moon boy

We got off the horse at the foot of the mountain, and my legs were already numb from riding, and they became O-shaped legs that couldn't close together.Ainu'er saw it, and bent over with laughter, patted my brown horse and said to it: "Has your belly gained a lot of weight? Look at your brother Luoyang!" The horse turned its head Come to look at him, then at me, with a serious look, Ainur laughed even harder.I didn't realize that he loves to laugh so much before, I thought to myself.

We're back in the cave, and I'm busy putting together a brand new home.After working for a long time, the cave finally has a lot of things I brought, and it has also been modernized a lot.

Dad also gave me some messy things, the reason is "it will come in handy sooner or later".I saw a piece of soft plastic pipe and a few balloons, and I had an idea to make a shower.

After spending a morning, I finally made a manual shower.Its principle is similar to that of a straw. It uses the effect of atmospheric pressure. Press the balloon with your hand to squeeze out the air in the tube, and then the external atmospheric pressure pushes the pool water into another tube.Keep squeezing the balloon in this way, and the water will flow out continuously.

I put the stainless steel basin my father bought for me next to the pool, and then excitedly showed it to Ainur, saying, "Look, the boys in engineering are really good, and I can even catch up with Robinson."

Ainuer didn't know who Robinson was and was very curious.I didn't bother to explain to him, I just told him that Robinson was a foreign unlucky man.

We stayed in the cave for two days, planting grapes and chatting all day long, and our days were quite comfortable.Ainur asked those Uighurs for some vegetables, flour, and some vegetable seeds.He planted these seeds, and I waited every day for them to grow.During this period, Ainuer also went hunting and caught the gray rabbit.Rabbit meat is not particularly delicious, but this primitive way of life really surprised me.

The bread made by ethnic minorities has a unique taste, is very chewy, and the portion is as big as buns.I found that the Uyghurs are very generous in eating, just look at that delicate Kaixi, my son.

Ainur also brought a lot of herbal medicine for quitting smoking. Whenever I wanted to smoke, he would stuff the herbs into my mouth like a magic trick.I found that many times smoking is not obsessed with those gases, but what I want to hold in my mouth when I am bored.I don't know where Ainur keeps those herbs, so when he goes out, I tear some bread and eat it whenever I want to smoke, and it still works.

One day, Ainur suddenly said to me, "Shall I take you to a lake?"

I have liked water since I was a child, rivers, lakes and seas, and the incarnation of water - ice and snow.I was very excited and said, "What lake?"

Ainuer pondered for a moment, and said a word in bird language.

This kind of bird language is very strange, I asked him: "What kind of language is this?"

"Tibetan language."

To me, that word probably means "×××wrong".Of course, this is nonsense. In Tibetan, the term "lake" is called "cuo".The famous ones are Namtso Lake and Yamdrok Lake... Many lakes in Tibet are related to religion in the eyes of Tibetans.

I almost want to worship Ainur, if he was born in the city, he would be an out-and-out linguist!Ainu'er was quite embarrassed: "Because we are now at the southern tip of Xinjiang. If we go south and climb over a low snow-capped mountain, we will find Tibet, and then there is the lake. I often go there, and I have a relationship with Tibetans. communication, so of course you have to be able to speak.”

"You have different beliefs from them, won't there be conflicts?"

"Of course not, what are you thinking about? Belief is often a positive thing, not to mention they believe in Buddhism, which teaches people tolerance and peace. The consistent principle of Tibetans is that you don't mess with me. I'm not going to mess with you either."

"By the way, what's wrong with the noun you just mentioned?"

He repeated the bird call again.

"What?"

"I am right!"

I looked at his embarrassment and laughed.

"How are we going to get there?"

"Cross the snow-capped mountain, and you'll be there when you go down the mountain." Ainur stood up and pulled me out of the cave. I followed suspiciously, but I saw him standing at the entrance of the cave and pointing in a very different direction, saying, "Where are you going?" Looking aside, you can see the snow mountain."

I took a closer look, and it turned out that it was so close to our place!It was a low snow-capped mountain, continuous and "slightly flawless", which looked particularly majestic and solemn from a distance.

"It's just south," said Ainur. "Crossing that mountain is... that lake. Only a few Tibetans live there, and they go to worship there regularly."

"Oh, you said it was worship!" I was very interested in this, and suddenly called out. Ainur was startled by me, and said helplessly: "Can you correct this problem? I'm going to scare you for a while..."

"Ah, I'm sorry..." I rubbed my head, "The pilgrimage you're talking about means walking one step and lying down on the ground once?"

Ainuer froze for a moment, then laughed: "It's a long head kowtow, walk three steps and kowtow to a long head."

"Yes, that's what I was talking about."

"Kowtow is only done when you go to the Potala Palace in Lhasa, ××× is wrong..."

"It's 'I'm not wrong'."

"...Well, 'I'm not wrong' is just an ordinary holy lake. People who live nearby just go to the lake to kowtow and burn incense. This should not be regarded as a pilgrimage, but a worship."

We went back to the cave and made love on the bed. I imagined the situation of Tibetans kowtowing on the way to Lhasa, and suddenly remembered a story that my aunt told me before.My aunt works in the Justice Bureau and has a good network of contacts. She knows a Tibetan man.The man told his aunt a story about the Living Buddha and about his nephew.

Their family is all Tibetans, and they have no choice but to believe in Buddhism since they were born.It is said that the man's nephew was born with a gentle manner, suffered from illnesses, and didn't like to play with other children.When the boy was seven years old, one day he said to his mother, "Sweep the yard, we will have guests later."

His mother didn't believe it, so she didn't sweep the yard.Seeing that his mother didn't listen to him, the child didn't say anything, so he moved a chair and put it in the yard, and sat on it with his legs crossed.After a while, several lamas came in, and they went straight into the courtyard without sitting down. When they saw the child sitting there, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed, calling "Living Buddha".

A few days later, a large group of lamas came with empty sedan chairs, and then borrowed the boy with the sedan chairs and took him to a big temple. From then on, he became a living Buddha that everyone wanted to worship. Even his mother had to kowtow to him when she went to burn incense in that temple.However, due to religious beliefs, their family did not feel that kowtowing to a half-grown child was a shameful thing. On the contrary, his mother felt extremely honored to have given birth to a living Buddha.

When my aunt told me this story, there was a bit of disdain on her face.She said: "This is the ignorance that religion brings to people."

I don't think they are too ignorant, after all, Buddhism is a part of Tibetan life, they have no choice.I just think this story is too false, and there should be a lot of fabricated parts in it, and these fabricated elements come from their superstitious belief in living Buddhas.

I told this to Ainur and asked him, "Do you think this is true or not?"

Ainuer thought for a moment: "Half-truth, half-false."

I then asked him: "Then do you think 'religious belief' is true or false?"

Ainuer's eyes regained the extreme calmness, and he said slowly: "Actually, I think there is no god in this world."

I laughed: "How can there be such an ungodly believer as you? Thanks to you, you are the only heir of your nation."

"If I could choose," Ainuer didn't laugh, his voice was very solemn, "I would be a person without faith."

"why?"

"When a person has faith, he has a psychological pillar. And this pillar is not necessarily absolutely firm. When this psychological pillar collapses, that person will also end," Ainur said slowly He said, "Do you know what the scariest person in the world looks like?"

I shook my head, immersed in the thoughts brought to me by Ainur.

"That kind of person has no faith, no belief in ghosts and gods, no desire, and cannot be destroyed. He does not have any psychological support, and you cannot destroy his heart. In Buddhism, if there is desire, it is called 'gap', which is your psychology. Let evil have a gap; on the contrary, if you have no desire, you are 'no gap'. This kind of person, for his enemies, is of course the 'most terrible', but if we become like this, it is not quite Has Yu become very powerful?"

I laughed and said, "Aren't you still quoting Buddhist teachings?"

"I just think there is some truth to what it says. Similarly, isn't religion a kind of gap? It can grab people's handles, influence people's actions, and destroy a person."

Seems to make sense.If Ainur is right, this is yet another paradox.Religious teachings to deny religion.

I questioned him and said, "If an individual uses religion as a pillar, how can this pillar collapse? God does not exist, and such fictional things will never be destroyed."

Ainur said: "It depends on the individual. There are many people who have religious beliefs and ask God to keep them safe, but if they are not safe at all, they may never believe in God again and become worse from then on."

"And do you find yourself dangerous, heretic?"

A trace of anxiety flashed across Ainur's face: "Yes, what we believe in is not a religion, but a belief. I only know that this belief is hidden in this mountain, as old as my family, and can be checked. My grandfather, I My father didn't even see it. I still get a little uneasy every time I think about it."

I recalled that Ainur said that only "the heir of the patriarch of the clan must cooperate with his other half to spy on the secret after the engagement contract. It is said that only those with a very strong mentality are qualified to see it."Who is Ainur's other half?will it be me

My blood boils suddenly, that is to say, I have the opportunity to pry into that secret? The very act of "peeking into a secret" is exhilarating in itself.But I didn't ask Ainur, because I really like him, and I don't want him to feel that I have another purpose for staying.

The next day, we packed our bags and were ready to go.

I asked Ainur: "Do we need climbing picks for climbing?"

"unnecessary."

"Then how to climb up?" I stretched my neck and looked at the snow top of the mountain from a distance.

Ainur's expression was very relaxed: "It will be easy for us to get up."

Okay, I thought to myself, if I stop cooking halfway, you have to drag me there.

Seeing that I was worried, Ainuer said, "Don't worry, we don't need to work hard on this journey, just put on your gloves."

We descended the mountain and Ainuer summoned the mount.I am not afraid of horses at all now, but I still feel very strange. I obviously didn’t pinch the horse’s belly that day, so why did it go crazy?It seems that horses can't do without medicine.

We headed south all the way, galloping past on horseback.The actual distance of the snow-capped mountains in the cave was longer than what we saw. After running for an hour on the Gobi Desert, we finally arrived at the foot of the snow-capped mountains.

After getting off the horse, the two horses ran away, and Ainur put the bit and saddle on the ground.I said to him: "How can you find when you come back..."

Ainur Nunuzui, I saw a road leading up the snow-capped mountain in front of me. Beside the dirt road, there was a thick hemp rope, and the end of the hemp rope was tied to a very strong tree.

"I planted this tree, and I opened this mountain," Ainur said with a smile, "When we come back, we will go the same way."

I nodded, with some confidence in my heart, I went forward and walked up the mountain.At the beginning, the slope was very small, and there was no ice or snow. Walking on it was like walking on flat ground without holding on to the hemp rope.

The snow-capped mountains are really beautiful. The white snow glows with blue light, shining brightly in the sun, which makes people feel a little flustered.I looked at the top of the snow, and the majestic background music immediately sounded in my heart.

Gradually, as the altitude continued to rise, the soil seemed to be filled with ice, and the slope rapidly increased. I stretched out my hand to grab the hemp rope.I grabbed it unpreparedly, and found that the hemp rope was very rough. I retracted my hand with an "ah—" and looked at my hand again. It seemed to be bleeding.

"Hey, what's the matter?" Ainur turned his head, glanced at my hands and frowned, "I made you wear gloves."

I smiled wryly: "The gloves I wear are too small. I used them when I was playing baseball when I was a kid."

Without saying a word, Ainuer took off his gloves and gave them to me.I said, "What do you do?"

"Leave me alone, I have my own tricks," Ainur took out a large piece of gauze from his backpack, and wrapped it tightly around his hands, "Your hands are too tender, like mine, the above They all have a layer of calluses, so they are not afraid of grinding."

I smiled, a warm current flowed quietly in my heart, imitating Ainu'er's emphasis and said haha: "You will be a good wife and mother."

"What did you say?" Ainur turned around quickly and pinched my chin.

I was startled, shook my head, and broke free from his hand: "I'm climbing a mountain, don't be so startled, and scare me down the mountain again!"

Ainuer smiled and continued to open the way.In fact, with the rope, climbing the mountain is much easier.The snow layer is getting thicker and thicker, almost to my knees.I secretly thanked the laces of the boots were tied tightly, otherwise the feeling of pouring snow into the boots must be uncomfortable.I looked at our cave from a distance, and now I could only see a black dot.

I turned my head again and looked up at the top of the snow mountain.The top of the mountain was covered with clouds, and I couldn't see how high it was.Fortunately, the weather is fine today, otherwise there might be an accident.

Just as I was thinking this way, the tight rope suddenly loosened. Ainur reacted very quickly and let go of my hand immediately. I didn't react, and fell backwards, fell into the snowdrift, and then slid down several meters.

I will never crow my mouth anymore, I buried my face in the snow, thinking secretly.