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《The Butcher's Son's Road to the Imperial Exam》

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Wu Jing, son of a butcher, helps his father kill pigs daily but secretly memorizes Confucian classics. Neighbors mock him: "You can hold a butcher's knife, but not a writing brush." Even his father hides his ink and paper, thinking he's wasting time. The night before the county exam, Wu Jing squats by the pigsty, writing *The Analects* on the ground with a butcher's knife—only to be seen by a down-and-out old scholar, who says his characters have "the ferocity of a butcher." The scholar helps him raise exam fees, and Wu Jing goes to the exam with his father's old knife sheath. When the examiner sneers, "How dare a butcher's son take the exam?" Wu Jing slams the knife from the sheath on the table: "My father's knife kills pigs; my brush kills prejudice!" When "Wu Jing" appears on the red list, his father holds the list in tears: "My son's brush stabs deeper than my knife!"

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