Chapter 77 go to school

Jiang Menglin entered a family school at the age of six. The desk in the family school was too high, and a wooden shelf had to be placed under his chair before he could get on the desk.He sat on a chair with his feet always in the air.After entering the school, he read every day at first, which was boring, so he hated the life in the school.One day, Jiang Menglin sneaked off the chair and fled back home when Mr. Jiang was not paying attention.The mother asked, "Why did you come home, son?" Jiang replied, "The family school is not good, the master is not good, and the books are not good." The mother smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid of the master? Maybe he will come to the house to look for you What!" Jiang shouted: "Sir, I'm going to kill him! The family school, I'm going to set it on fire!" The next morning, the nurse said many good things to Jiang Menglin, and finally persuaded him to go back to the school and go back to school up.

Jiang Menglin liked to observe since he was a child. He noticed that the beetles on the acacia tree had deer-like horns on their heads, which were exactly the same as the thorns on the branches.He was told that these beetles grew on trees, so they looked like trees, but he didn't quite believe it.Later, when he saw a bird pecking insects on the acacia tree, he turned a blind eye to the beetle with antlers beside him, and suddenly realized that the beetle's horns were born to simulate thorns, and the purpose was to protect itself from being pecked by birds. die. When he was a child, Jiang Menglin liked to play, listen to stories, and like to break the casserole and ask the end.He likes watching frogs catching grasshoppers in the rice fields, or geese and ducks playing in the river.Mr. Jiashu believes that these habits of Jiang are the root of evil.Jiang Menglin himself believed that he would not be successful in the future.But in the future, these causes of his misfortunes turned out to be the causes of blessings, and the causes of blessings of some of his classmates that Mr. identified turned out to be the causes of misfortunes. "Some of those good students later died of tuberculosis, some became nerds, and some were unable to adapt to the ever-changing environment when the trend of Westernization swept across China and fell behind."

After the academy was first converted into a school, Jiang Menglin went to primary school to study.Once, the old man was talking about history, and when Shennong tasted herbs, Jiang Menglin knew that many herbs were poisonous, so he wondered if Shennong tasted herbs, wouldn't he be poisoned to death?So he stood up respectfully and respectfully, and asked the question.The old man stared and stared at him. After a while, he grabbed the ruler in his hand and angrily stepped off the podium, saying, "I don't know what happened thousands of years ago! You want to test me?" Test me!" He pointed at Jiang Menglin's arm and hit the ruler two or three times.

Later, Jiang Menglin walked by a Shennong temple and saw an old woman mowing grass there, so he asked the old woman this question.The old woman looked up at Jiang and said, "I don't know yet? Shennong Bodhisattva's belly is made of mercury, so he is not afraid of being poisoned!" Jiang Menglin thought for a while and found it very reasonable: during the chemical experiment, the bottle was filled with mercury. , add some other venom into it, wouldn't the mercury still not change?From then on, Jiang Menglin looked down on the old gentleman who taught history. His father asked Jiang Menglin if he would like to be in business or to be an official in the future. After thinking about it, Jiang decided to study hard.His father sent him to Shaoxing Chinese and Western School to study.In the Chinese and Western School, Jiang Menglin first learned that the earth is round; later he learned that lightning is the result of the impact of yin and yang electricity, not the flash of light from the mirror of the god of electricity, and the cause of thunder is the same, not the god of thunder Born by drumming.This made him dumbfounded. The gods and Buddhas he worshiped in the past, like snowmen under the scorching sun, melted one after another.

Jiang Menglin recalled: "Ever since I entered the Chinese and Western School in Shaoxing, I have been groping in the dark. I saw a little shining light in the east, so I touched the east; after the light in the east disappeared, I quickly turned around and rushed to the west. .” After entering Zhejiang University of Higher Education, he felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and he could see everything more clearly.He began to read the history of the world in the original English version. After Jiang Menglin passed the examination as a scholar, the Jiang family decorated with lanterns and festoons, held a big feast, and invited the blowing class to play music to add to the fun.Hundreds of relatives and friends came to congratulate and ate wedding wine for two consecutive days.The happiest person is naturally Jiang Menglin's father, he hopes that his son will one day be a prime minister in the court.Jiang Menglin was quite confused, he felt that two contradictory forces were pulling him, one was dragging him to the old world, and the other was dragging him to the new world.

After Zhejiang Higher School reopened, Jiang Menglin went to class again.At this time, his mind is full of contradictory thoughts, the conflict between the new and the old, the conflict between the constitution and the revolution, which often makes him feel dizzy, sometimes fidgeting, and sometimes sitting silently.When you are in a trance, you will feel that you suddenly go up to the sky, and then suddenly fall to the ground. As a result, you fall to pieces on the ground and are immediately blown away by the whirlwind without a trace.Some of Jiang's close relatives suffered from mental illness, and his father and uncle said that his thoughts and actions were different from those of Chang'er when he was a child, so he sometimes couldn't help wondering whether he also had a neurotic inheritance.

After entering Nanyang Public School, Jiang Menglin, who was frail since childhood, felt that in order to have advanced knowledge, he must first have a strong body.Therefore, in addition to daily gymnastics and light exercise, he also set a way for himself to exercise.At six o'clock every day, practice dumbbells for half an hour, and practice for another quarter of an hour before going to bed at night.I have practiced continuously for three years, and my body has been in good condition since then, and I am always in a good mood. On weekends, Jiang Menglin often goes to Qifang Teahouse on Fuzhou Road.There is a man named "Pheasant King" in the teahouse, wearing a tattered suit and a gray peaked cap full of grease stains, selling new books there every day.He specialized in selling revolutionary literature to students, and his wares included a pamphlet called "A New Essay on Sexology."According to him, it was only used to attract readers.Any revolutionary literature can be bought from him.These books were nominally prohibited from being sold by the concession authorities at the request of the Qing government.

In 1908, Jiang Menglin passed the Zhejiang provincial government-funded examination to study in the United States. He asked his father for several thousand yuan and bought a first-class boat ticket to San Francisco to study in the United States.Before boarding the boat, he found a barber shop to cut the braids.When the barber raised the scissors and grabbed his braids, he felt like he was going to be guillotined, and the hairs on his body stood on end.After cutting the braid, the barber wrapped it in paper and returned it to him.After boarding the boat, he threw the braids into the sea.