Chapter 108 Health (2)
"Hang this one on the top, and then go a little higher, yes, to the left, yes, that's it..." Li directed two workers to hang publicity boards with large characters everywhere. The four-foot square wooden board with only one thick ink-shaped board was arranged in order and hung, and a bunch of workers looked around the boards strangely.
People gathered around individual literate people at the front and read the words on the wooden board for everyone: "No...love...clean...you...get sick..."
"What does it mean?" Everyone was confused.
"It seems to be saying that we should prevent diseases?"
"No, it means that people who are unclean will get sick..."
"It seems, but this grammar..."
The literate person in the crowd was very unsure of the meaning of this sentence.
Too straightforward.
It is very different from the difficult and obscure words that have been seen in the past, lacking subject and acceptance, and from the previous statement that the disease and epidemic are interpreted as a sin of the gods.
So although it is just a very simple and seemingly easy-to-understand sentence, they have to find various explanations from the breaking sentences, to the grammar, and to the tone.
"If you don't like to do it, you will get sick."
"If you don't love it, you will be clean and you will get sick."
Similar sentences and derived explanations competed with each other, and slowly came up with a meaning that was barely acceptable to everyone - the Mozhes were saying that if you don’t like to work, then you will only get sick on the construction site.
"So you are not allowed to be lazy!" A worker suddenly realized after hearing this explanation: "Yes, I feel uncomfortable, but it turns out that I am having a minor illness because of being lazy!"
"That's right. I've been having a stomachache these days. I always thought I had eaten the wrong thing. It turned out that I got sick because I didn't like to do work..."
"Ji, you also said you had a stomachache the day before yesterday. Now it seems that you are lazy in your work. Look, there are many people who are as lazy as you, who are suffering from stomachache. Do you still say that you have done your work with your heart?"
It was noisy and mixed, and a few people on the other side were impatient and deeply hated this random explanation.
"What are you randomly speculating on?" Mo Zheji finally couldn't help but speak.
As soon as he spoke, no one present dared to speak anymore, but looked like a tamed dog, looking at him.
Seeing everyone like this, Ji was angry and didn't know who else to send him anger, so he could only say softly: "This sentence is "If you don't like to be clean, you will get sick." It means that you should be careful to wash yourself clean. If you are not clean, you will easily get sick and may even suffer from epidemics."
Everyone was still watching Ji.
Ji continued to point to the slogan on the other wall and said, "There is "disease coming from the mouth, and disaster comes from the mouth." This means that most of the diseases in people are caused by eating the wrong thing. As long as you pay a little attention and wash the food and tableware yourself before eating, you can avoid getting sick to a large extent."
“There is… in front of the cafeteria.”
He explained one by one, but everyone did not react. He just looked at him ignorantly, and did not dare to show his anger.
After talking for a while, Ji felt bored and the anger in his mouth started to burn again.
He didn't know why, nor did he know who he was angry at. In short, this group of people hated him very much.
So he stopped talking and turned around and left.
After he left, everyone seemed to be alive again and still spoke noisily, but the topic had changed. The few people who had explained the slogans before spoke excitedly again: "What am I saying? It's true. The nobles of Mozhe have found the reason for your illness! Why don't you go take a bath quickly, go clean yourself, and the illness will be gone!"
Everyone preached like this, as if they had washed themselves and the pain would naturally disappear.
It was almost noon before hanging all the slogans.
Today, at his request, the construction site had been shut down for a day, and everyone watched him hang various slogans, gathered together, joked and played.
He also knew that hanging slogans like this would definitely attract attention, so he planned to wait a moment, and after lunch, he gathered everyone and began to preach his own opinions.
"Public opinion fermentes...the integration of calibers..." Li thought about it, and felt a headache again.
He really couldn't understand the meaning of those awkward words, and... such straightforward and brief words and even grammar are not even understood. Will anyone really pay attention to them? Are you really wasting wooden boards?
He couldn't quite understand, but he still had to do it.
So he turned to the cafeteria. The workers on the way were all lazy and dissatisfied. Most of them were ragged and smelled bad.
"Yes, it's getting hot, I do a lot of work on the construction site, sweat a lot, and no one does laundry for them..." Li shook his head and drove away distracting thoughts.
After dinner, Li came to Ju Zizhou's dormitory to look for Ju Zizhou.
I can’t figure out some questions myself, so I still have to ask them.
"Mr. Ju." Li bowed respectfully: "The students have some questions to ask for advice."
Ju Zizhou was having a meal at this time. Seeing Li coming, he nodded and signaled Li to sit down first.
"Is there anything I don't understand yesterday's article?" Ju Zizhou asked.
"Yes, I don't understand many places..." Li was a little confused: "How can the use of oral words... be placed in writing? How can workers be respected by knowledge in such a preaching?"
"There is no need to be awe!" Ju Zizhou smiled: "Our purpose is to put this idea into their minds, rather than standing on their heads, and to teach them to carry this, as if they are carrying the spiritual position of their ancestors."
"But..." Li still couldn't accept it: "But we really know that we are just so mean to be despised by them? Sir, should we know, those workers like to joking and insult them. If there is no awe, they will not be able to manage it!"
"Li." Ju Zizhou smiled and put down his chopsticks: "Do you accept me and I care about you?"
"Students will naturally obey!" Li said immediately.
"Then are you afraid of me?" Ju Zizhou asked.
"This..." Of course I'm not afraid.
Ju Zizhou's personal force is not worth mentioning in front of Qu, Li and Xun, the strongest Mohist family, and no one has ever seen Ju Zizhou get angry and kill people.
No one will fear a gentle and harmless person.
"You are not afraid of me, so why do you obey me and care about you?" Ju Zizhou asked.
"This..." Li seemed to understand a little, but he could not accept the reason he imagined.
"But sir..."
"Don't you dare to regard them as people like you?" Ju Zizhou asked.
With just one sentence, I will stop talking again.
"You think there are differences, and there are indeed differences, so you won't think they are the same as you!" Ju Zizhou smiled and said, "You are superior to them, I am superior to them, I am superior to you, are I am very similar to you, are you and you and them?"
Li pursed his lips, feeling very uncomfortable and humiliated.
"I am the same as them!" Ju Zizhou spread his hands: "Eat, drink water, sleep, look at beauties, look at them, they are all the same, and they are not even different in hobbies!"
It’s much more comfortable in the heart.
Although it is still uncomfortable,...it doesn't seem so difficult to accept.
Chapter completed!