"I think that cement and matches and those so-called road building things are things that you would have learned, more precisely, from the moment you were born, rather than after you came into this world, because when you make these things, there is no exploration, there is no exploration, you are very skilled, you are very skilled in calling their names, you are very skilled in telling the craftsmen what to do. So, junior brother, I don't believe in ghosts and gods, but I think that the you in front of me are as unfathomable as the ghosts and gods, or you are ghosts and gods, or you don't belong to this era. ”

Ma Hong's heart was tight, Liu Ye had basically guessed that he did not belong to this era, the wise men of this era, these top wise men, their wisdom surpassed this era, even if there were thousands of thoughts imprisoned, but their eyes could still peek out your truth from the cracks.

Liu Ye's eyes looked at Ma Hong, it was a pair of curious eyes, Ma Hong looked at those eyes, and didn't know how to answer, if he deceived Liu Ye, with Liu Ye's ability, could he see through and deceive the person who trusted him the most? Is it really good to do that? Ma Hong is no longer willing to deceive him, but is it good to really tell him?

"Senior brother, you are very smart, you know that these things you have done, the academic reforms you have carried out, and the research of all kinds of strange things, have been done after you have become a lord, if these things were done when you were still a courtier, you can ......"

"Maybe I'll be killed as a demon, or a troublemaker?"

"Yes, so junior brother, tell senior brother where you came from! You are really the third son of the Ma family in Yizhou, are you really what I saw you? Senior brother, when I was in Shuijing Villa, I always had a feeling that you were the same age as me, so we would be so speculative, at that time I thought you were mature, but over the years, I slowly found that maybe it was not as simple as I imagined. ”

Ma Hong sighed, picked up a glass of wine for Liu Ye, and then drank a glass of wine with Liu Ye, and said slowly: "Since Senior Brother wants to ask, then I will say it." ”

"Say it! Whatever you say, I will believe it. ”

"I'm not a person of this era, maybe I count, maybe I don't."

"How do you understand that?"

"Senior brother, have you ever heard the saying that one day in the mountains is three years in the world?"

Liu Ye was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I've heard of it, it's just that it's not a legend?" ”

Ma Hong shook his head and said, "No, no." This is my personal experience. ”

"What? Could it be that you have been to Wonderland, junior brother. ”

"Let's put it this way! The place I went to should be called one day in the mountains, three years in the world, and the other way around, 'one day in the world, decades in the mountains.'" ”

"What? Brother, can you elaborate on it? ”

In the previous life, Ma Hong had read countless novels, all kinds of themes, how could his ability to make up stories be weak, especially the story of the hero's adventures, I am afraid that no one is better at it than him in this era. Ma Hong took a sip of sake and said slowly: "Senior brother, when I was eleven years old, I played with my father in Jingmen Mountain, [Jingmen Mountain is in the northwest of Yidu City, Yichang City, Hubei Province, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, across the river from Huya Mountain. Climb to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise, it is strange to say that day, at sunrise, it suddenly rained heavily on Jingmen Mountain, I remember looking at the sun, my brain was dizzy, and then I fainted, and when I woke up, I found that I was still in Jingmen Mountain, but my father had disappeared. I looked for my father at the top of the mountain but couldn't find it, so I thought he might have gone to the foot of the mountain to wait for me, so I went to the foot of the mountain, but I still didn't see my father's figure, then I suddenly found a poem carved on the stone wall of Jingmen Mountain, but I clearly remember that when my father and I entered Jingmen Mountain, there was nothing there. ”

Liu Ye listened with relish.

Ma Hong continued to speak slowly, I still remember the poems engraved on the stone wall, thinking that I had read them thousands of times and could never forget them. "Crossing far outside Jingmen, coming from Chu to travel, the mountains follow the plains, and the rivers flow into the great wilderness. Under the moon, the flying mirror, the clouds are born and the sea is built. still pity the water of his hometown, and send off the boat for thousands of miles. ”

Yes, I still pity the water of my hometown and send the boat off for thousands of miles. At first I didn't understand the meaning of the poem. The mountains were empty, and I walked in the mountains day after day, not feeling tired, not feeling hungry or thirsty, just walking, I walked, and the mountains seemed to be walking, and I could not get out of this mountain.

Then I gave up and found a cave in the middle of the mountain, and there was light in the heart of the cave, not sunlight, and there were many books in the cave, and the paper used for those books was a thousand times better than the paper we use now, and because of idleness, I first counted how many books there were, and it turned out to be ten thousand volumes.

There was no one in that mountain, no insects or birds, nothing but me, nothing alive except trees, not even grass. Every day, in order to eliminate loneliness, I only read one book after another, I don't feel tired, sometimes I read one book a day, sometimes I read one book every two days, sometimes I read one book three days, sometimes I read three books a day, just read books, read books, read a lot of knowledge that I have never seen. When reading became a habit, I slowly seemed to forget the time, forgot what I was doing, as soon as I picked up the book, I kept reading, I don't know how long, when I finished reading 10,000 books, I walked out of the cave. I saw a monkey rowing a wooden boat towards me, and after I boarded the wooden boat, the monkey opened its mouth and said a word to me.

"Monkeys can talk?" Liu Ye was taken aback.

Ma Hong nodded and said, "Yes, the monkey said it was time to go back." ”

"And then?"

"And then the boat started to sink so fast that I filled my stomach with a lot of water, and then I fainted, and when I woke up, I found that I was still on the face, just?"

"Just what?"

"But the monkey is gone, and I'm lying in my father's arms."

"My father said I slept for a long time, twelve hours."

Because when I sleep the sun rises, when I wake up, it is the sun that rises.

"Senior brother, didn't your body grow in that mountain?"

"Yes."

"Ten thousand books, so maybe you have spent decades in that mountain!"

Ma Hong nodded and said, "Yes, after coming out, I saw my father's face as if I was in a different world, and I thought about it for a long time before I realized that he was my father and forgot a lot of things." ”

"Then you must have learned a lot from the book!"

"Yes, what I use and make now is what I know from those books."

"It's such an amazing place."

"It's also a place of pain, because there's always loneliness there."

Ma Hong picked up the wine glass, with tears in the corners of his eyes, yes he is lonely, he has been in this world for twenty-four years, and no one knows the loneliness in his heart. (To be continued.) )