At night, the wind blows across the city sky. The flames were in the distance, burning into pieces.
The woman in black stood on the high roof with her hands on her back, looking at all this with indifference. Except the relatively soft round face slightly diluted her icy temperament, at first glance, it really felt like a goddess overlooking the world.
In the distance, there is still a large battle on the city wall, and the rockets are like locusts in the night, flying and falling.
The shrill screams occasionally came, and the chaos spread. Some streets ran past exclamation crowds, and some streets were dark and quiet. I don’t know when the dead bodies fell here, and the solitary heads were lit up in blood and occasionally Suddenly appeared in the flash of light.
There were not many civilians running around in the streets and alleys near this courtyard. Shortly after the chaos, the army first controlled the situation and ordered everyone not to go out. Therefore, most of the civilians hid in their homes, digging cellars, and even hid in the ground, waiting to survive this sudden incident. confusion. Of course, there are more complex reasons for quieting the neighborhood.
The messenger came occasionally, crossed the alley, and disappeared by a door somewhere. Since many things had already been predetermined, the woman was not moved by it, but just watched everything in the city.
The fragile and precious peaceful scene in Zezhou has finally passed away. It is not an exaggeration to say that everything in front of him is charred. Every exclamation and scream that appears in the city may mean that a life has been turned upside down and life has been disconnected. Everywhere the flames rise, there is an extremely tragic story happening. The woman just watched, and when another group of people came over, she jumped upstairs.
The light figure stepped on the protruding wooden beam in the middle of the house, and threw it towards her husband who was entering the hospital. The man reached out to pick her up, and when the others entered the door, she was already standing firmly on the ground, and her eyes returned to cold. For her subordinates, Watermelon has always been dignified and cold, and everyone is known to be in awe of her. For example, Fang Shuchang and others who came in later were always submissive when Watermelon ordered, but the warm feelings in their hearts—well, that’s not Not good to say.
Seeing some ashes on the hands and bodies of her husband and other subordinates, she stood in the yard, paying attention to the number of people who came in from the corner of her eye, before saying, "What's wrong?"
"A street was on fire. I happened to pass by and helped save people. No one was hurt, so don't worry."
"Yeah." Xigua didn't hesitate, but she was past the age where she would say, "I didn't worry about this little thing at all." Ning Yi smiled: "Have you had dinner?"
"Eat." Her words softened, Ning Yi nodded and pointed to Fang Shuchang and the others: "There is a sauce meat shop on the street where the fire was put out. After saving his son, he was not in a hurry anyway, and grabbed some meat and salt. The vegetable jars came out, and they tasted good, so I bought some with money. I'll have a late-night snack later." He said here, paused, and then asked, "Will you be free later?"
Watermelon said: "I'll do it."
Ning Yi smiled: "Let's go together."
Watermelon nodded, her cooking skills are not good, and she rarely eats with her subordinates, which may have nothing to do with looking down on people. Her father Liu Dabiao died too early, and the strong girl took over Zhuangzi early, and she was stubborn in her understanding of many things: learn to speak in her father's voice, learn to do things like an adult, as the owner of the village, you must make arrangements The lives of young and old in the village must also ensure their majesty, the superior and inferior.
Many things in the middle are naturally propped up by Liu Tiannan, but the girl's concern for the people in the village is unquestionable. In the majesty of the little adults, others can see her heart of fisting. After arriving, many of the rules are consciously maintained by everyone. Now the woman who has become a biological child has a wide vision, but these rules are still engraved in her heart and have not changed.
The two have been together for a long time, and the tacit understanding has grown deep. Although Ning Yi did not ask about the situation in the city, since Watermelon said that he is free, it proves that everything is still within the predetermined procedure, and there is no possibility of a sudden turnaround. He went back to the room with Xigua, and went upstairs soon after, and told Xigua about the contest between Lin Zongwu and Shi Jin - in the end Xigua must know, but not necessarily the process.
"... From the results, it seems that the monk's martial arts have reached a state of perfection. Compared with Zhou Tong at the beginning, I am afraid it has surpassed. He is probably the real number one in the world. Tsk..." Ning Yi admired and yearned for it, "played well. It's so beautiful... Shi Jin too, it's a pity."
Watermelon's face was indifferent: "Compared with Sister Lu, it's not necessarily."
"How can I let Hongti fight him again? Hongti is a person with children, and someone who cares about him will have to drop a grade after all."
"You second-rate fool, how do you know the realm of a first-rate expert?" Xigua said to him, but smiled gently, "Sister Lu grew up fighting in the battlefield, and the world is cruel. She knows best that ordinary people will Hesitating, Sister Lu will only be stronger."
"I remember that every time you fought her recently, it was a draw. Hongti told me she tried her best..."
Watermelon's eyes narrowed dangerously into a line. She held back for a while, and finally raised her head and waved her fists to the sky a few times: "If you weren't my husband, I, I, I-I'll kill you." The deputy said, "I'm also a first-class expert! But... Sister Lu is getting weaker and weaker in the face of the people around her. If she fights her life, I'm afraid of her."
If it was the watermelon when he reunited with Ning Yi in Xiao Canghe, I am afraid that because of such a joke, he would fight Ning Yi one-on-one and take the opportunity to beat him. At this time, she actually no longer takes this kind of joke seriously, and the response is also a joke. After a while, the cooks below had already started making late-night snacks—after all, many people had to stay up all night—the two of them raised a small fire on the roof, preparing to cook two bowls of fried rice with pickled vegetables and sauce. Zhong occasionally spoke, and the chaos in the city changed in such a situation. After a while, Watermelon stood on tiptoe beside the earth building and looked at it: "The West Granary has been won."
"The food may not be as much as expected. Lou Shuwan will have a headache, and people will die here."
"Zezhou is a big city. No matter who takes over, it will stabilize. But there is not enough food in the Central Plains, so we can only fight. The problem is whether it will be Li Xizhi or Liu Yu."
"Jin Wang's site teamed up with Wang Juyun to attack Li Xizhi. In this way, Zhu Biao's side can take the opportunity to do something, and Wang Shanyue and Hu Sanniang may not miss this opportunity. Jurchen If the action is not very big, Yue Fei will not miss the opportunity, there is also a battle in the south. Alas, Tian Hu, sacrifice him for the benefit of the world."
"...It's suffering people in the world." Watermelon said.
"Yeah." Ning Yi smiled slightly, but there was bitterness on his face. Watermelon frowned and enlightened: "That's what they have to suffer, what else can be done, it's better to be earlier than later."
"Yeah." Ning Yi added food, nodded more and more lowly, and then Watermelon comforted a few more words. The bottom of a woman's heart is actually not strong, but if the people around her are down, she will really be strong.
The couple rely on each other like this, and Xigua actually understood in her heart. After saying a few words, Ning Yi handed over the fried rice, and she just said: "I heard that you and Fang Chengye said the truth of being unkind."
The two sat down on the half wall on the edge of the tulou, and Ning Yi nodded: "Ordinary people ask for right or wrong, in essence, it is shirk responsibility. Fang Chengye has already begun to dominate the actions of a place, so you can tell him this."
"After the Tang Minjie incident, you spoke very cautiously."
These are all small talk, no need to be serious. Ning Yi ate two mouthfuls of fried rice and looked into the distance before opening his mouth: "Existentialism itself...is the truth used for pragmatic development, but it does great harm. For many people, once the real Understanding it can easily lead to the collapse of the outlook on life. Originally, this should be a field that should be touched by people after they have a deep background, but we have no choice. Those who want to lead and decide things can't be naive and die a single mistake. , watch the big waves wash the sand."
"Is this what you've been thinking about lately?"
"After Tang Minjie's incident, I still have some reflections. When I first realized those laws, I was confused for a while. In this world, the first thing people come into contact with is always right and wrong, and do what is right. Avoid the wrong ones..." Ning Yi sighed, "But in fact, there is no right or wrong in the world. If it is a small thing, people can weave a frame, and it can be pocketed. If it is a big thing..."
He paused: "Throughout the ages, people have been looking for a way. In theory, if the computing power is strong, it is possible to find a way to create peace five thousand years ago, and this possibility must exist in the world. But no one found it, Confucius did not, later Confucian scholars did not, and neither did you or I. Go ask Confucius: Are you sure you are right? This question has no meaning at all. Just choose a suboptimal answer to do it. That's it, after doing it, bear the result, and all those who are wrong will be eliminated. In this concept, there is no right or wrong in everything, only two points of clear purpose and clear understanding of the rules are meaningful. "
The watermelon ate in big gulps, and Ning Yi also ate it for a while.
"After realizing that there is no right or wrong, people can only spend several times more effort than usual, and do things several times or even ten times more sober than usual. So existentialism is suitable for leaders, because it can really make people afraid To the extreme. Ordinary people like to ask what is right or wrong, because once someone tells him what is right and he believes it, he will no longer think about it. In fact, what is the truth of the world, does the person who said it understand it? He is just summing up experience. Therefore, right or wrong is the shirk of responsibility. You can talk about right and wrong. Leaders go to war to earn their lives. No experience is enough, so only the rules and the purpose are discussed. Recognize the rules objectively, achieve as much as possible.”
"Tang Minjie understands this?"
"When I taught a large group of people, he was the most sensitive, and he was the first to talk about right and wrong. He said that right and wrong may come from who he is. That's right. He was all wrong. I told them later that existentialism-heaven and earth are not benevolent, and the principles of animism to do things, he may be the first to understand. Then, he loves his own people more, but apart from himself Apart from people, nothing else is human.”
"This shows that he still believes that..." Watermelon smiled, "...what's the matter."
Ning Yi shook his head: "It's not about the ass, it's the real inhumaneness of the world. This is the case when we get to the bottom of this matter: If there is no right or wrong in the world, and the current right and wrong are all the laws of human activities, then, human's It has no meaning in itself. You are a lifelong person. One thing is right and another is wrong. This way is meaningful and the other is meaningless. There will really be something to admit it, to admit your idea... This thing really understands, and all the concepts from childhood to adulthood have to be rebuilt again... And animism is the only breakthrough."
Ning Yi patted Watermelon's contemplative head: "Don't think too much... The meaning of animism is that human beings have tendencies in nature, which are the tendencies given by the world. To admit this, it is unbreakable. The truth of the truth. A person, because of the relationship between the environment, no matter how bad or bad, one day he feels family love, he will still indulge in it and do not want to leave. A robber who treats murder as a meal will want to be good in his heart. Alive. People can speak ironically, but the essence is still the same. Therefore, although there are only objective laws in heaven and earth, it is meaningless for us to deduce them in the direction of evil.”
"One is the rule, and the other is the purpose. With goodness as the purpose, one day in the future, our hearts may be truly satisfied. It's like, we are sitting together now."
Ning Yi leaned on the watermelon's shoulder and laughed, and the watermelon also bumped into him: "But there are people who always want to be the bad guy."
"Yeah, but it's usually because of pain. He used to live badly and distorted. If this kind of person twists himself again, he can kill people and destroy the world, but even if he does, the dissatisfaction in his heart is essentially It can't make up for it, after all, it's an unsatisfactory state. Because satisfaction itself is positive..." Ning Yi smiled, "It's as if bad things happened around us in a peaceful and prosperous world, and corrupt officials were rampant with unjust, false, and wrongful convictions. Cursing and pissing off, there are many people who will do the same things as bad people, and things will get worse, and we will only get more angry in the end. After the rules are in place, we will only become more and more unhappy, why bother.”
"Then I will rebel!"
"Haha, yes, that's why we rebel. That's because there is no other way but to rebel. If you don't rebel, it will only get worse." Ning Yi laughed for a while, "But what if it hasn't reached that level. Let's go. Being a good person may be meaningless, or it may have only a little effect, but this is the only way. After knowing the rules, try to push it, only this direction is meaningful. "
He looked at the burning city in front of him: "...otherwise who would want to choose this outcome..."
Watermelon was silent for a long time: "That Tang Minjie..."
"The inhumaneness of heaven and earth is backward compatible with all things, even if all things have animism, compared with the absolute meaning of absolute right and wrong, it is finally a level down, and it is more like a helpless for people who can't figure it out. All things are just our groping in this world. Anything is possible. It is normal for all people in the world to die at once. The essence of this statement is too cold, so he is truly free and can do anything. Done… "
Ning Yi sighed: "The ideal situation is to let people read more and then get in touch with these. It is also a good thing for ordinary people to believe in right and wrong. After all, it is still very early for them to decide pioneering events together. Tang Minjie ... a pity."
He paused: "So I thought about it carefully and sent him to Jin Country."
The night was still long, and the lights and shadows floated in the city. The couple sat on the roof watching all this and talking about cruel things. However, this cruel world, if you can't understand everything about it, how can you really make it better. The two came all the way, bypassed Xixia, and went to the northwest again. They saw the real dead place, the poor people who were so hungry that only their skeletons were left, but the war came, and the enemy came. How can all these things be changed by a person's kindness, anger or even madness
People can only find their way carefully, and in order not to become crazy, they can only lean on each other and support each other under such circumstances.
The night gradually deepened, and the chaos in Zezhou City finally began to stabilize. The two cuddled on the roof and squinted for a while. Watermelon muttered softly in the dark: "I originally thought that you would kill Lin Yechan, You go in the afternoon, I'm a little worried."
Ning Yi patted her on the shoulder lightly: "He is a coward, but he is very powerful after all. In that case, if you take the initiative to kill him, the chances of him running away are too high, and it will still be troublesome later."
After a while, he said again: "I thought, if he really came to kill me, he would spare no expense to keep him. If he didn't come, it would be a good thing... I'm afraid of death, it's not worth it for the time being, and I'm also afraid of his death Substitute Manichaeism."
The watermelon arched on his chest: "Well. Uncle Wang Yin."
"Uh... Haha." Ning Yi laughed softly, after being silent for a moment, he muttered softly, "Alas, number one in the world... Actually, I'm really envious..."
"Ning Yi." At some point, Xigua whispered again, "You were like that when you were in Hangzhou, right?"
"Um?"
"You understand everything, but you feel that the world has no meaning... That's why you joined the family."
"Uh... you're going to be... almost."
He looked up at the deep night sky with only a few twinkling stars, and remembered so many things. That was a long, long time ago.
The sky turned, and the night gradually passed. In the early morning, the water evaporated from the burning of the city turned into a mist in the air. When the first ray of fish belly white appeared in the sky, the white mist was floating, and the ghost king Wang Shitong saw the legendary demon beside the ruins.
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