Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 32 Transferring Contradictions
In the middle of the night, at Zigong's house.

A raging bonfire was burning in the courtyard, and seven or eight half-person-high bamboo baskets were piled up beside them. The paper pulp was evenly pasted on the bottom of the bamboo baskets, and they were drying rapidly under the fire.

Zaiyu, Kongli and Zigong squatted on the ground, out of breath from exhaustion.

As soon as they got home, they began to process paper. First, they took out the bark and ramie that had been boiled for two days and two nights and cut them into small pieces. on the bamboo basket.

Because of the tight schedule and heavy tasks, not only the servants worked, but even the three of them were not idle for a moment.

Yan Hui walked out from the study of Zi Gong's house, he also just finished today's work.

"Zigong, I've finished sorting out all the letters in your house. Starting tomorrow, I won't bother you anymore."

Zigong panted and waved his hands, "You have to come tomorrow."

Yan Hui asked suspiciously, "But my work is done, so what else should I do?"

Zigong replied: "There are still a lot of piles in the backyard of my house that have not been sorted out, and the ones in the study are only a small part."

"I see..." Yan Hui looked up at the sky and said, "It's getting late, so I'll come back tomorrow."

Afterwards, Yan Hui looked at Zai Yu and Kong Li again: "My son, Bo Yu, won't you two go back with me?"

Kong Li shrank his head: "I, I won't go back, I'll stay at Zigong's house tonight. Tomorrow morning, I'll go to the academy with them again."

Zai Yu also echoed, "I also stayed at Zigong's house tonight, and I still have some things to do."

Yan Hui nodded half-understood, then saluted each of the three of them, and went home alone.

As soon as Yan Hui walked away, Kong Li couldn't help asking: "My son, you said there is a way to save me, what is the way? I've been helping you for a long time, you have to talk to me! "

Jae Yu replied: "Isn't helping me to ventilate? There is no paper, how can I help you?"

Kong Li looked blank: "I admit that things like paper are indeed miraculous. But how can it help me?"

Zai Yu curled his lips and said very dissatisfied: "Let me ask you, if a house is on fire, what would they do?"

Kong Li replied without thinking: "Of course I went to put out the fire! Could it be that you watched the fire burn down your house?"

"And what would they do if there was a fire at home and they found an unowned sack of gold in a crowded street?"

At this moment, Kong Li thought for a while, and then answered cautiously: "We should still put out the fire. A gentleman should not covet property that does not belong to him."

When Zai Yu heard this, his whole face turned black, and he sighed.

"Bo Yu, what I'm asking you now is not a moral question."

Zigong interjected: "If it's a matter of law, then you shouldn't be picking up gold, and embezzling property will be punished!"

"Shut up!" Zai Yu stretched out his hand to cover Zi Gong's mouth, and continued to ask: "If you don't consider morality or the law, from a purely human point of view, do you think we should go to the fire first or go to the fire first?" Pick up gold."

"Then... there should be more people picking up gold. A bag of gold is enough to buy a lot of big houses."

"Isn't that right? This is called the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction.

When gold did not appear, fire was the main contradiction.

After the emergence of gold, worrying about gold being picked up by others has become a new main contradiction. "

Zai Yu explained with a smile: "Now, if you fail to go on a blind date in the Song Dynasty, to Master, it is like a fire at home. And the appearance of paper is like a pile of gold falling from the sky. Master sees the paper, where is it still alive?" Are you in the mood to care about your affairs?"

Kong Li thought for a while, but still felt uneasy.

"Paper is nice, but is it enough to make my father forget about me?"

"Of course only paper is not enough. The master said: A gentleman is not a tool. No matter how good the paper is, it is just a tool. What can really attract the master must be the wise words written on paper!"

"Then where can I find the words of wisdom?"

"Don't worry, am I thinking about it?"

"Ah?" Kong Li was dumbfounded: "My son, you plan to make it up yourself?"

Jai Yu was immediately dissatisfied: "What? Do you not believe my level?"

Zigong pulled away the hand that was blocking his mouth, and said, "Yes, you have a level, and you are so high level that you are madly attacked by the master as soon as you open your mouth."

Zaiyu said angrily: "Don't talk, don't talk! Stop talking! Now I'm the master, listen to me!"

He picked up a stone at random and blocked Zigong's mouth again, but he almost choked Zigong to death.

Then Zaiyu continued to teach Kong Li: "You don't have to worry about the most reasonable and famous sayings, everything is on me. And you don't have a choice now, either listen to my fight, or go back and get beaten, you can choose whichever you choose bar?"

Kong Li was struggling in pain, and it could be seen from his ferocious facial expression that he was caught in a dilemma.

If he didn't listen to Zaiyu and chose to get beaten directly, Kong Li felt that he couldn't do it.

But if he listened to Jae Yu's advice, if he didn't succeed, he would be beaten even worse.

This……

After contemplating for a long time, Kong Li finally made up his mind. He clenched his fists and said to Jae Yu, "Okay, I'll follow your orders. Son, you can tell me what to do!"

Zai Yu grinned: "Isn't that right? Listen to me, we have skills in this job, and we have to pay attention to the order. Tomorrow you go first, but..."

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The rooster crowed three times, and it was just dawn.

Jai Yu opened his eyes and stretched comfortably.

Another fulfilling and satisfying dream!

As soon as he got up, he shouted impatiently: "Quick! Bring me a pen and paper, if you don't hurry up, I will forget about it in a while!"

Zai Yu's lion's roar woke up Kong Li and Zi Gong who were still asleep.

In a panic, the two asked the servant to take off the dry paper on the bamboo basket, and rushed into Zaiyu's room with a pen and ink.

Zai Yu took the pen and paper, frowned and pondered for a while, then waved the pen to complete it in one go.

Kong Li and Zi Gong stood behind him, watching lines of words jump out of the paper.

At first, the two of them looked a little dazed, but the more they looked back, the more refreshed they felt.

When Zai Yu stopped writing, the two looked like they had seen a ghost.

Zai Yu picked up his own calligraphy, put it in the sun to enjoy it, and said, "Tibetan ink and ink are like a valley in the chest, and poetry and calligraphy are in the belly. This probably refers to me?"

Kong Li took the paper from Jai Yu's hand, read the words on it again, looked at Jai Yu in disbelief and said, "My son? Did you really come up with this yourself?"

Zi Gong simply picked a passage and read it: "So a gentleman is cautious about what he doesn't see, and afraid of what he doesn't hear."

(Thus, a person of high moral character is also cautious where no one sees, and fears where no one hears)
Zi Gong stared at Jai Yu and questioned, "You have this realm? Why don't I believe it?"

Jae Yu didn't refute, just chuckled: "Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway."

　Authors think they are special, but in the eyes of readers there is nothing special.

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)