Gu Caiwei and Lin Yi continued to be affectionate for a while. Her mood had improved a lot, and she remembered that Ms. Gu Changge was still waiting for her in the car not far away.
"Mom is still over there, let's go over and talk to her."
They said hello to Ms. Gu Changge, but did not go home immediately. Lin Yi offered to take Gu Caiwei back later.
Ms. Gu Changge left without saying anything, leaving the young man and woman holding hands and walking slowly along the river.
They walked quietly for a while. When Lin Yi turned around and looked at Gu Caiwei, he found that she seemed to be counting the bricks on the ground step by step.
Her childlike innocence is so cute.
"Xiaowei."
"Um?"
"Aren't you going to ask me why I have to go to the capital?"
"If you want to tell me, then I'll listen."
A warm current surged in Lin Yi's heart. This wonderful feeling of being absolutely trusted was unparalleled.
He sorted out his thoughts and found an entry point: "I just said that everyone has something they are good at, but why do everyone still care so much about the college entrance examination?"
"For example, take Lao Xiong, he has not thought about what he wants to study, but he still perseveres in studying despite his parents' request."
"The same goes for us."
"Long before we knew and understood the world and had any goals or plans for life, we were warned to study hard and make progress every day."
"We regard it as a natural and basic fact, so that we never ask why."
Gu Caiwei still focused on her feet and did not respond. She knew that at this time, she only needed to listen.
"Because according to our parents' life experience, only by entering those good universities can we be more likely to live a good life."
"You must have heard this saying, knowledge changes destiny."
"This is not a bad thing, because it makes us respect knowledge, worship knowledge, and pursue knowledge with unprecedented enthusiasm."
"No one has the right to block other people's right to pursue a better life. But, who stipulated that knowledge should be linked to happiness?"
"In this world, there are obviously many people who neither work hard nor are smart, but they can still squander their lives relying on the wealth gained from their ancestors' burning, killing, and looting."
"Because we are too poor."
"For thousands of years, people living on this land have been working hard, planting in spring and harvesting in autumn, and working in summer and hiding in winter."
"They have never shamelessly used the pirate motto 'Strength is better than hard work' to flaunt themselves proudly."
"Despite this, they were unable to fill their bellies most of the time, and it was only in recent decades that they were able to completely escape hunger."
"Today, we use very limited resources to reward those who are best at learning knowledge in the hope that they can change the lives of others."
"This choice should be said to be very effective. It has played an unprecedented role in the past few decades, but it will encounter more and more obstacles in the future."
"People will find that the consensus that this society can adhere to is becoming more and more ambiguous."
"We have made huge sacrifices and used this as the only measure, and many people's talents elsewhere have been buried."
"But even though everyone is pursuing it desperately and falling into a vortex called involution, we still find that our desires cannot be satisfied."
"We doubt, we get angry, and finally we give up."
"Some people would say that the world was already like this when we were born. It's not our fault. Isn't all we can do to accept it and adapt to it?"
"It just so happens that a writer named Lu, a fellow countryman of yours in Yuezhou, once asked in a novel: Is it right that this has always been the case?"
He paused for a moment, then confirmed: "You may be curious, what does what I said have to do with me?"
"I want to change the world."
"Xiaowei, it's hard for me to share this with anyone else except you, because it's very likely that I won't get other people's blessings."
"If I publish these things on the Internet, many people will jump out and lecture me, shouting to go back and live their own lives."
"They will laugh at you countless times. Have you bought a house, married a wife, given birth to a child, and can you afford to take care of it?"
"There are always some people who like to wear thick and black-colored glasses, deconstruct this and that all day long, and then loudly announce: Fairy tales are all lies!"
"They simply don't understand what true heroism is."
"And even those who don't disagree with me think it's overkill."
"If it were in the past, I would inevitably tell myself this: This is not something I should or can worry about."
"But just in time, for some unexplainable reason, the problems that had troubled me suddenly disappeared."
"Because I am destined to no longer have to worry about my livelihood, then I can freely think about things beyond life."
"I spent a long time thinking about how I should spend the rest of my life and what I really want to pursue?"
"That's my answer."
"I discovered that I really have the ability to do something. At least I have a better chance of making a change than most people in this era."
"It is said in the Spider-Man movie that with great power comes great responsibility."
"In fact, ancient scholars have long said that if you are poor, you can only benefit yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world."
"So Xiaowei, will you support my unrealistic dream?"
Since returning to June 2010, Lin Yi has found the answer he was looking for.
Family, love, friendship, these are all very precious and beautiful things. But in the youth that only occurs once in a life, Lin Yi discovered that there is only one thing that can only be possessed and believed in at this age.
No doubt.
That is the light of idealism that is indelible.
Gu Caiwei actually didn't fully understand Lin Yi's words, but she still smiled the most beautiful smile, like the lotus blooming on the West Lake, with a little starlight twinkling in her eyes.
"You supported my dream, and I will support yours, and I think it sounds amazing."
Lin knew early on that Gu Caiwei must be the person who supported him the most, but he was still moved by her attitude.
"There will definitely be a lot of people laughing at me, thinking I'm too arrogant and too shameless. I'm just a high school student who couldn't even pass T, P, and P, and a penniless poor guy. What qualifications do I have to talk here?
What can benefit the world at the same time?"
"But dreams are not just for the rich."
"Xiaowei, do you believe that the world will change because of me?"
Gu Caiwei was very happy that Lin Yi shared his truest thoughts with her. This time it was finally her turn to encourage Lin Yi's dream.
"No matter what other people think or comment on, it will not affect my view that the person I love is an unparalleled hero."
This sentence made Lin Yi smile slightly: "If one day, you find that the person you love is wearing golden armor and holy clothes, with colorful auspicious clouds at his feet, but he is not here to marry you."
"He carried the Ruyi Golden Cudgel on his back and traveled thousands of miles alone, just to find a beautiful new world that he didn't know where?"