May there be more fools in the shrewd world - read Alai's "Dust Settles"
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1 Fools are born
This is the transition zone between the Central Plains and Tibet, the Kham Tibetan area of Sichuan. Under the rolling snow-capped mountains, wheat fields are continuous; on the vast turquoise grasslands, horses gallop; the water-red satin robes show nobility, and the aqua-green robes outline the charms; there are living Buddhas in monasteries and lamas in prayer halls.
This beautiful land full of Tibetan customs is also full of stale atmosphere. It is hierarchical, noble and lowly, and follows the ancient hereditary system of toast. The toastmasters are high above, followed by the head man, the people, the Koba (messenger) and the house slaves. Here, there are eighteen large and small toasts.
The Manor of Maiqi tusi stands majestically: seven floors, plus a roof and a dungeon, up to twenty meters high. Maiqi Tusi has jurisdiction over more than 300 villages and more than 2,000 households, with jurisdiction over 360 miles from east to west and 410 miles from north to south.
He was born in such a place, after Being Drunk with The Toastmaster, and his second wife, a Han Woman. He, who did not smile for a month, and whose eyes did not respond to anything external at two months, was affirmed to be different from ordinary people at the age of three or four. No one in the hundreds of miles knew that the Second Young Master of the Mai Qi family was a fool.
He was thirteen years old. If the maid does not come to dress him, he will shout, and if the waiter comes half a step late, he will stretch his legs and step on the quilt. The grandmother scolded him in front of his face behind his back: "Master, oh! Next man, yuck!
2 Sincerity
There was no distinction between master and house slave in his eyes. Chunxue drove the thrush down the mountain to forage for food, and he commanded a group of small household slaves, successfully surrounded and suppressed the thrush, and roasted the thrush and feasted together. Domestic slaves were punished for this. Hearing the sound of the leather whip falling on the house slave, the tears of his youth fell. When Mrs. Toast taught her son that he could treat his slaves "as horses and dogs, but not as people," he felt the stupidity of smart people and couldn't help but laugh. Not treating the house slave as a house slave naturally also exchanged the loyalty of Solang Zelang and Eryi. Solang Zelang went to chase Tana, who ran away with the white Han, and was killed by the White Han, and he changed his mind and decided to wait for the Communists. When he left the place where he grew up with the People's Liberation Army, he shouted in his heart: "Abba! Auntie! At the same time, he shouted, "Eryi! ”
The silversmith looked at his maid Dolma more and he would be jealous and sad, and when Dolma married the silversmith, his heart would be empty. After Dolma got married, he still remembered his old love. Seeing the ranch girl, also known as Dolma, he seemed to see Dolma again. However, Dolma, who had become the silversmith's wife, chose to put it down completely.
For love, he is fully committed. The goddess Tushi borrows food due to famine and takes her beautiful daughter Tana with her. He, at once, was attracted to Tana. For Tana,he willingly gave away food. When Tana and her mother left with food, he couldn't sleep for Tana, and his heart was "half pain, half thoughts." For him, love "is the bubbles in the bones." Tana came to him again, just to save his mother, and his heart surged with sadness, "compared with the sadness when he got something, the sadness when he didn't get something is not sad at all." After owning Tana, he believes that "this is not all of a woman, let alone a woman's forever". The wise brother plays with women at will based on his identity, and he is endlessly saddened that he can't get a woman's sincerity.
Tana was disloyal and hurt him repeatedly, but eventually stayed by his side; later Dolma lamented that he was a righteous master; and when the People's Liberation Army was cheering loudly everywhere, the fool's subordinates cried for their master.
Those who rely on power to surrender are not strong, but those who win people's hearts with sincerity are heroes.
3 Good deeds and good deeds
Commissioner Huang brought opium seeds, unprecedented wealth to the Mai family, and poppy wars to the land. When the beautiful poppies burned like fire through other toast territories, the price of opium fell rapidly. The more it fell, the more the toastmasters used a larger area of land to grow opium.
After the spring of this year, The Wheat Toast asked his family for advice on whether to plant poppies or opium, and the wise man wanted to plant opium, but the stupid son shouted that all the grain should be planted. In autumn, the wheat harvest of the Maiqi family and the harvest of corn in late autumn were also abundant. Other toastmasters suffered from famine in the stormy years. The eldest son of The Macchitoshi built a warehouse on the border between the north and the south, and after the harvest, he sent two sons to guard it.
On the northern border, he not only gave grain to the toast of Theung, but also to the hungry people of the Toast of Lasheba. The hungry people, after tearing down the side of the fortress as he had imagined, left, and then brought their families with them, and scattered outside, black and pressed, silently expectant. This embarrassed him, so he had to deliberately block the grain and not give a single grain. On the fourth morning, he was overwhelmed by the observant silence of the hungry, and ordered his men to cook, to cook... The next day, he gave the hungry enough food and seeds for the coming year.
In the face of the scattered hungry, the fool would rather suffer in his own heart than think of expulsion or armed attack. Later, he obtained the people to whom Lasheba Toast took the initiative to surrender, and became good friends with Lasheba Toast. The Territory of the Macchi Family is unprecedentedly vast and the population is unprecedented. He established the first border market on the northern border, and the market prospered and peace came. People know the fool, and the word "fool" has the same meaning as the words of blessing and destiny. The brother in the south was fighting with Wang Bo Toast every day, and finally lost most of the grain.
Good luck seems to be biased toward him, and it is because kindness paves the way for him.
4 The Most Beautiful Power
McKitoshi wants to kill the enemy who appears, and he dissuades his father. Toast knew it and felt that it was like a foolish son who could have taken the position of toast but not, but the wise son would never give up any opportunity.
Toshi's presence in him meant getting more silver, more women, more land, and more servants, and these meant nothing to him. He didn't seem to understand why he wanted to be toast.
In fact, when the maid Dolma said that if she was going to marry, she begged the foolish Second Young Master to give her to the silversmith. He agreed, and Dolma's words "You can't inherit the toast" gave him the idea of usurping power.
He returned to the official village with a large amount of silver from the northern border, which made his father and brother inexplicably nervous. When the severed tongue of Ong boisei miraculously began to speak, the Hindu Buddha of Ziga said, "This is the providence of God!" It was brought by the Second Young Master! Wherever he went, God let miracles appear! He was carried on his shoulders by the people, and the crowd circled around him in the square, rolling him into the golden wheat field. But he did not think of taking the place of toast, of course, he did not know how to show the direction to the people, and he could have gone with the flow for the miracle of toast like the wind. Dolma tearfully said that there was no hope of freeing her and her husband from slavery. He then understood, "In the past, I thought that it was my own business to be inappropriate for toast, but now I understand that toast is also for others."
When the People's Liberation Army was about to arrive at Guanzhai, he asked Eryi to go to Guanzhai to inquire about the situation of toast, and in the face of Eryi's questioning, he firmly stated that when toast was useful, he would give all the subordinates the identity of free people. Power over him is only a tool to redeem others.
5. The dust has settled
His brother Danzhen Kampot died on his way to power. His brother was assassinated by an enemy, and before he died, he confessed that what he wanted most was to be a toast, and complained that his father had not given way earlier. He also confessed that when he was a child, he loved his foolish brother very much, but later Good Luck had been following his brother to make him feel afraid, and he slept with his brother's woman to take revenge. He lived in fear, but death freed him from fear.
Mrs. Toast died in a satisfied vanity. She swallowed the opium bubble herself, and on her deathbed confided to her foolish son the secret she had hidden in her heart: she had been a prostitute. She was bought by a fur herb dealer to give to McChitsi, and went from an inferior person to an inferior person and became a toast lady. I used to want to eat opium and worry about money, but I never worried about it in Mych's house. She was just worried about the future of her foolish son, and death made her let go of her worries.
McChitoshi died in the self-aggrandizement of obsession with power. In order to dominate Yangzong, he encouraged Dorjee Tsering to kill the most loyal Chacha head, but he blamed Dorjee Tsering, sowing the seeds of hatred for the Maiqi family; he coveted the throne, staged the abdication trick, and was rejuvenated after the eldest son was killed; he rejected advanced ideas and tortured Ong Boyisi twice. The arrival of the People's Liberation Army made him proud to be the last toast in the lively bustle, and death made him no longer have to be wary.
The fool died in a calm and indifferent manner. Surviving the shelling, he and Yangzong inadvertently threw themselves into the net and broke into the camp of the People's Liberation Army. The head of the People's Liberation Army admired the fool, returned the captured Tana to him, and thought that he could become a toastmaster, and even if the toast system did not exist, he was a good friend of the People's Liberation Army. But the fool had a premonition of his own death. Finding the enemy on the streets of the town, he calmly broke up with his wife Tana. The enemy came to the room, and he calmly lay down on the bed. In the face of death, he only wished to return to this beautiful place in the next life.
It wasn't just the enemy who killed him, but also the corruption of the toast system, and he paid for the hatred planted by his father.
6 Idiot Mission
The fool went through his life and became a witness to the demise of the toast system. "Heaven has made me see, for me to hear, to put me in it, and to be detached. It was for this purpose that God made me look like a fool. ”
I remembered that many years ago, in a cold winter, the school water pipe had a problem, but the boiling water in the pot building was as usual, and turning on the water became a compulsory course. That snowy evening, I took my three-year-old son to the water room to open the water. Before the water supply time came, I placed my son in the distance, and I stood with some people at the edge of the pool and waited. Seeing more and more people, my son was afraid that his vision would be blocked, and he stumbled over and squeezed into the team, close to me to look at this, to see that. As the crowd grew denser, his son cried out " Wow" and roared. Unable to wait to catch the water, I picked up my son and squeezed out of the line. The son's little face flushed, but the crying slowly stopped. At that time, I suspected that my son was noisy, and now I imagine myself as my son at that time, and the fear of standing between one leg suddenly struck.
The avenue is simple, and the wisdom is foolish. Children see some truths that adults can't see, and fools see places that smart people can't see. French painter Gao Gao has an oil painting , "Where Do We Come From?" Who are we? Where are we going? The question of old and not old, vulgar and vulgar put forward by Gauguin is precisely the three major propositions of human philosophy, which deserve our endless consideration. Once wealth and power escalate, smart people inevitably get carried away and lose themselves. The fool is a sober man. After breaking new ground on the northern border, he began to ask himself, "Where am I?" "Who am I?" He was also thinking, "What kind of world do we live in?" What he said about "do whatever you want" is essentially a rule of insistence on the rule of the cityless government. In the whole Maiqi official village, only fools perceive the charm of Ong Bo Yixi's thought and feel the trend of social development. With a premonition that transcends the times, he truly sees the future. The toast system really collapsed.
Fools live in a corrupt system and will never escape their doom. The town he built will also be transformed, and opium and syphilis must be eliminated, but the light of truth, goodness and beauty in his humanity will not be extinguished. Lust, greed, and oppression are like poisonous poppies, and money, beauty, and power are nothing more than clouds. After the dust settles, the east wind blows, and only things that are true, good, and beautiful will blossom into a holy flower.
We live in times of freedom and peace, and no one has the right to interfere with our pursuit of happiness. It is only at the same time as the creation of material wealth that there are all kinds of shrewdness, the infinite expansion of selfish desires, and the collapse of moral defenses. When egoism prevails, hedonism proliferates, and everyone admires and learns to be smart, social ills can rage. "Mo Chun, the spring clothes are complete, the crown is five or six, the boy is six or seven, the bath is Yi, the wind is dancing, and the song returns." This kind of mentally and physically stretched, peaceful and peaceful life is fascinating.
May there be more fools in this shrewd world, and may the seeds of truth, goodness and beauty in the fools burn like fire through the atriums of people's hearts.