I've always admired the culture of Middle-earth. ”

Ryan nodded, glanced back silently, and then said, "By understanding the culture of Middle-earth, we can always find many commonalities compared to our Western culture. ”

"For example?" Chen Chen looked at the ocean and asked without looking back.

"For example...... Child-killing culture. ”

Ryan glanced at Chen Chen, "You should know about "Twenty-Four Filial Piety", right?" ”

Chen Chen nodded.

"There's a story in 'Twenty-Four Filial Pieties' that I'm interested in."

Ryan smiled, "In the year of the catastrophe, a dutiful son named Guo Ju buried his son alive in order to save a mouthful of food to ensure that his mother would not starve, because he thought that if his son died, he could have another one, and his mother could not be resurrected when he died. ”

"Makes sense......" Chen Chen nodded.

“？？？”

Ryan was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Chen, you are so humorous...... The story is so simple, I'll retell one more. ”

"In ancient times, there was a man named Shun who was very talented, but his father did not like him and often beat him for no reason. But Shun never resisted, and he endured it obediently when he was beaten lightly; When he was beaten badly, he fled into the wilderness, and wept bitterly alone. ”

"Later, Shun's father intensified, once, he asked Shun to repair the roof, but as soon as Shun climbed up, he took the ladder and set fire to the house, and finally Shun had to jump off the hat on his head as a parachute, and escaped death......

Speaking of this, Ryan observed Chen Chen's expression again, but found that Chen Chen was still expressionless, just looking indifferently into the distance.

Secretly frowning, Ryan continued, "Then two days later, Shun's father asked him to dig the well again, and Shun went honestly again, and when Shun went down to the bottom of the well, his father hurriedly dug the soil, wanting to bury Shun alive directly. ”

"Fortunately, Shun was very vigilant and knew that they were not well-intentioned, so he dug a secret passage in the side wall of the well early as soon as he got out of the well, and only then did he pick up another life......"

"Whew!"

After finishing speaking, Ryan finally couldn't help it and asked, "Chen, don't you think Shun's father is hateful?" ”

"Okay." Chen Chen nodded, "If I were Shun, I would be very sad." ”

"Yes, I think so too." Seeing Chen Chen's attitude, Ryan was secretly overjoyed, and before he could continue to speak, he heard the captain's voice coming from the cruise ship's interlocutor.

"Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the Ocean Symphony will leave Namibia's territorial waters and reach the open seas of the Atlantic Ocean in half an hour."

"Repeat, the Symphony of the Seas will leave Namibia's territorial waters in half an hour ......"

The announcement rang three times.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers from those who were still at the banquet, and many of them left the banquet and walked towards the deck below.

"It's about to be on the high seas."

Ryan looked happy, and at the same time, three people walked out of the banquet hall and came behind the two of them, "Chen Chen, Ryan, how about we go together?" ”

One of them was Davis, the heir to the Wilson family, and the other two were Alexander and Edwards, respectively.

"Of course." Ryan turned his head to look at Chen Chen and invited, "Chen, are you interested in going to the casino for a walk?" ”

"Casino?" Chen Chen asked.

"Yes, not only the casino, in order to welcome your arrival Mr. Chen Chen, several of us have specially prepared a special program, I believe it will make your trip worthwhile!"

The three people on the side also began to try their best to encourage them.

"It's an honor." Looking at the invitation of the four people, Chen Chen nodded, "I also want to see what kind of special program it is." ”

Before boarding the ship, Chen Chen had already remediated some information about cruise ships, and many of the reasons why these cruise ships were so popular were because of the opening of casinos.

According to international law, the territory on board aircraft and ships belongs to the carrier country, that is, the cruise ship belongs to a certain country, and if some criminal cases occur on the cruise ship, it will be investigated and controlled by that country.

Therefore, as long as gambling is not prohibited in this country, then cruise ships in this country can open casinos on board.

Of course, if the ship enters the waters of a country where gambling is prohibited, then he must immediately close the casino until it leaves the waters of that country again.

Before following everyone away, Chen Chen took one last look into the distance.

At some point, the moonlight disappeared.

A dark cloud slowly drifted from the sky, carrying a thick darkness and spreading silently, obscuring the bright moon.

It seems that a storm is coming......

……

Because there was still a half-hour voyage from the high seas, Chen Chen was invited by the heirs of the four families to enter the opera house during this free time.

In the theater, which can accommodate 1,000 people, only a few people are seated, but the stage is still huge, and a group of stage actors are performing hard.

And Chen Chen watched this opera is also very interesting, telling the story of Zeus becoming a god-king in Greek mythology.

Legend has it that in the divine realm, the god of the sky, Ouranos, imprisoned his children underground, and as a result, his son Kronos rose to the wind and castrated his father with a scythe, replacing the rule of the god of the sky.

However, before he died, the god of the sky cursed Kronos, saying that he too would be killed by his heirs like himself.

So, Kronos made a decision to eat all the offspring that was born.

And he did exactly that, and when his first five children were born, he swallowed them in his stomach before he could open his eyes.

Until the sixth baby named Zeus was born, the mother Rhea hid Zeus and wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes and offered it to Kronos, claiming that it was their child.

So Kronos swallowed the stone in one gulp......

Zeus survived, and as he grew up, he began to understand his origins and decided to take revenge.

He first poured emetics into his father's wine, and after his father drank alcohol, he vomited and vomited his five siblings.

Among these five brothers and sisters are the famous Sea King Poseidon and Hades, the King of Hades.

Eventually, the brothers worked together to defeat Kronus and imprison him at the bottom of hell, while Zeus became the king of the gods.

"How does it feel?"

As the opera ended, Ryan asked with a smile, "Chen, have you noticed that our patricide culture in the West is similar to your son-killing culture in the East?" When a person grows up, he has to overthrow the will imposed on him by the previous generation in order to be able to acquire a complete personality and thus become his true self. ”

"It's still a little different."

Chen Chen shook his head and denied, "This is actually a difference in culture, we Zhongzhou are good at farming, and the more we grow, the more experience we can accumulate to farm, so with the reproduction of society, there is a situation where the older and higher the seniority, the greater the right to speak." ”

"This was not the case with the Greek civilization, which was barren and unsuitable for farming, but could produce olive oil, wine and wool, so the Greeks went to the sea to do business and sell their goods to other countries in exchange for food."

"However, the sea is obviously the world of young people, riding the wind and fighting the waves, which the old people can't do, so the Greek culture worships the young more, so the myth of patricide appeared."

Chen Chen analyzed, "Therefore, this is the ideological difference between the two civilizations, and in fact, the murder of our sons in Middle-earth is far less serious than the patricide complex in the West. ”

“……”

Everyone looked at each other, and everyone who was still in high spirits suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

"By the way, didn't you say there's a different show?"

Chen Chen suddenly changed the topic and showed an interested look, "Can we go now?" ”

"It should be almost there, let's go to the casino lobby first......"

Davis on the side rounded up and said, "Let's go there first, and then we'll go to see the boxing match!" ”

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