Chapter 50 Chapter 10 Child prodigy born without reading

Speaking of Xu Shuzheng, among the dark generals in Beiyang, he was extremely eye-catching. Xu Shuzheng, a native of Xiaoxian County, Jiangsu Province, has been farming for generations. The most culturally important job in his family is to carry a dung basket and go out to pick up dung.But in the generation of Xu Shuzheng's father, Xu Shidao, the literary stars came to the fore. After Xu Shidao was born, he danced and danced when he saw the paper with words. Rural primary school teacher. It is said that after Xu Shidao became the queen of children, he devoted himself to studying children's learning psychology, and applied all his research results to his son Xu Shuzheng.The book said that when his father was teaching him, he would try his best to lure his son to study at any time and place, regardless of shit or fart.Once he helped his son ride a donkey, saying "the donkey's ears stand up", and asked his son to immediately read the next couplet. Little Xu Shuzheng was in a hurry, and blurted out "a dog pissed a hoof", after his father heard it, he almost didn't cry out.

After this joke was made, the villagers were amazed and called him the little child prodigy of the Xu family, capable of poetry at the age of seven.As a result, an old man who was studying was annoyed, and he traveled tirelessly across mountains and rivers to find trouble for the seven-year-old child Xu Shuzheng. After the old man came, he set up a challenge, and he published the first couplet: push the window and look at the moon.See how little Xu Shuzheng responds to the second line. At that time, Xu Shuzheng came out and said to him: pull out the mountain and surpass the sea.Hearing this couplet, the old man turned pale with shock, turned around and left.

A seven-year-old boy defeated an old man in a row.After Xu Shuzheng won, he was proud of himself, so he found a fun game, went out to find the most arrogant person, and made a fuss out of nothing to provoke him. This kind of life can be called a legend.So he inquired here and there, and finally found out that there was an old man who claimed to be invincible in chess. handsome. Xu Shuzheng was furious when he heard this, so he went all the way to find him, and started a game with the old man.At the end of the battle, the old man was so angry that he suddenly raised the claw hammer, and with a click, he took the old man off, and then moved the old man to scurry around to avoid Xu Shuzheng's pursuit.

From then on, Xu Shuzheng became more and more famous. When he was thirteen years old, he won the first place in the provincial examination, and became a scholar who was subsidized by the imperial court.After that, he became more and more arrogant, wishing to grow his eyes on the top of his head.So all the bearded people in the countryside came to Xu Shuzheng's house, persuading his father to discipline Xu Shuzheng, this child has to be taken care of, no matter what?He is too smart, if he doesn't care about it, he will become a disaster in the future. At the beginning, Xu Shuzheng's father just laughed and didn't answer, but more and more people came to persuade him, and it gradually became a trend. If the bearded old man from three villages and five miles didn't come to Xu's house to persuade and discipline Xu Shuzheng, he would feel very tasteless , not keeping up with the times.At this time, Xu Shuzheng's father had no choice but to speak.

He said: What is there to manage?Think about when we were young, we behaved only worse than this child, not better than this child.You are a stupid person, why should you discipline a smart person?Let the child realize it by himself, he will understand more truths than us, and the effect of his discipline will be better than ours. Xu Shuzheng said in his own words that when he heard his father's words, he was like a thunderbolt, with all thoughts rising and falling, and his mind suddenly lost his support. It was night, Xu Shuzheng was lying on the bed, eyes wide open, and began the first serious thought in his life: Why should I study?why?Why?

After thinking for a whole night, I finally came up with an idea: Woohoo, I study for the rise of China. But after reading the thick Four Books and Five Classics, not only did the Chinese not rise up, but it got worse and worse. It can be seen that this book cannot be read.Coupled with the fact that he once failed the examination, his belief was further strengthened at this time. So if you don’t study, how can you serve the country? On the same day, he stole the family's money and left home on foot to enroll in the army.