Chapter 8 Knowledge

Master of Philosophy Zhang Liuji, the only son of a small landlord somewhere in the middle of the Yangtze River.He was just twenty years old when he was able to control the property in the family.That year was the year of the "May 4th Movement".Reading Shanghai and Beijing newspapers for several months has completely confused this young man's mind.He felt that it was pointless to stay in the small town, so he got a sum of money and left his hometown.According to the popular colloquialism at that time, this person was "awakened", and he was already awakened and ready to fight in the vast world.

Since his purpose of going out is to seek knowledge, the knowledge he has acquired over the past ten years is indeed quite a lot.He knows almost all good "knowledge".After graduating from a domestic university, he went abroad to obtain his degree in a prestigious university in a certain country.The title of his dissertation, "Philosophy of Life," testifies to the depth of his knowledge of the problems of life.His academic achievements are thanks to a mentor at the university's graduate school who tried his best to guide him. He was a world-renowned old doctor.He believed in this man as a god.

Like many others, he was unable to integrate into society after leaving school and returning to China.I want to contribute what I have learned to the society, but I can't find a suitable job for a while.Be a good person, everything in society focuses on habits, but you don't need such a good person. He thought to himself: I don’t have a chance to stay in the metropolis, so it’s okay, why not go back to my “savage” hometown and have a look.The savage hometown was indeed very savage in his impression, and he was afraid to mention it at ordinary times, and he never dreamed that one day he would return to that hometown again.But now he is ready to go to the countryside.

He remembered himself, remembered his hometown, and felt a little melancholy.He worried that he would not be able to live in his hometown.He thought it was a group of uneducated country people on the one hand, and himself on the other.If you want to speak, no one understands, and if you have an opinion, no one will listen to this opinion.Of course not. He feels alone.When a person feels that knowledge is too rich and transcends everything, it is easy to fall into this kind of loneliness.He thought of Nietzsche to masturbate.The closer he is to his hometown, the stronger his "superman" feeling.

On the three-day journey away from home, I came to a mountain depression and saw an old farmer weeding in a mountain field. The weather was hot and he was very tired, but there was a young man lying in the shade of a tree beside the road, sleeping calmly there. .He took a rest and chatted with the old farmer: "It's hot, you are quite old, why don't you take a rest?" "If you want to eat, there's nothing you can do. It's not a problem if it's hot!" "Why don't you want that young man's help, but let him sleep in the shade of a tree? What do you mean?"

The old man was still exactly the same as before, and said calmly: "He didn't sleep. He died. He was bitten to death by a poisonous snake with a soldering iron head a while ago." He was startled, and took a closer look at the one lying next to him. There was a hemp fly on the kid's nose.Sure enough, the person is dead.Quickly asked: "Who is this?" The old farmer was still very calm and calm. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hands, walked through the shade of the tree and came down to smoke. "He is my son." While saying that, he grabbed a hand and caught the fly, took off a paulownia leaf, and covered the face of the deceased.

"It's your son! Are you serious? You don't cry when your son dies, you old eccentric!" But that air was seen by the old farmer, as if he was talking to himself, and also like talking to someone in the city. "There are no immortals in the world. If the world is drought or flood, we will starve to death, and when the army goes to the countryside and the bandits cross the border, we will die. It is so easy to survive, and it will be over once we die. Man dies, I sit and cry for him, let the grass grow in the field, good idea! " Seeing the old farmer's appearance, he couldn't say a few more words, but the old farmer went to the field to catch up with his work.

When he was about to leave, the one in the field saw that he was already on the road, so he said: "Master, sir, you pass the stockade in front, pay attention, there is a Tupingba in front of the third house, which is my home. My surname is Liu , whose name is Lao Liu, and when my wife begged, I told her that Dongfu was dead, and I would give away a meal for one person.” He thought to himself, "You unloving old fool! My son was bitten to death by a snake. I don't care about the image of 'watching ducks fight, and don't do anything else'. You still have the heart to eat lunch, and you are stingy with another person's lunch!"

When I arrived at Zhou's Dazhai, I saw two women grinding beans beside a pair of millstones in an empty Pingba.He asked the two women where the Liu family lived. The two women said at the same time that they belonged to the Liu family, and asked if they had anything to do with the Liu family. "I have nothing else to do, just to pass on a message." He said so calmly, because he remembered the look of the Patriarch in the unexpected misfortune.Then he said loudly, "Your son was bitten to death by a snake!" He looked at the two women and continued, "The young man died beside the road after being bitten by a snake. Your masters want me to send a message..." When the two women heard the news, their colors did not change, and their expressions were calm. , expressing that he knew about this matter, he lightly agreed with the word "oh", and still did not leave the millstone, and sent the beans soaked in the wooden barrel into the stone hole one by one, turn the millstone.

That calmness made the messenger very upset.He said, "What's going on? You don't understand what I'm saying? Don't believe me? Go and see if someone really died there!" The older woman said, "Why don't you understand? Why don't you believe it? The one who died was my son, and the one who didn't die was my husband. The two went to the fields and the other was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. This is of course true!" "Don't be sad, this matter must—" "Why should I be sad? We will starve to death in drought and flood, and we will be tortured to death when the army goes to the countryside and the bandits cross the border. It is so easy to survive! Is it over after death? When a person dies, I sit down and cry. What good is it for him? , what good will it do me?"

When the old woman went into the house to pour water for the guests, he asked the younger woman who was the deceased. "He's my brother and I'm his sister." "Are you his sister? Two old ones, needless to mention being cruel. Brothers and sisters who share the same sympathy don't feel sad?" "Why am I sad? I ask you..." "Why aren't you sad? I ask you." "Mom and Dad gave birth to us, exactly the same as those rafts. We went into the mountains and chopped wood and tied them into a big raft. We floated in the flowing water together, and we were called brothers according to the habit. Suddenly the wind came and the rain came, and the raft scattered. , some sink, some drift, this is a common occurrence!" After a while, a countryman in his twenties came, and the woman said to the man, "Qiu Sheng, Qiu Sheng, your elder brother Dongfu was bitten to death by a snake, that's what this gentleman said." The kid looked at Zhang Liuji, "Is it true or not?" "real!" "That's too bad. How many things should be done at home, and I was accidentally bitten to death by a snake!" Zhang Liuji thought that this family was so weird and inhuman, but this young man was a little bit human.And seeing that the young man looked very miserable, he thought he must be very sad, and a little sympathy grew in his heart. "You're sick, aren't you?" "I'm sorry he died." "How? You kind of..." There was a hen laying eggs under the grass behind the house. After laying the eggs, she was surprised and flew up the grass with a cry of "cluck dack".The younger woman, dragging her apron and wiping her hands, hurried across the house to fetch hot eggs. The young man looked at the stranger, seemed to see something, and gained the trust of the stranger, he whispered: "He can't die right now, he has to work at home, so I can get to... my stupid man." Brother died, accidentally, and completely broke our plan..." He also explained that the two of them had already agreed on this matter. What did he say?No need to ask, anyway, Zhang Liuji was really surprised when he heard about it.The countryman was so honest and unabashed that he couldn't help but believe what the countryman said.He thought to himself, "Is this real or not?" Just like what he saw in the field before, just pay attention a little more, and you will know that everything is real! ………… Before leaving, he said to himself, "This is what I want to learn!" When he arrived in his hometown, the first thing he did was to write to his learned husband, saying: "Old liar, you should die, you You taught me books for ten years, but you are not as smart as an illiterate countryman in my place. You are a liar recognized by the law. You know everything that a living person doesn't need to know, but you don't know anything that people need to know! I'm sure you're such a big liar. " The second thing is to burn all the books. He stayed in that savage hometown and learned everything from the countrymen that he had never learned.Not long after, all the land was distributed to the farmers.One day, that kid from the Liu family came to him, and the two left.When you go there, no one will know. Maybe there were suddenly two more people somewhere, who were also starving and suffering from cold, and they could be called bandits or lunatics, and they were chased by a group of people and ran everywhere, but they were still alive. Perhaps once there, he fell down and died.Anyway, as Lao Liu said, those who die should die, and those who live should live well.As long as he can live, this person will probably live well. Made in October 1934