Liu Zhenyun | Master Lao Wang

Lao Wang had studied in Kaifeng for seven years, and he was also learned. Old Wang was thin, left a parted head, put on a long shirt, and looked like a reader; but Old Wang was stupid and stuttered, and was not suitable for teaching. Maybe he had something in his stomach, but it was like boiling dumplings in a teapot and couldn't pour it out. In the first few years, he taught private schools, and every time he went to a school, he was dismissed after teaching for less than three months.

The man asked, "Old Wang, are you knowledgeable?" ”

Lao Wang blushed: "Take a pen and paper, I will make you a statement." ”

Man: "Yes, why can't I say it?" ”

Lao Wang sighed, "I can't tell you clearly, there are many words from noisy people, and there are many words from Ji people." ”

But no matter how many words there are, in the academy, in the Analects, the sentence "The four seas are poor, and the heavens are eternally ended", where is the truth that can be turned over and over and over for ten days and still cannot be explained? I couldn't speak clearly, and I couldn't move to talk to the students urgently: "What is the meaning of decaying wood that cannot be carved?" The saints are referring to you. ”

After seven or eight years of wandering around, Lao Wang finally landed in the town.

Lao Wang's private school is located in the cow house of the owner Lao Fan. Lao Wang personally inscribed a plaque, "Planting Peach Book House", which was hung on the lintel of the cow house. Old Fan set up his own private school, allowing other children to listen to it, without having to be tied up, and bringing his own dry food. In the eight townships, many children came to listen. Because Lao Wang's speech was not clear, eight out of ten disciples opposed him, not to mention that eight out of ten did not want to listen to the study, but just used this to avoid the work at home and try to be comfortable. But Lao Wang was a serious person, so he added a lot of troubles, and often did not talk about it when he talked about it, saying, "I don't understand you when I talk about it." ”

For example, when it comes to "friends from afar, they are not happy", the disciples think that friends have come from afar, Confucius is happy, and Lao Wang says that he is happy. It is precisely the saint who breaks his heart, if there are friends around him, the words in his heart are finished, and he comes from afar to be a person, is not it a blockage? It is precisely because there are no friends around that this person who has come from afar is regarded as a friend; whether this person who has come from afar is a friend or not, he still talks about it twice; but only through this word, he turns and curses people. The disciples all said that Confucius was not a thing. Lao Wang shed tears of sadness alone.

In addition to teaching, Lao Wang had a habit of walking around twice a month, fifteen and thirty in the lunar calendar, at noon. Pull away the big stride, go all the way, and don't say hello when you see people. Sometimes down the main road, sometimes in the wilderness. A sweat comes out in the summer, and a sweat comes out in the winter. At first, everyone thought that he was walking randomly, but the months and months were like this, and every year was like this, so it was not chaotic. Fifteen or thirty, occasionally strong winds and heavy rain can not go, Lao Wang will be held back with green tendons. At noon one day, the owner, Lao Fan, returned from renting a house from various villages, and Lao Wang was about to go out wearing a gown. The two met at the door. Old Fan remembered that today was the fifteenth lunar calendar, so he stopped Lao Wang and asked, "Old Wang, what is the end of this year and year?" ”

Lao Wang: "Dongjia, I can't tell you, and I can't say it clearly." ”

This year's Dragon Boat Festival, Lao Fan entertained Lao Wang to eat, eat and eat, and then said to go. Lao Wang drank too much, leaned over the corner of the table and cried, "I always want to be alone." Half a month of accumulation of panic, walking away, it is good. ”

At this point, Lao Fan understood: "I'm afraid it's not your father, it was not easy for you to go to school." ”

Lao Wang cried and shook his head: "It won't be him." ”

Old Fan: "If it is a living person, who do you want to find, who is it not over?" ”

Lao Wang shook his head: "Can't find it, can't find it, it was because of a search, I almost lost my life." ”

Old Fan was shocked in his heart, and no longer asked, but only said: "At noon, the field is not clean, don't touch the impermanence." ”

Lao Wang shook his head: "Yuanxi line, forget the distance of the road." ”

He also said, "Don't be afraid of impermanence, he wants me to go, so I will go with him." ”

Lao Wang's wife is called Silver Bottle. The silver bottle is illiterate, but with Lao Wang, he opens a private school, and the old Wang mouth is stupid, but the silver bottle mouth can speak. But what she said was not about the academy, it was all gossip from her neighbors. The mouth is like a wind, remembering what to say. People advised Lao Wang: "Lao Wang, you are a learned person, and your wife has that mouth, and you also persuade her." ”

Lao Wang sighed: "If a person speaks seriously, if he says something wrong, he can be persuaded; if a person is talking nonsense, how can he be persuaded?" ”

In addition to the mouth can speak, the silver bottle also loves to take advantage of others, and if it does not take advantage, it feels a loss. Visit a market, buy a few green onions, not take people with two heads of garlic; buy people two feet of cloth, not two strands of thread. In the summer and autumn seasons, I also love to go to the field to collect crops, and when I encounter crops that have not yet been harvested, I also take two handfuls of sheep by the hand. From the south gate of the school, it is closest to the land of the owner Lao Fan, so he has the most crops for Lao Fan. Once Lao Fan went to the backyard livestock shed to see the livestock, the housekeeper Lao Ji followed: "Dong Jia, resign Lao Wang." ”

Old Fan: "Why?" ”

Old Ji: "Old Wang teaches, and the children can't understand it." ”

Old Fan: "If you don't understand it, why do you teach it?" ”

Old Season: "Not for Lao Wang." ”

Old Season: "For his wife, he loves to steal crops and is a thief." ”

Old Fan waved his hand: "Ladies and daughters, what is the rightness." ”

And he said, "A thief is a thief, I am fifty acres of land, and I can't afford to raise a thief?" ”

This was heard by the old Song who fed the cattle. Old Song also had a baby who followed Lao Wang to learn the Analects, and Old Song learned these words to Lao Wang again. Unexpectedly, Lao Wang burst into tears: "What is the name of a friend coming from afar?" This is called having friends from afar. ”