Chapter 1 Playing chess with dogs and learning from the world
In October 2008, in Yucheng, Shandong, the 30-meter-high stone bronze body "Yuwang Statue" was moved from the outer ring road in the west of the city to Yingbin Road in the east of the city overnight.
Such an iconic building, which was moved across the city, was quickly completed in the dead of night, and still caused a sensation.
Especially on the Internet, on Baidu Tieba "Yucheng Bar", everyone has been discussing this matter for a long time.
It is said that Mr. Feng Shui proposed that "King Yu faces the east and protects the people of the city", and the day of relocation is a rare good day and auspicious time in a hundred years, so it will move so quickly.
It is said that the east of the city dug out the mass grave during World War II, and the ghosts were raging, and the statue of King Yu was moved to suppress the ghosts, and the time was urgent, so the migration would be completed overnight.
There is also a saying that the urban area of Yucheng originally had three ancient acacia guards, forming three legs, and the entire urban area was supported as a copper tripod, which was solid. Not long ago, one of the ancient acacia trees was burned to death, and the three-legged momentum was broken, and the statue of King Yu was moved to make up for the "three-legged giant tripod".
This matter spread widely, and once caused a linear rise in the floating population of Yucheng.
There are those who are curious to see the bronze statue of King Yu who controls the water, there are those who come to study the thousand-year-old ancient Huai of Yucheng, and there are those who try to find the mass grave during World War II.
There are people of various identities and different minds, among which there are two descendants from northern Shaanxi, wearing possessed military coats, each carrying a travel bag nearly one person high.
The two of them walked around this small city in Shandong day and night, and it took nearly ten days to walk through all the corners of the city.
to the head of the tenth day. The two found a small hotel, opened a room, covered their heads and slept from the afternoon of the first day until the end of the next night. After waking up, they packed their luggage and rode their rented motorcycles, one to the south and the other to the north, and went to the "Hanhuai Forest" in the south of the city and the "Tuxiao River Ancient River" in the north of the city.
Since then, no one has ever seen these two descendants, but soon after, many rumors similar to "Yucheng police cracked the theft of a large ancient tomb" and "Yuwang Jiuding saw the light of day" began to circulate.
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My name is Yan Shifei. I was 18 years old when I went to college. I was also 18 years old when I became different from normal people.
In August 2008, I entered Tiandao University in Rengui Village with a few friends, and after experiencing the freshman assessment of the dead, the university military training of many people, and the National Day holiday of contact with all kinds of abnormal people. Finally started a college course to learn how to become an abnormal human.
The reason why the course of Tiandao University is called "learning how to become an abnormal human" is a course. First of all, it's because the teacher who teaches the class is not normal. Even the teacher is not a human, but a dog.
"Big man", this Satsuma dog kept in the office of the Spirit Academy. I took my first professional class in college, and the first class turned out to be about playing chess.
That's right, it's the most traditional gambling game in China, "chess".
I couldn't understand what chess had to do with studying in class, how I could play chess with a dog, and how a big man could move around while squatting motionless in front of me.
Teacher Li said that I should study seriously with the big ones, and in the process of playing chess, I should understand the opening method of the "Lingmu Eye" in the "Sixteen Styles of Eye-opening and Heaven-Viewing Technique".
Then I actually played chess with the older guy all morning, and I didn't get anything out of it except that my brain hurt.
Teacher Li comforted me and said that as a student of the special college, I studied here just like the ancient people who were able to learn from different teachers, and no one could learn anything on the first day. Especially the ancient apprentices, all of them apprenticed at the age of three and learned art at the age of six, and worked hard for ten years to achieve small achievements. It is almost impossible to expect a qualitative change in personal abilities in just one morning.
These words made a lot of sense, and I nodded my head frequently to show my understanding, and promised to redouble my efforts and learn as soon as possible.
But when I went to the restaurant to eat at noon, I met the fat man and Liang Tianyu, and I realized that this was not the case at all!
If you want to talk about the fat man, I have to mention that the fat man is now a student of the Buddhist college. On the first day of the holiday, he came to the office and asked me to help him find a way to change his major, and I did mention this to Mr. Li, but it was just a vigorous "re-enrollment of new students" activity, so that the fat man was finally forced to stay in the Buddhist college.
Supplementary enrollment of new students refers to the activity of reducing the enrollment requirements and expanding the enrollment when the school does not enroll students who have completed the planned quota during the normal batch enrollment process.
Of the nine special colleges of Tiandao University, a total of 81 new students were recruited in the first batch this year, and on average, there were less than ten people in one college, how could this be in line with the identity of the No. 1 institution of higher learning in the ghost village. Therefore, as early as the military training, the work of supplementing the freshmen has already begun. The fat man was originally one of the only two freshmen in the Ghost Academy, and in order to be able to collect more students, Dean Qin of the Ghost Academy exchanged the fat man for ten freshmen in the Buddhist Academy.
The fat man topped ten of each, and the Buddhist Academy spent so much money to replace him, how could he let people go casually because of a sentence from Teacher Li on my side.
As a result, the fat man really became a lay disciple of Buddhism.
At this time, the number of freshmen in the Special College of Tiandao University has also increased from 81 to more than 200, and in addition to the Spirit Academy, the other eight colleges can already make up a normal class of 30 people.
There were more students, the school was lively, and even the accommodation problem was solved, and I had a bed in the dormitory, but I was used to living in the office for a long time, so I didn't bother to move back into the dormitory.
If I don't go back to the dormitory, I will inevitably get out of the crowd, so in order not to become an isolated person, I made a decision early in my heart that I would go with the fat people every day when I eat.
For lunch on the first day of class, I got together at a table with Fat Man, Liang Tianyu and Liang Tianyu's buddies in the same dormitory, bought a meal and sat in the seat. The first thing the fat man said when he was unwilling to be lonely was to ask me: "Old Yan, have you learned any advanced spells?"
"Uh...... Does playing chess count?"
"What do you mean by playing chess?"
The fat man looked dazed, in fact, I was even more dazed than him, I really couldn't tell what chess was about, I could only change the topic and ask: "Fat man, what have you learned, chanting scriptures?"
"Almost, there are two classes in the morning, one on the history of Buddhism, and the other on the basic sutra 'Pure Heart Mantra'. The afternoon class is a samurai class. It is said to be the Shaolin martial arts created by Bodhidharma. I've got to eat well. Later, I will take a good nap, I heard that the teacher who teaches Shaolin martial arts focuses on martial arts, and every time a new class is held, all students must try their skills. I guess I've got a couple of fights to fight this afternoon. ”
The fat man said. Stuffed chicken pieces into his mouth. A look of anticipation.
See him like this. I suddenly felt like my class was boring.
Maybe people from other colleges are like me, and the course schedule is more boring.
I thought so. He turned his head to Liang Tianyu and asked him about the class of the students of the Academy.
Hearing my question, Liang Tianyu slapped the table and roared, "Sister, don't mention it." In the first class in the morning, I talked about physiognomy and looked at the face. Old man Ma asked us to take the textbook and compare the faces with the people around us, but I let more than a dozen girls in the class stare at it all morning, and let the other boys in the class stare at it all morning, and I was angry when I thought about it. If I hadn't thought about learning a little physiognomy, I would have skipped class a long time ago. ”
Liang Tianyu was furious, but it was clear that he had also learned something.
The fat man learned the heart mantra, Liang Tianyu learned to read the face, and Liang Tianyu's roommate Wu Academy learned the basic skills of lowering the head. Asking all the way, it seems that there are two or three hundred freshmen in the entire special college, and I have learned nothing by saving one person, just playing chess with a dog all morning.
That feeling is really like "youth feeds the dog".
I can't help but wonder if Mr. Li Xueqing is perfunctory to me, he hasn't accepted students properly for 30 years, could it be that he hasn't thought about how to teach at all?
After lunch, I went back to the office with a lot of questions.
In the office, Mr. Li sat in front of the computer playing games, the parrot stood on the bookshelf and combed his feathers, the chimpanzee spinach slept on the sofa, and the big man chased his tail in circles.
I have a feeling that they may have been in this state for the past few decades. If it was before, this would be understandable, but not now. As the head of an academy, shouldn't they consider the feelings of their students as teachers, and shouldn't they discuss how to teach the only student under their command to become a talent?
The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I strode over to my desk and slapped it.
"Teacher Li!"
"Huh?" Teacher Li, who was concentrating on playing the game, was startled, and looked up at me with a confused expression, "Yan is wrong, what's wrong?"
"Teacher Li, I want to ask when you will give me a lesson!"
"Ahh ”
"What's the class? or do you play chess with the big guys?"
"That's right. ”
"No, Mr. Li, I wonder if you should take my study problem seriously. I come here to go to school, I don't come to play every day, I need to learn some knowledge, learn some skills. I need to rely on what I can learn to survive and get out of the ghost village alive. My time is precious!"
"Uh...... Yan Shifei, what do you mean by this, isn't the course I arranged for you to learn your skills? ”
"Really? Why didn't I see it? My friends who came with me, and the students who came out of nowhere, have learned something, but what about me? I just played chess with a dog all morning, what kind of trick is this? I feel like you're just playing tricks on me!"
"Perfunctory?"
Teacher Li frowned, slowly sat upright, and looked at me with a strange look.
He didn't speak, and the office was quiet, and the silence slowly wore away the anger and passion that had just sprung up in my heart.
To be honest, since I was a child, I have never spoken to my teacher like I do now, maybe because I have never put my relationship with Teacher Li right, maybe because Teacher Li was different from all the teachers before me, and did not teach seriously, anyway, I blamed this person I should respect like a rebellious teenager.
But, I don't think I'm wrong.
Taking a deep breath, I raised my head and met Mr. Li's gaze without fear.
However, the next moment, Mr. Li went to say something that made me feel completely unconfident.
"Yan is right or wrong, have you ever regarded the big man as your teacher?"
"Huh?"
"You don't, in your heart, you just think the big one is a dog, even if I tell you that the big one is not an ordinary dog, you look down on it. In your heart, there is a person you think should be taught to you, and that person has to teach you what you can see on the surface. You think you're wasting your time playing chess there this morning, and it's not good for you at all, that's why you came and talked to me like that, right?"
"Yes!"
"Okay, then let me ask you, the teacher taught you something, you didn't learn, and you didn't even think about it, so you blamed the teacher for teaching badly, is that right?"
"No, but ......"
"But what do you want to say, but the big man is a dog, and he can't be considered a teacher at all, and he doesn't deserve to be a one's teacher, right? Hmph, superficial!
Confucius once said that there must be a teacher in a threesome, which means that there is always someone who can become the person I should learn from. On the surface, this sentence seems very atmospheric and very inclusive. But let me tell you, Confucius was still narrow-minded, he just 'chose the good ones and followed them', but I want to tell you that 'the bad ones' also have a place to follow. In my case, in the teaching of the spiritual academy, you have to remember that everything can be a teacher, even if it is a dog, there are places where you are inferior to him. ”
"Teacher, you swear!"
"I didn't scold you, what I said was the truth, and the reason why I said this is to let you put your mind right! Okay, let's not say anything big, just say that right now, you and the big man have been playing chess all morning. Have you ever thought about why you did it? You didn't, or you thought about it, you just don't figure it out. Then you don't understand, why not ask. The teacher is sitting across from you, why don't you ask 'why'?"
"No, I've always wanted to ask, but Mr. Li, you won't tell me. ”
"No, I'm not talking about the teacher, it's a big man. He's your teacher, and you should ask him these questions. I answered, that's crossing the line!"
"Ah, Mr. Li, you asked me to ask for one...... A dog?"
"Yes, he's a dog, but he's also your teacher. Strict right and wrong, correct your mentality, and think about who is wrong! Okay, don't affect me to play the game, it's not time for me to teach you a lesson!"
Li Xueqing waved his hand impatiently and ignored me.
I turned my head to look at the "big guy" who was chasing his tail.
Do you really want to ask a dog for advice? (To be continued......
PS: I apologize to all readers, I broke off for a day. You may be able to find that every time a line is interrupted, it is when a new volume is opened, mainly because it wants to better complete the plot outline.
In addition, I saw that some readers said that the water written in one line is too much nonsense. But Yixing wants to say that what Yixing writes wants to present a complete plot to everyone. Maybe sometimes, everyone feels that there is too much nonsense, but in fact, it is all foreshadowing, and in the later stories, everyone can understand why they wrote it before.
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