From Chief to Ball

"Are you Chen Jian? Or Lei Zhengxing?"

Chen Jian also smiled, and asked, "You know everything?"

"I always go to the city. Naturally, I heard some stories, read some stories, and saw that my flowers were sold for dozens of silver coins a pot. Of course, I knew what was going on."

Thinking of the story, I naturally thought of the widely circulated volume of illustrations about mermaids. Thinking of the enchantment and temptation in those reproductions, I blushed a little and spat lightly.

"You wrote those stories just to sell flowers?"

"more than."

Chen Jian took out a beautiful invitation card and said, "Not only those stories, but also a scene. There will be a performance tomorrow night. Come and see it with me. It's a good location."

"A play? A play for selling flowers?"

"Of course. As I said, I want to sell for a lot of money, and we are half of each other. What I promised you was to sell flowers, not to write stories or plays."

Hearing these words warmed her heart, Lin Xi remembered these words with a smile in her heart, then took a careful look at Chen Jian, took the invitation card, and looked at the strange name on it.

He frowned and stared at the word "orphan" among the four words, feeling a little sad in his heart.

The heart was sour, and the smile became sweeter, pretending to say unintentionally: "If it was the first time I met you, you said that you could make up stories, write plays, and do arithmetic and geometry, I would never believe it." of."

Chen Jian said with a cheeky smile: "This way you can remember deeply, lest you forget it soon."

Lin Xi bit her lip lightly, her beating heart was mixed with the thoughts in her mind.

"Yeah, I can't forget it."Thinking this way, he said: "This year is a weird year, and I can't forget many things, as if everything has become weird."

"eccentric?"

"Yeah, at least it's weird to me. For example, I met you, and it turns out that the planets on the earth do not revolve around the sun in a circle. For example, the huge, Bones bigger than an elephant, never seen and without any legends."

Chen Jian felt that all this was normal, so he was puzzled and asked, "What's so weird about this?"

"Have you heard the story of Pan Gu opening up the sky left in ancient times?"

"Of course I did."

"If the sky and the earth were really split, it must be perfect. The earth should revolve around the sun in a circle, and the plants, trees, fish, insects, teeth, beasts, and claws should all exist from the moment the sky opened. Time is changing. , those animals and plants will not change."

"But now it's completely different. The earth is no longer a circle around the sun, and there are beasts that have never been seen in the quarry. Isn't this weird enough? Where did everything in this world come from? Did it exist from the beginning of the world? Or is it not like this, maybe even the world itself existed before the appearance of man?"

"Originally the world we knew was too small, so we didn't have to think about explaining the world. But now we see too much, and we have to think about explaining it. Why is the grass green? Why are the flowers red? Why do deer run fast? Fast? Why can fish swim in water?"

"The original explanation is the simplest. When the world was created, everything existed. But this explanation can no longer hold up, at least in my eyes. The simplest is the most perfect, but the most perfect may not be Yes, it’s like the most perfect circle has become an imperfect ellipse, but everyone has to accept it.”

After hearing this, Chen Jian asked with a smile: "Then do you like simple and perfect? ​​Or complicated and imperfect?"

"Of course I like simple and perfect things, but the world itself does not exist because of whether I like it or not. What I like may not be real, and more than my personal likes, I want to know why there is such a colorful fish A world where birds fly."

"Actually, once I want to learn this, I am doomed to miss perfection. For example, crucian carp has thorns, crabapple has no fragrance, butterflies are actually caterpillars, and colorful mushrooms are mostly poisonous. This is what my father told me when I was young."

Chen Jian nodded, and then said: "Perhaps, it is actually perfect. As you said, why is the grass green? Why are the flowers red? Why are deer running fast? This appearance, maybe there is really a perfect set of things supporting it. It's just that we haven't discovered it yet, so it looks messy. It's like..."

After thinking about it, Chen Jian finally thought of an explanation, and asked, "Is there any needlework?"

Lin Xi knew what this was trying to explain, so she turned out the needle and thread.

Find a piece of paper, draw a line, tie two needles on the line, divide the midpoint of the two needles, and tie a section of thread to the two needles.

Find a small section of graphite pen core, put it on the line, and draw an ellipse skillfully.

Then a rectangular coordinate system was drawn at the center of the ellipse, and a standard formula for the ellipse on the coordinate system was written. After a little explanation with the Pythagorean Theorem, Lin Xi understood it.

"You see, it's an ellipse, not perfect as you say, and it looks weird. Why weird? Because the major and minor axes are not the same length."

Chen Jian drew a circle with a needle and thread on the side, also wrote the Cartesian coordinates, and still wrote a standard formula for an ellipse next to the circle.

Lin Xi looked at it for a while, and vaguely understood something, but couldn't grasp it no matter what.

Chen Jian reminded him to make the long axis and short axis of the ellipse the same, so the formula that should be an ellipse turned out to be a circle.

"So, if you consider the definition of a circle to be perfect, then an ellipse naturally does not look perfect. If you regard a circle as an ellipse, then a circle is nothing more than an ellipse with the same minor axis and major axis. That is, even The ellipse, which looks ugly, actually has a set of perfect rules inside, and the circle is just a special existence within this rule."

"If you look at an ellipse with the rules of a circle, it is certainly not perfect. But if you look at a circle with the rules of an ellipse, it is perfect."

"Since circles and ellipses are like this, isn't there a rule that we don't know about the strange plants, fishes and insects in this world that determines how they grow like this? This rule must be perfect, but under the rules The variety shown is not perfect. The perfect rules themselves are also a kind of perfection.”

Chen Jian blinked and encouraged: "Perhaps, you should find a way to find a perfect rule that can explain the variety of species, to explain this colorful world. I still believe that the rules of the world itself are perfect. "

Lin Xi stared blankly at the circles and ellipses on the paper, thinking about the idea of ​​perfect rules, and felt more and more reasonable.

Chen Jian stood up, pointed to the vegetable garden outside, and said, "It's like caterpillars in the vegetable garden outside. I guessed wildly. Maybe they were originally colorful, but maybe the green ones can be hidden on the vegetable leaves. are spotted by birds; and colored ones are easily eaten by birds."

"Perhaps the colorful caterpillars are messy and out of order, because they violate a certain rule between heaven and earth, so they can only be green. Green, which seems to have no reason, may actually be the most in line with the rules. I Think, since the world exists, there must be perfect rules that shaped the world, then everything is perfect and conforms to the rules, and the imperfect things that do not conform to the rules are all dead.”

"It's just that we haven't discovered this rule yet, so it looks messy and irrelevant."

"Follow your heart and don't exceed the rules. People are like this, and things are like this."

Chapter 25 Growing Up

When it comes to such things as cabbage worms and not breaking the rules, the ambiguous ambiguity between young men and women has added a bit of dignified taste.

Why cabbage caterpillars are green is just a guess. If you want to prove this kind of guess, you need to look at the whole world for evidence. Of course, it cannot be demonstrated in a closed country shrouded in fog.

Lin Xi, who has read many books on this kind of logic since childhood, would not think that Chen Jian's simple sentence would shock the heavenly man.It's just like a tiny, seemingly forgotten sesame seed buried deep in my heart, or one day it will sprout.

From the warm ambiguity to the ugly cabbage worms, and then to the boring geometric arithmetic, what was supposed to be a young boy and girl's murmur in autumn turned out to be as boring as what Chen Jian did in the city.

In fact, Lin Xi was very happy to hear it, but it was not the same as Chen Jian's soft day, so she inevitably scolded herself a few times in her heart.

It was getting late, Chen Jian left, Lin Xi sent them off, and the wooden fence separated the two of them again.

Inside the fence, Lin Xi looked at the cabbage caterpillar that had just been specimend in the morning, thinking about Chen Jian's words, thinking about the cabbage caterpillar.Then I thought of Chen Jian from this cute dead rapae worm, touched the theater invitation card, smiled, and stopped thinking about the rapae worm for the time being, but thought about the person behind the rapae worm .

Outside the fence, Chen Jian was riding a horse. He first thought of Lin Xi and smiled to himself.Hearing this kind of laughter, the horse thought that the owner was about to turn back to the wooden fence again, and reluctantly stopped to turn around, but the rein was pulled to realize that was not the case, so he hoofed home.

Amidst the rattling of the horseshoes, Chen Jian thought of the cabbage worm again, and then thought of the rules of the cabbage worm, and couldn't help but sigh.

What is behind cabbage worms is not a simple thesis, but a change in the entire world view, and it is also the source of world chaos and the fuel for external religious wars after the fog clears in the future.

Along with the spread of this eccentric political system, the advantages of certain technologies, and the abundance of a superior geographical environment, it is bound to trigger some earth-shaking events.

For some groups outside, a total clash of worldviews has many possible and contingent consequences.

Either it is a war in the cultural circle, secular atheism and creationism cannot coexist, and each has its own party to lead the way. It depends on who will survive to the end.Or, in the upcoming 30-year struggle between God and secularism, new religion and old religion, another big bomb capable of triggering a tsunami falls.