Chapter 10: Divergent Directions (2)
Yang Tong and Yang Xin were sent back to their own world by the Rubik's Cube, and the third grid of the Rubik's Cube, a carriage carrying a picture of a Wei State going to the Chu State, naturally failed to form.
When he went to school on Monday, Yang Tong learned a fable called Nan Yuan Bei Zi at school, which also tells the story of a Wei man who wanted to go to Chu, but Chu was in the south, and this Wei man went north. Countless people ridiculed this Wei person, if he kept going north, then he would not be able to reach Chu State.
Many students in the class showed the same doubts as Yang Tong, even if he kept walking north, he would still reach the Chu State! Why did he say that he couldn't reach the state of Chu?
The teacher smiled when he heard the classmates' discussions.
She doesn't think that this atmosphere is bad, on the contrary, it is much better to raise her own questions than to keep them in her heart.
There is a saying that learning is not made at home.
It is through continuous exploration and knowledge that we can get its true meaning.
The teacher spoke; "Students, be quiet, aren't you curious, why do people in this era say that this person can't reach Chu State!"
"Yes, Teacher!" The children replied in unison.
Yang Tong raised his hand, and the teacher saw it and asked, "Yang Tongtong, do you have anything to say?" ”
Yang Tong stood up and replied, "Teacher, I'm curious, why do people in ancient times say that the sky is round and the earth is round!" ”
The teacher smiled, asked Yang Tong to sit down and said, "Students, I know that everyone can't understand the thinking of the ancients, because you are thinking about problems with modern thinking.
If you think about it, in ancient times, they did not have airplanes, high-speed trains, trains, automobiles and other means of transportation. They traveled on foot and by horse-drawn carriages, most of them by horse-drawn carriages. They can't go around the world in a horse-drawn carriage.
This means that they can't be as open-minded as we moderns, because we see the world on the shoulders of giants. ”
"Then Yang Tongtong just said that the sky is round and the place is round, yes, in ancient times, people thought that the sky was round and the earth was square.
Even if we prove that the world we live in is a sphere, it was only in 1622 that a navigator named Magellan led the circumnavigation of the globe to prove that the world we live in is indeed a sphere.
The ancients did not have developed science and technology, and most of their cognition came from the cognition of others or their own understanding of the world.
So in those days, a Wei man who wanted to drive from the north to Chu in the south could not accomplish this even if he spent his whole life. ”
One child asked, "Teacher, why does he keep heading north?" ”
The teacher did not answer this question, but asked all the children who sat down again a question, that is, what is a fable.
The children began to think about what a fable is, they know what a story is, and a story is something that is written or told to others, and it is called a story.
And what about fables?
All the children shook their heads, and the teacher explained, "Fables are stories that contain satirical or educational meaning, and we call them fables. Just like the text we learned today, "The Opposite Thing", it is a fable.
So what does this fable tell us?
It is to say the importance of our choices and directions, and once the direction is wrong, all the efforts made afterwards will be in vain.
So children, in the future, you must choose the right direction in your life, otherwise you will be like the Wei people in this fable, everything you do is meaningless, do you understand? ”
The children replied in unison, "Teacher, we get it!" ”
The teacher looked at Xu Tiantian again and asked, "Xu Tiantian, you just asked the teacher the question, do you have the answer now?" ”
Xu Tiantian nodded and said, "Teacher, I have the answer." This story is a warning to us that when we choose the wrong direction, we must correct it quickly and not let the mistake continue. ”
The teacher touched Xu Tiantian's head with a smile, and Xu Tiantian's face also showed a smile.
Yang Tong also understood that this person was not that his sister said that everyone was drunk and he woke up alone, but that his choice was wrong at the beginning, and he stubbornly insisted that he was not wrong.
If he lives in this era, he is indeed not wrong, but he will also take a lot of unjust roads.
There was obviously a very close way to get there, but he chose to go on with a goal that was impossible to accomplish in his time.
Of course, this is not to say that people should take shortcuts in their lives, but that we should stop losses in time after making mistakes, otherwise we will only waste more time.
In fact, at the age of Yang Tong and Yang Xin, they know a lot of miscellaneous things, they may have heard it, they may have thought of it themselves, or they may have learned it on TV and in life, and their minds will still be filled with 100,000 whys?
It is precisely because of their curiosity about the world that they love it even more.
In the future, as we grow older, both people's hearts and reality will become complicated, but we still have to maintain a childlike heart, so that we can face life correctly and positively.
After school, Yang Tong told Yang Xin why people in that era were stupid or ignorant, and they couldn't be described as ignorant, that is, they didn't understand science.
Yang Xin seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and then asked: "That is, this person's story tells us that we must choose the right direction, and if we choose the wrong direction, then we will never achieve our goal." ”
Yang Tong glanced at his sister, should this be the words of a six-year-old child?
Seems so! That's right!
Yang Xin suddenly cried again, and Yang Tong was frightened.
But seeing that there were no tears on her face, Yang Tong knew that she was pretending to cry again, usually she pretended to cry because she had committed something at school.
Sometimes, Yang Tong feels that she is a girl, and Yang Xin is a naughty boy.
Yang Tong opened his mouth and asked, "You won't make trouble at school again, will you?" ”
Yang Xin nodded aggrievedly, telling his brother that this was indeed the case.
Yang Tong continued to ask, "Did you hit your classmates?" ”
"It's not!"
"Then you contradicted the teacher?"
"It's not!"
Yang Tong breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't hit his classmates and collided with the teacher, what did Yang Xin fake crying?
Yang Tong's heart suddenly wanted to go up, and he asked cautiously, "Then what did you do?" ”
Yang Xin lowered his head and poked his two index fingers and replied, "I saw that the teacher raised two small sunflowers in the classroom, and I pulled them out." ”
Yang Tong looked shocked, but this was indeed something like Yang Xin could do.