清人周容写过一则笔记,题目叫《小港渡者》,讲的是一个颇耐人寻味的故事。一年冬天,周容要从一个叫小港的地方进入镇海县城,吩咐小书童用木板捆扎了一大摞书跟随着。眼看太阳就要落山了,距离镇海县城大约还有两里远,他便问一个在河边摆渡的人:“等我们赶到县城,还赶得上城门开着吗?”那渡者仔细打量了小书童一番说:“若是慢慢走,城门还会开着,若是惶急赶路,怕是就关上了。” Qing Ren Zhou Rong wrote a note titled “Little Harbor crossing”, is about a very interesting story. In the winter of one year, Zhou Rong entered the town of Zhenhai from a place called Xiaogang and instructed the little boy to bundle up a large pile of books with wooden boards. Seeing the sun is going downhill, about two miles from Zhenhai County, he asked a ferryman by the river: “so we rushed to the county, but also catch the city gate open it?” Something about the little children said: “If you walk slowly, the city gate will be open, if the panic hurry, fear is closed. ”