Chapter 114: Friend or Foe

Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun walked out of the library together, the light at noon was bright and far, the sky in June was refreshing and clear, and the two of them kept a short distance and walked towards Baihua Lake together.

However, the scene in front of him is not harmonious, in fact, Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun walk together quite out of tune, 172 Xie Minyun is logically as tall as Cheng Mo, but girls are usually taller, especially if you want Xie Minyun's golden ratio figure, it is even taller, so in terms of visual experience, Xie Minyun seems to be a lot taller than Cheng Mo.

Not only does the height look incompatible, but the difference in appearance is not small, Cheng Mo is too ordinary and thin, wears black-framed glasses, and does not pay attention to hairstyles, which belongs to the role that no one will take a look at when thrown into the sea of people.

And Xie Minyun has no eyeballs on his body that is not eye-catching, whether it is his fair and slender legs, or his slender waist, whether it is the turbulent waves on his chest or the flawless face, he is a delicacy that makes people not distracted for a moment.

Even though Cheng Mo was very careful to lag behind Xie Minyun by half a position, the boys and girls along the road were all pointing at Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun, and their expressions were like seeing some monster that had become extinct on the earth.

However, today, Xie Minyun actually walked with an inconspicuous boy, what is the situation?

As the two of them get closer and closer to the Baihua Lake where the couples gather, people are even more dumbfounded, which is incredible! You must know that Baihua Lake is a dog abuse holy place recognized by Changya, because in order to prohibit the occurrence of male and female feeding, the canteen clearly stipulates that it is not allowed to sit opposite or sit next to each other, so some young couples will either go to eat outside the school, or they will come to Baihua Lake with the food from the canteen or snacks from the commissary.....

As Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun really walked into the scope of Baihua Lake, they finally detonated a wave of earthquakes in Changya, which was even more unacceptable than walking side by side.

At this moment, there are already boys who have been unwilling to howl.

As a gossip insulator, Cheng Mo, who is on the edge of campus life, really doesn't know what Baihua Lake is, and although Xie Minyun knows that Baihua Lake is a place where couples often come, she can't think of any place more suitable for her and Cheng Mo to discuss problems than Baihua Lake for a while, so she casually decided to come here, completely unexpectedly that this thing could cause an unexpected sensation.

Two people who are completely unaware of the fact that they are already in the center of the storm of public opinion are walking on the pebble-paved trail of Baihua Lake, with tender green jade-like grass on both sides, willows hanging low by the lake, and occasionally koi spitting bubbles on the mirror-like lake.....

Xie Minyun looked at a girl with panda-shaped sushi and fed it to the boy next to her and said: "I went back and thought about it that day, it seems that you have a special obsession with money, I don't understand, people don't live to make money, but to experience the world, making money is just a basis for experiencing this world, and it is a tool to realize the value of life, you should be able to leave more traces of yourself in this world, instead of simply 'living comfortably until old age and death', which is too negative, right?"

Cheng Mo followed Xie Minyun's line of sight and saw the picture of the dog abuse, but he couldn't feel the blow, being single is the supreme golden body for Cheng Mo, he quickly retracted his gaze, looked at the road under his feet and said: "I haven't always understood a poem, 'Death Yuan knows that everything is empty, but sadness does not see Kyushu Tong', since you know that everything is empty after death, why do you still have those obsessions that can't be let go and are impossible?" DU LENG SAID GIVE ME AN IPHONEX AND LET ME GO TO THE PARTY, I SAID YOU CONVERT IT TO 8,000 YUAN FOR ME, IN THE EYES OF SOME PEOPLE, THIS IS NOT ONLY A BIT GREEDY FOR MONEY BUT ALSO A LITTLE STUPID, AFTER ALL, 256GB OF 8,000 YUAN CAN'T BUY ....."

"BUT FOR ME, IT'S NOT WORTH IT FOR 8,000 YUAN TO BUY AN IPHONEX, AND I CAN'T NECESSARILY SELL IT FOR 8,000 IF I RESELL IT, AND I WOULD RATHER SPEND THE MONEY ON A COMFORTABLE COMPUTER CHAIR, AN EXPENSIVE MATTRESS, OR A PAIR OF HEADPHONES THAT GIVE ME PLEASURE.... OF COURSE, THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION, EVERYONE'S HOBBIES ARE DIFFERENT, THE IDEA OF CONSUMPTION IS DIFFERENT, PEOPLE WHO LIKE IPHONE AND ARE NOT BAD FOR MONEY, NATURALLY DO NOT THINK THAT SPENDING EIGHT THOUSAND IS EXTRAVAGANT AND WASTEFUL, BUT IN MY PLACE IT IS A BIT OF A WASTE...."

"It's just a concept of consumption, it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, what does it have to do with your obsession with money?" Although Xie Minyun knew that there was still something to follow, she still asked softly like a joke, she was already eager to know the answer, all "obsession" is weakness, she wants to know Cheng Mo's weakness.

Of course, Cheng Mo understood Xie Minyun's thoughts, but he still said disappreciatively: "In fact, people always swing between extremes, because they have no money, they will easily become money worshippers; if they have some money, they will start to shout not to be material slaves.....

"I understand, of course, that money is the aggregate of all material things, and that the purpose of our consumption is to enjoy happiness and pleasure, or else to avoid .....unhappiness by controlling desires, as Epicurus, the founder of hedonism (Note 1), said."

"Do you think you can live happily without money? without your luxury car, without luxurious clothes, without the aura of white and rich beauty. Cheng Mo glanced at Xie Minyun, and then asked.

As soon as Xie Minyun was about to answer, Cheng Mo rushed in front of her and said, "Don't answer me until you try it..... But I can tell you, I think I did, I didn't have any desire for material things, and when I got a lot of money in my account, I didn't get any pleasure at all, and I didn't have the urge to spend....."

"But the moment I earned the first amount of money in my life, I understood one thing, I used to think that power was an illusion, and now I understand that it is also a right for people to gain control over their own lives...."In fact, Cheng Mo's feeling is not entirely the experience of "making money" to him, but also the absolute freedom provided by the carrier over ordinary people.

"This right is more precious than any right..... And the quickest way to get this right is to have money..... What makes me different from most people is that I always have a sense of crisis, because you think there is still a lot of time and life is still a long time, but I think 10,000 years is too long..... What's more, in this life, people must have some obsession, good obsession can become attachment, and bad obsession may be called attachment..... But what the result is, I think only I can judge, and others are probably not qualified to judge me..."

There is no doubt that if you have money, you can have more freedom and power than others, but Xie Minyun doesn't feel that she is as unbearable as Cheng Mo said, she can transcend the shackles of material, and she can also control her desires, so she turned her head to look at Cheng Mo and said expressionlessly: "I don't think it's difficult to control desires, I will start living an ordinary life tomorrow.... And don't be so conceited and say that others are not qualified to judge you! There are always people in this world who can judge you....."

"For example, I ....." Xie Minyun stood on the side of the stone road, the road was a little sloping, making her condescending, under the background of Cheng Mo, Xie Minyun looked more and more upright, more slender and beautiful than the willows on the side.

Cheng Mo let out a faint "oh", and then said: "Then you come on....."

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Note 1: Hedonism, also known as Epicureanism, is one of the most misunderstood philosophical ideas, although it believes that pleasure is the most important pursuit of human beings, that happiness is the purpose of life, and that it is the highest natural good. However, it is true hedonism to distinguish between different pleasures, to relieve fear of gods and death, to abstain from desires, to distance oneself from political affairs, to carefully measure and choose between pleasure and pain, and to achieve physical health and peace of mind.