Chapter 7 This Shore and the Other Shore
When the demented child was no longer demented, he found that he had woken up from a dream, he had a long dream, and he spent more than twenty years in the world of dreams. When he first woke up, he thought he had crossed over, like a novel he read in a dream. But the real world made him realize that the world with modern civilization was his dream.
Because he has indeed lived in this world for more than ten years, he still remembers that he feels the world every day, those grasses, those flowers, those rains, those lightning and thunder... But the world in the dream is also very real, in the dream his name is Mu Feng, he is a college graduate who has just joined the company, he remembers the car, the light bulb... ,
It's just because I had an accident in the bus, and then fell into darkness, and then I woke up and found myself in this world dreaming of a world with modern civilization. After the idiot woke up from the dream, he found that the world in the dream was a little strange and a little distant.
The idiot is Mu Feng, but he doesn't have Mu Feng's memories and experiences in the unknown place, and later when he came into contact with the light of reincarnation, as if that experience disappeared, and of course it may have been sealed. Is Mu Feng a little idiot? No one knows.
This real world does not have everything in the industrial era, but there are Chinese characters and sages, as if it is the predecessor of modern civilization in the dream world, and it is like a world with the same origin, but it is developing in a different direction. Anyway, the current world seems to have an ancient civilization similar to the dream world. Now the idiot (Mu Feng) doesn't know who he is in this world? Is he Mu Feng in the dream world or the idiot in this world?
On this day, he squatted by the river with his arms folded on his knees. I watched the river flow quietly, as if I was thinking about something. Next to it is a willow tree, the branches of which sway from side to side with the light wind, and the tips of the branches continue to cut back and forth through the calm river. "Hey, idiot, Grandpa Baicao told you to go home. The children of the valley shouted at the idiot. The idiot who was squatting by the river responded, stood up and walked towards the valley not far away.
Back in Baicaolu, Grandpa Baicao said to him with a smile: "Child, come over and warm up, although everything recovers in early spring, but the cold is still in place, and you can't stay outside for a long time." The idiot walked to the fire, looked up at Grandpa Baicao and asked, "Grandpa, am I a little idiot?" Grandpa Baicao gently stroked the top of the idiot's head with a warm hand, and the idiot felt a warm current flowing from the top of his head to his body, and his body became warm.
Grandpa Baicao saw that the idiot's four hands and feet were slightly stretched, and the chill around his body had dissipated, and said to the idiot: "Child, why do you ask that?" The idiot said: "I had a dream, in the dream I was not an idiot, but when I woke up, I found that I was an idiot, and I was dreaming that I was not an idiot." Grandpa Baicao thought to himself: Although this child has just woken up, his mind is more mature than that of ordinary children.
Grandpa Baicao silently observed for a period of time after the idiot woke up, and found that the child spoke logically and could understand many words accurately. Thinking in my heart, I asked, "Have you been in a dream all along?" The idiot snorted.
Grandpa looked at him and said, "Little idiot, there are many people in this world who are dreaming, some people dream of pie falling from the sky, some people dream that they can do everything, and different people have different dreams. Then some people are clear, and some people are confused. Awake people are based on reality and look for the meaning of dreams, while confused people are self-centered and wait for the realization of dreams. But once you can't wait, you will have delusions, and if you don't clear enough, you will sink. Do you understand?"
The idiot looked at his grandfather and said, "I don't understand." "If you don't understand, remember it first. Grandpa said to him with a smile.
The idiot nodded seriously, and then listened to the grandfather say, "Idiot, if I say you're an idiot, are you?If I say you're not an idiot, aren't you?" Although the idiot is only eleven or twelve years old, in the dream world, he is an adult, although he is not very mature, but at least he has a certain amount of experience and experience.
He knows that asking someone the question "Who am I?" is not right for him, no matter how correct the answer may be. He asked Grandpa Baicao just to find someone to express his doubts. Grandpa Baicao didn't give a positive answer, hoping that he would not care about other people's opinions. "Who am I?" is a question that few people can answer accurately, whether in the world of dreams or in the world of living now.
It seems that a person's whole life exists only to understand this question, and perhaps only at the end of life, when death comes, looking back on the experience of a lifetime, those things that even death cannot erase can provide guidance and let people get answers.
Everyone in the world is on this shore, and every thing and every thought in life is a process of people seeking the other side, either intentionally or unintentionally. But the other side is always far away in time and space, and we can never seem to reach it. Dream and reality seem to be inseparable from each other in the pursuit.
The idiot said to his grandfather: "Grandpa, what about my parents?" Grandpa saw the idiot's serious appearance, and after thinking about it, he told the idiot about his situation, and the idiot realized that he was an orphan, and that there was only one relative in this world, and that his biological parents might be somewhere in this world, or that he had already become ancient.
After thinking about it, he asked, "Grandpa, what is my surname in the future, and what is my name?" Grandpa thought for a while and asked, "Who is your surname in the dream?" "My name in the dream is Mu Feng" The idiot said. Grandpa said thoughtfully: "Mu Feng, Mu Feng, is a name not a name." Maybe it's providential. Idiot, from now on, your surname is admired. "The idiot originally wanted to inherit his grandfather's surname and let his grandfather give him his name.
When I heard that my grandfather still asked him to use the name in my dreams, I wanted to say that I would start with my grandfather's surname and let my grandfather give him a name. But on second thought, this is also a name given by grandpa. So I asked my grandfather why he used this name. Grandpa said, "Little idiot, call you Feng'er." Feng'er, you have been born in a dream since then, although the dream is not the same as reality, but the experience in the dream is also a part of your life, to a certain extent, you are Mu Feng, as for why, you need to find the answer yourself.
When the idiot saw his grandfather say this, he bowed down and bowed, "Thank you for your name." Grandpa said: "The earth is rejuvenated, you have just woken up from a dream, you can follow me in the future to get to know all things in this heaven and earth." Grandpa, I am a healer, so you can follow me to learn the way of a healer. Mu Feng responded happily. In his dream, Mu Feng read martial arts novels and related TV movies when he was a child, and at that time, he was most eager to step on the snow without a trace, and he wanted to be like them.
Mu Feng often sees in novels that if you open up the two veins of Ren Du and the eight veins of the Qi Jing or something, you can fly high and high and fly through the air. It wasn't until he matured a little that Mu Feng realized that the volley fit was impossible, but the second pulse of Ren Du really existed, so he turned to the way of Chinese medicine.
Now that I can learn medicine from my grandfather, I can't help but be happy, although I don't know if the medicine in this world is the same as the Chinese medicine in my dreams, but Mu Feng is still very happy. The grandfather and grandson were talking around the fire. Mu Feng listened to his grandfather talk about his early study tour experience. In this world, the land where they live is called the Tianyan Continent. The Tianyan Continent is divided into five regions, namely Middle Earth, Western Desert, East China Sea, Northern Regions, and Southern Xinjiang.
Middle-earth is gradually lowered from west to east, and the east is submerged in the sea, and there are many islands in the East China Sea, dotted with deserts, and the desert is connected in the desert, and the oases in the desert are dotted with stars. From south to north, the temperature gets cooler. It is bordered by the red land of southern Xinjiang in the south, and the volcanoes are continuous in the red land, and the sky is red all the year round; the icebergs are lined up on the ice field of the northern region in the north, and the lead clouds are all over the year. As for the east of the East China Sea, the west of the Western Desert, the south of Southern Xinjiang, and the north of the Northern Regions, it is difficult for human beings to understand their geomorphological and climatic characteristics.
As for Middle-earth, mountains, rivers, lakes, green spaces and deserts, terrain and landforms are different. The climate has four distinct seasons throughout the year, and the cycle is orderly. When Grandpa Baicao was young, he traveled around and had a wide range of knowledge, what customs, myths and legends, and came casually. Grandpa spoke happily, Mu Feng listened to it with taste, and he didn't realize that the sky was getting dark, and the sun had gone west.
As Mu Feng's stomach growled, Grandpa noticed the change in the sky from the narration. At this time, I found that I was talking more and more energetically on a whim, completely out of the usual state of mind, and when I came back to my senses, I looked at Mu Feng with a little starlight in his eyes and a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was fascinated. Those pure eyes seem to have a peculiar suction, which makes people involuntarily listen to the hearts of the owners of the eyes.
Grandpa Baicao couldn't help but sigh in his heart: This son is very extraordinary. Mu Feng also came back to his senses, only to find that his grandfather didn't talk any more. Then he asked, "Why didn't Grandpa talk about it?" Feng'er was listening to it energetically. Grandpa said: "Good boy, the coming day is long, let's talk about it later, it's getting late now, and you're hungry, right?" Hearing his grandfather's reminder, Mu Feng realized that his stomach had already rumbled in rebellion.
Grandpa asked Mu Feng to fetch steamed buns to put in the small steamer on the stove, and he also went to the kitchen to stew the medicinal food that nourished Zhongqi. The next day, Grandpa began to teach Mu Feng the basic medical principles, such as the transformation of yin and yang in the human body, the five elements of shengke, the five internal organs and six internal organs, the eight veins of the strange meridians, and the hundred bones of the limbs.
Mu Feng naturally couldn't understand it at this time, so he listened carefully and memorized it carefully. In this way, Mu Feng began his life in this world. Although Mu Feng woke up, he was still silent on weekdays, and he was not as lively as ordinary children. But very polite to people. In this valley, he is closest to Grandpa Baicao, and the second is that he has a better relationship with the Qing'er sister next door.