"Flogging, ten times!" The leader waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him immediately pounced forward, pressing Li Huer to the ground.
Village Chief Meng Bai and Li Zhuangshi completely didn't react, because, they simply didn't know what had happened. What happened? Flogging … ten times?
"Pa!"
The soldiers didn't care about this, raising the flogging in their hands, the flogging landed on Li Huer's buttocks.
Li Huer didn't even have time to react, his face filled with incomparable bewilderment. But, the burning pain from his buttocks was real.
"Wah …"
Without any surprises, Li Huer began to howl loudly.
"Pa pa pa pa …"
Li Zhuangshi didn't even have time to plead for his son, the ten floggings had all been completed.
"Let's go!" The leader looked at Li Huer on the ground, shook his head, sighed slowly, leapt onto his horse and galloped away …
Everyone stared blankly at Li Huer on the ground, each of them incomparably shocked. A second ago, they were still envious of Li Huer's luck, but the next, he was already lying on the ground?
Wasn't this twist of fate a little too fast?
Fang Zhengzhi looked at Li Huer, then thought of the white paper in the soldier's hands, thought of the scene a few days ago, his mother happily shouting that the Divine Constabulary had bestowed a gift, adding one more place in the Hall of Dao, but the requirement was that it had to be a child between six to eight years old …
In an instant, he suddenly came to a realisation. Could it be that all of this was arranged by Lolita?
What gift from the Divine Constabulary, this was clearly a trap. If he really entered the Hall of Dao, then the person lying on the ground today would be him right?
Who would have thought that Lolita's revenge would come so quickly?
Fang Zhengzhi raised his head, looked at the azure blue sky, and suddenly felt somewhat gloomy. Wasn't it just a kick on the buttocks? Was there a need to cling onto him like this?
Looks like I need to kick him a few more times!
Fang Zhengzhi pondered over this challenging question with incomparable purity.
…
In the end, Li Huer was still carried up by Li Zhuangshi. After a round of intense debate, the villagers finally agreed that the reason Li Huer was beaten was because he didn't answer the Divine Constabulary's question correctly, hurting the Divine Constabulary's lady's heart.
This was a truth that anyone with a discerning eye could see. After all, Li Huer was beaten because he didn't answer the question correctly.
"Good luck, Hu 'er. Study hard and you'll definitely be able to answer it next time!"
"Yes, Huer, this is the Divine Constabulary's way of nurturing you. I've heard that everything is difficult at the beginning, there must be bitterness before sweetness!"
"Yes, we believe you!"
The surrounding villagers comforted the crying Li Huer. No one blamed the Divine Constabulary, because, that was an existence that they didn't even dare to think about.
Li Zhuangshi and Village Chief Meng Bai listened to the comforting voices of the villagers and quickly came to their senses. As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the more severe the responsibility! No matter what, it was a good thing that Missus from the Divine Constabulary could remember Li Huer's name and send someone to personally come up with the questions!
When Li Huer heard the villagers' words, his tear-stained face broke into a smile. So this was the Divine Constabulary's deep love for him …
Looking at Li Huer's tearful smile, Fang Zhengzhi sighed silently. "How can a person … be so stupid?"
…
At night, in the Fang family's mud house, Fang Zhengzhi sat in his own room with the windows open, staring at the stars in the sky in a daze.
Then, his hand subconsciously touched the book in his pocket, feeling a little emotional. This must be the first book in this world right?
Even though it was only the most ordinary of the "Three Character Classic", and it was even a broken one, but it also represented the expectations Qin Xuelian and Fang Houde had for him.
After thinking for a while, Fang Zhengzhi still took out the "Three Character Classic" from his pocket.
"At the beginning of man, his nature is good, his nature is similar …"
The words were still the words of the previous world, the language was still the language of the previous world, almost exactly the same word. Why was it such a coincidence? Who wrote this world's "Law of Dao"?
No …
Who should have copied it!
"Kaboom!"
A sudden clap of thunder sounded in the sky, a bolt of lightning flashed across the horizon. Bean-sized raindrops fell, knocking against the windowsill, as if expressing the dissatisfaction of the Heavens.
Fang Zhengzhi twitched his mouth, turned his head to one side and continued to read the "Three Character Classic".
"When used to being far apart, one does not call out, one's nature changes …"
As he read, Fang Zhengzhi felt that something was amiss. There was a strange feeling in his heart, as if something was stirring, wanting to break out of its shell.
Stop.
The feeling disappeared …
Read again.
The strange feeling attacked him again.
What was going on? Fang Zhengzhi was confused. Could this "Three Character Classic" be some kind of treasure? After thinking for a while, he put down the "Three Character Classic" and thought for a while.
He decided to try the "Tao Te Ching" from his previous world.
"The Dao can be Dao, but it is not Dao. It can be named, but it is not. It is not the beginning of heaven and earth, it is the mother of all. Therefore, when there is no desire, it is the wonder; when there is desire, it is the wonder. These two come from the same source, but have different names. They are both mysterious, the mystery of the mystery, the wonder of the wonder... "
"Boom!"
In that instant, Fang Zhengzhi felt his heart shatter...
Or, it could be said that something in his heart had broken. It was like a seed that had sprouted. An indescribable feeling lingered in his heart. It was impossible to get rid of, but it was incomparably real.
Reading! So it was reading!
I understand, I really understand now. What breathing technique, what meditative meditation, all of them are useless in this world.
This world cultivated Dao, and only through reading could one understand the principles. Furthermore, it seemed that the more profound the principles of a book, the more principles one would understand. Even though the "Three Character Classic" gave him a strange feeling, it was not as intense as the "Tao Te Ching".
The beginning of the "Tao Te Ching" actually made his body feel extremely happy.
Then, continue! The second chapter of the "Tao Te Ching", "Everyone knows that beauty is beauty, it is evil; everyone knows that good is good, it is evil..."
Wait a minute, what was after that?
Fang Zhengzhi reached out with his chubby little hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead.
Alright...
Even though he was a top student majoring in Ancient Literature, who said that a top student in Ancient Literature would be able to recite the "Tao Te Ching"?
If he was asked to fill in a blank in the "Tao Te Ching", or translate the original text, he could still do it. But if he was asked to recite it...
No problem, no problem, he would change to "The Doctrine of the Mean".
Fang Zhengzhi quickly recovered and started to memorize "The Doctrine of the Mean". The joyous feeling quickly overwhelmed him again. This made him feel as if his blood and cells were alive.
Then...
He got stuck again.
Alright, let's change to "Mencius"...
After two to four hours, Fang Zhengzhi had memorized all the passages in the Four Books and Five Classics. He felt as if he was about to become an immortal. Even though his body was happy, his mind was a little tired. After all, he was only six years old. His brain was not fully developed, and he would feel sleepy if he memorized too many things.
In his dreams, Fang Zhengzhi vaguely saw a black seed growing in his heart. On the seed, a green leaf was gently dancing.
On the leaf, a crystal clear water droplet was slowly forming.
"Drip!"
When the water droplets fell to the ground, they did not create a splash. Instead, they quickly seeped into the ground as if they had sunk into the soil. The soil greedily absorbed the water droplets, and the water droplets continued to drill down along the surface of the soil.
Very quickly...
The water droplet disappeared.
Then, another water droplet formed on the leaf, then, it slowly fell into the soil.
This repeated over and over again. Who knew how many water droplets had fallen...
The morning sun shone through the window onto Fang Zhengzhi's young face. His black eyes slowly opened as Fang Zhengzhi sat up with a gasp.
He felt as if he had been reborn.
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