Chapter 449: The Chicken or the Egg (Part I)
"I want to come to Gongsun Jushi to study the world back then, and hang a sword on the waist of a white horse, how chic and romantic it is!" Speaking of this, Ye Qingxuan paused, then raised his eyes and glanced at Gongsun Chao with a smile, and then continued, "Presumably, every time you enter the city, you don't have to pay this tariff!"
"You Taoist priest!" Gongsun Chao heard Ye Qingxuan sarcastically say this, stretched out his hand and put the tea bowl on the table, and then his eyebrows straightened, staring straight at Ye Qingxuan for a long time, but in the end, he could only sneer and said, "Dao Chang said so, naturally it is true, when Gongsun Chao traveled the world to study, rode a white horse, and entered the city pass, he naturally had to pay customs duties."
It's just that a polemic is a polemic, and the court naturally won't be bored and go to talk to the city gate lang about this, but who is the Taoist chief? At this time, how can the debate be compared with the city gate to pay taxes? If the Taoist chief is really talented, then there is no need to quibble!"
Gongsun Chao's words, when he said it, he was really a bit of a "scoundrel", but Ye Qingxuan didn't care at all, the nature of "bar essence" is like this, he can always find the loopholes in your words, and then use the topic to play and defeat you, unless you can say that he is speechless, or simply ignores him.
Quite helplessly smiled, Ye Qingxuan brushed the dust, and then smiled at Gongsun Chao, "The layman thinks that the poor Dao is sophistry, but why doesn't the poor Dao feel that the layman is really sophistry?"
Since the poor road and the layman can't convince each other on top of this question of the white horse and the horse, then it's better to do this!
When Gongsun Chao heard Ye Qingxuan say this, he only frowned slightly, and then turned his head to look at Xin Yan, who looked like an old god who was at ease and didn't participate in the topic at all.
Seeing this, Gongsun Chao also knew that what Ye Qingxuan said was really the truth, on top of the white horse and non-horse, he had actually fallen into the disadvantage, if he continued to talk about it, all that was left between the two would be a war of words and sophistry, just as Ye Qingxuan said, on this topic, none of them could convince anyone!
Thinking of this, Gongsun Chao nodded, and then said, "Since this is the case, then according to what the Taoist chief said, I will wait for another question!
"Good!" Ye Qingxuan heard this, smiled on his face, nodded lightly, and then opened his mouth and asked, "I wonder if the layman has ever seen a hen?"
"Naturally, I've seen it!" Gongsun Chao was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded and replied, but he was careful in his heart, for fear that Ye Qingxuan would leave some traps in the question.
"That's fine!" Ye Qingxuan smiled and nodded when he heard this, and then asked, "Since the layman has seen hens, he must have seen eggs!?"
Gongsun Zhan nodded again when he heard this, these two things, that is, disciples born in poor families, must have seen and eaten them, not to mention his Gongsun Dynasty, who grew up in Jixia School Palace since he was a child!
"Very good, very good!" Ye Qingxuan heard this, and the smile on his face was even worse.
Ye Qingxuan's appearance, Hugh said that the Gongsun Dynasty was inexplicable, and even the rest of the students in the Dao Palace were ordinary and inexplicable, they really didn't know, why did this Qingxuan Dao Chief say these two things at this time?
After all, you can't learn from Gongsun Chao to say, "Hens are not chickens, or eggs are not eggs, right?"
Seeing everyone looking at him with inexplicable eyes, Ye Qingxuan was not in a hurry, just dusted up, and then reached out to pick up the teacup, took a sip to moisten his throat, and then said with a smile, "Since the layman has seen a hen and an egg, then he must know that this chicken is hatched from an egg.
"Poof!" Xin Yan, who was originally looking at ease as an old god, suddenly heard such a "wonderful" question, and suddenly didn't hold it, and directly squirted out the tea he had just drunk in his mouth.
"This Qingxuan Dao Master, how can he actually think of such a problem that plays with people's thinking like Gongsun Chao!"
Xin Yan was like this, and in the heart of Gongsun Chao, who was opposite Ye Qingxuan, a ridiculous and peerless feeling arose, "Is this Taoist priest really a master of the Daomen? Why is the question raised at this time coincides with my famous idea?"
It's no wonder that the two of them, or the people in the Dao Palace, have such misplaced senses for Ye Qingxuan.
In fact, the question of "chicken or egg" is the hottest question he has been discussed in his previous life.
In ancient and modern times, I don't know how many philosophers and thinkers have turned the world upside down in order to argue about this reason.
Compared with the famous question, "white horses are not horses", the logical dialectic contained in the question of "chicken first, or egg first" is really not too much, and even exceeding.
Sure enough, as soon as Ye Qingxuan's question came out, it was like a frying pan in the polemic palace, and a group of students were completely excited.
Some people say that there are chickens first, and naturally there are people who say that there are eggs first, and then the two factions of people, no one can convince anyone, and Wu Zi is fighting for a red face below.
On the top of the platform, Gongsun Chao suddenly heard this question, first in his heart amazed, and then wanted to think about it carefully, but no matter how he assumed, he would eventually fall into a dead loop.
If he says that there were chickens first, then chickens hatched from eggs, then where did the first egg come from?
If he says that there was an egg first, then the egg was born of a hen, but where did the first chicken that laid the egg come from?
This question hovered in Gongsun Chao's mind and lingered for a long time.
Seeing that Gongsun Chao was in deep thought, Ye Qingxuan didn't interrupt without saying anything, but just sat on the platform and tasted tea to nourish his spirit.
At the beginning, Xin Yan also said a few words with Ye Qingxuan from time to time, discussing the previous topic and the current topic, but after talking for a long time, it seemed that even Xin Yan was a little caught in it, and after contemplation, he was silent for a long time.
So, Ye Qingxuan, who had no person to talk to, only felt a little bored, turned his head to look at Xiao Qiao, who was already a little sleepy, and then got up, picked up the little girl, put it in his arms, and let him sleep peacefully.
Before, because Ye Qingxuan was afraid that someone would come to challenge him, he naturally didn't dare to carefully study his own "cracked" second vein of Ren Du.
At this time, there was a lot of noise between the middle and bottom of the Dao Palace, and the two people on the Dao platform looked frowning and contemplative, and it seemed that these two people would not be able to think of anything in a short time.
So, on the one hand, Ye Qingxuan was busy, and on the other hand, he was also worried about whether something had gone wrong with his own cultivation, so he took the opportunity to divide some of his mind to see what was going on.
After carefully studying for a long time, Ye Qingxuan found that his own second pulse was too strange, because this second pulse was too thick, although Ye Qingxuan was almost every day to practice the impact, but after all, it had little effect.
Until he went down the mountain, he frequently worked with people, constantly exhausted his true qi, and replenished it.
It wasn't until after fighting with the five soldiers that the second vein of the governor was "broken", but even so, the wall like a moat was still not broken.
However, although it was not completely shattered, Ye Qingxuan seemed to be able to feel something different from the acquired realm from this crack.
For example, every time his innate true qi runs at this point, there will always be a little bit of true qi that will "penetrate" through the crack, and then turn around, return again, and after returning again, this true qi will become much purer, and that "crack" seems to be much larger because of this!
This discovery really made Ye Qingxuan's heart excited, "I finally see the dawn of a breakthrough again! I'm afraid that in time, Poor Dao will finally have a chance to catch up with his own Qingyuan junior brother!"