In another life, Zhou Nan was affected by the environment, whether it was literature or music, and finally lost it and became an ordinary old man.

The only abilities that remained, were writing and painting. Rely on these two specialties. Zhou Nan lived a very happy life in his later years, and his lowest character was tens of thousands, and a painting was sold for 800,000 yuan.

is not only an ordinary person, because of his seniority and identity in Taoism, even many big leaders are fans of Zhou Nan. If it weren't for Zhou Nan's mentor and nephew, who was in charge of teaching Li Yanzhen's intention to control the release of his calligraphy and paintings, his wealth would have been even more amazing.

According to the generation of his father's generation, he is the twenty-first generation of Taoism and belongs to the Zhizi faction, so his Taoist name is also Zhou Zhinan.

However, Zhou Nan was exposed to Taoism since he was a child, but at the same time received a Western education. Under the impact of the two cultures, he admired Taoism very much, but disagreed with Taoism.

Therefore, even his teachers and nephews think that he is not a Taoist person, but just an old man who lives under the framework of Taoism.

This topic is a bit far-fetched, and Zhou Nan is actually not sure whether another life, another memory, is true or not. He very much doubted that he was the butterfly of Zhuang Zhou.

Calligraphy and Chinese painting, these two skills Zhou Nan has also retained now, but, in Europe in this era, Zhou Nan does not think that this skill of his has any effect. Europeans don't know how well Chinese characters are written, and how much artistic conception ink painting has.

After thinking about it, Zhou Nan thinks that he can develop in two aspects now. One is his own musical talent, and he thinks that his playing level is not at the level of a master, but also at the level of a performer.

Because Switzerland is a mud-legged country, it has a very liberal policy on the naturalization of artists, so you can take advantage of this.

However, in this era, because the war has not yet ended, even with a high level of performance, Zhou Nan does not think that he can gain the respect of others with this, because now everything is in the service of the war, and almost all concerts have been canceled, unless he can go to the United States now.

Zhou Nan didn't dare to think about going to the United States for the time being, his interpersonal circle is all German, and the current Germany and the United States are opposing camps, and it is impossible for him to get an entry permit from the United States by relying on his current relationship.

In addition to the performance of music, Zhou Nan believes that he has another advantage, that is, some large-scale works he has read in another life. These writings that have influenced the world can influence the entire era in the future, and if they are written in this era, they will cause even more sensation.

However, using other people's research to achieve himself, Zhou Nan was a little hesitant.

Although Taoism does not pay attention to karma like Buddhism, it also attaches great importance to the natural indifference of the state of mind, and stealing the achievements of others as one's own will seriously affect Zhou Nan's own state of mind.

Bearing the reputation of a thief, Zhou Nan felt that he couldn't pass this level, although stealing books could be called a thief.

The white paper in front of him was already densely filled with names of people and books. The authors and books listed above are all books that he has carefully studied in another period of his life, and they are all books that have had a profound impact on human society.

For example, his favorite Rawls and "A Theory of Justice", a huge book published in the seventies, elaborated on the biggest differences between the institutional distribution and the distribution of benefits in human society from the perspective of philosophy and interests.

Although this book is somewhat obscure, the historical research and humanistic elaboration of human beings in this book has an unattainable height.

There is also the "General History of the World" written by Stavrianos, which is known as one of the ten books that have influenced the world, which comprehensively expounds the history of human society, in addition to politics and economy, it also involves military, culture, education, religion, science and technology and other aspects, and is known as the encyclopedia of human society.

In Europe and the United States, not only major universities, including military schools, have listed this book as a textbook. This general history is also considered to be the first world history written by a historian to encompass global civilizations from a global perspective, and has a high status in the world.

Although there are still some arguments in this book, because of personal limitations, such as the part of Chinese history, there are many mistakes, but no one can deny the greatness of this book.

There is also the book "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Society", which was written by biologist Jared Diamond in '96. The book rejects the macro perspective and details the course of human beings from the perspective of biological evolution.

The book is also a major advance in understanding the evolution of human society, documenting the causes of the modern world and its many inequalities. This astonishing new discovery will captivate readers even when it challenges conventional wisdom.

This book also allowed Zhou Nan to truly understand for the first time why the people of Eurasia conquered the world, why the Mayan civilization lagged behind the world, and the important role of climate in the spread of food cultivation.

In addition, there is also the domestically produced TV documentary "The Rise of Great Powers", although this book is based on a documentary and has a relatively narrow vision, it is the first documentary series to truly look at the development of Western civilization from the perspective of a bystander.

There are many such books in Zhou Nan's memory, such as Richard Nisbet's "The Territory of Thinking". Although this book is not of high status, it is very interesting, and it is also the first book to truly analyze the different ways of thinking of people in the East and the West from various perspectives, and it has a very positive effect on the world education community.

Because the time I came into contact with these books was the end of the century and the next century, Zhou Nan was already seventy or eighty, so he had no interest in some novels, and only liked to study this kind of books.

This also gave him a deep memory, and the memory of these books was also deeply engraved in his memory like a hard drive, without the slightest forgetting.

Zhou Nan knew very well that if he wrote these books in this era, it would definitely bring him great glory. But do you really want to be a "thief"? He couldn't make up his mind.

He doesn't really value fame and fortune. Only after the age of ninety-five in another life can you know that there are many things in this world that are illusory, and what can really move people's hearts and make people really move is actually their own feelings.

There are hundreds of millions of family properties, but they are not necessarily happier than a person who has no worries about food and clothing.

Gained great fame and fortune, maybe just became a slave to fame and fortune.

What he wants to do is just an ordinary person who can be free economically, free in thought, and free in feelings.

This is actually not difficult for him, who has a rich memory.

However, Zhou Nan was also hesitating, because he had received a traditional education, and he always believed in Mencius's words: if you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world.

In another life, he relied on calligraphy and painting, and gained a lot of fame and wealth. However, he has always lived under the protection of the Taoist temple, a small courtyard, a depression of vegetable fields, coarse tea and light rice are satisfied. He pursued a return to nature, a return to himself, and most of his personal possessions were donated.

In that life, he had no ability to change his fate, so he could only go with the flow, but now, he has the ability to change the fate of more people.

He was afraid that his inaction would cause Daozun's displeasure. He has the ability to change his fate but does not do it, this is not going with his heart, but going against the grain.

However, how to do it, how to do it, in order to maintain his heart in the river of fate and help more people, he has not yet thought about it.

The whistle of a freighter in the Seine woke Zhou Nan, and he looked at the time, it was already six o'clock. He had been sitting at his desk for three hours, unaware of the passage of time.

He collected his thoughts and decided not to think about them anymore. Tearing off the blank paper and coming to the living room, Zhou Nan lit the paper and threw it into the fireplace.

Seeing this piece of paper turn into ashes, Zhou Nan felt a little uneasy again. This uneasiness is not because of changes in the outside world, but because he feels that it is against his own heart.

He went to the toilet, then washed his hands carefully, and then returned to the living room, calmed down, and made a fortune for himself.

There are ten hexagrams in Dao Zhan: one is the time hexagram, the second is the appearance of things, the third is the clothing of the hexagram, the fourth is the sound of the hexagram, the fifth is the movement of the hexagram, the sixth is the accidental hexagram, the seventh is the portrait of the hexagram, the eighth is the text of the hexagram, the ninth is the number of the hexagram, and the tenth is the sitting to the hexagram.

Zhou Nan was alone in the quiet room, and he could make hexagrams in one, two, three, sixty, but he first used the most tedious time to make hexagrams. Because this kind of divination, although the most cumbersome, is the most accurate divination.

At the beginning of the hexagram, the sum of the three numbers of the lunar year, month, and day is divided by eight to get the remainder for the upper hexagram, the sum of the four numbers of year, month, day, and hour divided by the remainder of eight is the lower hexagram, and the sum of the four numbers of year, month, day, and hour divided by six to get the remainder is the moving line.

But unsurprisingly, the divination failed. Zhou Nan not only did not get any effective and clear results, but instead got a plausible and even more chaotic result.

Occupying others is not for himself, his divination is already sparse, and he calculates for himself, and failure is normal.

He let out a long sigh, and didn't want to use any other way to claim it to himself. For one thing is only one possession, and today is occupied and tomorrow is occupied, so that it does not work, and the same thing cannot be occupied again until sixty days have passed. And only sincerity can move the gods, so nothing should be tried on the god or no miscellaneous desk, divination matters, written on the red paper in concise words, divination needs to be objective, and to be centered, not affected by foreign objects.

These are all troubles for oneself Dao Zhan. What's more, there is no god case here, and there is not even a meditation incense to burn.

He simply stood up and went to prepare the hand-rolled noodles that he was going to eat that night.