Chapter 490: Keep Shaojie and prepare to help him
When we returned to "Huaxi Arts", Mr. Fang got off the bus first.
I wanted to let Shaojie stay for a night. Since I hadn't been drinking since we arrived, I could have a nice drink tonight. Plus, I had a guest room at home, so I decided to stay there.
Shaojie said, "I won't bother you. Even people in the county town don't like to stay overnight these days."
I laughed and said, "My father, my mother, and my wife are all country people, not even from the county town. They still retain the customs of the country people.
My mother, in particular, is particular about bringing good luck to the family. Don't worry. Let's have a nice bottle of wine and chat."
Shaojie thought about it and said, "In that case, fine."
After the agreement was made, I got off the car and went to Mr. Fang's shop to pick up the "Spring Thunder". Mr. Fang wrapped it in wrapping paper and handed it to me.
I moved to Shaojie's bike and said, "I'll ride in front, you follow me."
After that, I led the way on my bike and soon we were home. After setting up the bike, I instructed him to park it and take the stone off the bike.
He jumped out of the car, looked up and asked, "You live in such a nice house?"
“I spent all my money on it.”
After entering the living room, I introduced Shaojie to my parents and told them that the last time I went to Yu Town, it was Shaojie and his friends who hosted us.
My mother said, "You are so polite. You even gave Shanhong a lot of things. Come and sit down."
I took Shaojie into the study and put down the stone first. My mother came in and made tea, then brought in some fruit. She picked out an orange and handed it to Shaojie, saying, "Eat. A big, sweet orange."
Under her gaze, Shaojie peeled it and ate a piece, repeatedly saying it was delicious. Only then did my mother leave.
I called Yiwei again and asked her and her husband to come over for dinner.
She said, "Sister Gu, can you come with us? We just want you to come up with a name for the shop."
I laughed and said, "Do we even need to ask 'yes or no'?"
After hanging up the phone, I said, "I have a neighbor who likes to collect stones. Let's get together. He is also a potential customer of ours."
After saying that, I stood up, unwrapped the paper, and called Shaojie to come and see.
Shaojie looked at it and said, "This name is very clever. It really transforms decay into something magical."
I said, "Take a close look at Fang Laodiao's base."
Shaojie picked up the base and examined it carefully, saying, "It's quite creative. The stone complements it perfectly."
I said, "Let's sit down and talk." Then I tore off a tissue and gave it to him.
Shaojie wiped his hands and sat down to drink tea. He looked thoughtful and then asked, "Did someone give you this stone?"
"Yes. His last name is Kong Haoran. He likes to collect stones. His wife's last name is Jiang Yiwei, the person I just called.
The other one is the director of the opera troupe, whose surname is Gu, and we call her Director Gu. The two of them, plus my wife, started a company.
Shaojie asked, "What's your sister-in-law's last name?"
I smiled and said, "Her surname is Tao, and her name is Tao Xiaolin. We all call her Xiaolin."
Shaojie pointed at his nose and asked, "Do I call her Xiaolin too?"
"Yes. Everyone calls them that. You can be casual. You can just call my parents Dad and Mom. In our hometown, calling Mom is the same as calling Mom. As for the others, you can call them whatever I call them."
The two chatted for a while, and Shaojie suddenly said, "Teacher Wan, I have a question that I want to ask you."
I poured him more tea and said, "Ask?"
"Fortune-telling has books left by the ancients and the experience summarized by masters. But when it comes to fortune-telling, how can you analyze the result by writing down the word?"
I laughed and said, "You think this is very idealistic, right?"
He said, "Yes. It's a little unscientific."
I smiled and said, "You're the vice-chairman of the Yuzhen Photography Association. You're organizing a competition for the works, and ten judges will select one first prize from thirty entries. Do you think this first prize is absolutely fair?"
He said, “Relative.”
"Right. It was decided by the ten of you. Actually, when you wrote and scored, you decided who would win first prize.
When you give your scores, there's no absolute standard; it's all based on your feelings. The sum of your ten feelings determines the winner. In other words, the sum of your ten subjective opinions equals an objective result.
The same is true for fortune-telling. When you write a word, it's a feeling, a subjective feeling. The moment you write the word, you determine the outcome."
He thought for a moment and asked, "You know how to predict the fortune, so the words you write will avoid certain things. How do you explain this?"
I said, "People who predict characters don't write a single character themselves. Instead, they do a blind test. A blind test is to find a book, randomly report a page number, and say the page number, line number, and character number."
"Oh. I see."
I said, "A Chinese scientist who won the Nobel Prize recently said this. I don't remember the exact words, but the gist of it is:
He hadn't believed in gods or ghosts before. But now he couldn't understand why the Earth floated in the air, with nothing to support it, yet it just floated. And yet it kept rotating from west to east, day and night. Where did it get this power?
Shaojie said: "It's the law of gravity."
I said, "Yes, but who pushed the Earth the first time? After that, according to the principle of energy decay, it encountered resistance every day, so why didn't it slow down?"
Shaojie burst out laughing and shook his head.
I said, "Humanity is confused precisely because it cannot explain many phenomena. You are confused, and I am confused too. But just because you are confused, you cannot assert that what I believe is superstitious, unscientific, or wrong."
Shaojie laughed: "Teacher Wan, if you open your mouth, no one can stop you."
I said, "I'm bored, too. I often think about these things. For example, someone recently suggested that humans are just a low-level stage in the biological world, a transitional stage, and that in the future, humans will disappear."
Shaojie asked: "Will humans disappear?"
I said, "I don't know either. But you can't say with certainty that my hypothesis is false. The person who proposed the hypothesis said this: humans learned to think, developed robots, and then taught thinking to robots.
Robots have learned to think. Because they are indestructible, they can withstand pressure better than humans. For example, when putting out a fire, humans can't rush in, but robots can. For example, if a robot's heart breaks, it's easy to replace. Therefore, robots will replace humans.
Shaojie shook his head and said, "It's very scary."
I laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? By that time, we will no longer exist."
We chatted for a while. Then my brother-in-law called and said he was moving next week and the shop the week after. He asked me to pick two dates.
I asked, "Who's the first name on the property deed?"
My brother-in-law said, “My name comes first.”
"Is your name also written on the business license?"
My brother-in-law said, "Yes,"
I smiled and said, "General Manager Wan Shuixiu, I am very humble to you this time."
My brother-in-law laughed and said, "She is still reasonable when it comes to big things."
I said, "Since your name is written on it, I'll use your date of birth and time of birth to calculate the moving date. I'll send it to you when I'm done."
Shaojie sat aside, watching me make a schedule. He asked, "It's so complicated."
I said, "Everything has a theoretical basis. A basic calculation method is to match his birth chart. When I do calculations, I also need to match his yin and yang."
"What does it mean to combine yin and yang?"
A house on earth is called a yang house, and it should be based on a yang number: 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9. However, it cannot be based on 9. This is because 9 is the largest yang number and is not suitable for a family, but it is suitable for business. It's the same as the steps in your house cannot be set to nine steps, but the steps in the Forbidden City can be set to nine steps.
He said, "I've learned another trick."
After calculating the date, I sent it to my brother-in-law. Then, I looked out the window and saw Xiaolin, Captain Gu, and Jiang Yiwei getting out of the car, chatting and laughing.
Why did they go home so early?
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