Chapter 9: A Thousand Brilliant Suns (1)
In the past few days, Xiao Baiyu and Xu Minhan have gotten along happily together, and the two have astronomy and geography, religious beliefs, opera and music, famous works, literature and art...... Talk about everything. Xu Minhan is three years older than Xiao Baiyu, so one graduated from junior high school and the other graduated from high school, but he has a wide range of extracurricular knowledge. But the similarity is that they all went to college right away......
"Do you think that your knowledge is given to you by Allah?"
"Allah only spreads wisdom to the world, and it is up to Himself to extract it." Xu Minhan said, "You actually want to ask me what attitude I believe in Allah, right?"
"Hehe......" The intention was debunked, and Xiao Baiyu didn't feel embarrassed, "Your level of knowledge is not low, you should know that modern science has a devastating blow to religion and theology." β
Then you should also know that as long as there are problems in the world that science cannot explain, the vitality of theology will not be exhausted. Perhaps, even if science can explain everything in the world one day, theology will still maintain its vigorous vitality, because there will always be people who will be grateful for everything that fate has given them on the road of pursuing ideals and beliefs, and I think that free beings will long for a pair of pure wings that will allow them to fly to the bright sky. β
Perhaps this is the last pure land that can be guarded in the spiritual world...... "Chasing "freedom" has always been an enduring proposition.
"For ***, Allah has only one Book, yet each of them is a complete Book. 'God' lives in a place that we can't see, when you believe in Him, He will save you with sincerity, it has nothing to do with whether I believe in science or not, even if I strive for happiness and happiness, we should be grateful to treat, so that the 'paradise' in our hearts can be completely beautiful. β
Xiao Baiyu gradually understood what kind of existence the "god" in Xu Minhan's heart was "supreme, supreme, and virtuous". It was the place of his faith, the place of hope, the benchmark of "perfection" in his heart, a quality he longed for, and it did not matter whether "God" really existed or not.
It's just that he believes in Allah, so all the images are embodied in the figure of Allah and believe in His existence.
"Min Han, who do you like to read books written by you?"
"Khaled Hosseini. β
"Looks like I guessed right. β
"What about you?" Xu Minhan scratched his head with a wry smile, through getting to know each other in the past two days, he didn't have to guess whose book he liked, after all, he and the author loved that land equally deeply.
"Me? huh...... I usually like to read Lin Qingxuan's prose, and I like Jin Yong and Master Gulong the most in novels, if I talk about foreign masterpieces, I don't read too much, and in general, I think Verne's is very much to my liking. β
If Xiao Yifan heard that his son liked Verne's book, he would be so excited that he would cry, when he and Grant read "Captain Grant's Children" together, the picture of a mountain alliance vowing to take a hundred barrels of rum around the Atlantic Ocean was deeply engraved in his memory, and to this day, they often use this incident to ridicule each other.
"Oh, so you've read a lot of books. β
"I can't help it, my grades are not very good, and I don't like to play games, so I read books when I'm bored. It's a pity that I have read a lot of books since I was a child, but I haven't finished reading the four famous books yet. β
"I didn't drag you down when I walked with you, I found that you never offered to rest, don't you feel tired?" Xu Minhan was a little puzzled, after a few days, he really felt very tired, but this guy who was two or three years younger than him had never shouted tired. And looking at him now, he seems to be still in good spirits, not at all like a traveler who has been traveling for a week in a row.
Xiao Baiyu shook his head, walking the pilgrimage road in half a year is indeed a challenge for ordinary people. Back then, the Red Army's 25,000-mile Long March, although it was because of the lack of food and the battle and advance that the martyrs walked for two years. But they are now traveling nearly 10,000 kilometers, and even if they prepare enough food, it will be difficult to complete it in half a year.
After walking on this deserted path, the dry food stored by the two was quickly consumed, and there were no shops selling "Yue Li Yue", "Shanghao Jia" and "Farmer Sanquan" on this road. Because Xu Minhan is a *** sect, he will not enjoy the meat product that stores the most meat products in Xiao Baiyu's evil coffin, pork jerky.
Through Xu Minhan, Xiao Baiyu learned that *** believes that pigs are unclean things, ugly, ignorant, lazy, greedy, filthy, all bad roots in one, and have a bad temperament, even the cubs will be eaten when they are extremely hungry, and the most unacceptable thing is that pigs will have incest and mate when they are in estrus.
Therefore, all the characteristics of pigs are contrary to the living habits of ***. Moreover, pork is the worst meat for the human body after eating among all livestock meat, and even Li Shizhen has a clear record in the "Compendium of Materia Medica".
According to Xu Minhan, since his father stayed in Afghanistan for two years, he has never eaten pork even after returning to China, but this will not affect Xiao Baiyu's eating habits.
"I said, I guess we'll soon be in a nowhere where to go. We need to find our own way over the snowy mountains, which is not a fun thing. Actually, you don't have to be with me. Xiao Baiyu looked at the mountains with "white hats" in front of him and said softly.
"Keep walking. Xu Minhan patted Xiao Baiyu on the shoulder and walked in front of him.
"Whew-" Xiao Baiyu exhaled deeply, he is a god descendant, even in this barren mountain and wilderness, there are a hundred ways to survive. But Xu Minhan is different, he is an ordinary person, and the perennial snow on the snowy mountain alone is enough for him to have a headache. But Xiao Baiyu didn't want to refuse too strongly, since he wanted to follow, let him be. After all, in his memory, there was never a traveling companion who was willing to accompany him no matter how bumpy the road ahead was.
Touching the "coffin" wrapped in the white cloth, Xiao Baiyu smiled slightly, how did he come up with this name in the first place? Carrying a coffin all day long, does he have a bad taste......
"If you don't leave, it's going to be dark, why are you stunned?" Xu Minhan beckoned to Xiao Baiyu in the distance.
Looking at the mobile phone on the shoulder bag, Xiao Baiyu yawned: "It's only past six o'clock, and the sun hasn't set yet, so don't be in such a hurry." β
Saying that, Xiao Baiyu still followed quickly: "It's about to enter the Wildlife Nature Reserve, follow me closely, there are medium and large cats in this area." β
"Why, you are a junior high school student and still want to protect me, no matter what, I should protect you. "Xu Minhan made it look like I was a big brother, but his height of 1.8 meters was quite convincing.
"Junior high school student, have I graduated from junior high school?" Xiao Baiyu said angrily.
Looking back at the long road he had walked, Xiao Baiyu stared, and turned over the mountain range behind him, which is the land of Nepal, this is the first time he has gone abroad in these years, and it is also the first time since he was born to go abroad by "walking......
"First of all, find out if there are any temporary shelters left by Tibetans or poachers who collect medicinal herbs. It took them most of the day to finally climb to the top of the first mountain, Xiao Baiyu looked at the continuous mountains, and the sunlight fell on the mountains, as if it was a sky lantern to guide them forward, as if the other side of the mountains was the place of the gods.
He couldn't help but sigh that it might take a long time to get out of this mountain.
This is the first hill, the higher peaks behind one after another, overlooking the foothills below, there is a small stream flowing through, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkles, the clear stream reflects the drunken wine red, the bare pebbles glow with a faint golden glow, the top of the snow-capped mountains on the horizon is inlaid with orange and yellow outlines, and the waist of the mountain is a verdant broad-leaved forest.
It took a whole day to climb a hill, and the straight line was less than three kilometers.
"Don't let me know who designed the line. Xiao Baiyu cursed in his heart, he understood that the guy who made this route was definitely embarrassed for him. Fortunately, before it was completely dark, they found a place to stayβa dilapidated hut.
As soon as I entered the door, a "wild" smell came to my face, and the smell of sweat mixed with rotten straw mats gushed out of the house, although I don't know how long no one has come to live, but judging from the current situation, the ability to shelter from the wind in the house is quite good - at least the smell in the house has not escaped at all.
Eating and sleeping on the Tibetan Plateau, which has an average altitude of more than 3,500 meters, is a terrible thing, surrounded by a wildlife sanctuary, although it is a foothill, the temperature is very low, and it is not far from the stream, and there is some dampness in the house.
Resisting the stench, the two set up tents in the house, after all, they still didn't have the courage to sleep on the straw mats.
The two of them left the door open for more than an hour, and went outside to eat something, and when they came back, the smell in the house was much lighter, and as soon as it was dark, they went to sleep. For Xu Minhan, such a trip was indeed very loaded, and as soon as he fell, he fell asleep.
Xiao Baiyu tossed and turned for a long time, and he really couldn't sleep, so he got up and turned out of the tent, gently pushed open the door of the thatched house, and came to the foothills of the moonlit and starry mountains.
In June and July, the angle between the ecliptic and the equator is just enough for the stars to gather in the northern hemisphere, and the Big Dipper is upside down, like a hat buckled to the tip of a mountain, and the North Star is not visible, after all, the direction pointed by the Tianshu Star and the Tianxuan Star is behind the mountain.
However, there should be several constellations in the sky, but unfortunately Xiao Baiyu is not a person who can recognize constellations, and it is rare to be able to find the Big Dipper.
After staying in the city for so many years, he had long forgotten what the starry sky looked like, and at this time, looking at this beautiful picture, he couldn't help but be a little intoxicated, and his thoughts flew to the nine skies.
Xiao Baiyu sat down on the lawn gently, the bubbling stream flowed quietly, under the starry sky, the surrounding scenery was a little shadowy, Xiao Baiyu, who was holding his knees, sighed, how long did it take, he began to look down on the world as a superior person, is this really a "symptom" brought about by the bloodline of the Protoss? But he didn't like it at all.
Don't look at him looking at the stars at the moment, in fact, his left brain has fallen asleep, and his right brain is still awake, at this time he can already control his left and right brains to coordinate with each other to rest and work.
"I'm becoming more and more like a 'god'. Xiao Baiyu smiled bitterly, this was not the first time he had spoken to himself like this.
Lu Wei, Wei Yiran and Xue Muliang are probably already carnivaling in the past two days as they were when they first went on vacation. I remember that two days after the exam, several guys went to the Internet cafΓ© together for two all-nighters.
Xiao Baiyu naturally didn't go along with them, one is that he doesn't play games much, even if he is with them, it's not interesting, and the other is that he doesn't have time at all, after the high school entrance examination, his exam has just begun......
"Those guys, I don't know how long it will take to see each other again. "In such a big city, if it weren't for the fact that they were in the same class, many people might not have crossed paths in their lives, even if they were classmates, how many would they still be in touch after graduation? Even if there is a class reunion, how many old people will come? At least Xiao Baiyu doesn't know if he can be present at the next class reunion............
"The ancients can still be things are wrong, touching the scene and hurting, now, not to mention people, a few years later, I'm afraid things are not, the scene is gone, even the remembrance, there is nowhere to go." Xiao Baiyu had a faint smile on his face, but the corners of his eyes were shining with a strange brilliance.
This night, Xiao Baiyu thought a lot, thinking of the scene when his mother taught him French many years ago, thinking of the scene in Guatemala where he was indifferent to the majestic statue, and thinking of the picture of his uncle taking him to climb the mountain and introduce himself to the new world...... Some of the years that should be remembered and those that should not be remembered are all screened in the mind.
So he sat on the lawn and slept quietly in the cold mountain wind......