Not blind
Early in the morning, the little red-haired fox who was sleeping soundly on the recliner suddenly opened his eyes, subconsciously jumped off the recliner and walked straight to the room to wake Jiang Jingyuan up.
It wasn't until it reached the door that it suddenly remembered something and turned back to look at the recliner.
On the recliner, the girl wrapped in a plush cloak squinted her eyes sleepily, her body leaning against the pillow.
Finally, it was dawn. Jiang Jingyuan forced himself to stay awake and said to it, "I'll just take a nap. Be sure to call me when the meal is ready. I want to go down the mountain." Then he fell asleep on the recliner.
Sheng Liang made two disgusted "tsk tsk" sounds, but without waking her up, he turned around and went out to cook.
…………
"The meal is ready, the meal is ready—"
"The meal is ready—"
"Get up, get up, get up—get up, get up—"
Smoke rose from the cooking stove, and a little red-haired fox came over with iron pots and basins in its paws, making the sound of "ping pong pong" like the beating of drums and gongs.
It stretched its neck close to Jiang Jingyuan's ear, banged its hands loudly, and then opened its mouth and shouted:
"Get up—eat—go down the mountain—go down the mountain and go home—"
"Do you still want to go home?!"
Jiang Jingyuan suddenly woke up, her heart pounding, her whole body shivering. "Stop..." she cried out in pain, "Let me slow down."
Sheng Liang immediately stopped the iron pot and pan in his hand and said, "Eat quickly when you've recovered and don't fall asleep again." Then he went out to put all the pots and pans in place.
moment.
Jiang Jingyuan walked out of the house in a daze and sat beside the stone.
"Tap." Sheng Liang placed the bowl in front of her, placed the chopsticks and spoon on a small stone rack, and brought out hot tea cups and a few small plates, complaining:
"It's a good thing I didn't follow you before! Just look at what a precious fox like me has been tormented like this in just two or three months!"
Jiang Jingyuan drank half a glass of water, turned his head and coughed twice, then came back to his senses. He thought to himself, if Sheng Liang had followed her at that time, he would still have a good life with his precious fox. However, she was always out and about, so she would definitely have to take it with her. It's hard to say how long it could survive that kind of life...
Jiang Jingyuan didn't care and asked, "Are you coming down the mountain with me this time? That way you don't have to work so hard anymore."
Hearing this, the little fox tilted its head and thought for a while. Suddenly, it glanced at Jiang Jingyuan, who was eating quietly. Suddenly, it felt sad and angry. It had waited on Jiang Jingyuan on this mountain for several months. Now, it should also have a good and relaxing life, right?!
Sheng Liang immediately responded: "Go down the mountain, go down the mountain, I will go down the mountain with you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the little red-haired fox decisively ran into the house and quickly packed his bags, then went to other places to clean up one by one.
Seeing it running around in a hurry, Jiang Jingyuan couldn't help but put down his chopsticks and shouted, "Don't worry! I have to go to the library later to find some books to take away!"
Upon hearing this, Sheng Liang really slowed down his running, paused, turned his head and shouted at her:
"Then hurry up! Finish your work quickly and go home, or I'll have to prepare your lunch!"
Jiang Jingyuan: "..."
Jiang Jingyuan said "Oh" and was suddenly awakened from her sleepiness. She didn't have the energy to eat now. She just took a few more bites, put down the spoon, rinsed her mouth, and went to the library.
Inside the bamboo house, rows of neatly arranged heavy books were placed. Jiang Jingyuan's eyes scanned the bookshelves back and forth, not intending to choose anything immediately. He simply pondered in his heart:
"Although I will definitely come back later, I can't read all the books if I bring too many, but... I don't know how long it will take me to come back. If I mess up the books this time, it will be difficult to find them later... Do you want me to move the entire library?"
Anyway, she was used to the whole moving thing. She used to have a pile of books in her storage space all year round. Even though she moved them away, she had almost no time to read them when she was away. In the end, she moved them all back and put them away, but she would take them all away next time.
"Just take it away. I can't pick out many books right now..."
Jiang Jingyuan made up his mind, took out a storage space separately, and quietly retreated to the door.
She retreated to the door, and suddenly a familiar voice came to her mind. "He" asked:
"Look at these books here. Do you think they contain any content?"
Jiang Jingyuan was stunned and subconsciously wanted to answer "yes", but then he replied with confusion: "...No?"
——Since He would ask this, the answer must be unusual.
He suddenly laughed with a mixture of amusement and helplessness, paused, and then softly said, "If you don't open the pages, they have no content. Only when you open them and read through them do they have content."
Jiang Jingyuan seemed to be lost in thought, with a strange feeling as if he understood but also as if something was missing.
He continued, "I have reminded you many times before, but you never seemed to listen."
Jiang Jingyuan stopped thinking and looked at Him.
"I told you not to do anything out of fear, but to be at ease," He said. "The answer is here, but you are looking for it in the image."
Jiang Jingyuan was silent for a moment, "...I would be scared."
"I was afraid of whether what I found and what I saw was real, so I tried to find experiences similar to mine to prove...me."
"I'm afraid of whether the path I'm taking is correct, whether what I've understood is correct... What exactly is the right path?"
“Even with small but convincing results, I still have doubts and fears. These ‘proofs’ are like elusive carrots, making me unwilling to give up but also preventing me from continuing to perceive them.”
He said, "You must have someone to prove you, otherwise you will be anxious and uneasy. You are looking for a foothold, and you keep looking, but you are clearly at this point. Progress comes from questioning, questioning and then exploring. The road is the road, who defines the right and wrong of the road? Who do you want to tell you right and wrong? Is it the appearance?"
He asked, "Do you hope to be recognized by the Prime Minister? Are you afraid of not being recognized by the Prime Minister?"
"Other people's methods are their own, and their paths are their own. You may not be able to achieve success using their methods. You can only explore your own methods."
He said, "You will find that different people's methods and philosophies are always superficially different, even contradictory, but they all reach the same place and have the same core through different methods. So, what is the right method and path?"
Jiang Jingyuan was silent.
He said, “You seek guidance from the image, hoping to walk on a path of identification… However, identification brings regression, while questioning, exploration, and subversion bring progress and growth.”
"You can accept guidance at certain stages, but don't be forced to stick to it later. You can question, discard, and subvert it as much as you want, even if it's me."
"Dare to question, dare to subvert, dare to be questioned, dare to be subverted. This is not an offense. Of course, if you encounter a being who refuses to be questioned, do not be prejudiced or judge them. They have the right to make their own choices. They can choose to accept or refuse to be questioned on this or that matter."
He said:
"Don't trust anything blindly, including me."
"Don't be blind, don't believe me. Judgment is accumulated by experience, and judgment without sufficient experience is blind."
Don't be blind... Jiang Jingyuan lowered his eyes, walked out of the door, raised his hand and waved, and the entire bamboo and wooden attic house and the land disappeared in an instant.
“My home ahhhhh!!!”
Sheng Liang's shrill scream suddenly exploded behind him.
"Bang!" The cup fell to the ground and broke into pieces. Sheng Liang rushed up and looked at the large sunken pit. He screamed "Ahhhh", wanting to cry but having no tears.
Jiang Jingyuan felt guilty for a moment, then carefully moved forward and said, "Don't worry, we'll put the house back together when we get back."
Sheng Liang was so angry that he was shaking all over. He turned around suddenly, with a ferocious expression, pointing at her and shouting:
"I brought you tea! But you just moved my house away!!!"
"No, no, it's just the library. We've all left, so it's a waste for the library to be here."
Jiang Jingyuan pressed down its claws, pretended to look up at the sky, and said, "It's getting late. We have to go down the mountain. Have you packed your things?"
Sheng Liang took a deep breath and gritted his teeth: "Okay..."
Jiang Jingyuan immediately smiled and pulled it out—
"Let's get down the mountain quickly."
Afternoon.
A man and a fox stopped in the snow. Jiang Jingyuan frowned and looked around, muttering, "What's going on? Why can't I get out..."
Next to it, the little red-haired fox squinted its eyes, opened its mouth wide, yawned, and dug the snow with its claws out of boredom.
"Shengliang, come and look for it." Jiang Jingyuan called it, "Is it the way out from here?"
Sheng Liang walked over slowly, took a quick look, and nodded lazily, "This is it."
Jiang Jingyuan uttered a soft "Ah" and continued to walk around the open space, muttering, "Where's the way down the mountain? Why hasn't the way down the mountain appeared?"
After another long while, she still couldn't find the way down the mountain. She frowned and said, "Has the way down the mountain changed its location? Should we look somewhere else?"
"Impossible." Sheng Liang said immediately, "I've been here for so long, and I've never seen the way down the mountain change. The road has always been here."
Jiang Jingyuan didn't believe it and turned to ask, "Then tell me, why is the road gone? Why can't we get down the mountain?"
The little red fox lazily swung his tail, squinting his eyes tiredly, and replied, "Maybe you are still dreaming."
Jiang Jingyuan: "???"
"I think you're still dreaming. You're talking in your sleep in such a cold place with snow and ice." Jiang Jingyuan said unhappily, "Be serious and find the way quickly. Otherwise, when will we be able to get down the mountain?"
Sheng Liang glanced at her sideways, and as if he was amused by her, he laughed with his heart beating in his chest, and turned his head away without looking at her.
Jiang Jingyuan also made an unhappy "tsk" sound, and walked around the open space for a long time, looking for it. Suddenly, he turned around and asked it: "Why don't you come and look for the road? Why is the road gone?"
"I told you..."
Sheng Liang looked at her lazily with narrowed eyes and said, "You may still be dreaming."
A chill suddenly shot up from the soles of her feet to her back, and Jiang Jingyuan froze in an instant. Her heart was icy cold and trembling wildly. After a long while, she slowly asked:
"What do you mean?"
The little fox smiled again, and turned away from her.
“!!!”
Jiang Jingyuan screamed:
“Shengliang!!! Shengliang, Shengliang, Shengliang—”
In an instant, she felt something was wrong and changed her words to scream:
"I want to go home!! I want to go home, I want to go home ahhhh——"
“Bang!”
There was a loud and crisp sound.
Jiang Jingyuan suddenly opened his eyes and met the face of an angry fox.
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