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Chapter 4 Lao Zhang's Philosophy (4)

Collected Works of Lao She 老舍 3354Words 2018-03-20
Sun Ba bid farewell and went home.Old Zhang stood outside the door, and waited until the academic affairs master and Li Wu walked into the woods, and then took a deep breath and walked in.The students huddled together under the tree and rushed to drink tea like sheep.Several college students in the room secretly smashed the piece of ice that was about to melt in the foreign furnace. "Haha! Who's the idea of ​​drinking my tea!" Lao Zhang followed Zhang Chengcheng's order. "Teacher! It wasn't my idea, it was Xiaosi who wanted to drink first!" Zhang Cheng covered his head with his hands and said.

"Xiao Si wants to drink? How much money does he get for studying, how much do you get? He eats rice, you eat stick noodles! Drink tea? Don't worry about hurting your stomach! Let me go in!" Lao Zhang looked at the tea pot, feeling sorry for most has been drunk.Lao Zhang walked into the classroom angrily, and the students sat down like small stone piles.Wang De's mouth was still full of icicles. "Little San, Xiao Si, Bu Feng, Wang Chun,...you go home and eat! Tell the family that the Master of Academic Affairs is here, the tea and snacks prepared by the teacher for the adults, and the small-leaf tea for the students, let the family take care of it." , Take as much as you want. The adults are looking at your knowledge, and the teacher can’t lose money. Do you understand? Go!” The mistresses picked up their schoolbags and ran away like little wild deer.

"How are you guys? Are you admitting the blow, accepting the punishment?" "Hui Xiang said to his father, give some things to the teacher!" Seven or eight students said together. "Let's be accurate, don't be vague, kiss is kiss, wealth is wealth!" "Teacher! If we talk about it, it will be inconvenient for the father to meet him for a while?" Several college students said. "Inconvenient? Don't send students to study in the first place! If you want to study and save money, how can a teacher be so born to starve to death! Don't waste your time, I'm afraid of beating the number, the itchy body, the board is ready!"

Lao Zhang took off his military cap and hung it on the nail on the blackboard as before.He took off his robe and rolled up the sleeves of his little undershirt.He picked up the pointer with one hand, and pulled out a large bamboo board from the depth of the desk with the other.He swung the pointer and moved his wrist.Half annoyed and half smiling, he said: "Give me a simple one! Those who burn incense and those who jump into the mountain can also fulfill their vows. The money is yours, and the meat is yours. You are willing to fight, and you are willing to be punished. Hurry up! An inch of time is worth an inch of gold. If you delay my time, you can afford it." Is it gold?"

Five or six kind-hearted students felt a little embarrassed to eat slats in the hot weather.They stood up, and some accepted a chick from home;The rest of the students realized clearly: asking for money at home is also a beating, so it is better to sell it to Lao Zhang a few times as a bachelor.In case Lao Zhang sees that there are many people, maybe an amnesty will be held. It takes effort to beat people, and it takes effort to eat more, and it costs money to eat more. To spend money is to destroy his philosophy. Why does Lao Zhang like to beat people?However, if you don't fight this time, there will be no one who accepts the punishment next time. Wouldn't it be a greater loss than eating an extra bowl of rice?What's more, if you get angry and can't eat, you can save a bowl or two of rice.Therefore, the hope of the students is no match for the hope of the philosophers, and the teenagers who want to be bachelors suffer!

The students are gearing up to increase the temperature to prepare for resisting the cold and hard bamboo boards.Some cried dryly, but did not cry out.Lao Zhang became even angrier: "Okay! You don't accept me!" So he played three more boards.Some of them cried bitterly and begged before they reached Lao Zhang.Lao Zhang became even angrier: "Okay! You softened my heart with tears, you scolded me on purpose!" So he hit three more boards.Some cried softly, tears rolling like beads.Lao Zhang became even more angry: "Okay! You want to lie to me half-crying and half-crying, cunning ghost!" So he played three more boards.

Lao Zhang is the same as other philosophers, in line with his independent philosophy, no matter how he conceives, there will be no contradiction. The students were beaten and left, and now there were only Li Ying and Wang De left. Li Ying thought: "I am the president of the university, so I won't be beaten, let alone I bought him a piece of ice?" Knowing that crimes such as eating apricots and eating ice are unavoidable, rub your hands bright red and prepare for the enemy. "Li Ying! How are you?" Lao Zhang put down the bamboo board and stretched his wrist. "I don't know!" Li Ying said with his head down.

"Do you think I won't hit the principal? It's your fault if you don't stop them from drinking tea or eating ice?" "Tea should be drunk, I bought the ice, I don't know if it's wrong or not." Li Ying blushed and said confidently. "Haha..." Lao Zhang laughed wildly for a while, this time it was indeed a smile from the inside out, but it is the most difficult to determine whether it is a real laugh, because the emotions of philosophers are different from those of ordinary people. "You are good, I am wrong, I will beat you!" Lao Zhang suddenly stopped laughing, and picked up the bamboo board again.

"If I don't want to resign, my uncle won't allow it." Li Ying thought to himself, "I'll tell him to beat me. What face do I have to face people?" "I'm retiring!" Li Ying thought about it, and felt that his uncle was easier to talk to than Lao Zhang. "What? Don't read it anymore? If you don't want to read it, don't read it!" "My uncle won't let me go to school anymore!" Li Ying knew he was lying, but he had no choice but to evade Lao Zhang. "Your uncle? Vomit! Your uncle! Go, tell your uncle to pay off our old Zhang's money today, including the principal and interest. You just want to miss it!"

Li Ying understands!Understand everything!Tears could not stop streaming down. "Crying? It's good if you can cry!" Lao Zhang turned to point at Wang De with the board: "How are you?" "It's up to you, but fortunately, no one is addicted to eating slats." Wang De said with a smile. Wang De walked over slowly, but Lao Zhang put down the board.Wang De was taken aback, and said in his heart: "If the old hand is lucky, the old butt will be worse." Then he thought: "Fortunately, the family should ask the old butt to replace the old hand. Anyway, you will be beaten, and the pain will hurt." In my heart, I’m so happy that I don’t want to change places!” Wang De always thinks about the wide-ranging place, and when he thinks this way, he immediately feels happy in his heart, and a smile comes out on his face, so he smiled. "Wang De! Follow me to the East Room!"

"I don't choose a place to be beaten. Not to mention, the east room may be cooler than the west room." After Wang De finished speaking, he followed Lao Zhang to the east room.Lao Zhang didn't hold the board. "Wang De, are you ten years old?" Lao Zhang sat down, raised his face and put his right hand on his temple. "Me? I'm about nineteen years old. I haven't married a wife yet. Fortunately, I'm not busy." "Don't talk nonsense, I'll tell you something serious." Old Zhang seemed to have completely calmed down his anger. "Marrying a wife is more important than anything else, and it's decent. If it's nonsense to say that marrying a wife, there is no serious talk in the world." Wang De found a stool and sat down while talking. "Do you know about Li Ying's family affairs?" Lao Zhang asked with one eye closed. "I know his uncle's surname is also Li." "What else?" "I haven't studied it yet." After Wang De finished speaking, he laughed.He remembered learning the word "study" in "Chinese" two years ago, and asked his father when he came home: "Have we finished 'studying' for dinner?" Spicy fever.The father didn't understand that the son said "research", and you said it was ridiculous.Wang De laughed louder. "You have to fight, what's so ridiculous?" "It's ridiculous! Isn't it ridiculous that people want to grow their noses upside down and pour water into their mouths when it rains? Isn't it ridiculous that people want to grow beards on the palms of their hands and grow them into natural brushes to brush clothes casually? Isn't it ridiculous to be beaten? My hand hurts, I can't help laughing in my heart!" "You don't know about Li Ying's family?" Old Zhang knew that Wang De was a character who would rather laugh than beat him, so it's better to listen to him laugh. "I have no idea." "Okay! You are nineteen this year, and Li Ying is also nineteen. He can be the president of the university, why can't you? If I want to appoint you to be the president of the university, will you do it?" Wang De and Li Ying are the best alumni , there is only one thing he dissatisfied with Li Ying, and that is Li Ying being the university president.Wang De thought that all old people were hateful, and his father beat him to the ground for saying "research".The old man, in Wang De's mind, is an old antique who only relies on power and doesn't understand human feelings.Except for the elderly, it is abhorrent to be young and imitate the behavior of the elderly.In the third year of the neighborhood, he was a young officer in the army, and he beat his soldiers more viciously than a father beat his son.Qian Liu in the city was only in his twenties, and he followed the example of the old man and married two wives.Pi San, Qian Liu should be killed!As for Li Ying, he is not very old, and he is a disciplined classmate who blows his beard and stares for Lao Zhang with a straight face.Now that Lao Zhang wanted to appoint Wang De as the president of the university, he said with a smile, "Wang De! It is ridiculous to be the president of the university before he has married a wife, and he can kill him!" Then Wang De suddenly stood up and walked out. "Don't go!" Old Zhang stopped him. "It's good for you!" "What good is it?" "Listen, I'll tell you slowly." Lao Zhang pushed Wang De onto the stool again. "If you want to become the president of the university, I will never beat you. But you have to help me calculate the accounts of the shop." Wang De rolled his big eyes slowly, but didn't answer. "There are still benefits! How much money do you get for studying now, and how much money do you get for snacks every day?" "Study money is paid six times a month, and snack money is not necessarily, it depends on whether father is happy or not." "Yes! If you are the president of the university, you understand, but settle the accounts for me, and I will charge you four dollars for tuition." "Save two slings of money for father?" "You don't understand, you don't have to tell your father, get six slings a month, give me four slings, and use the two slings for yourself, do you think it's okay?" "Don't tell my father? If he finds out, you will be beaten for me?" Wang De laughed again: How interesting it would be if my father beat Lao Zhang like he beat me. "If you don't tell me, how would he know, just don't tell!" "If you don't say it, you will feel sad!" "Won't you be sad?" "If you don't talk during the day, what if you talk in your sleep at night?" "You nonsense!" "No nonsense! Of course you old people don't talk in your sleep. Maybe Li Ying doesn't talk, but I talk every night. The more you don't talk during the day, the more fun you talk at night." "Eat less, drink more water, and save money. Save your dreams!" "Saving what?" "Save—dreams! Look at your mistress, never dream. When she's hungry, I tell her, 'Drink some water.'" Wang De couldn't stop laughing loudly again.He thought: "If everyone treats women like this, after a few years women will not only drink water, but also become animals that cannot dream. Vomit! I remembered that my father often said that there are 'merman-headed fish' in the South China Sea. , fish body, needless to say, is the result of this kind of training. But do mermaids dream? I don’t know! Father? Maybe I don’t know. Hmph! Don’t ask him, ask the old man what he doesn’t know, and the result is to get slapped! " "Wang De! I don't have the time to talk nonsense with you, so let's do this! Go, go eat at home!" Old Zhang stood up. "There are too many problems here," Wang De flexed his fingers and calculated one by one: "Being a college president, pretending to be an old man, cheating your father of money, helping you settle accounts, drinking more water, eating less, saving money and dreaming, becoming a mermaid!  … I don't understand, I don't understand!" "Do the same if you understand, and do the same if you don't understand! Go! Get out!" Wang De had no choice but to stand up and walk out.Suddenly remembered: "Where is Li Ying?" "You don't care! I have a cure for him! Go!"
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