22. Invisible Wall (7)
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Ideology can be very simple or complex.
But in any case, it is really difficult to change the prejudices that have accumulated over time.
"So you have to work hard, and you can only get their approval if you work harder than they do, and do better than the elf children. There is no other way out. ”
"More effort?"
The mouth shouting the candy cube gave a vague response, and Roland suddenly failed to understand Li Lin's request.
It's not about doing it as well, it's doing it better than the elves of the same age, and it's a must.
"A high level of strength can shape a clear outcome more quickly than a long debate that no one can convince. ”
Li Lin's somewhat authoritarian, strength-only explanation made Roland frown, the boy has always disliked his adoptive father's highly realistic, almost cold style of doing things.
"Only those who have strength are willing to listen to what they say, and those who don't have strength and only rely on one mouth...... Who takes them seriously?"
In fact, Li Lin would like to use some people in his world history, such as Dr. Sun, a ginseng prostitute who relies on a mouth, an unreliable companion, and a foreigner with ill intentions to carry out the revolution most of the time, as a negative teaching material, and then extend the aphorism of a certain Taizu "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" for comparison, but that is really too off-topic, and it has no obvious effect on educating Roland.
"I don't think this kind of practice can change the hearts of others, this is simply to force others to bow to your power, right?"
Roland did not doubt that Li Lin's suggestion could have an effect, but there was a huge gap between his tough approach and his character.
"Since the conflict is caused by a lack of understanding between each other, it is necessary to deepen communication. The young man imitated Roland's tone, and then sneered: "Sure enough, it's the solution you will come up with, forget it...... If you're willing to think so, do what you want. I'll just warn you one more thing. ”
Giving up the argument, Li Lin took off the towel again and put it in cold water to scrub it. , fold it and put it on Roland's forehead.
"It's still hard to trust each other. It's even more difficult to establish an equal and trusting relationship with elves, and you're just a child, how can you break the barriers between race and history?"
As long as humans and elves do not explore a harmonious relationship between them, strife will continue to occur. Until it developed to the point of liquidating a qiē with war. False propositions that cannot be understood by each other will continue, and no matter what you do, it will be meaningless.
"But why don't you try to do it?"
The red-faced boy turned his face and stared at Li Lin resolutely.
"I want to give it a try. No matter how unlikely. ”
"Do it even if you know you're going to fail?"
"I don't want to do nothing and just live like this. Rather than regret it afterwards, I'd rather try to do it. ”
"The decision is yours, and I won't interfere. ”
"I want the elves to know that humans aren't all bad, and that you can sit down and talk about ......"
The nerve-soothing agent incorporated into the mints began to take effect, and Roland felt his vision blur. The outline of Li Lin's face gradually blurred. The stubborn boy who was unwilling to fall asleep muttered in a daze:
"Sing lullabies...... I won't sleep without singing lullabies......"
"What a troublesome little ghost...... Sleep, sleep, my dear darling......"
Before falling asleep, Roland heard a lullaby, in the midst of a pentatonic voice. The man's slender fingers were inserted into his hair and scratched, and in the bitter sigh of "what a little adult", Roland, who felt his favorite stroke of his head, sank into sleep.
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"Hey, hey, do you hear me? I'm going to try to make the elves understand humanity? I thought he was a vase kid, but now he doesn't seem to be a very daring person, just a fool who doesn't know what to do. ”
Away from the clinging wall, Freya spreads out her hands and returns to the table, gathering the scattered pokers on the table in a skilful shuffling technique reminiscent of a casino dealer.
The Defence Force had a clear ban on gambling and alcoholism, and the gendarmes with crescent-shaped nameplates on their chests often raided the barracks, and when they encountered a guy with a problem with his lifestyle, the chain dogs were always happy to invite him to the gendarmerie for a chat.
The people in this room are all high-ranking officers of the General Staff, and the chain dog is not too bad to think about coming to them, but with the consciousness of being an example of the army and the reserved cultivation of high-ranking officers, no one wants to waste time and money on finding excitement.
They were all thinking about the conversation between Roland and Li Lin now, and the poorly soundproofed dormitory walls transmitted the conversation between the precocious adoptive father and son to the officers in the next room.
Freya had finished shuffling the cards, stacking the cards face up into several long dragons.
I don't know when he got into the habit of having to play a game of solitaire to stimulate his mind when thinking about troublesome problems, and the wild cat-like elf girl dealt cards and carved a mocking mean smile into the corners of her mouth.
"In this situation, what kind of reconciliation do you say, it's really a child, the age of dreaming...... But since the colonel said let him handle it himself, there is no problem. The little ghost likes reconciliation, so let him carefully study the way to reconciliation. Anyway, when his generation grows up, the final judgment will already begin. ”
"Yes, the next generation will be the generation that has nothing to do with war, and they don't need to think about war and anything like that......"
Brunhill leaned against the wall, rarely identifying with Freya, but the two had very different starting points.
"Our mission is to usher in a new era, one free of war, discrimination, corruption, tyranny, and then for the next generation. ”
"Sister, it's good to have ideals, but you can't mix it with reality, right?"
Now that the cards in her hand had been dealt, Freya turned over the first row of cards, her fingers moving like a work of art.
"If the spark of strife can be extinguished so easily, what is the history of the world for more than a thousand years?
"What do you want to say?"
"Anything that touches on race can be a never-ending nuisance, and even if we one day swallow this country and establish the new kingdom of Gilmania, the humans will take action against us, and the orcs will probably follow...... As a result, we can't talk about security until we have produced all the overt, potential threats, right?" )