Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

The winter in heaven is long, and I can't stay in the house like this all the time. www.biquge.info I want to go out and do something, and I want to get something out and grow. In the end, I decided to go to the school village and learn some real and useful things from the scholars and Takara. It is about thirty or forty miles from Yuntai to Liangchuan School Village. The heavy snow in the past few days has turned the kingdom of heaven into a country of snow. Although the snow stops and the weather is clear, the snow is knee-deep, so it is not advisable to go out. But I've always been an anxious person who once I make up my mind, I want to take action immediately. I simply cleaned up, and then said to Yilan, who was weaving, "Sister-in-law, I'm going to Liangchuan School Village." There was no echo or shutdown from Ylang, but her face was gloomy and unhappy.

Men are inseparable from women, which is a comprehensive need for animal courtship and spiritual enrichment. And the embodiment of this need is to build a home. Home enables people to live and work in peace and contentment, comfortable and warm, but it also makes people mediocre, lazy, and numb to the mind. Home makes people more civilized, and civilization makes people lose their human nature and instincts. So, men can't stay at home all the time. Women may not agree with men on this issue. They just want to stay with men and build a warm nest together. But I don't know that a man's dream is between the vast and boundless world. I know Ylan's mood and feelings, but I can't compromise on this. I'm a man, and if I'm as heroic as she is, and my daughter is long, then I'll be a woman. So I slung the sack to my body, opened the door, put my lambskin hat on my head, stood in front of the door for a while, and then strode through the snow and creaked towards the white blanket.

The sky and the earth are silvery, and there is no one all the way. What was once a grassy slope has been turned into a vast snowfield. The glacier has long been frozen by the ice and snow, but the river in the far north is still steaming, and the snow in a large area along the river has long been melted by the heat. As we walked through the slope in front of the palace, it was past noon, when the snow began to fall again. At first, Xue'er was born like a fairy, if there was nothing, she could only feel the coolness that fell on her face, and then after a while, she showed thousands of fine pieces like silk, trembling and trembling. As the flakes became denser and denser, the sky was soon filled with large chunks of wool-like snowflakes, so that the mountains and rivers not far away became confused and blurred in the rapid snowfall.

Walking in such a fresh and dense snow is actually a very beautiful feeling, with a kind of thirst and sweet rain of pleasure and moisture. The familiar scenery in front of you has also become misty because of the falling snow, like a dream, as if there is infinite poetry and artistic conception for you to play and express. After passing through Peach Village, we soon entered the valley of the Qinghe, a tributary of the Glacier River. The small river of Qingling flows in the snow, and the pure white snow is everywhere you look, which is very beautiful. Watching the snow scene, rushing to the journey, unconsciously, I came to Liangchuan School Village, which was covered by Yushu honeysuckle. In the last row of the houses in the school village, there is a row of more delicate and small houses, which is the residence of the school village scholars.

When I entered the house of the scholar, I saw the scholar striding to greet him. The scholar is already in his prime, and his beard is all white, but his expression is dignified, his face is radiant, and his body exudes an elegant and psychic complexion. When people see it, they can't help but have a sense of admiration. I know that the scholar is the principal of the school village, and he is in charge of the academic and legal affairs of the school village and the whole kingdom of heaven.

I walked up to the scholar and bowed and said, "I have heard for a long time that the scholar is proficient in history books and has a peerless literary style. "I don't want to be a scholar, but I also worship me with respect, saying, "I have long heard that the prince of Longhua is a messenger of the Han Dynasty, who knows the history of the Han Dynasty for 5,000 years, and knows the landscape of the hundred countries today, all astronomy and geography, songs, calligraphy and paintings, etc., know everything, and he is the talent of the gods and sages." should have gone to pay homage first, but I didn't want to let my son take the lead, ashamed and ashamed. I hurriedly bowed again, "What the scholar said has been awarded, everything in the world is broad and profound, Longhua is not one of them, how dare he compare with the scholar." ”

The scholar himself brushed the snow off my coat, took me by the hand, and took me into the parlor by the brazier, where he asked the maid to bring us a glass of wine. When I raised my glass and drank, I said in a tentative tone, "Long Hua has been very idle recently, and I want to come to worship the scholar and Gao Liang's father as a teacher, so as to grow my knowledge and strengthen my skills, I wonder if the scholar is willing to accept Long Hua as an apprentice?" The scholar said, "If the son is interested, he can temporarily live in the school village." One can talk about the past and the present with the old man, and the other can learn sword practice with Gao Liang. ”

Next, the university scholar will take me to see the school village. I followed the scholar out of the university mansion and stepped on the soft snow to the twelfth level of the school village. This is the highest grade in the school village. The school is a classroom, with a bright and clean wooden floor, and there are more than 20 cases neatly placed on the floor. Several cases were filled with pen, inkstone, and paper. The students, all with shaved heads and dressed in green cotton clothes, put their hands on their laps in a regular manner, and sat cross-legged next to several desks like monks chanting scriptures in the monastery, and because of the cold winter, they sat cross-legged on a square cotton mat.

At this time, a middle-aged Asian father sitting next to the front cases was teaching his students herbal medicine. When he saw that the scholar had brought us in, he stood up and said, "Please don't give up teaching." Immediately, the students also bowed down to the scholars and said, "Please not give up teaching." The scholar then invited me to sit cross-legged beside the case, and then said to the student, "This scholar brings you a man who is the messenger of Han China, who is proficient in history and in the arts and sciences. When the students heard this, they said in unison, "Please let the envoy of Han China not give up teaching." I hurriedly bowed to the students and said, "Longhua is shallow in knowledge and does not dare to teach, and today I am here with a scholar to see the teaching style of Tianguo School Village." ”

After walking around the school village, we walked along the snow by the river and chatted. The scholar is almost a textbook of the history and scholarship of the Kingdom of Heaven, from the division of land by the previous kings to the establishment of the school village by King Ling, he can tell it in the form of a story in a real and detailed way, and it is reasonable. From his stories, I have learned that the laws of heaven are almost always composed of simple and philosophical stories, rather than dry articles. In this regard, I asked the scholar, "If there is no legal provision, how can I be convicted according to the law?" "It is not difficult to convict a crime, but the effect of the law is to avoid crime." The people have been studying in the school village since the age of four, and they have only cultivated to adulthood until the sixteenth party, during which they have been twelve years, and they have already been familiar with the legacy of the king in their hearts, and they have integrated the conduct of the father into their bodies. And those who really have crooked thoughts are possessed by nature, have ill intentions, and cannot be persuaded by law and education. Therefore, the king of heaven has a saying: It is better to teach the law with the people, than to teach the elegance with the people. ”

So, while chatting, I asked, "Heaven is vast and sparsely populated, and large tracts of land are idle and useless, so why not divide it among farmers to cultivate and cultivate crops and generate income and wealth, so that the people can have enough food and clothing?" This is because the food of the people of Heaven can only be enough for a year if they are deliberately frugal, and the law of Heaven is that farmers are strictly forbidden to reclaim wasteland. I have asked many people about this, but the answerers only know that this is a rule of heaven, but no one knows the reason.

The scholar smiled slightly, stroked his long white beard with his hand, and said interestingly, "In the five years of the first king, the strong men and women who moved to heaven have started families, cultivated and weaved, and had children, showing a trend of stable development. One day, the first king came to consult with the king of heaven, and wanted the people to reclaim the famine, sow more and reap more, so that the country would be rich and the people strong. However, the king of heaven said, no, the heavenly garden is narrow, hidden in the mountains, although there is no worry of external invasion, but there is a danger of internal strife. If the people wantonly cultivate, there will be land annexation, the annexers will become rich, the lost will be poor, the rich will be deceitful, and the poor will be thieves, and over time, they will be in chaos; If we sow more and harvest more, there will be a surplus of food, and extravagance and extravagance will breed with it; What's more, the population will increase rapidly, ranging from a fever epidemic to an evil that gathers all living beings in chaos, and over time, the kingdom of heaven will be destroyed and the disaster will be immeasurable. The first king was shocked when he heard this, and asked, what can I do? The king of heaven said that the people could be evacuated in all directions, with ten households in one village, each household divided two acres of land, and planted grain, cotton and rape. The king of heaven said that with two acres of land, it is difficult to harvest and have food and clothing. And the king of heaven said, Let not the people suffer from hunger and cold, nor with food and clothing. Hunger and cold cause chaos among the people, and food and clothing make the people lazy. And the land is equally divided, the rich and the poor are equal, so that the people can get along peacefully, without resentment, specializing in farming and weaving, and seeing each other like guests, which is the great plan of peace in the kingdom of heaven for all eternity. The first king was very convinced, so he sent people to evacuate the people in all directions, divided the land according to the households, built houses, averaged the property, and appointed the owner of the village as the village council to manage the village affairs on behalf of the king. ”

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