17 Good and evil
In the stone room of the tenth floor of the Mo Tower, hearing Mo Hanshan's command, Yan Sidao turned around so that Mo Hanshan could hide things in the coarse porcelain bowl in front of him. And the shooting agreed between the two is officially begun.
Yan Sidao turned his back to Mo Hanshan, only listening to the other party fiddling with the coarse porcelain bowl on the ground, making a series of sounds, but he pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but he couldn't hear what he was hiding inside. After half a ring, Mo Hanshan still didn't ask Yan Sidao to turn around, but suddenly asked: "I have known Your Excellency once, but there is something I am very curious about. It is said that on the Great Wall of Jiayuguan, Your Excellency competed with me for the leader of the Gongsun Sect with a polemic, claiming to be a 'big dream drama', Mo Hanshan thought he was well-read and strong, but he had never heard of such a number one person in the rivers and lakes. And Your Excellency has joined forces with the Divine Fire Sect this time, but you call yourself 'Jin Wanjin', I don't know which of these two names is true, which is false, or both names are fake?"
Yan Sidao turned his back to him and smiled: "There is no truth in everything, and it is not true to see it, and if it is seen in the truth, it is not true to see everything." The name is originally something outside the body, it is just a title for a person, if you leave this person, the name will be meaningless, why should Brother Hanshan be persistent?" Mo Hanshan refused to let go, and continued to ask: "Is it that until now, Your Excellency still refuses to tell him by his real name?"
Yan Sidao sighed: "I am neither a descendant of a family, nor a child of a famous family, just like Zhang San, Li Si, a cat and a dog common in the countryside in the market, even if my brother knows my name, it is useless, it is better to call me whatever you like." Mo Hanshan snorted coldly and said slowly: "Since Your Excellency has no place to come, I don't know where to go?"
Yan Sidao smiled: "Of course there is a place to go." Mo Hanshan asked: "So I would like to hear Mr.'s ambition." Yan Sidao couldn't help but laugh and said, "Brother Hanshan has this question, which is too vulgar. It is necessary to know that in life, there is something to seek, and those who seek must do something. For example, a person who practices martial arts, what he seeks is the realm of martial arts, and in order to seek the realm, he does not hesitate to use his body as a sword and kill the rivers and lakes; for example, a person who studies is a person who seeks to pass on articles to the world, and in order to pass them on, he does not hesitate to climb to make friends and make a name for himself; and just like a general, what he seeks is a meritorious service on the battlefield, and in order to seek meritorious service, he does not hesitate to fight for thousands of miles, destroy the city and destroy the country. From this point of view, people like me are alive in the world, and what they want and do, can't Brother Hanshan still understand?"
Hearing this, Mo Hanshan couldn't help but be silent for a while, and finally said: "So what Your Excellency is asking for is the whole world?" If I want to say that my biggest problem is that I don't like to show my head and let the world judge me, otherwise I wouldn't be unknown to this day. And hiding in the shadows, many actions can also be more convenient, if it is described as a way to make money in business, it is the five words 'make a fortune in a muffled voice' - but this metaphor does not seem to be appropriate, because money is just a tool for me to do things, even if I have nothing left on me, I can live freely - so I am destined to have no chance to make achievements in my life, let alone the business of an emperor. If I compare the whole world to a pool of troubled waters, what I want to do is to stir up and turn over this pool of troubled waters. Not for anything else, just because I have the ability. ”
Mo Hanshan said in a deep voice: "In this way, Your Excellency is neither for fame nor profit, it turns out that he is also a madman!" If Brother Hanshan is so determined, who in the world is not crazy?"
Mo Hanshan couldn't help but said angrily: "Although what Your Excellency asks for is not fame and fortune, but it is only your own desire, because your own desire will cause trouble in the world, do you know how many people will die because of you, and how many people will be ruined because of you? What is the difference between such a heinous act and demons? You still dare to speak out and be smug here, it is really shameless!"
Yan Sidao said with a smile: "Dare to ask Brother Hanshan, the first emperor was reckless in his own desires, and insisted on building the Great Wall of 10,000 miles, so that the people were miserable, and finally ordered the hundred and two Qin passes to be destroyed in the Chu of the three households; Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty insisted on digging the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal because of his own desire to work the people and lose money, causing a lot of complaints, and finally stirring up the smoke and dust of the 18th Road against the king and 64 roads; however, the canal connected the north and the south, and fundamentally facilitated the freight transportation between the north and the south, which can be described as a blessing for all generations, so is this move of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty good or evil? Therefore, as long as everything exists, it must have its advantages, and it must also have its disadvantages, and the so-called good and evil during this period may be difficult to judge even from heaven, let alone the people of the world?"
Speaking of this, Yan Sidao couldn't help but laugh, and said: "Besides, even if what I do is 'evil' and is a heinous act, isn't it also a part of this heaven and earth, and belongs to the principle of nature? But everything that is opposite to each other is indispensable, so that you and I can form the world where you and I are. If there is no evil, how can there be good? If the world wants to identify me as 'evil,' or if I am 'evil' itself, then what's the matter? That's okay. I don't care. ”
Mo Hanshan was speechless when he said this, and after a long time, he slowly exhaled a long breath and said, "I have already said that if you want to argue with Your Excellency, it will be a situation of defeat and invincibility. Fortunately, you and I are not winning or losing by polemics today, but by shooting at the moment. After that, he stretched out his hand and lightly clasped the coarse porcelain bowl on the ground, and said: "Although Mo Hanshan is dull, he also has a sentence to advise Your Excellency, that is, 'evil cannot defeat good'! ”
Yan Sidao turned around and saw Mo Hanshan sitting cross-legged on the opposite side, and in front of him was the inverted coarse porcelain bowl, and the edge of the bowl around it was tightly buckled with the ground, and it was impossible to see what was covered in it. Yan Sidao thought for a while, and immediately smiled: "Brother Hanshan has been fiddling for a long time, and he deliberately made a series of sounds, of course, to confuse me with suspicions. Not only that, but during this time, they also talked a lot about right and wrong, good and evil, trying to confuse my mind. And at this moment, the old man is silent, and he doesn't give me the slightest hint, I'm not an immortal, where can I guess what is covered in the bowl?" Mo Hanshan said coldly: "So Your Excellency is planning to admit defeat?"
Yan Sidao's pot of dry smoke had already burned out, and he refilled it immediately, and sighed in his mouth: "The so-called shooting of the ancients is based on ease, and combined with the techniques of 'Liuren', 'Liuyao', 'Qimen', 'Plum Blossom', 'Xiaochengtu', etc., can be guessed, so the shooting is also a kind of divination." I'm not a person in this way, wouldn't it be difficult for a strong man to make such a blind guess?" As he spoke, he sighed again, and said, "But since Brother Hanshan has drawn the way, I have to catch it no matter what, even if it is a random guess, how can I easily admit defeat?"