The author's explanation of the rules and regulations is as clear and not boring as Sima Qian's "Book of Rites" and "Book of Music". When talking about imperial examinations, taxes, and the military system, one or two stories can always be used to bring out the whole picture, allowing readers to understand the logic of the system unconsciously. This ability to explain profound things in simple terms is exactly the modern practice of Tai Shigong's "understanding the changes of ancient and modern times".
Folks! Old guys! Dear friends who are passing by, don't miss it! Today Mr. Fu Shuiheng is not acting as a wise man or an old uncle, but as a "melon seller" - selling himself and boasting! But Lao Wang is really bragging about selling melons. Lao Fu, what I want to praise today is not the melons, but five good stories that will make you laugh until you burp, cry until you wipe your nose, and even smack it after thinking about it! --- [Part 1: "Exit from Mainstream Life"] --The coffin board can no longer hold it down! Have you ever thought about waking up one morning and finding that your life is like a set of preset programs: going to school, working, getting married, having a baby, paying off the mortgage, and you can't make a mistake in any step, and if you make a mistake, you will be reported an error by the system? Fang Kele and Lin Shen, two living treasures, one from Tsinghua University and the other from Fudan University, were surprised to find a copy of "Original Heart" in the coffin of their old uncle's house. From then on, they embarked on the road of "quitting the standard life template". Guess what? The "ghost hand" sticking out of the coffin frightened Lin Shen so much that he fainted on the spot. As a result, the old uncle opened the coffin board and took a look - Oops! The reed hens of Lao Wang's house next door are squatting inside and laying eggs! How can you hold back your laughter at such absurdity? But the story gets more complicated the further you look at it - when Fang Kele took pictures of the contents of the book into the computer and found that it turned out to be a set of "thinking uninstaller programs" that are more sophisticated than AI, you can't help but ask yourself: Is the life I live every day chosen by me, or is it a program written by someone? --- [Part 2: "Exit Cost Calculation"] ——I was laid off, but I did the math and found that I made forty-seven times! Lin Shen lay in the coffin for three days and three nights. When he woke up, his first words were not "I'm starving to death" but "I figured it out." He quantified all the "quit" choices he made since childhood - not learning to paint, not falling in love early, not going to teach, not resigning - into cost data. Guess what? The cost of staying in the mainstream system is a full forty-seven times higher than the cost of exiting! The two darlings came together and created a small program called "Exit Cost Calculator" to help people calculate whether it is worthwhile to quit their job, marriage, or group of chickens. As a result, the number of users exceeded 5,000 on the first day of launch, and people even searched for "exit the earth"! But old uncle Shui Heng, holding a plate of taro buns, only said one sentence - "Some accounts are not calculated that way. The accounts of a grapefruit tree can be calculated by counting how many fruits it bears, but not how many sunrises and moonsets it has seen." These words are enough for you to sip a pot of tea. --- [Part 3: "Quiting the Aid Organization"] -- Thirty "losers" sat under the grapefruit tree and discovered that they were not defective products. Fang Kele and Lin Shen discovered that helping people calculate exit costs was not enough—many people figured it out but still didn't dare to move. Why? Because of fear! Afraid of being treated as an outlier, afraid of being said to be "not working hard enough", afraid that I am really a defective product. So the two live treasures started a "mutual aid group for those who quit" in the yard of Fu Shuiheng's house. Thirty people came in the first session - a former investment banker who made millions but couldn't laugh, an old man who didn't learn to live for himself until he was seventy, and a little girl who was scolded by her whole family as a loser but who wanted to open a bakery. They sat around under the grapefruit tree and passed around a colorfully painted bamboo tube to whoever got it said it. In that scene, there was crying, laughter, silence and hugs. Lao Chen said something to silence the audience - "Every morning when I'm driving and stuck on the viaduct, I'm thinking, it would be better if I had a myocardial infarction now." Did these words strike a chord in your heart? The fourth phase of the mutual aid association was held, and 600 people came. But the old uncle asked three questions in the main room, keeping the two treasures awake all night. What are these three questions? See for yourself. --- [Part 4: "The Gathering of Those Who Quit"] -- Six hundred people who "didn't want to work anymore" poured into Chixi Village and burned bonfires all night. From a mutual aid association of 30 people to a national conference of 600 people, the large square outside the Chixi Village ancestral hall was almost collapsed by people. Quit-outs from all over the country drove their cars and took high-speed trains into this small mountain village that might not even be found on the map - some came from Xinjiang, some came from Hainan, some were carrying backpacks, some were pushing strollers, and some were wearing Hanfu and holding selfie sticks for live broadcasts. Lao Wang's Red Bull was sold out three times, so Fu Shuiheng got up at 4:30 in the morning to steam 600 taro buns. The conference has no guest seats, no VIPs, and no flow chart. It is just a colorful bamboo tube that is passed from morning to night. Some people came on stage and cried, some people came on stage and laughed, and some people came on stage and said, "I quit the diet and ate a whole tiramisu, and it was the best thing I've ever eaten in my life." At night, a bonfire was lit, and six hundred people said to each other "You are not alone" in the light of the fire. Lin Shen said something by the campfire that Fang Kele will remember for a lifetime - "It turns out that we are not defective products, we were just stuffed into incompatible packaging boxes." Is this sentence worth spending an evening reading? ---[Part 5: "The Gathering of Those Who Quit" (Sequel)] --After the conference ended, the real story had just begun. Six hundred people went back to their original city, their original life, and their original perspective. How long can the warmth I feel in Chixi Village last? Fang Kele and Lin Shen knew that they could not just rely on annual conferences to inject blood, but had to let mutual aid associations grow into the soil of various places. But the problem is - no money, no one, and no fees. Meng Zhiyuan, the person who engages in social impact investment, is here again. Does he really agree with the quitter movement, or does he regard the quitters as new leeks? Shen Zhiyi - the woman who wanted to "exit her memory" - what exactly was written in her USB flash drive that made Fang Kele and Lin Shen silent all night after reading it? Fu Shuiheng was steaming a new pot of taro buns in the kitchen, and said slowly: "What you quit is not something you think about with your brain, it's something you live with your life." The old man has lived for seventy years and doesn't speak much, but every sentence he says is like a taro bun buried in rice - it looks simple, but when you bite it open, it's full of fillings. --- Dear friends! These five stories are now available simultaneously on the following platforms: 📱 Tomato Novels 🎵 Tomato Music 📰 Toutiao Express Edition 📰 Toutiao 🌐 Wukong Browser 🥚 Danhua 📚 Changdu Novel Open any platform and search for "Mainstream Life Exit" or "Exit Cost Calculation", and the story will jump right in front of you! Each article is carefully cooked by Mr. Fu Shuiheng - not chicken soup, but old fire soup simmered slowly on a wood-burning stove. It has the sweet aroma of taro buns, the fragrance of grapefruit trees, and the earthy fragrance of the soil in Chixi Village. Special reminder to everyone! Be careful when searching - only the author named "User 26182811" is our own author Mr. Fu Shuiheng! Don't look for the wrong one. If you look for the wrong one, what you see is not our old uncle and two living treasures. Then don't blame the old man for not saying hello in advance! Don't you think it's enough after watching it? Haven't seen enough of Fang Keke and Lin Shen's tossing? Still want to know what shocking secret is hidden in Shen Zhiyi's USB flash drive? Then hurry up and blow the charge horn for Mr. Fu Shuiheng! In the comment area, people shouted "Old man, keep writing". As soon as the old man heard the horn sound, he immediately picked up the keyboard and continued working! The louder you shout, the faster I write! The more urgent you are, the more trouble Fang Keke and Lin Shen will have! --- Finally, Mr. Fu Shuiheng stood under the old camphor tree in Chixi Village, leaning on his flowery bamboo tube, and bowed deeply to all the relatives on this side of the mobile phone screen. "Thank you dear friends for taking time out of your busy schedule to read Lao Fu's humble work. Your time is the most precious thing, and it makes Lao Fu feel warm in his heart if you can share some of it with Lao Fu's stories. Lao Fu has no culture and won't write those fancy things. He will only write about the people he has met and passed by for most of his life. You can taste it and mix it into the story. You decide if it tastes good. If it tastes good, the steamer on the stove will always be hot. If it doesn't taste good, you can tell me and I will improve it. Thank you all! --- [Mr. Fu Shuiheng's handwritten letter of recommendation, word for word, dear fellows, give it a try, search it, take a look, have fun!