2012年12月24日 星期一

children and flying horse Chapter Four The boy lives lives in the mountain


Nobody knows where Cloud Ma lives.  Teacher asked the location of his home last semester when he  transferred to this class, but the answer always not clear.    It seems some where in the middle of the mountain.  Everyday he walked to school, score was excellent, always the first place in the class.  He never prepare or study after school, always plays with the wild boys together, swim, water jump, basketball, catch frog to eat in the farm, no matter what they see , rats, lost chicken, coconut, wild boar, all named one thing : food.
The wild boys like Cloud Ma a log, because he is fun , smart,  and share the answer of the test to his classmates.   He always doing his own stuff althought he comes to school everyday, that shcool for him is like a place for killing time.   Sometimes the teacher feel
strange, why such excellent student as him stays in the country side ?  Once the teacher want to punish him when she found out his test book full of drawings, but she stopped, becasue the formula wrote in the text book she cannot understand.   She does not know how to punish a student who is smarter than her, never get into trouble, and always hand in homework on time.   She does not know what to do with him.
Cloud Ma went back  home after played with his classmates for a while.   After saying good bye with the children, he brought out the shcool bag hiding under the tree, put on shoes ready to go home.    His home is somwhere in the mountain about one and half hour far by walking to school.   On the way to school need to pass a stream.  There was a bridge on the stream but has been destroyed after use for ages.    Cloud Ma's fater making a flow cage for transpotation.  Very few people know their house location.
He back home, put the school bag onto closet, then start to clean the house, make up his fater's room.   Some cut paper spread on the floor, it is from the magazines cut by his father.  They have a mail box in the post office down the mountain.  His after usually ride bike to bring the mails including the science magazines and other information to home after a while.   He knows his after keep writing to some scientists.  He does know English, but he knows it is discussion about science.    His faterh used to work in USA, when he was very little,  after his mother past away by car accident, he was brought back to Taiwan, and live in the mountain.
Cloud Ma never went to kindergarten.  His childhood was spent in the mountain.  Everything he knewn was tough by his father. 
But somehow his after told him : "never belive anything from books ".   That's beucase the time of universe is keep moving.
When some knowledge or theory wrote into the books was long time after it happens.   Because the time keep moving, the
truth might be changed during the time, therefore his father said : "investigate the truth".  You know it is truth, but never believe
before you can proof it. If you want to know something about a flower, the correct thing to do is to observe it.  It's like the correct way to get to know a person is to get along with him and to observe him, not to ask from some body else.  Once they dissect a flower
by hisself, and tell him the inside structure of flower.  They spent whole day long to study the flower, then they found out the
smell and color of the flower keep changes during time to time.
"Everything is different" . 
Nobody look exactly the time, not two rats look the same, no two butterflies look the sam,  and not two ants are the same.
Isn't it charming?

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