Chapter 20 Chapter 1: Cold Choice, Sad Farewell

Lin Chong has been ravaged by this system and society until he has no bones, no guts, and no blood.There is only the material of a hero, but no courage to be a hero. As mentioned last time, Lin Chong was deceived and strayed into the Baihu Festival Hall with a knife. Gao Qiu charged him with the capital crime of "traveling in the festival hall and attempting to assassinate my official" and sent him to Kaifeng Mansion to borrow the knife from Kaifeng Mansion. Cut off Lin Chong's head.Lin Chong's family came to deliver meals, and while they were using the money, Lin Chong's father-in-law, Zhang Jiaotou, also came to buy the money and sued him. Using the money, coupled with the thoughtfulness of Kong Musun Ding, who was in charge of the case, he was finally spared the death penalty and sentenced to 20 spine sticks. , stabbing with the prison city of Cangzhou.Immediately stabbed the cheek, put on a seven-and-a-half catty iron leaf protective shackle in the hall, put on the cover, and put a ultimatum, and sent two guards to the prison.The two officials, one named Dong Chao and the other Xue Ba, took the official document and escorted Lin Chong out of Kaifeng mansion.Lin Chong's father-in-law and all the neighbors followed up in front of the mansion, and sat down in the hotel under Zhouqiao.

Instructor Zhang asked the bartender to arrange wine and fruit to treat the two gentlemen, and took out silver taels to send them.Then Lin Chong said goodbye to his father-in-law.This conversation between Weng and his son-in-law, Yuan Wuya's engraved edition of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, commented on the eyebrows: "This round-trip conversation is desolate and makes people sore." There are both "Wen of Sacrifice to the Twelve Langs" and "Pipa Xing"." They all saw the hurtful content of this dialogue, but they didn't see that this dialogue between Weng and his son was actually not the same. I don't know, because the father-in-law, Coach Zhang, doesn't understand Lin Chong's real intentions, and Lin Chong can't explain his true thoughts too bluntly, so that the dialogue between the two, over and over again, is always on the opposite side.

First, Lin Chong said something to his father-in-law, which obviously had been carefully thought out. This passage was indeed very sad, and it also made many readers cry throughout the ages. Get to know Lin Chong better.This passage is divided into three layers, let's look at each layer. On the first floor, there is only one sentence: Taishan is on the top, the year is full of disasters, the moon is in trouble, it hits Gao Yanei, and suffers a lawsuit. This is to say that in his own lawsuit, Lin Chong used "years of disasters and moons" to explain his bad luck.The year is a year of calamity, the month is an evil month, Gao Yanei is a villain, and he was bumped into by himself.But after a closer analysis, what he complained about was the bad year and the bad month, not Gao Yanei. Why?It was precisely because of bad luck that he bumped into Gao Yanei. How many women did Gao Yanei spoil in the capital before?Lin Chong didn't see any anger or grievances either. This is why Lin Chong was inferior to Lu Zhishen. As soon as Lu Zhishen heard that Zhenguanxi was "bullying people", he immediately sent him to the west with his old fists.Gao Yanei's bullying of men and women is much more serious than Zhenguanxi, and everyone in the capital knows that even if Lin Chong can't punish him publicly like Lu Da, with his martial arts, it is still possible to punish him secretly.But he has always been like ordinary people, not daring to "dispute" with him and allowing him to do anything wrong.Confucius said: "There is no courage if one sees righteousness and does not act." Judging from this standard, how can Lin Chong be brave?Since bravery is not considered a hero, how can it be considered a hero? ——What is a hero?A hero is one who stands up when the people need it; a hero is one who dares to fight when evil is rampant. Like Lin Chong, Gao Yanei has been doing evil under his nose for many years, and he dare not stop it. Ordinary people have been harmed by Gao Yanei for many years. He can protect him, but he just hopes that this calamity will not fall on him, and he thinks that with his own identity, this disaster will not fall on him. How can this be considered a hero?

A real hero must be like this: he not only resists the injustice imposed on himself, but also resists the injustice imposed on others.Not only did he seek justice for himself, he also upheld justice for others.For example, Lu Zhishen is such a person.He is a born hero, endowed with a heart of justice, unsurpassed courage, and peerless martial arts. Once he appears on the stage, he is a hero, and when he makes a move, he is wonderful.But Lin Chong is a hero created by the world, a forced hero. He was really not a hero, and he didn't want to be a hero, he just wanted to be an official.He has been crushed by this system and society until he has no bones, no guts, no blood, and even no sense of justice.He has the qualities of a hero, but no desire to be a hero; he has the ability to be a hero, but he does not have the courage to be a hero.Because he has the material and ability of a hero, we mistake him for a hero. In fact, he has already been enslaved by the system. As long as disasters don’t befall him, he will always be an obedient citizen. It’s like a robber entering a house in the middle of the night , and kill him next to the bed, as long as he hasn't killed him, he will pretend to be asleep, and he will never show up and make a move.

On the Memorial to the Holocaust of Jews in Boston, a German Protestant priest named Martin left a painful confession: at first they hunted down communists, and I was not a communist, so I didn’t speak; then they hunted down Jews, and I I am not a Jew, I do not speak; after that they chased and killed trade union members, I am not a trade union member, I continued to keep silent; then they hunted and killed Catholics, I am not a Catholic, I still did not speak; finally they came to me, and then No one stood up and spoke up for me. Yes, only by resisting the enslavement and persecution imposed on all others can one finally protect oneself from enslavement and persecution.I think Lu Zhishen "he never accepts slavery, and never allows others to be enslaved." Only by not allowing others to enslave others can he ultimately avoid his own fate of being enslaved.The advantages of Lu Zhishen, or the heroic temperament, are relatively lacking in Lin Chong.

Now, Gao Yanei has finally bullied him. Just like Gao Yanei used to bully others, no one came out to uphold justice. Just as Mr. Lu Xun later revealed painfully, in such a country, there are only two kinds of people: publicity materials and numb spectators.It's just that he used to be a numb spectator, looking at the publicity materials indifferently; now he has become a publicity material, and he is a numb spectator in front of him.When he took his wife and Jin'er through the empty streets of Tokyo, what he experienced in his heart must have been unparalleled loneliness and helplessness, unparalleled despair and fear.

After Gao Yanei flirted with his wife for the first time, he had always had fantasies: this Gao Yanei didn't know his wife, and if he wanted to, he wouldn't be like this.He secretly hoped that Gao Yanei would stop immediately after learning that she was Lin Chong's wife.But what he waited for was an even greater insult. Even his friends who had been called brothers and sisters for many years participated in deceiving him, turned against him, and made trouble.He was in great pain at this time, but he still didn't have the courage to break with them. He still needed the system and his dream of getting ahead in the system.So he didn't dare to offend Captain Gao, since he couldn't offend Captain Gao, he could only bear it, full of humiliation.It can be said that Lin Chong is the most bitter person, the most depressed person, and the darkest person among the 180 people in "Water Margin".For a period of time, he could only drink away his worries, and he couldn't tell anyone about his worries, including Lu Zhishen.

Now he has fallen into a trap, and he finds out painfully that not only do people want to possess his wife, but they even want to kill him first in order to achieve this goal.What he wants to lose is not only his wife and his dignity as a man, but also his future in the system and his own life.But he still only blames others, and his train of thought is this: Because of the calamity of the year, he bumped into Gao Yanei, as if Gao Yanei is just an objective existence without subjective will to harm others, like a pit on the ground, You can only blame your own bad luck, not the pits, hailstones and hidden reefs.Who told you to bump into Gao Yanei?When Gao Yanei bullied men and women, those people who were bullied thought the same way. Lin Chong heard that others were being bullied by Gao Yanei, so he thought in his heart: Who told you to bump into it? You deserve it if you bump into it. , You are unlucky, we can sympathize with you, but we will not hate Gao Yanei, we sympathize with you, it is your fate.

In fact, when an evil is so strong that we cannot overthrow it, or when the cost of resistance exceeds the cost of enduring, people may choose to endure and compromise, and psychologically tend to accept this evil as their own destiny .Over time, habits become natural, and evil becomes an objective and reasonable existence. But Gao Yanei is conscious and actively evil.Lin Chong was unwilling to admit this.Why don't you want to admit it?Because he admits this, he must eradicate this evil. He doesn't have the courage and guts, so he only wants to deceive himself, feel sorry for himself, and admit his fate.

When being unfair, when being bullied and insulted, it is the basic way of thinking of all the weak to complain only about the sky and not others. However, the society is full of such weak people, and some strong people can only escape to the outside of the king's land, go to the Water Margin, and instead of being king's ministers, become robbers.