Volume 3: Reading

In many literary works, chance encounters are an indispensable part of the story.

So at the beginning of this chapter, I was immediately reminded of a chance encounter I had.

In the years that followed, I confirmed more than once that chance encounter that could be regarded as Mr. Liu Qing had reached an important juncture in his life, although it could only be regarded as one of them.

I once asked the AI that is now in full swing what is the role of chance encounters in literary works. Among the many responses it gives, I agree with one of them: through chance encounters, readers can construct a new scene or situation in their own minds, so as to better understand and experience the emotions and thoughts in the work.

One of my friends I met on that occasion had a very strong sense of the scene.

Since it is an even word added before the encounter, it must also be an accidental phenomenon.

It was a real chance encounter.

What I'm not sure is what day, what time I'm going to do, where I'm going to be, who I'm around......

I don't even remember who that friend of mine is, and although I always think about it, I really can't confirm who he is, or even if it's him or her (Manpo always says it's him, and I think it should be, so let's take it as him).

The only thing that is certain is that it was 1997.

Another thing that is certain is that there are three lines of dialogue that I still remember.

I only remember these three sentences, and I don't remember anything else.

First sentence.

He asked me in his usual tone, "What have you been reading lately?" ”

Second sentence.

I replied in a normal tone, "I've been too busy lately to have time to read!" ”

Third sentence.

He said: "This is an excuse, no matter how busy you are, you won't even have time to read a book a month!" ”

These are the only three sentences I remember, or two people said them at the time, an average of one and a half sentences.

I was so shocked that I went home and seriously reflected on when did my reading journey take a break?

If you want to know the outage, you have to start at the beginning.

My school journey started very early, when I was a child.

How small?

Be modest, you have to be more than a year old.

1. When the environment is small, there is a collection of books at home

The impact of a person's environment at a young age on him is enormous.

I discovered this problem when I was conceiving my writing outline.

That's why I've written a lot of chapters directly on the table of contents..... The words.

Speaking of the impact of the environment, everyone is most familiar with the three migrations of Meng's mother, and the "Three Character Classic" of the ink is as much as 12 words to say this matter. If you don't learn, you will be cut off.

The influence of the environment on people's growth is subtle and far-reaching.

This effect is imperceptible to many people.

For example, one of my relatives likes to play mahjong, and the child is still breastfeeding, she is impatient to play, and when the child is young, she holds the child to play every day, and the first thing the child will say is not Mom and Dad but hugging Bao'er.

Once, she humbly asked me why she didn't read a lot of books for her child.

I was speechless for why.

We can also usually experience that if we are willing to be in the living room and face the TV at home when we are free, we want to turn it on and watch it for a while. If you are willing to stay in the study, you will pick up a book and read it for a while, and if you have a mobile phone in hand, you will watch a short video for a while, and these hours may pass for a while.

When I was young, although Tian's mother did not move three times, the surrounding environment was indeed okay, at least not bad.

Not to mention the friends who often play with me, even the adults, such as my frequent neighbor Cui Da Cui Niang's family, the eldest uncle and second uncle who always played with us when I was a child (at that time they were still called Daqing Erqing), the aunts and uncles of my grandmother's family are very good, the good here, not only refers to the good people, but they have no bad habits, so I have not been led astray since I was a child.

Yes, this is really worth thanking, because it's really easy to be led astray, as long as there are people like that around you who are in constant contact with you.

Whatever is drawn on a blank sheet of paper is what it is at the beginning, but once it is drawn, it will be too difficult to change it in the future, or even if it can't be changed at all, or there are too many things on it, and you don't want to change it.

The principle of broken windows is terrifying.

Fortunately, when I was still a blank slate, because my parents were teachers, there was no shortage of books at home, and in the environment when many families couldn't find a book at all, I had an advantage of being able to read books at any time compared to other friends with many books!

Yes, I can read books at any time, and I have the impression that they basically want to borrow from me, although I can't remember who borrowed any books except for the person who asked me to borrow "That (Where) Tuo (Zha) Troubled Sea", but I really don't remember who hasn't borrowed books from me, and it can be seen from this memory that I didn't lend the book to a girl next door, and at the same time, I can regret that I don't have the standard childhood plum or bamboo horse of the literati.

The neighbors' friends have borrowed it.

After all, there were no mobile phones at that time, so you could go out at dawn, but when you got home, you didn't have much to do.

Reading is a great thing.

People always say that the Internet has a memory, and this memory is reflected in the words you sent many years ago, the pictures you sent out, the comments on something you may have forgotten a long time ago, but these things have been stored in byte format until one day you encounter them inadvertently or someone else helps you encounter them.

It's not just the Internet that has memories, but also the books I read back then.

It is often said that a person will inexplicably feel that many things have been experienced.

That's what happened to me.

For a long time, I thought I was afraid of a terrible monster, and then there was a man with a pencil in his hand who was always chasing me......

But I don't remember what kind of monster can make me afraid, and I don't have a specific imagination of this monster that scares me.

It wasn't until some time ago when my parents gave me the books I had read when I was a child that I remembered at a glance that I had read this pictorial when I was very young (one or two years old), and I immediately found the source of the horror of all these years.

There's a black cat in there that's the monster that scares me, and I'm definitely only a little over a year old at the time, so I'm sure I'll be scared to see this alone. In my memory, there is no scene where my parents read to me, which is naturally not because they were busy and did not have time, but because I read almost all by myself when I knew how to read and write very early. This is also used by me to educate the next generation, and I have never read the same story to them, as many parents do. I basically taught them how to read, and then I let them read on their own. Although they sometimes read Wang Yuyan as Wang Wu's mother and the Heida Apartment as the Black Duke's Nest, it does not affect their own reading on the whole.

The pencil man I had been chasing after me back then was also found, but my memory was discreet, and the pencil was not in my mouth, but on my nose.

I don't know what they did when they chose a book like this for me.

I can't understand the explanation in all foreign languages today, let alone back then.

Now that I think about it, this can also be regarded as an intersection, if I had studied back then, how would I be now?

When I was very young, there was an opportunity to learn a foreign language in front of me, and I didn't cherish it, and I regretted it when I lost it, if I ......

I can only suppose for a moment.

On January 17, 2018, I wrote the article "Mirror Death", in which I made a general recollection of my reading when I was a child.

I have said more than once in the previous article, my many hobbies are due to the fact that I did not have a computer, no mobile phone, no wifi when I was a child, and the greatest pleasure at that time was to read books, starting from the "One Hundred Song Poems" with many traditional characters, I was addicted to all kinds of books I could find, from the foreign language pictorial without a cover when I was a child (that is, the magazine with the black cat on it) to the "Grandpa with a Brain" with a little innocent question mark (I also found one when I cleaned up the bookcase a few days ago, When I posted these three comic characters to the circle of friends, no one recognized them - or maybe they didn't read them back then), from collecting villain books such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Count Jidu Mountain" and "The Battle of Chenggao" one by one, to "China Youth Daily", "Children's Times", and "Children's Literature" that my parents never stopped subscribing to half a month, from various commentaries such as "The Biography of Yue Fei" and "The Biography of Xingtang" to scientific series such as "Thinking for Five Minutes...... When I was a kid, I had two big bookcases.

If there are more books, you will naturally want to read them.

It takes time to read a book.

Even though I didn't have homework as a child and only had two classes a day, it stands to reason that time should be enough! It's a pity that when I was a child, I was very naughty, and whenever I played crazy with my friends, I naturally often forgot the time.

Therefore, I can only squeeze out time from my busy schedule to read books.

Hey! It's not wrong, it's squeezing out time from playing to read a book.

It's a good choice on the way to school.

It takes half an hour to walk from my house to school, and the reason why I have to walk for half an hour is because I always read a book while walking.

At that time, it was extremely rare to see a car on the street, and it was common to see some horse-drawn carriages.

So I was rarely disturbed by reading while walking.

It was better in the morning, but the sun hung high at noon, and I can't remember how many people told me that walking around and reading under the scorching sun was the biggest damage to my eyes, and that I had to wear myopia glasses if I went on like this.

However, at that time, almost no one wore glasses, so I didn't take this threat to heart at all, and I still walked and looked at it every day.

I still have a problem with reading, I like to do it in one go, after getting a new book, it is necessary to read it, I still remember that the first grade of primary school once took his newly sharpened small wooden gun on Sunday morning to the homeroom teacher Wu Guifang's house to find her two sons to play combat games, I met her to buy a new copy of "Pinocchio" for the child, I took out the wooden gun I wanted to show off and gave it to the two of them to play, naturally no one grabbed the book with me, I finished reading it in one go, it should be four or five o'clock in the afternoon to go home, has been intoxicated in the plot of the book, So much so that when I got home, I forgot to ask them to get the wooden gun back, and I didn't get it back until they moved (the main reason was that my father bought me the first machine-gun in the county from Shanghai, which was fired by grinding flint with a grinding wheel - the one I wrote about in the first chapter), but to this day I remember the appearance of my gun in the barn of their house. Again, a friendly reminder: don't offend a Scorpio, he has a really good memory!

In this way, sometimes when you come across a wonderful book and can't finish it on the way to school, you can only read it before going to bed.

Naturally, the lights cannot be lit, and the parents who are separated by a wall will see the light through the glass on the door.

As for how I know this, it was a summer vacation and I went crazy and faced the next day to go to school and hand in my summer homework, so I could only secretly get up in the middle of the night to make up for it, and the reason why I chose it at night was naturally because I had to play during the day plus I didn't think there was much anyway, and I could definitely make it up.

I guess I turned on the light when they slept, and I made a paper tube out of paper to ring the lamp in order to be afraid that the light was too bright.

As a result, I was beaten, and I learned that as long as there was light and glass at night, it was impossible to keep it secret.

Fortunately, I was born now, so I don't have to be an undercover agent, otherwise I would have exposed my identity very early if I tried such a project.

So I could only get into the quilt and use the flashlight of the household appliance jokingly called in Zhao Benshan's pass to look at it, and I was afraid that the light of the flashlight would be too bright, so I removed the small bulb in the flashlight, and then connected it to the battery with a wire (this was also my initial physical enlightenment, of course, I have long forgotten how to connect it now), and then read the book by the faint light.

These are naturally extremely hurtful to the eyes, but I didn't take it to heart when I was young, and when I grew up, I understood the truth, but found that my eyes were not myopic for so many years, so I didn't care about it, and I walked and read as usual, and then I started to read in the bus after I had a bus, and someone persuaded me to tell them crooked reasoning, which also caused me to not believe in those ready-made big truths since I was a child, and always tried to hit the south wall, which naturally had a head when the blood flowed, and there were also times when I passed through the wall.

At that time, I squandered my youth!

At that time, I had a youth that I could squander at will!

So since I was a child, books have almost never left my life.

At that time, the books were really miscellaneous, and they were really not in vain.

Some time ago, I was sorting through my collection of books, and I found that the books I read when I was a child were miscellaneous to a certain extent.

For example, there are "Chemical Knowledge Intelligence Training", "Periodic Law of Elements", and "The Story of Making Glass" in traditional Chinese characters, which is all in traditional Chinese characters, and I still remember that someone first mastered the technology of making glass without bubbles, and later a country spent a lot of money to buy this technology, only two words "stir", more stirring is enough.

I was very interested.

This interest has been maintained until I started to get in touch with chemistry after the third year of junior high school and studied literature after the placement of arts and sciences, my chemistry has been learning well compared to my other subjects, and I once won the second place in the DQ City Chemistry Competition, which is the second place, not the second prize. At that time, the competition said that the number of questions was very large, and it was easy to finish it, but I finished it half an hour early (only two hours in total), and it would be fine if I had a few more pages. Then I will definitely be in first, after all, I have done 199 questions correctly and I am only 0.5 points worse than the first.

I clearly remember that I was rewarded with a photo album at that time, but I searched for a long time just now, but I didn't find it.

There are also books on celestial bodies such as "How Celestial Bodies Evolve", "Interstellar Voyages and Rockets", etc., so that I am still very interested in celestial bodies and the universe.

I am sure that at this age, I can still yearn for the starry sky so much, it must come from reading back then.

There are also books like "Phenology" and "The Mystery of Life" that should be reduced to biology! (I don't know if my daughter chose her favorite biology major because I read these books back then)

In addition, I was impressed by a large number of books, including "Interesting Numbers", "Thinking for Five Minutes", "Interesting Thinking Questions", "How to Make Auxiliary Lines", and many other books, some of which were all in traditional Chinese, all of which helped me too much.

A lot of reading has accumulated a variety of knowledge, in the Daqing Science and Technology News held in the Daqing Science and Technology Newspaper Daqing Science Intelligence Prize Answering Activity I also won the prize, the prize is this "The Story of the Wise People of the Past Generations", there was no Baidu at that time, those knowledge have to answer by themselves, looking for books can exhaust people to death.

Many people have asked me why the books I read when I was a child and why I didn't eliminate them when I knew I wouldn't read them in the future. I replied to this question in the circle of friends on July 25, 2020.

Madame always couldn't understand why I didn't get rid of a lot of books that I couldn't read anymore, and instead stayed at home to take up space. I can't explain that...... For example, the fifth picture of the broken magazine was when I was one or two years old, I have always been very impressed, I did not expect my parents to keep it for me, when I saw it some time ago, the feeling in my heart is indescribable, it is a memory imprinted in the bottom of my heart. At that time, these magazines "China Youth Daily" (unfortunately did not leave a single left), "Children's Literature", "Children's Age" and so on accompanied me through a colorful teenage years, and when I grew up, "Reader's Digest", "Comic Strip", "Fine Arts", "Art Guide", "Science Fiction World", "New Sports" and so on became my friends again......

These books will definitely accompany me from Oda to Laotian.

Absolutely no problem.

Since I love books so much, I really didn't get busy to that extent after I came back from a chance encounter.

I still went to choose a bowl on the way to drink water.

Thank you for meeting this friend back then.

This is definitely what Mr. Liu Qing described as a chance encounter at the intersection level.

Having chosen the right direction, I started a new journey of reading and reading.

It was also from that year that I set a plan for myself to read at least one book a week and at least fifty-four books a year.

Since then, I have been reading more than 70 books a year for 25 consecutive years.

There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book.

Keep reading seriously!