Chapter 6 The Value of Love
Now, seven years after Shuilonu was abducted to the Order of the Night, at the dinner party between Syke and Xiao Xuan, after roughly eating enough, he changed Xike to launch an offensive: "As a result, what about the girl before you?
Xiao Zhen's gaze circled along the edge of the table, as if admiring every subtle change of light and shadow, and then he smiled meaningfully, looked at Xi Ke with strong eyes, and said in a low tone, "Xi Ke, do you think aiqing is the most important thing in life?"
"Of course not, eating is—"
Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Ji continued: "Don't you think that human beings spend too much effort on falling in love? we have so many things to do, inequality between rich and poor, lack of food, all kinds of natural and man-made disasters, when those poor children can't eat meat, how can we waste our energy to fall in love?"
"Couples can volunteer together, and there are many husbands and wives in charities. Rick said. Even if humans don't fall in love, meat won't be cheaper.
Xiao Ji didn't listen to Xi Ke's words, and continued impassionedly: "Love is just an illusion created by the media, an illusion! Xi Ke, if you think about it carefully, you must have food to sell to people, you must have fields to plant, you must have fattened chickens and ducks, you must sell clothes and furniture to people, you must have materials and processing. These are the costs. But selling "aiqing" to people is a business, as long as you fabricate some romantic plots out of thin air, everything will be sold. Therefore, the media is touting aiqing with all their might, because this is the most profitable. 」
"But when I can't afford meat, I don't pay to listen to love songs. Rick said. For him, the necessities of life are the fundamentals of business. Aside from this part and buying books, he doesn't have much to do with commercial activities.
"That's what you don't understand, Rick. There is a business fable that says that two salesmen were sent by their boss to the same place to sell shoes, and when they went, they found that no one there wore shoes! One of the salesmen told the boss in frustration, "People here don't wear shoes, and there is no business opportunity in this place." The other happily said to the boss, "No one here has shoes to wear, and there are business opportunities everywhere!"
This story has also been heard by Xike, and it can be said to be the first fable used by enterprises in capitalist countries when training employees. The original implication was to keep a positive attitude (there are business opportunities everywhere) and to look at the environment in a positive way (no one here has shoes to wear).
"It's a parable written by the boss so that the employees can't complain. Xi Ke said with an unusually sharp gaze. Different jobs are inherently hard and easy, and some working environments are extremely bad, resulting in the boss delivering tasks that are not possible at all. As long as you tell the employee this fable first, then if the task is not achieved (the shoes cannot be sold), it is the employee's fault, and it is definitely not the work content assigned by the boss (sending the employee to sell shoes in a place where no one wants to buy shoes) There is a problem!
Xiao Zhu thought for a moment and said, "Your opinion is very reasonable, but there is another way of saying it. This parable fully expresses the horror of capitalist values. You see, the people in that place were alive and well without shoes, and you see, many of the people of Gaizhou who ran fast did not wear shoes! They still ran and hunted! In this way, how did the salesman sell the shoes? That is, to convince them that they needed shoes!
"Salesmen can claim that the gods will be angry if they don't have shoes, or fabricate a fatal disease if they don't wear shoes, or tell them that a decent human must have a pair of shoes, just as a chief has a crown. You see, after messing up the lives of the locals like this, won't they buy shoes?
"In order to sell the goods, you have to convince people who don't need these things that they can't do without them! You have to convince those people that they are not 'not wearing unnecessary things like shoes,' but 'they need shoes but don't have to wear them yet'!"
Xi Ke showed a look of sudden realization.
Xiao Zhu said: "That's why the media advocates free love in this way, saying that it seems that a life without love is absolutely impossible to be happy, but in fact, a life free from the threat of love is real freedom!
Syk said what dawned on him: "So you and Gahena aren't going well. 」
Xiao Zhen blinked, smiled calmly, and said, "I would call this 'true freedom.' He paused, and after two seconds, after licking a bite of ice cream, he suddenly propped his hands on the table, leaned forward, and said in a low voice, "What the hell is she thinking?
"What the hell is going on?"
"Last time she said she was going to do a series of 'crazy projects' and needed a partner. I volunteered, and she took me to exorcisms, and from south to north and from east to west, I was performed no less than forty times by exorcists of at least ten foreign and native religions. Xiao Xuan's expression seemed to be palpitating: "What do you think she is thinking?"
"Sociological research. Didn't you say she's in a graduate school of sociology?" said Nick. The study of traditions and exotic rituals is part of sociology.
Xiao Xuan didn't seem to hear what Xi Ke said, "Does she think I have potentially violent tendencies and need to be banished? Or has she been tricked into some magic stick and thinks I need to exorcise demons?"
Nick felt that neither was possible: "If her purpose was really to exorcise you, she wouldn't have found so many different religions, she would have just found the magic stick that deceived her and repeated it many times. 」
"Speaking of which, an exorcist said that she had to have sex with him to be successful, and she immediately went out to call the police and handed over the recording file to the police. 」
"So, she doesn't believe the word of the god stick at all. There is no legitimate religion in this world that would be used for love to exorcise demons. Any religious person who asks for sex is a pervert, a liar.
"But she wants me to exorcise the demon?"
"Little ballast, you've made a mistake. Xi Ke said seriously, "It's not that she's going to arrest you to exorcise the demon, it's that she just needs someone to be exorcized, and you're just in that position." No matter how hard you try to relate her actions to you, her actions just have nothing to do with you. Any cat or dog can cooperate as long as it can cooperate. He actually recorded the whole process, and the purpose was obviously research.
Xiao Gu was silent.
"Didn't you say that life without love is free, and you shouldn't let her dominate your mind, you see, you're trying to convince yourself now that she needs you, or you're not happy! You wouldn't have needed that!"
She lowered her eyebrows and said, "But that's what she told me. 」
"No wonder I always feel a little bit of social structure analysis. Rick said sympathetically.
"I'm fed up with strange scriptures, cold water, and being beaten with a wooden plank, and I want to vomit when I smell the balm. 」
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On the first floor, there is a large glass facing the atrium, red and calm thick columns, floral patterns outlined by gold lacquer, and calligraphy engraved on a naturally irregularly shaped wooden table.
Shuilonu, Jilu, and the tracksuit man sat in a four-seater, and the tracksuit man sat next to her.
Schuilonu didn't think the man was of much quality. She could see that he was rich, not only from the money he spended, but also from his taste and the way he looked at food, which showed that this man was born with enough food and clothing, and that there was a lot of surplus.
He turned a blind eye to the expensive food that was served to him. For him, the meaning of food seems to exist only because he can cut it into small pieces and play a feeding game with the girls. Shuilonu can imagine that no matter where this person goes to eat, he starts with the most expensive one on the menu, and whether he can eat it or not, it naturally leads to a lot of waste.
The boy (who did not say this as a gesture of affection, but rather that she did not think that there was any man in his bones) gave Shuilono and Jolu a great deal of compliments, looking at the girls with misty eyes and reaching out to touch their hair with a very natural movement. Shuilonu dodged away, but Hiroshi accepted with a smile. Ji Lu and the man in sportswear looked at each other affectionately.
Schulonu had to admit that the boy's eyes were so charming that they would convince even the most discerning woman, "Oh, he wants me so much!" But she knew that the way men looked at food when they were hungry was also very affectionate. When a man looks at a woman like this, he may not actually look at a person, but a "sex package" composed of face, breasts, buttocks, and **.
Rather than longing for himself, Schuilonu wanted to find respect in the eyes of a man, who had no such thing in his eyes at all. She couldn't even detect in the boy's eyes his curiosity about her character, which meant that he had no intention of communicating with the mind at all.
The man in the tracksuit was busy showing off and hinting at him that he had given everything to him: "I'm—" he said the name of the best part of the city, "there's a house on it, you can think of what furniture you want." 」
Shuilonu thought to himself: What a professional gamer who eats people and doesn't spit out bones. She was sharp-eyed to find that Ji Lu was holding a new bag, which she hadn't seen before. Shuilonu is the daughter of a wealthy family, and it can be seen at a glance that it should be a genuine brand-name bag. She knew that she couldn't afford this kind of bag, and eighty percent of it was given by the boy.
「...... While climbing, my teammate had altitude sickness, so I had to give up on climbing to the top and carry him down the mountain—" The man in the tracksuit was busy showing off his experience.
She said, "Oh, that's amazing. 」
Schuilonu smiled contemptuously in his heart, but smiled kindly on the surface, "What are the symptoms of mountain sickness? 」
"Well, you can't breathe. The last time I went boating—"
Mountain sickness is not the same as tracheal obstruction. This man has never seen altitude sickness at all. If he can't answer, he changes the topic, and his face is not red or panting, obviously a liar. Shuilonu mentally deducted points from this man.
While he went to the bathroom with Ji Lu, and it was just the two of them, Shuilonu said, "This man is a low-level person, get rid of him quickly." 」
"Do you mean that he is pretending to be rich?" said Ji Lu in surprise.
"That's true. Shuilonu waved his hand in disgust, "But that doesn't change the fact that he's bad." He is just sexually mature, and he is not fertile at all. He will only let the woman "give birth" alone, and then refuse to pay a penny of money and effort for the child to "raise". By the standard of Shuilonu, just the normal operation of the ** official is not considered to be childbearing.
"Since he's not lying, weishenme sucks?"
Shuilonu gritted his teeth and roared: "Just because your assets are real doesn't mean that others are also real! Being generous to you now doesn't mean that it will be the same in the future! All the deceitful guys will fake an ideal for you, and when you believe it, the ideal will become a nightmare!"
"Really?" Hilly seemed comfortable with the man, but now she had an aggrieved expression. It wasn't because the man lied to her that she felt wronged, it was Shuilonu's words that made her feel wronged.
"How the hell did you get caught up with such a rotten person?"
She said, "Just a group of people went out to play!"
"And then you came out alone with the others?"
"No, I told him that I was staying at the Fog Hotel, so he ran to the door of the hotel and waited, saying that if he couldn't see me, he wouldn't leave-"
"It's a prisoner pervert!" Schuilon was even more determined that the boy sucked.
"It's because he likes me very much!" said Jilu.
"This man is not normal. Shuilonu gritted his teeth. Men who pursue methods too much, no matter how stylish they look, have problems!