Now everyone knows that Caterina has been made governor by Lord Baron, and is in charge of the island she just left, which is a little small in the eyes of the fat man, but not too small in the eyes of the sailors.

The island is long, and there is a lake on the top of the mountain, which used to be a crater, and the sailors should not know, but what they do know is that the water in that lake is freshwater, and there is a large flat beach on the edge of the lake that can be cultivated, and I don't know how many years of fallen leaves have rotted together with the thick layer of volcanic ash, as long as you turn these over, it is a good plantation.

And there are a lot of fat and can't fly and can't run fast birds on the mountain, thinking of the eggs all over the mountain, people who have never seen it and Ben never imagined that the mountain will be full of bird eggs, and they have never seen a bird that will eat the eggs laid by themselves.

The captain said that this situation was a survival instinct of the bird that has survived from time immemorial to the present. Birds lay eggs instinctively, but when they hatch too many eggs, the whole island is full of birds, and the island is so big, and there is so much food, if all these eggs come out of the shell, it will be a disaster for the birds, they will eat everything they can eat on the island, and then everyone will starve to death.

Therefore, there is an instinct for the survival of all things in heaven and earth, and the birds on the island are feeling that if they don't eat those extra eggs, the race will be completely finished, so they selectively eat some of the eggs that have been laid too much, leaving only some just enough to reproduce the entire race, so that the whole race can live on the island.

"Then these little birds that haven't come out of their shells and seen this world for a day are too pitiful, they were eaten before they came out of their shells!" Little Nina held a big bird egg in her arms and looked at the fat man pitifully: "Teacher, can I hatch this bird egg!" I don't want it to die before it sees the world, it's so pitiful. ”

The fat man smiled and asked her, "Little Nina, what should they do with so many eggs in the food tank?" Have you saved this one, how many have you saved? ”

"What then?" Little Nina was about to cry, tears rolling in her eyes: "But Nina doesn't want them to die, they haven't seen this world yet!" They're so pathetic! ”

Crying and crying, Nina turned to the sailors who were listening to the captain's story and begged, "Uncle Andy, Uncle Filly...... We don't eat eggs anymore, okay? They're pathetic. ”

Before the sailors could speak, the fat man exclaimed, "Nina, sit down!" ”

Little Nina was drunk by the fat man, her mouth was flattened, tears fell down with tears, and she sat back in her place aggrieved and aggrieved.

Then Filly the sailor stood up and said to the fat man with a wince, "Lord Baron, it is okay if we don't eat the eggs, for we have so much food anyway." ”

"You too, sit down!" The fat man's face was gloomy.

When everyone was seated, the fat man did not say anything more about the eggs, but told other stories.

"In our East, there is a Taoism, Taoism has a sage, he wrote a book, called "Tao Te Ching", the truth between heaven and earth has become a sentence, written in that "Tao Te Ching", those words, each sentence is to teach people, how to be a person or do things, but, the book he wrote is too profound, so that you need a high level of knowledge to understand, so for a long time this is an imperial doctrine;

There is another sage, he is from another sect, it is Confucianism, he is called Confucius, he learned the knowledge of his predecessors that he can understand, and then educates his disciples through words and deeds, and later his disciples write his teachings into small stories and paragraphs written in books, in order to teach future generations how to be a person or do things, but because there are too few literate people, so his teachings let the literate people get wisdom, and the illiterate people sink into the abyss;

Later, in India, there was also a saint, Shakyamuni, who founded Buddhism, as for how this saint taught his disciples and the world, I don't know too well, but I know how his followers taught the world, they made up all kinds of ideal virtues, one by one small stories, and went to the common people to preach, so that this sect, in the end, has the largest number of believers. ”

The fat man paused and then said: "And what I want to do now is to teach you to know the world, to know the ways and methods of a race to survive in this land, because you are too small, so I can only use stories to tell you, what is feasible and what is not feasible, I can't tell you, I can only let you understand in the story, you think of it, that is what you have learned, what you think of, that is what you have learned." ”

Then he pointed to the sailors sitting on the deck in front of him: "You too, what you hear from the story is what you learn from it, if you can't learn it, then take it as a story, listen to it and go to sleep beautifully." ”

I don't know when it started, when the fat man took the time to give a lecture to Little Nina at night, the sailors would come to listen together, at first they were embarrassed, just a few people, and then they saw that the fat man did not drive them away, so they got closer, and gradually there were more people, and then as long as the ship stopped at night, the sailors would give the anchor as soon as possible and then run to the Yinglong to listen to the fat man give a lecture to Little Nina.

The main reason for this is that when the fat man gave a lecture to little Nina, he was afraid that she would not understand, so he made up all the things to be told into a small story, and how could this story exist in Europe in this era! So the sailors were also fascinated when they heard it.

"Do you know why the egg-laying bird you have in your arms right now doesn't fly?" The fat man asked her, pointing to the fist-sized bird egg in Little Nina's arms.

Little Nina lowered her head and said timidly, "I don't know! ”

"Because its wings are too small and its body is too fat to fly, do you know why they can't fly?" The fat man saw little Nina shaking his head, and then looked at the sailors, and then at Caterina and O'Neill, Arthur, Elive, Wolflin, and Ori: "You know what? ”

The crowd shook their heads.

"A long, long time ago, there were no such birds on that island, maybe it was a tornado, maybe some bird flying in the air pulled down a lump of and got the seed of the first tree, and then there were plants on that island, and slowly there were more plants, and there were more fruits, and there were more fallen leaves, and there were more fungi, and these were the food of those birds;

Birds fell from the sky and were pleasantly surprised to find that there was so much food that they didn't have to fly to the far south to spend the winter on the island.

So the birds lived on that island, and there were no other large creatures on that island except birds and turtles, so they had no natural predators, and without natural predators, they didn't have to build their nests hard to high trees, but they wanted to lay eggs, and they found a nest in the grass, and they lay down, and you said, "Did the eggs you pick up come from the nest?" ”

The sailors nodded again.

"There are no creatures that threaten them on the island, so they don't have to fly up often to avoid sudden attacks, but often walk on the ground to rummage for fruits and fungi in fallen leaves, because there are no natural predators, there is no need to fly up all the time, and slowly the wings that have not been used for a long time will not fly, and when the next generation is hatched, they are already living on the ground, and some birds have never flown in their lives, so their wings are smaller;

And now, the birds on the island have never seen an enemy, never seen an animal hostile to them, so when we go to the island, their reaction is not to run away, but to stop and watch. ”

"In the East, there is a saying that poor people must have something to hate, and now this is also the case with this kind of bird on the island, you think that these eggs are pecked and eaten by big birds before they are hatched, you think they are pitiful, but have you ever thought that if their ancestors were not so lazy back then, and did not stay on the island, or did not give up the instinct to fly after staying, they would not have ended up where they are now, do you know? It is very easy to exterminate the birds on this small island, just put a few pigs on the small island, and the whole population of these fat birds, which have lost their flying instincts, can be wiped out, because the pigs can find all their eggs and eat them. ”

"A long, long time ago, there was a country where they also came from poverty, slowly became rich, and then became more and more peace-loving, and in that country people began to slowly oppose killing, there was a group of warriors, they liked to run to the deep sea tens of meters deep to pierce fish, and then told people that they were fearless heroes, but good people began to criticize them, thinking that they killed fish was a cold-blooded act, so no one dared to kill fish anymore, and good people were very proud, and they stopped killing;

Later, there was a place where people liked to eat dog meat, so the kind people couldn't stand it, how could they eat dog meat! Dogs are so cute, some people even hold dogs to sleep, how can they be allowed to eat dog meat! The sin is terrible!

So this group of people called themselves dog lovers, and they went to stop the slaughter of dogs to eat meat, and they succeeded, because they loved dogs, they worked hard, and they persistently prevented others from killing dogs, so they succeeded in preventing others from killing dogs;

At this time, the believers of Islam were unwilling, since they couldn't kill dogs, they couldn't kill pigs, pigs were much cuter than dogs, so they also protested, against people killing pigs, since people don't kill dogs, then it is reasonable not to let people kill pigs, so that country no longer let people kill pigs, everyone eats chickens, cows and sheep. ”

"The lamb is very cute, and there are many people who keep it as a pet, and they raise it to be a species that is closer than their family, and they feel that killing sheep is too unacceptable, since dogs and pigs are not allowed to be killed, why do they want to kill sheep, so they went to protest again, but this time it was simply done, this country issued such a decree, no killing in the future, no eating meat."

"Because even rats are kept as pets in that country."

"And it was not long before the country perished!"

The fat man asked the people in front of him mysteriously, "Do you know how this country perished?" ”