Chapter 9 Chapter 2 4

Wang Xianke was only twenty-five years old when he went to look for Wushuang.Although people are smart at that age, they cannot understand human feelings, and they will inevitably run into difficulties.When I was twenty-five years old, I asked Mr. Li to teach me English.I had nothing to do at the time, and Mr. Li's English was very good, so I thought it was a good idea.Mr. Li asked me to use Toynbee's <> as a textbook.After studying for several years, I can't even figure out what English is, because although Mr. Tang is an Englishman, he writes books in all kinds of languages, but he doesn't write Chinese.Mr. Li told me that these are all in English;The harm of doing this is obvious, because the longer I learn, the less I know how many letters there are in English.But I know what civilization is because of it.Civilization, as I see it, is when people leave their primitive hunting life and move in together.Since then, we have not looked up and looked down, and we all have some common ideas.Among these thoughts, the most common one is to feel that others "owe" and you lose money.

The so-called loss is because I have not yet made a fortune, my wife is not beautiful and has only one, etc.; while others deserve to be beaten, to fall into a well while walking carelessly, or to step on shit when going out.We know that the Tang Dynasty was a prosperous age, and Chang'an was the first good area, so of course it had a high degree of civilization.Wang Xianke is a countryman and has never read Toynbee, so of course he knows nothing about it.But it cannot be said that he is uneducated.He had a lot of primitive forms of algebra, logic, geometry, and philosophy in his head, and with these, he felt that he could solve all problems.But as it turned out, those things didn't help him much.He went to Xuanyangfang to look for Wushuang, and after listening to other people talking about fish mystery for a while, he didn't know who he was looking for.If he is humane, he will not easily believe what others say.

We had rabbits in our family when we were young, and for a while I looked at them all day long, speculating whether this dignified and docile animal had wisdom.My conclusion is that there must be intelligence in this stuff, but the wrong kind.It is said that they are intelligent because they always appear to be very smart and confident about everything; it is wrong to say that this kind of wisdom is because our family does not raise rabbits for me to play with, but for They were to be killed for meat; the rabbits were unaware of this, and were obviously out of their wits.In Xuanyangfang, what Wang Xianke is fighting for is his own wisdom.It is a pity that his wisdom cannot solve the problem at hand.