Rise From the Humble

What qualifications does Jin Shengtan have to be your confidant? !

Haha, if Jin Shengtan is not qualified to be your confidant, then no one in the world can be your confidant.

Zhu Pingan looked at the greasy fat man and smiled slightly, and said slowly, "Jin Shengtan, like Brother Hu, has participated in the imperial examination many times."

"So what? There are so many people who have taken the imperial examination. Can they all be my confidants?! If I understand it according to your logic, then I have confidants everywhere."

The fat man shook his head.

"Let me give you two examples. Brother Hu can judge for himself whether Jin Shengtan is qualified to be your confidant."

Zhu Pingan smiled.

"Haha, you tell me, let me listen." The greasy fat man replied nonchalantly.

"Once he took the imperial examination, and the question was 'I am forty and not tempted.'" Zhu Pingan said slowly.

"This is what Mencius said. Gongsun Chou asked: 'How can the master and the ministers of Qi be able to practice the Tao, although it is no different from being an overlord. If so, is it tempting?' Mencius said: 'No. I am not tempted at forty. '" The greasy fat man took a sip of tea and said casually, "This is an easy question, nothing new."

Nothing new? !

Well, indeed, such an eight-legged question is indeed simple and devoid of any new ideas for most readers.

However, this also differs from person to person.

"Brother Hu, do you know how Jin Shengtan responded?" Zhu Ping'an asked the fat man, twitching his lips.

"I'm not him, how could I know that?" The fat man shrugged and rolled his eyes.

"If it's Brother Hu, how do you answer that?" Zhu Ping'an turned a blind eye to the fat man's eyes and asked calmly.

"Mencius was not tempted at the age of forty, and his state was the same as that of Confucius and Sheng who were not confused at the age of forty. What is the non-confusion, "The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan" said, "Love desires life, evil desires death, both desire life, and Wanting him to die is delusion.' If you break the topic from this angle, do you think it's true?" the greasy fat man said casually.

"Of course." Zhu Ping'an smiled and nodded.

"How did he answer?" asked the fat man.

"Brother Hu, please listen carefully." Zhu Ping'an said with a smile, "Jin Shengtan wrote in the first line of the test paper: There are thousands of gold in the empty mountains and poor valleys, and there is a beauty outside the white jianja. I would like to ask whether the gentleman is tempted? Then? Then on the second line of the test paper, I wrote: Tempting, tempted, tempted, tempted, tempted, tempted, tempted, tempted. Thirty-nine words of 'tempting' were written in succession."

"What?!"

The greasy fat man was careless at first, but when he heard what Zhu Pingan said, his whole body seemed to be electrocuted, and he suddenly left the table.

"Mencius said that he was "not tempted at forty", so in the thirty-nine years before the age of forty, he was tempted by gold and beautiful women, so Jin Shengtan wrote thirty-nine times in a row that he was tempted?! How wonderful, how wonderful! Jin Shengtan, you are really here in seconds!" After the greasy fat man stood up, he paced excitedly and said to himself.

"Brother Hu is the one who knows Jin Shengtan." Zhu Ping'an smiled and nodded, "After the exam, the examiner asked Jin Shengtan why he wrote thirty-nine thoughts. Jin Shengtan's explanation was exactly the same as Brother Hu."

"What's another example?" The greasy fat man lost his previous carelessness and asked excitedly.

"Another example is the exam. Jin Shengtan was tempted thirty-nine times, so he naturally lost his name to Sun Shan. When the next scientific exam is held, Jin Shengtan goes to take the exam again. This time the question is 'The West is Coming'." Zhu Ping'an said slowly under the urging of the fat man. .

"Is Xizi here?! Commenting on Xishi's mission to Wu Guohu" The greasy fat man quickly broke the topic.

"Of course." Zhu Pingan nodded.

"How did Jin Shengtan answer the question?!" The fat man couldn't wait to know how Jin Shengtan answered the question.

"Jin Shengtan wrote on the test paper: If you go out of the east gate, the west will not come; if you go out of the south gate, the west will not come; if you go out of the north gate, the west will not come; if you go out of the west gate, the west will come? The west will come? The west will come. The examiner looked at Jin Shengtan's test paper and became furious and commented, "The beauty is here, but it's a pity that you have lost all your fame!"

Zhu Ping'an also told the greasy fat man about another great scientific achievement of Jin Shengtan.

"Hahahaha. What a thing, wonderful, wonderful, it suddenly dawned on me." The fat man laughed loudly, poured the tea on the ground, picked up the flask, poured a full teacup of wine, and drank it in one gulp. All.

"Haha, is Jin Shengtan qualified to be Brother Hu's confidant?" Zhu Pingan asked with a smile.

"Yes, of course he is qualified to be my confidant! However, I am not qualified to be his confidant." The greasy fat man sighed, "Jin Shengtan regards fame as rubbish. His heart is clear and his mind is free. I am not as good as him."

Jin Shengtan regarded fame as dung, but his heart was clear and his mind was free.

You can see this from the two stories, and you are qualified to be Jin Shengtan's confidant.

"There is such a wonderful talent in the world, but I don't know it. I am really ignorant and ignorant."

The greasy fat man patted his thighs repeatedly in excitement, then looked at Zhu Ping'an with an attentive look, and asked again and again, "Little brother, tell me quickly, where is Jin Shengtan from, and where does he live?"

"Jin Shengtan is from Wuxian County, Suzhou." Zhu Pingan replied.

"What?! Wuxian County, Suzhou?! It's only more than 400 miles away from Shaoxing. Such a talented person is so close, but I didn't know it! Damn it, damn it." The greasy fat man said, giving himself a slap in the face.

Zhu Pingan and Liu Dadao on the side were stunned.

After the greasy fat man slapped himself twice, he hugged Zhu Pingan and Liu Dadao, said, "Thank you for the hospitality, I'll excuse you now.", and then walked out.

"Where are you going, Brother Hu?" Zhu Pingan quickly grabbed the sleeve of the greasy fat man.

"It's not too late to remedy the situation. I'm going to visit Jin Shengtan." The greasy fat man said anxiously while tugging on his sleeves, "Little brother, don't stop me. I can't wait to see Jin Shengtan."

When Zhu Ping'an heard this, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, "Where can you find Jin Shengtan in Suzhou now?" He was born in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and was not yet born. If you go now, you can only find his grandfather's grandfather.

"Ahem, Brother Hu, Brother Hu, Mr. Jin Shengtan, he is no longer alive."

Zhu Ping'an coughed and explained that he couldn't tell him that Jin Shengtan wasn't born yet.

"What?! He's no longer alive?!" When the greasy fat man heard this, he felt as if a ball had been deflated. He suddenly became sluggish, and then he made two big mouthfuls to himself in excitement, "Such a person is so close at hand. But I missed it, I really deserve to die, I really won’t die in peace!”