Liang Chen and Lao Wang are both people who believe in the freedom of obeying the destiny of heaven to the best of their ability, and the flattery of their words is a little bit of Su Shi's open-mindedness, and they seem to be open-minded.

When the college entrance examination was approaching, Liang Chen talked about the story of fate on a certain night alone with Lao Wang when the evening self-study ended early, Liang Chen's story was copied, and the Lei Zhu camp in the Qing Dynasty Yuan Meicaizi's "Zi Bu Yu", he still believes in karma.

In February of the third year of Qianlong, Lei killed a soldier in the barracks outside the city. But this soldier usually did not do anything evil, and everyone thought it was strange. And a veteran of the same battalion as the dead soldier told everyone that he had changed his words and deeds and was determined to be good, but when he first joined the army 20 years ago, he had done an evil thing, and the veteran knew this matter because he was in the same class.

Twenty years ago, the little general once led a team of soldiers to hunt at the foot of Gaoting Mountain, and when he set up camp, the dead man set up his tent on the side of the road. In the evening, a little nun who had come down from the mountain passed by his tent. The dead man's heart was furious, and when he saw that there was no one before and after, he actually dragged the little nun into the tent and wanted to rape her. The little nun tried to resist desperately and found an opportunity to run away, but she left her pants behind in the tent.

The dead man followed the little nun for half a mile, and when the nun was nowhere to be seen outside a small village, he turned back to the camp, and the nun took refuge in fear in the house of a farmer who was farming.

The family where the little nun took refuge consisted of a woman and a child of five or six years old, while her husband worked outside. When the young woman saw the nun enter the house bare-legged, she thought that if her man was not at home, the nun would have a plan and she would not be able to cope with it, so she wanted to drive her away.

With tears in her eyes, the little nun told the soldier that he wanted to rape her, and begged to spend the night. The young woman, seeing that she was pitiful, agreed, and found her trousers to lend her, and the nun agreed to return them in three days.

The little nun suffered from this great calamity, and her heart was really unsettled, so she tossed and turned all night without sleep, and left in a hurry before dawn.

Two days later, when the woman's husband, who was working in the city, returned to his house, he took off his dirty clothes to change, and the woman took the dirty clothes out of the door to be washed as usual, but when the husband opened the suitcase but could not find his trousers, but his wife's clothes were neatly placed inside, the husband went out and asked his wife where he had put his trousers.

When the woman heard that her husband could not find the trousers, she remembered that she must have mistakenly given her husband's trousers to the little nun two days ago, and the woman blamed herself for her carelessness, and when she wanted to explain, her son, who was five or six years old, rushed to the side and said, 'The monk came and wore them last night.' ’

The husband became suspicious, so he grabbed the child and viciously asked his son what was going on, and the child was a little afraid of his father's sudden anger, so he told the monk how to ask his mother at night, how to stay overnight, how to borrow pants, and how to leave in the dark. The woman argued that the nun was not a monk, but the husband refused to believe it, and at first he only insulted her, then beat her, and asked the neighbors, who all said that it happened at night and said that they did not know.

The woman could not bear the grievances and hanged herself.

The next day, the husband opened the door and saw the little nun returning the pants and carrying a basket of pastries as a token of thanks. The child pointed to her and told her father: This is the monk who had come to spend the night before.

The husband was remorseful and heartbroken, and pointed to the unknown child and scolded: You! You! One sentence killed your mother. After saying this, the husband beat the child to death with a rod in front of the young woman's coffin, and hanged himself.

The neighbors all felt that reporting the matter to the official was nothing more than adding trouble, so they helped each other bury the three of them and put the matter to rest.

In the winter of the following year, the general came here again to hunt, and some locals told the general about it. The general said, "Although I knew that it was the little soldier, the matter had already passed, so I didn't say much." I told the soldier privately that he was astonished and changed his evil and did good, hoping to cover up his sins. But good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and these twenty years are just the good fruits of God's reward for him, and he still can't escape the retribution of three lives after all. ”

"Lao Wang, do you believe in Buddhism?" Liang Chen asked. They believe in Buddhism in their village, and almost every household has incense, and they don't miss the Buddha Festival every year.

"I don't believe it." Lao Wang shook his head and said, "I didn't like Buddhist things before, and after you usually reinterpret "Journey to the West" in the dormitory, I hate it, Buddha, it's too hypocritical." ”

"I'm a bit of a fatalistic believer, though!"

"My life is up to me!"

"Liangzi, have you thought of such an assumption? Our lives are actually written in the script, when we are born, when we get married, when we have children······ Sometimes it's hard work! Sometimes give up! Sometimes it's time to do something! These things seem to be our own subjective decisions, is it possible that they have already been set, we are like a program that has been compiled for a long time, just run on the world's computer and become a piece of data. ”

Lao Wang said like a philosopher, the three major problems of life are inconclusive, who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going? There is no clear answer to all this, as in the case of a sports game.

Liang Chen also had such a conjecture at night, the world is centered on himself, the people around him, the scenery as far as the eye can see, and the road under his feet······ Everything exists because of its own existence, and when it sets foot on the distance, everything in its hometown disappears; He was erased when he was no longer in touch with his friends; When you die, the world dies with it······ We are the masters of our world.

"If the political teacher listens to your words, he will definitely have to cut your head open and study it, why is it not so easy to study philosophy." Liang Chen took a sip of water and laughed at Lao Wang's strange logic.

"Actually, my grandmother also told me such stories of karma, and I heard a lot of them." Lao Wang avoided the argument to persuade Liang Chen and took the initiative to change the topic.

"And then!" Liang Chen saw that Lao Wan was silent for a long time, and continued to ask.

"Didn't Mr. Lu Xun have an article on "Fortune"! Our sages also knew that the uncertainty of 'destiny' was not enough to determine people's hearts, so he said that the result obtained after using various methods is really 'destiny', and even if it is necessary to use various methods, it is also predestined. But it seems that ordinary people don't think so. People don't have 'firm beliefs', and the fox is suspicious, which may not be a good thing, because this is also the so-called 'no special exercise'. ”

"Believe in your destiny or disbelieve in your destiny." Liang Chen looked at Lao Wang and replied with a smile.

(End of chapter)