Hu Xuan was silent, he never thought about these questions, before, he only thought that Sun Yat-sen was the savior of China, and what Sun Yat-sen did must be right, so as long as he defected to the revolutionary party, he could contribute to the country, but now it seems that it is too naïve.

Shi Suo smashed his head with his fist next to him, "Alas, I thought I would throw Sun Yat-sen to do a big job, but who knew that the bamboo basket would draw water." ”

Hu Xuan is also extremely disappointed in his heart, he has always devoted himself to the revolutionary party, saving the country and saving the people, and was regarded by him as the highest ideal, although he was constantly arrested and threatened by people's lives, but his heart was always full of hope for defecting to the Southern Revolutionary Party. The chest was stuffed with disappointment and annoyance.

Boss Wang came over and said, "Okay, okay, everyone is very tired today, you are sick again, let's rest early, and we will talk about it tomorrow if we have something to say." ”

Shi Suo and A Ning agreed with Boss Wang's suggestion, and several people were not only tired, but also frightened, and indeed a little physically and mentally exhausted, so a few men were in the east house, and A Ning was in the west house, and soon fell asleep.

2

Hu Xuan slept until almost noon the next day, and when he got up, he saw that A-Ning was sitting on the side, but the others were not there.

A-Ning said: "You are awake, they have all gone to work in the mountains, I originally wanted to go, Shi Suo is not at ease, let me take care of you here." ”

Hu Shuan got up, moved his muscles and bones, and saw that there was a table in the room, on which there were paper, pens, stone inkstones, and a piece of paper, on which were written two big characters: Comment. It seems to be the title of an article, but the bottom is empty, and the content has not been written.

Twice met with Zhao Ming, Hu Xuan immediately felt that this middle-aged man was knowledgeable and profound, which made people naturally have a sense of trust, but every time he was hungry to listen to his reasoning, and forgot to ask him about his professional background, now I slept in this mountain village hut all night, my spirit recovered, and my mood was calm, thinking of the experience of these days, I felt a lot, and now I looked at the two big words "comment" on the table, and I was very curious about Zhao Ming, and decided to ask him about his origin.

Just thinking about it, I heard the knock on the courtyard door outside, and when I went out of the house, I saw that it was Zhao Ming and Shi Suo who were back, and the two of them were happily carrying the pickaxe, and Zhao Ming was still carrying a basket in his hand, and his face was sweaty.

Shi Suo asked, "How are you?" Is it better? ”

"It's all right," Hu Shuan patted his chest, "I just had a little cold yesterday, and now it's all right, what are you doing?" ”

Zhao Ming wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "Go to work in the mountains." Lao Wang has a few acres of thin land, usually always follow me to run blindly, and don't care about management, today he went out again, I and Shi Suo went to hoe grass and trim ridges in the field, sweat and do some work, very good, if the country is stable, the people live and work in peace and contentment, so that the harvest with labor is the most beautiful thing. ”

"I'll go in the afternoon, too." Hu Xuan said.

"It depends on your physical condition," Zhao Ming said, "It's best to rest for two days first." As he spoke, he raised the basket in his hand, "We dug up some wild vegetables from the mountains, they are very fresh, and we will cook wild vegetables to eat today." ”

A Ning took the basket, washed and chopped vegetables, waited for Zhao Ming to wash his face, sat down to rest, and couldn't wait to ask: "Uncle Zhao, I want to ask you, what kind of profession do you have?" ”

Zhao Ming laughed, "Curious, right?" I used to teach, then I worked as a worker, for a while, I worked as a mentor to an old warlord, and now, I am unemployed, I have no job, and sometimes, I write reviews for new publications. ”

"New publications?"

"Yes," Zhao Ming said, "the country is now in a constant war, dark daylight, but not all the people of the country are blinded, there are some knowledgeable and ambitious people, gathered together, analyzed state affairs, stirred up words, founded some very insightful publications, these people are actually very rare, although what they do is not big, now there is no impact, but their thoughts and actions are the hope of the country in the future." ”

Listening to Zhao Ming's words, Hu Xuan always felt refreshed, and what he heard was something he had never seen and heard before.

After eating, Hu Xuanding was going to go out to work with Zhao Ming, A-Ning wore men's clothes, and the four of them all carried pickaxes and hoes, and walked to the mountain together.

The sun is shining outdoors, Hu Shuan feels refreshed, these days, he has either been arrested or detained, extremely depressed, and finally escaped, but because of the shattering of his dreams, he was extremely lost, but in the past two days, he got along with Zhao Ming, and his heart seemed to have opened up again, as if he had entered the sun.

The mountains outside the village are not big, more like hills, rolling and undulating, and there are some high mountains in the distance, lush in the sun, which look beautiful and picturesque.

"What a good river and mountain," Hu Xuan sighed, "but let these warlords fight for me, so that the country is not like the country, the home is not like the home, the country is erosive, and the people are not happy." ”

"Are they fighting just to grab territory?" Aning asked.

"You can say that, or you can't say that." Zhao Ming walked over with a pickaxe on his shoulder, took over the conversation and said: "The war is to grab the territory, yes, but the purpose of grabbing the territory is to grab power, the current China, in essence, is still in the era of feudal imperial power, whoever has the power can do whatever he wants, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven, those big warlords, for riding on the head of the people to be the emperor, all the dreams are salivating, just like the dead Yuan Shikai, who has already become the president, the country is the largest official, why should he be the emperor? It is because the power of the president and the emperor is not the same, the power of the emperor is unlimited, for people who do not know how to make trade-offs and only seek greed, this extreme power is the best choice to satisfy their desires. ”

We walked up the hillside, turned a corner, and came to a small col, where the terrain was relatively flat, and some low crops grew, and the mountain soil was barren, and it was not vigorous, but green weeds, and the roadside slope was lush everywhere.

Hu Xuan thought about Zhao Ming's words all the way, and walked forward with his head down, Ah Ning walked on the mountain road, very happy, jumping all the way, picking wild flowers in the ground, and suddenly Hu Shui hit her head, Ah Ning smiled: "You don't look at the road, what do you think?" ”

"What do you think about desire?" Hu Xuan ignored her and turned his head to ask Zhao Ming.

"That's interesting." Zhao Ming did not answer his question directly, took everyone to Wang Laoda's field, instructed everyone to build a dam and hoe grass seedlings, and said to Hu Xuan while working: "When you talk about desire, this is actually a very deep topic, a few words are not clear, and different people have to use different expressions to explain, usually the most common is the Buddhist criticism of desire, as if desire has become a sin and should be eradicated." Other Taoists and Confucianists all take purity and nobility as the foundation, and use the dilution of desire as a means to elevate themselves, purify their hearts and few desires, and become indifferent to fame and fortune, which has become a kind of pride. ”

"Is it wrong to be pure and indifferent to fame and fortune?" Hu Xuan said in surprise.

Zhao Ming smiled, "You can't make a mistake, but, if you think about it, we live in the world, we want to live, we want to compete, we want to do our best for ourselves, for our families, and for the country, aren't these all desires?" As long as you are surviving, there are activities, there are all kinds of desires, and if you eliminate all your desires, then you can only be removed from this world. Take Buddhism as an example, they hate desires, pay attention to the six roots of tranquility, and have no desires and no desires, but isn't this itself a pursuit? What is the so-called bliss, the so-called positive fruit, not desire? ”

Hu Xuan listened in a daze, holding a stone and standing in the field for a long time without moving, and the stone lock quickly took the stone from his hand.

Zhao Ming continued: "Also, like the quiet and inaction of Taoism, the self-cultivation of Confucianism and Qi family, without exception, are all desires, therefore, what needs to be eliminated is not desire, but the desire to extend to the impulse to ask for excess, everything, do it right, make it reasonable, this is as it should be, and it is normal, you have no desire to do anything, do nothing, the world is still necessary for you?" That kind of ascetic so-called 'cultivation' is actually not understood. Holding on to something that was originally very simple to engage in mystery, drilled the tip of the bull's horns. ”

"You mean," Hu Xuan pondered, "what we should do is reasonable desires, reasonable things, right?" ”

"Yes," Zhao Ming nodded appreciatively, "What you shouldn't get, go and grab it, you should get a part of it, you are insatiable and want to take it all for now, this is greed, and it is all kinds of Buddha, Taoism, and Confucianism that have refuted thousands of years of wrong things, I don't understand this, blindly cut off the 'desire', to put it bluntly, I didn't get home when I considered the problem." ”

"Well, that's good," Hu Xuan was sincerely satisfied with Zhao Ming's words, and said while carrying the stones: "Like a few of us, this desire to move these stones to work, this kind of desire should be promoted, but if you want to move out of a mountain of gold by moving these stones, it is delusional." There is a pay, there is a return, this is a normal desire and normal results, and pay is not afraid of less, get not afraid of more, but it is the wrong way. ”