Chapter 15: Learning (2)
"Haha, you really believe it, haha!" Jin Shan was like an old naughty boy, smiling very happily.
"Isn't it roe deer meat?" Long Yang was tortured over and over, not knowing which of Jin Shan's words was true and which was false.
"You still have to observe and learn, you can't even tell which animal it is, what you can do, and now you don't force you, you take your time. Knowing the environment you live in and getting familiar with them has endless benefits for you. Jin Shan said slowly.
"Are you asking me to observe everything in this mountain?" Long Yang asked.
"Yes, everything, all in this mountain, living and inanimate, including me, including yourself."
"You? What do I observe you? Long Yang looked at Jin Shan questioningly.
"Haha, haven't you always thought that I have a problem, then rely on your own observation to understand me." Jin Shan touched Long Yang's head and said with pity.
"Oh, so where do I start now?"
"I'll start with the roe deer and give you a path." Jin Shan walked into the woods, followed by Long Yang.
"What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see the roe deer next to the iron clip?"
"I think it should be a trap set up by the people in the village to hunt prey."
"Well, what about later?"
"Later, when I saw a few little roe deer, I went to untie my godmother's roe deer." Long Yang then replied.
"And later?"
"Later, I saw that the female roe deer was tied to an iron clip, and I thought that the mountain people used the female roe deer as bait in order to get bigger prey."
"On the basis of these conclusions?"
"I came up with it through what I saw."
"You are right, people get conclusions from what they see, and whether what they see is true and accurate, whether it is true or not. If what you see isn't the truth, what about your conclusions? Obviously also wrong. Jin Shan looked back at Long Yang, who was also thinking about this problem.
"The first time you see a roe deer, you think it's prey by a hunter. This is your first impression, the first wrong conclusion you get, because you are not observing. Will prey caught in an iron trap be injured? Will it bleed to death? Will it still be alive and kicking like normal? ”
"The second is that if you think about the situation when you see the little roe deer, since it is a cub, how can it not surround the mother roe deer, but jump out of the grass? You were also born and raised in a mountain village, have you ever seen anything like this? Jin Shan paused every time he finished saying a question, leaving Long Yang time to think.
"Third question, where did you find the roe deer? Do you think hunters would set traps on the road? People are humane, and beasts have beasts, have you ever thought about it? ”
"The fourth question, although there is no shortage of wild animals on our mountain, but now in this season, catching a roe deer is a bumper harvest, enough for the family to improve their food, who would be willing to use a roe deer to hunt on a road that other animals will not pass?"
"The fifth question is a simple and dangerous one, but is it possible that the robe, or the place, the time, or the little roe deer repeat again? If this is true, could it be a trap that traps you? Otherwise, how can you get bitten. This bite will give you a wake-up call, and also let you remember all the time, a negligence or carelessness is likely to make you make mistakes. To put it mildly, it will lead to miscalculation; In the big case, you will either lose someone else's life or lose your own life. I use the roe deer to test you, just to make you remember this simple thing, in fact, it is not simple at all. In the future, you can refer to this matter and always remind yourself that simple and complex are just a thought. ”
Hearing Jin Shan say a bunch of questions, Long Yang realized how negligent he was, and he actually ignored and filtered out these obvious things. Especially when Jin Shan said that if it was a trap for himself, Long Yang realized that he was too bad and had too many things to learn.
"Master, I know it's wrong." Long Yang recognized his shortcomings and took the initiative to admit his mistakes.
"You call me Master, hehe. You call me Master! Ha ha! Jin Shan laughed happily, he couldn't close his mouth with a smile, he knew that Long Yang was sincerely calling himself Master.
"Good apprentice, it's not your fault, it's that you're not used to this way of thinking, and with your persistence, this kind of thinking of yours will become a habit and a way of thinking, and it will bring you infinite benefits. Of course, you have to learn to sort out and eliminate in the future, don't do everything like this, so don't I educate a neuropath? Your mother doesn't scold me to death, saying I'm an old psychopath! Jin Shanyi became happy, and there were obviously more words.
Long Yang was also very happy, because Jin Shan was happy.
"Well, there are many things to observe and learn, including time, geography, customs, human feelings, including the growth of all things, birth, old age, sickness and death, including great changes and subtle changes, including the causes, processes, evolution and results of things, including too many things, let's take our time. Now we start with this mountain, and you start to understand this mountain, this mountain, the things on this mountain. If you don't understand something, you can ask me, and at the end of the day is when you ask questions, don't bother me after a while, I still have to drink and sleep. ”
Jin Shan's explanation was okay at the beginning, but the last sentence returned to his old profession, drinking and sleeping. Long Yang nodded helplessly, who called himself to worship this master who loves to drink and sleep.
After leaving Jin Mountain, Long Yang began to measure this familiar and unfamiliar mountain with his footsteps, he walked very slowly, and when he saw a place, he would stop, carefully observe and touch. Then in one place, think about it with your heart, until your brow stretches. He looked at rocks, at trees, at plants, at animals, at everything in his sight.
Seeing more things, he began to try to look at things outside his line of sight, which was what he thought after observation, that was the induction and summary after observation, and further, that is, the reasoning after summarizing. Although it is still very vague and not systematic, there is already a feeling of this aspect, and Long Yang tries to try.
Time passed imperceptibly, and if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't see things clearly after dark, Long Yang almost forgot to go home.
"Boy, it's almost time, do you have any questions?" Jin Shan didn't know when he came to Longyang. Maybe he was afraid that the beasts on the mountain would hurt Long Yang, or maybe he was supervising Long Yang's studies.
"Oh, Master, I don't have a problem right now." Long Yang came to his senses.
"If there is no problem, we will go down the mountain together, so as not to worry your mother." Jin Shan didn't seem to care if Long Yang had a problem, but a smile could be detected at the corner of his mouth, it seemed that he was very satisfied with Long Yang's answer, I don't know if Long Yang didn't disturb his drinking and sleeping today.
"Thank you, Grandpa Shan."
One old and one young, one before and one after, a mountain, several generations.