Chapter 17: The So-Called "Inhuman"
But halfway through the job, Lei Jun still took off his gloves, and he muttered in a low voice: "No, I still can't figure it out." β
Fang Wuying recorded the data and asked without looking up: "What can't you figure out?" β
"How the hell does he know?" Lei Jun looked at Fang Wuying, "Don't you think it's strange?" β
"It's weird." Fang Wuying entered the measurement data into the computer for processing, he stopped and thought for a while, "Is it that Director Liang has ever been here before?" I remember that Director Liang personally traveled through time and space several times at the beginning of the experiment, that is, ten years ago......"
"Then he couldn't have told Lao Tzu at that time: We are coming today." Lei Jun shook his head, "Besides, it is impossible for him to violate the rules." β
"Well, that's right." Fang Wuying shook his head, "I don't want to inquire, if there is really a secret, it is also a secret that belongs to Lao Tzu alone." β
Since Fang Wuying said so, Lei Jun felt that he couldn't discuss it with him anymore.
But he never gave up.
At noon, the child brought them a simple meal, and Lei Jun asked, "What about the teacher?" β
The boy replied, "Read a book in the house." β
"Can you tell the old curator for me? Just say I have something I want to ask him. β
As soon as Lei Jun's words fell, Fang Wuying and they looked up at him.
Completely ignoring the puzzled gazes of his colleagues, Lei Jun continued: "If it's convenient, I have something important I want to ask Director Lao Dan. β
The seven or eight-year-old boy looked at Lei Jun intently with crystal clear eyes: "I'll go and give a briefing, but if the teacher can't see it, I won't dare to say it." β
"Thank you."
After a while, the little boy walked out: "Teacher, please come in." β
Following the child to the door of the study, Lei Jun saw Lao Tzu sitting in front of a pile of bamboo slips, with his hands on his sleeves and his eyes closed.
The boy withdrew, and Lei Jun stood on the ground, considering what kind of words to start with.
ββ¦β¦ I can't read these books anymore. Lao Tzu said suddenly.
"Why?"
"The eyes are gone." He turned around and smiled, "I can only sit in front of them, and then I will remember one by oneβcome in and sit down, and sit next to the old man." β
Lei Jun walked over and sat down respectfully in front of Lao Tzu.
The house was quiet and extremely shady, with bamboo slips piled up on all sides, and in the air, in addition to the smell of dust from the old bamboo slips, there was also the strange smell of grass mats slightly damp. The thin sunlight shines through the cracks in the bamboo curtains, faintly.
"In the past, when you were a historian of Tibet, you read all the books in the world, right?" Lei Jun asked.
"I've read it many times." Lao Tzu said slowly, "After reading, you don't need to open the book, every sentence can appear in your heart." β
Lei Jun was silent for a while and said, "There are a lot of doubts in my heart. β
"If it's all transparent, you don't have to live in the world." Lao Tzu grinned.
"But you're already very transparent." Lei Jun said with a smile.
"I also have things that I don't know." Lao Tzu exhaled slowly, "So, I plan to leave here in two days." β
"Where are you going?"
"It's too chaotic here, I want to go to the sparsely populated Western Regions and figure out what I haven't thought through."
Lei Jun was quietly happy.
"Why are you so happy?" Lao Tzu also looked at him with a smile.
"Well, I guess it shouldn't be out of the way to talk to you." Lei Jun said, "Anyway, I can't hide anything from you - there is someone waiting for you in Hangu Pass." β
"Yes." Lao Tzu was still smiling, not curious at all.
"A Guan Yin named Xi will beg you to leave something, such as ...... A book. I guess now that he is in Hangu Pass, he has prepared bamboo chips and pens. β
"It's damn ......"
"In later generations, there was a man named Lu Xun, who made up a little story about your anecdote and told it to everyone." Lei Jun smiled, "I like Lu Xun, and I like his story." β
"So, what do you think about your own affairs?" Lao Tzu changed the topic, he looked at Lei Jun, "You want to see me, do you have any questions you want to ask?" β
Lei Jun slowly lowered his head, and after a while, he raised his head and looked at Lao Tzu: "I want to know, where did my wife go." β
Lao Tzu looked at him calmly.
ββ¦β¦ It's been eight years since she disappeared from me. Lei Jun continued, "I tried everything I could to find her, but I couldn't find her. There is no clue at all, she has not left a trace in this world......"
"That's because she went back."
Lei Jun was stunned: "Go back?" Where did you go back? β
"Wherever she came from, she went back." Lao Tzu smiled and said, "This kind of thing is reluctant." β
Lei Jun looked at Lao Tzu blankly!
"It's like you're a bunch of strangers." Lao Tzu pointed to Lei Jun and the people outside the house, "Your wife is too." One day, she suddenly missed where she had gotten up, so she went back desperately. β
ββ¦β¦ Will she ever come back? β
Lao Tzu closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he turned around and looked at the pile of bamboo slips again.
"Everything in the world is born of being, and some are born of nothing." Lao Tzu said in a groan-like voice, "In the end, everyone has to go to the same place." So, why should you cling to her return? β
Lei Jun knelt on the seat and did not make a sound for a long time. In the end, he slowly kowtowed to Lao Tzu, got up, and quietly retreated.
In the courtyard, the other people were still busy, and when they saw Lei Jun coming out, they all looked at him with curious eyes.
ββ¦β¦ Maybe he really knows everything. Lei Jun's voice was slow and full of surprise, "Maybe he doesn't know either." In short, this is a strange person. β
After he said this, he stopped looking at the others and went back to work.
Lao Tzu's words made Lei Jun think deeper and more chaotic. But he didn't expect that his move caused side effects: Xiao Yang also ran to talk to Lao Tzu alone, and when he came back, he was sullen, and Fang Wuying asked him what he talked about with Lao Tzu. He sighed.
"Don't mention it! It was because the captain told the thunder bureau that this old man knew everything, so I ran to him and asked him where my girlfriend was. β
Everyone burst into laughter! Xiao Yang still doesn't have a girlfriend who agrees, which is something that everyone knows.
"Who knew that old guy was very enthusiastic to persuade me to go to the Western Regions with him, and said that if I cultivate more, everyone in the world will be the same in my eyes, and I will love everyone-phew! Am I Jesus? β