Chapter 9: A Thousand Brilliant Suns (5)
"Your life experience seems to be rich......"
"How can there be ......" Xiao Baiyu smiled like the wind, but there was a slight light in his eyes.
Xu Minhan didn't notice that Xiao Baiyu was stunned in place suddenly. In my mind, a series of chains in the form of a single chain like a long river stretched into the distance, as if the species was born like the birth of a viral life, but this kind of life that does not exist independently blooms like a brilliant wave and then annihilates for a moment, and then continues to flow after a long river, the chain becomes a double chain, the archaeal domain, the fungal domain appears, and then the eukaryotic domain life evolves.
History, it seems, changes at this moment, the eukaryotic extends farther away, the waves in the river become intense, molluscs, crustaceans, and chordates are born one after another, dividing into tributaries, and the "branches" of the eukaryotic domain become infinitely luxuriant.
The scene changed, from the center of the long river to the sky above the long river, and the river below looked like the roots of a giant tree, extending more and more intricately, until for a moment, a touch of starlight bloomed in the distance of the long river, entangled the roots representing the archaeal and fungal domains with the eukaryotic domain. At that moment, the long river erupted instantly, and a tributary extending from the long chain was like a wild and domineering beast, the third and fourth chains were superimposed wildly, and the third and fourth chains were ...... All the way to the point where I can't count them.
Suddenly, the tributaries that stretched into the distance suddenly stopped flowing, and half of them stopped flowing, and at this time, the scene became the source of the river that had never been seen before, where the line drawing of a towering tree occupied the whole world, and the long river under his feet turned out to be only one of the countless roots of the tree, and the branches and leaves of the tree floated like feathers, and the majestic branches seemed to contain all the rules of the whole world.
The reversed tributary was shining brightly, but the moment it reversed, the starlight was negligible compared to the scene ahead, and the other roots continued to extend in the established direction, and the tributary with the starlight stopped there.
The next moment, the tributaries turned back, like the waves that were unwilling to pass away, desperate but powerless, but the surging waves were so desperate against the current, as if they wanted to break through all shackles. This scene seems so small and helpless, but this choice seems to be born to be magnificent and majestic, and those rushing waves seem to illuminate the whole darkness with their own faint light.
When he came to the countercurrent, he couldn't even see anything in front of him, he didn't know that he was a root, he didn't know the existence of the giant tree, and he didn't know how far away the abyss he was going to fight against, he could only see the silence on the way back. In the center of the light, there were flashes of ancient patterns, and countless images such as the divine spear of creation, the giant axe that split the sky, the cross dripping blood, the holy spear of atonement, the rotating yin and yang fish, and so on, kept deriving, and finally all died out, leaving only a symbol representing life.
In the depths of the endless darkness, a hidden vibration swept out, the faint light flickered for a moment and immediately withered, and the edges of the tracing branches and leaves of the giant tree still floated like down, as if it were insignificant to annihilate all this.
The light dissipated, and in front of him was the rising war and fire, intertwined blood and tears, countless creatures cried endlessly, war songs and drums resounded between the heavens and the earth, the gears rolled with gears, grinding time into powder, the huge white jade pillar ran through the sky and the earth, the ancient gods led down to dense and obscure words with the Anke symbol that represented life, the sacrificial sound seemed to come from the flood era, long and long, the immortal totem paintings were tedious and mysterious, the hideous beasts gnawed on the bloody sacrifices, the dark red flags danced lonely in the night, and the giant serpent covered with feathers spread its strong wings and roared at the top of the templeThe sun and the moon rise and fall behind the giant serpent, the light is getting dimmer and dimmer, but the stars in the heavens are incomparably bright, and the aurora-like curtain sways like a skirt in the endless night sky......
"Bai Yu, is your hometown beautiful?" Xu Minhan didn't notice Xiao Baiyu's distraction, he just thought he was watching the wolves bite the food.
"Huh?" Xiao Baiyu came back to his senses, all the scenes dissipated, and even why he was out of his mind had been forgotten, and the scenes in his mind were even more gone, and he couldn't recall the slightest bit of painful thoughts.
"I'm just asking, where is your hometown, is it a beautiful place?" Xu Minhan asked again to make him completely sober up.
Xiao Baiyu doesn't have this concept yet, my father was born in the UK, and he spent his childhood in London, which is a hometown, but unfortunately Xiao Baiyu has not been to the UK yet. Mom's hometown seems to be Shangri-La in Yunnan, which is indeed a beautiful place, but unfortunately he has never been there......
It wasn't until this moment that Xiao Baiyu was stunned to find that he didn't seem to have lived in the so-called hometown since he could remember, and he hadn't even looked at it.
"I'm not afraid of embarrassment when I say it, I don't seem to have ever been back to my hometown. Xiao Baiyu smiled helplessly, the feeling just now disappeared, and he felt a strong sense of loss.
"What a pity!" Xu Minhan looked at Xiao Baiyu with a look of "sympathy for the same fate", "I haven't been to Kabul since I was born." But the good thing is that I have always lived in Hangzhou, and half of my roots are there. Bai Yu, have you ever imagined what your hometown is like?"
Xiao Baiyu thought to himself, London and Shangri-La are both world-famous places, Xiao Baiyu has seen countless photos on the Internet, and there is no room for imagination.
"In my memory, I will always retain the images that penetrated the words and imprinted in my dreams when I was ten years old when I read "A Thousand Splendid Suns". Xu Minhan let out a long breath, "I will never forget the quote from Mr. Hosseini's book: 'People can't count how many bright moons are on her roof, and they can't count the thousand brilliant suns behind her walls', which is a poem written by a great Afghan poet......"
Xiao Baiyu looked at Xu Minhan's fascinated face seriously, and finally understood that this boy was not just walking towards his hometown he had never seen step by step with enthusiasm. Love? That land has never raised him, and the family affection there is also as far away as a mirror, how can he talk about love? He is just a chaser, like a father who is endlessly chasing an unattainable dream, full of hope and longing!
He has read all Hosseini's books, why did he finish reading Hosseini's trilogy, but he only had a soft spot for "A Thousand Splendid Suns"? Because that was a true portrayal of his parents! Even if the war was raging, even if the situation was turbulent, people finally had indestructible love in their hearts, believing that all suffering would eventually be redeemed, and Xu Minhan, like his father, embarked on the journey with awe of life and life!
"Then you have to recuperate well," Xiao Baiyu patted Xu Minhan's shoulder and smiled, "Like the day when you almost lost your life on the top of Xixia Bangma Peak, if there is a case, your dream will never come true." ”
"Haha, if you can't save me that day, you might as well bury me. ”
"Heavenly burial?" big brother, the heavenly burial requires birds and beasts to devour the corpses cleanly, there is not even a single beast hair on the mountain of more than 7,000 meters, you teach me, how to bury in the sky?" Xiao Baiyu glared at him in shock, "What's more, you are both a Chinese and a *** believer, is it good to use the burial in both places, you get a sky burial is quite fresh, do you want to make news headlines?"
"Where are you buried?" Xu Minhan looked deeply at the distant starry sky, "Hangzhou and Kabul are my homes!"
Xiao Baiyu was silent, of course, not in thought, but a little strange why the two of them talked about how to deal with the aftermath with relish and seriousness......
"I said brother, tell your son about this kind of thing when you get old......" Xiao Baiyu wiped the sweat from his forehead......
Xu Minhan shook his head with a smile and tore open a bag of dry food that was left in the package.
"If you are really so persistent," Xiao Baiyu thought for a while, then pointed to the wolves, "Oh, don't you want to be buried in the sky, now is a great opportunity!"
"......" Xu Minhan looked at the fierce wolves, shrunk his neck, turned his head and glared at Xiao Baiyu fiercely.
As Xiao Baiyu said, the wolves ate the brown bear clean. In this high-altitude wilderness, wolves cannot find food at any time, they can eat a meal for several months, but a meal will eat dozens of catties of meat. The Alpha wolf king and even the second wolf can eat enough, but the wolf that eats the scraps is not so lucky, and the newborn cubs in the wolf den this season are probably weaned, so there is little food left for the lowest status wolf.
The wolves lingered under the tree for a while, and several wolves that had not eaten enough looked up at Xiao Baiyu and the two of them in the tree from time to time, revealing their white teeth.
"These guys, it looks like they want to eat us!" Xiao Baiyu said, "Look at the greedy and ferocious light in their eyes, they are really amazing animals, the white teeth are very powerful, canines have the most biting jaws in the world, wolves are the best among them, and their limbs are digging into the earth, this is the unwilling provocation of life to the universe that created them." ”
"Hey, you don't want to marvel at the greatness of the Creator like those biologists on TV who are crazy obsessed with all kinds of creatures, do you!" Xu Minhan shook his head helplessly, he really didn't know how this guy could describe such a creepy picture as a world-class famous painting......
Xiao Baiyu was a little dumbfounded and found that after the incident on the snow mountain, the richness of his knowledge had improved again. In the past few years, my uncle has brought two extracurricular books for himself every week in order to increase his reading, and now it seems that his habit of absorbing all kinds of knowledge from TV and books has been cultivated since he was able to read independently.
Soon after, the wolves were gone, and the campfire was still rising, and with the level of fear of the flames of these wild animals, they would not normally stay here for long. If it weren't for the campfire, the wolves wouldn't have confronted them vigilantly for that long.
"Let's spend the night in the trees tonight, I'm afraid that the smell of blood will attract more predators, my place is relatively comfortable by the fork of the tree, why don't we change positions?" Xiao Baiyu asked.
"Okay!" Xu Minhan was not polite to Xiao Baiyu, after all, that guy's ability to survive in the wild was not at the same level as him, and now it seems that it was a joke that he forcibly followed.