Chapter 16: Morality
So Liang Shuyu took out the sharp fruit knife he had just bought from his trouser pocket and held it in front of her: "Let go." β
When the woman saw the knife, her expression changed.
It is human nature to bully the soft and be afraid of the hard, the woman's face became fast enough, she pulled the child back and shrunk, her tears were pinched clean in half a second like a valve that had been switched on, and her eyes looked at Liang Shuyu unwillingly as she took people away.
Liang Wenjing couldn't bear to look back, and tears fell down, not that she sympathized with the woman and the child, but this situation made her empathy explode, and she felt very sad.
This grief was like a cruel hand grabbing her chest.
Liang Wenjing looked at Liang Shuyu with a pout, his appearance just now was too fierce.
Liang Shuyu played her and jumped up: "Cry a fart." β
Liang Wenjing felt very aggrieved: "Actually, you can also help......
Liang Shuyu said: "Do you think it's just to help her? β
Liang Wenjing knows. So she said this word very weakly, she is an adult, not a child who can't figure out the situation, she knows what Liang Shuyu's concerns are, and she also knows why Liang Ying let Liang Shuyu act.
But morality and reason are two different things, and if a person with a slight sense of morality walks down a clean street and dumps his garbage on the side of the road, he may be condemned by his own morality for the next two days.
But this is a trifle after all, and he will quickly forget.
But if one day you pass by the water and see children swimming in it, you have a thought, but then you think, "It's just a strange child you don't know, and you don't necessarily listen to what you say," and you come back to find that they have drowned.
Then for many years to come, you'll have that thought in your head, "Why didn't you stop them?" β
This does not mean that you are a very good person, but morality will constantly condemn you and torture you.
As soon as she thought of this, Liang Wenjing pinched her heart painfully, will that woman and child die of cold? Will it starve to death?
So she kept wiping her tears, not for the two men, but for herself, why was she tormented by her conscience because of two strangers?
They had walked some distance along the wall and were about to turn when they heard the middle-aged woman start cursing them loudly.
"You can bear such a young child! You're going to hell! β
"You're going to hell!"
The middle-aged woman shouted a vicious curse at their departing backs, Liang Wenjing was still sad about it, and when she heard these words, she couldn't help but get angry, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it in their direction: "Fuck you!" β
Her chest heaved and her expression was resentful and aggrieved, but she was quickly relieved, and now she didn't have to be subject to the conscience condemnation of these two strangers!
Liang Shuyu smiled and sighed: "Tut-tut, naΓ―ve child." Let my mother tell you about the sinister nature of society. β
Liang Ying was amused when she saw Liang Wen's puffed up appearance, and sure enough, she told one or two sinister accidents about society.
One case is that when she just made some money to buy a car, her skills were not very good, and she was hit by a tricycle within a few days of being on the road.
The other party suddenly rushed out of the mezzanine, if she had better skills, she might have avoided it, the road was very clean at the time, but she was too nervous at the time.
The other party was an honest-looking laborer, tanned, and when he saw that it was such a beautiful new car, he was so frightened that he even apologized to her in a low voice. At that time, her car insurance hadn't come down yet, but when she saw such an honest person, she didn't forget it.
She also saw that one of the other party's wheels was knocked crooked, thinking that such an honest person would have the money to change the wheel, and she must have been distressed for a while. She relented and gave the other party five hundred yuan.
Anyone can guess what happened next, just two traffic police officers cruised by, and the honest man turned into a "bitter master", crying that Liang Ying hit him, 500 yuan is evidence, there is no monitoring in that place, Liang Ying lost 2,000 yuan.
Liang Ying doesn't suffer from such a trivial matter, but thinks that people can't be good-looking.
The more pathetic people look at them, the more hateful and evil they are likely.
When a person makes a mistake himself, he cries pitifully, he even prays to you on his knees, he tells the bitterness behind him word by word, and the more true he says, the more false he becomes.
All the words and supplications of pity are but tools for them to win sympathy, and the real poor man is only tears, and he is ashamed to confess himself to strangers, because they still have self-esteem, and they respect themselves and therefore others.
Those who abandon their self-esteem, make their troubles public for profit, and trample their dignity under their feet, he has as much dignity as he abandons, as much as his ambition is.
He will definitely get it back a hundredfold and a thousand times in the future.
Even the help of the past is regarded as a shame.
It was obvious that he had lost his dignity, but he thought that others were humiliating him. So such a person has no morals at all, and if you help him, you are seen as humiliating him, although it is he who is humiliating himself, but they don't think that they are wrong, it is someone else who is wrong.
Back home.
Liang Wenjing still relish the stories told by Liang Ying, and lamented that society is really sinister.
"It's good that I'm not really in society yet." After all, she has been coding at home since graduation and has never gone out to work.
"And the place where we live is very safe, although it is not a community, but the neighbors are very good to get along with." Because they chatted, they talked about the news that the girl rented out the house alone and was almost violated by the neighbors.
Liang Shuyu, who was silently taking off his raincoat, glanced at his elder sister, "That's because you haven't touched it, it doesn't mean that you haven't." β
"I'm familiar with all the people around me, and I've never heard of a book."
Liang Shuyu threw the raincoat he had picked off on her head, and said angrily, "Hurry up and change your clothes." He plunged into the room.
"You're so annoying!" Liang Wen was miserable.
In the room, Liang Shuyu quickly took off the soaked clothes on his body, dried them with a towel and replaced them with clean ones, the wet clothes he changed out of them would not dry, and if it continued to rain, they would soon have no clothes to change.
You have to go out less.
After changing his clothes and walking to the window, his window was facing the small second floor of Yue Shifeng's house, and at this time, a small light was shining in the window, indicating that there were people living inside.
He lit a cigarette in distraught, and watched the torrential rain crash violently on the window edge, and his thoughts did not know where he had flown to, and when he came back to his senses again, the smoke had burned out.
He took out the fruit knife again and played with it for a while, to be precise, this is not a fruit knife, it should be something similar to a kitchen knife in Western kitchenware, relatively small, but larger than a fruit knife.
Therefore, there was no scabbard, so he thought about finding a leather coat or Liang Wenjing's leather bag to make a self-made scabbard.
A little later, he drank some ginger soup and cold powder, wiped his body with hot water, ate instant noodles at night, and everyone didn't want to move when it rained today.