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"Getting ahead?" Lu Fan tapped him on the forehead, "Have we gotten to know each other..."

Not a word was finished.

Because the boy had already taken a step ahead, wrapping his arms around his waist.

He raised his hand and lightly touched the top of the boy's head a few times, and said the rest of the sentence: "Are we familiar enough to hug each other? Kid Shang Mu."

The young man in his arms, with the tips of his ears up, turned red visibly to the naked eye.

"It's only two years younger than you, why is it a child." Shang Mu withdrew from Lu Fan's arms and whispered, "I'm so kind to comfort you, but you still laugh at me."

Of course he knew that he was ashamed, Lu Fan hadn't even cried yet, his own tears fell down first.

Then, Lu Fan was asked to comfort him in turn.

But he couldn't help it...

Before he knew it, his eye sockets turned red again.

A hoarse voice came from my ear, saying: "Thank you for your comfort, I am much better with you here."

Shang Mu looked up, and found that the boy was looking at him with a smile on his lips: "At least it distracted most of my attention."

Shang Mu mumbled "Ah", scratched his head embarrassingly, and said in a hesitant voice, "No, you're welcome..."

Then he was led by Lu Fan and sat on the stone steps at the entrance of the east courtyard.

Ju Da quietly slipped out of Grandma Yu's room, saw Lu Fan, jumped over familiarly, and jumped into his arms.

His bony fingers stroked the plump cat again and again.

The western sun fell on the boy's body, as if every eyelash and every strand of hair were plated with light gold.

Shang Mu felt that he had a serious misunderstanding about the person in front of him.

Not only himself, but even the whole school misunderstood this person.

A person who volunteers in a hospice.

Come here even if you feel uncomfortable, and take care of these people who are about to pass away carefully.

He also said to him: This is the closest place to heaven.

Lu Fan, what kind of maverick and withdrawn personality is there?

He is clearly gentle to the extreme...

Just as he was engrossed in his thoughts, the boy holding the orange cat suddenly asked, "Tsk, how long do we have to watch?"

It was only then that I realized that my gaze had been fixed on him since just now.

He hastily lowered his head and narrowed his eyes, and he explained without a word here: "I was just looking at Juda, not you."

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a book beside him: the dark yellow book cover, on;

The word "Phaedo" is written on the side.

I remembered that Lu Fan did have a book in his hand when he just left the house.

"What does Pei Duo mean? What kind of book is this, a novel?" Shang Mu asked curiously.

Lu Fan turned his head and took the book in his hands, and opened the pages to show him: "It's the work of Plato. When Socrates died, Plato was not there, so I asked Pei Duo to find out about the situation, so this book is called Pei Duo." too much."

He said, pointing out the content inside to Shang Mu.

"Plato's books are generally based on the form of dialogue. So you see here, the first page is a dialogue between Pedo and Ichi, and then it becomes a dialogue between Socrates and others. It is like the Analects, but it is also Confucian quotations compiled by disciples."

Shang Mu looked at the introduction on the page, the vertical small black font, the typesetting is old and charming.

Then, read it in a low voice: "At the last moment, a demonstration of soul and existence. Because of faith, I chose to die..."

The boy nodded his jaw and said: "The opposite of life is death, and the opposite of death is life. Just like big and small; weak and strong, all things are opposite to each other. Therefore, from life, come into being;

If there is death, then life should also come from death. "

Lu Fan flipped through the dialogue in the book and spoke word by word.The slender fingertips lightly touched the pages of the book, making a clicking sound again and again.

In fact, Shang Mu was at a loss as to what Lu Fan was talking about, and didn't understand a single word.

But the other party's unhurried babble, and the cool and soothing voice, made his chest suddenly feel a burst of very thin electric current.

The beating heart was "pounding", spreading the heated blood throughout his body.

The book was closed with a "snap", and the man whispered in his ear: "What the hell is going on?"

Responding belatedly, I stared at him for a long time again.

"It's over... Maybe I don't just like his face now, but also his soul."

Shang Mu thought silently in his heart.

He pursed his lips, and his eyelashes trembled nervously.

My head was still in confusion, so my mouth spoke out first, muttering: "I'm thinking, I don't know where it started, and it goes deeper and deeper..."

After speaking, his face turned red first.

What the hell did I say!

But the boy next to him seemed to be lost in thought, and was silent for a while, neither refuting nor answering.

He just looked down at the cat in his arms, stroking lazily with his fingertips again and again.

The sun above the head was once again covered.

——The shadow of the cloud is reflected on the two bodies——

up, and slowly move away.

The boy said in a general way: "I don't know where it started, and it goes on and on... The next sentence is, the living can die, and the dead can live? It can be regarded as...the logic is consistent."

Shang Mu licked his lips guiltyly, and responded in a low voice, "Maybe...it seems...is it?"

He dared not say that he did not understand.

But he felt that Lu Fan was so smart, he should know that he didn't understand.

But the boy just stroked the cat indifferently, and didn't speak any more.

Shang Mu quietly moved his butt to the side, and then moved it again.

Until the boy suddenly said, "Come on, I'm going to sit on my lap."

Then his body froze, and he straightened his back neatly, not daring to move again.

"I just want to touch the orange...you have occupied it for so long, why don't you touch it for me too."

Lu Fan gently scratched Ju Da's neck a few times with his fingertips, causing the fat cat to squint and shake its head, and the small bell on its neck suddenly jingled for a while.

"Here, I'll touch it for you." After he finished speaking, he lifted the two front legs of the cat from behind, and gently moved the cat into Shang Mu's arms like a baby.

Suddenly a soft lump fell from the crook of his arm, it was warm and warm, and the boy froze half of his body in fright.

On the contrary, the little guy in his arms didn't recognize his innocence at all. After stepping on his legs a few times with his four limp little feet, he found a comfortable position and lay down.

Shang Mu moved carefully along the orange cat's fur, touching it again and again.

There are nurses carrying things and passing by back and forth, and some people are sitting on the stone bench on the other side, chatting softly.

The eyes of the little kitten in his arms narrowed slowly, and finally the whole thing huddled up and fell asleep.

"The people here don't seem to be that heavy," Shang Mu said.

Lu Fan nodded: "To realize the wishes of others, and to see them leave without regret, will also make me feel happy."

He said, looking at the empty North Courtyard, he said: "Grandpa Zheng is a philosopher, he has always believed that there is a soul in this world. No matter where the soul will go, to him, death is not Instead of disappearing, he changed his way of existence. So he doesn't really care about death itself."

"It's like Socrates, as long as you accomplish what you want to do and keep what you want to keep, you can leave calmly."

Shang Mu blinked: "I always thought that philosophers are materialists... They seem very rational, how can they believe in something invisible and intangible like the soul?"

Lu Fan turned his head and said;

Interested things, faint light in the eyes.

"They are indeed very rational, so they will rationally speculate whether the soul exists or not. What they see may not be real; what they cannot see may not exist."

"For an invisible belief, disregarding life and death is a symbol of human beings above all creatures."

This belief is not a competition between animals for food or land, but something that is nihilistic, ungraspable, and does not use material as a carrier.

"Such as justice, such as death, such as love."

Lu Fan spoke softly, as if he was talking to the teenager beside him, or as if he was speaking to himself.

He spoke slowly, and Shang Mu listened attentively.

The boy lowered his eyes slightly, and his eyes fell on the stone bricks in front of his feet.

After the boy finished speaking, Shang Mu seemed to have found himself again, and said in a difficult voice: "My mother... died in my third year of junior high school. To save a child..."

"I don't know if you remember, there was a nasty incident in the Huaying shopping mall in City Q, and this incident became a sensation on the Internet.

At that time, I was shopping with my mother. After the incident happened, she exchanged hostages with the gangsters, and then left the child to my custody. "

"The gangster was very cunning and kept my mother in the way. At that time, the gangster was about to escape. My mother was wearing plain clothes and had nothing on her... In order to prevent him from escaping, my mother fought with the gangster alone."

"It was said to be a fight, but in fact there was no fighting at all... I was dumbfounded at the time, everything passed so quickly..."

Chaos, noise, screaming.

Eyes, ears, seem to be blocked by all these.

His brain stopped thinking, only a red patch remained.

The body also seems to have lost its soul, becoming an unconscious shell.

When he woke up again, he had no mother.

"They said that my mother is very honorable, and they want me to understand her." Shang Mu said, turning his head to look at the people around him: "Didn't you ask me, why did you come here?"

"I haven't said goodbye to her, and I don't know why she made such a choice. For a while, I actually blamed her.

The fate of others is fate, but her own fate is not fate?

Other people's children are children who need to be taken care of, little treasures in the palm of your hand... Isn't your own child? "

"I'm not yet an adult, and I need my mother too."

In the next second, a palm as light as down feather fell from the top of his head.

The slender fingers ran through his hair, stroked it gently and softly a few times.

"You are also a baby." He listened;

Seeing that person's cold and still voice, it was full of rippling warmth.

If you want to describe one thing, then...

Shang Mu felt that Lu Fan was zero-degree water.

He is ice, but not really ice.

He will flow and fall in the palm, still soft.

"I didn't come here because of rebellion, and I didn't come here to cling to you... I just think that I can find the answer I want here." Shang Mu said in a low voice.

In exchange for a conniving smile from the boy: "Okay, I see."

The young man pursed his lips, and his drooping cheeks were slightly pink.

In fact, there are...

[It seems that I really, really like you. 】

He silently told him in his heart.