What qualifies Jin Sheng Sao to be your confidant?
γγOh, if even Jin Sheng Sao is not qualified to be your confidant, then there is no one in the world who can be your confidant.
γγZhu Pingan looked at the greasy fat man and smiled slightly, slowly said, “Jin Sheng Sao, like Brother Hu, has taken the imperial examinations many times.”
γγ”So what, there is a sea of people who have taken the imperial examinations, can they all be my confidant? If I understand it by your logic, then I’d have a sea of confidants everywhere.”
γγThe greasy fat man shook his head.
γγ”I’ll give you two examples, Brother Hu judge for yourself whether this person, Jin Shengqan, is qualified to be your confidant.”
γγZhu Pingan smiled.
γγ”Hehe, thou and tell me, I will listen.”The greasy fat man returned with a careless face.
γγ”Once he took the imperial examination, the topic was ‘I am forty and not moved.'”Zhu Pingan said slowly.
γγ”This is also the words of Mencius. Gongsun Chou asked: ‘Husband Zi added the minister of Qi, and got to walk the path, although this is not different from the hegemony of the king. In this way, then move the heart or not?”Mencius said: ‘no. I forty not move heart.'”Greasy fat man drank a mouthful of tea, said carelessly, “This question is easy, no new ideas.”
γγNo new ideas?
γγWell, indeed, such an eight-legged question, for the vast majority of readers, indeed simple and nothing new.
γγHowever, this is also divided into people.
γγ”Brother Hu, do you know how Jin Shengyan answered?”Zhu Pingan pulled the corner of his mouth and asked the greasy fat man.
γγ”I’m not him, how can I know.”The greasy fat man shrugged and rolled his eyes.
γγ”If I were Brother Hu, how would I answer?”Zhu Pingan ignored the fat man’s blank stare and asked nicely.
γγ”Mengzi’s forty years of immobility, his realm is the same as Kong Sheng’s forty years of non-confusion. What is not confused, the Analects of Confucius – Yan Yuan chapter has the words ‘Love desires its life, evil desires its death, both desires its life, and desires its death, is also confused.’Using this perspective to break the topic, does little brother think so?”The greasy fat man casually said.
γγ”Yes.”Zhu Pingan smiled and nodded.
γγ”How did he answer?”The greasy fat man asked.
γγ”Brother Hu listen up.”Zhu Pingan smiled and spoke, “Jin Shengyan wrote in the first line of the test paper: there are ten thousand taels of gold in the middle of the empty mountains and poor valleys, and there is a beauty outside of the reed dewy white. May I ask the gentleman to move his heart? Then immediately after the second line of the test paper wrote: moving heart, moving heart, moving heart, moving heart, moving heart, moving heart, moving heart, moving heart ……wrote thirty-nine ‘move your heart’ in a row.”
γγ”What?!”
γγThe greasy fat man was careless at first, but by the time he heard Zhu Pingan finish, it was as if his entire body had been electrocuted, and he whooshed away from the table.
γγ”Meng Zi Yun ‘forty does not move the heart’, then in the thirty-nine years before the age of forty, he was moved in the face of gold and beautiful women, so Jin Sheng Sao he even wrote thirty-nine moving hearts? Wonderful, wonderful! Jin Sheng Sao, truly a second man!”The greasy fat man stood up and excitedly paced while muttering to himself.
γγ”The one who knows Jin Shengyan is also Brother Hu.”Zhu Pingan smiled and nodded, “After the exam, the examiner asked Jin Sheng Sao why he wrote thirty-nine moving hearts, and Jin Sheng Sao’s explanation was the same as Brother Hu’s.”
γγ”What about another example?”The greasy fat man no longer resumed the carelessness of the party, and excitedly pursued the question.
γγ”Another example is also an examination. Jin Shengxiao thirty-nine moved, naturally, the name fell. Waiting for the next imperial examination, Jin Sheng sao travelled to take the examination again, this time the topic was ‘Xizi comes to carry on’.”Zhu Pingan said slowly under the fat man’s urging.
γγ”Xizi comes and carries on? Commenting on Xishi’s mission to the state of Wu, it’s ……”The greasy fat man quickly broke in.
γγ”Ran also.”Zhu Pingan nodded.
γγ”How does Jin Shengyan answer it?!”Fatty couldn’t wait to know how Jin Sheng Sao answered the question.
γγ”Jin Shengyan wrote in the test paper question: out of his east gate, Xizi doesn’t come; out of his south gate, Xizi doesn’t come; out of his north gate, Xizi doesn’t come; out of his west gate, Xizi comes or not? The west is coming? Xizi is coming. The examiner looked at Jin Shengqan’s examination paper, burst into a rage, commented, “beauty to come carry on, but it is a pity that you a merit to lose!”
γγZhu Pingan told the greasy fat man about Jin Shengqan’s other great achievement in the imperial examination as well.
γγ”Hahahahaha ……Good a Xizi come carry on, wonderful, wonderful, when floating a big white.”The fat man laughed out loud and said that he poured the tea on the ground, carried the wine pot and poured a teacup full of wine, and drank it all in one go.
γγ”Hehe, can Jin Shengyan be qualified to be Brother Hu’s confidant?”Zhu Pingan asked with a smile.
γγ”Yes, he is certainly qualified to be my confidant! However, I am not qualified to be his confidant.”The greasy fat man sighed, “Jin Sheng Sao regards merit and fame as dung, his heart is discerning and his intentions are free, I am not as good as that.”
γγJin Shengxuan regards merit and fame as dung, his heart is clear and his intention is free ……
γγFrom the two stories, you will be able to see these and be qualified to be the confidant of Jin Shengqan.
γγ”The world actually has this divine show talent, but I don’t know, really sitting in the well, lonely.”
γγThe greasy fat man emotionally excitedly patted his own thighs, and then looked at Zhu Ping An with an attentive face, asking repeatedly, “Little brother, quickly tell me, where is Jin Sheng Sao, where does his family live?”
γγ”Jin Shengqan, Suzhou Wu County people also ……”Zhu Pingan said back.
γγ”What? Suzhou Wu County? Distance from Shaoxing is only four hundred miles or so, such a divine and handsome talent, close at hand, but I do not know! Really damned, damned.”The greasy fat man said and gave himself two mouths.
γγZhu Pingan and Liu Dazhou on the side both looked confused.
γγAfter the greasy fat man gave himself two smacks, he clasped his fists at Zhu Pingan and Liu Dazhou and said, “Thank you for your hospitality, I’ll excuse myself.”, before pulling his leg to head out.
γγ”Where is Brother Hu going?”Zhu Pingan was quick to grab the greasy fat man’s sleeve.
γγ”It’s not too late to mend, I’m going to pay a visit to Jin Shengyan.”The greasy fat man tugged at his sleeve while saying anxiously, “Little brother don’t stop me, I can’t wait to see Jin Sheng Sao.”
γγWhen Zhu Pingan heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but twitch, where can you go to Suzhou now to find Jin Sheng Gan. He is from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, he hasn’t even been born yet. If you go now, you can only find his grandfather’s grandfather.
γγ”Ahem, Brother Hu, Brother Hu, Mr Jin Sheng Sao he, he ……is no longer alive.”
γγZhu Pingan coughed out an explanation, he couldn’t tell him that Jin Sheng Sao hadn’t been born yet now.
γγ”What? Not alive anymore?!”The greasy fat man sniffed, immediately like a leather ball deflated, instantly shrivelled down, then the whole excitedly gave himself two more big mouths, “Such a character, close at hand, but I missed it, I really deserve to die, I really can’t die in peace!”
