"Heaven and earth are furnaces, and creation is work. I just stepped in at the right time and didn't mind. The old man smiled and said tremblingly.

"The kid doesn't dare to forget, the rescuer should be like a reborn parent, who is better than the seventh-level floating slaughter, how dare the kid forget." Sun Hao shook his head slightly, and his tone was very sincere. I couldn't tell if he was acting or if he was really respectful.

The old man shook his head slightly, his wrinkled eyes closed slightly, and his breathing gradually slowed down, as if he was still snoring slightly. I don't know if he was really asleep or thinking about something.

Lu Xue carefully poured out the old man's cold tea and refilled it with a new one, then sat down again, continuing to maintain her unchanged smile. Sun Hao seemed to want to get up, but he hesitated and gave up, still sitting under the old man with a respectful face. The old man seemed to be really asleep.

Heaven and earth are furnaces, and creation is work, I don't believe it. If we are just a program in this world, a program that can be replaced at any time, then what is the point of our existence, and where is our value? If everything is predetermined and predestined, then why should people bother to pursue it?

The old man's snoring gradually became clearer, and he was really asleep. I can't imagine this, I don't understand how such a weak old man can easily fall asleep in front of a group of strangers, in an unfamiliar environment, unsuspectingly, isn't he afraid of unpredictable dangers? Aren't you afraid that a slightly louder sound will trigger a reflex nerve warning and trigger a burst of blood vessels? I shook my head slightly, unable to comprehend his actions or words.

Looking at the old man's appearance, he was already very old, his hair was gray and sparse, his face was full of deep wrinkles, and his movements were very slow, as if he had reached his old age, but his age was not too old, Sun Hao said that he seemed to be just over sixty. He had a pair of children, his son was born with dementia and died in his twenties, and his daughter's marriage was also very unhappy. The old man has always lived alone, relying on a small pension. The old man didn't complain about anything, in his words, everything is fate, everything is fate, and his numerology is five disadvantages and three deficiencies.

Five disadvantages and three deficiencies, this is a numerology that the old man just said, those who know the heavens will be punished, but according to the judgment is not the justice of the world but the heavens, which is still incomprehensible to me. According to the old man, because he knew a little bit about his personal destiny and changed it, the original destiny changed due to the established direction, and the inertia affected him, and then he lost something to counteract this contagion. However, in my opinion, human behavior has randomness and inertia of thinking, so what is the measure of who is the one who knows the heavens? What is the Heavenly Machine? Fate? What is the trajectory of an individual? If everything is certain, then it comes back to the fact that everything is predestined.

The old man snored rhythmically, saliva was dripping from the corners of his mouth, Lu Xue carefully wiped it off with a handkerchief, Sun Hao got up lightly and went back to the room to take a thin blanket and cover the old man. The old man seemed to be awakened, slowly raised his head, blinked his cloudy eyes, shook his head embarrassedly and smiled, "I'm old, and I'm asleep unconsciously." ”

"Look at what you always said, you're still young, but you're tired, why don't I help you to my room to rest for a while?" Sun Hao said, his tone still respectful.

"Don't bother with your kid, I'm fine, people will cause trouble to others when they get old." The old man seemed a little helpless.

"It's not troublesome, you saved me, it stands to reason that I should build you a tower, but the kid can't afford to build it." Sun Hao laughed at himself.

"You kid, I'm embarrassed to say that saving people's lives is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, talking about merit, floating slaughter is the meaning of a pagoda but it doesn't mean that you really build a tower, and I am a Taoist family, we don't build a tower." The old man said slowly.

"Yes, yes, your old education is right, and meeting you is my greatest fate." Sun Hao said with an embarrassed dry smile.

"We Taoist families don't talk about fate, we talk about creation." The old man said, "Everything is the result of creation, what I do is your creation, but also mine, seeing that your life is okay, I am relieved, and I also go to worry." ”

Creation is fate according to the old man's words, but it seems to be a little different from fate. "Old man, what is creation?" I asked.

"Creation is not destiny, even if it is fate." The old man looked at me deeply, and said slowly, "To make this character, in terms of glyphs, it is a wandering confession, and it is a person holding a dagger, and it is two people who are upside down in ancient characters. Creation, creation is people's unnatural behavior, but it affects others, and then affects themselves, and this influence may make people go in a good direction or a dangerous direction. ”

"Then since creation is uncertain, can we avoid it as much as possible?" I asked again.

The old man shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice, "The operation of heaven and earth is creation, the mountains are creation, the flow of water is creation, the clouds drifting are creation, the flowers are creation, you are creation, I am creation, we meet is still creation, creation is everywhere, why avoid it?" How could it be avoided? ”

"Creation." I whispered to myself.

This morning I still got up at 6:30 a.m., washed, changed, and went to work. Arrive at the Internet café at 6:55, take over the shift, and start the day's work. I like to program my life so that I can use more energy to think, to observe, to avoid risks and to detect shadows. In the last few days, the shadow has been sometimes clear and sometimes blurry, and the more I try to see it, the more I can't figure it out, and it makes me have a nervous breakdown, but it still doesn't come and go, and it disappears from time to time.

When I arrived at the Internet café, Wang Huan still arrived early as usual, still sitting on her throne and browsing the Internet, but she didn't seem to be in a very good mood today, typing on the keyboard and cursing in a low voice from time to time. I shrugged my shoulders and didn't dare to say hello to her, took out my phone and looked at the date, the fifth day of the lunar calendar, not because of the psychological fluctuations caused by physiological reasons, I said secretly. At this time, it is better to stay away from her, and for physiological reasons, you can also use boiling water to solve the problem, and in her heart, she will inevitably lead to trouble. I shrugged, sat down in a corner where she wasn't looking, and began to look up the information I needed.

Wang Huan seemed to glance at me, but didn't seem to look at it, still tapping on the keyboard resentfully. Aunt Liu and I didn't dare to talk to her, and we each did our own things until almost noon.

At nearly ten o'clock, Sun Hao suddenly called and asked me to go back immediately, saying that there was something important. I carefully explained to Wang Huan. She glanced at it and asked dissatisfiedly, "When did you change your phone?" ”

"Two days ago, when Lu Xue went to buy a mobile phone, she brought me one by the way." I don't know why she asked this, I replied puzzled.

"Oh, she's really rich." Wang Huan said without yin or yang.

"No, it's Sun Hao's money, I didn't want it"

"He's really rich," Wang Huan repeated again, and he was not angry, "If you have something, get out of here, don't disturb the old lady." ”

"Oh." I answered, putting my phone back in my pocket.

"Don't take that thing and dangle it in front of me, I'm annoyed to look at it." Wang Huan shouted suddenly.

I shrugged my shoulders and walked out of the Internet café, women who are in a bad mood are always the scariest, because you can never guess why they are in a bad mood.

Back at his residence, Sun Hao was entertaining an old man, Sun Hao briefly introduced that this old man was the Taoist priest who resolved his child's life. The old man didn't wear the Taoist clothes that I often saw on TV, and his hair was not in a bun, he was dressed very ordinary, the kind that could be seen everywhere in the stalls, his hair was sparse and gray, his face was full of wrinkles, he moved very slowly, and he looked like he was **ten years old, but in the old man's brief self-introduction, he was just over sixty, and he said that he was not a Taoist either, although he used Taoist rules to demand himself. He said that when he was a child, he met a Taoist priest, a real Taoist priest, and he wanted to be the apprentice of that Taoist priest, but the Taoist priest said that there was some creation between them, but they could not become masters and apprentices, so they only taught him some Taoist skins. The old man looked very respectful when he spoke, in his heart the Taoist priest should already be his master, all because he didn't create enough, he couldn't follow the teacher's side, regret but no complaints.

Creation, the old man's understanding of creation is very transparent, which makes me fall into contemplation, what the old man said is very reasonable, but logically it seems to have fallen into a misunderstanding, I can't understand it for a while.

At noon, Sun Hao wanted to invite the old man to dinner, but the old man just smiled and refused, no matter what Sun Hao said the old man insisted on leaving, in the end Sun Hao could only send the old man away respectfully without regret.

"How? Believe it now? Sun Hao asked when he came back.

"Believe what?" I asked, confused.

"My child's life." Sun Hao looked at me impatiently.

"There is no evidence"

"This is not evidence," Sun Hao jumped up violently, "Isn't what the old man said wrong?" Can you refute it? ”

I frowned, thought for a moment and said, "No, but it doesn't logically make sense. ”

"your logic, can you use logic to analyze everything."

"I can't." I shook my head.

Sun Hao""

"There's a theory that can explain it." Lu Xue smiled and said, "Chaos Theory." ”

"Chaos Theory." I whispered, lost in thought again.

"Because small changes, when amplified, can make a huge difference to their future state." I said.

"What do you mean? Say what I can understand. Sun Hao said dejectedly.

"Remember the marginal effect?"

"The one you let Xiao Yin deceive?" Sun Hao said.

"It's not a lie, what I asked Xiao Yin to do is a decreasing marginal effect, yours should be incremental."

"What do you mean?"

"If you encounter something similar and exciting, then you will think that it is predestined, that it is your destiny, and you will take advantage of it to become infinite, and then you will lose the original focus of life."

Sun Hao thought about it carefully, "Is there anything wrong with that?" ”

"Nope." I shook my head.

"That's it."

"Everyone is in chaos theory, and many people ignore their own focus." Lu Xue said with a smile.

I nodded, "Change is certain, and there is no point in suppressing change, because we are in the midst of change, we think we haven't changed, but in fact we have been changing, we have been repeating a life that is similar but not the same as before." ”

"So I admire that old man very much, he doesn't inhibit or pander to change." Dew Snow Road.

"You mean, the old man is teaching us how to live?" Sun Hao said suddenly.

I nodded, "Don't change, don't question, just be in it and go with the flow." ”

Lu Xue smiled and nodded, "Linjiang sits and looks at the wind and clouds." ”