Pu Songling's father, Pu Yun, is also a well-known local scholar. He is humorous by nature and often meets some scholars. It is inevitable to tease each other when chatting. One day, scholar Li Daosheng visited Pu Yun, and eight-year-old Pu Songling made tea for his guests with boiling water. Puyun and Li Daosheng talked for a while, and then they had a good time. Li Daosheng said: "One year there was a flood, a piece of Wang Yang was flooded, and the wells in the village were also inverted. After the flood receded, people went to fetch water and found that the well was full of toads-all toads! " Li Daosheng say that finish, just burst out laughing. Pujiazhuang was originally named Manjingzhuang. The implication of this sentence is that all Beijing villages are toads.
Before Pu Yun thought about how to respond, he heard Pu Songling say, "My second uncle's cow gave birth to a calf the day before yesterday. Other calves are born with their heads down and their tails down. I didn't want my uncle's calf to be born, and then my husband gave birth to a cow's head. I asked my second uncle why this was, and he said,' It's natural to have a cow with its head down first and its tail down again; The calf lowered its tail first, and then lowered its head. It's upside down (Dao Sheng)! "
In a word, Li Daosheng patted Pu Songling's little head with joy and repeatedly praised: "This child is so smart at an early age, and his future is limitless!"
Li, the neighbor of Pu Songling's family in the east, was drunk and fought with others, killing each other by mistake. County officials led a group of coroner and main officials to autopsy and arrest people. Fang Dianshi is a famous brutal official in the county. He wanted to rip off for a long time, but he never succeeded.
This time, Li Da killed people by accident. Fang Dianshi thought it was a godsend, so he asked the chief to take Pu Yun to the county government as a witness to extort money. Pu Yun was angry, but said, "What do I care if Li Da kills people?" Fang Dianshi said savagely, "Li Da is your neighbor. How can you say it has nothing to do with you? " Pu Yun wanted to defend himself, but suddenly he saw Pu Songling squeezing out of the crowd. He took his hand and said, "Dad, go and have a look. The house next to Wang Jiujia in the west is on fire!" " Fang Dian was about to escort a group of prisoners back to the official residence. Seeing a child running in to make trouble, he shouted, "What does a fire in the west have to do with your family?" Get out of here! "Pu Songling immediately said," Sir, what does my family have to do with killing people in the East? "Say that finish, he went home with Pu Yun.
Fang Dianshi was speechless when asked, so he had to watch them go home.