On April 13, a passenger plane flying from Guangzhou to Beijing landed at Beijing Airport.

In the 80s, the capital did not have as serious smog as later generations, but due to the wind and sand of the surrounding desert, the whole capital looked gray.

The yellow sand all over the sky seems to put the big capital in a yellowed old photo, those old buildings and old costumes give Huo Yaowen a kind of nostalgia, and it is also an illusion of the imprint of the times.

As soon as he got off the plane, Huo Yaowen and a few bodyguards just walked out of the exit when they saw someone waiting there not far away holding a sign with their name written on it.

Huo Yaowen glanced at it a few times, thinking that it should be someone sent by Peking University to pick up the plane.

Before he could step forward to ask, he saw a man in a Mao suit walking quickly, this person was about forty years old, and stretched out his hand with a smile on his face and said, "Hello Mr. Huo." ”

"Hello, may I ask who you are?" Huo Yaowen was stunned.

The middle-aged man smiled and nodded: "Contemptible Tang Yijie, the current philosophy teacher of Peking University, the school asked me to come to the airport to personally pick up Mr. Huo to the school." At the same time, welcome Mr. Huo, you can come to Beijing to participate in the philosophical exchange meeting held by Peking University this year. ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Tang from Peking University, hello, hello. ”

As soon as he heard that the person was a teacher from Peking University, Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, and he was very curious about how the other party recognized him, after all, Huo Yaowen didn't have a photo circulating in the mainland, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "I don't know how Mr. Tang recognized me at a glance?"

"Hehe, this is mainly because I have seen Mr. Huo's photos of you. Tang Yijie thought of the reason why he got the photo, and couldn't help but smile in his heart.

"My photo?" Huo Yaowen frowned.

Tang Yijie: "Yes, one of my students likes your work very much, and it just so happens that the back of that book has a photo of Mr. Huo. ”

Printed with my photo? Huo Yaowen's mind turned, and he immediately thought of his first published work "Sweet Honey", and among all his works, the last page of "Sweet Honey" also has his own photo printed.

At this time, there should not be any pirated books in the mainland, and I don't know where the Peking University student got the "Sweet Honey" published on Hong Kong Island.

Tang Yijie didn't talk much on this topic, he looked at the few people who followed Huo Yaowen, although he didn't know what they were doing, but there were a total of four people, and the dormitory arranged by the school was probably not enough.

After thinking about it, he decided to bring people to Peking University first, and then Tang Yijie said: "Mr. Huo, I see that you are tired from taking a plane, let's go back to school to rest first." ”

Huo Yaowen smiled and said, "Then trouble you, Mr. Tang." ”

……

At two o'clock in the afternoon, at the gate of the campus of Peking University.

Looking at the plaque on the West Gate, which symbolizes the symbol of Peking University, Huo Yaowen has the illusion of traveling through time and space. In the spring of 2015, when he came to Beijing for a tour, he once visited the West Campus Gate of Peking University.

After getting out of the car, Tang Yijie just took two steps, and noticed Huo Yaowen who stopped on his heel behind him, glanced back at him, and found that Huo Yaowen's eyes had been looking at the plaque on the door, and he couldn't help but smile and said: "Mr. Huo, this plaque used to belong to Yenching University, and later merged with Jingcheng University and changed to Peking University." ”

Huo Yaowen looked at Tang Yijie and said with a smile: "I heard that the original four words on it should be Yenching University, or the plaque personally written by Mr. Cai Yuanpei of Peking University at that time. Unexpectedly, decades later, Yenching University, which was once handwritten by the president of Peking University, has merged with Peking University. ”

"I didn't expect Mr. Huo to know about this. ”

Tang Yijie couldn't help but look at Huo Yaowen in astonishment, although many people knew about this, they didn't expect that even Huo Yaowen, who had lived in Hong Kong for a long time, would also know. While being proud of his alma mater and famous, he nodded and said: "Yes, the plaque of Yenching University was indeed personally written by Mr. Yuan Pei, the former president of Peking University, and later after it was merged into Peking University, the plaque of the former Yenching University was changed to Peking University. ”

Perhaps because of the conversation just now, on the way to the campus, Tang Yijie and Huo Yaowen chatted very happily, from Peking University to Huo Yaowen's Hong Kong University, and from Hong Kong University to the philosophy that both of them had studied and taught.

At the same time, it is also the purpose of Huo Yaowen's visit to Peking University.

The "Philosophy Exchange Meeting" held by the Department of Philosophy of Peking University was originally intended to be carried out between several well-known universities in China, but Feng Ding, the head of the Department of Philosophy, felt that this "exchange meeting" should not be limited to a few universities in China, so he asked Zhou Peiyuan, President of Peking University, for instructions.

After President Zhou learned about this, he thought about it again and again, but still agreed to Director Feng's request, and agreed to invite some overseas philosophers to come to this "exchange meeting" held by the Department of Philosophy.

However, at this time, Peking University was not well-known abroad, and the invitation letter sent was like a stone sinking into the sea, and the people who were really invited and agreed to come were not only Huo Yaowen, but also professors of Hong Kong Chinese University, Mou Zongsan, Lao Siguang, and Jao Tsung-i, and Liu Shuxian, professor of the Department of Philosophy of Southern Illinois University, Kang Yi, and other six people.

After walking for a while, Tang Yijie said again: "Mr. Huo, I read about your theory of brain in a vat in a foreign philosophical weekly last year, and I was shocked when I first heard it, which not only made me doubt and disagree with the solipsism advocated by the British philosopher Berkeley, Austrian Mach and others. ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen pondered for a moment and said: "The subjective idealism advocated by Berkeley is a fundamental denial of the objective existence of the material world, which is not right in my personal opinion. ”

"Oh, Mr. Huo is a materialist?" asked Tang Yijie curiously.

"I'm not a materialist, I'm not an idealist. ”

Huo Yaowen shook his head: "Although I myself have studied philosophy and read a little bit of books related to Chinese and Western philosophy, I have not studied this subject too deeply. In my opinion, both idealism and materialism are just two sides of philosophy, one positive and one negative. ”

"I don't know what Mr. Huo ...... about Marx"

Without waiting for Tang Yijie to finish speaking, Huo Yaowen hurriedly looked into the distance and said, "Teacher Tang, is that the Weiming Lake of Peking University?"

Tang Yijie was stunned for a few seconds, then looked at the artificial lake in the distance, nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Huo, that is the Weiming Lake of Peking University." ”

As the most representative scenic spot of Peking University, Weiming Lake is surrounded by many Peking University students at the lakeside, including men and women, some of whom are reciting poems to each other, and some are sitting quietly on the green lawn, gazing at the undisturbed lake......

Huo Yaowen didn't want to discuss Mark with Tang Yijie too much, and when he saw the beautiful scenery over there, he couldn't help but say: "I heard that the scenery of Weiming Lake in Peking University is beautiful, Mr. Tang doesn't mind if I delay you a little time, go over and take a look?"

"Don't get in the way, since Mr. Huo has Yaxing, then I will accompany Mr. Huo to take a look at Weiming Lake. ”

Tang Yijie shook his head and smiled, indicating that he would not waste time.

The two walked side by side towards the shore of Weiming Lake, followed by several bodyguards, but at this moment, the students around them noticed the arrival of this group of people.

"Teacher Tang!"

"It's Professor Tang!"

"Professor Tang, are you also coming to Weiming Lake to play?"

"Professor Tang's last paper I wrote still needs to be improved. ”

Several students from the Department of Philosophy came forward to greet Professor Tang Yijie warmly when they saw him.

Tang Yijie smiled and smiled with the students.

Huo Yaowen, who was walking in front, looked back at Tang Yijie communicating with the students, and the scene of harmony between teachers and students temporarily reminded Huo Yaowen of the picture when he used to teach at HKU.

In the blink of an eye, almost ten years have passed.

Time flies.

Huo Yaowen sighed in his heart, then shook his head, turned around, and set his eyes on this unnamed lake.

In the late spring of April, the water in the Weiming Lake is like a big mirror, the willow trees by the lake are reflected in the clear water, in the afternoon sunshine, the lake surface is sparkling, floating and golden, and a few small fish can be faintly seen swimming freely under the water.

A breeze blows, the blue waves ripple on the lake, and a group of ducks from nowhere ripple on the lake, which is really a different kind of beauty.

The last time Huo Yaowen visited Weiming Lake, it was more than 30 years later, when he saw this situation, he was full of emotion for a while, and he remembered a poem he had read in his mind, and couldn't help but whisper: "The guest drama is close to the fish, and the willow is warm and warm." Spring peaches quietly bloom, frightened readers. ”

"Good!

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