Niu Liang's mother was chopping vegetables in the cupboard, and Niu Liang suddenly walked in: "Mom, is there anything you want me to help with?"

Niu Liang's mother looked at Niu Liang: "Have you found a place to learn to drive?"

Niu Liang sadly: "I haven't found it yet, then Yanshan Auto Training is also a crooked product!"

Niu Liang's mother comforted her while putting the cut vegetables on the plate: "Don't panic! Take your time! BJ is so big, are you afraid that you can't find a real one?"

Niu Liang looked at his mother like that, and couldn't help laughing, and then said happily: "Mom! I lied to you! Then Yanshan Auto Training is really good! I have learned to drive!"

Niu Liang's mother glanced at Niu Liang: "Bragging! I didn't have a word of truth with my mother just after I got out of school?"

Niu Liang playfully swore an oath: "Lie to you as a puppy!"

Niu Liang's mother still didn't believe it: "How can it be so fast?...... It will take you a long time to go out and find a place, and it would be good to report your name at most today!"

Niu Liang: "You are still looking at the sky with the old emperor's calendar! The current era can really be said to be a thousand miles in a day! That Yanshan automobile training is all a modern brand new teaching mode! Plus your son's brain is ...... and smart."

Niu Liang's mother finally turned around happily, turned on the fire on the stove, and said, "Don't stink yourself!"

Niu Liang happily turned around and walked out of the cupboard. I went back to my bedroom, turned on the lamp, and sat down at my desk to look through the training journal. Thinking about everything that happened today, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. But after a while, the smile on the corner of his mouth suddenly disappeared, and a solemn expression appeared on his face, and the lie to his mother echoed in his ears:

"I have a classmate's father who is a big boss and he is ready to lend me money. ”

Niu Liang got up from his seat, paced back and forth in the room, and finally lay on his back on the bed, looked at the ceiling, and said softly: "Where can I find the money to buy this car?"

This night, Niu Liang fell into a restless situation again. He felt that learning to drive was no longer an important thing, and that the top priority at the moment was to raise money to buy a car. For him, what is the use of learning this driving skill without a car? He gave up the college entrance examination just so that he could start his career right away and set off a new wave in the taxi industry! If he learned to drive and then worked slowly to earn this astronomical car money to him, then everything would be meaningless! He thought of the lie he had told to his mother again, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: This huge car money really had to be borrowed, and this was the only shortcut. The first thing he thought of was going to the bank for a loan. Although he usually hears a lot of rumors: it is difficult to get a loan from the bank now, he still has to give it a try. I won't go to the driving school tomorrow for the time being, so I'll go to the bank first. Yes, tomorrow!

The next day, Niu Liang went to inquire about the loan from bank after bank. Every one of them was a fluke - hoping that the loan conditions of this one would be loosened and that their dreams would come true, but they always came out in despair - all of them were as cold as frost, and they could not be accommodated, they could not be stretched, and even the heat of the sun could not melt them even a little!

Niu Liang was walking listlessly on the street pushing his bicycle, the clouds on his face seemed to cover the entire sky, and his legs sank as if they were filled with lead! No road! There was no way out! What should I do with the money for this car? Niu Liang was annoyed for a while, and suddenly looked up and found a small card newly pasted on an electric pole next to him. So he stepped forward to watch. The small card reads:

A luxury nightclub

Urgent

Mr. Public Relations, several public relations ladies. Requirements: Male height is more than 1.8 meters, handsome appearance, female is more than 1.65 meters, outstanding appearance. The daily income is tens of thousands.

Contact number: 1360680119010

Niu Liang watched, watched, and felt a fever on his face. He had already heard the inside story of Miss Public Relations of this nightclub. Before he finished reading it, Niu Liang pushed the car away, but the voice of "tens of thousands of daily incomes" kept echoing in his head, and he couldn't help but think: "If I go to work for a month, the money to buy a car will be about the same." But ......"

Niu Liang was distraught, got on the bicycle steeply, and galloped forward. He can't imagine that he would do that kind of thing regardless of shame! In the education he received since he was a child, those are the most shameless things in human beings! He has been excellent in character and learning since he was a child, and although he has now given up the college entrance examination to become an older brother, he must not degenerate to that point!

Niu Liang rode violently, and after a while, he suddenly looked up and found that he had arrived in the alley at the door of his house. He felt that he could not go back, so he turned around and drove towards the ruins of the Old Summer Palace.

The Old Summer Palace, the former royal garden, a giant garden that gathers the treasures of Eastern and Western art, was destroyed by the plundered war more than 100 years ago, except for the Western Pavilion that was renovated and turned into a heritage park, most of the others are still abandoned there, barren grass and wild trees, the wind is at its own right, and the broken walls and tiles have long been covered tightly, interspersed with several rural roads. Walking into it, the feeling of being in the ancient capital of the Orient suddenly disappears, as if you have arrived in a remote countryside! The Fuyuanmen community, where Niu Liang's family is located, is on the edge of this "countryside", and in fact it was one of several small villages that developed on this ruins. When he was a child, Niu Liang and Liu Kun went to the "countryside" from time to time to play, catching crickets and butterflies, picking wild flowers and wild fruits, especially the "wild walnut forest" - I don't know who planted it, and it was unattended, and it became everyone's favorite. Whenever the walnuts are ripe, everyone climbs the tree to pick, beat, eat, everyone is full of food, not to mention, but also to pick a big bag, a pair of hands black for two months can not be washed!

For the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, what impressed Niu Liang the most was the Western Museum. Whenever he saw the remnants of art, he had a feeling of heartache, as if it had penetrated deep into the bone marrow and would never get better. When he was six years old, he wrote a small poem called "The Ruins of the Old Summer Palace", which was old-fashioned and was called a "prodigy" by adults. The following is reproduced for the benefit of readers:

Title: The site of the Old Summer Palace

The war of savage plunder,

Will all the Qionglou Yuque,

All reduced to ashes.

Only the remnants of these art remain,

Like an immortal elf,

Crashing into people's eyes,

Let people think about it

The enchantment of history

It hurts my soul!

Now that his childhood memories are scarce, Niu Liang only wants to adjust his worries in the secluded forest. He rode his bicycle slowly into the wooded path. All kinds of weeds and shrubs seem to take advantage of this free field to grow to the fullest, vigorous, dense, so long that they cover people's vision, and shine with all kinds of verdant luster in the early summer sun, which is close to people's eyes! Those trees are even higher on top of it, stretching out their huge wings to monopolize the light energy of life, and only under the intervention of Feng Bo can they tremble and leak a few mottled rays of light to the nether. The forest was unusually quiet, and there was not a single pedestrian for a long time. Niu Liang rode for a while, came to a relatively open space, got out of the car, and was looking for a larger brick and stone to sit on, when suddenly he saw a person sitting at the foot of a big tree, holding a book in his hand and reading, and there seemed to be a stall in front of it, selling something. Niu Liang felt a burst of surprise in his heart, and couldn't help but walk over, wanting to understand.

When I came to the man, it was a seller. But what he sold was very peculiar: two books on a gray-brown cloth blanket more than two feet long and more than a foot wide. One is a yellow-brown coated paper cover, which is thicker, and the other is a normal white paper cover, which is thinner. The two books have the same title, both are "Open Season", but the subtleties are different. At the back of the bookstall stands a piece of advertising paper the same size as the book, on which the book reads:

Authors sell books

The world's first strange book

Sweeping the history of human civilization for 10,000 years

(poem)

In the lower center of the advertising paper, a small poem is written with a fountain pen, which is enlarged as follows:

Ten years of strange books,

It's scary to look at.

Sellers and acquaintances,

Fun and forget the year.

Niu Liang glanced at it roughly, and the man was still looking at the book in his hand, as if he hadn't noticed that someone was coming. Niu Liang finally couldn't help but ask, "How did you come to such a remote place to sell your books?"

The man finally raised his head, looked at Niu Liang and smiled, and said, "I am imitating Jiang Shang's method, and those who are destined will take the bait." ”

Niu Liangle was happy: "Am I destined?"

Book seller: "Fate or not, I'm just putting out the bait, the key is in your heart!"

Niu Liang: "What kind of book are you?"

Book seller: "This white paper is a proof, you can take a look at it." The thick one is the main book, and it is not allowed to be read so as not to stain it, because there is only this one. ”

Niu Liang picked up the white-skinned sample and looked at it. When I saw the words "Deng Shuntiancheng" written under the title of the book, I couldn't help asking: "Your name is Deng Shuntiancheng?"

Book seller: "This is my pen name. ”

Niu Liang continued to look down, followed by a few inscriptions, which read:

Those who read it are sacred

Those who are turbid see it and think it is lewd

Those who are turbid are also sanctified

Here is another dedication, which reads:

To the truth, to the future, to the pioneers of free humanity.

Niu Liang faintly felt that the ideas of this book might be a bit radical. Turning to the second page, the first sentence is an advertising slogan indicating the nature of the book, which reads: "Mankind's first novel on the art of the body and the philosophy of sexuality", and the following is a brief introduction and sample chapter of the novel. Niu Liang took a cursory glance, and sure enough, it was as he had predicted, but the writing of the novel was really good, and the theme and content were relatively novel, so it was worth a look. So he asked, "How much does it cost to read this book?"

The bookseller didn't speak, only held out an index finger. Niu Liang guessed: "Ten yuan." ”

The bookseller shook his head. Niu Liang deliberately: "One yuan." ”

The book seller smiled and finally said, "One hundred dollars." ”

Niu Liang: "So expensive?"

Book seller: "It's not a book, it's a manuscript, and the cost is high." ”

Niu Liang: "Why don't you take it to the publishing house to publish?"

The bookseller paused for a moment before he said: "This is a forbidden book of the times, just like Copernicus's heliocentrism said in medieval Europe, which publishing house would dare to publish it?

Niu Liang took a closer look at the book seller: he was in his thirties, wearing a pair of glasses, his hair was nearly halfway, his ears were long, he had a short beard, his face was not beautiful and ugly at first glance, and there was a trace of handsomeness hidden between his eyebrows. Half elegant, half reckless. The book he had just read had been closed by him, and the title of the book was "The Legend of the Giants", probably from the European Renaissance. Then Niu Liang sighed and said: "It's really at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in the important land of Gyeonggi, there are dragons and crouching tigers everywhere!"

The bookseller's throat was a little astringent: "What kind of dragon and tiger—— I don't have to ask for food except for a few manuscripts now!"

"The hero is in trouble, but I haven't worked yet-" Niu Liang hesitated for a while, and then said, "Okay, how about giving you fifty?"

The book seller smiled faintly and said, "Okay! Seeing that you are a knowledgeable and courageous person, I will sell it to you at the cost price!"

Niu Liang picked up the book, flipped through it, collected it, got on his bicycle, and quickly rushed home. Niu Liang read the book in one breath overnight, and in the process, his thinking also changed dramatically. What he thought was shameless is now less ugly, but more righteous. He put the book in his hand on the bedside table, leaned back on the back of the bed, and couldn't help but think of his thoughts again:

"Do you want to do it?...... There is no turning back. There is absolutely no hope of finding a bank loan, there is no guarantee, there is no collateral, and especially the mother cannot be let know that the money has not been settled...... You can't give up driving a taxi and go back to school, and there's nothing wrong with doing it......"

He remembered what Wei Lai, one of the protagonists of the novel, said in his speech: "All human exchange activities that conform to the principles of voluntariness, autonomy, equality, and mutual benefit and do not harm the interests of others around them are rational and legal, and are morally good!"

He got up from the bed, sat down at his desk, took out his notebook, and wrote down the sentence on it. He was determined to make it his general guideline for future conduct. He seems to have been reborn as a different person. He re-examines the world and feels that although the current society has made great progress compared to the past, there are still many inhumane dogmas that hinder people's path to freedom. He can no longer be swayed by these ideas and lose his pursuit of a happy life. He must reconstruct in his mind the values of the world and develop the potential for happiness with a more open mind. No wise man can afford to do it, but his life and deeds must be full of righteousness, and only then can he attain a full and noble experience of happiness.

When Niu Liang's mental journey completed such a transformation, he couldn't help but regard the book seller as a prophet of truth. One day not long after, he couldn't help but go to the clearing in the woods again, trying to meet him again and have a good conversation, but unexpectedly, people went to the sky and disappeared. He never met the mysterious book seller since.

Niu Liang made up his mind, turned off the lights, and lay down on the bed, but he didn't feel sleepy yet. After a while, I turned over, and I couldn't help thinking:

"I heard that people in this area should not only be handsome, but also have some skills......"