What Chen Changsheng thought was that they might talk about some interesting things about Ximing City during the wine.
But as we chatted, things changed.
Apart from bitterness, there was nothing else in Long Zhongzheng's mouth.
The pressure of living has made him forget many things, and he has become a lot simpler. When Nian Yun met him, he was still talking about the great scene, but now he only knows how to survive.
The world has changed.
It became strange to Chen Changsheng.
He let out a long sigh.
When I raised my head and looked at the full moon above my head, I couldn't help but wonder, should I do something?
Often I suddenly don’t understand myself.
It seems that things in the world always have their own rules, and I shouldn't mess with these things.
But it seems like...
My former self was not like this.
"What are you thinking about?" Long Zhongzheng asked.
"I wonder if I should do something?"
"do what?"
"To this world."
After hearing this, Long Zhongzheng smiled and said, "I'm afraid you drank too much. We can't decide what the world is like."
"That's not certain."
Chen Changsheng said with a smile: "What the world is like is ultimately not determined by humans. Aren't those who change these things also humans? Am I not a human being? Are you not a human being?"
Long Zhongzheng paused for a moment and said, "Why do you even scold yourself like this?"
"It's just an analogy." Chen Changsheng said with a smile.
Long Zhongzheng waved his hand and said: "Let's put it another way next time, but listen to you, you really seem to have drunk too much. Don't think about unrealistic things. What we think about now is that it is good to be alive.
"
"What if I have this ability?" Chen Changsheng asked.
Long Zhongzheng smiled and said jokingly: "If you have the ability, then go ahead and try it. I also hope that the world will change back, so I don't have to worry about this or that, so why don't you go quickly?
?You’re still asking me here?”
He didn't take Chen Changsheng's words seriously, he just thought they were ordinary lies.
Chen Changsheng thought for a while and said: "I have wanted to do something like this before, but later I found that many of the things I did were not worth it. It's like saying that you want to make the world a better place, but those in high positions are not worth it.
People with authority don’t want this world to change back to the past, they want chaos, and no matter how hard you try, they will disrupt it again.”
"Because of this, some things become meaningless."
"You are really drunk." Long Zhongzheng shook his head and said.
Chen Changsheng said with a smile: "Chen is not drunk, isn't he just talking to you about business?"
"Okay, okay, I'll just pretend you're not drunk." Long Zhong raised his head and looked at him, then asked, "So what's the problem?"
When Chen Changsheng heard him ask this question, he also thought about this issue.
So what's the problem?
It is the greed of human nature, the desire of those people for imperial power, the indifference to life, and the contempt for morality...
Chen Changsheng came back to his senses and looked at Long Zhongzhengdao: "Think!"
"Um?"
Long Zhong was looking into his eyes, and suddenly he felt something was wrong. Chen Changsheng's eyes seemed to be particularly serious, and it didn't look like he was drunk and joking at all.
Chen Changsheng stood up, smiled, looked at Long Zhongzheng and said, "Thank you."
"Um?"
Long Zhongzheng hummed again, holding the wine bowl and looking at Chen Changsheng with some confusion.
Chen Changsheng raised the wine bowl and handed it over to indicate.
Long Zhongzheng didn't understand what Chen Changsheng had in mind.
He hesitated for a moment and raised the wine bowl to touch it.
Then Chen Changsheng raised his head and drank all the wine in the bowl.
Seeing this, Long Zhongzheng also drank the wine completely.
Then he said: "If you want to go crazy, I'll do it at the same time."
Chen Changsheng smiled and said, "I'm not crazy anymore."
The two jugs of wine were also drank cleanly, and the food prepared on the table was also eaten.
Long Zhong was cleaning up the house for Chen Changsheng and asked him to stay here. Chen Changsheng did not refuse, and after saying thank you, he settled in peacefully.
It is worth mentioning that Ximing City is particularly peaceful at night.
Such tranquility is actually disturbing.
It's too quiet.
It seems to have become a dead city.
It's always been like this here.
…
When he woke up in the morning, there were a few more corpses at the city gate. Chen Changsheng took a look when he passed by and found that one of them was the same one he had seen yesterday.
At that time, this person was standing in front of him.
The temperature difference between day and night here is huge, and perhaps he froze to death in the cold wind and starved to death.
After meeting him, Chen Changsheng felt very uncomfortable.
But he couldn't do anything. He could save one person, but he couldn't save thousands.
Manpower will eventually be exhausted.
Long Zhongzheng patted him on the shoulder and said: "If you pity them, why not pity me and yourself?"
Chen Changsheng smiled helplessly and said nothing.
Many shops on the streets of Ximing City are empty. In today's world, doing business is difficult. There are endless taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Not only will there be no profit in a year, but there will also be a lot of losses. Over time, it will
No shops are still open.
Most of the shops that are still open today have backgrounds.
Chen Changsheng's eyes finally stopped at a shop selling pens, inks and papers.
He stayed here for a while.
"Chen bought some things."
"Uh-huh."
Chen Changsheng bought a few pages of paper, a pen, and a few blank books.
When Longzhong saw him buying these, he couldn't help asking: "Are you still engaged in learning?"
"Write on weekdays to pass the time."
"That's okay."
"What? Is it cheap to study now?"
"In today's world, what's the use of learning?"
"It's not useless, right?"
Long Zhongzheng shook his head and said with a smile: "You don't know, those people at the top have collected all the books. If scholars don't have books to read, then they are still reading nothing."
After hearing this, Chen Changsheng frowned and said, "I remember that when Xixiao was in power, the king of Xixiao promoted education in a big way, and the books were never left behind."
"It's all burned."
Long Zhongzheng said: "Many scholars in the northwest criticized King Kang for not caring about people's livelihood, and the scolding was particularly harsh. King Kang was so angry that he ordered people to collect books from house to house, and burn every book they received.
Burn all the books, whether they are plays or miscellaneous talks. Without books, the truth will be cut off, and naturally it can only be controlled by others."
"Why are you leaving no room for this..." Chen Changsheng sighed.
Long Zhongzheng said: "Isn't it obvious? These people have no humanity at all. They don't care about anything except rights and money."
"The scholar likes to scold me, so fine, I will burn all his books, cut off the path from the root, and then behead them one by one until they dare not speak."