In Lucerne, Switzerland, another thing angered Tolstoy. It was a cloudy night and the moon got into the clouds. Tolstoy had just returned to his hotel room from the outside when melodious piano music and singing came. When he came down, he saw a wandering singer singing a touching song while playing the lyre under the balcony of a hotel. Some well-dressed ladies and rich people in dazzling white collars are sitting around smiling and admiring. The wandering singer sang for a long time and finally raised his hat in the hope of getting some money. Tolstoy quickly took out the money to him. However, all those rich people restrained their faces, and no one wanted to reward a student. Tolstoy was filled with indignation. He saw that the singer was sad and left angrily, so he let out a cry of excitement and ran after him. He invited the singer to the restaurant and ordered food and champagne to entertain him. At this time, some people in the restaurant stood by and smiled. Tolstoy was furious and thought it was "an event that today's historians should describe with a thousand-year-old pen." So he immediately wrote the short story Lucerne. The novel angrily exposes the brutality and moral inferiority of bourgeois "civilization", and at the same time shows that the writer completely denies the progressive significance of modern civilization and describes the weakness of life from abstract moral concepts.