Chapter 14 second

Uncle's school "Hey, An Like!" One day my uncle sat on the stone in the courtyard and began to say this, and An Like sat beside him and listened silently. "You have to develop a strong body in your uncle's house within one year. But if you want to be strong, if you think that you just need to be idle and idle, you are making a big mistake. Idleness is harmful to your body. To be healthy, you must use your spirit You can’t be healthy either. To be healthy both physically and mentally, new homework is necessary, so it’s better for you to learn your homework in the open air from now on.”

Uncle took a breath and continued: "All right? You've thrown away your school chairs and your textbooks. Your future chairs will be garden rocks or seashore rocks, and I'll be your sir. "I don't ask you to do reciting and so on. You have to become a person of value. To become a person of value, it is useless to hold a textbook. "You have good eyes, you should use these eyes to see the world. You have a good heart, you should use this heart to think. In this way, you will become a good person. "Before I could read or write very well, I went to the ship as a servant. I have never been taught by anyone since I was a child. I just see with my own eyes and think with my own heart. My knowledge, property and this The villas are all made by themselves.

"Having said that, I don't ask you to despise school teachers and books. However, there is a world in the world that school teachers and school textbooks cannot teach. You must learn about this world yourself. It is really beneficial and true. Knowledge can only be learned in this world. "The teacher at the school will teach us the road that people must take, but to walk this road, you have to move your own feet. It cannot be said that you just have to walk on your own. We must pay attention to those who walk in the same way, and we must pay attention to avoiding opposition. People walking in this direction should pay attention to the fields and forests beside the road, and look at the mountains beyond the horizon. Sometimes they have to stand still and look carefully at the surrounding things.

"I am different from the teachers in the school. I have left books and blackboards to teach you good things. In retrospect, I have learned a lot from this kind of knowledge, and it will be beneficial to you too. "People must have the mind to think about how to live, and the skills to live practically, but these cannot be learned in narrow schools. Compared with school homework, studying the vast nature and the living world is more important. "No matter which corner of nature, no matter which person you meet on the road, it can become your own living knowledge. What nature is telling people, and people are learning from nature, we must know this. It is written in the book What Mr. and Mr. taught are just things extracted from the big book of nature. Nature is the mother of wisdom and Mr. teacher.

"Right? Do you know? For example, please look at the five pine trees with big branches sticking out on the mountain road. , revealing a poor and weak appearance. "These six pine trees are the same age and the same species. I planted them ten years ago. When you were four years old, they were already four-year-old seedlings, which happened to be the same age as you. Look, these six pine trees How big is the difference in development! Ten years ago, I bought these six small pine trees from Feilunzai, five of which were planted by the roadside on the hillside, and the remaining one had no suitable place for planting, and was later planted in the grass on the cliff They were all the same size when they were first planted, and now the five plants are taller than the roof of the villa, straight and lush, while the one on the cliff is less than one meter high, and it seems to be dying did it.

"The same is true for people. As long as the education is different, they will be the same as this pine tree, and their development will be different. Oh, think about this for yourself, and write an article about the pine tree and send it to your mother. Tell me Her: The first lesson that uncle taught you was talk about pine trees!" Two Lapland specialty barley My uncle, who has spent his whole life at sea, has finally graduated from the sea.Apart from teaching Amway how to suck the air from the sea to sail the boat, my uncle probably didn't live in the boat, but only enjoyed tidying up the fields.An Like and his uncle worked in the fields together, and learned the names, cultivation methods and effects of various plants.

One day, my uncle was plowing the vegetable field with a shovel.On the ground are the roots left over from the harvest of the grain.When An Like lifted up the clods with the spade, his uncle stuck the spade into the soil, patted his waist with his hands, and said: "Look, this plant has something to teach you. It teaches you science as well as morality. Listen! "This summer, after I plowed the land, I didn't know what to plant. I suddenly remembered a handful of barley seeds from Siberia in a corner of my study, so I took them and tried planting them. "Siberia is the northernmost part of Europe. It is an extremely cold ice country where not a single tree grows. It is a strange place. There are nine months of night in a year, and there are three consecutive months of day. The nine months As soon as the winter is over, the weather warms up, the ice clears, and the grass and shrubs grow in size, rush into flower, and immediately bear fruit and ripen.

"This strange country is called Laplante. The only grain in Laplante is barley. The barley there is completely different from ours. It grows in a short period of time and quickly becomes stable. I thought Laplante Plante’s barley was planted in our place, and it would grow and ear quickly, so I took a handful of seeds and put them in a leather basket and brought them back. Unexpectedly, I forgot them after I brought them back, and hid them in the drawer of my study for several years . "This summer, I happened to remember that I planted it for experimentation. After planting, ah! Thanks to it, thanks to it! Laplante's barley has indeed maintained its properties in that cold country. Nuanguoli also grew in a short period of time, which surprised people. It's amazing! From sowing to harvesting, it only took five weeks.

"The stalks, you see, are now bundled together with the ears of wheat, placed on the roof of the workshop, and they are very good. "In the coming year, the year after, no, no matter how many years, in my whole life, I still want to replant and experiment again. After I die, let the people who come after me continue to sow. "What do you think? No matter how many years it is planted, barley will still grow fast and the harvest will be good? I don't think so. The growth will gradually slow down, right? At some point, its growth power will be comparable to that of the warm country. Ordinary barley waits? I think. Just think about it, this Laplante barley is a great lesson for us.

"First, the plant grows in accordance with the climate. Second, it has an ingenious resistance to foreign enemies such as ice or cold. If the barley of Scandinavia or Laplante is also the same as that of our country If the growth is slow, it will be blown by the cold wind before it bears fruit. Therefore, when the foreign enemies did not attack the Great Anyu of the Northern Kingdom, they had to grow quickly in order to bear fruit. The same is true for human beings! They cannot live for a long time. Human beings develop rapidly physically and mentally. The so-called child prodigies are probably not long-lived. Because they don’t live long, there is a kind of natural force latent to do everything in their lives when they are children, just as I learned from Laplante. Like the back barley, impetuously flying through the parabola of its life.

"And you must not forget that the barley of Laplante passes its habits on to the next generation. Habits can be innate, so although the barley of Laplante is transplanted in our warm country with a different climate, the other The growth is still the same as in Laplante. "Humans are no different from this. People are happy or hateful because of the good and evil of the educational environment. Not only that, but the goodness we have gained can be passed on to our children and grandchildren. The good begets the good, and the living good people will pass on their good spirit. , good deeds, and good habits are passed on to his children. "Anico, you are still young, so I am afraid you may not understand everything I said. As long as you grow up in the future, you can remember what I said about barley today. When you grow into a bearded adult, if you remember If I talk about barley, I will think about various things, and I will apply the results of my thinking to problems of daily life or social problems." When my uncle talked about it so enthusiastically, that infinitely kind heart shone like a star in his eyes.An Like felt that his uncle was really great. Sangou Maixia Narcissus Shi Diaobo One day, my uncle was squatting on the path in the courtyard, picking grass very interestingly.An Like sat on the boulder and watched.Seeing my uncle's funny look, I found it strange, so I called out: "uncle!" "Well." "Is picking grass fun?" "Very interesting! You don't know that." "I don't know. Can't an employer handle such a troublesome and trivial matter?" When my uncle heard what An Like said, he said: "It's so interesting. I'm talking to a lot of grass. Not only grass? Look, it's so interesting. Maybe your eyes won't see it. I'm talking to ants, blocking their ranks, or greeting snails." , and chatting with many insects. Trivial work, just use it to think about things." After saying this, my uncle bowed his head and smiled alone, then raised his head again: "Hey, An Like, my thoughts are running between heaven and earth. Although my heart stopped in the ranks of grass and snails, now it has gone to the sky. The book I want to write here must have "Garden" "Lessons of Life." Alas, books and such things are not what I want to write... Hey, Amico, come, if you want to hear, I will tell you." "Uh," Amico cheered up, jumped off the rock, and ran to his uncle.Uncle sat by the path and said: "In this path, I didn't plant any seeds, but there are thirty or forty kinds of grasses, each growing in its own place. You see, this is foxtail, this is buttercup, and this is scallop grass. Once these grasses are pulled out, they will not regenerate , unless the wind blows the seeds from elsewhere, that is an exception. "However, there are some stubborn and tenacious guys. Look, this is, this is called dog wheat. And, here, isn't there a golden flower blooming there? That is summer narcissus. The tenacity of these two things Resilience, it’s amazing! No matter how you try to get rid of it, it’s useless, and it will sprout immediately. Darkness, there’s a big lesson hidden in it, listen to it!” Uncle continued: "The dog wheat is very persistent. Whether it is wetland sand or cracks in rocks, it will take root everywhere. If you want to get rid of it, cutting it off is useless, even if you pull out its positive root. The many small roots will still grow in the deep soil and rock crevices. I have used hook knives and grass hoe to try to get rid of the little snake-like roots, but finally failed. Because as long as there is one root left, that guy It will immediately sprout and grow. "There is also this summer narcissus, which is also a disgusting thing. No matter how you cut it off, it is still safe. Because this thing has six or even twenty conical bulbs scattered in the ground. The so-called conical bulbs The bulbous root is just like a caraway. The root of this shape is hidden in the ground. Pulling out one or two of it is really innocuous, and it immediately restores its old appearance. "Summer narcissus is similar to the cypress under the fig tree. There are many kinds of cypresses. The ones there are very vigorous. No matter how you pull them out, in the second year, it still seems to tell us that it has been a long time. I can't do anything about this guy, but I admire it. Well, An Like, Shi Diaobai really has the so-called indestructible power of diamond. When I think of this, I can't help but say to it: live, Shi Diaobai Bo, do your best! "The dog wheat, summer narcissus, and stone cypress have taught us a great moral lesson. They have the vitality to resist destruction, because their roots are deep and they have potential. We must overcome the misfortune of life, It is also necessary to extend the roots of knowledge and emotions deep. If we can do this, even if we encounter a disaster like a storm, we will still be able to exert new strength and regenerate prosperity. It will not work if the roots are shallow. To deal with life with superficial thoughts and superficial feelings, once misfortune strikes, it is inevitable that one will lose all strength. "Deep-rooted plants are not like shallow-rooted plants that can absorb a lot of water at once, but they can gradually absorb water little by little, and hide it deep in the ground. Therefore, even under the scorching sun, they can still use their potential to resist. As for dying. "Ah, An Like, about the roots of plants, when you think about it when you get older, you will probably think it's good."