The Disciple's Diligence Makes the Master Seem Lazy - Chapter 22

[Chapter 22: What else can come out besides hot springs…]

“At the beginning, the chief academician of the Imperial Academy thought that there was something wrong with the teaching methods of the teachers in the academy, and kept changing my teachers and academies, but it still didn’t work.”

“Later, the chief academician of the Imperial Academy, the chief censor, and the ascetics of the Emperor Zhuanxu’s royal family all looked at me. They said that I couldn’t communicate with heaven and earth, and it must be my problem. I knew it all. In fact, they just wanted to say that I was stupid.”

Li Xu nodded and said, “I agree with this point.”

“Master…”

Daxu’s fox ears twitched, and she looked at Li Xu with a face full of grievance. She really wanted to jump up and hit him, and bite him with her little tiger teeth.

“Hahaha, didn’t they think of helping you solve this problem?”

“Yes, but I don’t know how to solve it?”

Li Xu thought for a while: “That’s right, if they knew, it would be none of my business. If

you can’t communicate with heaven and earth, you can’t practice. Your situation is very similar to the beginning of a useless person. If you can solve it, you will definitely soar to the sky.”

Daxu’s two fox ears moved and asked: “Master, what are you talking about?”

Li Xu said: “There must be a reason why you can’t communicate with heaven and earth. I will now test you and evaluate you. I plan to give you ten questions to see how many you can answer correctly.”

“Master, keep the questions simple.”

“I know.”

Li Xu took out a pen and paper from the storage bag and wrote on it quickly.

The 10 questions he gave included free points, common sense questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, memory questions, extension questions, appreciation questions and translation questions.

This is a very comprehensive test paper, which can be said to be tailor-made for her.

If she can answer 3 questions correctly, it means that her IQ is not a problem. If she can answer

less than 3 questions, you can consider severing the master-disciple relationship.

Soon, he compiled the questions, looked at Daxu, and said earnestly:

“There are 10 questions in total. Just fill in the answers on the paper. I’ll give you a cup of tea. Give it to me after a cup of tea.”

Li Xu handed the paper to her. Daxu stood up and took the test questions from her master with a serious face.

However, when she saw the test questions, she was confused and messy.

However, she had experienced many storms and soon calmed down. She sat on the ground and answered the questions quickly.

The test questions and answers are as follows:

① Free points question: Do you think the master is beautiful?

Answer: Good-looking, I have never seen anyone as beautiful as the master.

② Common sense question: What else can produce H2O besides hot springs?

Answer: Anzhi fish.

③ Common sense question: There are above and below, and it comes at night. What is this (thing)?

Answer: I don’t know.

④ Fill in the blank question: Guanyin____Answer

: Is it a man or a woman.

⑤ Fill in the blank question: You know me, I know you____Answer

: **.

⑥ Memory question: What are the four absolutes of the moment?

Answer: Clouds think of clothes, I can’t think of the others.

⑦ Extension question: What is the mount of the Imperial Censor (write any one)?

Answer: Imperial Censor.

⑧ Appreciation question: What does the sentence “The way that can be told is not the real way, the name that can be named is

not the real name” mean? Answer: I don’t know.

9 Logic question: A man takes a yellow dog, a white rabbit and a bundle of green vegetables across a river. There is only one boat by the river, and only one thing can be taken across the river at a time. If the man is not there, the yellow dog will bite the white rabbit, and the white rabbit will nibble the green vegetables. Please think about it, how can we cross the river safely without letting the yellow dog bite the white rabbit, and without letting the white rabbit nibble the green vegetables?

Answer:

The first method is to teach the yellow dog and the white rabbit to swim and swim across together.

The second method is to make the yellow dog and the white rabbit become good friends.

⑩ Translation question: Shi Shi, a poet in the stone chamber, loves lions and vows to eat ten lions. Shi Shi often goes to the market to see lions. At ten o’clock, ten lions came to the market. At that time, Shi Shi went to the market. Shi saw the ten lions and used his arrows to kill them. Shi picked up the corpses of the ten lions and went to the stone room. The stone room was wet, so Shi asked the servant to wipe it. After the stone room was wiped, Shi tried to eat the corpses of the ten lions. While eating, he realized that the corpses of the ten lions were actually the corpses of ten stone lions. Please explain this matter.

Answer: I don’t know what you mean.

Stop writing.

“Master, I’m done.”

Dahu stood up happily, trotted over to hand the test paper to Li Xu, and ran back to his original seat to sit.

“So fast? It’s not even a cup of tea.”

Li Xu’s mouth gradually smiled: “The ten academies are definitely blind. I dare say you are a rare talent. In the future, your name will definitely be among the masters of the avenue.”

Dahu smiled happily: “Thank you for the compliment, Master.”

Li Xu took the test paper, glanced at it, his mouth twitched, his face turned black, and he fell from the tree branch, hitting the ground, and the peach blossom petals on the ground flew up.

You are really a talent.

I only got two questions right. Only questions ① and ⑤ were correct. The rest were wrong answers.

Li Xu had the urge to sever the master-disciple relationship on the spot.

But Daxu moved her ears, blinked her eyes, and looked at him expectantly with a gleam in her eyes.

Li Xu handed the test paper back to her, and said with trembling lips:

“How many questions do you think you answered correctly?”

Daxu said confidently: “①②④⑤⑦⑨, six questions.”

Li Xu’s face darkened even more. He really had no self-awareness. He snatched the test paper from him and snorted:

“The first question was a free point question. I deliberately let you get it right. Fortunately, you didn’t make a mistake. If you made a mistake, our master-disciple relationship would end here.”

“But, for your second question, I asked ‘Besides hot springs, what else can produce H2O?’ Let’s see what you answered?”

Daxu said: “An Zhiyu.”

Seeing that Li Xu’s face was not right, Daxu hurriedly said: “She is the only one I can think of immediately. Master, don’t you want to believe it? If you don’t believe it, go and check it yourself?”

“You win.”

Li Xu suddenly felt like he was having a myocardial infarction, and said:

“For your fourth fill-in-the-blank question, ‘Guanyin____’, you filled in ‘is it a male or a female’, I really want to beat you to death. You could have filled in any other name, Guanyin or Bodhisattva, and I would have let you get it right, but you…”

“I don’t think there’s a problem.” Daqi pouted.

Li Xu glared at him: “Question 6: Memory: What are the four wonders of the moment? Didn’t I tell you? Yun Xiang Yi, Hua Xiang Rong, Zi Bu Yu, Hong Fo Nu.”

“Four names, how could I possibly remember them?”

“Still quibbling, it’s obviously your memory that’s bad.”

Li Xu stared at the test paper and said, “Question 7: Extension: What is the mount of the Chief Censor? Look at how you wrote it. The Chief Censor is a position and cannot be separated into ‘御’ and ‘史大夫’.”

“Master, I know this is a position, but I saw that it asked me to write whatever I wanted.”

“I asked you to write whatever you wanted a mount. You can fill in a cat or a dog and I’ll let you get it right.” “I

thought you asked me to fill it in whatever you wanted, so I just filled in ‘史大夫’. Master, you are not rigorous in your questions.”

Li Xu looked at her coldly: “Stand up.”

Dahu suddenly realized that something was wrong: “Master, let me make a deal first, I’m standing up and you don’t hit me.”

Li Xu didn’t speak, just looked at her quietly.

Da’er stood up, turned around and ran away, timidly saying:

“Master, you look so cold, I will go back and make you some food, you stay here and calm down.”

“Don’t run.” Li Xu chased after her.

“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t hit me?”

“I won’t hit you, I’m going to tie your hands and hang you up, and whip you with a long whip.”

(End of this chapter)