After the mid-term exams, there is a "May 1st" holiday. In the morning, the bright sun shone on the apricot tree in front of the door. The tree was planted with apricot kernels when Wang Xile was in preschool. Now the seedlings had grown a little longer, and a few sparrows jumped on them as if they were having a sports meeting, so that the proud little almond tree bent its head from time to time. The dense bitter herbs under the tree emitted a green shimmer, and from time to time sparrows jumped from the tree in search of food.

I looked out at the sparrows through the window, and at this time someone poked my waist with his hand, and I knew it was my son, so I didn't say anything, and continued to look at the sparrows. My son put his hand on me and said, "Daddy, this is serious, a few sparrows will see you like this, if there are a few swans, you must see your eyes." ”

"Swans. Why do you talk about swans?" I said.

"I haven't seen swans in a long time, and I really want to go out into the wild and see the flocks of swans again. The son said affectionately.

"Look at the swans. It's difficult!"

The son's mouth was half open and he didn't say anything. After a while, he said, "So, we won't be able to see the swans in the future?"

"Nope. The weather is so nice today, maybe you can see it. I said.

With a smile on his son's face, he stretched forward and looked at the sparrow. He said, "Dad, there are many small lakes in the old vegetable garden, there must be swans, let's go to the old vegetable garden to find it." ”

My son's words were so firm that they didn't seem to be negotiable. It seems that Wang Xile has begun to take the initiative to accept outdoor life. So the two of us took our things out and set off for the old vegetable garden.

The old vegetable garden was cultivated in the late 60s by the state in the late 60s during the salt industry battle in Gilan Tai, six kilometers away from our residence. I've taken my son there many times for various activities. Today is the first time I've been riding a bike with him.

Along the way, the sun seems to be trying to squeeze water out of the drought-dead trees, and the intensity of the light continues to increase. The son had a perseverance in his heart, and this difficulty was not enough to worry about, and it only took him more than half an hour to conquer the six-kilometer asphalt road.

When we arrived at the old vegetable garden, we looked for it from lake to lake. Every time I find a lake, I feel as if something is missing in my heart, and how I hope that magical life suddenly appears. By noon, there was only the lake on the side of the old vegetable garden road, and since it was close to the roadside, there was little hope for swans. The son said, "Dad, what if there are no swans there?"

"Victory or defeat is common sense. It's nothing. I said.

Unsurprisingly, there are no swans here. In the midst of disappointment, we made lunch. During the meal, I said, "Joy, I haven't seen a swan many times when I go out." ”

"That's it. It's as if the swans are gone. ”

"Joy, twenty years ago, my hometown was full of water and fish, and every spring there were a lot of swans and ducks in this area in front of you, and my father had seen the largest flock of ducks at least more than 400, and now I could occasionally see a few wild ducks, and it was too difficult to see swans!" I continued, "Then think about why the swans are gone, and where have they gone." ”

"Dad, are the swans being killed? We often see people hunting birds when we play outside. Last time I was in the desert park, I almost got into a fight with the adult who was hunting birds. ”

"Speaking of fighting, I want to tell you about war. Want to hear it?"

"War is war. The son said, "Yes." Daddy, hurry up. ”

The earliest reference to war can be traced back to the battle between David and Gorias in the Bible. That's a fighter, one to one. As time progressed, professional soldiers replaced individuals, and the number of troops went from small to large, and now the war has been framed as an entire country, and even Star Wars.

The weapons of war evolved from swords to guns, killing and wounding only one person at a time. Then the machine gun was invented, which could kill and injure dozens of people at a time, then the cannon was invented, which could kill hundreds of people at a time, then the airplane bomb, which could kill thousands at a time, and then the atomic bomb, which could kill hundreds of thousands at a time. Now that the latest bioscience weapons can kill millions of people at a time, quantum weapons are being developed in the laboratory in the hope of wiping out all of humanity at once. Mankind, on the other hand, has always made a promise to make murder weapons, but it is like a miser to invest in improving the living environment. ”

"Dad, I asked you to tell me stories about the war, how can you tell me these things that I don't understand. The son said.

We stopped talking and began to eat slowly. After a while, the son suddenly said, "I know how the swan died." ”

"How did you die?"

"It was poisoned. ”

"Why?"

"I was playing in the market in the winter and I saw people selling rabbits, and I asked the uncles and they said they were poisoned. ”

"Poisoned," I said, "possibly." With the development of the country's economy, there are no lakes and no pollution, no rivers are not polluted, which interrupts the survival chain of many species in the natural water flow, and the fish, shrimp, microorganisms, and plants in rivers and lakes are decreasing or disappearing, but Dad feels that no matter how serious the pollution is, it has not yet reached the level of annihilation of the swans. ”

"How did the swans not exist?"

Faced with my son's question, I thought about it, I remembered a report, and everything seemed to understand a lot. I said, "Rejoice, the swans are starving." ”

"How can you starve to death?"

"Dad saw such a report: there is a wetland called Yancheng in Jiangsu, where nearly 1,000 red-crowned cranes have always come to inhabit in previous winters (there are less than 2,000 red-crowned cranes in the world), but the number of cranes has decreased significantly in recent years. The most terrifying thing is that when the cranes fly over Yancheng, cranes often suddenly fall from the sky, and after dissection, it is found that the cranes do not even have a grain of food in their stomachs -- they are starving to death! These red-crowned cranes come from the northeast, and in the past they had to stop in the wetlands along the coast of Shandong to replenish their food. Today, most of the wetlands have been expropriated or converted into farmland, and cranes are unable to forage in these areas, so they have to fly until they have exhausted their last strength...... Joy, do you believe this report?" my son did not speak, and I continued, "Haven't these wetland lakes in front of you also been rapidly getting smaller over the years, so that the swans who come here may also starve to death on the way to nowhere to find food, and only hunger can make a group disappear as a whole." ”

"Dad, where does the water come from for all these little lakes we have here now?"

"It was made by burning bricks and digging into a big pit, and then it was formed by seeping into the groundwater, which directly led to the drop of the surface water level around it, and you can see how miserable the trees around it died. ”

"There are so many dead trees. ”

"Rejoice, 20 years ago, the state put forward a development strategy to let some people get rich first, but because of the lack of tough measures against poverty, a good measure has a bad impact on the prosperity and long-term stability of the country. And this way of evaluating success or failure based on how much wealth you have, over time, will turn the country into a "money rabid dog" society. Joy, you know a lot of middle school students, and what do they do the most bad things?"

"Smoking. ”

"That's what the 'money rabies' are all about. ”

"Why? Why is it called a 'money rabies'?"

"Money rabid dog is a kind of instruction that people do not use their own brains and always root outside their bodies. For example, every child must have excellent academic performance. ”

"It can't be. ”

"What is the most important thing for a child who is not up to the mark?"

"Criticism. Endless criticism. ”

"How do you know?"

"I'm a bad student, I know the situation of a bad student best, and I'm a bad student who fell from the top student, so I know more about it!"

"Joy, the teacher's constant criticism of the child is a manifestation of the lack of deep academic research in education. How does it feel to be constantly criticized?"

"There is a lot of criticism, I always feel that my brain is very big, I don't want to think about anything, and what the teacher says is what it is. ”

"Joy, if your study life is always in a state of criticism, your life will be over in less than three years. ”

"Why?"

"Because three years is enough to make you a lazy brainer, and finally become a brainless second-hand. ”

"In that case, why do adults control children tightly, teachers always criticize students with poor grades, and parents either scold or beat children with poor test scores?"

My son's question left me speechless. Because how to quickly achieve high scores has become the best representative of education, this kind of uprooting education is simply unable to take into account the emotional growth of teachers and students. And human beings are emotional creatures, and without emotion, no amount of knowledge will have a good effect on the righteous life.