Xu Ze has lived for more than thirty years, and this is the first time he knows that he can understand "the prime minister's belly can hold a boat" in this way. He looked at Qin Xiaoxiao, who showed sympathy for Meng Xiang, and rarely pointed out the mistake.

It wasn’t that he was stumped by the little girl’s absurd reasoning, but that the little girl’s words reminded him:

The first article of "Shishuoxinyu" tells the story of Meng Xiang. One of the details is that when Meng Xiang returned to his hometown to visit relatives, he immediately recognized the person who bullied him when he was young.

As the little girl said, it is not surprising that Meng Xiang still remembers this incident twenty years later, but it is indeed difficult to remember this person. In other words, the humiliation this person brought to him not only aroused his ambition,

It also aroused his hatred.

After reading "Shishuo Xinyu" for the first time, Xu Ze, under the guidance of the Confucius, concluded that Meng Xiang was a broad-minded person. This was proved by the fact that he did not retaliate against those who had bullied him after he took up a high position. Therefore, he never

I have never seriously thought about what Meng Xiang really thinks!

Seeing that Xu Ze didn't speak for a long time, Qin Xiaoxiao felt uneasy for a moment: "Sir, am I right?"

Xu Ze came back to his senses and looked at her with a look he had never seen before: "In your opinion, Prime Minister Meng was afraid that others would say he was stingy, so he didn't take revenge?"

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded her head and said: "Well, that's it! Like the playgirl stepmother in our village, she often beats her, but she doesn't want others to scold her, so she only dares to beat her secretly without letting others know!

"

As for how she knew, it was naturally Zhao Caoer's gossip with Lin Qiuniang, and she overheard it.

After hearing this, Xu Ze showed a faint smile on his straight face: He is a child after all, and he looks at the problem very naively.

But it’s also this innocence that inadvertently makes an amazing statement and hits the nail on the head!

Thinking of this, Xu Ze continued to ask: "If you were Prime Minister Meng, would you punish that person?"

Qin Xiaoxiao said without hesitation: "Definitely!"

Xu Ze asked: "Aren't you afraid that others will say you are petty and want to settle old scores over an incident that happened twenty years ago?"

Qin Xiaoxiao said in confusion: "When others bully me, it's not wrong for me to bully them back? Why don't they say that the person who bullied me is bad, but instead say that I am a coward? This is not fair!"

Xu Ze sat down slowly, looked directly into Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes and said, "From your point of view, the world seems to be harsh on gentlemen and tolerant to villains, right?"

Qin Xiaoxiao knew what a gentleman and a villain meant, and nodded immediately: "A gentleman is a human being, and a villain is also a human being. The villain is so hateful, but the world favors the villain. This is wrong! Just like my second aunt, she hurts

Big brother, don’t love Sambo. If the eldest brother fights with someone, even if the eldest brother doesn’t take any responsibility, as long as the eldest brother suffers a loss, the second aunt will bring the eldest brother to the door to ask for an explanation. If Sambo fights with someone, it is obviously not Sambo’s fault.

, if others bully Sanbao, the second aunt will also scold Sanbao for being disobedient and try to cause trouble for her."

The little girl made this analogy not to say that Dabao is a villain and Sambo is a gentleman, but that people are very strange and their hearts are biased towards whoever is right, just like the people who would accuse Meng Xiang of being petty.

Xu Ze nodded and said slowly: "You are right, a gentleman is also a person of flesh and blood, but he has to be yoked by the shackles of the world. But you have to know that when a person is yoked with such shackles, how can he
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