Chapter 65: Jewish Ancestry and the Chinese
This sentence is as clear as the previous one, and the sound is made in the same place, but it doesn't seem to be said by the same person. The person in the image, after hearing this, suddenly knelt on the ground, pointed a trumpet-shaped object at a stone, and put his ear on the other end of the trumpet, as if trying to listen to the sound of the stone.
Amid the thunder, the rain, and the rumbling of the fighting, he kept kneeling there, in that position, listening intently, motionless, like a statue of clay.
If the man in the image is really blind, then none of us expected this strange behavior on the mountain. He didn't do anything else when he went up the mountain, but to listen to some sound, or rather, to hear something. Maybe it was hundreds of years ago, in the war he personally participated, a comrade-in-arms said something to him before he died, he didn't hear it clearly, but these words were very important to him, so whenever there was a thunderstorm, he would go up the mountain to listen, because only in a thunderstorm, the sound recorded on those stones would be reproduced.
I, Sister Li, and my cousin have reached a consensus on this, but what kind of words does the blind man want to hear? What kind of information was he looking for? We still can't guess exactly, so we can only continue to look at the next image.
We were also a little disappointed that the blind man knelt there for the rest of the day, listening to the stone in that almost unchanged posture. One minute, ten minutes, twenty minutes, the posture is still the same, the sky is still lightning and thunder, people are still shouting and neighing, and the rain is still falling. We got a little impatient, so we dragged our mouse and fast-forwarded, but when the image played to eleven o'clock last night, the thunder and lightning disappeared, the rain seemed to hear, and the blind man stood up, and seemed to shout something. My cousin quickly dragged the playbar with his mouse and stepped back a bit, wanting to see the details of this transformation.
We can clearly see that when the thunderstorm gradually stopped, the blind man slowly stood up, and then made a terrible sound like a night owl, as if laughing, as if crying, and it was creepy to hear, and he raised his face and roared. None of us could hear what he was yelling at.
So I replayed it once, but I still didn't hear it clearly. Replay it, but I still didn't hear it clearly. After replaying this back and forth five or six times, my cousin suddenly said, "I can hear it, he is shouting, 'Who are my parents, why can't I hear clearly?'"
Reminiscent of the sentence I heard in the video just now, "You say, who are my parents?" We speculate whether the blind man is trying to figure out his own background. And based on a series of indications, we made the following assumptions:
One of those who fought with the blind man may have a better understanding of the blind man's background. Because the blind man is an abandoned baby picked up by the swordsman on the road, no one knows who his biological parents are. And this person may know the blind man's biological parents, but it may be that for various reasons, the blind man has never had a chance to ask him. It was during the scuffle on the hill that the man was seriously wounded and was about to die, when the blind man asked him who his real parents were, and the man said the names of the blind man's real parents, but the blind man did not hear them.
In fact, it was normal for the blind man not to hear the man's words clearly at that time. Because on the battlefield, the psychology of the combatants is in a state of high pressure, and people's visual and auditory senses often appear to be short-term blind and deaf. Even if the psychological resistance is strong, because the noise on the battlefield will be very loud, it will also make the sense of hearing very dull, so the sound that can be heard in ordinary times is inaudible in that special state.
I don't know how to get through guò, but the blind man slowly learned that the sounds of their battles were "recorded" by stones for various special reasons, and that these sounds would reappear every time there was a thunderstorm, and the sound he wanted to hear the most was also recorded, so he would come to the mountains every thunderstorm in order to hear the message he wanted to hear the most.
But for various reasons, the odds are actually very small, but it is clear that the blind man has not given up his efforts.
We all feel that this reasoning is very reasonable.
Not only is the tall blind man himself interested in his life experience, but there is also a person who is not as interested in the high blind man's life experience as the high blind man himself.
That person is, of course, Sister Li's cousin.
When my cousin was studying the blind man, one of the particularly important aspects was to study the life experience of the blind man. And all the written records about the high blind man only say that the high blind man is an abandoned baby picked up by the high knife man, and there is no information at present that mentions any information about the biological parents of the high blind man.
However, as an expert and scholar, my cousin certainly has his own unique research methods. He collected the records of the appearance and other characteristics of the tall blind man in the book, and gradually put forward various hypotheses.
In many books, it is described that the tall blind man has sunken eyes, a thin face, a rhinoplasty, etc., and these characteristics are very similar to those of Westerners. I remember that Grandpa Gao had these characteristics, so much so that when I was a child, when I saw foreigners on TV, I would unconsciously think of Grandpa Gao.
One of the bold assumptions put forward by my cousin was that the blind man was a descendant of Jews who had immigrated to China.
I was astonished to think that the Jews were so far away from us, and how could the Jews come to our part of the country in ancient times, when transportation was extremely closed. Later, my cousin explained to me in detail the origin of the Jews and China, and I learned a little about the history of Jewish immigration to China.
It turns out that the history of Jewish immigration to China is very long, and the earliest documentary records can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, that is, during the Han Dynasty, there were already Jews who came to China. Since then, the Jews have never stopped coming to China.
Especially from the Tang and Song dynasties to the Qing dynasty, Jews even formed a considerable scale in some parts of China, such as Kaifeng in Henan, but these Jews have always lived relatively closed in China, and they generally do not interact with the Chinese much.
According to our county records, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, that is, when the blind man was born and grew up, a group of Jews came to us to do tea business.
We were in the mountains, and the traffic was very closed at that time. Agrarian societies pay the most attention to "living and working in peace and contentment", so people rarely move, and almost all the activities of many people's lives are concentrated within a radius of dozens of miles. So, at that time, it was very rare for a foreigner to come to the village, let alone a blond-haired Jew. Why do people tend to have some kind of fear of strangers? Anthropologists explain that this is because in the early days of human society, strangers often meant terrible infectious diseases, and people were afraid of strangers by a mechanism that was beneficial to their own survival.
I don't know if this theory is true, anyway, it is true that people reject strangers, and there are a few Jews, and it is also because of this psychology of human beings that they have incurred extremely terrible disasters. The county annals also record such a story, which seems so incredible today.
It is said that four Jews came out of the provincial capital and prepared to go to a small mountain village dozens of miles away to see the tea there. But they underestimated the dangers they faced.
The economic acumen of the Jews, of course, is remarkable. Japan's "Modern Weekly" once counted that 40% of the top 40 richest people in the United States are Jews, but Jews account for only 2% of the entire American population. Forbes magazine also reported that 60 of the world's top 400 richest people are Jews. It can be seen that the Jews have a very good sense of business and tradition, and they are independent and industrious, which makes them stand tall among the best nations in the world.
However, when these Jews faced the Chinese villagers living in the closed countryside, their outstanding wisdom also lost its effect.
At first, these Jews were just going to look at the tea leaves on the mountain, and they looked at the tea plantations in the mountains, which were as beautiful as an oil painting in the bright sunshine. Perhaps they were intoxicated by the beautiful scenery and the fresh air, so they started talking and laughing loudly, obviously in a good mood.
This loud talk and laughter, mixed with the "bird language" that made the villagers very unfamiliar, attracted the attention of some villagers working in the tea plantations from afar, these villagers were far away at first, but they saw four tall people, wearing clothes that they had never seen before, and their hair seemed to be different from ordinary people. So, a few brave villagers came slowly, and when they saw the appearance of the Jew, they turned around in fright and ran, shouting as they ran: "It's bad, the monkey has become a spirit, and the monster is coming."
When the Jews saw the villagers' reaction, they wanted to explain. But as soon as they were ready to get close to the villagers, the villagers ran away, and as soon as they stopped, the villagers stopped at a certain distance, pointing fingers at them. In this way, the chase stopped and stopped until the village.
When the four Jews entered the village, they suddenly found themselves surrounded by more than a dozen young men from the village, armed with sticks and spears. That's when they get scared.
To show that they had no ill will, the Jews raised their hands and let the villagers tie them up. But they may not realize that their doom is coming.
After the villagers tied up these four people, they all gathered around curiously, with wide eyes and from head to toe, carefully examining these four "monsters". Some villagers said that these are the four big horse monkeys who have cultivated to become fine, and in the past, they only heard the elders talk about monsters, and said that some beasts can transform into human form after hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation, but they didn't expect to see it with their own eyes. Many of the villagers were both excited and a little scared.
None of the adults and children in the village were at home, and they all came to see these "monkey spirits". One of the old men, who was a god in the village, said as if he was knowledgeable: "These four monkey spirits seem to be not deep in the Tao, and they can just transform into human form, if they really have the ability, how can these broken ropes tie them, think about that monkey, even the mountains can't hold down miles."
Some villagers choked him and said, "Sun Monkey is not cultivated by ordinary monkeys, he is a stone monkey with the qi of heaven and earth, how can he compare with these four."