Chapter 6: Vanity and Wonder
Glancing at the thick stack of books, Su Yu was in a trance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
He saw a long list of familiar titles: "Dictionary of Contemporary Astrology", "Historical Studies in Astrology", "Traditional Chinese Astrology", "The Book of Astrology for Ten Thousand Years", ...... All of them are a large number of astrological works, almost every one of Su Yu has seen from his cousin's collection, and he has read several of them.
He didn't expect that the girl also read astrology books, and read them so deeply, so it seemed that the other party was the same as himself, and he was also a freak in the well-behaved student group, even a freak even stranger than himself. At most, she had an astrology book in her arms and peeked at it when the teacher wasn't looking, but this girl couldn't wait to move the astrology library directly to the school - in terms of the thick pages and the huge amount of knowledge in this stack, each one was enough for a person to read for a month, and she really wanted to read them all in one night?
Looking at the stack of books in front of him, and thinking about the girl's bold words just now, Su Yu's original firmness was inevitably shaken. Even if you have read these books beforehand, it is almost impossible to memorize them page by page. But the girl boasted about Haikou, is she really sure? She really has the ability to read and write shorthand and never forget? Is there really such a magical ability in the world, and she is just lonely and ignorant of it?
Su Yu, like many smart people with terroir signs, is accustomed to relying on logic. What makes sense logically can be believed without seeing it with your own eyes, and what doesn't make sense logically doesn't believe that it is a fact after seeing it with your own eyes, thinking that there must be another truth behind it.
But there are times when you can't find the so-called truth alive or dead.
It's like astrology. The smooth and negative movement of the sun, moon and planets in the sky, and the fate and character of men and women on the earth, the two seem to be incompatible, but astrology is the magical ninth rod, and they are forced to hit them in one place. Relying on common sense, no one can give a logic that convinces everyone, but it has been there for thousands of years, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has been proved to be true and reliable with countless living facts.
Su Yu can accept such a mysterious thing as astrology, and the others may not be unacceptable.
He sat up straight, and for the first time looked at the girl in front of him very seriously. The girl also looked at him with a pair of dark eyes, and when she saw that she was uncomfortable, she straightened her body backwards, and asked in disgust, "Hey, what are you looking at?"
"Why have I never seen you, what class are you?" Su Yu scratched his head embarrassedly and asked.
"It's not unusual that I haven't seen it, I just transferred to another school. My name is Xu Qingluo, what about you?"
"Su Yu. ”
"Fish, the kind of fish in the water?"
"No," Su Yu thought, if he said that the fool was stupid, he was afraid that he would be asked if he was a fisherman, so he simply said: "Stupid fool." ”
Xu Qingluo laughed "poof", laughing so much that she looked at him and nodded: "Well, it's a good name, it's worthy of the name." ”
Su Yu was a little embarrassed, but since he was a child, he had been teased by his classmates about his name, and he didn't care, and he never argued about "great wisdom and foolishness", a name is a name, a code name, why involve some other meanings? There is a person named Ai Xuexue in the junior high school class, who dropped out of school early to go into business.
However, after making a joke about the name, Su Yu forgot that the other party hadn't said his class yet. He casually pulled over an astrology book, opened it from the middle and glanced at it, and then asked Xu Qingluo: "Are you really so fast at reading?"
"Really, it's a puppy to liar people!"
“...... Can you remember it after reading it?"
"Almost, I can remember it for two or three days, and I will forget it slowly. ”
Xu Qingluo was talking, Su Yu unexpectedly shook the unfolded page of the book towards her, and then quickly turned around and said, "Okay, you can memorize it." ”
This began to test, and there was not even a little time for Xu Qingluo to prepare. The girl glanced at Su Yu shallowly, then closed her eyes, and began to endorse while recalling. Su Yu unfolded the page of the book and shook it at her, normal people would only see dense words, and they couldn't even read the first pages of the book, even if she had really read the book beforehand, it was impossible to accurately say the content of this page.
But Xu Qingluo really started to memorize the first word on this page, and she memorized it quickly and smoothly, without missing a word or making mistakes. She tilted her face slightly, closed her eyes, as if she could see the page of a book in the dark, she was not memorizing but reading it, reading it briskly, naturally and with ease.
Su Yu held the book, read and listened to her back, the more he listened, the more shocked he became, and when he heard the middle he suddenly shouted "stop", put down the book and picked up another one, also turned a page at random, and showed Xu Qingluo a look, and then Xu Qingluo closed her eyes and began to memorize it as before, from beginning to end, word for word.
Su Yu didn't try a third time, because he knew that no matter how many times it was the same result. He believed that there were no flaws in the test, so he had to accept the fact that it was ironclad. There are some strange people and wonders in the world that are unbelievable, and it is right in front of him, which makes him feel that everything around him is suddenly unfamiliar, as if the worldview has been subverted all of a sudden.
After all, this kind of wonder is fundamentally different from astrology, and astrology can be perfunctory with a phrase "mysterious laws that have not yet been proven by science", but this is not good, "mysterious abilities that have not yet been proven by science"? Well, there will probably be people who accept such a definition, but obviously Su Yu is not among them.
Thinking about it, Su Yu was shocked, thinking that could it be that he had some kind of mental illness, such as paranoia and the like, all of this was imagined by himself? Thinking about it carefully, he had no father and no mother, a withdrawn personality, mental trauma, chatter, paranoia, and hallucinations...... Along this line, it seems to be quite convincing.
It's too lonely, so I fantasize about having someone to accompany me, I have an inexplicable yearning for the opposite sex in adolescence, so I'm a beautiful girl, I want to get a good grade in the exam, so I get a superpower of speed reading and shorthand that I can't forget, and I can easily be a school bully and sleep lazy and read idle books...... It's really not convincing to look at it this way, is it really paranoia?
Su Yu broke out in a cold sweat.
Xu Qingluo opened her eyes after reciting the book, and saw Su Yu sitting there looking at herself in a daze, her eyes slightly distracted. She curled the corners of her mouth proudly and smiled, "Aren't you scared by Miss Ben?"
Su Yu didn't react. Xu Qingluo pursed her lips, leaned forward, stretched out a hand, and opened her five fingers and shook it a few times in front of Su Yu's eyes: "Look here, look here, what is this?"
"Five. Su Yu replied reflexively.
"Stupid!" Xu Qingluo giggled: "One hand, of course it's one!"
After laughing at Su Yu, seeing that the other party seemed to have come back to her senses, she wanted to ask, "Did you reply this time, is Miss Ben powerful", but saw Su Yu looking at her hand thoughtfully, and her eyes were still a little abnormal. She instinctively wanted to withdraw her hand, but as soon as the thought came to her, she found that her hand had been grabbed by the other party.