Chapter 5 Chapter 4 The Injury and Reconstruction of the Killer

Operation September 6 I made a big decision early this morning— I'm going to operate on the mantis. The reason why I have this idea is because I saw it eating last night.Although the two pliers were stretched out straight, it could be seen that it was trying to grab it.I could see in the pincers, a vibration.Like a prisoner with his hands handcuffed, trying desperately to break free, some trembled.Especially when its pincers touched my fingers holding the katydid, I felt like an electric shock. This incident proves that its pincers are not dead, but that it cannot move because of some external force.According to my guess, this "external force" is the skin that has not been molted clean.

I remember that when it peeled off a few days ago, half of its arm was covered with a thin layer of skin. I peeled it off, but I peeled the "upper arm" and didn't notice the position of the "pliers". It must be because of those The local skin was not completely removed, but new skin grew inside.The old skin then becomes a hard shell, making it immobile. Perhaps this is the sorrow of insect "transformation", just like the sorrow of human "production".On the one hand, it faces the newborn, and on the other hand, it wants to leave the mother's body.If it cannot be removed, only half of it is removed, or it is delayed for a long time, it will cause cerebral palsy or death.If we observe carefully, we will definitely find that countless insects died because of the failure of "metamorphosis".And the mantis has to shed its skin at least four times since it was young, and each time it is a new life, and it is also a dying time.

I remember when I first entered the Fine Arts Department of Normal University, a professor said, "You self-proclaimed geniuses, but you are selected by thousands of students. In fact, only a very small number of you can become artists later. Not long after graduation, you will face reality one by one. I bowed my head. Even if I didn’t bow my head, one year, two years, three years, I faced life and myself every year; faced eating, I also faced my ideals. In the end, nine and a half out of ten gave up.” What he said was true. No one agreed at the time. Now everyone has proved his words with facts. There are more than 30 people in our class, and there are probably less than three of them who are still pure painters. This is also a kind of sadness of transformation. .If it doesn't moult, it dies, and dies forever.If half of the moult comes out, it is also dead.The ideal is dead, the enthusiasm is dead, and the paintbrush is stretched out empty, like the empty arm of the praying mantis, struggling but not moving.

Unless someone helps him, opens up the two lines of Ren and Du for him, or makes him enlightened. Now, I'm going to make it enlightened. First I inspected the layer of skin it had shed.I kept this skin well in the antique cabinet, just like I store my daughter's baby teeth and keep them carefully.When my teeth get old and fall out in the future, I will also put them together, so in a small box, there are new ones and old ones, and some old ones fade away.If they are strung together, old yellow teeth and small white teeth, how interesting! I kept its skin for research, and now it really comes in handy.I used tweezers to assemble piece by piece, just like after an air crash, experts put together the fragments bit by bit.Now I can be sure that the skin on its pliers is not completely off.

The problem is, if the old skin is still on it, there must be a mark.Just like transparent adhesive strips, sometimes you can't find the "head" no matter how you look, you have to scrape slowly with your nails to feel where the end is. I tried to look at its arms and pincers from different angles, and there were no marks, it looked very smooth.I guess it must be at the joint. The upper arm above the pliers is clean; below the joint of the pliers, it is completely covered by the old shell. Because the "fracture" is at the joint, it cannot be seen clearly. I can't see clearly, that's okay.I found a microscope, which I bought for my son more than ten years ago, with a maximum power of 1,500 times.5 is written on the objective lens. "0.1, 10." 0.25, 45. "0.65, and 100." 1.25.I first found the 15X "eyepiece" and put it on the top, and then turned the lower "objective lens" to the lowest magnification of 5. "0.1 Then put a large piece of plastic glass on the "stage", and adjust the mirror.

The "patient" was carried out, and the lower body was wrapped with white toilet paper, only the head and two pliers were exposed.It's amazing, this guy let me pack it obediently, and didn't move at all, as if he knew that I was going to treat it.Creatures often have a special emotion.Like a horse, people will put "horseshoes" on it obediently; a dog will obediently take a bath and get an injection.Even the cat I raised in the past was usually very fierce and even attacked people, but when it was sick, I just took out the cage and said to it, "Go in! I will take you to see a doctor." It walked in obediently.

This praying mantis must also understand.So what I thought would take a lot of trouble is now easily solved.Put it on the platform of the microscope, fix one arm with adhesive strips, and I started to adjust the focus. Its pliers are translucent, so that the light below can shine through, and you can see it in a few clicks.Then use "fine-tuning", twist it up and down, the focal length will fall at a different "depth", and you can see the "fracture" of the upper layer of skin. "Great!" I jumped up and reported the good news to my daughter who was the surgical assistant: "As I expected, the skin on the forceps didn't come off."

The next step is of course the operation, which is the real "microsurgery". I found a few tools - 10SE27Cr ophthalmic small forceps, Paragon's No. 10 scalpel and 10SEHRCr small pointed scissors.These things are what I usually use to dissect birds and flowers.This is the first time it is used to deal with insects, and it is not dissection, but rescue. "Dissection" and "rescue" are two sides of the same body, "dissection" is for research so as to save in the future.Patients who failed to be rescued often had to undergo pathological dissection.Therefore, some species that are about to become extinct and are under conservation cannot be caught by others, but researchers can catch them, and even not only catch them, but also kill them.The reason is very simple.This killing is for saving, killing the few can save the many.I remember one time when I picked a big branch of cherry blossoms on campus, a professor from another department saw it and came over to scold me.I said I was a professor in the art department, but the professor immediately apologized and said for me: "Of course! Of course! Please pick as much as you can. How wonderful it is to turn flowers that will wither into works of art that will not wither!"

How wonderful!The question is what is an expert?What is redemption?Who has the right to kill?How much can he kill?Is there a rule in this world?So Hitler can kill the Jews for the so-called establishment of a better future world; the Japanese can kill the Chinese; the Ku Klux Klan can kill colored people.They all have reason, what is it to kill tens of millions of people at one time for the happiness of billions of billions of trillions of descendants from generation to generation? War is like cutting paper on a table with a knife. If you want to cut the paper, of course it may hurt the table.The purpose of war is peace. In the process of seeking peace, what is it to kill millions of people with stray bullets?When seeking happiness for the majority of law-abiding citizens, what does it matter if you kill a few people by mistake?In the case of "killing one as an example" and applauded by the public, a plumber who had never committed a crime, but just because he owed money from gambling, robbed the money on Zhongxiao East Road on the spur of the moment, was sentenced to death as quickly as possible, and shot How reasonable and legal is it to be on the same TV screen as eating "braised eggs with chopsticks"?

Now my butcher's knife is about to radiate grace, to eradicate those unrighteous ones.With the help of a microscope, I gently scrape the old skin off with the blade, like a layer of wax. The new skin and the old skin have almost grown together, I believe this is because when the shedding phase is completed, the muscles in its body will start to swell, and swell a lot. (Otherwise, it doesn't have to peel off.) The new skin is soft at first, like a thin film, which swells and hardens as it weathers, so now the new, the old, and the old are squeezed together. But with my kung fu, it should be fine.Just like engraving a seal, if you don't dare to engrave it hard, you can always scrape it bit by bit.I can almost hear the "sound" of liberation inside as that old skin is scraped away.It was a kind of crunchy sound, like "thawing in spring", with living flowing water underneath and dead hard ice on top, and the thawing was a kind of collapse, crackling, completely disintegrating.

After the operation, put it back into the box, it stood up immediately, with its head held high, but its arms were still hanging down. I was a little disappointed. Could it be that the operation failed, or was it too late?Now that the damage has been done, there is no way to recover it? I started to have conflicts. If the operation is really unsuccessful, I will keep it and feed it to my mouth every day.Let me be the praying mantis, go out to catch insects; let it be the master, waiting to eat insects.Or according to the original plan, put it to death? "Since a dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor, if it is not cured well, of course it is dead! I also thought of "stallion".For that rare BMW, even if it hurts its feet, it should be kept well and wait for breeding.Although an injured hero cannot move, the child he gave birth to can still become a moving hero. Thinking of meeting a doctor from Uganda at his son's graduation ceremony, he was so black and shiny that he was so respectable.He said: Do you know that in the old days when wars broke out among the tribes in Uganda, if the enemy's general was captured, he would not be killed.On the contrary, he married the strongest and wisest woman in his tribe.When they gave birth to a daughter, they were encouraged to continue to have children. If they gave birth to a son, the father was killed immediately. The reason is very simple, they want "strong species", and strong species are often not conceived by their own circle, they must be "distanced" and use distant species. I also think of a recent strange case in Rochester, New York—— A girl who became a vegetative state after a car accident in 1985 lived in a nursing home. Ten years later, she discovered that her belly had grown.On examination it was discovered that she was pregnant.Her parents, who are devout Roman Catholics and opposed abortion, went ahead and impregnated her, delivering a child of two pounds and eleven ounces.Still giving birth naturally! Is this a tragedy or a comedy?In terms of tragedy, she was raped and pregnant with a wild child, and she didn't even know who her father was for a while.As far as comedy is concerned, a hopeless woman gave birth to a healthy baby. If she knows, should she cry or laugh? Now I think, I also want to find a "husband" for this hopeless praying mantis in this life, give birth to a bunch of dolls, and I will watch the hatching in the spring of next year. It's like spring flowers growing among dead bones, what a sad and beautiful scene!Brilliant Knife September 7th Early in the morning, still in a dream, I heard the sound of running, and then with a bang, the door was opened, and my wife and children rushed in together. "Your praying mantis will catch and eat," cried the wife. "Caught a bumblebee." The daughter shouted. "Where did the bumble bee come from?" I rubbed my eyes. "have no idea." "I don't know?" I jumped out of bed and followed my jumping daughter into the study.The box of the mantis is placed on the cabinet against the wall, and the slanting sunlight in the morning just shines on it.As expected, it was eating. The two pincers, which were not moving at all, were shaking and shaking, as if they were constantly adjusting their "grasping movements", which made it difficult for me to see what it was grasping. "Are you sure it caught a wasp?" I asked. "Yeah! It's yellow, with black stripes." said the wife, very pleased with herself, as if she found out that she had done something. Now I can see clearly.It was a hornet, but the head was still being held by the praying mantis, and the stomach had been eaten up. Many small bee claws fell from the bottom of the box, which must have been thrown down by the mantis. I also saw the browned peony leaves, and the dead body of the big black bee next to the leaves.Suddenly figured it out.The hornet holding the big black bee thought it had died long ago, but it turned out that it was not dead, nor did it escape with the fly, and stayed until today, entering the belly of the praying mantis. Could it be that the praying mantis was actually dead, but the mantis was too hungry, so he caught it and ate it?Seeing that all the hornet bees had entered its stomach, I shook the box to make the carcass of the big black bee roll to its side, and shouted to "it" again: "Try this again! It's more delicious and bigger. !" It ignored it, as if turning a blind eye, and went to lick its two pliers, first bent its upper arm, wiped its face with its elbow, wiped it, and put it in its mouth, a bit like a cat, spitting on its paws , and then comb your hair and wash your face.I don’t know if it also has saliva, and I wet my elbow first, and then rubbed it around my eyes over and over again, reminding me of the hot towels served in Chinese restaurants after dinner. According to the older generation, “in those days” In Beijing, the towels are not handed, but thrown.Take it out hot, and you can throw it to the waiter at the front table with a "long pass" from the back hall, separated by dozens of tables, and then hand it over to the guests.The towels are hot and shaken accurately. The guests not only applaud, but also reward them. Now the guest, who has eaten and drank enough, is washing his face.It hurts to wipe that greasy face with hot hands!Of course, the mantis does not use a hot towel, but uses hot saliva, but the coolness of wiping the face looks the same.It can even be said that this homemade saliva is more hygienic. What I said is "good because it is good", because when I was running news in China TV, I made a special report, sending "sanitary towels" collected from various restaurants for testing, and the result was seven out of ten. Unhygienic.Lao Lin, the driver of the interview car, said bluntly: "Of course it is unhygienic. Some towels were collected from the yellow cafe, washed carelessly, and then entered the restaurant. You must know that there are many girls playing in the yellow cafe. The tea cannot Drink, it was the lady who rinsed her mouth; the towel should not be wiped, it is used to wipe dirtier things." Since then, I never use outside towels.I thought "He's trading a craving with a previous user, or many previous users." In this way, the praying mantis can wash its face with its own hands and saliva, isn't it more civilized and hygienic than humans? After wiping his face with his elbow, he began to lick his pincers little by little, or his lower arm and fingers.You can almost hear it "tsk tut" like a baby sucking its fingers, and it's a bit like a glutton after eating French "long snail".After eating the snails, I was still reluctant to part with the roasted soup, so I had to wipe the plate clean with bread. After wiping, I saw some juice on my hands, and put my fingers into my mouth to lick it clean. This is really unrefined, but it often happens to French gentlemen and ladies.They don't think it is indecent, but they think it is a kind of flattery to the host, which means that the things are so good that people forget to be polite. Presumably the mantis also forgot to be polite.Between its tongs, there must have been a lot of soup, which gave it an endless aftertaste. Its hands have obviously recovered, otherwise how would it catch hornets and put its fingers into its mouth one by one, so delicately and calmly? " I was so excited and thought it was a great achievement.Not boasting, how many people in this world have taken the bones of the mantis?How many people have undergone mantis surgery?And it worked. I decided to catch another worm and let it eat.And when I went out, I saw a "yellow Jacket" enjoying my canna.Instead of eating pollen, it gets into the "leaf sheath" of the canna to drink water.Canna is a lifesaver in hot weather, because its leaves are large and stretch out obliquely. Even if it does not rain, the dew that condenses on them will slide into its leaf sheaths.I don't know if cannas use this method to collect water, but many bugs live off this "little pond". Yellow jackets are also a type of wasp.I don't know its scientific name, I just know that Americans call it yellow jacket.It just got into the leaf sheath and was blocked by my plastic bag. It didn't know it, so it just drank water, exited after drinking, took off, and got into my plastic bag. I don't know if it finds that it is blocked when it is not drinking water, will it continue to drink, or will immediately find a way to "break through".If it were me, knowing that it was impossible to break through, I would definitely drink it.It’s like there were a lot of air crashes for a while. When I went on a trip, I always prayed, if I had to die, please let me finish the game, and only “have an accident” on the return journey. Don’t just fall off when I set off. Even if you know you're going to die, you still have to live the present well, right?Who is not?Everyone knows that he must die, and everyone guesses that he will not die immediately, so he can live well.All the bandits, mobs, and villains also use this method to deal with the majority of good people with the fewest lackeys.The common people know that if they fight against the violence together, their own people will definitely win, but they may die.So he continued to endure under the idea of ​​avoiding his own death, and he still couldn't escape death in the end. If the people killed in the Qiandao Lake incident knew that they would be killed, would they have obediently walked under the cabin?They resist together, even if a few people are killed or injured, can the gangster not be subdued?This is the reason why one gun and one bullet can kill a hundred people. "Yellow Jacket" is obviously an "expert", drunk enough to go to the execution ground. Once inside, "Yellow Jackets" began to swoop.From every angle of the box, try to break through the encirclement.It hung upside down again, crawling on the lid of the box, facing each vent, trying to get out.Unfortunately, the body is too big.This is exactly the reason why Lao Tzu said, "The reason why I have serious troubles is because I have a body, and if I don't have a body, what trouble do I have!". On the other side of the box, the mantis is still washing his face, still turning his head to the left and stretching his waist to the right, as if performing the "guidance technique" on the silk painting of Mawangdui.Believe it, this seemingly calm and desireless movement is just warming up for the killing below. After watching for more than ten minutes, it seemed that there would be no good show for a while, so I went to the kitchen to find something to eat. My wife cut a large piece of "Virginia ham", warmed it up in the stove, added a piece of pineapple, and poured me a glass of milk.Suddenly, I had a flash of inspiration, and went to the study to get the mantis box and put it on the dining table. The three of us watched while eating. "How cruel! Eat while watching other people kill." The wife said. "How cruel! Killing and watching others eat." I said, "If the ham is not killed, where did it come from? Not only killed, but also seasoned, pickled, tied up to taste, and then shipped out for sale, bought and cut. Cut it hot, eat it hot, is it cruel? So, we kill while watching "it" eat. This is like buying a murder weapon in advance, observing the situation, and calculating the time to kill. It is murder, and the crime is increased. Etc. As for killing people for the sake of wealth and stealing money temporarily, it is not premeditated murder, which is a lesser crime. Human killing is all murder." Just as he was talking, there was a commotion in the box. He thought that the battle had already begun, but he saw that the mantis was still doing the "guiding technique". The real commotion came from the bottom of the box—— Like the hornet, the yellow jacket got into the body of the big black bee, and not only got into it, but also kept flapping its wings and rolling up and down holding the body. "It looks like it's fighting," said the daughter. "Fight with the dead black bee." I said, "It doesn't know that it must die because of me; it doesn't know that the real enemy is the mantis, but it thinks its own bad luck is caused by the same kind of big black bee , so go bite the big black bee." "It's dead, why are you still biting?" the daughter asked. "It's called whipping corpses." "Don't talk so much to the child." The wife pushed the child in front of me, and said to the daughter: "Eat, don't look at it." The box was in front of me, and I looked down while cutting the ham.It was found that the "yellow jacket" disappeared suddenly, and it turned out that it got into the belly of the big black bee.The big black bee was actually empty, and its internal organs were eaten up by the last hornet.Now I understand why I can't find hornet, and it thinks it can live so long.It turned out that it killed the old thief and became a new thief.It's just that if it is so good at biting, why doesn't it bite the mantis when it is sick and has no force? I remembered a piece of news I read in the newspaper seven or eight years ago—— Hua Qing, a member of the Huaqing Gang, was arrested while blackmailing a travel agency run by a Chinese.The travel agency was on the third floor. Xiao Huaqing went upstairs, entered the door, and found that the person sitting behind the counter was not an "old Chinese" but a Caucasian woman, so she turned around and left.Unexpectedly, the Caucasian woman screamed when she saw the weapon in Hua Qing's hand, which alarmed the neighbors on the first and second floors, and the police happened to pass by, so she was arrested. Do you think it's wonderful?Why did he rob when he saw "old Chinese" and leave when he saw "foreigner"?Is it a language barrier?Or has it inherited the legacy of Chinese worshiping foreigners since the Eight-Power Allied Forces?Anti-foreigners, anti-foreigners, almost a hundred years after surpassing the British and chasing the United States, killing the barbarians and destroying the foreigners, the Chinese are still Chinese, and even after traveling thousands of miles across the ocean to come to foreign countries, they still want to turn around and bully their own people. Look! The "yellow jacket" is like a descendant of Yanhuang from the yellow land, getting into the belly of the same race, attacking and biting fiercely.Perform a farce for the praying mantis watching from the sidelines. Seeing that you have had enough fighting, let's do it again!The favorite September 8 I had a weird dream last night, no!It should be said to be a terrible nightmare. I dreamed that a man was driving a small plane and had an accident in the mountains with his wife and newborn baby.Both the husband and wife were seriously injured, the wife died first, and the husband also died.The next day, the rescue helicopter rushed to the scene in the wind and snow, and saw the corpses of two adults hugging each other, but there was no trace of the baby. Suddenly, they heard crying, coming from the dead woman's arms, and approached the scene. Look, startled, bent over to take out a bloody baby from the woman's belly.It turned out that the husband knew that he was dying and the child would freeze to death.He actually cut open the abdominal cavity of his dead wife, stuffed the baby in, and only exposed the head.Holding his wife and son again, he died. I often have such strange dreams, the protagonist is not me, I am a third party, looking at what happened from another angle, many of the themes of my novels are derived from this.In fact, this is nothing unusual, it’s just that I think about it every day and dream at night. Those stories often come from my past life experience.It can also be said that I always think about it during the day, not consciously, but also subconsciously. When I think about it, I suddenly have a spark of inspiration and fall into a dream. Get up in the morning and tell this story to your son.He smiled and said that it was a myth in alien movies.I said, "It's a joke, what kind of myth is not based on people's hearts? Just like the heaven with pure gold and agate, it is also based on the most beautiful things in the real world. My story is not fabricated out of thin air, but it has a basis." So when I told him about traveling in Alaska, I heard the story told by the Eskimos—— "If you lose your sled and get lost in the ice and snow, seeing a storm is coming, you have no protection, you may only be frozen to death. At this time, you find a polar bear in the distance, and your only choice is to take advantage of the light , with one last breath, kill the polar bear. Then cut open its stomach and get in, relying on the blood in its body and thick fur, you may survive this disaster." In Fairbane Ke, an Eskimo said to me: "You have to kill it. Since it can't hug you, and even prepares to take your life, how can you not kill it?" "Maybe it will freeze to death too," I said. "Since it always dies once, of course you should kill it. One death is better than two!" The Eskimo said, "So in our mythology, we think that we are half human and half polar bear. Hiding in the belly of a polar bear and surviving, it is like being born by a polar bear, so it is half human and half bear. Haven’t you seen many sculptures, from the left half, it is a human; from the right half, it is a bear again?” My dream last night was based on this "adaptation".Why don't you do it early, don't do it later, and do it yesterday? " It's easy!Because I saw the "yellow jacket" hiding in the belly of the big black bee yesterday, don't they have the same reason?It's just that the last hornet was caught by the praying mantis, and whether this "yellow jacket" is also doomed. Thinking of this, I immediately went to the study.The morning sun had passed, and it was dark in the box.I put the praying mantis box on the bookshelf on purpose, because if I put it near the window, the sun keeps shining, there are only a few ventilation holes on the top of the box, and the temperature inside keeps rising, and the praying mantis will be roasted to death in a short time. I took the box off the shelf and put it on the windowsill where it got some sunlight.Basking in the sun is okay under my watch. After putting it down, I heard a buzzing sound. It turned out that the "yellow jacket" was not hiding in the belly of the big black bee, or it might have flown out when it saw the sunlight.But at the earliest time, the morning sun had already been exposed to the sun once, and it might have come out a while earlier. Why wasn't it eaten by the praying mantis like yesterday's hornets? Both guys are "phototropic".The yellow jacket kept flying to the lid of the box on the sunny side, and the praying mantis moved there too.This is very good, like enemies who go to casinos and nightclubs together, "get together" because of "like friends", and fight because of getting together. I kept adjusting the angle of the box to match the direction the praying mantis' head was facing, so that the "yellow jacket" could just throw it into my arms.However, after waiting for a long time, I saw the two guys walking around and jumping around, but they didn't see any big fights. I figured it out!This is like two enemies in a desperate situation, just when they are glaring at each other, and when they are about to fight to the death, they suddenly reveal a way to escape. Of course, escape is important, so they stop fighting and scramble to escape. Now "Yellow Jacket" thinks it has survived a desperate situation, and a glimmer of life emerges from the outside of the box, and even through the window, you can see its "homeland".The same is true for the praying mantis. The Tedan tree is close in front of him, closer than the "yellow jacket"'s home. Of course, he also wants to escape.If you want to eat, wait until after you escape, maybe you can stay at the entrance of the cave, and wait for the enemy to come out, and come back hard.Isn't this just "double happiness"?He escaped from danger again and killed his enemies again.How many people in this world are not like this?How many people can thank God for letting themselves out of danger and spare the enemy's family from death?He can only think, the God made me immortal, just to give me a chance to take revenge, how could I not take revenge?Not reporting is going against the will of heaven.When Liu Bang hesitated back then, saying that Xiang Yu had spared himself a way out when he was at his peak, and planned to pay back and keep Xiang Yu a way out, didn't the people below say the same? When God gave the world to Xiang Yu, it was because Xiang Yu refused to take it, which was against God's will.And now the heavens have given you the world to Liu Bang, how can you make the big mistake Xiang Yu made again? " Everyone who wins the world says they are careless.Killing him was "following the will of heaven", and it was "following the will of heaven" for him not to kill.God loves children, whether he is good or not, it is right.This is the principle of "Son of Heaven". With an idea, I quickly moved the glass box to a dark place.These two guys who were "eager to find a way out" were suddenly disappointed.Disappointment will blame each other, and failure will find an excuse for failure.There will always be mutiny and internal evidence in the camp of the defeated, that's why.A group of defeated generals, you blame me, I blame you; you scold me, I scold you; then you kill me, I kill you.In the end, the head of the commander-in-chief was raised to meet the enemy. Not only was he pardoned, but he was also given a half-job. Isn’t this the law of war and history, and the comedy of tragedies? Sure enough, before entering the shadows, the two began to fight.Whenever the "yellow jacket" flew close, the praying mantis would bend its arms, pretend to attack, and then make a move.However, due to the size of the box or poor technique, although the box was knocked loudly, it failed again and again.Otherwise, he obviously caught it and threw it away all at once, like a person who reached out to pick up hot buns in a steamer. I began to suspect that it was able to catch the hornet yesterday because the hornet was exhausted after being locked up for too long.Otherwise, it just took advantage of the hornet's coma before attacking. "I think it's a villain." I said to my wife. "What is a villain?" The daughter asked next to her. "A villain is one who sneaks up on someone." I replied, "Sneak attacking others." "Which praying mantis is not a villain?" The wife said, "Of course it is a villain." The daughter suddenly pouted and walked away unhappily.Sitting on the sofa in the living room, he didn't speak. "She cried that!" said the wife in a low voice.Looking back, isn't it, wiping tears there.I hurried over and asked, "Sister! Why are you crying?" "Because you scolded my pet (Pet)." The little girl said.Once upon a time, she had regarded this praying mantis as her own. "I don't know if it will miss its mother." The little girl wiped her tears: "Will its mother comfort it?" "Its mother died long ago. The mother mantis laid eggs in the fall of the previous year and then died. In the second year, the egg will turn into a baby mantis by itself, so no mantis can see its mother." I said, feeling a pang in my heart. Surprised, didn't you find out?Many creatures in this world will never see their mothers. "Then I will be its mother." The little girl suddenly became excited, and ran to the box again, shouting loudly: "This is my Baby, I will give it a name." After thinking about it, she said: "It's Petty, Petty! My Petty!" Housewarming September 9 Things have been troublesome since Mantis was taken in by my eldest lady as "the adopted daughter" yesterday.In the past, the eldest lady watched the mantis to join in the fun, but now she watches the mantis to visit her "daughter".So "does it eat?" "Why doesn't it eat?" "Why don't you give it something to eat?" All out. When it comes to the fact that the house is too small, I feel the same way.First, since peeling, it has suddenly grown in size.Second, since it was operated on, it has obviously recovered, and its future is limitless.Thirdly, when it grabbed the "yellow jacket" yesterday, it hit the box several times and missed, which means it can't use its skills.Think about it!When a person grows up all of a sudden, and is no longer "Ameng under Wu", he is very likely to rise to the top in the future.Because of his extraordinary ability, different vision, and different friends, of course he had to change his house.If you are the boss of a large consortium, a kid asks you to help him out for election.Seeing that this kid has no skills, and it is impossible for him to make a name for himself, of course you can ignore him.But in two years, he has a wide network of contacts, more footholds, and a larger structure. If he wants your support, do you still dare to neglect him?Even if he doesn't look for you, you have to take the initiative to ask him. Even raising a daughter is the same.If your daughter has a poor boyfriend, and it's not a popular department, you can give him a supercilious look and pour cold water on your daughter.On the contrary, if she is the son of a wealthy family, the second-generation head of a big chaebol, can you take the initiative to add new clothes for your daughter, even paint the facade, and give your daughter the "master bedroom" of yourself and your wife as a boudoir, so as to support your daughter? ? You can hit the "reservoir dog", but you must never offend the "dog of the rich", especially you must not block the way of the "capable young man".For the sake of you and your next generation, you can "get rid of" this young man early; otherwise, you have to respect him, give him courtesy, and even marry your daughter to him, making him yours. Which successful person does not understand this? Now that Mantis Boy not only has the three essentials, but also has the support of my beloved daughter, can I still hesitate? I went to rummage through boxes and baskets again. I first found a few large plastic jars for delivery from Chinese restaurants, and then saw a bigger box of chocolates.It's just that the plastic jar is not transparent enough. Although the chocolate chip is wider than the one used now, it is still only seven centimeters high.The mantis molt has taught me a lesson that I must prepare an upright branch for it.Think about it, if it had been placed in a larger box and a branch could be vertically placed in it, the many problems and time-consuming surgery would not have occurred later! So this flat box can't be used either. I can't do it without sacrificing.I decided to give my bottle of coffee beans to Mantis.I have a lot of experience in making coffee. Even my journalist friends in Taipei applauded drinking it, and wrote a big article for me in the newspaper.Naturally, my "main shop" in New York has a certain scale.There are four or five jars of coffee beans alone.I picked a medium-sized one, about 20 centimeters high and 12.5 centimeters wide, round, and the glass is not thick, just right for observation. Pour out the coffee beans, and there is still a strong aroma in the jar.I originally wanted to put the mantis in like this, but I was afraid that "people's favorite is the mantis' most fear". Didn't the family book say that coffee smell can prevent insects?Maybe "it" will die as soon as it enters.So I washed the bottle again and wiped it clean.In order not to be stuffy in it, for a long time, miasma gas will be produced in the damp jar, which poisoned my daughter's pet. "Your praying mantis pet is moving to a new home!" I yelled to my daughter.And opened the lid, grabbed him by the back, and put him in the coffee can before he could turn back and bite me. "It's not a praying mantis pet, it's Patty." The daughter protested by leaning against the table, "It's a girl, so it's called Patty." "How do you know it's a girl?" "Because it's cute." For little girls, they all seem to think that girls are cuter, so most of the "dolls" are girls, and there are very few boys.I think this is because their mothers are the cutest in their hearts, and mothers are girls.On the one hand, they think they are the cutest, and they are girls.Just like women who hear about other people's "family change", no matter what the truth is, they will probably scold the man.When they scold, they are scolding to their husbands, and they are also united to express a "stance". My daughter insists that "it" is female, but I can't see it. Even if it is "male", in order to respect her position, it is best not to argue. From square chocolate boxes, into round coffee cans, this mantis, no!It should be said: This Patty is obviously not used to it, and he circles around in it.The previous box was a rectangle, and it could touch four corners, and one corner was used to turn three corners.Now when it encounters a circle, it becomes a cycle, no matter how it turns.No wonder the ancients said that "the sky is round and the earth is round". The round is not easy to measure, and it seems to be an infinite cycle; the square is more measurable, just like the "real" land that can be touched under your feet. So I believe that Patty, walking around the round jar, must have thought he was Columbus.Walked and walked, farther and farther, and circled the earth. This reminds me of the scenes of cavalry charging and killing people in the movie I used to watch. With a small budget and only able to hire more than 20 people, I put the camera in the middle and asked the cavalry to circle around the machine and shout to kill.拍出来，只见烟尘飞扬、马踢翻翻、杀声阵阵，鼓声隆隆，没人看得出，不过是二十多人绕着圈子打杀。死了又活，活了又死，好像经历了一场血流成河尸横遍野的战争。 天知道这个世界是不是如此。说不定造那圆形宇宙的上帝，也是一圈又一圈地导演这么一场轮回的好戏。 既然有了美丽的房子，当然更得有好的家具。我去花盆里剪了一截曼陀罗的枯枝，斜斜放进去。它立刻顺着枝子爬了上来，我赶紧盖上盖子，又发现盖子不过气，于是再去药柜里掏出一大块纱布，用橡皮筋绑在瓶口。 How wonderful!不但房子更大、更高，而且更通气了。看它从树枝攀上纱布，又从侧面的瓶壁走下来。好像一个刚搬进新家的孩子，急着冲进每个房间、打开每个柜子。 而且不知因为玻璃特别透明，还是弧面有放大的效果，这派蒂好像变得更大，也更成熟了。 古人说"孩子小时候如同春天，一番雨，一番暖，病一次、长一次。人老了又如同秋天，一番雨、一番寒，病一次、老一次。"真是太有道理了。其实世间万物，莫不如此。一个战乱中的孩子，不但可能被大人逼着扛起比他还高的枪，去杀人，也早早就发育成熟，好像随时都可以孕育下一代。 植物也一样，像是紫藤，你猛施肥，它就猛长叶子、长藤蔓、不开花。当你断了它的肥，它反而开花。又譬如芙蓉扶桑，明明再过好几天才能开的花苞，你今天摘下来，放在水里，明天一早就绽放了。 这世间所有的生物都一样，有好营养和环境的时候，可以先长大、再结果。没有好的生存条件时，就拼一切力量，先结果再说。 自己活不下去，总要下一代能够活下去。没有这种"生存本能"的生物，又怎么可能经历千年万代的淘汰，留存到今天？ 只是，当这派蒂原来差点活不成，而加速成熟之后，又一下子，进入那么一个富裕的大房子，它到底是"长叶"，还是"结果"呢？如同一个原来住在小草棚里，只因为脚下那块"农地"，突然变成了"建地"，摇身成了亿万富翁。到底是先创一番事业、作许多功德，还是先讨个细姨？ 住大房子，当然格局也大些。有位风水先生说得妙——"看来看去，那些高级住宅区，家家的房子，不论朝哪个方向，风水都好极了。"我心想，那么到贫民窟，是不是无论怎么看，风水都坏透了呢？这好比宋太祖去相国寺，问大和尚"我是皇帝，到底要不要拜佛？"那大和尚答得多妙——"你是现在佛，不必拜过去佛。"（见欧阳修《归田录》） 皇帝就是现在佛。is not that right?皇帝一举可以万民有幸，也能万民遭殃。他可以拯生民于水火，也能陷于渊薮。他不是现在佛，是什么？ 那大和尚又是何地机智？他不这么答，能怎么答？难道说"你我都是众生，众生平等？"或"你我皆是弟兄，大家一起来朝拜上帝"？ 对不起，作了帝王，就不再有当年同穿一条裤子打天下的兄弟。真命天子只有一个，五爪龙袍，只能我一人穿。你作"揖让月在手，动摇风满怀。"把江山让给我，可以！你作"小楼昨夜又东风。"我就要把你除去。 Look!伟大的派蒂，经历了生命的大蜕变、大苦难，又获得女主人的大慈爱、大关怀，如今升格进驻了大宅院、大府邸，整个光彩都不同了！ 隔着瓶子看它，它的头更大、眼睛更亮、脸更往上抬。那眼神，竟然有点令人不敢仰视了。