330. The soul of the nation
During the summer vacation, Yaoyao's visa finally came down and he was going to go to school in the United States, Aunt Hui'er.
Yao Yuan and his wife accompanied her on the train and took her to Xiyuan Airport.
He carried his daughter's backpack and held the suitcase in his hand. Kang Kang held his hands empty-handed, just shaking, and kept reminding him all the way.
Yao Yuan was very strong and went out with his mother and naturally had to work as a part-time coolie.
Shaking seemed a little happy, and there was no sign of sadness on his face that he wanted to part with his parents.
Until he passed the airport security check, Kang Kang was still shouting loudly from behind: "Don't run around when you get off the plane, wait for Aunt Hui'er to pick you up! If you have something to do, call home!"
The crowd that was shaking and scrambling into the boarding plane, walked away and could not see it, Kang Kang stopped talking. He could not see his daughter, but tears flowed down again.
This reminded Yao Yuan of the time when he left Aunt Jiang when he was in the rank of the riot.
At that time, resistance was the same as today's shaking. I yearned for a new world and a new life, and there was no place to accommodate the pain of separation from my relatives. Aunt Jiang was today's resistance, and everything in her heart was full of the reluctance that my daughter wanted to leave her.
The little girl who was about to go to the countryside of the mountain to fight back with two small braids, wearing a green military uniform, jumping to catch a mining machine, was about to go to the countryside in the mountains to fight back, as if she had appeared in front of him again. The scene seemed to have happened yesterday.
Yao Yuan couldn't help but sigh and persuade Kangkang, "Don't cry anymore? When the child grows up, he will always leave us and go to the outside world to explore."
Kang Kang held Yao Yuan's arm and rested his head on his shoulder, looking so helpless.
Yao Yuan coaxed and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see the Dongpi Market. Do you want to go and have a look? This time we'll take a look."
Kang Kang raised his head from his shoulder, shook it, and said softly, "I won't go anymore, I'm not in the mood."
Kang Kang is now in his forties, close to the age when Aunt Jiang sent her to the army. But now she has better living conditions, Kang Kang will take care of herself. No matter how you look at it, she is only in her thirties. She is much younger than Aunt Jiang back then.
Sometimes, Yaoyao accompanied her mother to go shopping, and Shake was taller than her mother. If you didn’t know, you thought they were sisters.
Once, Kang Kang took Yaoyao to buy clothes, and the salesperson actually thought that Kang Kang was Yaoyao's sister. Because Yaoyao was so tall, the shopping guide said Yaoyao, don't just buy it for yourself, buy one of the same items for your sister. You sisters can definitely build this street when you wear it out!
Yaoyao was wondering, but my mother didn’t bring Yuanyuan out? After thinking for a long time, I realized that the sister the shopping guide mentioned was her mother!
This incident made Yaoyao come back and learn it vividly. Everyone was happy for several days. Kang Kang said that he was wearing a little tender and he had to wear old-fashioned clothes in the future and no longer wear the new version of fashion. In fact, Kang Kang was so happy that he would not look old.
After shook his way, Kang Kang looked bored and was no longer interested in the Dongchuang who had always wanted to see it. Yao Yuan had to find a place to sit down with her in the airport hall and coax her before talking.
The two of them found a seat in the corner and sat for a long time. Kang Kang was still unhappy and felt empty.
Yao Yuan said impatiently: "Why have you become so tiny all of a sudden? She just went out to school, but she didn't come back. She will come back for the New Year at the end of the year. Can't you still look at her?"
Kang Kang said unhappily: "She is the flesh that fell from my body! When she was born, she caught a big earthquake and caught you pretending to be stupid. This child suffered a lot when he was a child. He grew up by my side and never left me. He went so far by himself, for thousands of miles. Of course I can't stand it. You think they are all like you, heartless!"
Well, he advised her not to be sad, and changed her heartlessness.
Yao Yuan joked about her: "When you were shaking at home, you didn't look at her, you always beat her. If you leave, you will be reluctant to leave."
Kangkang argued: "She has a stubborn temper and always makes me angry when she is disobedient. Who would I beat her if I don't beat her? It's her mother who I hit her. She always loves her more than you, a father!"
Yao Yuan laughed again: "Take it down. That day, our mother lost her temper for Yaoyao's hunger strike. You copied such a thick rolling rolling rod to hit her, and said that she loved her more than me. I just don't love her anymore, and I can't bear to use such a thick stick to hit her."
Kang Kang said, "I'm showing my mother that way. When did you see me hit her like that?"
Yao Yuan looked at Kang Kang and asked for a long time: "So you are acting? Alas, why did you think of this trick?"
Kang Kang glared at him and said, "This little girl Yuanyuan is the one who teaches you."
Yao Yuan was even more surprised and looked at Kang Kang and asked: "Yuanyuan taught me? How did she know that shaking hunger strike is fake?"
Kang Kang laughed: "Yuanyuan, she is just a villain. She saw it the next day when she went on a hunger strike and ran over to me and told me that this must be your idea. Even if you don't say it, I know it's your idea. But I'm afraid that Yuanyuan is young, so she will not admit it if she missed it from her grandma."
Speaking of this, he stayed there and said, "I don't admit it, and she didn't ask much. Just tell me, Mom, if you want grandma to give in early, you have to make her feel more distressed. I asked her, why did grandma feel more distressed? She told me to pretend to be beaten and shake. Her grandma was the most painful, and she would definitely not be able to stand it first. When I thought this method was good, I deliberately copied the rolling noodle scroll that day and put it upstairs to shake. Do you think I really used such a thick rolling noodle scroll to shake, how could I get it?"
Yao Yuan suddenly understood. That day, Kang Kang took the rolling rolling roller and wanted to go and shake it. He couldn't come forward to stop it, so he kept winking Yuanyuan and asked Yuanyuan to stop her mother, but Yuanyuan pretended not to see it.
It turned out that this little girl had known for her mother to show her grandma, and she deliberately did not stop her. Moreover, she had this idea!
Yao Yuan was still very surprised. Yuanyuan was only fifteen years old and could see through his plan, and could also help her mother come up with ideas and enrich his plan. He believed that he could not do this scheming at the age of fifteen.
It seems that his career is really a successor. However, if you are just scheming, you have to guide Yuanyuan's scheming to the right path.
In this world, there are many smart people with many scheming, but how many people are there who can really achieve a career? The key is that their minds are not right, and their intelligence will be mistaken for the end.
Zhang Shuncai and his son are the best examples.
In order to obtain the power of the mining machine, Zhang Shuncai could be said to have done all his scheming, but he still failed in the end. What is the reason? His mentality is not right.
He killed Yao Hu and his wife against his conscience. No matter how cruel he was, he would have a moment of conscience. When Yao Yuan asked Aunt Jiang to pretend to be Liao Shufen and pretend to be a ghost to scare him, he would easily believe that it was Liao Shufen's ghost who came to seek revenge on him, and then he was easily deceived by Yao Yuan.
When Kang Kang pretended to be Liao Shufen again and appeared in front of him on the mountain, he would still believe without hesitation that it was Liao Shufen, who didn't even think about other possible opportunities and was eventually scared to death.
If you have a bad mind and do bad things, it will be a glory at that time, but afterwards, you will always be condemned by your own conscience, always suspicious, and frightened, and eventually you will be crushed by the debt of your own conscience.
The same is true for Zhang Jianguo. He always thinks about some evil ways. Although he can suddenly become rich, he ends up just a flash in the pan.
Therefore, Yuanyuan is smart and scheming, and looks good on the outside, but she must follow the right path. Only in this way can she last for a long time.
The saying "wealth is not rich for three generations" actually means that when people become rich, their descendants gradually become extravagant and selfish, do not follow the right path to do bad things, and gradually become incorrect in their minds and eventually die.
How can we ensure the health of Yuanyuan? We still have to absorb nutrition from the ancient culture of the Chinese nation. The Analects of Confucius, Records of the Grand Historian, University, Doctrine of the Mean... Yao Yuan's moral standards and principles of life basically come from these ancient classics.
Yao Yuan has decided to start to devote his thoughts to Yuanyuan during the summer vacation and teach her to learn ancient Chinese.
But the only thing this little girl doesn't look like herself is that she doesn't like ancient Chinese and antiques. If she doesn't like it, she will have a way to fool you. You have many other things, and you can't stare at her for twenty-four hours and play tricks with her.
It seems that if you want Yuanyuan to learn ancient Chinese, you have to make her fall in love with ancient Chinese first.
How did I fall in love with ancient Chinese? Yao Yuan thought.
It is remembered that when he was in high school, he occasionally found a 1950s book "Selected Prose in Tang and Song dynasties" from the school library, and then he turned to Ouyang Xiu's "Letter to the Speak of the Gaosi", which was conveyed by Ouyang Xiu's article. He was deeply impressed by the awe-inspiring righteousness and fell in love with ancient Chinese from then on.
At that time, his ancient Chinese writing skills were limited, and he could not fully understand Ouyang Xiu's articles without comments and translations.
But that year, with deep admiration for Ouyang Xiu's righteousness, he read through all the prose of this guy that he could find at that time. Especially the "Letter to the Gaosi Jian", he could recite it casually, and he still remembered it:
Xiu paused his head and bowed again. Bai Sijian said:... He came to be a censor,... Now he compared the actual traces and then decided to be content with his subordinates, not a gentleman!
...If one dares to do what one does not dare to do, it is a fool's failure; if one is wise and literary, it is a thief of a gentleman!
...This is a straightforward way to deceive people at that time, but not to deceive future generations. Now I want to deceive people today, but not afraid of future generations, so I cannot deceive people today.
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Yesterday, Andao was demoted to the official position, and Shi Lu was punished. He could still see scholars and officials with his face and call him censors in the court. He did not know that there were shameful things in the world. What a pity was that there was something happening in the holy dynasty, and the censors did not speak but asked others to say it. The books were in history, and those who were ashamed of the court in the future are so shameful!... If you still say that Xiwen is not virtuous and should be expelled, then what I say now is a friend and evil person. I hope that you can carry this book directly to the court, and that Zheng will punish him and kill him, so that the world will be relieved to know that Xiwen should be expelled, and that it is also a warning to the ministers.
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In the environment where everyone is implicated and cannot protect themselves, he still dares to speak generously, scold the shamelessness of the censor of Gao, and frame Fan Zhongyan. Yao Yuan still feels that every word is Jizhu and every word is killed.
If the letter is sent out, if the Censor Gao is brought to the emperor, the author may not have his life. However, Ouyang Xiu would not care about his life for justice.
Similarly, Yao Hu and his wife in those passionate years would not consider their lives for justice.
In the eyes of these people, the only thing that exists is justice!
This is the endless soul of the Chinese nation!
When Yao Yuan was in high school, he would be filled with tears in his eyes every time he read this article.
Yao Yuan decided to start with this "Letter to the Gao Si Jing" and teach his little girl Yuanyuan.
Chapter completed!