"A long time ago, there were no mountains, no trees, nothing, just a sea, a boundless sea."
"Isn't there even a grandfather?" Squirrel asked.
"Haha, no, not even grandpa's grandpa." The old tree said, "The day when I first grew out of the ground, oh, that was a long, long time ago. That day was already three hundred feet long from me. Now, I was once a seed, once a seedling, less than half the height of a leaf" The old tree fell into long memories, "What year was that? There are nine hundred rings on my body. Well, when I was just born, who were around me?"
"Is there me?" the squirrel asked, jumping high.
"Little deer, don't interrupt, you were still a seed at that time." Fruit Bear said.
"Am I also grown from the ground? Oh, why don't I have leaves?" The squirrel spread out his little paws to look at it, and said sadly.
"But you can get rid of the mud and run freely. I envy you too." said the old tree.
¡°But I don¡¯t want to go anywhere, I just want to listen to Grandpa Laoshu telling stories.¡±
"But what I see is also limited. Over the years, I have continued to grow in order to see more things, but the things outside my field of vision are always infinite. I finally got tired and couldn't grow any longer. At that time, little squirrel, you have been to many places and seen many scenery that I will never see. At that time, squirrel, will you come back and tell me what you saw?"
"Yes, I will!" the squirrel jumped and said, "I will travel every day and tell you what I see."
"Haha, you will grow up and go farther and farther, and finally you will not be able to come back every day" The old tree pondered again, "How I want to see the sea. Every year, the feathers of seabirds fall, bringing with them Come to the breath of the ocean"
"The sea? Where is it?"
"I heard that if you climb to the highest point on this land, you can know what the world is like."
¡°I¡¯m going right away!¡±
"Deer, wait for me." The wombat and the flying pig called, but the squirrel had already disappeared between the huge branches.
So the squirrel began her long run, climbing down the huge green tree. Running in the shade of the big green tree, she never ran out of there, that was their kingdom. Under the shade of the tree, there is a family of star grass, a family of orchids, a family of wild tweedles, as well as countless flowers, plants and insects. They are always busy, the butterfly is busy talking a lot, and he is flying up and down talking and laughing with every flower. The snail is busy climbing the tree again, but he never has the perseverance. Whenever he climbs as high as a gladioli, he will stop and talk to her excitedly, and then slide down unknowingly. When he slides to the end, it will be over. It passed, and he would climb up again the next day. Gladiolus always raised his head proudly and said that he was very annoying. But every morning she still raised her head and waited for the snail to come and talk to her. When the squirrel jumped over his head quickly, the snail closed his eyes in fear, and then sighed: "Oh, when will I be able to climb up the big green tree twenty times a day like the squirrel and the deer? That way? I can chat with Sister Jianlan twenty times a day."
The squirrel ran out of the shadow of the big green tree. She discovered that the world was composed of countless shadows. Between the shadows, there was a shining border. She jumped in the shadows. She was surprised and panicked in the unfamiliar sight. , it¡¯s like the light and shadow are intertwining in my heart. Countless lights shone in the sky above the forest, swaying and dazzling.
She chose a direction and ran down.
The squirrel felt that she had run thousands of miles. She had run more miles today than she had in her entire life. Of course, she was only eleven months old.
"I should be running to the end of the world. How far I have run. Where is the boundary?" She stopped and asked the thin red fruit tree on the roadside, "Where is the boundary of the world?"
"Border? This is the center of the world. Where did you come from?"
"What? My place is the center of the world. I came from Daqingshu and traveled such a long way."
"The big green tree? Is it the big green tree?"
When the squirrel turned around, she saw a 900-year-old tree standing above the canopy, and she seemed to be still under his feet.
The squirrel has already seen it. That strange stone peak looks like a tree growing out of the earth, but it is so tall. How many years has it been growing?
¡°If you stand up there, you can see the boundary of the world.¡±
She ran towards the foot of the mountain and gradually became a small point that could be seen clearly beside the towering stone peak.
The squirrel finally reached the peak. She came to the edge of the cliff. The green clouds dispersed, the giant trees turned into grass, and outside the forest, there was a golden? strap around. She raised her head higher and looked into the distance. Suddenly, the boundless blue surged towards her.
That isthe sea. I hear it. Huh-huh-like the wind in the night, it's breathing!
She cheered and jumped, and suddenly found that there was no one where she was standing.
"Has no one been here? Has no one seen the scenery I have seen? Who should I tell about my happiness? Does anyone know?" Her voice swayed from the top of the mountain and dissipated in the mist.
The top of the mountain is empty, with only one stone standing in the middle of the flat ground. It is not connected to the mountain, as if it is not part of the mountain. Who would put it here?
"Stone, why are you standing here alone?"
"Are you listening to the sound of the sea?"
"How long have you been here? Aren't you bored when no one talks to you?" The squirrel walked around the stone, but the stone did not speak.
The squirrel pressed its face against the stone, as if listening carefully to something. After a long time, she slowly backed away, tiptoeing as if afraid of disturbing anything.
"Who am I?" Shitou said as they sat on a big green tree to enjoy the shade that day.
"You are a stone." The squirrel lowered his head and scratched his paws.
"Am I not a monkey?"
"yes?"
"But there are many monkeys in the world, are they all me?"
"Well" The squirrel thought seriously, "I only know that there are many squirrels in the world, but they are not me. I don't know about monkeys."
"Yes, I am not them. They are all together, but I am here." Shihou lowered his head and said.
"Aren't they playing with you? Why?"
"Because I'm different from them. But even though I came out of a stone, I'm still a monkey, right?"
"Well, for a while I wanted to be the flower under the big green tree, but she refused to trade with me. Then I wanted to be a deer, but I couldn't learn the long jump. Now I can only be a squirrel."
"When I'm with them, I don't remember myself, but I often stop for no reason and find that they are running but I don't move. I feel very scared."
"Are you afraid that you have discovered yourself?" said a voice.
The monkey and the squirrel raised their heads, and what they were talking about was a leaf. She smiled kindly: "I am a leaf."
"I know you are Ye Zi."
"But did you know that my name is a leaf? I mean, I am my leaf. Not any other leaf."
"I think they are pretty much the same."
"But I am the only leaf in the world."
"Um?"
"I mean" Ye Zi was a little anxious. She curled her edges and wanted to make a gesture, but then gave up. "As soon as I close my eyes, I am the only one in the world, so I will be afraid. When I opened my eyes and saw so many of myself, I felt at ease. When the wind blew, we rustled, and I knew my existence in these sounds, and fell asleep peacefully.
"But many leaves disappeared. As soon as I woke up, they were gone. I don't know where they went, but there were new leaves in my field of vision. I didn't know when they left. There are too many here. "Zi Zi, I'm afraid that I will forget myself, and I'm afraid that others will not know that I am there, so" Zi Zi said timidly, "I hope someone can call my name, and then I will say yes, and then I will know myself." As long as it¡¯s here, you can sleep happily.¡±
"Then I will call you every day, when I get up, and when I come back." The squirrel said, "Stone, do you want me to call you too?"
"No need." Stone Monkey said, "I want to sleep in."
"Stone." The squirrel called when he woke up early in the morning. Then she smiled. "A leaf," she called.
"Hey." Someone agreed.
"Yeah." The squirrel was about to leave happily, but the leaf said: "What did you ask me to do?"
"Didn't you want me to call you?"
"Where is it?" Ye Zi said.
"Oops, I forgot which leaf it is." The squirrel cried, "Huh? Will I not be able to find her if I change the branches?"
She raised her head, and the leaves all over the sky were shaking on the huge green trees, like a boundless green sea.
Spring is the sound of flapping wings. Thousands of birds with wide wings fall on the big green trees. The blue of the sea is on their backs, and the pure white of clouds is on their bellies.
"Where did you come from? Why have I neverPassed you? "
"Hahaha, this is our home. I have never seen you, little one." A big bird laughed, her wings spread out like a cloud.
"Oh, there are so many big flowers blooming on the tree!" Shitou came back from playing outside, looked up and exclaimed.
"Hehehe, you are so stupid." The squirrel laughed at him.
"Are you stupider than me?" a voice asked timidly.
"Silly little bird, I really think you are stupid when I call you Aben." Big Bird smiled and pushed out a little bird that was shrinking behind him. "His name is Aben. He was born this year. It's his first time." I¡¯m afraid of life when I go back to my hometown.¡±
The squirrel looked up and saw two "little birds" as tall as himself: "Ah, you are so handsome!"
¡°What do you mean, no one has ever said that to me.¡±
"That's right, you are so beautiful. This is what the Wombats said about me, and now I will give it to you."
"Thank you." Ah Ben stretched out his wings and made a holding motion, "But I am uglier than my parents. I don't have wings as big as them, and I don't have feathers as beautiful as them. I felt sad about this several times, but They always laugh at me for being stupid.¡±
"You will grow up. You will grow into the biggest and most beautiful bird here."
"Really?" Ah Ben flapped his wings happily and shouted, "I will grow up, I will grow up."
Shitou also sat and watched, seeming a little melancholy for some reason.
"It's such a big water. If anyone can get in and out again, we will obey him." The monkeys shouted.
"Yes, hahaha! Do you dare?"
"Do you dare?"
"I'll go!" A monkey jumped out, but as soon as it reached the edge of the pool, it made a show of jumping and then turned back with a smile.
"Who dares to go?"
"I" said a weak voice, but the monkeys were jumping and making noise, pushing each other, becoming a mess, chasing each other, and no one heard the sound.
Shitou stood there alone, and no monkey came to ask him if he dared. He looked up at the huge roaring curtain of water on the other side of the pool. The wind blew and the water mist hit his face, making it suffocating.
At night, the forest side is quiet. Under the blue moonlight, only the water curtain is still roaring, turning the moon in the pool into silver flakes.
A small figure came to the edge of the pool. He looked at the rising waterfall for a long time, then suddenly jumped out and fell into the pool far away from the water curtain with a "pop". He was half drowned before climbing out.
He looked at it for a long time, and then jumped out again.
"Boom" the result was still the same. This time he flopped for a longer time before climbing up.
He knelt on the edge of the pool, leaning on the stone with his hands, watching the water dripping from his head drop by drop, wetting the stone surface.
"I can not do it."
¡°There are many things in this world that are impossible to do.¡±
"Who?" The monkey looked around and then raised his head, "Moon, is that you?"
"Hehehe, stupid monkey." The squirrel jumped down from the tree and came to the big stone pool under the moonlight. He held his big tail close to his face and asked, "Do I look like the moon?"
"A little bit, but you won't shine."
"Silly monkey, why are you jumping into the pool? Do you want to learn how to swim?"
"I want to jump into that waterfall."
"Hahaha, you are so strange. Is there anything to eat in the waterfall?"
"No maybe there is."
"Maybe? Is that why you drown yourself half to death again and again?"
"No, it's not for food, it'sI don't know, I just want to know if I can do it."
¡°So what if we do it?¡±
"If you do it, you will be happy."
"It's weird, you are actually happy because of something you can't eat?"
"Hehe, yes," the monkey also laughed, "I don't know why?"
"But," Squirrel lowered his eyelids and said a little sadly, "There are so many things that you can't do in the world. Aren't you always unable to be happy?"
"I always wonder, in this world there are the sun, the moon, distant mountains, clouds, and so many things that we can see but cannot touch. Can they be touched? If they cannot be touched, How do I know if they are really there?"
"Ah?" The squirrel tilted his head and looked at the moon in the sky, "No one can understand what you are saying."
The monkey stood up and looked at the sky: "Since they are there and can be touched, is it really true that no one can touch them? Are they really never reachable? If a place is never reachable, thenDoes this place still exist? We come into this world, but we know that there are things that we can never encounter and things that we can never do. When I think of this, I feel sad. "
"Yes, you can touch it." The squirrel lazily raised its little paw, "Look, isn't the moon holding my hand now?"
The monkey turned around and saw the blue moonlight on the squirrel's palm, as if flowing in that small palm. He was startled.
"Can I eat you?" That day, a tiger came over gently and asked timidly.
"Is this your first time hunting?" the squirrel asked, tilting its head. The other monkeys had already fled up the trees.
The tiger blushed and nodded.
"Then what did you eat before?"
""
"What?"
"Eat milk."
Many monkeys laughed so much that they fell from the trees and couldn't climb up.
"I don't want to be a man-eating tiger, butmy mother is gone. I must live."
"But if you eat us, we will die too."
"I really want to eat fruit like you."
"Sometimes you don't have a choice." A voice said.
The squirrel turned around and said in surprise: "Stone."
¡°I also often fantasize about a place where I can be free from any danger and live happily without having to do things I don¡¯t want to do. But it seems that no one can do this.¡±
"Okay." Tiger Amin thought for a while and said, "You don't have to do things you don't want to do. I think that's okay."
He glanced at the animals present, turned around and left.
"How could he do it?" everyone said.
So in the days that followed, people saw tiger Amin often lying quietly on the grass watching butterflies. Sometimes birds landed on him. Once he helped a duck that didn't learn to swim cross the river.
"Isn't he living a happy life?" everyone said.
In the autumn days, tiger Amin died quietly watching the butterflies flying. The bird was still sitting on his body, and he no longer playfully teased it with his tail.
"Why do you want to die in such a happy life?" everyone said.
Stone became more and more silent. Suddenly one day he started to play crazily, and the mountains and forests were filled with his voice.
It was a carnival night, and an old monkey silently left the crowd and walked deep into the mountain.
"Where are you going?" Shitou asked, sitting in the darkness.
The old monkey looked at this monkey sitting alone in the dark away from the noise in surprise: "I will go where I should go."
"You know where you should go? But I don't know."
"Every living creature will go to that place. It's very quiet there and it's very suitable for an old guy like me. But you are different. You are so young. You should spin wildly and scream under the moonlight. You should leave a mark between heaven and earth. Your voice."
"But the sound will eventually dissipate." Shitou said.
"No, it won't stop, just listen."
On the huge stone platform in the forest not far away, the monkeys screamed for joy. Affected by this cry, various voices in the forest in all directions roared one after another. The big forest was trembling. I don't know whether the wind stirred up the sound or the sound stirred up the wind.
"How much I want to blend into this voice, but I can't. I can't shout anymore. I can't let my low tone interfere with the chorus. How powerful I was back then You are from stone You are always worried, because after tens of thousands of years of silence, you are still afraid of the rapid jumps in the forest and the millions of things coming towards you, and you know that you can control your own time so freely. It is extremely short. The time when you can feel your free thinking like this is extremely short. For this short time, you must try your best to grasp what you encounter. You must know that everything that appears in your life is in a long period of time. Time comes to you, cherish them, child."
"Can I hold them tightly and never lose them?"
"There are legends of immortal dragons in the sea outside the mountains, but most of the time they sink alone at the bottom of the sea. Even if you can keep yourself, you can't keep the things around you. Watching everything around you change, Only myself is left, and the unbearable weight is time, and no one can bear that weight."
"I will become strong, strong enough to bear everything."
"Is there really such a tenacious life? Even if he can withstand everything, he will eventually be overwhelmed by his heavier and heavier self. Because how can he be stronger than himself. Haha, I am confused, I can't figure this out Dao??, maybe it is possible. Come on, try this. "The old monkey handed over a coconut pot.
"What's this?"
"This is 'getting', it is what the fruit becomes after it disappears. It can make you forget yourself and become one with the world. Drink it and you will feel that you are the forest, the moon, and the river."
Shi Shigudu drank it, and after a while he stood up and began to laugh happily.
"Who are you?" asked the old monkey.
"I am the sky, I am everything! I am the biggest!" Shitou blushed, burped, and began to dance. Suddenly he stretched out his arms and howled wildly. The monkeys on the stone echoed, and he jumped three times and two times. Climb up the stone platform and join the wild dance of the monkeys.
"Look, haven't you already got everything?" The old monkey looked at the shadow on the stone platform for a long time, then silently turned around and walked towards the depths of the mountain.
Autumn is getting deeper, and the Xiangniao family is about to set off.
"Don't leave, little stupid, I will be sad." said the squirrel.
"I will come back next year." Xiao Ben said.
"But your stay was too short, and you haven't found more friends yet. Why did it have to be separated for so long?"
"I don't know why the sun moves back and forth. We have to chase the sun and not get too far away from it. So we are destined to spend our whole life running around. The only time we can really stop and live is A little, but I will always think about it on the road, and I will try my best to fly for this time together."
"You said that every year there are many birds that cannot be reached on the road."
"That won't be me anymore. I'm still young, but my parents I will follow them. When they can't fly anymore, they will fall into the sea. I know that one day, no flying bird will die. In the nest, we fly over the ocean until we finally fall into the ocean, that's it."
"Why do you suddenly understand so much, Ben?"
"From the day I know I will grow up." Aben held Squirrel's hand, "We will all grow up, and we will be more beautiful then. Although we will become older during the long journey, But for the most glorious years in our lives, we will all rush towards that moment without regrets. Right?"
The squirrel scratched his head. She didn't seem to understand, but she felt sad and hopeful.
¡°I have to leave too,¡± Shihou finally said that day.
The squirrel looked at him with big eyes and said nothing. She was surprised that she seemed to have known that this day would come.
"I don't know why I should be sad because of loss, why I should worry about the shortness of time. I want to find that power, let all life transcend the boundaries, let all flowers bloom on the earth at the same time. Let those who want to fly can Being able to fly freely allows everyone to be with the one they like forever.¡±
"But, all the people I like have to leave me." Squirrel said.
The stone monkey has already boarded the raft, and the squirrel watched him turn into a small dot on the sea from the high mountain where she first saw the stone.
"Is this what growing up means? Why, why are you in such a hurry to go?" The squirrel hugged his tail and cried.
That day the squirrel woke up, and the world suddenly became quiet, without the flapping of wings of birds or the noise of monkeys. She raised her head and saw that the sea had turned golden, and many leaves were floating down, falling to the distant land.
At this time, she heard a voice say softly: "Goodbye."
"Who are you? Where are you?"
"I am a leaf, have you seen me? I am here."
The squirrel turned around and looked around, and countless leaves floated past her.
"where are you?"
"I am here. I am here." Countless voices said, "I am here, remember me, I was once"
The squirrel jumped up suddenly and quickly chased down the branches.
"A leaf, a leaf!" she shouted.
"Thank you." She heard the thin voice again, "I know I am here. Next year, you can call my name on the branches again. Goodbye"
The squirrel finally couldn¡¯t catch up with them, so she jumped to the branch and waved her hand downwards, ¡°Goodbye. Goodbye¡ª¡ª¡±