North and South groceries

In this era, many scholars have the mind and ambition to benefit the world and benefit the common people. However, no matter how lofty the ambition is, sometimes it cannot match the immediate benefits.

For those who have the money to afford slaves, human trafficking is too tempting, and it has too many benefits. At this time, those who can afford to read books are often the upper classes of society, and they have vested interests. group.

Because they cannot let go of such interests, many people will find various reasons for themselves, intending to make it a matter of course or even the right thing.

With only one simple sentence, Luo Yong punctured this layer of illusion woven by countless people throughout the ages.

His words were like a knife, piercing straight into the hearts of many people. Some people were pierced with unbearable pain, while others were pierced with joy.

Not everyone is deluding themselves, many people really don't know such a truth, because no one has ever said such a thing to them.

The books they read since they were young were all written by people, and the people who wrote the books will inevitably be limited by the times and identities.The teachers and parents who teach them the principles of life are also subject to such limitations themselves.

Such limitations blind the eyes as well as the mind and heart.

The reason why sages are sages may be precisely because of their wisdom. In the space they were in at that time, they were able to break through this layer of limitations and bring new light to the people at that time.

Tang Zixi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, once saw someone mentioning such a sentence on the wall of a library in Shudao: "The sky does not give birth to Zhongni, and the ages are like a long night."

By the time of the information explosion in the 21st century, people may find some limitations of the times from Confucius' remarks, but in the fourth and fifth centuries BC, his wisdom was a bright light to the people at that time , illuminating their originally ignorant and chaotic world.

The so-called greatness is simple, Luo used this simple sentence, but it also helped some people clear the fog and let them see the simplest truth behind the fog.

He said it himself and let it go. After all, Luo Yong didn't expect to be able to change the concept of an entire era in this short period of time, but just expressed his own thoughts.

He didn't know how big waves his few words caused in the hearts of the listeners. Luo Yong, who has lived in the future world of information explosion for more than [-] years, sometimes forgets that in this era, people The desire and pursuit of truth and the way.

It was this time that many people's perception of Luo Yong really changed.

A person with great wisdom often has a big heart. Now, when I think back on the things he spread about the kang method and the method of burning soil and dung before, I can’t help but have a new feeling. I asked him for advice and called him sir. I am really convinced. .

More than ten days have passed.

In Chang'an City, a group of young people were having tea and talking at a friend's house. During the dinner, Luo Sanlang of Lishi County was mentioned. The coffin board on the left and the coffin board on the right were talking excitedly. Hear it right.

The head of the family has just received a letter from an old friend of his in Lishi County in the past two days, and he is thinking hard about the few words in the letter, with mixed thoughts.

At this time, seeing his son and his friends, who were older than Na Luo Sanlang, but still looked ignorant, he couldn't help but give them a scolding.At the end, there was a sentence: "Since you are free, go to Lishi County and learn some arithmetic with Naluo Sanlang."

"Aye!" His son's eyes widened suddenly. In this cold day, with heavy wind and snow outside, his father actually wants to throw him to Lishi County?Just because a few of them said something to Luo Sanlang?What's so good about Luo Sanlang, better than his own son?

"It's too slow to take a horse-drawn carriage, all of you go on horseback for me. If you don't come to Xipo Village within seven days, let's see how I will deal with you then." His father added.

It's time for this useless thing to be disciplined. All he knows is to mess around in Chang'an City all day long, and he doesn't even know he's being used and fooled by others. As for this bastard, even if he gets an official for him in the future, I'm afraid it will be dangerous. People hurt themselves.

"Uncle Shi..." It's fine for the old man to discipline his own son, but why should he discipline their friends as well?

"I'll tell your family about this. Let's all go back and get ready. We'll set off tomorrow morning." Those few young people who have been with his son since he was a child, although they are not successful, they are all from good backgrounds. Those who have a particularly bad character are those who have no ambitions and only know how to play and fight all day long. I heard that Luo Sanlang is a powerful person. If you can take this opportunity to let these brats know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, it would be great .

In this way, he sent the group of young people home to prepare their bags, and then sent letters to their families, telling their families that they planned to send their son to Lishi County to learn how to be a man.

Then without any accident, early the next morning, there were a total of six young people in this group, one of whom was not left behind, and all of them left Chang'an City on horseback with packages on their backs under the watchful eyes of their family members.

Some of the family members of these teenagers sent them to the gate of the city, some sent them to the gate of the workshop, some only sent them to the gate of their own house, and some even waved their hands in the study to tell him to go away.

A group of fellow sufferers rode horses on the official road in the wind and snow, feeling miserable in their hearts. At the beginning, they could yell at each other and complain about the cruelty of their parents. After their mouths were full of wind and snow, It all stopped.

After running for more than 20 miles, he saw a curtain erected with green cloth by someone on the side of the road. He thought it was some wealthy family who stopped to rest on the way, but when he ran closer, he turned out to be an acquaintance.

"Yan Liu, why are you here?" The group of young people were all surprised.

"I heard that you are going to Lishi County, where the mountains are high and the water is far away, the wind is heavy and the snow is heavy, so Yan will set up a tent here and wait quietly, offering you a cup of hot tea."

Ever since he left Lishi County, Yan Liu has lost weight again. At this moment, he was standing in the wind and snow, smiling at the people on the horse and bowing his hands, wearing a moonlight scenery as gentle as jade .

"Hahaha, you are still a brother!" one of the young people laughed loudly.

"Please, gentlemen, get off your horses and drink tea." Yan Liu raised his hand to signal everyone to sit inside the curtain.

Those young people just happened to be numb from the wind and snow, their noses and mouths didn’t look like their own, and there were even frost on their eyelashes. At this time, they would be happy to have a cup of hot tea. Happily got off the horse and went to drink tea inside the tent.

These people also come and go frequently, having tea and chatting during the banquet, it is very casual and leisurely.

"Yan Liu, tell me the truth, it's cold, what kind of plot do you have to wait for us here with such a mobilizing crowd?" After eating a cup of hot tea, a young man joked.

"I can't hide it from you." Yan Liu smiled helplessly: "In Chang'an City, who doesn't want a pair of rubber-soled leather boots from Xipo Village? I heard that you are going to learn arithmetic from Luo Sanlang this time. Luo Sanlang will definitely treat you with courtesy if you don't have such a family and character."

"Hmph, that's not necessarily the case." These young people obviously had a bad impression of Luo Yong, although they had never met Luo Yong himself.

"Yan Liu, since you want his boots, why don't you ask yourself, otherwise, don't go back, and go to Xipo Village with me?" Another young man warmly invited.

"I heard that many lords in Chang'an City went to visit in person, but they couldn't buy those boots, so I don't care." Yan Liu shook his head and said.

"Didn't you have been to Lishi County before, and you have no friendship with Na Luosan?" Someone asked again immediately.

"A person like him, how can he have any friendship with a merchant like me." Yan Liu said with a wry smile.

"What's so great about him."

"Just a farmer's slave."

"Although he is not a merchant, I think he is also a merchant."

"It's just that you have received rewards a few times, and you still feel that your status has become honorable?"

"..."

Hearing Yan Liu's tone, Luo Yong actually had the intention of looking down on him, a group of young people immediately became a little bit indignant, and what you said and what I said was that Luo Yong was not good.

Yan Liu only listened with a smile on his face, and from time to time he wanted to persuade a few words, as though I was very hurt in my heart, but I was still very strong, you don't need to care too much, and coaxed those stunned young men Ten out of ten.

Yan Liu, it’s okay to say how superb his skills are. He can’t coax those old foxes in Chang’an City, but he can’t coax these inexperienced but self-righteous second-generation officials who always think they are talented and intelligent. Still relatively easy.

As long as he can coax these young gentlemen, it will be enough for him to earn a living in Chang'an City. In addition to his own family's management, if he can get a few more good lines, his career will be booming.

Yan Liu is usually in Chang'an City, and he doesn't speak well of Luo Yong. Last year, he got a few sets of cashmere sweaters and trousers from Luo Yong as a deposit. The sapling passed, so the deposit was paid without any psychological pressure.

Later, Luo Yong made a lot of good things. Yan Liu knew that with the other party's behavior, if he got along with him again, he would definitely get nothing. But a master who dared to hate even the emperor.

Because he was unwilling, he resented Luo Yong, wanting the good things in her hands, but also wishing to see him suffer.

He also attracted a lot of people in Chang'an City, especially these inexperienced stunned youths, even if they heard some bad comments from Yan Liu on weekdays, they would only regard it as the prejudice of the world, but they just followed what others said That's all.

After eating hot tea and feeling the "full friendship" from their friends, the group of young people went on the road again, feeling much better.

After six or seven days of riding horses and braving the wind and snow, they finally arrived in Lishi County. Because of time constraints, they did not dare to go to the city to rest. After asking passers-by outside the city, they rushed all the way to Xipo Village.

The stinky old man said that he would clean them up if he didn't arrive at Xipo Village within seven days, so he must have done it, and it couldn't be too late for a day. Looking back now, I spent half a day sitting and drinking tea outside Chang'an city. , It's really too extravagant.

The snow fell especially heavily on this day, the cold wind was howling, and the concrete road was covered with thick snow.

The weather was bad, and few people went to Xipo Village to transport cement, and the villagers seldom came out for activities, so they only felt that they were running in the wilderness along the way.

When we got close to Xipo Village, we suddenly saw a strong donkey running and wandering in the snow. In the wind and snow, it had a pleasant posture.

These two-year-old teenagers who have passed the age of the second-year-old but are still in the second-year-old have all encountered a deer horse in the wilderness, tamed it and made it their own mount, and rode it in the city of Chang'an. Walking, the scenery is infinite and envious of other people's dreams.

Although the donkey in front of me is neither a deer nor a horse, it is just a donkey, but it is also a very handsome donkey. The teenagers immediately felt that more than half of their dreams had come true, and immediately someone shouted excitedly: "Look! Wild donkey!"

"!" The five pairs looked up at these people, without saying a word, turned around and used their hind legs to dig a few times, picking up the snow balls on the ground and smashing those people all over their heads and faces.

"Ang 咴 咴 咴!" You are a wild donkey, you idiot!