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But no matter what, Bai Chongshan still sent the five-year-old Bai Ruxue to Mr. Mushi's school.

Without her mother's tender watering, Bai Ruxue followed her father at home to learn bow and archery, release mountains to collect medicine, bury traps, climb rocks and trees, hunt birds, smear charcoal and animals, drink blood, torture and prepare poisons to kill people or save people. In the school, Bai Ruxue was taught by Mr. Mushi's Confucian and Mencian ways and classic calligraphy...... Bai Ruxue grew up day by day under the dual influence of wildness and civilization.

"What did you learn from Mr. Mushi?" asked his eight-year-old daughter one day.

"Mr. Tsushi taught us that 'the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they will be tempted to endure and gain what they can't ......."

"What does that mean?" Bai Chongshan asked knowingly. In the early years, Bai Chongshan also learned the Four Books and Five Classics from his father.

It means that when Heaven is about to lay great responsibility on a certain person, it must first cause his inner anguish, strain his muscles and bones, force him to suffer from hunger, make his skin emaciated, make him suffer from poverty, make what he does upside down, always unsatisfactory, and raise his inner alertness, temper his character firmness, and increase the talents that he does not possess. "White as snow," Mr. also told us a story: Confucius crossed the side of Mount Tai, and a woman cried and mourned at the tomb, and the master listened to it, so that Zilu asked him, saying: "The cry of the son is also like a person who is worried." And he said, 'Yes.' In the past, my uncle died in the tiger, my husband died again, and now my son dies again. The Master said, 'Why don't you go?' and said, 'There is no harsh government.' The master said, "The boy knows that the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger. ’”

"What does this mean?" Bai Chongshan felt very proud and relieved to test his smart and clever daughter.

It means that Confucius passed by the edge of Mount Tai and saw a woman crying very sadly in front of the grave. Confucius stood up and leaned against the beam, and asked Zilu to go and ask the woman. Zilu asked, 'You are crying so sadly, as if something sad is there?' and the woman said, 'Yes, my father-in-law was killed by a tiger, then my husband was killed by a tiger, and now my son is also killed by a tiger!' Confucius asked, 'Then why don't you leave here?' and the woman replied, 'There are no harsh and onerous taxes. Confucius said, "Students, remember that the harsh and heavy taxes are more fierce and terrible than the tigers." "Teacher Mu Shi also let us learn the 'Art of War', 'Thirty-six Strategies', and what is even more strange is that he also wants us to learn what to spit out the old and absorb the new, adjust the breathing, sink the dantian, infuse the eight veins of the whole body's strange meridians, lift the qi and float, step on the eggs, walk on the lotus leaves in the pond, and do the game of flying eaves and walking on the wall...... In the school, I learned it all by myself. ”

Although Bai Chongshan does not know martial arts, he often sells medicine and wanders the rivers and lakes, and he is also well-informed. Hearing his daughter's words, he felt a little surprised and shocked, and secretly said in his heart: "Mr. Mu Shi is really a master! What he taught his daughter is the upper-level light martial arts! This is not bad, my daughter has kung fu and can defend herself, and it also saves me a lot of worries." Alas, there are such beautiful and outstanding girls in the family, how can parents not worry about it?"