It's past noon time, and the seller hasn't come back yet. The two of them were hungry for a long time, but the two talked speculatively and were reluctant to stop. I had no choice but to talk and come to the kitchen to cook.

Zhuangzi was busy on the stove, skillfully cooking, and his mouth was constantly talking. The black-clothed senior brother sat under the stove, adding firewood to the stove and stirring the firewood inside. While answering Zhuangzi's words, he also refuted a few words from time to time.

As for why Mai'er hasn't come back yet, the two are not worried. In broad daylight, it should be okay to sell a big living person. In the current lacquer garden, wicked people dare not do evil openly. What's more, the seller is Zhuangzi's younger sister, who dares to touch her in the Qiyuan market.

She went to the ready-to-wear store to buy clothes, and she must be very picky. And also! When the seller goes to the street, he will inevitably bring back some things that the family needs. It's normal to come back a little late.

Furthermore! Zhuangzi and the black-clothed brother talked very speculatively, and time flew by. So! It didn't feel too long in terms of time.

Lunch was ready, and the two of them didn't wait for it to be sold, but sat down at the chopping table in the kitchen and ate it. Naturally, while eating, he was talking.

Zhuangzi ate quickly, and at the same time took the opportunity to finish eating, and spoke. The senior brother in black was the same, gobbling it up while listening carefully. When he heard the wonderful place, he stopped chewing, stared at Zhuangzi, and pricked up his ears, for fear of missing a word.

"Listening to you say this, Taoism seems to be very incompetent in governing the country, and there is no law?" The black-clothed senior brother interjected. Input subtitles at the site: нeì Уа Пgе·Сом to watch the new chapter

"It's not incompetence! It's inaction! Zhuangzi explained.

"Inaction?" The black-clothed senior brother smiled: "Wuwei gives people the feeling that they are incompetent. Inaction, incompetence, isn't it incompetence? ”

"How do you call inaction and incompetence? What about inaction? Zhuangzi argued: "Do you need legal provisions to govern the country?" Do you need to make it explicit? To use a simple analogy, what do you do, don't you know the consequences? When you go to kill people and set fires, don't you know the consequences of killing people and setting fires? Isn't it? ”

"I knew that others would come to take revenge on me for killing people and setting fires, so I naturally didn't do it!"

"Isn't that right?" Zhuangzi put down the dishes and chopsticks, spread his hands towards the black-clothed senior brother, and said, "So! You don't need a law to make it clear, you don't dare to do it. If it is clearly stipulated what the crime of murder and arson will be, and under what circumstances there will be no crime of murder and arson. Or! There are great and small sins, including capital offense, imprisonment, exile, and so on. Those who want to kill and set fires, in order to avoid responsibility, will deliberately avoid the terms of guilt. When the time comes, they will kill people and set fires, don't you say?

In fact! You're not smarter than anyone else. You think you're smart, but others are smarter than you. So! It is superfluous to stipulate it explicitly and in the form of a law.

In fact! Before someone else does something, they know the consequences of doing it. Others also know what the consequences will be if someone else does that, and the bystanders are not stupid, are they? And once it is clearly stated, knowing what the consequences of what others do will be, and dealing with it through the law, is not the result that people expect. It was clearly wrong, but it turned out to be innocent.

This is the disadvantage of being explicitly prescribed.

In fact! Each of us has a balance in our hearts, knowing the weight, knowing right and wrong, and distinguishing between right and wrong. There is no need for explicit rules, everyone knows it.

I will deal with what others do to me, which is called natural inaction.

There is no need for managers to go above and beyond to show that they are smarter than others to make any laws. Let it be! There is no need for managers to be smart to deal with it, the doer knows the consequences, and the recipient knows how to deal with it. Isn't it?

This is called natural inaction! This natural inaction is for managers. And for us personally, when we are facing any difficult problems, we should not be in a hurry. No matter how tricky things are, they will eventually pass, and there is no use in hurrying. This is called natural inaction, because there is always a result of things.

But! It's not that when something happens to us, we passively accept it as natural inaction. Wrong! You're a fool, aren't you? Someone else came to kill you with a knife, and you don't know how to run? Avoid? Isn't it? Hungry and you don't know how to look for food? If so, you are not a natural inaction, but a fool!

Fools probably know that when someone kills him with a knife, he will instinctively block it with his hand. And you, a Taoist learner, don't even have an instinctive reaction because of your natural inaction! Someone else kills you with a knife, you don't even know how to run, you can't even run, and you can't do anything about it. When you're hungry, you don't know how to find something to eat, and you wait for natural inaction, which can resolve everything for you. Yes! It's the same that can be dissolved because you're dead! Naturally, you died of inaction, being killed or starved to death.

Alas! I was supposed to make you smarter, so that you could learn to survive, so that you could survive in any environment. Outcome? But it makes you a person who is not even as good as a fool. Alas! ”

After Zhuangzi finished speaking, he shook his head, picked up the bowl again, and ate it in a big gulp.

The black-clothed senior brother also shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Our ancestor Lao Tzu is also right, and it is really a little confusing to come up with this 'natural inaction'. But? Listening to you say that, I seem to understand. ”

"Why do you seem to understand?" Zhuangzi quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and asked.

"But what do I think? What you say makes people feel problematic? ”

"What's the problem?"

"If, as you say, there is no law in a country? If there is no explicit provision, then what kind of country is it? How do the people live? And also! What you said is natural inaction, let things develop naturally, so what's the use of you, an official? What is the use of the state as an institution? There is no one to run the country, and it is not chaotic? ”

Zhuangzi looked at the man in black and asked, "Is it?" You can't even live anymore? You? Are you still a mess? ”

"Isn't it? No? The black-clothed senior brother said, smiling bitterly. Excused: "I naturally know how to live, but what about others? What about the thousands of people in the world? They? Where do they have this quality of ours? How do they know how to live? How do they know how to do it without a clear rule? Breaking the law? Isn't it? You? You? You have a clear rule, this is not allowed, that is not allowed, I will not do it. You don't allow me to do it, and there is a standard to follow. ”

"I won't let you eat! Put the bowl down! Zhuangzi put the bowl on the table, slapped the chopsticks on the table, and shouted at the black-clothed senior brother with a black face.

"Put it down! I won't let you eat! Put the bowl down! ”

Seeing that Zhuangzi was serious, he was angry. The senior brother in black scolded in his heart: You are a psychopath!

In the Warring States period, there should have been no word for neurosis. That's probably what the black-clothed senior brother scolded in his heart. What a man you are! Turning your face is faster than turning a book!

Yes! There were no paper books during the Warring States period!

The black-clothed senior brother's face changed on the spot, and he put down the bowl in his hand.

Zhuangzi's face changed at this time, shook his head and smiled: "I asked you to put it down, do you really put it down?" Why don't you go? ”

"Shall I go?" The black-clothed senior brother was puzzled again. I thought: I want to go, I'm fed up with you.

"If I tell you to put down the bowl and don't eat, you won't eat, and if you don't leave, then you can only starve to death! Are you stupid? You just listen to me? You're a big living person, can you listen to me? Do you understand that I really won't let you eat, so it's strange if you don't leave? Isn't it? Are you stupid? ”

"What do you mean?" The black-clothed brother asked.

"Don't you want to make it clear? I won't let you eat, that's what it's about! Are you really skipping meals? You? ”

Without waiting for the black-clothed senior brother to ask again, Zhuangzi continued: "So! It doesn't matter if there are rules or not, you know how to live. Explicit regulations will only restrain honest people, and those who are dull-headed will not be able to restrain smart people. Explicit regulations will only make honest people more honest, and dull-headed people even more sluggish! You said? Does this society need to be explicitly regulated? ”

"But?"

"But what?"

"But?" The black-clothed senior brother stiffened his neck and said, "Then we must have a code of conduct when we behave and deal with things, right?" Otherwise? How do I know what is right and what is wrong? I don't want to break the law! ”

"You are responsible for your actions! This is the Dharma! ”

Zhuangzi explained: "You know that the consequences of doing so are wrong, so why do you still do it? You know the consequences of doing this, so why do you do it? Since you did it, you are responsible for your actions! You are responsible for your actions, and that's the law! That's the code of conduct! ”