In recent years, Wang Meng's favorite summer vacation life is in Beidaihe, writing in the morning and swimming in the afternoon. One day in the summer of about 1994, he passed by Beidaihe Seaside Park and saw a lot of people gathered at the gate of the park, bustling and coming and going, stretching their necks, tiptoeing and beating their chests. It was really lively. Wang Meng leaned down and saw that they were taking part in a lottery game. Wang Meng was attracted and stopped to watch. The more he watched it, the more interesting it became, and he was thinking. At the end of the novel "Assassination"-3322, Wang Meng introduced the game to the heroine Feng Manman through the mouth of the hero Li Men. Feng Manman is a sexy, beautiful and competitive woman. She and Li Men were college classmates in the 1950s. Li Men comes from a good family and has excellent academic performance. Feng Manman took a fancy to his bright future and fell in love with him. Unexpectedly, Li Men will be labeled as a rightist, so Feng Manman quietly invited him to the park, dedicated his first night to him, and then announced that he would break up with him. Feng Manman quickly became close to another classmate, Hou Zhijin, a popular cadre student, and ruthlessly exposed Li Men to draw a line. Li Men was sent to the frontier as a worker, Hou Zhijin stayed in school as a party and government cadre, and Feng Manman married Hou Zhijin. Feng Manman also recognized a senior cadre named michel platini, who helped Hou Zhijin achieve a smooth career and became a department secretary. After the Cultural Revolution, Li Men returned to the city. Because of the strong business, sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher, and I almost became the vice president. Hou Zhijin, who has no business, is increasingly unpopular. Feng Manman and Li Men became close. Feng Manman contacted the landlord's father who fled to the United States completely, left Hou Zhijin and managed to go to the United States. A few years later, Feng Manman returned to China and asked Li Men to meet him at Penang Cafe. Feng Manman, with gray hair and a depressed look, said to Li Men, "Let me ask you, do you believe in fate?" Li Men, full of hot pursuit, frowned. He thought for a moment and said, "I'll tell you a story about fate now." I will speak for a long time. Since last year, there has been a lottery game at the entrance of the park in the eastern suburbs of our city. The game operator takes out four kinds of glass balls, such as yellow, red, black and white, five each and twenty each. He put 20 balls in a pocket and let the players catch 10 with confidence. You don't have to pay to play this game. They just play games for free to attract customers. He stipulates that if the ratio of the four colors of the glass ball you catch is 5,500, you will get a generous reward ―― a Canon camera or a telescope made in Germany. If the ratio is 54 10 or 5320, the prize is also considerable: for example, a Marlboro cigarette. 44 1 1, and the prize is a key chain or a disposable lighter. If it's 432 1, there is no prize. On the other hand, you have to pay one yuan, just one yuan. And if the color ratio of the balls is 3322, for example, three black balls and three white balls. Two red balls, two yellow balls ―― and so on ―― you will be fined: pay five yuan. His prize has been laid out. Playing is free. Besides, at first glance, your chances of winning the prize seem to be greater than your chances of being punished: at least four proportions are that you will win the prize without losing everything, and the other proportion is that you will pay a little money. As the price of the game, a dollar is really nothing. Do you know how much a catty of pork is here? Among many possibilities, only one is the worst. You must pay a fine of five yuan. I watched it for a long time and it was really interesting: let's just say that at least seven out of ten people caught 3322. Too fair! There may be one or two people who are 432 1, which is quite fair. One and a half out of ten people may get a key chain lighter or something, and that is a very lucky person. As for winning the grand prize, it is possible in theory, but almost impossible in practice. In fact, this is only the simplest probability or probability problem, which can be calculated. I watched it for many days, and I finally understood that this is fate. Fate is actually a kind of mathematics, which is very accurate. Those who dream of winning the lottery without spending money, those who want to take advantage of it and try their luck everywhere, call their hands "smelly" and their bad luck when they catch a 3322. I don't know, all this was predicted by the peddler in advance. The number of balls in the four colors will not be much different. In other words, fate is actually the most just thing. So is God. His greatest achievement lies in the fairness and accuracy of mathematics. Fate is mathematics, and fate is the fairest. It is complaining that people have too little basic knowledge of mathematics. I ... have gone too far, do you understand what I mean? " "Plum, you shouldn't give me such a math class. You let me down! I hate you! " Mann is obviously very dissatisfied with his mathematical theory of equal fate. Li Men is really spoiled! She stopped talking and cried her eyes out. Plum's words, of course, are terrible. Feng Manman, who is sultry, daring and cautious, tries to take the upper hand at all stages of her life. When she was flushed, exhausted and unable to do so, she gave her such a math lesson from her first love and made such a judgment in her last life. What can Feng Manman say except tears? Wang Meng didn't take part in the bustling competition in Beidaihe Park. He has been there watching it. He saw that this was a scam, and he realized that a string of fate in life was in the pocket of the vendor. Leonardo da vinci painted The Last Supper, hiding Judas' face in the darkness. What stands out in the light is Judas' wallet tightly clutched in his right hand. It was the gold coin in that pocket that made Judas betray the life of Jesus, the son of God. You can't figure out whether Pocket has more power than God, or whether God and Pocket conspired to kill his beloved son. The world of mortals in Beidaihe Park can also be drawn: a group of men and women who are greedy for money and scold their hands; A few uneducated but clever little swindlers who set a big scam; Four-color beads jingle and change wonderful pockets. On the threshold of this scam, stood a philosopher who observed coldly. Philosophers observe and think about the divine revelation of God hidden in their pockets and the fate of mankind. Isn't this a good theme of classical painting? Half Raphael, half Bruegel. Wang Meng likes math. After Wang Meng became a great writer, his middle school math teacher still felt sorry for him, saying that if Wang Meng listened to him, his achievements would be much greater than literature. Wang Meng pondered 3322 repeatedly, which strengthened his interest in mathematics. If he doesn't succeed in math, he might as well find a fault and indulge in math. Let's ponder this 3322 with Wang Meng. Why 3322? If eight balls are required to be taken out, it is 2222; If it is twelve balls, it is 3333. Wang Meng pointed out that it would be wrong to think like that, only ten, only 3322. Because everyone's fate, although similar, is not exactly the same and unbalanced. Three and two are uneven; Black, white, red and yellow are also uneven. In other words, people's fate is different, but it is not too bad. And seven out of ten people are 3322, and two out of ten people are 432 1 or 4330, which is related to Wang Meng's observation of society. His experience is that in human affairs, extremes are a minority, absolute black and white, left and right are opposite, the enemy and I are clearly defined, right and wrong are a minority, and there are a lot of intermediate States, transitional States, disordered States, contradictory States, controllable States, plastic States and so on. Therefore, Wang Meng adheres to the principle of normality or common sense in dealing with things. "On a large number of questions that are not absolutely sure, the middle choice is desirable." This is different from Confucius' doctrine of the mean under roughly the same circumstances. But Wang Meng admitted the exception. After all, it is still one tenth of 4222, and 44 1 1, 4330 or even 5500 is possible. From June 5438 to October 2002 10, Wang Meng gave a speech at China Ocean University and once again mentioned the topic of 3322. He said that 5500 is almost impossible. If any student here finds 5500, I am willing to give him all my speech fees and most of my income. 1998 Wang Meng and I went to Singapore. Lin, president of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, said: The chances of winning the first prize in the lottery are similar to those of a plane crash. Wang Meng laughed and felt very interesting. Wang Meng later said that if a person's luck can reach 5500 and reach the level of plane crash, then no one can stop him and accept his fate. ..... Wang Meng has a lot to do with 3322. I remember the writer Zhang Chengzhi said that when he studied four-digit multiplication in mathematics, he felt a headache. In view of the fact that compared with Zhang Chengzhi in mathematics, the author belongs to the non-three non-two-one family, so I dare not follow Wang Meng to learn mathematics addiction. Wang Meng said: "This is an uncomplicated probability problem, and mathematicians should list formulas for it." I have heard several friends with mathematical background comment on Wang Meng's 3322, and they all agree that it is an uncomplicated probability problem, but so far, no one has listed a formula for it.