Qi Guoji

An old man sat cross-legged on a ox, compared the moon in the sky to the young man holding the ox, and then said, "Zigong, do you know this month?"

"Master. The young man turned around and arched his hand to the old man. "What do you ask?"

There have always been moon characters in this world, such as the moon wheel country, such as the famous laurel in the moon wheel country, and the moon white in the color of laurel petals.

Of course, the moon he asked at this time was not referring to the color, because he was asking about the moon.

The Master is a man who is born to know.

The young man called Zigong lowered his head, and after being silent for a long time, he frowned and said: "The sun and the moon are reincarnated, light and darkness are opposite, I think the moon may be a thing corresponding to the sun, the sun appears in the day, and the moon appears in the night. ”

The master said, "Be specific. ”

Zigong looked at the cliff not far in front of him, the flowing clouds under the starlight, fell into a long silence again, and then said, "Maybe it...... A large stone ball suspended in the night dome is bright at night because it reflects the sun's rays. ”

The master looked at him and smiled slightly.

Ning Que raised his head, looked at the teacher standing on the edge of the cliff, looked at the clothes dancing lightly in the night wind, and vaguely seemed to have caught something.

"It's an interesting idea. ”

The master turned to look at the night dome and exclaimed, "In the long night, there is always some light. ”

"Everything in the world is silently corresponding, and it is nice to have a moon in the daytime, but if there is a moon, where will it be? If the moon reflects the rays of the sun, as you say. Doesn't it mean that at night, the sun is also in our world? Just can't see it?"

"So when it's night. And where is the sun? It really descended further down the earth beneath our feet, as it did when it set in the west. And then in the early morning?"

"Doesn't that mean that the sun revolves around our world, but the world we live in is a flat, open earth. At the edge is an endless abyss, why did I wait for more than ten days and didn't see the sun set over the abyss, it just disappeared so suddenly?"

The master looked at the night dome with his hands in his hands, and said to himself that he was not talking to Zigong, but talking to himself who had been thinking about the answer for countless years.

After a while, he looked at Chang'an City in the wilderness in the distance, frowned and said, "There are many places that are still not passable. If the world were a ball, it would seem to make sense. ”

He remembered the words of his teacher.

People in the world, accustomed to the sun rising and setting in the east and setting in the west, are accustomed to being shrouded in the brilliance of the sky day after day, just as they are accustomed to seeing the breakfast stalls on the street and the moss on the edge of the well, and never have any questions about these things, let alone why these things exist.

But the Master is not a worldly person, he needs to think.

There are probably not many people in the world who can understand these words, and even those who hear these words will think that the master is a somewhat crazy old man.

Zigong understood a little, his emotions were a little confused, and then there was endless admiration.

"I've been looking at this night sky for many years. ”

The Master pointed to the high and dark canopy above the cliff, pointed to the starry dots hanging in between, and said: "Whether it was many years ago or many years later, those stars have always stayed in their original positions without any change, which shows that the relative position of the earth and the sky is fixed, and this stability is full of a classical and solemn eternal beauty, but it is a little boring to look at for a long time. ”

Zigong looked at the night sky along the teacher's arm, not knowing what he wanted to express.

"But since the first year of the Apocalypse, these stars in the night sky have become dimmer day by day, and the difference is not visible to mortal eyes, but I know that they are getting darker. ”

The Master said, "When the night covers the stars, the kingdom will be restless. ”

"Where will it be a matter of national restlessness. ”

The master laughed, and then said, "If the whole world enters the eternal night, the difficulty is not that the country will not be at peace?"

Thinking of some legends, Zigong couldn't control the tension and fear in his heart, and asked, "Teacher, will the country be a country?"

The Master said, "Whether the legend is true or not, no one knows. ”

Ning Que asked, "Teacher, you don't know either?"

"As I said, there is no omniscient person in the world, even if he is born to know, he can only know what he has seen in his dreams, and he still does not know what he has not seen. ”

Zigong was silent.

"No one noticed that even Luoyang City was colder than the year before last winter, of course, this may just be an accident, but this abnormal celestial phenomenon has represented a catastrophe since ancient times. ”

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