In the Sui Dynasty, there lived a boy named Li Mi, who loved to read very much. He never wasted a single minute, and 1 (
C
) all of his free time reading every day.
One day, Li Mi had to go to a faraway place to 2 (
A
) some of his family's business. Not wanting to waste any time on the way, he took all of the 3 (
B
) that he wanted to read and hung them on one of the horns of his ox. He then climbed up onto his ox's 4 (
C
), with a book in one hand and the reins (缰绳) in 5 (
B
). In this way he could read while riding the ox so that he could 6 (
A
) every second during the trip.
On the way, Yang Su, a very 7 (
D
) scholar of the time, noticed this boy and said, "What a 8 (
B
) boy he is! He must be a young man worth making friends 9 (
D
)." Not wishing to interrupt (打扰) Li Mi 10 (
C
) he put all his heart in the reading, Yang Su followed the ox quietly instead, 11 (
A
) until Li Mi looked up to get a new book. 12 (
C
) impressed, Yang Su then rode up to Li Mi and 13 (
B
) him, speaking highly of his attitude towards 14 (
D
). Later, Li Mi became the well-known leader of the Wagang Army.
Today, if a person is 15 (
C
) diligent in his studies that he finds every possible way to make use of every minute, we will say he is "reading with books hanging on the ox's horn".
