Chapter 5 [A gentleman is like water, Taoism does nothing]
If you have the will to do good, you will not reward even if you are good; if you do evil without intention, you will not punish even if you are evil. Therefore, a gentleman is like water, and Taoist people do nothing...
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Speaking of learning from Lei Feng, Wang Zhan also became interested. Last semester, a classmate who learned from Lei Feng was sent to the school by a letter of praise. He made a big splash and the students were envious. He thought I had made this idea and stretched out his thumbs out and said, "Gao, really Gao, Lao Zhang, is it a storyteller or you have a brain..."
Within an hour, the two of us, Lei Feng, led the blind man across the road and helped the old man pulling coal balls to push the cart. He did five or six good things in a row. However, although they expressed their gratitude, none of them expressed their gratitude to the school. Wang Zhan gradually lost his temper and said he was hungry, so he left me and ran home.
I was more distressed than Wang Zhan. Every time I did a good thing, I would touch my stomach, just like a pregnant aunt. But after five or six good things were done, my lower abdomen not only did not get much heat, but was hooked by Wang Zhan and I was so hungry.
"Why is this?"
I held my stomach with a sad face and returned home in a daze. After dinner and finished my homework, I was not in the mood to watch the cartoon Transformers, and ran to the room alone to think: "This is not right. I just finished the good things at noon. Why did I do five or six good things after school but no reaction? Did the merit book on earth fail?"
When I opened the textbook and tried to preview tomorrow's course, I found that my understanding and memory ability were still very strong. The changes in my body did exist. This must be the credit of the merit book on earth. Which part of it was wrong?
That night, I tossed and turned and ran back and forth to the bathroom, which made my parents think I was sick, so they took my temperature and greeted me. It made me feel so troubled.
Fortunately, the child was careless. In the morning, I forgot about yesterday's setbacks and unhappiness, and went to school happily with Wang Zhan.
Today is Saturday, and it is not yet popular to have a weekend break, so we still have to attend classes...
However, the course schedule for Saturday is relatively loose. Apart from one Chinese class and one math class, the morning is thought and moral, the afternoon is self-study, and then the highly anticipated Sunday. Wang Zhan and I shouted all the way: "Monday is long, Tuesday is foggy, Wednesday is raining, Thursday is dawn, Friday is coming home like an arrow, Saturday is getting out of danger..." Hehehe came to the school.
Now for me, the Chinese and math classes that make my classmates the most troublesome is no longer a difficult and dangerous situation. Instead, it gives me the opportunity to show off. I answered the questions asked by the teacher several times in class, which was quick and correct, so that Teacher Fan has begun to look at me with appreciation, let alone Teacher Liu of Mathematics. I have been defined by him as a good student and a top math. His gaze can only be described as gentle.
After the first two classes, it was the meal time. Each of us got a small bread with hawthorn stuffing of unknown origin and a bag of orange juice. Everyone ate and laughed, waiting for the most anticipated ideological and moral class.
Teacher Dou, who teaches ideology and morality, is a very funny person. He always teaches in humorous language every time and likes to quote from others. Taking his class is simply a pleasure, and his classmates like it.
The ringtone rang, and Teacher Dou, who had messy hair, was wearing his blue Zhongshan dressed in his blue one that had not been washed once every six months. Today, he talked about how to establish a correct outlook on life, values and worldview.
But if you teach seriously, it is not Teacher Dou. He first talked about the importance of establishing the three views in a funny tone, and then mentioned goodness, and then didn't know why the students are now actively doing good deeds and then asking the parties for letters of thanks.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but look at Wang Zhan, thinking that Teacher Dou wanted to criticize this behavior. Unexpectedly, after a change of words, he told a story from the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. When everyone was attracted by him, Teacher Dou summarized the protagonist of the story in sixteen words: "If you have the will to do good, you will not reward even if you have the will to do evil; if you have the will to do evil, you will not punish even if you have the evil."
"If you have the will to do good deeds, you will not reward you even if you are good..."
I was stunned suddenly, like thunder!
Unexpectedly, I didn’t expect that I thought hard last night and couldn’t find the answer, but was awakened by a word from Teacher Dou in the ideological and moral class.
Yes, I have read the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, but why didn’t I notice this story? Of course, I don’t recognize the Book of Merits. How could I react?
I really didn’t expect that an ordinary ideological and moral class helped me solve the biggest problem. It seems that elementary school courses are not useless? At this moment, I understood the importance of learning.
In the next half of the class, I did not listen, but thought repeatedly.
I helped the old man begging for food at noon yesterday, and he had no intention of doing good deeds, so the Book of Merit in the World has a reaction. But since I know the role of the Book of Merit in the World, it is really not easy for me to do "do good deeds without intention" like I did yesterday at noon yesterday!
Is it possible to control myself not to think about the existence of the merit book on earth? How is this possible? Trying not to think about it is to think about it! It is already in my body and in my heart. If I cannot completely forget its existence, every good thing I do is intentional and purposeful, and I will definitely not buy it!
As if nothing has happened, it is not easy to tell me! How could I, a primary school student in the sixth grade, do it?
Lu Dongbin can do it because he has a deep cultivation level and is Ziyang Zhenjun descending to earth. Where is me? I am just a primary school student...
I'm going crazy.
I feel that I am now a poor guy who has billions of property but can't spend it and can only eat vegetables and tofu every meal.
In a trance, the class was over. I didn't know how I walked out of the classroom. My mind was full of merit books on earth and my brain was almost racked.
On the way home, Wang Zhan seemed to have seen that my mood was abnormal, and he didn't bother me to tell stories, but just silently accompanied me back home.
In the afternoon, I still finished two self-study classes in this half-wake state. On the way home from school, Wang Zhan finally couldn't help it and said to me: "Lao Zhang, what's wrong with you? If you can't figure out something, then you won't think about it anymore, and you won't die."
"Um?"
I was stunned and savored this sentence carefully. Yes, if I can't figure it out, I won't think about it, and I can't get the answer. Am I not able to get along with myself?
I looked up and down at Wang Zhan and laughed: "Okay, can you say such a good word?"
"It's not what I said, it's what my dad said..." Wang Zhan laughed and said, "This is the way my dad taught me to deal with the exam. If you can't figure out the questions, just let go of them and don't think about them first, otherwise you will have no time to do the questions that you can do right. My dad said, "As a person, you should follow what you want..."
"Full with the circumstances?"
There was another movement in my heart. Although Wang Zhan’s words couldn’t help me solve the problem, they calmed down a lot...
Chapter completed!