A few days before Christmas, it's the polar night in the Arctic Circle. Throughout the day, there is no sun in the sky, only the vast starry sky and the brilliant aurora. This kind of experience made Zhang Xu and Furong feel very novel.

In the past few days, Zhang Xu and Fleur have experienced husky and reindeer sledding, sent postcards to family and friends in Santa Claus Village, sleigh skiing in the mountains and forests, and snowmobiles to ice fishing on frozen lakes. As for the last one, you must be at least 18 years old and have a driver's license, which is trivial for wizards.

Karelian pie, white trout pie, rye bread, cinnamon rolls, blueberry pie, charcoal-grilled salmon, sautéed venison, cheese bread, savoured licorice sugar and many other local specialties will delight the two.

On the last night of the trip, Zhang Xu was lying on the bed with Furong in his arms, and the two were chatting while looking at the aurora outside the window. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and they will be back to France early tomorrow morning.

"Asahi, what do you think the wizarding world will be like in the future?" Fleur asked suddenly.

"What do you think?" Zhang Xu asked rhetorically.

"I don't know, some students in the school said that in the future wizarding world, it should be like Huaxia, wizards and Muggles live together. Others, however, said that the wizarding world should be completely cut off from Muggle society. Fleur said with some distress.

"Then let me briefly tell you about the relationship between wizards and ordinary people."

"Hmm."

"Thousands of years ago, when humanity was still in the Stone Age, it was very unproductive and vulnerable to wild animals, natural disasters and diseases. At that time, human beings had not yet built cities and countries, only clans and tribes. In the tribe, only the powerful can be the leader. And the earliest sorcerers, they were powerful to ordinary people, and they used magic to protect the people of their tribe from natural disasters, beasts, diseases, and enemies. At that time, the shamans of the tribe were the leaders and guardians of the tribe. ”

"At that time, the birth and inheritance of wizards were very difficult, and the number of wizards was very small, so wizards could only rely on ordinary people to survive."

"With the development of the times, ordinary people went from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age. And the magic of wizards has also developed in battles against natural disasters, wild beasts, diseases, and enemies. ”

"However, more than two thousand years ago, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people in the East and West took different paths."

"In the past three hundred years BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Xenocrates defined a shaman as a person who uses the power of the devil, and since then Western shamans and ordinary people have embarked on the path of opposites."

"In the centuries that followed, the common people of European countries became hostile to wizards out of fear of the unknown powers at their disposal. And because of this hostility, the wizards also cut themselves off from ordinary people. It is precisely because of the hostility between wizards and ordinary people that it has become the basis of the witch hunt in the future. ”

"In the Middle Ages, in order to consolidate its rule, religion began a witch hunt, and many wizards and more innocent ordinary people were hunted."

"Since then, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people has broken down."

"It wasn't until the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment that things changed, and wizards became synonymous with learned people, such as alchemists, doctors, etc."

"At that time, as the struggle between imperial power and clerical power intensified in European countries, all countries began to abolish the witch hunt full of religious overtones."

"However, at that time, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people could not be healed."

"After the First Industrial Revolution, the power of technology mastered by ordinary people gradually increased, and at this time, ordinary people began to no longer fear the power of wizards, and thus no longer hostile to wizards."

"From this time on, with the continuous efforts of some wizards, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people was eased."

"And in the East, shamans have always been involved in the development of ordinary people's society."

"For example, about 5,000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor tribe united with the Yandi tribe and fought a big war with the Chiyou tribe from the east in the Zhuolu area. The sorcerer on Chiyou's side used magic to create a fog that filled the ground for three days and three nights. ”

"Around 1044 BC, the sorcerers led by Jiang Ziya helped Ji Fa, the king of Zhou, to attack the Shang king Emperor Xin, and the Shang king Emperor Xin also had the help of Wen Zhong, Shen Gongbao and other sorcerers."

"The wizards of the East have always been at the forefront of the fight against natural disasters, beasts and diseases, leaving behind folk legends such as Dayu's control of water, killing each other, and Shennong's taste of herbs."

In addition, the shamans of the East were also attached to the imperial power, and from the beginning, many shamans appeared as officials, and also left a lot of folklore. If you look at the history of China, you will see that many famous officials will leave some 'miracles' to some extent. Some shamans, such as Zhang Jiao, were involved in the struggle for imperial power. ”

"The most important thing is that ordinary people in the East are not afraid of the power of wizards, but yearning for them. The wizard is free to walk among ordinary people, and if he can solve problems such as drought, disease, and wild beasts for ordinary people, then he will be adored by the ordinary people around him. This makes it possible for many wizards from ordinary people to be discovered and cultivated by the older generation of wizards when they are young, and to be inherited by the older generation of wizards. If a wizard is born in a family, then the status of the entire family can be promoted. ”

"In this context, from ancient times to the present, the wizards of the East have lived together with ordinary people almost without barriers."

"Therefore, the relationship between wizards and ordinary people is determined by the attitude of ordinary people towards the power of wizards."

The reason for the difference between the Eastern and Western magic worlds in this regard is definitely not as simple as Zhang Xu said, but now that I am on vacation with my girlfriend, some things can be said simply, if you analyze this problem in depth when you hold your sister, you will not understand the amorous feelings, it is better to go deeper on other issues.

Zhang Xu is now beginning to guide Furong's thinking from the path of traditional European wizards to the path of Chinese wizards. During the summer vacation and now the Christmas holidays, Zhang Xu took Fleur out of the wizarding world and into the Muggle world, in order to broaden her horizons. If Fleur goes to live in China with him in the future, then her thinking can't follow the path of traditional European wizards and focus her eyes on the little bit of the magic world. Otherwise, the discord between the three views is the biggest killer of destroying the harmony of husband and wife.

Furong saw that although Zhang Xu did not directly answer the question she raised, she felt that Zhang Xu had opened up a train of thought for her on this issue that she had never thought of.

Furong thought for a while and felt that she couldn't think of an answer to this question in a short time, so she asked another question: "So what is the ultimate goal of the cooperation between the magic world and ordinary society in Huaxia?" ”

Zhang Xu looked at the bright starry sky dancing with the aurora outside the window and said, "Our journey is a sea of stars. ”