Book 1: Chapter 103

Book 1: Chapter 103

Fatty obviously had the same idea as me, but it wasnt good to refute Xiao Hua in front of so many people, so he winked at me, silently urging me to ask.

Xiao Hua saw our exchange and patted Fatty's thigh, "Finish watching."

In the video, that voice continued asking the villager questions. Sure enough, it didnt take them long to ask the same question we were wondering, "Why not move?"

The interviewee quickly answered in sign language, while the voice stumbled to translate it, "If you leave here, your life will be very short. After many people left the village and stayed away for more than three years, they quickly aged.

The video shook and then I saw Black Glasses smugly looking at the camera, "Youve seen the situation here. Ill share some information with you so that you can analyze it. First, the sign language used in this village isnt standard sign language, but an ancient sign language. Sign language appeared very early in ancient China and was called hand language. The most famous deaf thinker was He Guanzi from the Warring States Period. If you know Huang-Lao, youll know this guys name (1). This person can use both hands to sign, but the sign language here doesnt belong to the ancient hand system at all."

After saying that, Black Glasses left the room, as if he didn't want to be overheard. When he finally got outside, he continued, "Theres no signal here, so I'm recording this so as not to lose any details. People here think they go deaf when they hear thunder because theres a heavenly secret in the thunder. God doesn't want them to tell the secret, so theyre not allowed to speak. I asked them if they knew what the secret was. Its pretty amazing. They told me directly that they could hear it, but there arent any words in their sign language to express what it is. In other words, they know what God is saying, but they can't express it."

Everyone listening to the video looked at each other. "Since ancient times, its been difficult to distinguish between deaf and mute, Black Glasses suddenly said mysteriously. Do you remember how to write the Chinese character for deaf'?"This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

According to the ancient descriptions, deaf people couldnt hear other sounds besides thunder. So, for deaf people, most of the sounds they could hear during their lifetime were thunder. As a result, their memories of sounds all featured thunder.

"A lot of deaf and mute people become fortune-tellers. Why do you think that is? Think about it carefully."

He looked at the sky and I saw a flash of lightning appear in the video. "It's going to thunder, he said. "I want to continue observing. Bye-bye."

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TN Notes:

(1) I wasnt finding much on the guy himself, only this unverified blurb in Chinese. But Heguanzi is a mixed collection of writings from the Chinese Hundred Schools of Thought. Huang-Lao is one of these schools of thought thats more politically driven. It looked for solutions to strengthen the feudal order as depicted in Zhou propaganda and was generally interpreted as a school of syncretism, developing into a major religionthe beginnings of religious Taoism.

(2) =deaf (pinyin is lng), =dragon (pinyin is also lng), and =ear (pinying is r). If you squint, looks like its stacked on top of to form , the character for deaf. Deaf and dragon also sound the same in Chinese.

(3) A symbol representing a vocal sound. One of the six methods of forming Chinese characters.