Chapter 179: Dinner Together (Part II)
Li Yunqing was not in a hurry to eat, but held his cold red face with both hands and rubbed it again and again. Shang Yiming admired her movements, and only felt that at this moment she revealed the cuteness and innocence of a girl.
Next, Li Yunqing said "You're welcome", and the two picked up their chopsticks. For a while, they just chewed with their heads in their heads and didn't say much. The wind was still howling fiercely.
"I'm too snarky. In the end, it was "Sister Yun" who couldn't help but open her mouth. "Hmm, you mean ......" Shang Yiming couldn't tell if she was talking to herself. "She just wanted to let her children eat steamed buns earlier, so I scolded her for being 'unqualified'. Li Yunqing put down her chopsticks, crossed her hands, and held out her chin. "You are not wrong to criticize her, and what she did is not a heinous crime. Shang Yiming swallowed a mouthful of fried liver and wiped his mouth, "It depends on which angle to focus on." "You say that, in fact, ......" Li Yunqing laughed self-deprecatingly, "No, I made a mistake, and I should reflect on it in time." ”
"Cutting in line is indeed a 'quality' behavior. Shang Yiming's hand scratched his chin, "That's what you said...... And the 'quality' that people often talk about, I am more used to calling it 'public morality'. Public morality is a kind of rule set by people, not someone is born with it, it is all learned. Moreover, Sima Qian's "Historical Records: The Biography of Goods and Colonies" has a cloud: "Cangqiao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing." In other words, people need a certain material foundation to be able to pay attention to public morality in the corresponding environment. It's like...... It's like a girl who has no worries about food and clothing, and she uses the rest of the money to buy cosmetics and dress herself up decently, while a girl from a poor family worries about three meals a day and other household chores, so she can't decorate her appearance so exquisitely with Maybelline, L'Oreal, or anything. ”
"Your analogy is inappropriate. Li Yunqing said, "First of all, not every wealthy girl likes to wear cosmetics. Secondly, there are now some girls, even if their families are poor, they have to dress up according to the faces of movie star models before going to the street. ”
Shang Yiming was stunned for a moment, looked at her face, and suddenly remembered that she said that "a girl who doesn't like to wear makeup" was intentionally or unintentionally including herself. Every time he saw Li Yunqing before, he felt that her face was full of moving vitality, but unfortunately, since he was a child, he had hardly observed the faces of the opposite sex up close, let alone understood how they took care of them, and how they took care of them. Thinking of the face that was not afraid of the wind and cold, he felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart, and the five fingers of the hand that scratched his chin stretched out and covered his mouth and nose: "Yes, it's not appropriate." However, the important thing is that public morality, or quality, is to be observed, not to be shown off. ”
"What does this mean?" "Sister Yun" became interested in the topic of the round-the-clock volunteers, and the few wisps of sorrow that shrouded her heart gradually dissipated. "Nowadays, people use 'quality' to judge others at every turn, and 'lack of quality' is simply more likely to arouse public outrage than stealing, robbery, and drug trafficking, and the 'crime' of people who are not qualified seems to be only inferior to murderers, embezzlers and rapists. It seems that quality can become the fundamental law for judging the merits of a person, a group or even a nation, and it is also a noble basis for discriminating against others. In fact, as I just said, quality is not innate, but must also have the premise of 'primitive accumulation', so in the final analysis, the difference between those who have quality and those who do not have quality, who can afford to learn and those who cannot afford to learn, and who learns early and who learns late. Moreover, if you are truly qualified, you should be open-minded, treat the so-called unqualified people with a tolerant attitude, infect and influence them, and make them become qualified, instead of standing on the commanding heights of quality and condescending contempt for others. That kind of contempt is, in fact, the same nature as the contempt of the literate for the illiterate, and the contempt of the secondary school student for the primary school student. ”
Shang Yiming became more and more excited, and continued: "What cannot be ignored is that quality is not the only or supreme criterion, since it is 'public morality', there is naturally a corresponding 'private morality'. A teacher in my college school once said that foreigners evaluate Chinese as "good private morality and poor public morality", which I think is very pertinent. Public morality emphasizes self-restraint in public places, while private morality emphasizes personal cultivation in a private environment. Each of them has its own scope of application, but if you want to evaluate a person comprehensively, you can't just focus on one aspect. The most important thing is that both public and private morality are established rules, and there is one thing that no one can replace......"
Li Yunqing found that the attention of other customers in the lobby was attracted and wanted to divert the topic, but Shang Yiming's loud and excited voice did not give her a chance at all. "That's temperament!" he hooked an index finger and tapped it to his heart, "Temperament is where it really comes from." Like talent, it contains innate elements, which are discovered, cultivated and tempered in life, and finally formed. As the saying goes, 'the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change', I believe that there is no rule that can fundamentally modify the temperament, so only by being familiar with a person's temperament can we see his essence clearly. This essence is incomplete, through the expression of his qualities, on the contrary, qualities are often able to disguise it, and those who are called hypocrites and well-dressed beasts are in fact good at deepening such disguises into disguises. After all, people who have the same quality will have the opportunity to learn what kind of quality they have when they become wealthy, and as long as they learn it, what is so difficult about pretending? When the time comes, it will not be easy to distinguish between those who are consistent on the outside and those who are pretentious. In addition, under the constraints of quality, many behaviors that may be related to temperament are not convenient to be directly expressed, which also constitutes a cover-up. Therefore, I want to see that only when people unconsciously relax the shackles of rules at a certain moment, it is very easy to expose their own temperament in their subconscious actions and words. To be honest, when I deal with people, I don't pay much attention to their so-called qualities, but try to see through their temperament. Quality is like a mask, and what I pay attention to is where this mask can't cover. To give another example, Sister Yun, when I first met you, the clerk of the fast food restaurant was not rude to the customers who bought their food, and the service was not inconsiderate, which was very high in quality by the standards of the service industry, but they let the child cry so badly alone, and they didn't even want to ask. Of course, I'm not saying that they have bad temperaments, but that helping children who cry alone is not within the scope of what is a clerk's quality, so they show their faces outside the mask. In the same way, there is also the opportunity to observe another face of a person from a place where his mask does not cover......"
"That's right, that's right. Li Yunqing's eyes widened exaggeratedly, and she couldn't help nodding. Shang Yiming realized that she was reminding herself, so she felt that her volume was a little high, and when she looked around, she saw that the front desk attendants were poking their heads in this direction, and her face couldn't help but burn. "Oops, sorry, I'm drinking...... When I ate well, I loved to speak incoherently...... "Haha, did you accidentally expose your temperament." Li Yunqing covered her mouth and smiled happily, but she couldn't tell why.
This young man of her age once again impressed her, looking at the all-weather volunteer who had just been talking endlessly, burying his head at this moment, like a student who answered a question incorrectly in class, she was afraid that his emotions would be bruised again, and hurriedly said: "Seriously, Shang Yiming, when I met you for the first time, you gave me the impression that you were very enthusiastic; Later, you exposed Tang Yuexia's deception, I saw your insight and sober mind, until today, I didn't know that you still have such a profound ...... About the ...... of Human Nature Opinion. "No, no, Sister Yun, you have won the prize. Shang Yiming's heart was pounding. "You are right to say that quality - or morality - is not the essence of a person, that it is a kind of discipline and cannot replace disposition. However, at least in our center, all affairs must be done officially, and it is not possible to do it without rules. "I understand, I understand......" "Out of this, you have made meritorious contributions in Tang Yuexia's matter, but my first reaction is to criticize you for doing work beyond your duties. Li Yunqing frowned, took a deep breath, looked at Shang Yiming and whispered, "Those words must make you very uncomfortable, but I didn't expect that in the next month or so, you will not be discouraged, but work harder and harder to do your work better." You are really a hard-working all-weather volunteer, but it's a pity that the center doesn't give star ratings to employees like the company, otherwise you will get the most little stars. ”
"Ah, no, no, I ...... It should be, it should be. With Li Yunqing's words, Shang Yiming suddenly felt that the heaviest troubles that had accumulated in his heart for more than a month had been completely swept away. He muttered to himself, "Oh my God, I thought that after that day, I would have no play with you." His whimsical thoughts on quality were completely disrupted, and the remaining arguments and arguments that had not yet been sorted out were thrown out of the way. Hey, Shang Yiming, you're here to have dinner with her, not to have a philosophy seminar. He thought.
When he was alone with Li Yunqing, Shang Yiming was always excited, and his emotions inevitably had big ups and downs. In this case, it was really difficult for him to figure out her mind in the same way that he dissected the motives of the suspicious target of the foul team, and it was impossible to predict that after listening to his tirade, the beautiful girl who occupied his heart would dispel his doubts.