The sea breeze taught me many things - taught me how to see the ebb and flow of the tide, taught me how to see the cracks in the tidal flat, taught me how to see how a wall can surround a person. But the last thing the sea breeze taught me was the simplest thing——
The wind doesn't have to be salty.
The mountain breeze is not salty because it is slow in the mountains - so slow that the salt cannot settle. The sea breeze is salty because it's so fast that the salt doesn't have time to melt and blows onto people's faces. If it is too fast, profit will run away and righteousness will not be able to keep up. A righteousness that cannot keep up is not righteousness, but empty words - empty words floating in the sea breeze of Yueqing, and they cannot float far because the wind is too strong and nothing can stand.
The mountain breeze is not salty. This is what the sea breeze taught me - only when you eat too much salt will you know how salty is. You don't have to go back to the mountains to stop the salty weather. Once you leave the salt fields, the wind will cool down.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
