the spirit of all things? You take "Pension Qing" as the national anthem, kill your parents to eat meat, throw corpses and bones to bury them in the sky, the elders love their children as their hearts and livers, the younger generations regard the old as dung, the old love the young and the young do not respect the old, where is the benevolence? Where is the righteousness of a family in the same room? does not repay the kindness of parents for raising children, but throws away the bones of the elderly, and repays virtue with grievances, what is the courtesy? There is a saying: there is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm. Fifty is not confused, sixty is aware of the destiny of heaven. You have killed the old man, where does the wisdom come from? When you can't support yourself, your father or your mother keeps saying that you raise my young, and I raise your old. Once you are strong and strong, where is the slightest credibility? Since you can't even do the five virtues that beasts can do, aren't you even as good as beasts?"