Qin Yao took the book, sat at the table, and asked: "Those who are happy with the people, the people will also be happy with their happiness, what is the next sentence?"
Liu Ji sat at the table, looking at the raindrops falling from the eaves outside the window. He was stunned for a while and answered: "If you worry about the people's worries, the people will also worry about your worries."
Qin Yao asked: "What do you mean?"
Liu Ji swallowed his saliva and said, "It means that if the ruler of a country takes the happiness of the people as his own, then the people will also be happy for the ruler's happiness. If the ruler takes the worries of the people as his own worries, then the people will also be worried about the ruler's worries."
This was not the original meaning, but because the annotations by Ding Yuanwai were used as reference, the reference in the text was directly positioned as the king.
This is also a question-answering mode, with the purpose of pleasing others.
Qin Yao considered that he answered correctly and moved on to the next question.
"Love is in my heart, how can I say it! Keep it in my heart, how can I forget it!" Qin Yao asked: "Where does this sentence come from?"
Liu Ji's tense nerves relaxed instantly. He knew the answer to this question. It was the easiest one.
"From the Book of Songs." The answer was very confident.
Because he found that the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics all have their own obvious formats, and the Book of Songs is the easiest to identify among them.
Qin Yao smiled faintly, put down the book, and asked Liu Ji to choose a sentence from "The Great Learning" as the theme and write a paragraph.
He himself said that he had memorized all the Four Books and had absorbed them thoroughly, and today she was going to test whether his understanding of them was deep enough.
Liu Ji, who was full of confidence just now, suddenly felt his heart stop beating. In the cool autumn rain, two beads of sweat rolled down his hair.
"Gulp!" Liu Ji swallowed hard. Just when he felt his throat was a little dry and itchy, a cup of tea was brought to him.
"Take your time, drink some water and think about it carefully. You still have three quarters of an hour." Qin Yao said with a smile.
It’s very easy to write a 700-word essay in 45 minutes.
Raising an eyebrow at Liu Jina, Qin Yao moved her chair closer to the door, holding a cup of hot tea and watching the rain outside, which was quite interesting.
But the inverted hourglass on the table made Liu Ji's scalp tingle.
He quickly spread out the paper and thought about the topic to write about while grinding it.
The first step was the hardest. I finally came up with a solution that I thought was relatively simple, but when I looked at the hourglass, oh my god, one third of the sand had already flowed out.
Subconsciously looking up at the person at the door, Liu Ji suddenly had the illusion of being back in the examination room.
But this time he had not a day, but less than two quarters of an hour.
During the last provincial examination, he imitated what his predecessors had left behind and wrote without any rules, just to fill up the blank paper.
But today he obviously couldn't escape it. Qin Yao was not the examiner, and he couldn't even imagine the consequences of writing something carelessly.
But the teachers in the academy haven’t taught this yet!
Liu Ji cried for help in his heart. He dipped the brush in ink and put his mind to it - he would write as much as he could and keep a positive attitude.
The rain gradually subsided. Qin Yao felt sleepy and took a nap listening to the soft sound of the drizzle.
Liu Ji was delighted, thinking that it would be harmless for him to flip through the book and take a look.
But the next second he showed a look of regret, because he had no books to refer to.
For the first time, Liu Ji felt a strong desire to obtain more books.
Unfortunately, the time was up before I finished writing 700 words.
It was as if Qin Yao had pressed a timer bell in her ear. She opened her squinted eyes on time and stood up and walked towards the table.
Liu Ji quickly wrote a few more words to complete a complete sentence.
Qin Yao knocked on the table. Liu Ji put down his pen, stood up and stood behind, waiting for Qin Yao to sit down and mark the papers.
He chose the sentence 'What good men hate, evil men like; this is called going against human nature, and disaster will surely come upon one's self.'
The original meaning is that to like what people hate and to hate what people like is called going against human nature, and disaster will surely befall him.
Qin Yao sighed: "The topic is not bad, it is very close to your personal experience."
So she continued reading with some anticipation.
The article says: [Human nature prefers enjoyment and luxury, and does not like diligence and hard work.
But there was a man in a certain village in a certain county who had gone against human nature since childhood. He worked hard in the fields during heavy rains and washed in the river during cold weather.
This person got up before dawn every day to help his parents grind tofu, and stayed up until three in the night to study. As a result, before he was twenty, he suffered from cold legs, back pain and fatigue. His black hair turned gray, and he became bald and ugly, so people nicknamed him "Ugly Bald Donkey".
As a result, this person was hunchbacked and didn't talk to anyone for many years. After his parents and relatives died, he died alone at home. He was found rotting and dried up.
Seeing this, Qin Yao already felt that something was wrong and her brows furrowed deeply.
Looking further down, there is a reference group for comparison with the previous person.
The article said: [There is also a person in a certain county who has followed human nature since childhood. He sleeps when he should sleep and wakes up when he should wake up. He enjoys comfort and is not hardworking or diligent. When his parents and relatives ask him to do work, he only does what he is supposed to do and stops to rest when he feels tired. Over time, his body and mind are healthy, and his parents and relatives are all happy.
One day, a high monk came and told his parents and relatives that this person had the appearance of being rich and noble, and that this appearance was because he followed human nature, and was happy when people were happy and was evil when people were evil.
The content stopped here because the time was up and Liu Ji was unable to continue writing.
Qin Yao looked at the article in her hand and was silent for three full minutes - she was almost led astray by this guy. She actually thought that he wrote it well, with solid arguments and even comparisons between the positive and negative sides.
Fortunately, she was still conscious and was not taken in.
The question was chosen correctly, but the answerer changed the concept from the beginning of the discussion.
The good and evil in this theme do not refer to hard work or enjoying luxury.
It is broader and can represent the moral principles and standards of the general public.
In "The Great Learning", this is the experience that Zengzi gained after analyzing human nature, which is to be followed by those in a powerful position in terms of identifying and understanding people, controlling their subordinates, and obeying the people.
This is good, what everyone in the world likes; this is evil, what everyone in the world hates.
The people love benevolence and hate evil. If a powerful person cannot "like what good people hate and hate what bad people like", and goes against human nature, disaster will surely come back upon him.
Liu Ji's answer is not on the same level at all and is extremely wrong.
After not seeing Qin Yao's reaction for a long time, Liu Ji, who was standing behind waiting to be judged, felt very nervous. He couldn't help but asked weakly:
"Madam, what do you think of this essay?"
Qin Yao slammed the answer sheet on the table with a "bang", which scared Liu Ji so much that he almost couldn't control his body's instinct and knelt down on his knees.
"No, isn't it good?" Liu Ji said awkwardly, "If you are not satisfied, I will write another one, but my lady, please don't get upset over such a small matter."
Qin Yao turned around, her eyes gleaming coldly, "Is this what you told me that you have fully understood?"
Liu Ji knelt down again. "I dare not hide it from my wife. I admit that it is a little exaggerated, but!"
He had legitimate reasons for making such a stupid mistake.
Qin Yao frowned. She wanted to see how he would argue. (End of this chapter)
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