Chapter 40: Cause and Effect III
"Do you believe in the Mandate of Heaven?"
She didn't expect to be asked a question suddenly, and was about to answer, but found that this was not a question that could be ended by simply answering yes or no, and after thinking about it, she said, "I...... People who are originally from the Tianshan Mountains should naturally believe in the Mandate of Heaven. ”
"Just should?"
Ying Qi raised her head, glanced at the woman in white in front of her, and slowly lowered her eyes. In my ears, there seemed to be a girl's crisp voice, and it seemed to return to the Tianshan Mountains that year, the cool spring was thin, the morning mist was filled, and a girl fell down from the wall, her hair was all stained with grass and mud and broken leaves, embarrassed, but still in the morning sun, smiling at herself.
The smile was bright and dazzling, like the sun, which made him a little distracted, and he only secretly clenched his fists, forcing himself to return to his usual cold appearance. Then he thought that if the wall she had just climbed was not too high, or if the grass and mud were not soft enough and there were a few sharp stones, then he would not be able to stand here and talk to her, but would send her to the medical maid, and he felt that the girl was really troublesome, and the naughty girl was even more troublesome, and his brows were furrowed, and his face was already full of anger.
But the girl in front of her completely ignored the anger on her face, and still smiled: "Are you also alone? Coincidentally, I am also alone." ”
He obeyed the words, so he didn't respond, waiting for the girl to continue, and sure enough, the girl quickly spoke, "We are so fateful, it is better to be brothers." ”
She said so naturally, as if she was just talking about such a good thing as the weather, he suspected that he had heard it wrong, and saw the embarrassed girl sitting on the grass and mud reaching out to him, as if asking for help, hoping that he could pull her, he didn't think much about it, he felt troublesome in his heart, and he still couldn't bear to see her continue to be embarrassed, and finally stretched out his hand, but he didn't expect it, but he was careless, and he was tricked.
"Shake hands and promise me?Okay, we will be good brothers in the future, so we don't need to say anything polite!" The girl took his hand and stood up, patted him on the shoulder, I don't know if the trick succeeded, and the smile looked brighter and brighter.
"When did I promise you!"
He was a little anxious, and he was denied it, but the girl's face was instantly closer, and the long eyelashes blinked with the bright eyes, as if brushing on his cheeks, he subconsciously retreated, and he tripped over something under his feet, he saw that his body was unstable, and he reached out to grab the trunk of the tree on the side, but before he could touch the trunk, he was grabbed by a soft and warm thing, which was a hand, a girl's hand.
"Look, don't be duplicitous, aren't you holding my hand again? Then it's settled, burning incense and kneeling down is the red tape of the world, it's too troublesome, you are so much taller than me, even if you are older, your brother and my brother. Just as the sun was rising, and the gods were awake, you and I were brothers today. ”
The girl said quickly, "By the way, my name is Wu Yan, what is your name?"
"I'm ......"
"Qiu Yingqi, I've heard of you, you are the Tianshan Guard, the youngest and most famous. ”
Without giving him a chance to refuse, the girl interrupted him with a smile: "Okay, I shook hands again, I swore an oath, under the nose of the gods, I am not allowed to regret it, and I am not allowed to tell the great elder about my skipping school over the wall, you are the elder brother, you must protect your brother." ”
Presumably, this is what she intended. He had seen her from afar a few times outside the walls, but she felt very alarmed, like a fairy in the mountains and forests, and fleeting, leaving him only some branches of a spearfish, the thick ash of a roasted sweet potato, and the pits of the fruit of the tree...... It's rare that he caught her jumping over the wall on the spot, thinking that she would beg for mercy, cry, or react in other ways, but he never thought she would do this. She is different from the little girls who walk around the wall every day, she will not keep a cold distance from him, nor will she be old-fashioned and only know how to cultivate, but she is so cheeky but so reasonable. The grass and mud under her feet are soft, and there are no stones, so she must have been tripped up just now.
He was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a girl's voice sound, "Hey, do you believe in destiny?"
Yes, at that time, he was also asked this question. He has been on the Tianshan Mountains since he was conscious, and he has accepted the fate of not knowing who his parents are and who he is, because the elders say that heaven is impermanent, destiny has a return, everything is inevitable, fate is a straight line, and people will run all the way from this exit to their next entrance. He also told him that no matter whether he went to investigate it or not, and what the result of the investigation was, he was already in the Tianshan Mountains at this moment, and he would continue to stay in the Tianshan Mountains.
So he naturally believed everything, never thinking that everything could be doubted.
What's more, if you doubt the destiny of heaven, don't you also doubt the elders around you who preach these truths? How can these elders deceive themselves when they are so kind and care for themselves? What's more, the world says that the destiny of heaven is like this, is it possible that the world is also deceiving itself?
Or is the world deceiving itself? Is the people of the whole world deceiving themselves?
However, the girl, who had just known each other for less than a day, asked him if he believed it. It was as if he had suddenly been at an exit, and he found that there were two of them. When there is a choice in life, how do you know that destiny is like this? The elders are always talking about explaining the past, and if it is in the present, it is about facing the future.
It's as if a seedling of doubt has sprung up in my heart, and more doubts will sprout after a rain.
The answer was about to emerge, but he pursed his lips and refused to let himself think about it anymore.
So, he put aside his previous thoughts on how to veto the prostration, and turned his attention to the question, asking, "What about you?"
The girl named Wu Yan was shocked by what she said to him, so much so that when he remembered it today, the words were still in his ears. And now, he is no longer the weak self he was back then, and he also wants to know, if it is really as Wu Yan said, what will happen?
"I don't even know what my fate will be, and how can I be sure that a certain path and some ideas to be taken ahead are predestined by heaven?" Then everyone is born to lie down and wait for death. Moreover, there are errors and omissions in things in the world, and what if the destiny of heaven is also like this. ”
However, Wu Yan outside the window understood what Ying Qi said, and felt very familiar, and when he thought that it was actually what he had said that day, he couldn't help but secretly clench his fists under the window, gritted his teeth and said, "Amazing, I actually plagiarized other people's answers, this cheating guy!"