Chapter 29 Lao Zhang's Philosophy (29)

Who is Zhao Si?The Xiyuan Hotel couldn't find him, and the Park Literature Society couldn't find him...Before us, he only broke his leg at Desheng Bridge, and later introduced Li Ying to the Salvation Army.I only know that he is Zhao Si, his parents and grandparents. When people asked him, he just smiled and said: "They all died with the old people." As for Mrs. Zhao, we can only think ideally, It seems that there should be such a woman, but in fact, Zhao Si said: "With our face and a blue coat, we can also marry a woman and have children?" Before Zhao Si became a rickshaw driver, he was also a rich and free man.From the conversations of his neighbors, we can also get some facts that Zhao Si will never admit to himself now.I heard that he was quite decent when he was young, and he was very popular in the village.He once bought more than 80 small live carps on the second day of the new year when offering sacrifices to the God of Wealth, put them in a big bamboo basket, and distributed them to his neighbors next to the door, because they had no money or were stingy to buy live fish to sacrifice to the gods. of.He once carried a white-bellied eagle, pulled a yellow-tailed dog, wore a long-eared sheepskin robe, and carried shochu and beef jerky to the Beishan Mountain Ring to get a small white fox; he would not take any gray or grass-yellow ones.He once wore a white linen shirt and blue satin shoes, and jumped into the small river outside Xizhimen with a plop to rescue a big girl who committed suicide.Look at people laughing at him!He once recruited schoolchildren who played truant to meet outside the city, went to the reed pond to catch the little reed sparrow with a yellow beak, and then went to a restaurant together to eat thirty boiled dumplings filled with mutton and winter melon. ... He is not good at things that are good for ordinary people; he is good at things that are not good for ordinary people.He doesn't plan for things that ordinary people plan for himself; he makes arrangements for things that ordinary people don't plan for others.

His joy is not over yet, and his money is gone!The money given to others on weekdays, because he does not want to get it back, will not come back now; and those who have received his benefits are now more reluctant to greet him than those who have not received his money.Several times, when he came up to them to thank them, they turned their necks to show him the back of their heads.So Zhao Si went outside the city, picked up a pile of bricks, drew a circle with white ash on the city wall, practiced wrist strength and aiming, and prepared to hit them in the head. In Zhao Si's mind, this is just a game: when you have money, you will be tricked with dumplings, and when you have no money, you will be tricked with bricks. The nature is the same.Who wants people with weak heads, can only enjoy boiled dumplings, but can't stand bricks.Once a person's head was actually broken, and the red and thick blood that animals should have was gushing out.So Zhao Si was taken to prison by the patrol police and worked as a coolie for three months.

Ordinary people often underestimate those who have been jailed and call them "bandits", while bandits call those who have been jailed "heroes".Which one is right?dare not say. When Zhao Si was chained, he didn't think he was a bandit, nor did he consider himself a hero.Because if it is a bandit, where is his bad deed?If he was a good man, why was he chained to a mad dog? But he gradually understood: if you have money, you are a hero, if you have no money, you are a bandit, and if you go from rich to poor, you are a hero to a bandit.He also understood: there is no fixed standard for all the nouns people use every day, but something else is lurking behind the nouns.He hasn't changed his old attitude, he just needs to understand what it takes to be a good man.But being in prison seems to have given him a good opportunity to think deeply.Rich man is a man?No money is a bandit?He re-evaluated again!

He realized another stupid truth.Being a hero doesn't necessarily depend on money, if you are really willing to work for others, it may be better than giving money to others.If I don’t buy carp to distribute to my neighbors, but do a few laborious things for them, maybe they won’t treat me like a carp—carp is a cold-blooded animal, and of course it doesn’t appeal to warm-blooded animals. He thought of this, so he went to discuss this issue with his fellow prisoners in prison.Some told him that helping others is self-inflicted and boring, and that money and energy are no different, because those who are unwilling to help others will not use their unwillingness to help others to understand that others have a heart of love.If you don't want to be cheap, who is willing to do things for others for nothing!Some laughed and said contemptuously, if you had hit the prime minister with a brick on the head, you would have gone to the French barracks or the Dutch embassy to enjoy your happiness.Hitting ordinary people with bricks is as bad as giving them money.Some people say that after all, money is useful, and buying reputation with money is really cheap; your previous failures were because your money was spent improperly, not because money refused to make you a hero.Giving half a copper dollar to a beggar on Zhengyangmen Street is more respectable than a full set of cotton clothes in Beicheng Genshe; anyone who comes out to beg in the middle of the night should starve to death, and whoever is smart and wants to be a hero will give money to be a good person in the shadows in the middle of the night! ...Zhao Si was confused, but when the night was quiet, he still felt that he was right.So after he was released from prison, he took the odds and ends of his family to the morning market to sell in the morning, and tried to help others in the second half of the day, so as to realize his ideal of being a hero.

Once he snatched a scavenger's water ladle to sprinkle water for him in the middle of the street, and was punched by the patrolman a few times, and it was later heard that the scavenger was also dismissed.Once he went shopping for his neighbor, and he lost more than a dozen copper dollars in the car fare, but all the neighbors heard that Zhao Si made money by buying things for others!Once he went to ask a doctor for a sick woman in the middle of the night, the doctor was sleepy and gave the wrong medicine, and people all blamed Zhao Si's bad luck so that the famous doctor was given the wrong medicine! ...

He is discouraged!The philosophies conceived in prison are now sufficient proof that they are completely wrong!You have to seize the opportunity to sacrifice yourself to save others. Otherwise, if you cut off the meat and give it to others to eat, people may say that your meat contains bacteria of infectious diseases. His things are sold out, now it's a matter of his own life and death!He is really a foolish old man, he still thinks that the way of eating can earn food and do good deeds at the time of life and death.He had no choice but to pull the rickshaw, but he still thought, what a brave thing it is to pull the rickshaw: if someone is in a hurry, let's drag him away, this is not risking his life to save others!

Ha ha!Those who ride in the car get in the car as if they hired a calf with two legs. When they get out of the car, they even throw the money on the ground without saying "excuse me"!or "hard work"!What was even more embarrassing was that when people who had been acquainted with Zhao Si, even those who had received benefits from Zhao Si, saw him galloping along the road, they shouted: "Zhao Si! Watch out for the ice on the ground, don't let your ears fall into your cavity!" It will be inconvenient to listen to scolding if you fall in!" The monks and priests he knew in the past called him a benefactor and a good person, but now they said to him in a cheeky manner: "For rickshaw pullers, the front of the temple is not a parking place, get out!" When Zhao Si parked his car outside the temple to wait for the people who burned incense.

In fact, titles such as "a rickshaw puller" or "a rickshaw driver" have the same meaning as people who teach books as "teacher", and the gentleman who lives in Nanhai is called "president". Zhao Si never minds on this point. .But sometimes the policeman called him "cowardly" and "silly"...Zhao Si couldn't help being angry, because he couldn't find any meaning for these terms; resistant. "Man is the spirit of all things controlled by money!" Lao Zhang was right!Zhao Si did not have the same philosophical thought as Lao Zhang, and he only said rudely: "If you have no money, you are not a person!" When people are at the extreme of poverty or at the extreme of wealth, religious beliefs are the easiest to invade; the nature is the same, and they all want to live. Live more!

But Zhao Si, those who believed in Confucianism ignored him, those who believed in Lu Zu ignored him, and Buddhist disciples laughed at him.Thus, he has no opportunity to arouse his religious zeal.Unfortunately, the most superficial and foreign-looking Salvation Army welcomed him as everyone else, and called him "Sir."So Zhao Si surrendered, and said in a small way that in three or four years, he has never heard anyone call him "Mr."In fact, Zhao Si is also stupid, what is it to call "Sir"! Where are "Mr." and "Mr. No" respectively?And Zhao Sibiao has this little vanity!idiot!

Learned people think Christianity is a belligerent religion.But Zhao Si thought: "Learn to be brave, be as tyrannical as a devil, beat foreigners against the God of foreigners, why not!" Stupid Zhao Si!I don’t understand Mahayana Buddhism like other ordinary Chinese, and I’m more stupid than ordinary Chinese to believe in foreign religions! Since Zhao Si joined the Salvation Army, half of them were pulling carts for Nagarjuna Gula, and half of them were helping the church. He didn't make much money, but he did have some fun; at worst, people in the meeting always called him "Mr."