Exactly thirty-five years ago, in the spring of nine hundred and twenty-fifth year in the calendar of the Roland Empire.

Perhaps many people have already forgotten what happened in the spring of this year. In most people's minds, the only thing worth remembering about this spring more than thirty years ago is that it seemed to come extremely late.

The early cold of early spring swept across the entire central part of the continent. In order to prevent the soldiers from being frozen during the spring drills, the military headquarters rushed to make a batch of thick military uniforms. After busy work, they finally sent them to various places before the spring drills.

among the army.

However, this spring was not just that simple. For the people in the imperial capital, many, many things happened this spring that later affected the entire continent.

In the spring of this year, His Majesty the Emperor Augustine VI formally established the status of his only son, the eldest prince Yawen, as the crown prince. Also in this spring, the patriarch of the Luo Lin family died of illness, and Raymond of the Luo Lin family

Inherited the title of earl, became the new Earl of Luolin, and inherited the fertile Luolin Plain.

Among the young nobles of the empire, the twenty-year-old Raymond is undoubtedly a rising star. His talent, his outstanding martial arts, and his military genius have all made him famous.

All those who are optimistic about him believe that the Luo Lin family, a family of martial arts family, has produced another outstanding patriarch.

At this time, young Earl Raymond's best friend is the eldest prince Yawen, who has just been established as the crown prince. One is a young and promising future imperial general, and the other is the future emperor of the empire.

The good personal relationship makes everyone optimistic about the future of the Luo Lin family... It clearly heralds a future generation of wise kings and good generals. At this time, who would have thought that one day in the future, this man who is considered to be the future emperor will

Will the eldest prince be defeated and die? And the head of the Luo Lin family, who has an unlimited future, will be ruined and dismissed from his position?

At this time, they are young, full of hope, and proud of themselves.

Also in his golden years, there is the patriarch of the Liszt family. He is a famous handsome man in the imperial capital. He is knowledgeable, intelligent and funny. Within just one year after he came to the imperial capital,

. He conquered the entire aristocratic circle of the imperial capital with his personal charm. From music, flowers, art, astronomy, divination, history, dance...it seems that there is nothing that Mr. Liszt can't do. And he is so handsome.

His face like a sun god and his intoxicating smile have attracted countless noble girls and ladies to him.

Even His Majesty the Emperor Augustine VI gave Mr. Liszt a knighthood. Although the knighthood is a low-level title that is not hereditary, the title conferred by His Majesty the Emperor himself doubled Mr. Liszt's worth in the imperial capital.

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At the same time, Mr. Liszt also has a net worth of hundreds of millions and belongs to a famous wealthy family in mainland China. His background is enviable: he is young and rich, and his talent makes him the lover of countless girls.

What is even more memorable is that in the spring of this year, the blue ocean scholar in the imperial capital finally soared into the sky!

In everyone's memory, a middle-aged man named Lan Hai came to the imperial capital about a few years ago. No one knew where this old guy came from. He always wore a plain cotton robe and had long hair.

His hair was spread casually. He chose to live in the south of the city where civilians gathered. On the long street where he lived, everyone saw Mr. Lan Hai walking down the street with a smile every day.

No matter who you are. Even if you are just a bakery owner or a carriage driver, as long as you greet him, he will smile and nod to you.

In the eyes of these civilians, this Mr. Lan Hai is knowledgeable and talented! Because since he came here, he has solved many difficult problems for everyone many times.

If you are sick and cannot afford to see a doctor, then you can ask Mr. Lan Hai for help. He will find some herbal medicines that even professional doctors cannot understand for you. They can cure your injuries very quickly.

At first, people thought that Mr. Lan Hai was a doctor.

Later, when the owner of a poorly managed grocery store next door decided to sell his business and return to his hometown, he couldn't calculate the accounts accumulated over the years. Mr. Lan Hai only did the calculations for him in one afternoon, and put six years' worth of accounts into account.

All accounts have been settled clearly.

At this time, people thought that Mr. Lan Hai was an outstanding accountant.

Later, a businessman in the fur goods business spread all the fur goods in the yard to expose them to the sun, but Mr. Lan Hai ran to tell him that it would be rainy in the next month, and persuaded him to transport all the goods that were afraid of moisture out of the imperial capital.

Went there. The sun was scorching and it was the hottest season of the year. No one listened to Mr. Lan Hai’s advice.

As a result, as Mr. Lan Hai said, two days later, heavy rains poured down. The continuous heavy rains for a month caused many openings in the Lancang Canal, and the fur merchant suffered heavy losses as a result.

After that, everyone thought that Mr. Lan Hai might be a fortune teller.

Later, a tailor wanted to make a new robe for a noble gentleman, but accidentally lost the fabric the nobleman gave him. He went to Mr. Lan Hai for help. But Mr. Lan Hai just casually pulled down a curtain.

A new robe was made out of that curtain, and everyone who saw the robe praised its beautiful style.

At this time, people began to be surprised... Is there anything else that Mr. Lan Hai can't do?

His fame began to spread.

A man who worked as a gardener in a nobleman's house accidentally caused the death of some of the nobleman's favorite pots of flowers. He asked Mr. Lan Hai for help, and after Mr. Lan Hai taught him a few methods, the pots of dead flowers and plants turned out to be...

Can miraculously resurrect.

A businessman who trafficked livestock was deceived by his opponent and spent a lot of money to buy a thousand bad horses. When he faced a loss, he turned to Mr. Lan Hai for help. As a result, Mr. Lan Hai accompanied him to look at the horses and selected two.

The pregnant mare then gave the businessman some instructions.

As a result, the two pregnant mares actually gave birth to two of the best horses! And two years later, the two horses were trained into good horses that can travel thousands of miles. The money from selling these two horses was only

Let the businessman earn back all his capital.

The most amazing thing is that one night, a thief broke into Mr. Lan Hai's house... I don't know what happened. After dawn, the thief had changed into a servant's outfit and stayed with Mr. Lan Hai from then on.

By his side, he became his loyal servant.

Lan Hai's reputation began to spread in the imperial capital. Some civilian families around began to ask Mr. Lan Hai to educate their children.

Three years after Mr. Lan Hai came to the imperial capital, he had become a well-known scholar. Although he lived in a civilian area, ate ordinary bread, did not ride in a carriage, and lived in a simple small courtyard, even

When facing a groom, he would greet him politely.

However, everyone respected this gentleman. Of course, some scholars in the imperial capital did not think so. They believed that the existence of Blue Ocean was an infringement on their identity.

As a scholar, how can he hang out in a dirty urban area? I heard that Lan Hai sometimes goes out without even wearing shoes... This is so rude!

So people began to come to find trouble. They challenged Mr. Lan Hai in the name of discussing knowledge... But without exception, every scholar who came to look for trouble would eventually leave with a face of shame. And Lan Hai still did it every day.

I moved a chair and sat under the locust tree in the yard to bask in the sun.

His fame began to spread to the ears of some nobles. At first, these nobles believed that Lan Hai was just a traditional scholar... just like those "scholars" who needed to please nobles like themselves, brag and flatter themselves, and help themselves to be arty.

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As a result, Lan Hai rejected almost all "invitations".

This move made him become a "country bumpkin who doesn't know how to praise" in the hearts of many nobles.

But coincidentally, in the spring of the nine hundred and twenty-fifth year of the empire, at the triennial academic conference of scholars, unexpectedly, Mr. Lan Hai, who was indifferent to fame and fortune, actually participated.

This is a gathering that gathers almost all the most famous scholars in the imperial capital. This is also the best opportunity for scholars to spread their reputation and improve their status. All the erudite scholars in the empire will promote their own ideas at this conference.

Doctrine and show one's erudition. According to the traditional tradition, anyone who can perform well at this triennial conference will often be hired as a court scholar!

But this time, everyone's style was covered by the blue sea.

Among a large group of scholars dressed in colorful clothes, Lan Hai, who was wearing plain robes and barefoot, was so different. Under the mocking eyes of many, Lan Hai raised three questions to those famous scholars:

The first question: When a person is born as a baby, he is not ashamed of being naked, but why when he grows up, he puts on thick clothes and feels ashamed of being naked?

The second question, he asked, is that for beasts, the whole life is: mating, fighting, and hunting. And the same is true in human life: mating, fighting, and hunting. So, what is the difference between humans and beasts?

, where exactly is it?

The third question was even more interesting. He invited one of the most famous scholars in the imperial capital at that time, and then he asked the scholar to hold a bouquet of blooming flowers, while he ignored everyone's surprised eyes and put a piece of

He held the cow dung in his hands, and then he asked with a smile: What were you thinking about when you saw me? And what were I thinking about when I saw him?

This strange behavior shocked everyone.

In a conference that gathered almost so many famous scholars who could be said to be the most famous in the entire empire, no one could completely answer Lan Hai's three questions.

After a heated discussion, Lan Hai easily announced his answer:

The first question: He told everyone, "When you wear clothes now, it's not your body that's being covered up. It's your inner shame that's being covered up. Babies have no shame."

The second question was about the difference between humans and beasts. No one in the audience could answer it accurately, but Lan Hai easily told everyone: The biggest difference is that we will "think" about this issue here, while beasts will not.

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The third question was even more interesting. He was holding cow dung in his hand and looked at the scholar opposite who was holding flowers. He asked him what he saw when he looked at himself. The scholar was looking at Lan Hai at that time.

With a mocking tone, he said, "What I saw was cow dung." Lan Hai was not angry at all. Instead, he elegantly told the other person, "I saw the flowers in your hand."

Just when the great scholar thought that Lan Hai was submissive to him in disguise, Lan Hai's next words left him completely speechless.

"The cow shit you see in your eyes is because you are thinking about cow shit. The shit flowers I see in my eyes is because I am thinking about flowers... Sir, this is the difference between us before.

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Lan Hai used these three questions to cleverly give these hypocritical scholars the greatest irony. The first question satirized the shame of these guys, the second question satirized their inability to think... and the third question

This question satirizes their inner filthiness.

After saying everything, Lan Hai left with a smile.

Just after this day, Lan Hai's reputation was fully established in the Imperial Capital. He alone silenced hundreds of scholars by asking questions. Afterwards, many people were so ashamed that they left the Imperial Capital.

On this evening in the spring of the 925th year of the Empire, Lan Hai sat under the big locust tree, holding a cup of tea in his hand, and the thief servant whom he had taken in stood quietly behind him.

At this moment, a ten-year-old boy stood outside the door of the small courtyard where Lan Hai lived. He had been standing there all afternoon.

This young man was tall and thin, with a very delicate appearance. The clothes he wore seemed to indicate that he was from a poor family. But he stood there with a different look in his eyes, as if he had a kind of pride in his bones.

He waited from noon until the afternoon, and in the evening, when the door of the small courtyard where Lan Hai lived opened, he walked in.

"Mr. Lan Hai." He just stood at the door, his handsome face full of determination: "I'm here to ask you to accept me as your disciple."

Lan Hai smiled, he didn't get up, he was still sitting there. Holding tea in his hand, he noticed that the shoes on the young child's feet were worn, noticed the dust on the child's face, and noticed the child's thin body.

"You came from far away?"
To be continued...