Chapter 14 science

People from Maqiao collected firewood on the ridge, and when they brought it back, they spread it on the ground to dry it before burning it.The wet firewood is very heavy, and it bites the shoulders very much.We educated youths later came up with an idea. After chopping firewood, spread it on the hills to dry. After drying, we will come to carry it next time we chop firewood.Every time, the firewood cut last time, that is, dry firewood, is placed, so the burden is lighter.Luo Boming said that this method is good, and tried it with my burden, his eyes widened, and he said how light it really is.

I said more than half of the water evaporated. He let go of my burden, and still carried the wet firewood he had just cut down to the ridge.I was a little surprised, so I chased him up and asked him, why not try our method? "I don't even want to bear the firewood. This person doesn't have much work to do." "It's not that I don't have to worry about it, but I have to be more scientific." "What kind of science? Isn't it just learning to be lazy? Look at the cars, trains, and airplanes in your city. Which one is not thought of by lazy people? They are not trying to be lazy. How could they come up with such a ghostly trick?"

One sentence blocked me for a long time without breathing. He also said: "Science comes and science goes, see, everyone will change their minds." He refers to the master of the Immortal Mansion.Ma Ming lived there and never had a job, and he didn't want to do his own things. Sometimes he found some melons and vegetables, and he didn't bother to light the fire, so he ate them raw.I am used to eating raw like this, and the rice I find later is also chewed in my mouth until the corners of my mouth are full of powder.People laugh at him, but he still has a set of particulars, saying that cooked food is not nutritious, and the old insects and leopards on the mountain are always eaten raw. They are stronger than humans and less sick than humans. What's wrong?He never carried a bucket of urine. He poked a hole in the wall at the end of his foot, and a bamboo trough was connected from the house, and he would urinate into the ditch.He believes that this is also more scientific than carrying a bucket of urine, and the water potential is lower.It is better to be blocked than to be enlightened.

He doesn't wash his face in winter.When the face has formed a shell, just rub it with your hands, or break it a few times, scrape it a few times, and the shell will fall off piece by piece.He didn't say he was afraid of cold water.On the contrary, it is unscientific to say that it is unscientific for people to wash their face too much, and it will wash away all the good oil and gas, which will hurt the skin. What's even more ridiculous is that it took him half an hour to carry a load of water from the stream to go home, especially when going uphill, walking the "zigzag" road, turning around and turning for a long time and still halfway.The idlers standing on the slope were surprised, saying that it is not good for you to put a load of water before singing?Ma Ming said: "What do you know! This way will save effort. When Zhan Tianyou built the railway in Badaling, he built the zigzag road."

Others don't know who Zhan Tianyou is. "How do you know that!" He looked lofty and arrogant, disdainful to talk to everyone in vain, carrying his two buckets of water, still turned around and turned around, saving his precious energy to the Immortal Mansion. After that, people said that the poles in the Immortal Mansion became more scientific than the other, and that place would become an academy of sciences.It is conceivable that when people in Maqiao experience the meaning of the word "science" from Ma Ming, they will not have a good impression of this word.I suspect that they later ignored some of the scientific farming pamphlets sent from above, and folded them into pieces of paper to roll cigarettes; To hoop the urinal is all out of a kind of psychological inertia.That is to say, the ridicule of the King Kongs even satisfies science.Once, a group of men from Maqiao went to Changle Street to pick limestone, and they found a big bus stopped for repairs on the road, and they thought it was very novel.They surrounded them, and couldn't help knocking on the bus shell with the shoulder poles in their hands. It seemed that two pieces of the good-looking car shell had been crushed.The driver who was lying under the car repairing the car came out angrily, cursed, and tried to hit him with a wrench, so he drove the Maqiao people away.But the Maqiao men couldn't restrain an inexplicable impulse, and fled away, shouting back, picking up stones and throwing them at the bus.

They have no enmity with the driver.They also never had bad habits of destruction, for example, they would never put a pole on the wall or knock on the door when they passed by any house.Why can't they resist the moment they get in front of the car?I can only suspect that beneath their giggling smiles, there is a kind of distaste that they are not aware of—dislike for all new gadgets, all scientific achievements, and all mechanical monsters from modern cities.To them, the so-called modern city is nothing but a crowd of scientific, that is, lazy people. It is of course far-fetched and unfair to attribute the incident of provoking cars to Ma Ming.However, the process of understanding a word is not only a rational process, but also a sensory process, which cannot be separated from the specific image, specific atmosphere, and specific facts associated with the word in the environment in which it is used.These things often largely determine the direction of people's understanding of the word. "Model opera" is a bad word, but a person who has acquired love or youthful memories in the sound of model opera may be very excited when he hears this word. "Criticism," "stance," and "special project" are not bad words, but those who have experienced the red terror of the "Cultural Revolution" may shudder and hate them when they hear them.The stereotypes of the actual understanding of these words may have a long-term impact on the psychological state and survival choices of a person or a nation in the future, but the literal meaning of these words cannot be responsible.Then, the word "science" cannot be responsible for the rampant remarks of Rob and other Maqiao people against science, nor can it be responsible for the occasional incident that Maqiao people picked up poles on the road and attacked scientific achievements.

Who is in charge?Who made "science" an evil that Maqiao people feared and avoided? I can only say that it may not only be Ma Ming who should be responsible.