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It was very cold, it was snowing, and it was already dark. It's the last days of the year - Chinese New Year's Eve is just a few days away.

The dark and cold night was terrible. But for the warm room, it was not terrible, on the contrary, there were bursts of laughter in this room.

Wood burned in the stove and thick candles flickered in the fire, both of which drove the cold and darkness away.

This is Mr. Mu's house, which is very lively, and many disciples are there.

The old gentleman was wearing a pair of wool felt galoshes that fit well, very warm, soft and well-fitting, which were sewn by the female disciple hand by hand, warming his feet, which he often felt cold, like a blue-purple vesseled with the cold mud of autumn.

He was holding a poisonous match in his hand, and the disciples next to him shouted one after another: "Sir, let's draw one more, just one, this thing made by the little junior brother is really interesting." ”

Mr. Mu smiled: "No, your little junior brother said that this thing is poisonous, and we should touch it less, just to attract those students to learn our subject, after all, it is very interesting." ”

"Draw one, sir, and it will shine when you rub it, what a miraculous thing it is."

Unable to resist the beggings of the disciples, the old gentleman took out one from the wooden box.

Laugh at......

With a strong stroke, the pale yellow flame rose into white smoke, igniting the white stick, which slowly turned black and then turned to ash.

The light of the fire was nothing compared to the lit candles and the rattling logs in the fireplace behind it, and even the light and shadow cast on the small glass were masked by the bright candlelight.

The old man in his twilight years stared at the fading fire in his hand, sniffing the pungent smell of burning sulfur, and couldn't help but smile at the corners of his mouth as he recalled the younger disciple described by the disciple who had returned from Mincheng.

Regarding the appearance and temperament of the little disciple who had never met before, the disciple who came back described it like this.

"Sir, it was an ordinary-looking young man, seventeen or eighteen years old, very tall, with broad shoulders and bright eyes. It's probably because I've been living in Mincheng, my complexion is slightly dark, and my body is very strong. ”

"He always likes to laugh, his teeth are very white and neat, and he looks very comfortable when he laughs."

"He's a nice guy, humble, honest, and dreams big, or at least it sounds much bigger than I am. Listening to him, you can feel that this is a person who will not give up until he has achieved his goal. ”

"He became famous at a young age, and he was very famous in Mincheng, and he wrote a very interesting drama, and it can be seen that his mind is exactly the same as what he does, and he is a person who has the world in mind."

"I rely on all kinds of simple bottles and cans to explore the world, but I am very bold but very detailed, and I speak very straightforwardly. I can't see through it, I'm not old next year, but sometimes I talk as if I've experienced 30 years of vicissitudes. ”

"My heart is a little too dark, and I see that many things are black, and it is probably for this reason that I have made the match that is the easiest to get light."

Mr. Mu had already heard too many things, and all that came to mind from the firelight at this time was a few words about the disciple who was far away in Mincheng.

The yellow light of the fire and smoke slowly condensed into an imaginary child, whose face could not be seen clearly, but could feel the frowning brow, fiddling with the simple bottles and cans in his hands, and beside him was a thick pile of scribbled paper scribbled in ink......

"Would be a good student."

Thinking like this, Mr. Mu recalled that he saw the pile of papers that the new disciple brought back by Li Yun begged him to help correct him, and he was even more convinced of his thoughts.

There are a lot of interesting things written on the paper, even if I have read it dozens of times, even if it has been a few days of sleepless and late tiding, it is still hard to forget, and it is always lingering in my mind.

Because those papers describe another world, it is like preparing another pair of eyes for Mr. Mu that he has never seen before.

Thinking of this, he took out another match and lightly rubbed it on his clothes and lit it.

Holding one hand in his hand, he thought about what he said on the paper to see the world with another eye, and looked at the dancing flame carefully, remembering the words on the paper.

"The so-called combustion, if you look at it with another eye, may be the process of recombining the tiny and indivisible particles."

"It's like a man and a woman who come together because of love, reunite, and give birth to a child named Light and Heat."

"Because of this child, the original man and woman are still the original men and women, but the smallest unit is no longer a single man or woman, but a new family, and this new family becomes the new smallest particle."

"It's the union of indivisible things."

"As for the burning of things that are still divisible, it is like a whole family, with children who have had light and heat, but the children have grown up and left, so we can no longer see them. With the passage of time, the extremely beautiful wife in the eyes of a man has finally become a yellow-faced woman, but if there is no outsider, she will continue to live like this after all. ”

But one day, a more beautiful young woman appeared in front of the man. Not just relative beauty, but absolute beauty that is more beautiful than a man's wife when she was young. So the man left his original wife, could not resist the temptation, abandoned the original family, and united with a new and more beautiful woman to form a new family of the smallest unit. ”

"It's not wrong, if two women appeared in front of this man at the same time decades ago, this man would have chosen the more attractive one. Therefore, the newly united ones are more stable than the original family, and it takes more strength to break them up. ”

"This kind of coincidence constructs a colorful and changeable world: the world is therefore not static, but is constantly regrouped and scattered."

"When the flame jumps, it is the first cry of our new family baby, which is invisible to the naked eye, and burning is not destruction, but rebirth."

"When the flame is moving, there must be a time when a beautiful woman wins the heart of a man. Whether the man is an inseparable individual or part of a family, there is no morality for chemistry, only charm. ”

"But this combination of new families is not necessarily the cheer of firecrackers for new births, but sometimes they are combined into new families in a way that is silent, imperceptible, ashamed and hidden."

"Just as iron can be exchanged for copper from Zeng Qing alum, iron is more attractive to him than copper than the man who is bound to copper in the alum. In the same way, zinc is always more attractive than iron, iron is more attractive than lead, and lead is more attractive than copper, and copper is more attractive than silver. This is a very mysterious thing, and we will one day use our eyes to discharge the ranking of charm, just as the status of the rich people at this time is the same: first, second, third, fourth. ”

"In the same way, these tiny new families, which we can't see, can be broken up into indivisible things, and they can't be separated just because they are not strong enough to block that union."

"Carbon acid, for example, obviously prefers to be combined with calcium, which is made in heaven. But we often break up this family for our own needs, otherwise where do we get the white ash from the wall? If we didn't beat the mandarin ducks, some things would always be so quietly and happily combined. But we have to use flames, stacks and other artificial ways to break them up. It may be that what is indivisible cannot be disassembled, but whatever is divisible can certainly be disassembled...... If it can't be dismantled, it can only prove that the violence of dismantling is not strong enough......"

"Since we can manipulate the splitting and recombination of these tiny particles with our choices, as long as we find the law in it, we can change a lot, get a lot, and create a lot."

"For example, if we know that bones contain calcium, then we can't eat salt to replenish bones; For example, if we know that iron is more attractive than copper than bile alum oil, we cannot expect copper to replace iron from iron that has been acidified into water; For example, if you know that gold is a thing that cannot be divided, you should not think of turning something like iron and copper into gold. ”

"The world has been decided since the beginning of Pangea, but only the tiniest particles that we can't see. It seems to be decided, but in fact it has been changing, because we don't have the eyes that can see the smallest particles, so this change is meaningless to us. ”

"And we have a pair of things that can see big, made up of countless particles that fit together. So it's not a contradiction that the world is essentially the same, but it's always changing for us. Iron was exchanged for copper from the alum, but the iron did not disappear, but was hidden in another combination, which did not change in the case of all the particles of the world, neither increased nor decreased; And for us here has changed, and can be seen with our eyes......"

Mr. Mu thought about the words on the paper that made more and more sense, looked at the flames that were about to be extinguished, and thought: "It's very interesting to say that the fly ash in these flames is just a combination of the new family. Yes, it is a combination that changes with the will and needs of man, simply because man needs it. Dust, smoke, everything seems to have disappeared in flames, but in reality it is just a new life that we can't see. ”

"It's easy to prove it...... As the kid wrote on paper, it was enough to have a balance that was precise enough to see if the flame would weigh as much as before when it burned. ”

"A flame, it turns out that there are such entangled joys and sorrows...... There is such a terrible power in it......"

Strength, thinking of the word power, Mr. Mu struck another match, and lit a candle with this match, so that the candle dispelled the darkness and cold around him, feeling the greatness of this power that he had never noticed and quietly changed the world, and once again thought of a passage on the paper.

"A long time ago, the combination of charcoal saltpeter and sulfur gave lead bullet the power to penetrate armor and flesh, and this power comes from the recombination of small particles that we can't see with the naked eye."

With this force, gunpowder replaced the force of the people to tighten and hold the bowstring. The strength of a strong arm is no match for a pound of gunpowder."

"A long time ago, the recombination of wood and yang made it possible for light and heat to appear not only on a sunny day. This power also comes from the recombination of small particles that we can't see with the naked eye. ”

"So with this strength, we no longer eat raw meat, no longer fear the terrible winter, and have gone through countless years."

"I think the future will be a world where the power of this recombination of small particles that we can't see with the naked eye will replace the power of many people or animals. Just as gunpowder has replaced the bow and arrow, so too will it replace many things that now seem irreplaceable. ”

"Just as if there were no barrels, the power of gunpowder would not be compared to that of a bow and arrow. What we lack now is a 'barrel' to transform the black, fiery power that can emit scorching flames into another power that can be compared to arms, cattle and horses. ”

"I think one day, when people see the flames rising, they will think not only of this can be used for heating and lighting, but also of how much power is there. How many cows and horses can you reach? ”

"Like this match, the future of all of us is warm and bright, and it will be more than just a warm and bright ......"

The match gradually went out, and the light and shadow and memories related to the fire or with the little disciple also dissipated with the extinguishing of the fire, thinking that this thing was still poisonous, and thinking of the letter the little disciple gave him to advise him to take care of his body and do more things to see more wonderful, he threw the remaining matches aside and stopped burning them.

The disciples rejoiced, congratulating him on accepting another disciple, and by the way, listening to the many articles written by this little junior brother who had never met before, it was refreshing.

Some are very simple, and they are obviously written for people who are not yet interested in the subject; Some of them are difficult and formal, obviously for themselves to see their brothers and sisters.

And the paper had been sorted out by the old gentleman, and they copied some of it slowly, and the paper that had been revised by the old gentleman and smeared and corrected some words, and the ugly scribbled words of the little junior brother, were sent to the interior of the school palace.

There will be a review of things that will lead to the publication of the first edition of the new year's booklets in various disciplines. Among the people who reviewed were Mr. Mu's classmates, friends, juniors, and people whose names were often heard by these disciples.

Now that the paper was sent along with white phosphorus, matches, ashes, and so on, the disciples were sure that the first booklet of the new year would be interesting and interesting, and even subvert something.

It was a thick pile of paper, and the signature at the end of the article on the paper was the same, which was also an extremely shocking thing for those seniors who reviewed it.

Before the Chinese New Year's Eve holiday, it will always be decided, and this is the last day before the holiday, so the disciples gathered here to accompany the husband to wait for the results.

Li Yun was still there telling the story of going to Mincheng and the story of the little junior brother, and the brothers and sisters listened carefully, thinking about this little junior brother who sounded mature and did not look like a young man, and guessed what the little junior brother was going to do in Mincheng.

Mr. Mu finished striking the three matches, no longer harming his body, and his eyes looked out through the green, bubbled glass, enjoying such a calm.

It wasn't until there was a sound of footsteps stepping through the snow outside that Mr. Mu's heart jerked up, and the disciples also turned to the person outside, wanting to know the result.

The man pushed the door open and shouted excitedly, "Sir! The articles of the little junior brother have all passed! The first issue of the new year's booklet! ”