You Know Nothing About Pain

Hearing Mr. Ji's words, Naruto raised his head in surprise, and said doubtfully, "I'm not in the mood to go out now—"

"Go out for a walk."

However, before Naruto finished speaking, Mr. Ji said in an unquestionable tone:

"Believe me, if you sit in this room for [-] years, you still can't think of things you shouldn't be able to think of."

"Mister may not be able to help you with the issues you are thinking about, but you know a little bit, it is not a good habit to work behind closed doors."

Mr. Ji smiled gently at Naruto, touched Naruto's head after a long absence and said:

"Since the great Confucian saints in the past can't give you the answer, then you should look elsewhere, go to the person you really want to help, ask them, and ask them how they think about this problem.

Since you want to change the world, you must first know enough about the world.

Isn't it? "

Hearing Mr. Ji's earnest words, Naruto was taken aback for a moment, and then said in a daze, "Sir, what you said is true."

Then Naruto no longer struggled, put what he just wrote into his arms, and then walked towards the door.

Just when Naruto was about to walk out of the room, Mr. Ji behind him suddenly stopped him: "Wait a minute."

Naruto looked back at Mr. Ji and said, "What's the matter?"

"As for your thinking, although I don't have the ability to guide you, I have traveled all over the world over the years, and I have some experience in Confucianism."

Mr. Ji thought for a while, and said to Naruto, "I don't know if I can help you."

Seeing that Mr. Ji had something to say, Naruto put on a serious tone and said, "Sir, teach me."

"I can't talk about teaching you. In fact, it's just four words, people-oriented."

Mr. Ji first smiled and waved his hands, then put on a serious expression and said:

"The benevolent is also human.

My Confucian classics have countless books, and there are more than tens of thousands of Huanghuang's big words, but in the final analysis, they are nothing more than a character.

The reason why human beings are different from other vegetation and livestock is that human beings have a heart of benevolence.

Although there is an unsurpassed way of heaven, in my Confucian view, heaven sees itself and the people see it, heaven listens to the people itself, and what the people want, heaven must obey, and the will of heaven is the will of the people.

I hope Naruto, no matter what answer you get in the end, you will not forget the four words people-oriented, and remember that everything should start with people.

As long as you have this will in your heart, the final result will not be so bad. "

Listening to Mr. Ji's words, Naruto showed a thoughtful expression.

"I know that this world is very cold, and the world is also very ugly. It is inevitable to feel disgusted after seeing too much."

Mr. Ji looked at Naruto with gentle eyes, smiled slightly and said:

"But people are not just ugly.

It is human nature to forget profit and be insatiable.

But I think it is also human nature to sacrifice one's life for righteousness and be selfless. "

Listening to Mr. Ji's words, Naruto showed a look of enlightenment on his face, bowed to Mr. Ji, and said solemnly: "Students are taught."

"Okay, it's just my feeling." Mr. Ji touched Naruto's head with a smile and said: "There is no need to be so serious, go and find your own answer."

Looking at Mr. Ji's expectant and proud eyes, Naruto nodded seriously, then turned around and walked out the door.

As soon as Naruto walked out the door, he saw Kyuubi breathing boredly in the yard at the moment. It turned out that the other party had been guarding the door the whole time, and hadn't gone out to relax at all.

When Kyuubi saw Naruto coming out, he cast a cold glance at Naruto, then walked towards the inside of the house without saying a word.

Looking at the Kyuubi who was still angry, Naruto smiled rarely, and when Kyuubi passed by him, he suddenly said: "I will succeed...and thank you for believing I, Nine Lamas..."

Hearing Naruto's words, Kyuubi's footsteps paused for a moment, and then continued to walk forward with a blank expression, but left a faint sentence when he was about to enter the room.

"Rory is so wordy...I don't know what to say...I'm unlucky to meet you!"

Naruto walked out of the courtyard and out of the village, looking at the endless fields in front of him, he suddenly didn't know where to go.

Although Mr. Ji told him that he couldn't think of anything sitting in the room, Naruto also agreed with this statement, but where to go next made Naruto have a difficult time.

Forget it, just walk around.

Since he didn't know where to go, Naruto simply decided not to think about these things, and followed his own mood, wherever he went.

Naruto walked for about an hour, and suddenly found that the front was very lively, and there were crowds of people coming and going gathered in an open space.

Naruto took a closer look, only to find that it was a small market, and most of the products sold in the market were cheap things or daily necessities.

The people who come here are not from wealthy families, so apart from a small number of money and goods transactions, there are still a large number of people who are carrying out the most primitive means of bartering.

Looking at the happy faces of these people, most of whom acted as family units, Naruto remembered that it was almost the end of the new year, and everyone should be here to buy new year's goods.

Naruto walked into the market with great interest, observing every move of the people around him.

A small market can be said to contain all kinds of things in the world. People in the transaction are raising the value of their own things, and then trying to devalue the value of each other's things to make a profit.

As the observation continued, Naruto found that in the small market, there was a stall that was very popular, and that was a stall that helped people pound rice.

Pounding rice is actually the process of removing the husks from the rice. The husks are rice bran, and the remaining rice grains are white rice.

Generally speaking, farmers are not willing to eat white rice. They often sell the rice grown in the city, and then use the money from the sale to buy some coarse grains such as corn, sorghum, or dried beans of various colors.

Generally speaking, one catty of fine grains can be exchanged for about two catties of coarse grains, so farmers usually first exchange enough coarse grains for their family for a year, and if there are any leftovers, they can be exchanged for money to save.

But now that the new year is approaching, after a year of hard work, you have to reward yourself, so as long as many farmers have the conditions, they will specially leave a small bag of rice to make white rice for the New Year.Although pounding rice is not a very technical job, it is definitely a laborious job.

A stone mortar is slowly hewn out of a complete stone, which is like a huge wine cup, and it usually takes four people to lift it.

Naruto had also seen pounding rice in Konoha, but at that time Konoha had already developed a foot-operated rice pounding tool, which was more efficient and less labor-saving, but the most primitive method of pounding rice was obviously used here.

That is, the rice pounder holds a wooden cylindrical awl that is thick at both ends and thin in the middle, and keeps smashing it against the stone mortar in front of him. The rice hidden in the depression of the stone mortar is gradually removed from the husk, revealing that it is as white as jade inside. of rice.

Pounding rice may seem boring, but it is actually an extremely labor-intensive mechanical labor, especially in the most primitive way, which seems to have a simple and wild beauty.

The wooden awl used for pounding rice is as thick as an adult's fist, and every time you have to use your full strength, you must also pay attention to the angle and rhythm of your hands, otherwise the rice will not be able to get rid of the shell at all, which is a huge challenge to the strength of the human arm and waist. test.

The person in charge of pounding rice was a young man in his twenties. He only wore a single shirt in the cold winter weather, but he was still sweating non-stop. Every time he exerted force, he could see the outline of muscles wriggling in his arms.

It was such a common and untechnical thing, but Naruto was fascinated by it, and stood there blankly, watching the young man help one family after another to pound rice.

In other places, you can often see two people blushing and spitting all over for a little profit.

But here, everyone has a tacit understanding. They silently lined up with their own rice. The family in front of them finished pounding their rice, and the next family stepped forward to pour their own rice into the stone mortar. There was no thought of bargaining. .

Naruto noticed that each family would not pay after the rice was pounded, but very consciously took out part of the polished rice that had been pounded by the family, and poured it into a pocket next to the rice pounding boy.

And the young man didn't even care about how much was poured, he just waved the wooden awl wholeheartedly, and the whole process seemed so orderly.

Looking at this scene, Naruto seemed to have a flash of inspiration in his heart, but he really wanted to look for it, but found that there seemed to be nothing, so he simply stepped forward and lined up to observe more closely.

In front of Naruto was a stooped old man, who looked very old, and the wrinkles on his face were like interlaced dry bark, with the word wind and frost written all over it.

At this time, the old man was holding a small bag in one hand, and a tobacco rod stuffed with homemade tobacco leaves in the other hand, and he was constantly looking for something on his body, so he must have been looking for fire.

Seeing this scene, Naruto stepped forward to support the old man, and then gently stroked the old man's tobacco rod with his left finger, and the soil tobacco leaves stuffed in the tobacco rod automatically ignited.

The old man glanced at Naruto in surprise, he clearly saw that Naruto had nothing in his hand, why did he suddenly light the cigarette for him.

But if you don’t know, you don’t know. The old man didn’t bother to think so much, so he quickly put his mouth in front of the cigarette holder and took a few puffs, so that the just lit tobacco would not go out.

"call--"

The old man exhaled some pungent smoke, and with a contented expression on his face, he nodded to Naruto and said, "You young man, you are quite capable."

"Small tricks are not worth mentioning."

Naruto smiled, and took this opportunity to lean forward and said, "Master, it's my first time to pound rice here, so I don't know what the rules are?"

"First time?"

The uncle looked at Naruto in surprise, then nodded clearly and said: "But judging by your attire, you don't look like a person who goes to the ground. You came here to help the adults in the family."

"As for the rules of pounding rice here, it's very simple, just one."

The uncle took a puff of dry tobacco, then pouted his mouth at the young man who was hard at pounding rice and said:

"No matter how much rice you pound, he will collect one-tenth of the rice in the end, and you can just pour the rice into the bag next to him."

"A tenth of a meter..."

Naruto looked at the young man in front of him thoughtfully. According to his observation just now, all the people who pounded rice consciously poured a tenth of the rice into the young man's bag in the end, no more than no less.

At this moment, Naruto suddenly remembered what Mr. Ji said before.

If you want to find answers, go to the people you really want to help, ask them, and ask them how they think about this problem.

Thinking of this, Naruto's heart moved.

So Naruto looked at the old man on purpose, and said with a embarrassed expression: "I feel that I received a little too much, so he moved his arm and took away a tenth of my rice for nothing. Don't you feel bad?"

Unexpectedly, the old man was furious when he heard Naruto's words.

"You young man, what are you talking about!"

The old man suddenly blew his beard and stared at Naruto and said:

"Pounding rice doesn't take much effort?! Doesn't it take time?!

You'll know if you go up and try it yourself, not everyone can do it, you're skinny and tender, I'm afraid you'll cry for your father and mother after you go up twice.

Let’s talk about pounded milled rice and paddy, can that be the same price? !

The prices of polished rice and paddy in the city are half the price difference, and they only cost one-tenth of you, which is affordable enough.

And let me ask you, just give you rice, can you eat it?

Don't suffocate you!

Don't you have to pound it into rice before you can eat it? If they pound the inedible rice into edible rice for you, what does it matter if you ask for some rice? ! "

Hearing what the old man said, Naruto quickly put on an open-minded look and said, "You are right, I didn't expect it."

Seeing Naruto admitting his mistake, the old man snorted and said, "Remember not to say such embarrassing things in the future, or your parents will embarrass themselves along with you!"

However, before the old man completely calmed down, Naruto said with a wicked look: "Master, I just watched it. This guy doesn't even care how much rice others pour. Let's pour less later. Anyway, it will end up mixed together." I can’t see it, or let’s discuss it with him and ask him to charge less rice.”

"roll roll roll."

At this time, the old man was too lazy to talk to Naruto, he raised the cigarette stick in his hand and said as if he was going to hit someone, "Get out of here!"