After Sunday dinner, Song Mengcheng received a call from Chen Jianghe, saying that he was going to Unit C 403 to drink tea.

If he had made this call earlier, Song Mengcheng would definitely invite him to dinner, and refusal would make Song Mengcheng's face unsightly, and if he didn't refuse, he would have to bear a reputation of taking advantage of students or accepting bribes in disguise, and the key to this reputation is not the evaluation of others, but a kind of self-evaluation.

Lao Chen is a very principled scholar, so naturally he will not let such a thing happen, and Song Mengcheng also understands Chen Jianghe's thoughts, which makes Song Mengcheng respect Lao Chen.

Song Mengcheng agreed to Chen Jianghe, and it was Unit C 403 that he ran back, but fortunately, Chen Jianghe did not arrive early.

About half an hour later, Chen Jianghe knocked on the door, still holding the tea leaves of Zhengshan Xiaozhong in his hand.

Song Mengcheng welcomed Chen Jianghe into the house and showed him around, including the bedroom.

Sitting down in the tea room, Chen Jianghe said, "Have you renovated here?"

Song Mengcheng said: "Vice President Zhao's previous decoration was good, and I didn't move the water and electricity pipelines, but changed them slightly,"

Chen Jianghe said: "The change is good, a bedroom has been opened, the living room is more transparent, and the bookshelves of the whole wall are also very shocking, if there is no office equipment, it must be very comfortable here, but this gray is a cold tone, the style has gone up, and it has warmed up." ”

Song Mengcheng said: "Actually, I am going to do a personal studio, at that time the decoration design was also in this way, the living room is my personal studio, two rooms, a resident, a tea, gray wall, is my favorite color, if it is a new house, I may not go to the paint, directly is the cement wall." The company is about to expand and will move to an office building, which is only a temporary transition. ”

Chen Jianghe said: "Your idea is good, but you set up a studio, what are you doing in it, you are not engaged in art." ”

Song Mengcheng said: "It can be used for many purposes, such as writing, painting, listening to classical music, practicing calligraphy, and you can also make some works." ”

Chen Jianghe expressed surprise and said, "You can also draw and calligraphy?"

Song Mengcheng made a pot of water to boil, and then said: "I learned calligraphy for two years when I was a child, and I practiced Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy, but I practiced wrong, I should start practicing from the seal script, the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty is already very mature, I learned the mature calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty, the pen is less simple, more than a little bit of ingenuity, now as long as the pen is brought about by these skills, so I am preparing to start from the seal script and learn again." ”

Chen Jianghe asked, "Have you also learned to paint?"

Song Mengcheng said: "I haven't learned to paint, but I like it more, so I can't paint figurative things." I plan to paint a set of easel works, acrylic or oil paintings, with the traditional swastika symbol as the center, the core of calligraphy as the external form, plus scientific interpretation, because for art, concept is the most important thing. ”

Chen Jianghe said: "Your idea is very interesting, the swastika is actually an important symbol in Buddhism, and it is inextricably linked with Luo Shu in traditional Chinese culture. ”

Song Mengcheng said: "In fact, the most important thing is the scientific interpretation, the swastika actually represents the sine wave, what the sine wave is, it is energy, it is information, this is the main purpose of my work." ”

Chen Jianghe said: "What you said about making some works, is this what you say?"

Song Mengcheng said: "It's not all, I usually like to write some modern poems, I want to express modern poems through various forms, such as poems on shelves, poems on leaves, poems carved on stones, printmaking poems, or writing a poem for some friends to take around the world, to take a photo of the performance art of each place, etc.

Chen Jianghe said: "The idea is very good, it seems that you want to be an artist." ”

Song Mengcheng said: "I don't want to be a family, I just want to be poetry everywhere, art everywhere, and I just want to live a little more taste." ”

Chen Jianghe said: "Then you still want to be a businessman?"

Song Mengcheng said: "Doing business is just to make some money, to get the greatest economic freedom at the same time, to live a comfortable life, if I have to say what kind of person I want to be, I just want to live a clean and pure life." ”

Chen Jianghe repeated this sentence: "Clean, pure, it is too difficult in this era, and people like us who engage in culture and academia prefer the atmosphere and spirit of the Republic of China period." ”

Song Mengcheng said: "If it's simple, I don't have to work hard. ”

Seeing that the water was boiling, Chen Jianghe handed over the tea leaves in his hand, Song Mengcheng was not polite, opened the lid of the pot, lowered the water temperature, and began to brew tea.

Song Mengcheng said: "Professor Chen, you can taste it, isn't it better to soak it like this?" ”

Chen Jianghe took a sip of tea and said, "Sure enough, the taste is very different, it's really full of knowledge." ”

Song Mengcheng said: "Professor Chen, you devote all your time to academics and pay little attention to life itself, so you have such feelings. ”

Chen Jianghe said: "I know that you all call me Lao Chen behind your back, you don't call me Professor Chen, listen to Shengfen, you call me Lao Chen, I have also learned a lot from you, Confucius said that there must be my teacher in the threesome, it is really not a lie." ”

Song Mengcheng took a sip of tea and said, "I respect Confucius, but I don't like him. ”

Chen Jianghe asked suspiciously: "Oh, why? Confucius's Confucianism has been passed down for thousands of years, and basically the literati in history have been influenced by Confucianism to varying degrees. ”

Song Mengcheng said: "Confucian philosophy is applied philosophy is the philosophy of accession to the WTO, for example, Confucius has a saying that knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, is knowing, how to translate it?"

Chen Jianghe said: "It means that to know is to know, and not to know is not to know, and only then does it really know, or it is smart." ”

Song Mengcheng shook his head and said, "Master is a world-famous educator and a saint, it is impossible to say such nonsense.

Chen Jianghe asked: "Then tell me how to translate this sentence." ”

Song Mengcheng said: "You translate this sentence, to interpret it according to Confucius's philosophy of accession to the WTO, the correct translation is that you know when you should know, and pretend not to know when you shouldn't know, so you really understand the meaning of knowing, so Zheng Banqiao said that it is rare to be confused, Cao Xueqin said that human affection is the article, and He Shen is the most favored courtier of Qianlong." ”

Chen Jianghe said: "That's why Confucius asked Lao Tzu to learn, because he couldn't learn the kind of freedom of Lao Zhuang." There is an article in the Analects of "Zi Lu, Zeng Hui, Ran You, Gong Xihua Sitting", several people talk about ideals, Gong Xihua said, Mo Chun, spring clothes are completed, five or six people are crowned, six or seven children, bathing in Yi, the wind is dancing, and they return. Confucius sighed and said, "I am with the dots!" In fact, this is what he said. ”

Song Mengcheng poured tea for Chen Jianghe and said, "Old Chen, you are a true friend, that's what it means." ”

Chen Jianghe asked: "Tell me, what is the concept of true friends that you understand?" ”

Song Mengcheng said: "This is very easy to explain, four words, useless!"

Chen Jianghe said: "The useless use, the words are good, how to explain it?"

Song Mengcheng glanced at Chen Jianghe, and said in his heart that you have said it well, and asked me how to explain it, but he still patiently explained: "In fact, the ancients also used one sentence to explain the concept of friends thoroughly, and the friendship of friends is as light as water. It's that there is no purpose at all, don't try to get, never lose, just like with Lao Chen, a few years later, I won't be studying, you are retired, let's meet again, I think, we will still talk about literature, art, ideals, not even need to talk, no purpose, no use, completely from mutual appreciation and spiritual tacit understanding, this is the definition of true friends. ”

Chen Jianghe said: "Xiaocheng, you have a deep understanding of culture and art, I think it would be a pity if you don't go to art, or be a scholar, do you have any idea of staying in the school to teach?"

Song Mengcheng said: "I'm used to being free and casual, let alone teaching, I can't work under others." Let's still drink tea and let you taste my Yiwu. ”

Chen Jianghe said: "In fact, the degree of freedom to teach at the university is very high, there are only three or four classes a week, all of which are big classes, and you can go back to rest after the class. ”

Song Mengcheng poured out the original tea leaves, boiled a new pot of water, began to brew Yi Wu, and changed the topic and said: "Lao Chen, you should drink more Pu'er or white tea, black tea is still too bland in comparison." ”

Chen Jianghe picked up the teacup and tasted it, and as soon as he entered the mouth, he was sweet and lubricated, and involuntarily closed his eyes and slowly experienced this greeting from the high mountain.

Feeling the fragrance of tea and the topic of friends, I remembered a poem: sighing that the old man is old and the old is finished, and who sleeps to have tea at noon, Chen Jianghe recited in a low voice. These are the last two sentences of Lu Fangweng's "Secluded Early Summer", the first six sentences are all about the scenery in the village, and the last two sentences are the psychological state to be expressed in the whole poem, which means that when I dream back at midnight, who will have a cup of tea with me to chat.

This is Lu You's sigh, but also the sigh of a twilight scholar, Song Mengcheng looked at the moonlight outside the window, and a few stars also echoed a song: The west wind has not turned frequent, and the night is deep in thought. The leaves sound in the courtyard, and the branches shake the eaves. When the stars are lit up, the light moon is new. The sleeves are sloppy, and this heart is the same as the old man.

Before saying goodbye, Lao Chen took the initiative to exchange Song Mengcheng's Yiwu tea cakes, leaving Zhengshan Xiaozhong, which was Lao Chen's way of expressing friendship, and Song Mengcheng did not refuse.