C58 (2/2)
Almost invisible to the eye, he nodded. The young man turned to a scholar and said, ”This brother here is very courteous. I just arrived and it seems like it's quite lively here. I wonder why?”
The scholar seemed to have been stumped by this. Hearing his question, he said, ”This uncle came here early in the morning to argue with someone. Why is he asking such a question? What do you want to learn?”
”Oh?” Could it be that no one had ever tried to dispute with him before?
The scholar glanced at him, then blushed and shook his head meaninglessly.
As he spoke, another youth ran up. ”Let me take a look.”
The middle-aged scholar had a smile on his face the entire time. Seeing someone walk over, his expression did not change as he smiled and said, ”Please enlighten me! ”May I ask what you want to learn from your studies?”
”To learn, of course.”
”What kind of knowledge?”
”What I don't know.”
”Knowledge you don't know?”
”Yes!”
”Don't you want to learn what you already know?”
”What else do I need to learn from what I already know?”
”I heard that there is a type of lizard in the extreme northern part of the Qi Nation. It has five legs, do you want to learn it?”
”Why would I want to learn about Five-footed Lizards?”
”Do you know these five footed lizards?”
The young man's face immediately flushed red. He embarrassedly said, ”I don't know.”
”I heard that there is a water immortal mountain in the South China Sea. Rumor has it that the flowers and plants on that mountain are abundant all year round and don't wilt. Would you like to learn it?”
”What does that have to do with me? ”Why should I learn it?”
”Your esteemed self doesn't know about these Five Legged Lizards, but you don't want to learn anything about them. You don't want to know about the South Sea Immortal Mountain, and you also don't want to learn anything about it; does that mean that you don't want to learn anything that you don't know?”
As you said before, you don't want to learn what you already know, and now you don't want to learn what you don't know. Aren't the things in this world only what you know and what you don't know? So, what exactly does your esteemed self want to learn? What do you want to learn? ”
The young man was left speechless and had no choice but to withdraw.
Hearing this, Young Master couldn't help but chuckle.
This logic sounded very reasonable, but in reality, the young man had already let the scholar stealthily change his mind while he was arguing with him.
He looked at the light purple figure and smiled. Then, he walked up and sat down in front of the scribe.