When he returned to the rental house from the antique art square, Chu Xian had already changed from an ordinary college student with a monthly living allowance of 2,000 yuan to a successful person with a lot of money.

However, in the face of this huge wealth that ordinary people could not earn in their lifetime, Chu Xian was extremely plain and natural, but the well-informed Soviet goddess Katyusha immediately disliked the one-and-a-half-room old house he rented, and began to encourage Chu Xian to move to a better place to live:

"Chu Xian, let's change houses! Now that you are a rich man, you don't have to be so wronged at all, living in this dirty and dilapidated old-fashioned community! ”

"No, I don't change. It's close and cheap, and a room and a half is completely enough for me, so there's no need to waste it. ”

In the kitchen, Chu Xianyakou, who was cooking dinner himself, rejected Katyusha's proposal, which made Katyusha completely incomprehensible.

"You've got a lot of money you can't spend for a lifetime! And there is no need to consume the power of faith to look at stones, as long as I am here, you will not be short of money to spend until you die, even if you waste a little, it doesn't matter!

To say close, the neighborhood next to it, the rows of new houses dozens of meters away, are only a little farther away than here, even if we just move there to live!

It's hard, can you bear to let me, a noble goddess, live in such a broken house with you all the time?! I don't want it! I've earned all the money back! I want to live in a good house! Take me to a good house! Isn't it okay for me to pay for you to live in a good house? ”

Katyusha obviously had a face and figure full of the temperament of a royal sister, but her eyes widened in disbelief at this time, and she was rolling around in the kitchen like a little girl, forcing Chu Xian to move, which made Chu Xian equally incomprehensible:

"You don't have a physical body, why do you have to live in a good house?

Even if you want to live, just sneak into a luxurious villa at night while you sleep, and I didn't force you to follow me to live in poverty, right? ”

"It's the mood! It's a matter of mood!

I'm going to follow you all the time now, and I don't have time to go to the luxury villa to enjoy! But why don't you enjoy a more luxurious life when you have money? Happiness in poverty...... Do you want to be an ascetic? What a weirdo! ”

Although Katyusha is the embodiment of the will of the Soviet state, she does not seem to have inherited any great socialist spirit, but is full of capitalist decay** and has completely betrayed the revolution. However, it is also human nature to pursue a better life, so Chu Xian did not criticize her little bourgeois thoughts in a stern manner, but shrugged his shoulders and replied rather indifferently:

"It's not that you want to be an ascetic, but you don't have much interest in simple material comforts.

As you said, living in a good house and eating good things is not only the comfort and pleasure of **, but more importantly, the spirit will also feel happy because of it.

The little bourgeois claim to be pursuing a so-called 'spiritual home', but it is a 'elegant and refined' material life, and the contrast between guò and blue-collar workers to achieve this pursuit is a kind of hypocrisy in itself, and in my opinion it is not as good as the vulgar nouveau riche, and the self-cultivation that we advocate in China is not such a thing.

Be proud of loving the motherland and be ashamed of the motherland;

Be proud of serving the people and be ashamed of turning your back on the people;

Be proud of advocating science and be ashamed of ignorance;

Be proud of your hard work, and be ashamed of your good and bad work;

Be proud of solidarity and mutual assistance, and be ashamed of harming others and benefiting yourself;

Be proud of honesty and trustworthiness, and be ashamed of forgetting righteousness for profit;

Be proud of abiding by the law and be ashamed of violating the law and discipline;

Be proud of hard work, and be ashamed of arrogance and lasciviousness.

Although these eight honors and eight shames also have the part of maintaining the rule of the state -- by the way, they inadvertently increase the power of faith for the will of the country, but they mainly reflect the value orientation of our 'country of gentlemen' since ancient times, and reflect our spiritual 'aesthetic taste'.

We take thrift as a virtue, and think that it is good to have money but not waste it, so we properly restrain the ** we enjoy, and achieve thrift, so that we feel that we are 'beautiful', and we have a pleasant feeling spiritually, which is completely different from the spiritual pleasure generated by the little Bourgeois in the 'circle of friends' showing a large table of Japanese food.

'Si is a burrow, but I am dexin. Even if this is just a psychological comfort used by literati to brainwash themselves before they made their careers, it is better than 'being a child of a gentleman and loving prosperity.' Good house, good maid, good child, good fresh clothes, good food, good horses, good lanterns, good fireworks, good pear orchards, good advocacy, good antiques, good flowers and birds; It is much stronger to carve a sentence at the end of the tombstone until he dies, 'Half a life of hard work, all become a dream', right?

And the 'perverts', such as ascetics and the like, have to work hard to practice extremely demanding life and moral requirements in order to produce a sense of spiritual pleasure, which is also more beneficial to the world than no matter what kind of extravagant enjoyment can no longer feel pleasure, and can only pursue the last bit of happiness through guò drugs and indiscriminate (river crabs). ”

"W-What! Amazing look! It's as if how many 'gentlemen' in your country have really done it since ancient times......"

Because she was "kind-hearted" but was educated by Chu Xian and couldn't refute it, Katyusha pursed her mouth very dissatisfiedly and muttered a few words "quietly". But even so, she can only sarcastically say that there are few people in this "country of gentlemen" who can truly practice the virtues of a gentleman, but she cannot say with disdain that these virtues that no one can do have long been outdated - she is not so cheeky.

Facing this kind of Katyusha, Chu Xian laughed quite tolerantly. He neatly shoveled the fried vegetables onto the plate, and then said to her while serving the rice:

"This 'moral saint' is the 'ideal self,' which Nietzsche called the 'superego'. Morality should not be used to bind others in the first place - that is the role of law, and morality is just a good expectation of oneself.

If you want to become the most beautiful version of yourself, then try to do it; If you feel like you can't do it and want to relax a little bit and just 'do as much as you can', that's fine, and even if you don't want to be so yourself, just pretend on a whim and think you're a noble person, that's fine.

Man is free to choose whatever way of life he prefers - and at the cost of it. I also brainwashed myself into a weirdo because I cultivated my aesthetic taste to be different from ordinary people, so I can only get pleasure from 'nobility'.

That's all. ”