Although Shang Yuan retired, his news was still very well-informed, at least someone was very selective in passing some news to Shang Yuan. After listening to the words about "Chairman Chen is dissatisfied with XXX", Shang Yuan did not react at all.

After more than 30 years of revolution with Chen Ke, Shang Yuan has a very thorough understanding of Chen Ke. Chen Ke is not a difficult guy to see, if there is anything different about Chen Ke, it is just that Chen Ke can do some things that others can't do. For example, after many years of practice and work, Chen Ke has become more and more materialistic. The only thing Chen Ke is dissatisfied with is himself, for a lazy person like Chen Ke, trying to solve the problem consumes his time and energy, where is the spare time to express dissatisfaction with the facts.

The line struggle at the top has intensified, and the only thing Shang Yuan is glad about is that it is only limited to the line struggle, and it is far from reaching the level of a fierce personnel struggle. In the past few years since he retired, he has read so many history books and read so many first-hand information about the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Shang Yuan is very frightened by the meaningless personnel struggle.

At that time, Lu Huitian had contradictions with the comrades of the radical land reform faction in Hubei because of the line issue, but Chen Ke did not take the means of forced substitution. The personnel struggle can never solve the fundamental problem of the line struggle, and even if the windmill is dismantled, it cannot stop the wind from continuing to blow. Lu Huitian's windmill is not bad even among many windmills, at most the foundation of this windmill is rooted in the rock of the bureaucratic system. In the current situation, it is not even possible to accuse the bureaucracy of subjectively opposing the people, because this is not true.

Society has its own laws of operation, and revolution is not to create a perfect blueprint for everyone in society to become a piece of the puzzle. Revolution is to destroy the old system that hinders people's self-development in society, so that everyone can live a better life and get a broader space for development. Of course, Shang Yuan knew that this was not the time to come out and speak at all.

Because his body is getting weaker and weaker, Shang Yuan no longer goes to the National Archive, and lives in seclusion on weekdays, but regularly sends people to the Archive to lend some materials. When the guard informed Shang Yuan that Li Yujian's daughter had come to see Shang Yuan, Shang Yuan was reading a document from the Qianlong period. Qianlong is very interesting, in his time, there was a great destruction of many black materials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so a lot of content has to be found from the existing documents.

"Please let her in." Putting down the information in his hand, Shang Yuan said with some surprise. Although they were both in Beijing, Li Yujian tried his best to avoid meeting Shang Yuan, and the relationship between the two brothers was still so estranged. The last time I saw Li Yujian, I met him in the cemetery a few years ago when he was sweeping the grave with Chen Ke. Li Yujian's daughter was also present that time.

"Uncle Shang Yuan, my father has passed away." Li Yujian's daughter was quite calm when she spoke, but when she mentioned her father's death, this fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl couldn't help but have red circles in her eyes.

Li Yujian worked hard for the first half of his life, but he only got married after the liberation of Beijing. He was in his 30s at the time. I was almost 40 when I had this child. The last time Shang Yuan saw Li Yujian's daughter was at night, and Shang Yuan couldn't see it clearly. Looking carefully now, although the little girl looks quite like his father, she can still see some shadows of Mr. Li Hongqi in her eyebrows, especially the forehead and eyebrows, which are simply a copy of Mr. Li Hongqi.

Seeing this child and hearing the news of his junior brother's death, Shang Yuan's eyes were already flashing with tears. Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, he asked the little girl to sit beside him. After handing the little guy a towel, Shang Yuan said seriously: "Good, if there is anything you want Uncle to help with, just say it." I'm your grandfather's student, and I'm your father's brother, so you can't help but say anything you want me to do. ”

Hearing what her family said, the little girl couldn't help but sobbed for a while. After a while, she wiped her tears with a towel before continuing: "Uncle Shang Yuan, my second uncle has already helped me bury my father. Before my father died, I asked me to hand you a letter. He said that this is a letter that my grandfather left you, although I am sorry to give it to you now. But he only made up his mind before he died. I'm sorry, Uncle Shang Yuan......"

At this, the little girl, not knowing whether she was afraid or something else, began to sob again.

His junior brother's temperament is still very clear, and it can be regarded as a lot of progress to make up his mind to hand over this letter to Shang Yuan before he dies. Shang Yuan said gently: "Good, the matter of our senior brother is the business of our senior brother, and it has nothing to do with you children. Don't be afraid. You're still far away, uncle, I'm glad to see you. No matter what happened to our senior brothers before, the others are gone, what else do we have to say? ”

Hearing this, the little girl finally looked a little relieved. She took out a thick letter and handed it to Shang Yuan, the envelope was already a little yellowed because of its age. And the letter seems to have been seen many times, with obvious signs of polishing on the edges of the envelope and the stationery.

Thinking that this was left to him by his teacher, and thinking of the teacher's voice and smile before his death, Shang Yuan felt a sense of melancholy in his heart. The letter is divided into two parts, the thin two pages of which are written in the distant sense of the letter, and the other is a stack of manuscripts.

"Wangshan, I have passed away soon. I have taught you what I have learned in my life, and your achievements are far beyond mine, and there are apprentices like you, who have no regrets about the teacher's death. Seeing the familiar handsome font, Shang Yuan's eyes couldn't help but moisten again.

He wiped his eyes before continuing to read. In this letter, Mr. Li Hongqi asked only one question. Zi said: The ancients had three diseases, and they are either dead today. The madness of the past is also unrestrained, and the madness of the present is also swinging; The ancient is also cheap, and the present is also angry; The foolishness of the past is also straight, and the foolishness of today is just deceitful.

"I used to read the works of Confucius, but I felt that the mountains were uplifted. After seeing Wenqing's revolutionary theory, and reading it again, I felt that I understood where the first saint was in the end. Zi said: Three hundred poems, in a word, said: Thinking is innocent. If China can do this, it will be even more fortunate! ”

After reading the teacher's brief letter, Shang Yuan understood why his junior brother Li Yujian did not hand over the letter to him until he died. With Li Yujian's temperament, he is naturally extremely unconvinced that his father Li Hongqi is so important. Shang Yuan regretted this.

In terms of intelligence and even learning, Li Yujian is actually not far behind Shang. At least after Li Yujian arrived at the National Library, although he was considered by his colleagues to be a very hypocritical and intolerant person, he was not bad at academics. If there is anything wrong with his life, it is that Li Yujian wants to be a person who is considered by others to be "thinking innocent", and he has not transformed himself into a person who "thinks innocently".

There is no such thing as a person who is born innocent. According to human nature, when you are hungry, you will eat, and when you encounter something delicious, you will eat desperately. If you are thirsty, you will drink it, and if you encounter something refreshing, you will drink it desperately. When a man sees a beautiful woman, he reacts and immediately goes up and pounces. When you encounter setbacks, you will be frustrated, and you will become angry. These things are instincts, basic reactions written in human DNA. From the world's point of view, these actions in social life are absolutely "evil". But this cannot be called "thinking evil". Because these instincts don't have to think at all, to think. The physical body, which is a real being, naturally emits such reactions.

Like Chen Ke and Shang Yuan, they all know that they want to do these things, and they know that they can do these things. The reason why they don't do it is not that they have a job of their choice.

As Xunzi said: If you cultivate your will, you will be proud and rich, and if morality is important, you will ignore the prince; Introspection and external things are light. It is said: "The gentleman serves things, and the villain serves things." "That's it. Work hard and feel at ease, for it; Profit is less and righteousness is more, for it; It is better to get through the chaos than to be poor and obedient. Therefore, a good farmer does not plough for water and drought, a good man does not read the market, and a gentleman does not neglect poverty and morality.

If people forcibly reverse their nature to do this, they will naturally appear to be crazy and unscrupulous, honest and stupid. Why? Because my heart is not happy. Anyone who works hard is suffering physically and mentally, and they can feel happy and comfortable before they come out of the way. They don't say it, they don't show it because it's useless to say it, and when they are highly focused, they forget about these feelings. After the brief period of excitement and euphoria after the completion of the work, these unhappiness are naturally recalled. Can this be enjoyable? Can this be happy?

People who can't reach the end and can't complete the work are destined to not get the benefits that can only be obtained by crossing the finish line. These people see that those who succeed have finally reached the end, and they have the results that they will be able to get if they pass the end. They just want not to endure all the pain that they must endure, and they just want to pass the end without going through the process. If you can't do it yourself, you can only make others think that they are the ones who can pass the finish line. So he chose to disguise himself, trying to disguise himself from the outside to look like those who can pass the end. The behavior of this kind of person is naturally crazy and, stubborn and angry, stupid and deceitful.

For those who are doing things, it is natural to "have something to help him", and for those who just want to get results, it becomes "what is there to harm him". If they haven't seen successful cases and don't have some level of IQ to understand such successful people, they can only choose to give up. In the end, they may die early, or find their own path and find a job that they can do. If you are a little "clever" and can understand some things, so you pretend to be "innocent", then you will harm others and yourself.

Thinking of this, Shang Yuan couldn't help but sigh. From this point of view, the more advanced the technology and the more free the consultation society, the more people will sell "success studies". If Lu Huitian is made to believe in the light of human nature, Lu Huitian will definitely answer in a rather embarrassed tone: Can we not mention the topic of trust, which hurts feelings.

It really takes a lot of courage to believe that the people will be able to liberate themselves as Chen Ke did.

After thinking about it, Shang Yuan couldn't help but sit back for a while. Only then did he suddenly find that his junior brother Li Yujian's daughter was sitting next to him in a regular manner. Human DNA can inherit many things, but only acquired virtues cannot be inherited. But looking at this cute little girl, she sat beside her seriously and silently. That steady appearance made Shang Yuan feel an indescribable sense of cherishment.

Seeing a child is equivalent to seeing what the real world will be like after you die. This seems to be what Chen Ke said. These children have infinite possibilities, they are the inheritors, and they must be the pioneers. How terrible the world would be if we didn't have expectations for these children.

Thinking of this, Shang Yuan felt that he could understand Chen Ke's thoughts. Since the future is not destined to be a simple repetition of the past, why can't we make more efforts in the present and have more expectations for the future?