(2-in-1 update, plus more still owes three chapters)

Cheng Mo followed Shen Youyi into her apartment, walked into the hallway and looked at the past It was completely different from what he imagined, Teacher Shen's home was not spacious and warm at all, the color of the living room was dark gray, gray wallpaper, gray sofa, gray table lamp, and even the wooden floor was gray, using such a heavy color, there would usually be a very serious sense of oppression.

But on a wall facing the window, a huge bookcase stretched to the ceiling, brightening the room, like a warm fireplace.

This white bookcase is neatly stacked with books, Cheng Mo glanced at the lattice of the bookcase full of labels, roughly divided into Chinese literature, Japanese literature, Western literature and Latin American literature according to the hierarchy, there are no philosophical books that Cheng Mo is good at, almost all of them, books by different writers are placed together, among which the books of Japanese writers are the most, Natsume Soseki, Kawabata Yasunari, Murakami Haruki, Higashino Keigo, Kawashima Yukio, Kenzaburo Oe, Osamu Dazai, Tsunoda Mitsuyo.....

Books and words of various colors form a huge abstract painting, perhaps the oil painting carefully conceived by famous artists is a beauty that human beings can recognize, but this particularly unintentional abstract painting allows Cheng Mo to see the "ocean" and even the "sky".

Every book is an island or a cloud that you can shelter in, rest you in, and indulge in. They allow you to break free from the shackles of reality and lift the disgusting vulgarity of everyday life.

This is truly a great and monumental painting.

There are also a lot of books in Cheng Mo's house, but they are all disorderly, some unimportant ones are piled up in the corner, some important ones are placed in glass bookcases, and some are packed into boxes and stuffed under the bed.

Therefore, this scene was very shocking to Cheng Mo.

This kind of shock is completely different from the public grandeur of the library, it is an extremely private and hidden beauty, like a peerless beauty being lifted by the breeze and the corners of her skirt are overflowing.

Shen Youyi saw Cheng Mo's shocked eyes, a little satisfied, and said with the corners of his mouth curled: "Awesome, right? This is the family money I have saved for more than ten years, and the pocket money, New Year's money, and the salary of my part-time job are all here.... This is all my wealth. ”

"Awesome!" Cheng Mo muttered, although these things can all be packed into a small e-book, but for a person who loves to read, the feeling of a paper book is difficult to replace.

Shen Youyi took a pair of women's slippers and put them on for Cheng Mo, "I'm sorry, you're still the first boy to come to my house as a guest, and next time you come, you'll have your slippers!"

Cheng Mo didn't speak, but just took off his canvas shoes, revealing the socks that had been pierced through one eye by his thumb, and put on slippers.

Shen Youyi glanced at Cheng Mo's pink thumb, put the bag on the sofa, folded the books on the pentagonal coffee table made of stainless steel and marble, took a rubber band in the storage box, tied his hair into a ponytail and walked to the kitchen.

"I'm sorry, it's a bit messy at home, I never watch TV, if you want to be bored, just read a book, I'll cook, and it'll be fine soon. ”

Cheng Mo said "oh", he randomly selected one of the books stacked on the coffee table, and began to read it, the title of the book is called "Planarian", the author is called Yamamoto Xu, although Cheng Mo has read a lot of books, but he is not very old, and the books he reads are basically what he reads at home, although Cheng Yongze studies anthropology, literature is a piece that cannot be bypassed, but there are generally few books on literature at home.

It is mainly some classic works that describe the fate of human beings in the great era, such as "Planaria", which reflects the mental state of a certain group in a certain contemporary country, which Cheng Mo rarely touches, and the beginning of the book is like this: "Planaria: Planaria: Planaria.

The body is flattened, twenty to thirty mm long, and the mouth is located in the center of the abdomen. It inhabits streams and is often used in regeneration experiments.

In the next life, I will be a planarian.

I casually said this while chatting at the wine table. Everyone looked at it with great interest. We drank with three people I knew from my part-time job, all younger than me, and my boyfriend sitting next to me. ”

This beginning inexplicably attracted Cheng Mo, because he also knew that planarians were creatures, its vitality was strong, and no matter how many pieces it was cut into, each section would survive.....

The kitchen was filled with the sound of a faucet rattling, followed by the rattle of kitchen knives colliding with a cutting board, and the refrigerator door was opened and closed. The sunset outside the window gradually changed from bright to dim, the shadows from dim to bright, and the lights of the opposite building were lit one after another, and the night became thicker.

Cheng Mo's time to enter the concentration is very fast, reading this kind of plot, there is no need to analyze it word by word, it is very fast, and when he finished reading a quarter, Mr. Shen had already brought the dishes to the table, and while untying his apron, he shouted with a smile: "Cheng Mo, come and eat." ”

Cheng Mo let out an "oh", remembering the number of pages he saw, and walked towards the dining room next to the kitchen, which was actually separated from the living room by a glass door, which could roughly be regarded as part of the living room.

The dining table should be the same as the coffee table, full of white textured black Hangzhou gray marble tabletop, mirrored stainless steel frame and table legs, modern, simple, cold and hard, and Shen Youyi's gentle to sweet character is a little incompatible, in fact, in the deep thinking, and some of the course, most of the books of Japanese writers carry out the tenderness and hopeless loneliness that go deep into the bone marrow, from this point of view, it may be in line with Mr. Shen.

Cheng Mo pulled out his chair and sat down, the dim chandelier cast a faint halo on the black table, and in these halos were three white porcelain plates, a larger white porcelain soup bowl, as well as two white porcelain small bowls, and two pairs of stainless steel chopsticks, neat and beautiful.

The soup is cucumber shredded shrimp and egg soup, tender yellow and clear green, it looks very refreshing, and the three plates are filled with steamed eight-treasure fish, salted egg yolk eggplant and a fish-flavored shredded pork, all of which take care of Cheng Mo's taste, and are very light compared to Hunan cuisine.

"Give me the bowl and I'll serve you the meal. ”

Cheng Mo hurriedly stood up and said, "I'll ..... it myself."

"Don't be so polite, it's not too troublesome....." Shen Youyi smiled and stretched out his hand towards Cheng Mo.

This smile made Cheng Mo unable to resist, so he could only obediently hand over the bowl in his hand, he watched Shen Youyi open the lid of the rice cooker, and filled him with a small bowl of rice in the steaming mist, her white hands and the crystal rice were beautiful like a mirage.

Probably true gentleness is like this, condensed in the simplicity of a meal and a vegetable.

Seeing that Cheng Mo's first chopsticks did not pick up vegetables, but instead ate a bite of rice, Shen Youyi gave Cheng Mo a chopsticks of fish-flavored shredded pork, "Come and comment on how my dishes are done?"

The rich flavor of the sauce with a hint of sweetness of shredded meat and white rice is really a feast for the tongue to enjoy, but Cheng Mo only said two words: "Delicious." ”

"If it's delicious, eat more!"

"The book you just read?"

Planarians. ”

"What do you think?"

"It's great, I just saw the first story, in fact, I agree with the author's point of view, laziness is getting by, it's not a sinful thing, allowing others to live in 'meaningless', is the greatest good ..... this society"

Shen Youyi's chopsticks paused in the air, "Cheng Mo, are you going to study literature or science?" If you don't have a really good score in science, I really want to encourage you to study liberal arts..... After reading it for a while, I distilled the point that the author of the book wanted to express...... It's amazing....."

"This should be easy to understand.... Philosophy books are really difficult to understand, especially Marx's books, you can probably become a saint if you read them through, which is why the BBC voted for the 'thinker of the millennium' at the end of the last century, and Marx was at the top of the list..... Interestingly, The Communist Manifesto is the best-selling book in the West, surpassing the Bible...."

"I didn't like "Ma Zhe" the most in college, and I really had a big head to read those theories. ”

Cheng Mo smiled and said: "This is normal, Taizu said that if we can understand Marxism two or three times, then Huaxia will be really amazing (approximate meaning)." Even Taizu admitted many times that he couldn't read it, saying, 'The theory book is too hard, I haven't read it, and Chen Boda hasn't read it.' He also said: "I pay more attention to the problems of the system and the relations of production." As for productivity, I have very little knowledge. "So, Mr. Shen, it's normal that you can't read it, even how many notes my father has taken and how much history he has studied can be regarded as a first glimpse, and his level is at least in the top ten in the whole of China....... Use Ma Zhe as a teaching material..... Let's be honest, just remember that Marx was great, and it doesn't matter if you forget those theories...."

Shen Youyi was amazed by Cheng Mo's knowledge again, no matter how much she thought of something else in an instant, because she saw Cheng Mo smile for the first time, Shen Youyi sandwiched the eight treasure fish with Cheng Mo again, "Cheng Mo, you should smile more, it looks good when you smile, and your hair should be cut, don't cut it every time you have to go, anyway, you didn't cut your hair yourself, right?"

"Well, I cut it myself, and it was too much time to go to the barbershop. ”

"I'll take you to a haircut this weekend....."

Teacher Shen ..... I don't really need this one, I think I cut it myself. ”

Shen Youyi looked at Cheng Mo's messy hair, which had no contours and layers to speak of, and said angrily: "This is still very good, boys also have to pay attention to their image! As long as you don't love to dress up like Fu Yuanzhuo.....

Cheng Mo said helplessly: "Learning first." ”

"Learning is very important, but life is more important, I think for you to come to school to study not only for learning, right?like-minded friendship, ignorant and innocent love are all things that we must experience in life, although books can pass on these experiences to you, but after all, this is someone else's experience, not your own, 'no investigation, no right to speak' I still know.... You should now put a little more of your mind outside of your studies. ”

Before Cheng Mo could speak, Shen Youyi himself laughed, "If the principal hears me say this, he will probably dismiss me..... Cheng Mo, for the sake of me being so brave and telling the truth, let me take you to cut your hair on Sunday. ”

Teacher Shen ..... I ....."

"I said that don't call me Teacher Shen outside the school, just call me Sister Xi. ”

"Teacher Shen...."

"It's called Sister Xi. ”

"Teacher Shen...."

"It's called Sister Xi. Shen Youyi tirelessly interrupted Cheng Mo, with a posture that if you don't obey, I will be hard.

Cheng Mo could only give in, it was just a title, and it didn't matter if he was about it, "Okay! Sister Xi, I may not have time on Sunday." ”

"Then Saturday, there is no time on Saturday, just after school on any day, you are not allowed to sneak your hair off..... If you don't obey, I'll deduct your conduct points and your learning points....."

"Didn't you say that you were friends?" Cheng Mo couldn't help but scold.

"I'm fine. Shen Youyi said with a smile, her smile was like a bright moon half-hidden in the clouds.

"By the way, we were still talking about "Planarian" just now, do you like Japanese literature?" Seeing that Cheng Mo had already given in, Shen Youyi changed the topic again.

"It's okay, but I don't read many books by Japanese writers, so I've read a few of the more famous ones. ”

Shen Youyi asked with interest, "Tell me, what have you watched?"

"The Tale of Genji", "Manyoshu", "Snow Country", "Kokoro", "Rashomon", "Human Disqualification", "Confession of a Masquerade"..... That's probably it, I didn't see it very finely, and I didn't understand it in depth......"

"I've read a lot, I'm just getting my hands on these books at your age..... It seems that we can talk about the topic of Japanese literature.... I can't find anyone to discuss these things!"

Cheng Mo doesn't understand how Shen Youyi and Gao Yuemei became best friends, one likes to watch difficult and depressing Japanese literature, and the other likes to watch silly white sweet Korean dramas, not that silly white sweet is not good, but that these two people should be difficult to match, right?

"I don't dare to say that I have read too little Japanese literature, and in my opinion, ignoring the narrative style, the text of Japanese literature is with a quiet and bleak beauty, in fact, there are also imitations of this style in our country, like Mr. Guo..... But this belongs to the painting of the tiger is not a typical anti-dog, Mr. Guo's carved words are also quite beautiful to read, but after reading a few more times, you will find that these are just some empty beautiful words, lack of in-depth insight into human nature and criticism of society, no profound connotation, hollow vase, although delicate but can not hold any thoughts, this gap is not Mr. Guo jumped off a building can make up..... Probably 10,000 times to jump up the building! It has to be the kind of World Trade Tower.... However, perhaps the popularity of this kind of book is the biggest criticism of reality. ”

Cheng Mo's poisonous taunt made Shen Youyi's smile tremble, this laugh is really incredible, it is a sea of milk, fragrant shaking and trembling, if you want to change a person who is not strong-willed, it will not be an instant downtime and will go away instantly, Cheng Mo can still insist on not bleeding from nosebleeds at this moment, and eat calmly, it is really a contemporary Yanagishita Megumi....

Teacher Shen didn't notice her inadvertent actions at all, and Cheng Mo's expression didn't leak any news, so she said: "That's great, but you do not read enough Japanese literature, and you are exposed to Japanese aesthetic mourning literature, this kind of literary works are greatly influenced by Zen Buddhism, they don't like happy endings, and think that death is eternal, this kind of author not only prefers tragedy, but also pursues tragedy, so there is always a faint sadness in the work." In this literary tradition of mourning, the exile of words to imagery is like the ripples that slowly spread out on the surface of a lake, and being impacted by such emptiness is a very unforgettable experience of beauty. However, it is unfair to compare Mr. Guo's disease-free moaning words with those great writers, at least it must be ...... at the level of Shen Congwen and Yu Hua."

While eating, the two made some comparisons between Japanese literature and Chinese literature, the atmosphere was harmonious and harmonious, although Cheng Mo could not be said to be fluent in literature, but he had his own unique understanding, which provided Shen Youyi with a lot of new perspectives.

Cheng Mo also learned a lot of literary knowledge during the conversation, and also met a lot of modern writers he didn't know much about, although this knowledge is a bit redundant for Cheng Mo, but it is also interesting to listen to it.

"It's no wonder that you say you don't want to communicate with other students, probably in your opinion, they are not on the same level as you, right?

"What is lost is somewhat insignificant compared to what is gained. ”

"Cheng Mo, I think you have misunderstood the meaning of reading, I like a treasure island female writer Hu Qingfang very much, recently published a collection of essays called "The Nameless", one of which wrote an article that touched me deeply, that article said that she followed her parents to the mountains when she was a child, but forgot to book a hotel, so the family could only spend the night in the car, but she saw the starry sky for the first time in the car, no light pollution, for her this time the experience is more than just seeing the starry sky..... In the article...... she wrote"

After a pause, Shen Youyi recited softly in a light and pleasant voice like her feathers brushing her skin: " Find a cloudless night and look at the starry sky, you will appreciate the meaning of literature, the stars look down on all beings, all equal, not discriminatory, not classified, no judgment, and humble or great or good, or mediocre, the human beings on the earth can also look back, no matter where they are, as long as they look up and gaze, the stars are there, the stars only speak the purest language, from children to the old people can easily understand the simple light, he speaks directly to everyone, without going through priests or gods, skipping generations across time and space, without a big and unworthy tower of Babylon, you can also understand the eyes of another human being。 The stars are not mysterious at all, they exist for all lost sailors to navigate....."

"Maybe the ocean of books is too wide, and the wind of thought is too violent, so you are a little lost, Cheng Mo. ”

"But it doesn't matter, Sister Xi will be your Big Dipper!"