At the sailor's urging again, Lan Qi folded the reply letter and put it in a wooden box, allowing the sailor to carry it to the ship.

The sunlight outside was a little harsh, and the eyes that had seen too much small black letters were a little uncomfortable with the blazing light near the Tropic of Cancer. Raising his arm to cover his eyes, he looked at the busy crowd on the dock, and also saw Jian Chen who was talking to Lin Xi there.

Not in front of the pier, but next to the nursery of a cabbage planted by Lin Xi's experiment, where the cabbage collected from all over the world has been carefully cared for and grows well.

The small pale yellow or purple flowers that stretched out were no different to Rankie's eyes, but she believed that the woman on the edge of the field might see them in the same way as the land systems she saw.

I don't know what I thought.,Almost unconsciously walked up to the side of the two.。

When he got closer, he realized that in order to avoid possible embarrassment, he hurriedly asked, "Are your notes all ready?" I see you've written a lot. ”

Lin Xi shook his head and said with some distress: "I haven't thought about whether to send it back or not." ”

"Why?"

"Because of you."

Jian Chen smiled helplessly, and Lan Qi quipped, "How do you say this?" What you're thinking about is flowers, birds, fish, insects and these cabbages, I don't know what the person next to you is thinking, but I'm thinking about freedom and something like that, does cabbage have anything to do with freedom? ”

Lin Xi felt that what Chen Jian was thinking about was obviously closer to freedom or something, and obviously farther away from the cabbage, so he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed in his heart, so he said: "It's not the cabbage, but the truth in the cabbage, you shouldn't understand." ”

"There is a specialization in the art industry, so I won't compete with you, and if you say I don't understand, then I must not understand. It's just that there are three thousand avenues, different paths lead to the same end, and the truth is always the same. Otherwise, you wouldn't hesitate for us, would you? ”

Lin Xi glanced at Jian Chen, thinking about the notes he was hesitating to pack and ship back for publication, such as "Changes and Choices in the Wild and Domestic Cultivation of Animals and Plants", "Competition, Reproduction, Control", "Why Corn Bears 600 Seeds Every Year, 600 to the 1,000th Power Didn't Spread All Over the World", "Conjectures on the Survival of Animals and Plants", and looked at the healthy girl like a female leopard in front of him, who was sun-tanned by the sun, and sighed long.

"Sister Lan Qi, do you know why Jian Chen's husband didn't give him a word?"

Lan Qi was stunned, but many people in the capital knew about it, and nodded, "I know." Because Mr. Mu was afraid that Chen Jian would be too rational, and treat people or society as rational science to practice and try. ”

"Then what am I if someone reads my book and tries to find out the correct truth that is scientific, reasonable, and exterminating some people with the mentality of a person looking at an ant?"

"Those who kill with a blade are not soldiers, but also people."

"But it's contrary to what you're after."

"How can it be contradictory? What we pursue is also science, how can science be contrary to what we are pursuing? Only what we do with science is contrary to us, and there is no such thing as science being contrary to what we are pursuing. ”

Hearing this, Lin Xi no longer refuted, but pointed to the bright, carefully cared for cabbage at his feet and said, "Okay." We're leaving, and we're about to set seeds. There are so many seeds, do you know what this little field will look like in a year's time? ”

"I'm not as good as you on this issue."

"Well, there are two possibilities. One is the one that grows the largest, robbing the rest of the weak nutrients, and the weak ones gradually die and cannot bear seeds even if they survive, and even if they do, they will be shriveled and difficult to germinate. After a few years, only the most suitable cabbage will be left. The second possibility is that everyone is almost the same, and no one can compete with each other, and in the end, the cabbage in the whole garden becomes small, weak, and even swallowed by wild grasses. ”

She squatted down, picked up a small wooden stick from the side to hold the cabbage, and drew a few lines on the ground.

"You know, I don't like to study social issues, and when I was in the capital, you knew that I didn't like to attend your meetings, because I thought what you said made sense, so I thought the things you were thinking were too complicated to come up with a definite result. I like a world that can be easily explained by reason, a world where there are perfect rules that work, but the rules I find come to the conclusion that many of the things you are pursuing are wrong. ”

"If it's just because I deduce you're wrong, I won't hesitate. But the world I deduced was gray, and I had a lot of contact with you, and when I heard the sufferings you talked about, I felt that those sufferings were too dark, and the things I wrote only contributed to these darkness. When conscience is at odds with science, which side to choose? I'm hesitating to ask. ”

"You think about human society, I think about cabbage, but like you said, different paths lead to the same end. Because of this different path, I feel uneasy, one day someone will treat people as cabbage, and I have shortened this time. ”

Lan Qi also squatted down and looked at the cabbage in the garden, as if she understood something.

Lin Xi looked at Jian Chen, who was still smiling and groaning, and sighed, "When I was thinking about cabbage, I heard you discussing the matter of the rich collecting taxes to help the poor. Relief is conscience, but it goes against science, and it is not a good thing in the long run, it just delays the death of the damned. ”

"Suppose there are 100,000 people at the bottom, and there is no tax relief from the rich, half of these 100,000 people will not be able to marry and have children. And the remaining half of the people who can get married and have children are exactly the number of the 100,000 people at the bottom, and the assumption that 100,000 people is exactly the number of people who can be hired workers, so as to maintain a balance. ”

"Now that the rich are taxing them, only half of them are likely to marry and have children, but they have become all right, and they have lived longer. So 100,000 people became 200,000, but only 100,000 were needed. What about the extra 100,000 people? And the extra 100,000 people will make the price of hired labor even lower, as long as there is something to eat. What about the remaining 100,000 people? You can only starve to death. ”

"In this way, the rich collect taxes and relief, and the damned ones are still dead, and the wages of those who survive have fallen, and they are even worse off than before."

"Twenty years later, even less than half of these 100,000 people will marry and have children because their wages have fallen even more. There may be 50,000 left, but 100,000 more. So the wages rose again, and these 50,000 people began to get married and have children again, and it was a reincarnation again......"

"The more I think about it, the more scared I become, what is the difference between going on with reincarnation like this and directly starving those people to death without relief? If you do something out of conscience and don't change anything, is there anything more desperate in this world? ”

Lan Qi laughed and said, "This is the reason you came up with when you looked at the cabbage?" ”

"Yes, I can pick the cabbage as I like, because it's a cabbage, and I can only grow ten cabbages, so I'm going to cut off the eleventh. But since I thought about this question, I always felt that these cabbages were heads, and people's heads ......."

Lan Qi deliberately stretched out her hand and touched a cabbage next to her, swished back her hand and sucked her finger with her mouth: "Really! It bit me! ”

After saying that, he laughed loudly, Lin Xi didn't think this joke was funny, and kicked Lan Qi's calf angrily, muttering, "The natural resources you want belong to all the people...... That's what I'm talking about when a lot of cabbage grows so thin that it ends up all emaciated. Because in that case, every seed can sprout, more and more, but your thoughts lead you not to take the initiative to kill, and you abandon the hand that is secretly manipulating, what should you do when the time comes? If you don't kill, and you don't let the hand of the Heavenly Dao that you can't see in the underworld kill, I can't think of any other inferences except for the consistent poverty and thinness. ”

Lin Xi thought that Lan Qi would definitely bow her head and think dullly, but she didn't want Lan Qi to still smile, and asked, "What else?" I want to see what kind of confusion can make Xiao Lin Xi frown. ”

Lin Xi gritted his teeth and said, "And the equality of everyone you pursue, how is it possible?" Haven't you seen all kinds of people along the way, do you say that the people of those tribes at the ends of the earth are really equal to you? They stutter when they speak, and the whole nation stutters, and they behave more ...... More...... More like an orangutan. ”

"Just like these cabbages, the end result can only be...... It can only be suitable for growth, blocking the rest of the sunlight that is not suitable for production. Even if they could mate with each other like different sheep, it would still be the seeds of the cabbage that were suitable for growth, or the descendants who inherited their characteristics. ”

"Ten years from now, there will only be one cabbage here. Indeed, at that time, the cabbages were all equal, but there was only one cabbage left, and the ancestors of the remaining cabbage were probably one or two cabbages, and the remaining ones did not even have seeds. ”

"I believe in all my conscience that all men are equal, and I hope that the kind of world you speak of without disputes will emerge. But when my notes are sent back to China, someone will easily find them in them. Don't you think that the slave trade is wrong - these notes of mine will lead to scientific conclusions that the slave trade is correct because people are not equal. ”

"Yes, science, how can you refute what you believe best?"

Lin Xi expressed his uneasiness bitterly, and did not forget what he thought when he was at the end of the earth - leave these doubts that can drive people crazy to Lan Qi, so that he should not touch them. However, the more I avoid this, and when I suddenly start thinking about these problems, the more intense and uncontrollable the pain that I have been avoiding and avoiding.