C157 (1/2)
Her reaction was fast, and before I could place my hand on Little Flower, she had already grabbed my wrist. Don't underestimate her size, her strength is quite strong.
”What's wrong?” I asked curiously. She said, ”If you take it off, it dies.” Just because of this, I wondered why. I said, ”Alright, alright, alright. I won't take it off. Let go of me.” As I spoke, she held on to my wrist so tightly that I could feel the ache in my veins. Where did this little girl get so much strength from? It was scary.
Hearing my words, she slowly let go of my hand, but still looked at me. I smiled as I shook my wrist. ”Why are you so tired? Also, what's wrong with these flowers?” She lowered her head to look at Little Flower without saying a word, as if blaming me for my actions just now. Actually, when I thought about it, strictly speaking, there was something wrong with me as well.
When Brother Liang asked me about plants and souls, Brother Liang told me that all living things have souls, and plants are no exception, but even families who come from the same clan have to eat to maintain their lives, why can't they eat meat and eat plants? Brother Liang said that the living beings of the world can be divided into two types: emotionless and heartless, and this refers to plants that have no memory, have no understanding of their own suffering and happiness, and do not know their relationship with the outside world. This kind of life is called emotionless.
Humans and animals could be considered creatures of love, humans knew about honor, humiliation, joy, gratitude, and hatred, although animals were not as good as humans, but they also had relatively simple thoughts and feelings, so humans could interact with animals and produce feelings, and no matter what people did, they would not be able to produce the slightest bit of emotional entanglement with any kind of plant. Even so, when a plant was harmed, it would still cause resentment, even though this resentment was very small.
Even if we look at it with the naked eye, it seems clear and transparent, as if there's nothing else, because they can't think, they don't feel pain, so they won't feel resentment, the cause of resentment is because they feel pain and fear before they die, and the reason for that is because they can't feel the negative emotions, the experts would clear away the resentment before they eat the meat, so eating the meat again would be no different from eating the vegetarian food, so eating the meat without any resentment would also decrease the taste, it's just that no one's cultivation can't detect it.
I looked at the spirited little girl in front of me and suddenly had an idea. ”Don't you have no name? Let me give you one. Look at how beautiful this little flower is. You're called Little Flower, right?” She happily said, ”Okay, Little Flower, this is a good name.” Little Flower and I are having fun here. I don't know how long it has been since I have felt so happy. This place is far from the suffering of the human world, so I almost don't want to leave.
”Hey, Hao Zi, get up.” I was woken up by my master and sat up in a daze. ”The car is waiting outside. Hurry up and wash up. What happened to your eyes?” I blinked a few times as I didn't feel that anything was wrong. ”What's wrong, Master?”
Master carefully looked at my eyes and said, ”It seems a little red, didn't you rest well last night?” I said, ”Maybe.” ”Hurry up, don't let others wait too long.”
The person who sent us off was a middle-aged man, and upon seeing us, he was slightly surprised. After greeting Master, he looked at me and Senior Brother Ju Yi and asked: ”Which is Senior Brother Ju Yi?” His master was from the same generation as the First Martial Uncle, so he was also from the same generation as Senior Brother Ju Yi. On the other hand, it seemed that he was slightly older than Senior Brother Ju Yi, so he did not know why he called him Senior Brother Ju Yi.
After we got in the car, he chatted with us while driving, his tone filled with admiration for Senior Brother Ju Yi. It was only later on that I found out that most of the people in the same generation in the department called Senior Brother Ju Yi Senior Brother, on one hand because of politeness, and also because of the contributions that Senior Brother Ju Yi had rendered to the department in the recent years, making him famous, which was why he was acknowledged and respected by the people in the same generation. It could be said that this time, First Martial Uncle did not let Senior Brother Ju Yi go to the front line was also because of the higher ups' suggestions.