From Chief to Ball

With a strong swipe, thick white smoke rose from the pale yellow flame, which ignited the white stick, which slowly turned black and then ash.

The very faint firelight was nothing compared to the lit candles and the crackling logs in the fireplace behind him. Even the light and shadow projected on the small glass were covered by the bright candlelight.

The old man in his twilight years stared at the gradually dimming fire in his hand, smelled the pungent smell of burning sulfur, recalled the younger disciple described by the disciple who came back from Fujian City, and couldn't help showing the corner of his mouth. Smile.

Regarding the appearance and disposition of the little disciple who had never met, the disciple who came back described it in this way.

"Sir, that is a very ordinary-looking young man. He is seventeen or eighteen years old. He is tall, with broad shoulders and bright eyes. It is probably because he has been living in Mincheng. His complexion is slightly dark and his body is very strong. "

"He always likes to smile, his teeth are very white and neat, and he looks very comfortable when he smiles."

"He is a very good person, very humble and honest, and his dream is very big, at least it sounds much bigger than mine. Listening to him, you can feel that this is a person who will never give up until he reaches his goal."

"When he became famous at a young age, he was very famous in Min City. He wrote a very interesting play. It can be seen that his thoughts are exactly the same as his actions. He is a person with the world in mind."

"Exploring the world by relying on all kinds of crude bottles and cans. I am very courageous but careful, and I speak very straightforwardly. I am a little confused. Mingming is not very old, but sometimes I speak It seems to have experienced 30 years of vicissitudes."

"My heart is a little too dark, and I see many things as black. It is probably because of this reason that I made the match that is the easiest to get light."

Mr. Mu had already heard too many more things, and all he could think of from the firelight was a few words about the disciple who was far away in Mincheng.

The yellow firelight and smoke slowly condensed into an imaginary child. He couldn't see his face clearly, but he could feel his frowning. He was fiddling with crude bottles and cans, and beside him was a pile of thick quilt ink letters. Some scribbled paper...

"Would be a good student."

Mr. Mu thought this way, and recalled that he saw the pile of papers that the new disciple brought back by Li Yun begged him to correct him, and he became more convinced of his thoughts.

There are a lot of interesting things written on the paper, even though I have read it dozens of times, even after the days of staying up all night to sort it out, it is still hard to forget and always lingers in my mind.

Because those papers described another world, it was like preparing a pair of eyes that Mr. Mu had never seen before.

Thinking of this, he took out another match and lightly rubbed it on the clothes to light it.

Holding one hand, thinking about the words on the paper to see the world with another eye, watching the dancing flame carefully, recalling the words on the paper.

"The so-called combustion, if you look at it with another eye, maybe it is the process of recombination of extremely small indivisible particles."

"It's like a man and a woman came together because of love, reunited, and gave birth to a child named light and heat."

"Because of this child, the original male and female are still the original male and female, but the smallest unit is no longer a single man or woman, but a new family, and this new family has become a new smallest particle."

"It's the union of indivisible things."

"As for the burning of things that can still be divided, it is like a complete family, with a child who had light and heat, but the child has grown up and left, so we can no longer see it. With the passage of time, the original The extremely beautiful wife in the man's eyes has finally turned into a yellow-faced woman, but if there are no outsiders, she will still live like this after all."

"But suddenly one day, a more beautiful and younger woman appeared in front of this man. Not just relative beauty, but absolute beauty that was more beautiful than the man's wife when she was young. So the man threw away the original Unable to bear such a temptation, his wife abandoned her original family and combined with a new and more beautiful woman to form a new family with the smallest unit."

"This is not wrong. If two women appeared in front of this man at the same time decades ago, this man would choose the more attractive one. Therefore, the newly combined family is more stable than the original family and wants to tear them apart. You need more power."

"This kind of erratic coincidence builds a colorful and changeable world: the world is therefore not static, but recombined and dispersed all the time."

"When the flame leaps, it is the first cry of the baby in the new family that our naked eyes cannot see. Burning is not destruction, but new birth."

"When the flames dance, there must be a time when a beautiful woman wins the love of a man. Whether the man is an indivisible single person, or whether the man is part of a family, there is no morality in chemistry, only charm. "

"However, this kind of new family combination may not always be cheered with fiery flames as new firecrackers. Sometimes it is combined into a new family in a silent, undetectable, shameful and hiding way. family."

"Just as iron can exchange copper from zinc, so it seems that iron is more attractive to him than copper to the man who is combined with copper in zinc. Similarly, the charm of zinc is always greater. Iron, the charm of iron is greater than that of lead, and the charm of lead is greater than that of copper, and the charm of copper is greater than that of silver. This is a very mysterious thing. One day we will use our eyes to rank the charm, just like this At that time, people ranked the status of the rich as the first, second, third, and fourth."

"Similarly, these tiny new families that we can't see can all be dismantled into indivisible things. The only reason they can't be dismantled is because there is not enough power to stop that combination."

"For example, carbonic acid gas obviously prefers to combine with calcium. This is a natural design. But we often break up this pair of families for our own needs, otherwise where would we get the white ash to paint the walls? If we don't have our sticks, Some things are always combined in such a peaceful and happy way. But we have to use flames, electric piles, etc. to artificially break them up. Perhaps the indivisible things cannot be taken apart, but all the divisible things, It can definitely be dismantled... If it cannot be dismantled, it can only prove that the violence of dismantling is not strong enough..."

"Since we can use our choices to control the splitting and recombination of these tiny particles, as long as we find the rules, we can change a lot, get a lot, and create a lot."

"For example, we know that bones contain calcium, so we can't eat salt to mend bones; for example, we know that iron is more attractive than copper compared to bile oil, so we can't expect copper to change iron from acid to water. For example, if you know that gold is an indivisible substance, don’t think about turning things like iron and copper into gold.”

"The world has been decided since the beginning of Pangu, but only the tiniest particles that we cannot see. It seems to be decided, but in fact it is always changing, because we don't have the pair to see The eye of the tiniest particle, so this invariance is meaningless to us."

"And we have a pair of things that can see very large things that are composed of countless particles. Therefore, the world that is essentially unchanged is always changing for us. This is not contradictory. Iron Congdan Copper is replaced by copper, but iron does not disappear, but is hidden by another combination. For all the particles of the world, this does not change at all, neither increases nor decreases; but for us this has changed, and can See it with our eyes..."

Mr. Mu thought about the more and more reasonable words on the paper, looked at the flames that were about to go out, and thought: "It's very interesting to say that the fly ash in these flames is just the combination of new families. Yes, yes A combination of changing at the will of man and need, simply because man wants. The dust, the smoke, everything that seems to disappear in flames is really just a new birth that we don't see."

"It's also very simple to prove... Just like what the child wrote on the paper, as long as there is a sufficiently accurate balance, it is enough to see if the flame is as heavy as before when it burns."

"A ball of flame, so there are such entangled joys and sorrows... and such a terrifying power..."

Power, thinking of the word power, Mr. Mu struck another match, lit a candle with this match, and let the candle dissipate the darkness and cold around him, feeling the greatness and power of this power that he had never noticed before. Silence, which quietly changed the world, once again thought of a passage on paper.

"A long time ago, the combination of charcoal, saltpeter and sulfur gave lead bullets the power to penetrate armor and flesh. This power comes from the recombination of small particles that we cannot see with the naked eye."

"So relying on this kind of strength, gunpowder replaced the strength of people to tighten and pull the bowstring. The strength of a strong arm is no match for a catty of gunpowder!"

"A long time ago, the recombination of wood and yang energy allowed light and heat to appear not only on sunny days. This power also comes from the recombination of small particles that are invisible to our naked eyes."

"So relying on this strength, we no longer eat raw meat, no longer fear the terrible cold winter, and have gone through countless years."

"I think the future will be a world where the power of this recombination of tiny particles invisible to our naked eyes will replace the power of many people or livestock. Just as gunpowder replaced bows and arrows, this kind of Power will eventually replace many things that now seem irreplaceable."

"Just like if there is no gun barrel, then the power of gunpowder will not be compared with that of bows and arrows. What we lack now is only a 'gun barrel' to transfer the black power that can emit hot flames hidden underground For another strength that can be compared with the arm, the ox and the horse."

"I think that one day, when people see the flames rising, they will think not only that it can be used for heating and lighting, but also how much power is contained in it? Can it be as big as a few cows and a few horses?" ?”

"Just like this match, the future for all of us is warm and bright, and it will not only be warm and bright..."

The matches are gradually extinguished, and the light and shadows and memories related to the fire or the little disciple also dissipate with the extinguishment of the fire. Thinking of this thing is poisonous, and thinking of the letter from the little disciple to myself admonishing myself to take good care of my body and do more. Seeing more exciting things, I threw the remaining matches aside and didn't want to ignite them anymore.

The disciples were jubilant, congratulating him on accepting another disciple, and listening to the many articles written by this junior brother who had never met before, it was refreshing.

Some are very simple, and they are obviously written for those who are not interested in this subject;

And those papers have been sorted out by the master, they copied some and read it slowly, and the paper that has been revised by the old man, some words have been smeared and corrected, and the ugly and scribbled words of the younger brother have been sent to the The interior of the academy.

Things are reviewed there, leading to the publication of the first editions of the booklets in various disciplines for the new year.Among the interviewees are Mr. Mu's classmates, friends, juniors, and people whose names are often heard by these students.

Now those papers have been sent there along with things like white phosphorus, matches, and ashes. The disciples are sure that the first booklet of the new year will be very interesting and interesting, and even subvert something.

It was a thick stack of paper, and the signatures at the end of the articles on the paper were all the same. I think this was a shocking thing to the seniors who reviewed it.

Before the New Year's Eve holiday, it will always be settled, and this is the last day before the holiday, so the disciples gathered here to wait for the result with the husband.

Li Yun was still there talking about what he had seen and heard about his trip to Mincheng and the story of his junior brother. The brothers and sisters listened carefully, thinking about this junior brother who sounded mature and not like a young man, and guessed what the junior brother would do in Mincheng. do what.

After striking three matches, Mr. Mu didn't want to damage his body any more. He looked out through the green glass with air bubbles, enjoying the peace.

Until there was a sound of footsteps stepping on the snow outside, Mr. Mu's heart twitched suddenly, and the disciples turned to the person outside one after another, wanting to know the result.

The man opened the door and came in, shouting excitedly: "Sir! Junior brother's articles have all passed! The first issue of the new year's brochure!"