Ruoshan sighed slightly, and patiently explained in another way: "I can also go out. What should I do if something like this happens when I'm not around? Bo Zhuang, Zhong Zhuang and the others showed their performance today.
That's great. If that big bird hadn't been so powerful, we would have been beaten down long ago by an ordinary bird of prey."
Luluo seemed to understand, nodded and said: "Oh, yes, everyone in the tribe should practice how to hunt." Then she clenched her fists and said: "When I grow up, I will be better than Bo Zhuang and Zhong Zhuang.
, you can also shoot down that bad bird!"
Ruoshan nodded and smiled: "Very good, you are ambitious!"
Huwa and Panhu were eating happily in the hut next to them. Although they heard Shan Ye and Luluo talking, they ignored what kind of heroic words Luluo said. After dark that day, the tribesmen all went back to their houses to sleep.
However, Huwa ran to Ruoshan's house for something to do and was surprised to find Master Shan playing with something he had never seen before.
Master Shan took out a pottery dish that usually filled with water. The pottery dish was filled with oil squeezed from hemp seeds. He then immersed half of a grass stem in the oil and the other half stretched out from the edge of the dish. This kind of grass stem
The inner fiber is very dense and soft, and has very good water absorption, which can absorb all the hemp oil. Then Shanye took out the flint and used hemp silk to start a fire and ignited the grass stems.
The grass stem did not burn quickly, but a flame rose from the top, and the dim light dimly illuminated everything in the stone house. Huwa was stunned and asked in surprise: "Master Shan, what is this?"
?”
Master Shan replied: "This is a lamp, a lamp lit with hemp and sesame oil!"
This is the first time Huwa knows that there is such a thing as a "light" in the world, and it is so magical. Huwa knows what fire is. A fire can emit light and heat in the dark, and people can sing, dance or keep warm around it.
, but this is completely different from the feeling of "lamp". A lamp is a bit of light that breaks through the darkness.
He sincerely praised: "Master Shan, you are amazing!"
Chief Ruoshan smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that I'm great, it's that I have seen lanterns outside the mountain. There is someone else who is truly amazing, but unfortunately I don't know who it is."
Shanye's modesty made Huwa think that he had great powers and knew almost everything. Huwa looked at the magical lamp and said: "Plates, grass stems, and hemp seed oil are all available in the village. I have seen them all."
, but never thought they could turn into lights!”
Ruoshan nodded and seemed to be talking to himself: "There was no lamp in the world until someone created it, and then there was something called a lamp. But no matter whether people don't know what a lamp is, putting a dish on it
, grass stems, and hemp seeds are used in this way, and it will appear, and then you can give it a name, such as calling it a lamp.
In other words, before there were any lights in the world, lights actually existed. It just depends on whether people know about it, and whether they can discover it and light it up. From this point of view, before everything in this world appeared, it actually existed.
They all have a reason for their existence, otherwise they would not appear. The mystery between all things, no matter whether we know it or not, or how much we know, it is always there."
These words were obviously too profound for Huwa. Today, his young mind was too shocked. Shanye first froze the huge strange bird in the early morning, and then turned on a lamp after dark.
!In Huwa’s eyes, Master Shan is already a god-like existence.
Because of this, even though he couldn't understand what Shan Ye was talking about, every word Shan Ye just said was deeply imprinted in his mind. This was not a child deliberately trying to remember something, but just natural
It left an almost indelible impression, just like the light he saw for the first time. Then Huwa asked the simplest question: "Why did you light the light tonight?"
Mr. Shan looked at the light and said thoughtfully: "Because I'm thinking, how can we know the mystery of everything and understand things we didn't know before? It's like lighting up a light in the dark." At this point.
, he seemed to come back to his senses and realized that he was talking to a child like Huwa, and smiled again: "It's already dark, what do you want to see me for?"
Only then did Huwa remember the serious matter: "Panhu couldn't sleep and kept humming. Maybe the wound was very painful. Is there anything you can do to make it less painful?" You should usually go to Granny Shui for things like this.
But Grandma Shui had already rested, and Master Shan was beside her, and there was still movement in the house.
Ruoshan stood up and grabbed a handful of things from a clay pot in the corner of the room, handed it to Huwa and said, "Let Panhu eat these and it will fall asleep."
Huwa opened his small hands and held it carefully. He took a look under the light and recognized that these were hemp seeds that had been shelled. They smelled like they were already ripe. The tribesmen usually eat hemp seeds directly.
The taste is very fragrant, and the shell is removed only when special oil extraction is required. Eating too much hemp oil may cause dizziness, but the hemp seeds that the tribesmen usually eat each time will not cause dizziness.
Huwa asked curiously: "Master Shan, besides pressing oil for lighting lamps, can hemp seeds also relieve the pain of wounds?"
Mr. Shan explained: "It's okay to eat a little of this kind of stuff every time, but if you eat too much, you will feel dizzy. As for the pain relief, it's because I've specially treated it, and not ordinary hemp seeds can be used in this way.
." Seeing Huwa still standing there holding hemp seeds, he asked again: "Do you have anything else?"
Huwa got the things and didn't leave. Of course, he still had something to do. He raised his little face and asked abruptly with an expression full of admiration: "Why can that strange bird snatch things from the air, while the red-billed falcon,
Lin Xiao can't, is it because that strange bird is so big?"
Ruoshan was stunned for a moment, then replied: "That's not the case, it's just because it has very special abilities."
Huwa: "Is it different from Lin Xiao and Red-billed Falcon? Is this ability the ability to catch things from a distance? Do all such strange birds have this ability?"
Ruoshan: "That's not the case. That bird is called the White-feathered Gu Eagle, but not all White-feathered Gu Eagles have this ability. It is very rare. Maybe some forest owls or red-billed falcons also have this ability.
But it’s also very rare.”
This kind of thing is difficult to explain to Huwa, even to an adult, but Huwa nodded his little head and replied seriously: "Oh, I understand!"
Ruoshan asked back: "What do you understand?"
Huwa: "I originally wanted to ask - why can you, patriarch, immobilize that strange bird, but others can't? It turns out that the patriarch also has special abilities, but others in the village can't! Is that so?"
Ruoshan was startled again, nodded and said, "That's right."
Huwa: "But how can I have that kind of ability? Do I have to become the clan leader?"
Ruoshan quickly shook his head and said, "No! I learned it first, practiced it, and then became the clan leader."
Huwa: "Why can you learn such a skill, but others in the village can't? How can you learn it?"
Ruoshan thought for a while before replying: "This is not something that most people are born with, nor can everyone learn it. It also requires talent and luck. It is like lighting up a lamp, which is invisible to others in the dark."
Something, but you saw it.”
Huwa: "Oh, I understand, you need to be able to light a lamp to learn this skill."
Ruoshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It doesn't mean that you can learn how to light a lamp. This is just a metaphor, understand? For example, if we say that a stone looks like an egg, it is called a metaphor, but the stone is not an egg...Forget it, you still have to
Too young, you will understand when you grow up! Panhu is humming again, please go back quickly."
In the eyes of the tribe, the patriarch Shan Ye, who was almost omniscient, could no longer resist Huwa's repeated questioning and quickly sent the child back. After Huwa left, Ruoshan still sat at the stone table and looked at the child quietly.
With a little light, he stretched out his hand and pushed out the grass stem used as a wick.
A slender figure walked in, barely making a sound. It was Granny Shui. She sat down opposite Ruoshan and asked softly: "Why did you light the lamp tonight?"
Ruoshan seemed to have known for a long time that she would come, and he did not look surprised at all. He looked away from the light and fell on her face, and replied softly: "Because I can see your face clearly under the light."
At this moment, Huwa had already fed Panhu and finished eating the hemp seeds. Panhu stopped moaning and soon fell asleep in a daze. And Huwa thought about what Shan Ye said just now, and he seemed to understand a little bit what it meant.
It was a metaphor, but other things seemed to be more confusing. He didn't have any extra thoughts, just thinking about it, he felt even more dizzy than Panhu, and soon fell asleep.
Ruoshan and Ruoshui spoke in a very low voice, Huwa didn't hear it, and he didn't know that Shan Ye lit the lamp tonight to wait for Grandma Shui. Ruoshui asked Ruoshan the same question as Huwa, but Ruoshan gave a completely different answer.
The answer. If the tiger baby hears this, he may feel even more confused. Doesn’t Master Shan not know what Grandma Shui looks like, so he has to light a lamp to see it?
Even if Mr. Shan wants to see, why bother lighting a lamp in the dark and wasting oil? How clear he can see in broad daylight! Perhaps such confusion will naturally be understood when he grows up; but what Mr. Shan said in reply to him
, in this barbaric wilderness, countless people from generation to generation will never have an answer in their lifetime. If you don’t understand, then you don’t understand. There are endless unknown mysteries in this world.
In the light, Ruoshan said again: "Huwa came here just now and asked a lot of questions, which are exactly what I have thought about."
Ruoshui: "I heard it too, but the child is still too young to explain it clearly to him."
Ruoshan said: "Even if he is already an adult, can we really explain it clearly? You and I were lucky enough to enter the first realm, and received the guidance of the mountain god. We have practiced all the way to this day, and we know what magical powers are, and how
How to use it. But can we explain clearly to our tribesmen why it exists and why we can cultivate it?
It has been many years, and I have not thought about these issues for a long time. But when I turned on the lights tonight, I was thinking again, such mysteries have long existed in the world. It just depends on whether people can discover it, and how much can they discover?
After all, what we know is too little! - I once asked the mountain god back then, and the mountain god also responded in the same way."
As he spoke, he turned his head and looked outside the house. The night was endless in the wilderness, and the light he lit could only vaguely illuminate the things inside the stone house.