Looking at the waves of the river, looking at the wide banks of the river.
The young girl stood at the bow of the boat. Snow and clouds rolled and slapped against the bow, splashing the river water on her skirt. Her sleeves rustled in the wind.
The waves on both sides of the river cast shadows on the mountains. The sky was high and the clouds were broad.
Lin Ruoshan smiled and said, "The spring cold is so mild. The current here is turbulent, and it's wet and cold. Don't stand at the bow of the boat. "
The young girl was clearly in a good mood. She coughed and turned back with a smile. "The scenery here is really good. Although they say there's miasma, I only feel that the mountains are high and the water is far away. My heart is open. I don't feel any discomfort. "
However, because of that cough, Daiyu remembered that although her body was much better than before, she would still suffer from an old illness when it was cold. Without waiting for Lin Ruoshan to speak, she retreated first.
When she sat in the cabin, the wind and waves began to calm down. Daiyu no longer had the interest to look. Lin Ruoshan laughed at her. "Big Brother even said that I was a scoundrel. Good child, I only found out today that you've grown a ladylike appearance in vain. You're actually the kind of person who gets excited when the wind blows and the waves roll, but gets bored when the wind blows and the waves calm."
"It's just that I've never seen it before." Daiyu finished speaking and poked at the stove. She smiled and said, "Whether it's turbulent currents or stormy waves, I want to see it all."
"Then you have to obediently take your medicine and take care of your body."
"Mm." Daiyu responded.
She had followed her uncle and seen the magnificent Yellow River, the turbulent Yangtze River, the continuous mountain ranges, and the vast plains. She had lived for more than ten years. When she saw the roaring Yellow River coming from the sky for the first time, she was stunned. She deeply hated herself for being a frog at the bottom of a well.
At that time, she knew that she couldn't return to the small Jia Mansion.
Therefore, she would work hard to make herself better. She wouldn't let herself wander like before.
Along the way, she knew that she had changed a lot. She had changed … Perhaps even Baoyu wouldn't dare to recognize her.
The boatman outside heard and said, "Mr. Lin, you can't teach the child like this."
"Oh?" Lin Ruoshan didn't take it to heart. He thought the boatman was going to say that he was too indulgent with girls. Unexpectedly, the boatman said, "It's not enough to just take care of your body. What if you fall into this kind of river? Therefore, he still had to learn how to swim and how to row. Sigh, my daughter is such an expert. "
Lin Ruoshan was stunned.
Daiyu choked with laughter and said, "Aiyo … the boatman is right, the boatman is right. Uncle, will you teach me? "
Lin Ruoshan smiled bitterly. "Teach!"
After chatting and joking for a while, Lin Ruoshan reminded her, "Daiyu, even though we're on a fishing boat, the sky is bright and the wind is gentle. It's the perfect time to think and study. Uncle told you that no matter what situation you are in, you have to learn. For fear of dizziness, we do not study. However, it was time to say something meaningful. Thinking without learning is perilous. After you finished thinking about the questions I asked you to think about yesterday, I gave you a booklet. Have you read it? "
When it came to studying, Daiyu's attitude was especially serious. She thought for a while and said, "I've read it."
"Can you accept it? Do you understand? "
"I can accept some of it and understand some of it."
Lin Ruoshan smiled and asked her, "What can you accept? What can you not accept? What do you understand and what do you not understand? "
Daiyu thought for a while and said what she couldn't and what she didn't understand first. She pointed at the sky. "I can't accept that the sky is round and the earth is round, and the earth is just a small dot in the ocean of the sky. I also can't accept the social contract theory. "
Lin Ruoshan asked her, "Why can't you? Is it because you haven't seen it with your own eyes, so you can't accept it? Do you think that people can't believe in their own rationality without their own eyes? I've said before that some things can be inferred from their existence just based on theory. "
Daiyu pondered for a while and blinked. "No. I think that human rationality can surpass the so-called 'seeing with one's own eyes' and prove the truth. However, this kind of rationality also falls on the practical side of rationality. Uncle, you said that you have the equipment, theory, and information to prove all of this, but you can't take it out now and are just telling me empty words. You also didn't teach me the theory that is said to be able to truly deduce these things. You're just saying empty words. So, why should I accept it? Just because you're my uncle? "
Lin Ruoshan laughed. "Alright, you don't have to say what you accept and what you understand. You really know how to pick the important things to understand. 'Materialism', 'rationality', I like the way those old Westerners say it: Let's go to hell with the idealism world! "
Daiyu said, "Actually, there have been examples of these ideas advocated by the Westerners in China in the past thousand years. There have also been some scattered similar ideas. It can be traced back to the Pre-Qin Dynasty. "
Lin Ruoshan nodded. "That's right." He thought of something and sighed again with a complicated expression.
After a while, they asked a few questions about Lin Ruoshan's books that Daiyu didn't understand. Lin Ruoshan didn't ask any more questions and started to talk about "Fierce Maiden Shrine".
Daiyu also let out a sigh of relief. She was a person with a photographic memory and had always been very smart. She didn't get tired of these novel Western theories that her uncle talked about, but her personal interest was still more in the field of 'literature'.
Seeing Daiyu secretly let out a sigh of relief, Lin Ruoshan teased her again. "I'm not asking you to become some scholar in the land of Tai Xi. I'm just asking you to recognize the current world and get rid of the influence of corrupt scholars."
Daiyu's interest was much higher because of "Fierce Maiden Shrine". She was currently on a boat, so she didn't know how the world evaluated "Fierce Maiden Shrine".
Most of the time, an author would be full of expectations about how others would evaluate their essays. Lin Ruoshan saw that she was happy and suddenly couldn't bear it. He sighed.
After Daiyu left the Jia Residence, she followed him all the way to the south.
She saw a lot of things and also experienced a lot of things.
Along the way, she saw the rise of refugees in the dynasty and the hardships of the world. She also saw it all.
From being an extra person in the Jia Residence, she opened her eyes and started to see the world.
When she was writing "The Dream of the Golden Tortoise", it was like an ignorant golden tortoise looking at the place where she lived and felt that it wasn't clean, so she wasn't very happy.
Then, when she was writing "The Willow Tree", she opened her eyes and walked out. She vaguely saw a black shadow above her head. She started to see and hate these things.
When she was writing "Fierce Maiden Shrine", it was a real leap. Daiyu saw the general appearance of the black fog that always shrouded the world, shrouding her, Du 'er, and everyone else.
She also started to carefully describe, test, and try to rebel against these things in her essay.
Could Daiyu feel it?
She could feel it.
Lin Ruoshan still remembered that when Daiyu was writing "Fierce Maiden Shrine", she sat under the lamp and reached out to the endless night outside the window. She tried to grab something and muttered to herself.
However, she was still floating above and didn't really grasp the clues of those things.
Lin Ruoshan wouldn't take the initiative to tell her what exactly was surrounding her. What she discovered step by step was much more profound than what she heard from others.
Lin Ruoshan sat up in the cabin and suddenly asked a question that he had asked before, "Daiyu, do you regret it?"
"Regret? I think I still regret it. " Lin Daiyu came back to her senses from thinking about "Fierce Maiden Shrine" and said softly, "But, it's better than not knowing what the hell is surrounding me. I regret less."
"That's good." Lin Ruoshan smiled and said, "When we get off the boat, we'll ask about 'Fierce Maiden Shrine'. But at that time, don't cry when you hear a bad evaluation. You have to know that your uncle is a bastard. Now, you are more or less a female bastard. Adults and gentlemen probably won't like what a bastard writes. "
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