A flat rock snail that is alive
【One】
After the autumn, on a lotus rainy and sunny weekend, at the invitation of friends, especially his eight-year-old children, they climbed the mountains of their hometown together. Today's children like to climb mountains, how can they not encourage them with joy.
This year's summer has not yet arrived, and the rain in the north is frequent. The vegetation is like a milk baby, and it is lively and rounded every day. Looking at the mountains in the distance, the drought with yellow muscles and thin muscles for many years was swept away, and the young woman's water honey charm gradually rose. Climbing small altitudes like cooking small fresh, sheep intestine stone path through the crotch, knowing that the dense ambush in the miscellaneous branches, the mountain road stones sound, the cicadas flying wildly and squeaking, the children's eyes and faces are hit with bruises, and the end is that the years are colorful and sound.
These mountain cicadas are neglected alive and often replaced by people who are carefully eaten. When I was a child, I often caught it, but the most I ate was grasshoppers. Since the grains are full, I don't eat them. Ancestors have been eaten as side foods for generations, afraid that human genes have been written into the protein molecules of cicadas. Fortunately, he was still alive, even if the enemies in the barren mountains and mountains scattered and fled.
【2nd】
When I went down to the middle of the mountain, on a steep cliff, I inadvertently found a flat rock snail. A flat rock snail living in the present. (hereinafter referred to as flat snail)
From the small uphill, all I saw was the shell of a dead flat snail. Picked up and made into a toy, with a spiny needle stuck in a hollow wheat straw, blown up in rows, a team of flat shells rotating on the tip of the spinner, it looks like the Milky Way is also surging.
Since the ancient history of wheat cultivation, a child's toy invented by a wise primitive person, naturally made, will be seen at a glance, so it has been widely imitated by one side of the water and soil. From the ancestors of my grandfather or grandfather all the way, the fields were made by my mother's own hands and passed on to my hands, how can I forget?
Therefore, Qilu has a mountain land, climb the mountain once, pick up a flat snail shell to keep as a souvenir, for a long time, but also accumulated a wash of pen and bowl. After years of picking up and looking at it, the reflection of the shell of the flat snail lying on the rock has calcified my retina together, so that at first sight of a living creature, I can't react for a while.
Counting, this day is at least more than a hundred years, and it may be even longer. Isn't the toy passed down from generation to generation a living proof that the snail is in the starry sky of the long river and the life information has disappeared for a long time? At least in the past twenty years of mountain climbing experience, I have never seen a live flat snail. Ask your parents and loved ones to see, they have never seen a living snail since they were young.
I have to admit that this somewhat counter-intuitive discovery caught me off guard. The live snail may cover a geo-ecological history with a diameter of 400 km. Perhaps when Huan Gong Xiaobai led a large army to cut down the Lu, drove his horse through the Yushan Mountain, and when he got off the horse and nibbled on the meat while it was convenient, he smashed the last living flat snail in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was painfully flattened by the vegetarian Cao Jiaosan drum.
Dead shell of live snails, vicissitudes of mulberry fields. I suspect that in ancient times, such as a wheat harvesting season in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qilu Mountains, a poor courtyard made of stone slabs on a certain mountain pass, there was a coarse cloth little girl who had just usurped the horn and cried incessantly. The sun was like fire, the father was cutting wheat on the mountain, the mother was busy cleaning up the poor harvest, the child had no time to take care of it, he picked up a flat snail shell and tied such a toy to coax the child. This flat snail shell from more than 2,000 years ago is attached to the child's memory medium to fly over the dynasty, looking for a period of regeneration.
【III】
Until this day in the hometown mountains, I inadvertently saw a living flat snail, which really surprised people. I lied ha, the truth is, when I found it, I was only slightly happy, and immediately shared happiness with the child, I regarded the child as if I were a child, which was equivalent to me sharing it with myself. After returning home for many days, this live flat snail, always uninvited, climbed over the wall into the brain and squirmed non-stop, making me mess up the square inches.
It was like this, ha, suddenly found that the cycle of rotation came alive in my heart, she was no longer abstract and difficult to chew. This living snail is the closest and farthest and most heartfelt life cycle to me.
You know, the vast majority of the Luzhong Mountains 200 million years ago were below the water surface, only those higher altitude parts of the summit, my observation is generally at an altitude of 600 meters +, that is, near the ancient sea level, there are now flat snail shells left, and the Laiwu trilobite fossils that are earlier than the flat snails are even more proof.
Judging from the shape of the flat shell that has evolved, they should have inhabited the wet stone crevices on the top of the mountain in large quantities to resist the wind and waves. Today's mountain ranges, below a certain altitude, can not see this flat snail. Today's common round-brained shell snails were living below sea level. Another small possibility is that as sea level continues to decline, some of the more intelligent flat snails have evolved into round snails, but the flat and round intermediate state has not yet been seen. Those stubborn snails that refuse to evolve to the end either throw their shells at the barren mountains or perform with the sky and create miracles.
When the miracle lay on the stone wall, I preferred to believe that the living snail had jumped out of the crack in the stone. Two hundred million years of long changes, almost mysterious cycles of life and death. As a living fossil of time, this flat snail is calmly basking in a large shell. Scare it with a lighter, force him to say the rotation of the heavenly machine, otherwise it will be baked, what will it say?
【Wanton】
Well, it laughed and said only one thing. Yang Guifei lives among you. It is Yang Yuhuan, who once lived in the Tang Dynasty with a million people and the world's most prosperous city of Chang'an. She is now in the midst of the 1.4 billion people who "make the hearts of the parents of the world and not regenerate men and women". You see her laughing and playing with her companions on the world magic city pedestrian street, and she is picking up beautiful skin products at the cosmetics counter without knowing it. Not good, you think for yourself.
In the autumn of 1138, in the Southern Song Dynasty Dingdu (Hangzhou, Zhejiang), Lin'an City, in the city of Qingfu Temple, there was a monk Guangming, who opened a secret basement in the temple, used the women's incense to abduct and deceive six people for sexual pleasure, and none of the abducted women took the initiative to escape, and Guangming was killed by his friends with a wine jug (1).
In the autumn of 2008, (northern Song Dynasty) In Luoyang City, Henan Province, On Kaixuan East Road, Lunan Jingfuyuan, there were civil servants who dug eighteen feet into the ground to build a basement, illegally imprisoned six young girls as sex slaves, and the imprisoned girls, none of them took the initiative to escape, but instead killed two people because of mutual jealousy, and Li Was killed by bullets (2).
The reproductive ability of humans is stronger than that of the flat snail, and the peak circuit does not rotate, as if there is no cycle but just copying. Like cicadas, life has always been a matter for bianluo, and humanity is sometimes superfluous and obscene outside of bianluo's life. Dead don't need to pay attention, live don't need to pay attention, don't know the way of living of the flat snail, is not the heavenly way.
(September 10, 2022)
Written at the end, this year's rain is abundant, the water flow is large, and in the mid-autumn festival in the hometown river, I found several colorful fish that I saw when I was a child! Although it is not as much as I saw as a child, it is still very happy.
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(1) Ming Ling Mengchu's "The Surprise of the First Shooting" Volume 26 ·
... The village woman sacrificed her body, and the fake Tianyu staff broke the prison... Zhejiang Daily·... Southern Song Dynasty Dingdu November 24, 2018.
(2) Baidu Encyclopedia· Henan Luoyang sex slavery case.