Chapter 251: A Bunch of Nonsense

Li Ye joining the debate team of the '82 Economics Department made Zhen Rongrong, Pu Xianghe, and Sun Xianjin, who didn't have much confidence, feel very encouraged.

After all, compared to the old student teams of the '80, '81, and even '79 grades, Zhen Rongrong and the others were really much worse when it came to debating.

And Li Ye is an outlier in the '82 Economics Department, because he often pairs with old students like Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin, throwing out a "crooked theory" from time to time, always leading people into the ditch.

So Li Ye's reputation as a "famous debater" is inseparable from his skill of "not taking the usual path."

But when the lottery results for the debate competition came out, the '82 Economics debate team, which was already a bit transparent, instantly lost its confidence.

"We are too unlucky. Not only did we draw the most controversial debate topic, but we also drew the affirmative side? How can we win this?"

"Affirmative or negative side doesn't matter, but the problem is... I don't know what love is? How can we debate this?"

"Li Ye, what should we do? This time we are all relying on you."

Li Ye said with a wry smile, "What do you mean by all relying on me? How can I alone talk over four mouths?"

"Eww~~"

"Eww~~"

Everyone despised in unison. Everyone is so familiar, who doesn't know that you, Li Ye, have a family?

If you want to say who knows more about love, if it's not you, Li Ye, then who is it?

Li Ye was a bit embarrassed, so he had to reach out and take the lottery result handed over by Zhen Rongrong, seeing the debate topic on it—Love is selfish (Affirmative).

Originally, the debate topic about "love" had been directly "killed."

School is a place for you to learn. Who let you fall in love?

But where there is suppression, there is resistance.

If you say that in the hearts of university students in the eighties, "serving the motherland" is the first, then the desire for "love" must be the second.

Don't be stubborn; if you are stubborn, you have a problem.

So under the strong resistance of countless classmates, there was finally such a debate topic about love during the school's selection stage.

But looking at the title of the debate topic, Li Ye felt full of malicious intent, just like an old guy who had seen through the world, revealing a cunning and proud sinister smile at a group of little kids whose hair hadn't grown yet.

Come on, prove it to me. Love is selfish.

So when they knew there was this debate topic, no one wanted to draw the affirmative side, avoiding being drowned by the contempt of everyone at the scene.

Look at the endless love poems appearing here, full of beauty, nobility, and purity. How could it be mixed with such bad ingredients as selfishness?

Although Li Ye knew very well that love is indeed quite selfish.

But can this be said directly?

If he said it, not to mention others, Watching Wen Leyu would bite him hard when no one was around.

"We can't debate head-on with the negative side on this debate topic. We must set an imperceptible trap, pull the negative side to a wrong battlefield, and have a debate with them that is favorable to us..."

Li Ye sorted out his thoughts, took a piece of paper, drew and drew, and assigned tasks.

"Everyone go find information separately, especially the historical records in the process of the transition from public ownership to private ownership in the primitive period... By the way, I heard that someone changed in Zhu Yonghe's debate team. Who knows what the situation is?"

"I know,"

Pu Xianghe said: "The newly changed debater is named Lu Gang, from the '81 Physics Department. He was in the same middle school as me before, but one grade higher than me. He is very smart, has a good tongue, and is unforgiving..."

Pu Xianghe is a Beijinger and has the characteristics of a Beijing chatterbox. He said a lot about Lu Gang in one breath,

although there were some complaints about Lu Gang's temper in his words, he didn't deny that Lu Gang was a genuine "academic god."

Note, it's an academic god, even more powerful than a top student.

After introducing Lu Gang's academic god attributes, Pu Xianghe pursed his lips and lowered his voice: "And this Lu Gang has already talked to two partners,

so he is very good at love and is very good at writing love letters. Can you hold on, Li Ye?"

"Pu Xianghe, what are you saying? What does Lu Gang talking to two partners have to do with Li Ye?"

Zhen Rongrong was immediately unhappy. It's fine that Li Ye has a girlfriend, but always teasing him with this makes people feel sour grapes.

But Li Ye's focus was completely different. He said in surprise: "Lu Gang? Which Lu Gang? Are his parents auto parts workers?"

Pu Xianghe said in surprise: "Right, how do you know, Li Ye?"

Li Ye was stunned for several seconds before saying: "Oh, I don't remember who I heard it from. He does study very well."

It's confirmed. This Lu Gang is the Lu Gang Li Ye knows.

This brother is a "tough guy."

He changed the impression of Western academia on "kind, enthusiastic, gentle" students from the Central Plains with his own strength.

Lu Gang graduated from Jing University in '85 and studied abroad in the Lighthouse. In '91, he held a gun and biubiued five people, then ended himself.

These five people included his doctoral supervisor, the university vice president, the department head, and an excellent doctoral student who also came from the Central Plains and had completed his doctoral thesis defense.

Lu Gang's behavior allowed some people with ulterior motives overseas to seize the opportunity to frantically attack the Central Plains, which was currently trying hard to integrate into the world, causing an extremely bad influence.

Li Ye watched a movie called "Dark Matter" in his previous life, only then did he understand this physics genius from Jing University, and then in the process of searching, he learned about more amazing Jing University students, almost affecting his worldview.

The eighties were not completely an era of quiet years, pure and flawless.

Li Ye previously thought that university students in the eighties were more idealistic, reasonable, energetic, gentle, humble, and knowledgeable than university students in later generations.

But in fact, not completely.

Students in later generations knew how to handle interpersonal relationships in high school, had their own understanding of "philosophy of life," and basically all possessed the concept of "don't force others."

But university students in '83, perhaps because of the suppressed period of the past few decades, suddenly let go too much, so some people's

After arriving at Jingda, Li Ye had been observing in secret; fortunately, the vast majority of students were very friendly and kind, and the occasional extremist was merely suffering from a mild case of "self-righteousness."

For example, Zhu Yonghe believed that Li Ye was best at searching for information and organizing debate arguments, so he wanted to absorb Li Ye into the debate team, taking it for granted that he would arrange for Li Ye to do the work of searching for information to bolster the team's strength.

This made sense logically; after all, a formal debate team didn't just have the four debaters on the surface, but also many support staff behind the scenes, and Li Ye did indeed have a huge advantage in information organization.

Li Ye had a biological hard drive; if he claimed second place in searching for information, no one could claim first.

But Li Ye wasn't willing!

I am very good at searching for information, but I'm not bad at debating either!

Students decades later all had a mindset—why should I listen to you?

And Zhu Yonghe believed—I am right, why shouldn't you listen to me?

A similar situation happened with He Dazhuang—Li Ye, your learning attitude is problematic, why won't you accept our criticism?

The more excellent a young person was, the more self-confident he became, and the more he believed others should follow his opinions.

Conversely, the more excellent and proud a young person was, the less willing he was to follow others' arrangements; they didn't even listen to their mom and dad, so who did you think you were?

Which student admitted to Jingda hadn't been the protagonist of their school before?

Were they supporting roles content to be directed by others?

Even Li Ye was the type who believed "my turf, I call the shots"!

This was also why many people argued endlessly during their student days, but after being beaten down by society, they learned to laugh it off.

And according to a large amount of information released in later generations, this Lu Gang was a very self-righteous person.

If he acted as a debater in a competition, he naturally had advantages, but also flaws.

On Saturday's debate selection, multiple matches were held simultaneously; compared to several powerful debate teams, Li Ye and his group were not "seeded players," so they were arranged in a small classroom.

However, there were more students coming to watch than any other debate match, to the point where the classroom aisles were packed, and many people were standing in the corridor outside the door.

It was evident how deeply "love" was rooted in people's hearts.

More importantly, in Jingda, where the gender ratio was severely imbalanced, this debate match attracted a large number of female students, and for some reason, the generous male students were all squeezed outside or in the aisles, and the seats inside the classroom were almost entirely occupied by female students.

Who could stand this?

Zhu Yonghe's debate team was greatly encouraged, looking at Li Ye and the others opposite them, with the air of "pour a bowl of wine, watch me cut down these chickens and dogs."

Zhen Rongrong and Sun Xianjin were not to be outdone, glaring at Zhu Yonghe and the others in an attempt to suppress them with momentum.

But Li Ye said in a low voice, "Why are you all so spirited? Don't you understand showing weakness to the enemy?"

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Zhen Rongrong couldn't help but whisper, "Li Ye, you are truly treacherous."

Li Ye lowered his head and said like a mosquito buzzing, "Don't lean so close to me, thank you."

Zhen Rongrong was stunned, and only then did she understand.

In the middle of the first row inside the classroom, Watching Wen Leyu sat upright, her two big, watery eyes glancing over, and every small movement was in full view.

"Now, the debate begins; please have the affirmative debater speak first."

The teacher presiding over the debate announced the start, and Pu Xianghe, the first debater on Li Ye's side, stood up.

"Teachers, fellow students, good afternoon; our argument is... love is selfish."

"Ooh~~"

A clamor of female voices erupted in the classroom, expressing dissatisfaction with Pu Xianghe.

Pu Xianghe lowered his head shyly, showing the nervousness of a freshman.

"Before the Yao and Shun era in our country, primitive tribes were under a system of public ownership; people had no private property, and all hunting harvests and financial materials belonged to everyone in the tribe."

"And at that time, there were no fixed partners between men and women; they only paired up temporarily for the sake of the tribe's reproduction, so naturally, there was no love."

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Pu Xianghe had only said a few sentences, and the classroom went quiet.

Whether it was the opposing debate team or the audience in the classroom, no one understood what these things he said had to do with the debate topic.

But Pu Xianghe's words were very ear-catching.

What did he mean by pairing up temporarily for the sake of the tribe's reproduction? Wasn't that just not knowing who the father of the child was?

"But one day, a certain clever person felt that the prey they had obtained through hard work should be given priority to their own children and women, and the remainder should be handed over to the tribe for distribution."

"In order to ensure that their property would be passed down to their own blood descendants, temporary partners turned into fixed partners, and families composed of parents and children appeared one after another."

"Because of human selfishness, families appeared; because of families, there was blood kinship."

"And because of the need for blood kinship, there was loyalty between men and women and vows of love, never to be separated for a lifetime..."

"Therefore, love is selfish; from the moment private ownership appeared, love was labeled as selfish, and it can never be washed away."

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Everyone was stunned.

Are you doing math problems?

Because of this, therefore that; because a equals b, and b equals c, then you prove a equals c?

But that's what debating is!

I just need to throw out my proof, and you just need to refute it!

Everyone looked at Zhu Yonghe's opposing side.

Zhu Yonghe and several debaters looked at each other; they had prepared countless materials, even the great poems of world-famous poets, ready to prove that love is selfless and great, but now you're playing the origin of private ownership with me?

"They are taking a shortcut; it must be that Li Ye's sophistry theory again."

"Indeed, that Li Ye has played this trick many times; it seems like he's not taking the right path, but it hides traps that are hard to guard against."

"Then what should we do? Directly refute their quibbling?"

"No, everyone hurry and analyze where their trap is."

The debaters on Zhu Yonghe's side were all very cautious, constantly thinking about what possible traps and tricks were in what Pu Xianghe said.

But the third debater, Lu Gang, who had just joined, looked at Li Ye and the others with contempt and slammed the table with a "bang."

"Simply nonsense!"

(End of chapter)