What is a cobbler with a horse?

There is a princess who is very talented and can write plum blossom seal characters with both hands. The princess is over twenty-nine, and the emperor wants to recruit a horse for her. After consulting with the princess, the princess said, "I have written a plum blossom seal character and posted it outside the noon gate. Whoever can recognize it all will be called Xu." The emperor nodded, personally wrote the imperial list, and posted it outside the meridian gate together with the plum blossom seal character written by the princess.

I don't know, I haven't met anyone I can know when this plum blossom seal character was posted. One day, a small cobbler came from the countryside, carrying a cobbler's pole with its load, and passed by the noon gate. When he saw a picture-like word posted by the door, he put down his pole with its load and leaned over to look at it. At this time, the duty officer guarding the imperial list hurried over and asked, "Do you recognize this plum blossom seal character?" The cobbler shook his head and said slowly, "I don't know a word." The official guarding the imperial list thought: The imperial list has been posted for more than a year, and no one said that he knew this plum blossom seal character. This young man only didn't know one word, even if it was good. He took the cobbler and refused to let him go, and immediately asked the emperor to make up his mind. The emperor also thought that only one word was illiterate and his knowledge was good, so he made a decree to summon the little cobbler.

The cobbler was taken into the palace by the chamberlain, changed into his royal robes and sent to the imperial court to see the emperor. Puzzled, the cobbler thought, My carrying pole is still in the street. What's going on? While he was thinking, he listened to the emperor's question: "Do you know plum blossom seal characters?" The cobbler quickly knelt down and replied, "Long live the report, I don't know a word." Seeing that the cobbler was handsome and talented, the emperor said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know a word." Then he told the civil and military officials, "I have made up my mind to recruit this young man who can read plum blossom seal characters as a Xu." And immediately ordered the prime minister of the dynasty to choose an auspicious day and marry the princess.

A few days later, the cobbler married the princess. The princess asked him who he learned plum blossom seal characters from. He said, "I'm a cobbler and I don't know anything about plum blossom seal characters. I don't want to come, they forced me here. " When the princess heard this, she was furious and said, "You are guilty of deceiving the king. I want to invite my father to push you out of the noon gate and behead you." Hearing this, the little cobbler hurriedly knelt down in front of the princess and said, "Princess, my life is not worth a lot of money, but your reputation is great!" I see, the princess still don't make public "words, persuaded the princess's heart, the princess also had to be so.

A few days later, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty will hold a banquet for Xu Ma. When the princess learned about this, she was afraid of revealing the stuffing, so she said to the cobbler, "The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are going to give a banquet for you, and you will definitely be asked before the banquet. You should make preparations! Remember, if they ask you what books you have read, you say you have read the Five Classics and Four Books. If you ask again, you can say that since Pangu set up heaven and earth, there has been no minister to kill Xu, and they won't ask you again. "

The cobbler doesn't know a word, and he is a little stupid. He can't remember so many words, especially the word "Pangu", but he still can't remember it many times. The princess had no choice but to paste a small drum with a paper shell and hold it in her arms when she went to dinner. If she forgot it, she would remember it if she touched it.

One day, the cobbler was really invited to dinner at Qilin Pavilion. Before the banquet, all the officials praised Master Xu for his knowledge of plum blossom seal characters. Some asked what poetry books did Master Xu read? Who knows, the cobbler forgot the word "Five Classics and Four Books" and couldn't remember it at the moment. Coincidentally, on his way to Beijing this time, he met a son who was studying for the exam together, helped these sons pick out books and luggage, and accompanied him to Beijing all the way, but he was also happy. In particular, these scholars wrote poems and couplets, but the cobbler did not understand them, but he listened with relish. On one occasion, a man who raised his son sang a poem "The waves beat on the shore and the earth rolled over the sky". This time, the cobbler suddenly remembered this sentence and casually replied, "I have read' the scroll of heaven'." Don't tell me, this "scroll of heavenly books" really fooled the civil and military officials. Someone asked him what this "scroll of heavenly books" included. The cobbler speaks from the bottom of his heart and can't let them ask again. Who knows that he forgot the word "Pangu" again. He touched the small drum in his arms, but unfortunately it was squashed, and he said, "Since the world was flattened, how can I kill Xu!" In this way, everyone dared not ask again, only the old prime minister asked, "Only Pangu said that heaven and earth were established, how can there be a record of flat ancient heaven and earth?" When the cobbler knew that he had made a mistake, he had to "throw the wrong money" and casually replied, "The flat drum is the father of the drum. It is clearly written in the Book of the Earth, where do you know?" Hearing this, the civil and military officials dared not laugh, let alone say anything more. Everyone knows very well that if she annoys Xu, the princess will be beheaded, so she has to pretend to be confused and even praise Xu for his profound knowledge and wide knowledge! Since ancient times, it is not a loss to kiss up.

a year later, the king of Vietnam sent envoys to China to meet the emperor, saying that he would play charades with China officials, but none of the civil and military officials in the Manchu dynasty dared to stand out. It was the old prime minister who was a bit of a fool. He knelt down in Danyong and replied, "Long live my Lord. We can read plum blossom seal characters in the court of Xu Ma, and we will definitely play charades when we know about Bian Gu." The emperor allowed it to be played, and the next day, he announced that Xu was going to court, playing charades and guessing with Vietnamese envoys.

Vietnamese envoys and Master Xu came to the court and sat face to face. Began to play charades, the Vietnamese envoy first pointed his finger at his mouth. The cobbler is pecking and grinding: what does this mean? That's really the king kong of the second year. It's confusing. Suddenly, he saw the leather boots worn by the Vietnamese messenger, and the toe of the boots was broken, so he thought he wanted him to mend the boots with the skin from the cow's mouth. He said from the bottom of his heart, you layman, the skin on your mouth can't compare with the skin on your breast ribs! I unconsciously patted my chest. The Vietnamese envoy looked at it, stunned, and then stretched out a finger. The cobbler thought, a foreign ambassador can only pay one or two taels for mending boots, but at least he can get two or two taels. He held out two fingers as he thought. The Vietnamese envoy then extended three fingers. When the cobbler saw that the foreign emissary wanted to give three taels of silver, he regretted that he wanted to reduce the price. He meant to laugh at me, so he quickly put out four fingers and posed, meaning that I would not give up four taels of silver.

The charade ended here. The Vietnamese envoy stood up and said to the emperor, "There are still many talented people in China. You won the charade this time." The emperor was puzzled and asked what was going on. The Vietnamese emissary said: "I pointed my finger at my mouth, indicating that I swallowed the sun and the moon, and he clapped his hands on his chest, meaning to embrace Gan Kun. Stretch a finger, indicating unification of China and foreign countries. He stretched out two fingers, saying that it is still divided into north and south. I stretch three fingers, indicating that we have 3 military commanders in Vietnam. He also held out four fingers and said that you had four hundred civil servants in China. It seems that there are talented people in China, and our country is willing to lose, but we still have to pay tribute every year and enter the DPRK every year. " Hearing this, the cobbler said to himself, Boy, there are so many roads here, how can I know!

When the Vietnamese envoy withdrew from the imperial court, the emperor asked Master Xu when he learned to play charades and how to answer them. The cobbler was afraid of revealing the stuffing, so he didn't dare to say the idea of mending boots. He just said, "I have read books in heaven since I was a child, and I have a little research on riddles and guessing my mind, so I can answer them." When the emperor heard this, he really praised it, and rewarded him with a hundred pieces of brocade and a thousand blades of gold.

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Master Xu was a big loser, but he got it right this time. Who dares to say no again? Even in private, I dare not talk about anything, for fear that the emperor will blame me. In this way, the cobbler became a capable person in the DPRK, red and purple, and his reputation spread far and wide.