Chapter 494 A Lifetime Career

   On the way the next day, Xu Guangling saw this family.

It was a provincial highway to the north. A tractor was walking slowly on the road. The black smoke of diesel combustion burst out from the chimney, and the water vapor evaporated by the engine also beeped from the water tank to the Take out.

   In many rural and remote places, this is a very common phenomenon, but the two ladies in the team, Zhao Yu and Zheng Qin, obviously have never seen this.

   Because they stared at the tractor like curious babies.

  Xu Guangling suddenly remembered a sentence, "Uncle, your kart is so big!"

   That is the "Love Apartment" that my classmates put in the dormitory when I was in college. The eldest lady Lin Wanyu said something when she saw the tractor.

   But the tractor in front of me is not as handsome as the one in the movie, far from it. Of course, they are also different in appearance and model. Not to mention its tattered appearance and the pothole and rusted bucket, just listening to the sound of the engine, you know that the tractor is already aging.

   It looks like it will be turned off at any time.

   This voice makes people feel worried unconsciously in their hearts.

   But soon, the perspective changes, and the two ladies look away from the tractor, attracted by the sight in front of them.

   Two people, an old man in his 60s and a young man in his 30s, were doing the same movements at different rhythms.

   They all wore something like clogs on their hands, or, in other words, simple slippers with wooden soles, um, not on their feet, but on their hands. Because they are now walking with their feet and hands.

   First, take a few steps normally, and then bend forward with the whole body, using both hands as support.

   And the "shoes" on the hands protect them from injury to both hands, so that they will not be damaged and injured after three or two blows, and then the blood will be blurred.

   But with this way of walking, although their hands will not be injured, the whole body will inevitably be damaged in the process of standing up and lying down frequently and in the five-body posture.

   "Master, what are they doing?" Zhao Yu asked curiously.

   "They are making pilgrimages to the mountains, and some are called pilgrimages and pilgrimages." Mr. Zhang said, "In this way of bowing, they go to their holy mountain or a certain temple."

   "Did you go all the way like this?" Like Zhao Yu, Zheng Qin was inexplicably surprised.

"yes."

   "Then how far will they go?" Zhao Yu asked.

"It's not necessarily. Very close, some are a few miles away. A little farther, some dozens of miles away. A little further away, some hundreds of miles away. No matter how far away, there are some thousands of miles away. " Mr. Zhang said.

   "How many miles, dozens of miles, hundreds of miles, how many...thousand miles?"

   The two ladies' eyes widened at the same time, and it is estimated that the appearance of aliens in front of them might not have shocked them so much.

  How many thousands of miles traveled in this way?

unimaginable.

   Totally unimaginable!

   Don’t even talk about this way of bowing, just walk well, how many of you can say that you have walked thousands of miles?

I still remember that when I was in college, Zhao Yu once joined a cycling club in the university for a short time. At that time, walking a hundred miles by bicycle was a great thing for all members to celebrate. .

   After the ride, they took pictures, and they had dinner together. Zhao Yu still has those pictures, and he will often take them out every one or two years to look at them.

   In a sense, it was a "medal" in the past.

   Although, compared with the various awards she has received at home and abroad in recent years, it is not worth mentioning.

"In the snow area and other places, some people will make such a pilgrimage when they are old. This is a belief and a ritual, and it is the return of their spiritual roots." Mr. Zhang said lightly, "Among these people, There are poor people, rich people, people of all identities.”

   "But when worshipping, there is no distinction of identity. They are all called worshippers."

"In the opinion of many people, the rich, the poor, the low and the low, are things that have to pass. Only worship is the biggest thing in their life, and it is also the career of their life. After worship, no matter how long they live, they can feel at ease without it. Worrying about it, and without experiencing such a pilgrimage, life is incomplete."

  A lifetime career.

   In the silence of the two women, Xu Guangling suddenly thought of a poem by Su Dongpo from Zhang Lao's words.

   "The heart is like a gray wood, and the body is like a boat that is not tied. I ask you about your achievements in your life, Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Danzhou."

   The name of this poem is "Self-inscribed Portrait of Jinshan", which was inscribed by Su Dongpo when he visited Longyou Temple in Jinshan, similar to "Inscription on the West Forest Wall" and so on.

   Unlike the previous inscription poems, this is the last poem in Su Dongpo's life, and therefore, it has a special meaning.

Two months after    Jinshan, Su Dongpo died, and his life was fixed in this, in the historical facts, and in this poem.

  Su Dongpo, courtesy name Zizhan, name Dongpo, was a writer, calligrapher, and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. - This is a set of historical facts.

  The understanding of Su Dongpo in later generations is firstly his poems, such as Shuidiao Getou, Dajiangdonggou, etc., and secondly, Dongpo meat and Dongpo elbows.

  Yes, Su Dongpo is not only a writer, calligrapher, painter, he is also a gourmet.

  Half-tone, self-opening, no "inherited genre", no tabletop... gourmet.

   Therefore, formal historical facts are disdainful to memorize.

   But the funny thing is that there are many people in later generations, but it was Dongpo Rou and others who knew that there was such a person as Su Dongpo.

  Is this a tragedy or a comedy?

neither.

   At the end of his life, Su Dongpo's understanding of himself was not poetry, not calligraphy, not painting, not food, and of course, not politics, but, "Ask you about your career in life, Huangzhou, Huizhou and Danzhou."

   In Huangzhou, Su Dongpo first experienced a great change in his life. He changed from a disciple of the emperor and a boss to a person waiting to die, a criminal, and a person in custody after he was released from prison.

  Huizhou was demoted again after Su Dongpo's recovery.

  Danzhou was the last time Su Dongpo was demoted, a severe one that led to "hell".

   asked about your career and career, Huangzhou, Huizhou and Danzhou.

   Is this a wry smile and self-deprecation?

   Some people think so.

   But if you look at it from another angle, the real "Su Dongpo" was actually achieved in Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Danzhou. Beyond time, beyond space, this is his real "life career".

   Living in these three places was all his own fault.

   is also this "self", let him be him, let him be him.

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  Thanks to "Tian Wu Xie Kong" for the support of the recommendation ticket.

  Thanks for the monthly ticket of "Dawn vs Stars".

   (end of this chapter)