Chapter 5: Manu's Ideals

"Why do we fight over a piece of mutton fat, even angry at each other over a bit of minced meat and grease?" Qin Zhen asked.

"Because mutton fat is delicious!" Wang Tiezhu replied as a matter of course.

"Then why do you think mutton fat is delicious?" Qin Zhen continued to ask.

Wang Tiezhu scratched his head, this question was a little difficult for him: "Delicious is delicious, how can there be why, why do you say so?" ”

"Because we are all hungry and there is no oil in our stomachs, we will think that the sheep fat is delicious." Xue Yuan replied on his behalf.

"Yes, that's why!" Wang Tiezhu suddenly realized, and hurriedly nodded his thick fingers and said.

"Then why are we hungry, or when did we start being hungry like this?"

Qin Zhen's face was calm, but his question was like a needle that pierced everyone's hearts; Everyone looked at Qin Zhen with complicated faces, and there was silence.

In fact, Qin Zhen's answer to this question is obvious, everyone knows it, but they haven't thought about it so clearly before, or even if they do, they will selectively forget, deceive themselves, and paralyze themselves.

Now it was peeled back layer by layer by Qin Zhen, and it was bloodily displayed in front of them.

"Let me change the question, will you fight for a piece of mutton fat before you are captured by the party members?"

"How is that possible, although our family is not rich, there is no problem with a full stomach." Wang Tiezhu replied.

"If I were at home, I wouldn't be able to look at this thing." At this time, although Xue Yuan was dressed in tatters, there was a sense of arrogance on his face.

Qin Zhen continued to ask: "Let me change the question, what is your ideal?" ”

Everyone was suddenly stunned, ideal? What a distant, unfamiliar word.

Everyone lowered their heads and fell into thought.

Xue Yuan was the first to raise his head, his eyes seemed to pass through the wall: "I have practiced martial arts since I was a child, and my biggest ideal is to hope that one day I can go into battle to kill the enemy, make meritorious achievements, and restore the glory of my ancestors." ”

Chaochuan Wu is still so peaceful, but he can hear that his voice is a little trembling: "My ideal is to learn the medical skills of the family, cure the sick and save people, and become a famous doctor like Hua Tuo and Sun Simiao." ”

Chen Luosheng also raised his head: "My ideal is to be a businessman, I have been studying with the caravan since I was a child, I like to do business, I like the feeling of making money, I hope that with my ability, I can earn a big family business, and this life is not in vain." ”

"My family is iron, our ancestors are to build weapons for the army, my dad can fight whether it is a sword or armor, not to mention agricultural iron tools, our family fights iron tools all over the neighborhood are good, my biggest wish is to be able to learn a set of skills from my father, open a big blacksmith shop." This is Wang Tiezhu's ideal.

"My ideals are similar to Xue Yuan's, I have listened to the stories of Li Jing, Guo Ziyi, and Gao Xianzhi since I was a child, so my biggest ideal is to be able to lead an elite division to fight in all directions." This is Ma Xuan's ideal.

"I'm not very interested in fighting, I especially admire Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty who sent an envoy to the Western Regions, it was he who opened up the road between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, it was he who brought the bloody BMW, it was he who brought the Silk Road, I especially wanted to be like Zhang Qian, go to the Western Regions to see, see the world outside our Central Plains." This is Marry's ideal.

Yang Xiaoqi smiled embarrassedly: "Your ideals are very high, my ideals are not so high, our family is Orion, I have followed my father to hunt in the mountains since I was a child, my biggest wish when I was a child is not to follow my father out to hunt on a thick snowy day, to be able to sit comfortably on the hot kang at home and sleep comfortably for a day, now, I miss the days when I went out hunting with my father, I don't know what happened to my father and my younger brothers and sisters." ”

As he spoke, Yang Xiaoqi's eyes turned red.

There was silence again.

Yan Yue continued: "Our family is doing woodwork, the ancestors are Shu people, I heard that our ancestors once made Zhuge crossbows, and then gradually migrated to Liangzhou because of war and other reasons, and the skills of doing Zhuge crossbows were also lost, and can only do some general woodwork to support the family, when I was very young, my father also secretly showed me the portrait of the public loss class and Zhuge Kongming, my father told me that the responsibility of our family is to find the lost skills of our ancestors, and make a real Zhuge crossbow, which is also my long-standing wish." ”

Ma Shun saw that everyone was finished, then lowered his head and said: "Seeing that you all have ideals, I am actually very envious, I actually have no ideals, our family is a tenant, that is, for Master Zhang's family to farm, I have been herding sheep for their family since I was a child, in fact, at that time the days were also very hard, but better than now, my father said that the land planted by our family is Mr. Zhang's family, and the sheep I put are also Mr. Zhang's family, at that time I was thinking, if these lands and sheep are our family's how good it would be." Since I was a child, my father said that I would follow him, and I would have no interest. ”

After Ma Shun finished speaking, he secretly glanced up at everyone, his face was red, and he himself felt very ashamed of his unambitious thoughts.

Qin Zhen looked at Ma Shun who peeked over, smiled happily, and saw that he was very happy.

Ma Shun looked at Qin Zhen who was smiling, retracted his gaze like lightning, lowered his head again, and his face turned even redder.

"Ma Shun, I'm very happy, I'm really happy, I don't think you don't have ideals, on the contrary, your ideals are great, because your ideas represent the ideas of countless people. And this ideal cannot be realized by the vast majority of people in their lifetimes, and even if it takes us thousands of years, it has not really been realized, so it seems extremely ethereal and even mediocre. ”

"However, if you can think about it, if you can say it, it proves that the seed in your heart is still there, so, I am very happy!"

Ma Shun raised his head differently, and his face flushed even more: "Qin Zhen, do you really think that I have ideals, not lie to me?" ”

Qin Zhen smiled and pointed at himself: "We have been living together for almost three years, what kind of person am I, you should know very well, is it necessary to lie to you?" ”

"Qin Zhen, thank you!" Ma Shun said very sincerely and happily. This is the first time that someone has said that he has ideals, and his ideals are still great, although he can't understand some of Qin Zhen's words.

"We all talked about our ideals, Qin Zhen, what are your ideals?" Xue Yuan asked.

To say that among the ten of them, in terms of understanding Qin Zhen, Xue Yuan should be the first place deservedly, he knew that the topic that Qin Zhen mentioned today must have his purpose, a lightning bolt crossed Xue Yuan's mind, he vaguely seemed to grasp something, but disappeared without a trace.

Qin Zhen's eyes looked ahead in a daze, without any focus, as if he was reminiscing, and said slowly: "When I was a child, my grandfather taught me to read, and learned the words of the sage in the book, and he often told me the truth of being an official, how to be a good official, so that the people under his rule can live and work in peace and contentment, although he has not been an official for a day; At that time, my ideal was to be a good official like my grandfather, build water conservancy, open up wasteland and farm, so that the people could have enough to eat; Build and repair the armor and prepare the army, so that the party people will not bully our Han people. ”

"When my grandfather and I and many people outside Qinzhou City were escorted by the party people to pass under the city of Qinzhou, how we hoped that our army could defeat the party people and save us from fire and water, in the face of the wailing all over the city, and the whipping and slaughter of the party people, Qinzhou City seemed to fall into a dead silence, the city gate was closed, and no government soldiers came out. At that time, I realized that those who were officials were completely different from the officials I thought. ”

"Since I was captured by the party members, my ideals have been shattered, not only to see those inactive officials and the army, but more importantly, I have become a slave, a slave who will be whipped and slaughtered by the party members at any time, and my life is not my own, let alone freedom and ideals."

Xue Yuan sighed: "Yes, if I hadn't mentioned it today, I would have forgotten that I still have ideals, in the past three years, in order to survive, for a bite to eat, we have lowered our bodies, and our ideals have long been thrown away." ”

Ma Xuan looked at Qin Zhen and Xue Yuan with a complicated face, and also sighed long: "We can't even eat enough now, how can we still talk about ideals." ”

"Are you willing to spend your whole life just grabbing a fist-sized piece of mutton fat?"

"Of course I'm not reconciled!" Ma Xuan gritted his teeth a little.

"What about you, willingly?"

"Unwilling!"

Even the most good-tempered Ma Shun said it categorically.

"I'm not reconciled!" Qin Zhen said.

"I know, you must have something to say, you say, I'll listen to you." Xue Yuan is really a good person, and he will always pick up the topic when Qin Zhen needs it the most and extend the next topic.

"I mean, we can't fight like this anymore, fight like this, and in the end we are happy to be the party members, we have lived together in this hut for three years, we all basically know each other, in addition to our identity as a manu, we all have a common identity, that is, Han, we are all Han."

"Do you know Datang?" Qin Zhen suddenly asked.

"You know, isn't the court in the Central Plains the Tang Dynasty now?" Asagawa said.

Then he revealed another piece of news: "When I barbecued them tonight, I heard from the Han people at the banquet that the Central Plains has been in the Qing Dynasty for three years this year, and Emperor Ying Shun was ousted from the emperor's throne after only less than a year of reign." ”

Qin Zhen sneered: "What kind of Tang are they, a group of Shatuo people stole the Han people's rivers and mountains in the name of the Han people, and they also deceived themselves in the name of the Tang Dynasty, the court is stupid and incompetent, the officials only know how to embezzle and solicit bribes, fill their pockets, divide the forces of the feudal towns, cultivate cronies, and the army is not to protect the people, but to become a weapon for power and profit." ”

Qin Zhen suddenly became extremely angry: "What kind of Tang are they!" ”

Although it is true, this statement was already a big rebellion in those days.

Fortunately, in recent decades, years of war, the emperor has been changing one after another, and the people's awe of the emperor's throne has also dropped to the lowest point, and the young people in the house have been captured since they were children and have suffered here, and they have no impression of the emperor of the Central Plains in their values, so what Qin Zhen said is taken for granted in their eyes.