Chapter 23 Lao Zhang's Philosophy (23)

Wang De pouted, and walked towards Aunt Zhao's house against the sharp north wind, his lips turned red from the cold.It was already one o'clock at night, and the electric lights on the street were flickered by the wind, like will-o'-the-wisps, flickering on the cold hedgehog-like patrolman standing in the middle of the street.The roadside shops are all closed, only a few copper and iron shops doing night work, still knocking on the nocturne of late winter.Intermittent motorcycles filled with rich and powerful people, shooting dead white flames, fly by faster than the wind; temporarily breaking through the silence in the street.

This was Wang De's seventh night working in the newspaper office.Proofreading the manuscript can't be finished until eleven o'clock, and it will be after twelve o'clock at the earliest when I get home.Because of Uncle Zhao's charity, Xu Wangde still lives there. He comes back late at night and can get up later in the day, which was also taught by Uncle Zhao to Wang De. There was a burst of hot sweat on my body, and a gust of cool wind outside. As a result, my whole body was covered with a layer of sticky and cool paint.Those who left would rather die than leave again, so they arrived at Uncle Zhao's house.He opened the door lightly, locked it lightly again, and then tiptoed towards his room holding his breath.He stopped and listened to the slender voice in the north room for a while, and said in his heart, "Sister Jing! I'm back!"

Wang De went into his room, lit a candle, and Li Ying's eyes were about to open due to the light from the candle, and then he burrowed his head into the bed. "Li Ying, Li Ying!" Wang De called in a low voice.Li Ying snorted, and covered his head deeply under the quilt again.Wang De was embarrassed to wake Li Ying up, took a candle and took a picture of the room, and saw a pair of new shoes under Li Ying's bed.Then put out the candle and go to bed. Wang De didn't wake up until nine o'clock the next day, and Li Ying had already left. "Wang De! It's time to get up!" said Li Jing outside the window.

"Get up." "When did you come back yesterday?" "Needless to say, if I had no blood yesterday, I would have died outside!" "Would you like to go out in the afternoon?" "uncertain." "My aunt is going out of town to see my uncle in the afternoon." "Okay! I won't go out, I have something to tell you." "I want to talk to you too." Li Jing went to work in the kitchen, Wang De got up slowly, still pouted.Aunt Zhao was preparing to go out, which was much more complicated than the soldiers who went to battle. Everything was ready, and she came back twice: once because she forgot to bring a small hand towel, and once when she came back to cover the piece of frozen tofu in the kitchen with a plate.

When Aunt Zhao really left, Wang De and Li Jing sat together and talked calmly. "Sister, who will speak first?" "Say it first, otherwise you won't be able to listen to me." She smiled warmly. "Good sister! I understand what you and Li Ying said now! You say I'm inexperienced, stupid, and you're right! It's so annoying to say, sister, how did you get the materials for the newspaper?" "Naturally, someone contributed the manuscript, and the main writer went to edit it." "Contributing? Editing? I used to think that way too."

"What now?" "Use scissors!" "I don't understand you." "Use scissors to cut ready-made newspapers here and there, and then put them together. Their jargon is called 'scissors'!" "It's not your fault anyway." "I can't bear it! I thought that the utility of the newspaper was gone, so I had to do this! Also, I wrote a manuscript yesterday, because I saw an old lady run over by the car of the deputy minister of education on the road, and I wrote it truthfully. Didn't add any comments, guess what the chief writer said? He said: "If you don't want to do it, leave early, don't make trouble for me. You won't write about a car hitting and killing an unknown woman, why must you write about the deputy minister of education?" Car?’ I said: “I write what I see, I can’t lie!” The chief writer slapped the table and shouted at me: “I don’t want you to tell the truth!” Sister! This is a newspaper office! I can’t do it anymore! I can’t tell lies !"

"But it's really hard to find things, at least bear with it!" Li Jing comforted him sincerely. "Conscience can't be perfunctory! Come on! I don't want to say any more, what's the matter with you?" "Oh!" Li Jing put her hands on her knees and smiled, because she was born unwilling to let others worry about her. Seeing what was on her mind, Wang De immediately became full of heroism, showing the heroic spirit of a man, and gently placed his hand on the back of her hand. "Sister! Can I help you? I've had enough of this world, and I'm only willing to die for my confidant! That's a happy thing!"

"Brother, the reason why I don't want to tell you is because you are young and angry. For my affairs, let alone your life, even if a piece of skin is injured, I can't do it!" She held it tightly his hand. "Sister! If you are a man, I would like to help you. Besides, you are a woman. What's the matter?" "I can only tell you, don't tell Li Ying that his temperament is not gentler than yours. I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid that it's not worthwhile or smart to die." "What's the matter? Not exactly like cows and horses, but they should have deeper feelings than cows and horses! Sister, tell me!" Wang De said with his back straightened. "Do you remember once you said what Lao Zhang was going to do to me?"

"I remember, my aunt came in, so I didn't finish talking." "It's still that thing, you know?" "Know! How are you doing now?" "My wish now is not to let my uncle die! Why did I ask you to inquire about that Dong Shan last time?" "I still don't understand." "It's also because of this. My wish is: to ask that good man to lend money to my uncle to pay back Lao Zhang. I would rather be a maid for the good man. But I have already met him, and I failed!" Li Jing stared blankly. On the ground, stop talking. "Sister, tell me in detail!" He squeezed her hand a little tighter.

"When my aunt was not at home, I went to find the good man. It happened that he was at home and saw me at that time. I told him my wish, and he was crying while reciting the Buddha's name. When I finished speaking, he told me Take him to his backyard, there is a small square courtyard, there are three small north rooms, cigarettes are coming out from the windows, and there are five or six older girls sitting inside, some are in their thirties, some are only seventeen or eighteen They were all sitting on yellow cloth cushions and chanting scriptures with wooden fish like nuns. When I went in, only the youngest one looked up at me. The rest raised their voices a little more, and didn't even roll their eyelids." "Nun's Nunnery ?” Wang De seemed to ask himself.

"After I saw it, the good man led me to the front again, and he began to say: 'Girl, you have a filial piety to save your uncle', 'Filial piety comes first', I am willing to help you. But if you want to save people, You must save yourself first. You know that being born with a "female body" is a great misfortune. Even a female fox can shed her female body five hundred years later than a male fox. The same is true for human beings. But virgins are better than married ones. , because it is not easy to come by to break through the barrier of desire and purify oneself. Two of those girls are my daughters, and the rest are all rescued by me from the pit of fire. I not only promoted them from the evil way, It is still necessary to take them from the human way to the god way. Girl, I think you are quiet and beautiful, and your roots are not shallow. If you are willing to practice with me, your uncle's money will not be difficult to raise.' I hesitated for a long time without answering. He, he continued: "Girl, if this incident happened ten years ago, I would have given you money at that time; now, my property has been completely given away. I just think saving people's souls is more important than their bodies." If you are willing to practice, I can write a donation book and find a few Taoist friends to raise money. They like to hear young people who want to become holy in the body. Otherwise, I really can’t raise money. Miss, there are so many people in society. Poor people, we only need to use gold and silver to prolong their lives, but not to save their souls, what good is it? Besides, there is not so much gold and silver? You go back first and think about it quietly. If you are willing, I have a lot of Buddhist scriptures , there are plenty of places, you can practice with them. This is your own business. My body is more important than your uncle's, because you are a child, and you can't buy it with a thousand dollars. Your uncle's affairs are only a few hundred dollars!" I didn't answer him at that time, and came home." Be a nun?" "Why would I want to?" "If you don't want to, he will naturally not lend you money!" "That goes without saying!" Li Jing's face turned pale. "Sister! Why don't we die?" Wang De wanted to comfort Li Jing, but he didn't know what to say, so he said it unconsciously. "Wang De! If the young man only wants to die soon, there will be no one in the world! I tried my best to save my uncle, and even married Lao Zhang. As for you and me, my heart is yours, you probably understand me!" She couldn't take it any longer, and sobbed and cried.He wanted to comfort her and stop her crying, but his tears were more than hers.