31. Peel off the cocoon
At the moment when Xue Wei's words fell, a cold air outside whimpered through the crack in the window, like an evil ghost stirring the candle we had just lit.
I frowned and said, "This nursery rhyme sounds like a person narrating, time, place, people, and things ......."
Xue Wei bowed his head and said to me with a serious face: "What did this passage I read make you think of?"
Without thinking, I said: "Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring"!" pondered for a moment, and then said: "At least the literal meaning is a bit similar, it should mean that a person lost his way at sea, but because of the waves that day, he was taken to an island, where he was in a coma for a few days, and the islanders warmly received him. The man was very happy, but when he saw that the people on the island all had a childlike face, he had doubts...... "I paused, and then said a terrifying thought: "That person will have bad intentions, it should be because of the word 'Tongyan' in the nursery rhyme you read, in ancient times, some people were greedy for money, and some people longed for immortality, and Tongyan may mean immortality in that person's eyes." ”
Baocai touched his chin, sighed meaningfully, and took my words: "Later, the kind and lovely islander gave the man a piece of white jade, hoping that he would keep the secret of the island's existence, but the man still brought a lot of people back, their purpose was not gold and silver treasures, but the immortal law, the immortal law said" He Huo Ran opened his eyes wide: "Could it be ...... Could it be some kind of immortality?"
"That's right!" Chen Yu thought of something, stood up and scared us half to death, but he didn't care and turned his burning gaze at us: "Do you remember what Zhang Banxian said, saying that it is Immortal Island may mean the realm of eternal life, and there may be a group of people who are eternally eighteen years old alive on that island." It's amazing!" He looked up and sighed, pondered for a moment, and then said, "And then the islanders refused to speak about the immortal technique and were wiped out?"
Xue Wei frowned slightly: "The previous words are easy to understand, but what puzzles me is the second half, what is the identity of the person who narrates this nursery rhyme? and what does the door of death mean?"
I had an idea in my heart, so I blurted out, "Dead man!"
When I said this, Xue Wei suddenly turned his gaze to me, and his eyes were like a stone thrown in a calm wave of water, causing ripples, and he muttered: "Dead man ......"
I nodded and said, "This passage was translated by you, Weizi, and the original words may be more intuitive, but from the nursery rhyme you stated, you can still hear something important." I analyze it sentence by sentence, I don't know if it's so reasonable. ”
Chen Yu looked at me and said seriously, knowing that I must have discovered something, and said hurriedly: "Why do you say so much with the prefix, go straight to the topic." ”
I glanced at Chen Yu and said, "Saying these words is to remind you not to interject and let me finish first." ”
Chen Yu was eager for me to crack something at this time, and he didn't say much, I said solemnly: "We have already analyzed the front, and the back will start with 'all the people will die in it, and all kinds of hatred will be difficult to erase', this sentence Lao Yu has already explained, literally speaking, people in Xiandao may die tragically because of the persecution of outsiders, and the matter refers to the Gu Xiu incident in Loulan." ”
"I've just said this, it's nothing special, you just need to explain the rest directly. Chen Yu said dissatisfied.
I said, "I know you're in a hurry, have you read this sentence carefully a few times, and you haven't heard anything?"
"What else does it mean?" Bao Cai was puzzled, and read it a few times, but still didn't feel anything wrong.
I saw that they couldn't figure out anything, so I sighed and said, "Alas...... Don't you have any doubts about 'all kinds of hatred is indelible'?"
Chen Yu was puzzled: "Is there anything special?"
I said, "This sentence is actually a statement by a person, not in the form of a third person, which means that this person may also be a party, not a bystander." ”
The sound of Baocai swallowing saliva was clearly audible, and he retorted, "This ...... How can you conclude that it's a person's statement, rather than a person's objective storytelling?"
I patiently explained: "The key point of this matter lies in the two words that appear in the latter sentence - 'child soul' and 'old man', these two words are talking about a father and son, combined with the previous words, if I understand correctly, this 'child soul' is one of the 'people' at that time, and the difficult words to understand lie in this 'old man', this old man is in the first person, representing 'me'? or, as you said, a noun depicted by the bystander who narrates the incident." If it is a noun, then there is nothing to explore in this sentence, it just means that a person died miserably at that time, and then his father, who died earlier than him, was not at peace in the coffin, and there was a kind of sadness that 'white-haired people and black-haired people' went to Huangquan. ”
"What if it's the first person?" asked Baocai.
With a heavy face, I said with a serious face, "Then it's weirder." ”
"What do you mean?" asked me.
I said in a low voice: "I'll read the paragraph of 'child soul' in a different word, don't you hear it's a little weird." ”
Everyone nodded confusedly, I looked at the faint candle flame, like a careful person step by step, but inexplicably there was a trace of analysis fanaticism, I read: "The soul wanders and complains of suffering, I am in the coffin and sleeps for a long time, greed rises high and touches the door of death, and releases my soul to the world, and the secluded fairy island becomes a cemetery. ”
When it came to the end, everyone took a deep breath, Xue Wei thought thoughtfully, and then raised his head and said, "What do you mean, the person who circulated this passage is the person who calls himself an old man in the nursery rhyme?"
I bowed my head and said calmly: "Because you said earlier that the voice of the person who recites nursery rhymes is like a child, I have a preconceived idea that those words are simple nursery rhymes. But after careful reading, I found that this is a person's statement, like a diary, and found that this key point is the words "child soul" and "old man", if this sentence is removed, in fact, the article can still be connected, don't you think this sentence is very abrupt in the article?
The people died in it, and all hatred could not be erased.
Greed rises to touch the door of death, releasing ghosts and squatting the world.
The secluded fairy island has become a cemetery, and only repentance and good accept evildoers.
The revenge is stable, and the flow from generation to generation does not stop.
After hearing this, Xue Wei pondered for a moment, raised his head and said to me: "Perhaps, Liuzi, you are right, this passage is carefully read with ten thousand hatreds, and the words that echo this hatred are the old man's - 'difficult to sleep forever', the author died because of the tragic death of his compatriots, and the strange thing is that the old man should be a person who died a long time ago, a person who went earlier than the massacre." ”
I nodded and said: "Before digging the grave twice, I only believed in the cycle of cause and effect, evil has evil retribution, how could I believe that after death, there will be a ghost of resentment wandering the world, there is that kind of unfathomable evil ghost power, of course, my explanation is completely imaginary, it may be a bit far-fetched, but ......" I raised my eyes: "In this statement, there are two other keywords that make me feel that my inference is very likely to be true. ”
Xue Wei said: "You mean 'Death Gate', right?"