Begonia High School.

When Qi Qi walked into the classroom, the classroom, which would normally be noisy at this time, was unusually quiet at the moment.

The fire at Huxing Hospital this time has shrouded the campus in a layer of gloom and misery.

Many people have relatives and friends who died in the fire.

Once upon a time, they in the ivory tower thought that death was far away, but now they have experienced it firsthand.

It turns out that when disaster strikes, human life can be so fragile.

There were so many vivid faces, but when I saw them again, they turned into dead char.

Many of the victims' families couldn't help but weep bitterly when they came to identify the bodies, and the people who were sleeping in the body bags were their loved ones, but they were lying here cold, no matter how much they called, they would not wake up again.

At 7:45 a.m., it was supposed to be the time for the morning reading, but no one came out to take the reading.

Today is the morning reading in English, and the person in charge of the reading is the representative of the English class, a girl named Gu Ling, who asked for leave today on the grounds of attending the funeral. Her father, a doctor at Lakestar Hospital, was a victim of the Lakestar Hospital fire, and he was not burned to death, but died from a stampede.

When the fire broke out, he had the courage to stand up to maintain order, but he became a stepping stone for others.

When his body was found, it was in a horrible state.

In a stampede accident, people can be stacked on top of each other for five or six layers, and it doesn't take long for people to suffocate to death.

However, Gu Ling's father did not die of suffocation, he was trampled to death, the woman's high heels stepped directly into his chest and abdomen, and the continuous stepping made none of his ribs intact.

It is hard to imagine the despair he must have felt before he died.

He didn't deserve to die.

In the silence, the head teacher Wu Jingcheng walked into the classroom.

He looked at the blank faces in front of him and knew that it was time to take that lesson, a lesson about the concept of life and death.

Turning around, he picked up the chalk and wrote a line on the blackboard:

"If you can't help people, how can you do ghosts?"

The rustle of chalk on the blackboard was distinctly clear in the stillness of the classroom.

"Today, I'm here to teach you one of the most important lessons of your life. Wu Jingcheng's tone was serious, "About life and death." ”

Turning sideways and pointing to the blackboard, he said: "This sentence is the answer of Confucius when Confucius disciples asked Confucius about death, what does it mean, it means that he doesn't even understand how to live, and it is meaningless to focus on death." It can be seen from this sentence that although Confucius did not answer directly, I think you can also hear that Confucius actually wanted people to face death by living a more valuable life, which is also 'death and immortality' in the usual sense. ”

"This is the first story I want to tell you. ”

"In the second story, the protagonist is Zhuangzi, you all know each other, but do you know that when Zhuangzi's wife died, instead of crying, he was singing. Of course, this is not because he is cold and ruthless by nature, but he thinks that people originally come from qi, and when qi gathers, it is born, and when qi is dispersed, it dies, and his wife does not exist in this world in the first place, and now she is just returning to the place where she came, so there is nothing to be sad about, she is just falling into a long sleep. I hope you can have such an open-minded view of life and death. ”

"Life and death are the beginning and end of human life, and the content of human life is all the activities between life and death. This period of time is longer or shorter, with some people dying young, and others living a long life. We must not only welcome the law of life, but also face the law of death. There is no escaping death, and as you grow older, whether it is your own death or the death of others, you must learn to face it calmly. ”

After a pause, he said earnestly: "In this fire in Lakestar Hospital, it is because many people are not calm enough in the face of death that it has led to all kinds of emergencies. They lack a correct view of life and death. I hope you will be able to face life and death in peace.

After all, some of you will join the City Guard in the future, some will become employees of some logistics companies and security companies in the future, and some may never fight monsters and sea beasts for the rest of their lives. But whatever your future holds, this is a time when you need to face life and death.

Death will be an unavoidable problem for you in the future. Only when death is calm enough will it be possible for you to get rid of it and even overcome it!"

"Teacher, human life is too fragile, a car accident, a fire, or even a fish bone stuck in the throat can kill us. How do you let us defeat this? Why are there so many monsters in our time, why can't they be safer? I don't want to die, I just want to live well. ”

Wu Jingcheng looked at him: "Do you know, there are 7,200 people in the world every hour, 120 people every minute, and 2 people die every second. At the same time as you spoke, in a corner of the earth, more than two beings left this world forever. That's right, death is so plain, it's like eating and drinking, so real happens in our daily life.

Even if there are no monsters, no sea beasts, no car accidents, no fires in this world, the fish bones stuck in the throat will not kill people, and death will come as scheduled. Because you only have a lifespan of more than 100 years. Even if he is a twelfth-level psionic person, he will live more than twenty years longer than ordinary people at most in his lifetime. Why do you think you have to be special?"

Glancing at the others, "It's no exaggeration to say that every minute and every second of your sitting here now, the Grim Reaper is roaming around you. But haven't you grown up so peacefully? You've been battling death for sixteen years, and you're still the victors.

Before that kind of death that people cannot control does not really come, I sincerely hope that you, love your own life, love life, love your parents, and bravely face everything in life, including death. ”

"I don't want to die, I want to live forever. Someone muttered quietly.

"What Qin Shi Huang didn't achieve, do you think you can?" Wu Jingcheng looked at him.

"Teacher, science and technology are advancing, isn't His Majesty the 'Emperor' achieving immortality by turning his mind to the machine called the Heavenly Emperor?"

"Do you think that's eternal life?"

Wu Jingcheng's tone was light, "Put your thinking in a machine, hundreds of millions of data streams wash over your mind every day, you can see any corner of this land at any time, no one has secrets in your eyes, you feel very cool, don't you?" But if you think about it again, you just live without a body until the earth is destroyed, even if the earth is destroyed, as long as there is abundant energy, you can still live forever, to face hundreds of millions of years of loneliness, will this make you happy?"

The student who spoke couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the picture Wu Jingcheng had conceived.

Wu Jingcheng continued: "It is death that gives our life a limit, and it is death that gives our life meaning. Death, in the whole river of our human life, is like a harbor or a wharf, when it comes to you, you should go down. Don't fantasize about the so-called immortality, which has given you more than a hundred years, and you can't live a wonderful life, and if you are given another hundred years, will you be able to fill the vacancy that you have not completed for more than a hundred years?"

"You know, you are only sixteen years old now, and a tenth of your life has not yet passed, but if you think back to your first sixteen years, do you think that these sixteen years have been so long? By the way, there's an immortal here. ”

The heavy atmosphere finally rang out in the classroom with a long-lost laugh.

The boy who kept claiming to live forever blushed.

Wu Jingcheng finally said: "The meaning of life lies in thickness, not in length, if you can live every day wonderfully, it will be enough." ”

"So the question is, how do you make every day wonderful?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he said in unison: "By reading-"

After saying that, everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they all laughed in unison.

"Yes!" Wu Jingcheng nodded as a matter of course, "By reading, reading gives you the right to choose your life." ”