Chapter 5 Confucian children

What would a child from such a wealthy family look like? Usually everyone imagines that the children of rich people must be able to carry cages and bird cages, and play around. However, Li Dongyuan's parents were scholars after all, so Li Dongyuan started to learn Confucianism when he was a little sensible.Successively worshiped Jinshi Wang Congzhi and Feng Shuxian as teachers. As a result, the character of the young Li Dongyuan has embarked on a completely different path from other wealthy children, and he has become extremely rigorous, dignified and clean. This is not easy. A son of a wealthy family is humble and unsmiling every day. He doesn't talk about things that are not sages, and he doesn't study things that are not noble. This is like a white swan growing out of a group of black ducks. Very unusual.

With the status of the richest man in the Li family, socializing must be indispensable. But Li Dongyuan is different from the rest of the family, he only associates with those celebrities, that is, those who are knowledgeable and have high moral cultivation.Others don't even bother to reason. For example, who wants to make friends with Li Dongyuan, hand in a post, Li Dongyuan should find someone to ask, how is this character?How is your knowledge?What?Ever had a fight with your mother?Come on, return the post, please go back, Mr. Li is busy, no see. If you have a problem with your conduct, you will never want to associate with this Li Dongyuan.

Even for the friends who have already made friends, Li Dongyuan behaved unusually mature and stable when everyone got along. For example, when everyone is together, it is inevitable to talk and laugh, talk about the weather, talk about the news, especially some pornographic news and the like. When Li Dongyuan came over, everyone immediately shut up. Because of Li Dongyuan's seriousness, everyone felt a little sorry for talking about these things. It seems that Li Dongyuan is more effective than the current dean. As for Li Dongyuan himself, people never talk about these things with everyone. Documents record that Li Dongyuan is "loyal, faithful, respectful, cautious in making friends, and never jokes with others."

By the time Li Dongyuan was still a teenager, he was already a well-known Confucian scholar. Everyone in the neighborhood of tens of miles knew that the Li family, the richest man in the area, had a pure, noble student who was out of vulgar tastes. But after a long time, problems will arise. Some of Li Dongyuan's friends couldn't stand it anymore, and with a serious friend like him, no one could stand it anymore. It's too orthodox, how can there be any flavor in life. Looking back, when everyone communicated with each other, they all felt this way. So the brothers patted their heads and devised a plan to test classmate Li Dongyuan.

If Li Dongyuan knew about this plan, he would definitely bang his head against the wall with regret—how did he make such friends? It seems that even though he was so rigorous, he still made some friends who shouldn't have been made in the end.