Confucian Cultivator Under One Person

The apple falling to the ground is the appearance, while gravity is the essence."

Zeng Yueyi was surprised and asked, "Don't they say that metaphysics cannot be explained by scientific systems?"

Fu Yuan leaned back and said, "Because if I don't put it this way, you, who have received scientific education, won't understand. The apple and gravity are a pair of "mysteries" inside and out. If we continue to explore deeper, gravity is just the appearance, so what is the essence?

Mysterious and profound, the door to all wonders!"

Zeng Yueyi has more to say.

Fu Yuan raised his hand to stop him and said, "If you continue, we'll have to explore the essence of the world. This topic is too broad to cover... Let's talk about the troubles your family has encountered."

Zeng Yueyi pursed her red lips, somewhat unwillingly, and looked at Fu Yuan, saying, "If metaphysics is really a system similar to science, can we also gain superpowers by studying metaphysics just like studying science?"

Fu Yuan said directly: "Let's stop talking about this."

"All right……"

Chapter 23 Chunchi Yanyun

Never exalt Confucianism. Like the Yueyang Tower, Confucianism is a dead thing, and people of every era have imposed their own will on it!

Some people say that history is a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone, and the same is true for Confucianism!

To put it bluntly, Confucianism is just a tool for ambitious people to realize their ambitions!

Confucius' ambition was to promote the Zhou rituals and achieve universal peace, and Confucianism was his tool. Therefore, in Confucius' Confucian philosophy, propriety, forgiveness, and benevolence were repeatedly emphasized!

Mencius' ambition was to "pacify the world, who else but me?", so in Mencius' Confucianism, "righteousness" is particularly important.

Xunzi believed that "human nature is evil" and needs order to control it. He also taught two Legalist disciples, so in Xunzi's Confucianism, "ritual" means "ritual law"!

Han Fei studied Confucianism under Xunzi, but became a Legalist. In order to implement his own laws, Han Fei's Confucianism became "the king holds power and has the power of life and death."

Dong Zhongshu belonged to the Gongyang School of Confucianism. Some of the views of this school are that "the ruler and his subjects are in harmony with each other based on righteousness". The ruler and his subjects become ruler and his subjects because they are of the same mind. "The Son of Heaven has only one title", and the throne is just a title.

But Dong Zhongshu, in order to achieve his own ambitions, promoted Confucianism as the sole official doctrine. What did his Confucianism become? It prioritized the absoluteness of imperial power, emphasizing its legitimacy and divine right, and ultimately resorted to vague concepts like "the interaction between heaven and man" to limit imperial power.

In the final analysis, Confucianism does not have its own goals. It only talks about its own attitude towards things. It is just a tool. Different people give it different goals in order to realize their own ambitions!

Governing the country and pacifying the world is not the goal of Confucianism. It is just that some Confucian scholars in all dynasties regarded it as a goal, but most of them were just slogans.

It is not Confucianism that is wrong, but those who set their minds on Confucianism!

How many years has it been ridiculed for the iron-willed Duke Yansheng who persuaded people to be loyal and practiced surrender? The ridicule was not entirely for "practicing surrender", but for "persuading people to be loyal" while "practicing surrender"!

Even though she is a whore, she still wants to be a virtuous woman.

The "Book of Rites" said a long time ago: Etiquette is learned from people, not learned from people; etiquette is learned from coming, not taught from going.

I have only ever heard that etiquette is learned from others, but never heard of using etiquette to judge and restrain others. I have only heard that etiquette is used for learning, but never heard of using etiquette to discipline others.

……

Zeng Yueyi drove and took Fu Yuan all the way to a villa area.

There were two people waiting at the door of the villa, a graceful lady and a quirky young girl in her prime.

When she saw Fu Yuan getting off the car, the smile on the lady's face froze for a moment. She didn't believe in super powers, nor did she believe that her husband was possessed by an evil spirit. She just thought that these were all pretense and pretense of mystery.

But you have to pretend to be more realistic, at least you have to be an old Taoist priest with white hair and a youthful face, wearing a Taoist robe and exuding a noble temperament...

Why is there a young man here?

"This is my mother, and my friend Du Xiaozhai."

Zeng Yueyi brought Fu Yuan forward and introduced: "This is the place that Xiaozhai recommended and the person who was assigned here."

"Hello." Fu Yuan nodded and greeted them, his eyes lingering on Du Xiaozhai for a moment.

Her long hair was tied up, and she was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with the collar undone. Her two clavicles, carved from white jade, were perfectly adjusted to her neck. She was wearing cropped pants, slender ankles, and a pair of beige casual shoes.

She was staring at Fu Yuan, her eyes were a little mischievous, revealing a sense of spirituality, while also giving people a soothing and lazy feeling.

She is an alien.

After sensing and practicing Qi, Fu Yuan already knew how to observe whether a person was an extraordinary person. He could feel the state of a person's innate Qi.

The innate Qi that has been trained feels different from the innate Qi of ordinary people.

Mrs. Zeng was not some upstart, she was well-educated, so even though she was dissatisfied and suspicious, she still smiled politely and said, "Thank you for your help, Mr. Fu!"

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "It's not a problem. Please take me to see the patient."

Madam Zeng stepped aside to lead the way and said, "Mr. Fu, please."

As he said that, he led Fu Yuan into the house.

Du Xiaozhai had been looking at Fu Yuan, and when they passed by each other, he secretly winked at Fu Yuan.

Fu Yuan nodded slightly.

……

The decoration in the villa is low-key yet luxurious, showing elegance everywhere but unable to conceal its nobility.

In a room, Fu Yuan met his target.

According to the information, he should be a middle-aged man, at the most charming moment of a man, but what caught his eyes at this moment was a lifeless and decrepit old man!

Lying on the bed, I felt dejected, as if I had lost all desire to live and had lost all energy and spirit.

But on the way here, Zeng Yueyi had already introduced this person's situation. He was one of the first civil servants to go into business after the city's reform and opening up. He struggled for twenty years and built up his current family business from scratch.

A year ago, industrial reform began to develop towards the field of science and technology. When it was developing in full swing, he suddenly seemed like a different person. He no longer had the drive and ambition of the past, and became a negative person with no desire to live.

After that, in a very short period of time, he went from being a middle-aged man in the prime of his life, full of ambition, to the lifeless and dying old man he is today.

"He's been checked in every hospital, but they couldn't find anything wrong. Only an old Chinese doctor said that my dad has a heart disease and has lost his spirit..."

Zeng Yueyi said at the side, "But my dad has been busy with the company's transformation recently. Although he is very busy, he is full of energy every day. How could he suddenly become sick with heart disease?

It was Xiaozhai who came to visit my dad and said he was possessed by an evil spirit..."

At this point, Zeng Yueyi glanced at Du Xiaozhai and said, "It was Xiaozhai who gave me a phone number. After I called, the person on the other end recommended you."

Fu Yuan looked at Du Xiaozhai in surprise, and Du Xiaozhai stuck out his small tongue.

The strange man seemed to have his own circle. Du Xiaozhai could see that this was the work of the strange man, so why didn't he solve it himself?

Even if you can't solve it yourself, you always have your friends and teachers, right?

Why did you notify the company?

However, Fu Yuan did not delve into it, but instead asked Zeng Yueyi, "Do you have a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone?"

He saw a lot of calligraphy hanging in the room, so he thought there should be enough.

Zeng Yueyi's eyes lit up and he said, "Do you want a talisman? I'll get it for you right away."

After saying that, he took out a set of pen, ink and paper from a cabinet in the room. As he sorted them out, he asked, "Do you need yellow paper for drawing talismans? And do you want cinnabar?"

"Ahem—it's not that troublesome."

Fu Yuan walked over, picked up the pen, held his breath and concentrated for a moment, then put pen to paper and wrote four big characters in one go.

"Fuck...him..."

Zeng Yueyi read it word by word, and when he finished, his face suddenly turned ugly and he stared at Fu Yuan.

Madam Zeng and Du Xiaozhai also looked at him in surprise.

Fu Yuan put down his pen, ignored the looks from the others, and said seriously, "This is 'Chun Chi Yan Yun'!"

Zeng Yueyi's eyes were filled with resentment as he said, "All the calligraphy in this room was written by me... 'Chun Chi Yan Yun' and... In short, I can still recognize and distinguish these eight characters!"

Fu Yuan looked at her in surprise, coughed, and said, "What's written is not important, what's important is the meaning... Since your father is possessed by an evil spirit, we need to exorcise it... When it comes to exorcising it, there are some who do it in a polite way, and there are naturally some who are not so polite..."

As he spoke, under everyone's suspicious gaze, he placed the calligraphy-written paper directly on the patient's chest.

It was visibly that the patient's breathing became smoother and his complexion gradually improved. After a while, he fell asleep and began to snore.

Chapter 24 What is Tao?

Just four simple words made the patient's condition improve visibly. This scene really shocked Mrs. Zeng, who had never believed in these superstitious things.

The reality before her conflicted with the ideas she had grown up with. For a moment, Mrs. Zeng was at a loss as to what to feel. She just kept mumbling, "Thank you... Thank you... Thank you..."

It can be seen that she has a good relationship with the patient in the bed.

Fu Yuan didn't care about Mrs. Zeng's loss of composure and said, "Wait until he wakes up and then see how he's doing."

After saying that, he said to Du Xiaozhai, "Let's not disturb him anymore. Let's go out first and chat."

Zeng Yueyi looked at the two of them suspiciously.

Du Xiaozhai nodded and said seriously, "Well, I also have a lot of things I want to talk to you about."

Having said that, he turned and walked out of the room, and Fu Yuan followed.

Zeng Yueyi looked at his parents, then at their backs, thought for a moment, and followed them.

……

"Can you play chess?"

Du Xiaozhai brought Fu Yuan to the chessboard in the living room and asked, then said to Zeng Yueyi, "Yueyue, find some snacks."

Zeng Yueyi took out a bag of snacks from under the coffee table, then turned around and sat next to Du Xiaozhai, looking like he was determined not to leave.

Fu Yuan sat down opposite him and said, "I can play Gobang, but not Go."

Du Xiaozhai was surprised and said, "Aren't the arts of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, and tea the elegant pursuits of Confucianism? How could you not know them?"

Fu Yuan chuckled and said, "Elegance, that's something only rich people with no pressure in life can afford... Do you know me?"

Du Xiaozhai turned his head and looked at Zeng Yueyi.

Zeng Yueyi pretended not to see her gaze, unpacking the snacks and placing them in front of the two of them, then pouring tea and passing water...

Du Xiaozhai was helpless and said to Fu Yuan, "It's all over the circle. There's a new generation of Confucian practitioners who are reviving Confucianism... Hey, what made you think of practicing Confucianism? Can a person with great righteousness really be invulnerable to all attacks? I heard that the Flowing Cloud Sword has been lost. Do you know how to use it?"

Also, I heard that Quan Xing's Xia He and Gao Ning also fell into your hands? Also..."

At this moment, Du Xiaozhai was a typical gossipy girl. Her "very curious" expression made Fu Yuan speechless for a moment.