Chapter 17 Section five

Since "The Analects of Confucius" was released, the first edition of 3,000 copies was quickly sold out.In addition to the Sang's printing house doing its best to make copies to cope with the steady stream of orders from the capital to various places, various printing houses also unceremoniously printed "pirated editions".Overnight, the reputation of Shi Yue and the six people spread all over the north and south of the river. But Shi Yue became more and more reclusive.Sang Chongguo, Tang Di and others will receive most of the people who come to visit. He himself conceived another even more shocking book——The success of "The Analects of Confucius" greatly encouraged him and changed his life. The key to a world is to change its mind; the key to change its mind is to occupy the moral high ground. The successful success of "The Analects of Confucius" has quietly pushed Shi Yue to a moral height—but this is not enough!

When there is no one around, Shi Yue likes to sit quietly by the pool in the back garden of the Sang Mansion, watching the floating duckweeds on the surface of the water - he feels that he is very similar to them, without roots and stability, but he is not afraid of any wind and rain blowing.Whenever Shi Yue felt "homesick", he would come to see Duckweed.He gently poked them with a bamboo pole and beat them into the distance. At this time, Zi'er in green would sit beside him quietly with her fragrant cheeks in her hands, watching him. Sometimes, she would also ask: "Brother Shi, why do you like them?"

"Ok?" "I mean, duckweed." Shi Yue would sigh slightly, and laugh at himself, "Because they have no ambitions, and they won't do things beyond their means. They resign themselves to fate, and are happy between heaven and earth..." Zi'er's eyes were full of confusion: "But I heard from my brother that a man should do a great job in the world." "Yes..." Shi Yue's answer was always uncertain.