On the way back to the source from Changfeng, my father told several jokes, making Aunt Qiu Yun forget her previous pain and sorrow in laughter. In this regard, Ge Hailiu has to admire his father's good conversation, because every joke is told in a colorful way, which makes people laugh to the end, both inspired and edified by temperament.

When his father was about to say the joke of "the old man is happy for the New Year", Aunt Qiu Yun was the first to laugh: "Ha, Hailiu, have you found it?" Our father turned out to be a 'fake materialist', and he still believed that the 'dead' would also celebrate the New Year if the 'living' were the same. ”

"Oh," said the father, slowing down and smiling, "who doesn't believe that everyone loves the New Year?" Do you think that if a materialist really regards people as material things, even the Huangling and Cangwu places where they seek their roots are ordinary places, and will be regarded by the people as the 'Holy Spirit' for blessings? ”

"No, no," Aunt Qiu Yun clasped her father's arm with both hands and said coquettishly, "Brother Daren is an extreme example, and I want to say it again." ”

"How can you show the truth if you are not extreme?" The father raised his hand to comb his hair, looked around, and proposed, "It's okay to say it again, but after walking for half a day, you don't want to take a break on the side of the road?" ”

Ge Hailiu thought to himself, his father must have been afraid that Aunt Qiu Yun would be tired, so he said this, in the past, he and he walked farther than this, but he would never slow down a little, let alone rest halfway, so he said flatteringly: "Daddy will really choose a place, this road is next to the mountain, there is water in front of the mountain, and there are a few natural 'stone benches' on the ridge for people to sit on, it is like a fairyland." It seems that it is really blessed to walk with my aunt. Aunt Qiu Yun helped her father to climb up the small ridge that Ge Hailiu said, and greeted loudly: "Hailiu, Daddy is tired of walking, you still say blessed!" Why don't you hurry up and take a waste newspaper from your bag and put it on the stone, so that Daddy can sit down and rest first. ”

After everyone sat down, Ge Hailiu unscrewed the lid of the marching pot on his back and handed it to Aunt Qiu Yun, asking her to drink tea to quench her thirst first, but she handed it to her father, and said with a smile: "It also said that 'my father gave birth to me', and I didn't think of it first when I drank saliva, it seems that I will make you enjoy too much." Ge Hailiu smiled, took out the sacrificial pastries and sweets from his backpack and handed them to Aunt Qiu Yun and his father, so that everyone could eat lunch to reduce the burden on their backs, and relieved himself: "Auntie asked Daddy to drink tea first to moisten his throat, in fact, there is a purpose, she wants Daddy to say what he just said, am I not wrong?" ”

Ge Hailiu's mention of this made Aunt Qiu Yun active all of a sudden, and said happily: "That's right, that's right, if you don't say it, I forgot it." Brother Daren, let's talk about it again. Father glanced at Ge Hailiu, and first made an opening remark: "People don't listen to things outside the window, and only read the books of sages." Thou hast put into thy ears all that thou hast heard, and thou hast taken it out and disturbed it while he was about to rest. Okay, I'll say it again. Then he said in simple terms: "Materialism is a kind of belief for materialists, and materialists hold up the state power, so it is important for the materialist belief to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but in peacetime, what is the greatest function of the state power, do you know?" ”

Ge Hailiu shook his head, Aunt Qiu Yun seemed to say something, but in the end, she didn't say a word, and only handed the marching pot to her father again. The father took a sip of tea and continued: "Let me tell you, this greatest function should be to serve the society and benefit the people. If the coercive power of the state were to force the masses of the people to convert to materialist beliefs, even the 'Creator' would be powerless. If the people's wishes and actions to commemorate and cherish the memory of their ancestors are regarded as non-materialistic and forbidden, materialists who want to start a family will probably have to be saints like monks unless they meet like-minded people. In fact, there is only one difference between 'materialism' and 'idealism', the world was created by God or God was created by man, which has much to do with the oil, salt, firewood, rice, sauce, vinegar and tea that the people are most concerned about? ”

"Heh, Hailiu," Aunt Qiu Yun shook a candy to show that we should be content, and said with relief and joy: "Our father is not a 'people-loving materialist', but also an 'emotional materialist', much better than those who even focus on temples." ”

"Auntie," I thought for a moment, and replied, "a 'materialist' has a true and a false, a love for the people and emotions, and a complete and incomplete distinction, which is too complicated, but as long as Daddy is a 'good person', he can be respected." ”

"Really?" The father glanced at Ge Hailiu and said thoughtfully: "In contrast to materialism, there is also idealism. The word 'only' has the meaning of uniqueness and uniqueness, or it can be said that this is the meaning. This is very necessary for people of faith, but for ordinary people, it can be changed to the word 'faith', because the original meaning of 'token' and 'faith' is very good. Do you know what the 'things' and 'mind' mean? ”

Ge Hailiu shook his head, Aunt Qiu Yun probably didn't want to interrupt his father's narration, so she also shook her head. My father then said: "The 'thing' here refers to the material world, which belongs to the category of Lao Dan's 'Tao', however, Yu Ren refers more to human society and belongs to the category of Lao Dan's 'morality', and 'heart' refers to ideology, and Western masters seem to want to study it more thoroughly, but authority is not equal to truth." Zhu Zi can be called a master of the study of the 'heart' in China, but more achievements are scattered in thousands of ancient books, but not many people are willing to discover them. Speaking of which, ordinary people who have no faith, most of them believe that things are things that can be seen and touched, food, clothing, housing, transportation, faith, and most of them refer to wishes, wills, etc. With regard to this group of people, it is necessary to give correct guidance through the improvement and enhancement of material and cultural life, and of course, the work of popularizing science must be grasped in a down-to-earth manner. Otherwise, letting ordinary people who know little about it understand things through 'things' will be as funny as a congenital blind man touching an elephant. ”

Ge Hailiu took advantage of his father's drinking time and said, "Alas, Daddy said it so complicated. The ancients believed that people thought about problems with their hearts, and modern science has confirmed that people think with their brains, but in the use of language and writing, they are often accustomed to using 'heart' to express people's thoughts and thoughts. It is said that the 'mind' is the form of the human brain that cannot be seen and can be thought. ”

"You are a typical ordinary person's mode of thinking, how can you know that this is a science." After a pause, the father continued: "If the world was created by God, then God's existence is incomprehensible, and conversely, man's existence is incomprehensible, because man wants or is playing the role of God. At present, the general view is that public ownership is materialist and private ownership is idealistic, but I personally think that it would be more reliable to say that public ownership is an economic form at the state level, while private ownership is an economic form at the level of 'class associations'. Here, the state represents fairness and justice, which must be defended by capital, and the 'class association' represents injustice and injustice, because it uses capital to achieve oppression and exploitation. The theory of matter and mind has existed for more than 2,000 years, and has been promoting the development and progress of human society. ”

My father paused for a while before he continued: "There is still a long way to go before socialism at the national level can transition to the Datong society at the world level, and it will take another 40 to 50 years to purify the public servants of society to the point that they only have public intentions and no material desires, and only talk about conscience and do not show favoritism. In fact, there is no way that the 'Buddha culture' originated in India and precipitated in China, and China will be the holy place for the world to study 'Buddha culture'. Similarly, the 'Socrates' of the East does not have the ability to foresee tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and he may be presented to the world as a 'business card' to make the Chinese more proud! ”

"Hailiu," Aunt Qiu Yun looked at Ge Hailiu and reminded: "What Daddy just said is for people at least ten years later, and you can only remember it in your heart, not to others." ”

"Hmm." Ge Hailiu pondered for a moment, and then said with a confused face: "The 'Socrates of the East' mentioned by Daddy just now refers to Confucius, but because he has the old-fashioned idea of 'suppressing himself and restoring the etiquette system', he is no longer delicious." ”

"Don't ask." Aunt Qiu Yun thought for a while and responded: "You have to believe a little, traditional things become traditional because they are good, but this topic stops." We sat for a long time, we ate and drank tea, it was time to get up and continue on our way, and there had been no happy laughter for a long time, so let our father tell us the joke of 'the old man is happy for the New Year' for us on the road. ”