Man can be as close to the truth as possible.
Bi Shumin
My friend told me such a story. When his grandfather was young, he was very clever and persistent. When he was successful in his studies and just wanted to make great achievements, his great-grandfather stopped him, took out an old box and said to him, son, I have a trouble that will last for a lifetime. Because when I got them, my life was already over half, and the time left for me was not enough. Learning should start at an early age. If I give you a semi-finished product, I might as well let you start from scratch.
That's why. In the early years, there was a rich man in Jiangnan who loved books. His family has two volumes of medical books handed down from ancient times, which are the achievements of countless doctors and are necessary for Xinglin. Rich people regard it as a treasure and rarely see it hidden in the library. Later, the rich man went out in distress, and a strong man saved his life from the robber. The rich man was very grateful and wanted to thank him with gold and silver. A strong man said that no amount of treasure, no matter what is valuable, is also valuable. I saved your life. Your life is priceless. The rich man said, will a strong man kill me? The strong man smiled and said, I don't want your life. I want to save the lives of the whole world with your medical books. The rich man thought for a long time and said, I can lend you the medical book for three days, but you should return it to Zhao intact at noon three days later. After that, I ordered people to hold out medical books full of sandalwood flavor from the rugged wooden library.
After the strong man got the book, he hurried home as quickly as possible, and invited all the students in the countryside to copy the medical books overnight. Books are orphans, and time is so tight. Under the firefly lamp, the copy was cracked, and finally it was traced down within the specified time. The strong man returned the medical books to the rich man and breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that from then on, he could use this medical collection locked in a rich and powerful family to benefit the people all over the world.
Who knows, I can't use the copied medical books until I show them to the doctor. Doctors need to be rigorous and steady based on human life. This kind of medical prescription hastily copied by laymen has many mistakes, and the mistakes are bizarre, strange and irregular. Who dares to use it to do experiments on patients?
The strong man never died for the people and hurried back to the rich family. If you want to understand the righteousness, please lend the medical books to the rich again. Ask an expert to copy it this time, and it will be done well. When his horse arrived at his destination in a cold sweat, he was greeted by flames. The rich man's house was lit by lightning, and all the classics in the library were reduced to ashes.
Since then, these two medical books have been passed down from generation to generation like chicken ribs. No one dares to use the above prescriptions, and no one is willing to throw them away. The paper of the book is yellow and brittle, and the cloth is broken, so later generations carefully copy it. Because the text is unreasonable, everyone who copied it has changed it according to his own understanding, and it has become more unrecognizable and turned into a gobbledygook.
Great-grandfather's words came here, and he looked at his grandfather with bright eyes.
Grandpa said, are these two books in your hand?
Great-grandfather said, exactly.
Grandpa said, do you want me to find them?
Great grandfather said, I hope you can spend your whole life trying to bring it back to life. But you are only half right, not them, but it. The project is so huge that you can't correct two books at the same time in your life. Now, you can choose one of them. What is left will only be left to our descendants to distinguish right from wrong.
Grandfather looked at two identical ancient books on sapphire cloth and spent a lot of time. It's like choosing your life partner between two strange beautiful women, and you are at a loss for an instant.
Whatever. Their difficulty is the same, and their function of saving the world is the same. Great grandfather urged.
Grandfather casually clicked on the books above. He knew that from this moment on, this action, his life, the same unknown field, the same career, the same fate, were closely glued together.
All right. Great-grandfather handed him the book A chosen by his grandfather, and put away the book B so that he wouldn't turn it over again. I'm afraid grandpa will be half-hearted and eventually accomplish nothing.
Grandfather lived up to his great-grandfather's expectations and spent half a century correcting all the mistakes and omissions in a book. He personally went to the deep forest to check the unclear map of medicinal materials in the album. Unable to determine whether the ingredients were right or wrong, he collected herbs and boiled soup, tried it himself and fainted several times. For an introduction from unknown sources, he consulted countless classic works ... that medical book is like the shaft of an ancient stone mill. All the knowledge about astronomy and geography, ancient and modern, at home and abroad, was verified by my grandfather with all my efforts until a conclusion was reached. Grandfather's life revolves around this ancient medical book, from a young boy to a sideburns like snow.
It is said that my grandfather has read so many medical books that he should be a good doctor. However, no, my grandfather's erudition only serves that medical book. Whenever the correct prescriptions are verified, my grandfather will no longer have the slightest nostalgia for them and abandon them and turn to new fields to explore. He is only interested in the unknown and correcting fallacies. He was poor and embarrassed all his life, but he never used his effective magic formula to treat patients and gain benefits.
When my grandfather was old, he finally corrected all the hundreds of fallacies in that ancient book. Grandpa looked away from the book, his eyes were boundless, as if he had found himself at the end of his life for the first time.
People cheered, after all, this great secret recipe to save the world can benefit countless people from now on.
But admiration only lasted for a short time. An ancient tomb was excavated in the distance, in which many well-preserved ancient slips were buried, among which the manuscript of Jiashu was found. People can't wait to compare the A book compiled by their grandfather with the original, and the result is so shocking.
The family letters arranged by my grandfather are exactly the same as the ancient bamboo slips.
That is to say, with his amazing wisdom and perseverance, extensive knowledge and meticulous thinking, plus unusual intuition, my grandfather groped in the dark like a blind man touching an elephant and corrected all the mistakes made in the long circulation of letters from home.
Grandfather used his whole life's energy to create a miracle
But this miracle disappeared in the blink of an eye and was worthless. When the ancient books were unearthed, all my grandfather's efforts turned into futile bubbles. People only remember ancient books, but no one remembers his grandfather and his hard-working life.
At this point, my friend was silent for a long time.
Have real B medical books ever been unearthed in the ancient tomb? I asked
No friends answered.
I sighed deeply and said that if your grandfather had chosen B at the moment when he chose books, the result would be completely different.
My friend said that I asked grandpa the same question in his last days. Grandpa said that for me, Book A and Book B are the same. I spent my whole life explaining a truth: as long as people study a problem with all their strength, it is possible to get as close to its truth as possible.
Grandfather chose one of the two riddles given by God. He proved that people's efforts can guess the mystery of the ages.
That's enough.