Chapter 1161

"What?!"

Hearing her grandfather tell her not to look for him anymore, Su Zhiyu asked in confusion: "Grandpa, why?"

Du Zhenhua said vaguely: "Continuing to look for him will do you no good, so you might as well just let it go."

Su Zhiyu frowned and said very firmly: "Grandpa, I am looking for the benefactor who saved my brother and me. He saved our lives! So no matter what, I will definitely continue to look for him. Even if I can't find him, I won't give up!"

Du Zhenhua was a bit anxious and said seriously: "This isn't a question of whether you look for him or whether you can find him! This is a question concerning your own future and safety!"

Su Zhiyu asked in confusion: "My future and safety? What does this have to do with my future and safety?"

Du Zhenhua said seriously: "Master Lai said that your fate conflicts with his, and his fate is far harder and higher than yours. So it's fine if you don't find him, but once you find him, it's like a moth flying into a flame, and in the end, you will be the one hurt!"

Su Zhiyu immediately retorted: "Grandpa, I don't mean anything against you, but I think what that Master Lai said is pure nonsense!"

As she spoke, she continued without hesitation: "The benefactor saved my life. If it were really as Master Lai said, that I am a moth and he is a flame, then why wasn't I burned to death by him, but instead saved by him? I think this Master Lai is just talking nonsense!"

Du Zhenhua sighed and said: "Sigh! How can you change fate with your sophistry? It's true that he saved you, but that was in the past! What Master Lai calculated for you is the future!"

Su Zhiyu retorted without hesitation: "I don't care about the future. I only know that he saved my life, and I want to find him and thank him in person. It's that simple. Even if my fate really conflicts with his, it doesn't matter. At worst, I'll just return this life to him."

Du Zhenhua reprimanded her with rare severity: "Zhiyu! Don't talk nonsense here! What Master Lai said is definitely not a joke, you must listen!"

Su Zhiyu shook her head and said firmly: "These are all pseudo-scientific feudal superstitions, I won't listen!"

Du Haiqing, who was on the side, said sternly: "Zhiyu, the I Ching and Eight Trigrams are the supreme wisdom of our ancestors, definitely not feudal superstition. Moreover, Master Lai is the most famous Feng Shui physiognomist in the world today. You must have a sense of awe!"

After saying this, Du Haiqing also said very seriously: "In my opinion, you shouldn't continue looking for him either. Stop here!"

Su Zhiyu was anxious and said with red eyes: "Mom. How can you believe in these things too? You graduated from a prestigious university, you should believe in science!"

Du Haiqing said very seriously: "Zhiyu, how do you know that the I Ching and Eight Trigrams aren't science?"

Su Zhiyu blurted out: "They are all a bunch of feudal superstitious ideas, what science is there to speak of? If there were really a basis, why not just tell me where I can find the benefactor? Instead, tell me about conflicting fates and moths flying into flames. I won't believe in this kind of thing!"

Du Haiqing said seriously: "The I Ching is a set of philosophy, or even science, derived by the ancients through long-term observation, learning, induction, and summary, using all things in heaven and earth and the stars and seas as a reference!"

"Have you ever thought about why the Mayans could accurately calculate every solar eclipse in the 21st century more than three thousand years ago?"

"What's even more powerful is that the calendar they calculated is almost exactly the same as the one calculated by modern science, and its error is so small that it only differs by one day every five thousand years. Do you think this is also feudal superstition?"

Su Zhiyu suddenly didn't know how to refute, and could only argue sophistically: "This kind of thing has no actual basis. Anyway, I definitely won't believe it!"

Du Haiqing sighed at this time, and said in a serious tone: "When our generation was young, we had a relatively objective understanding of Eastern and Western cultures. We never blindly thought that the West was better or the East was better, but looked at problems with an objective and dialectical perspective. But for you children born in the 90s or even the 00s, Western culture has begun to occupy a complete upper hand."

"You believe in science and the Internet, but you don't believe in the essence left by our ancestors for thousands of years. Gradually classifying the things left by our ancestors into the category of old feudal superstition is in itself a manifestation of ignorance!"

Su Zhiyu asked back unconvinced: "According to the ancestors, is everything a so-called fate? Is it already destined what I eat today and where I go?"

Du Haiqing said seriously: "You think there is no fate in the world and that everything is determined by yourself, but have you thought about it? From a grain of sand to the entire universe, everything is operating continuously according to its own set of laws. The more macro you look at it, the more unchangeable its fate becomes!"

Su Zhiyu immediately pursued: "Mom, tell me, what is the fate of a grain of sand? It might stay in the desert, become one of the thousands of grains of sand, or sink into a river, or be brought into the sea by the river, or even be made into glass by humans, or mixed into a piece of concrete by humans. Does fate plan a fate for every grain of sand?"

Du Haiqing shook her head and said: "I said just now that fate must be viewed from a macro perspective, and must never be pondered from a micro perspective."

"You use a micro perspective, and you will feel that the sand is insignificant and not worth mentioning, and there are so many grains of sand in the world that it is impossible for fate to plan different destinies for every grain of sand."

"But do you know how many stars like the sun there are in the universe?"

Su Zhiyu looked blank.

Du Haiqing said seriously: "Zhiyu, if you look at it from a micro perspective, you will always feel that sand is too small to be worth mentioning. But if you look at it from a macro perspective, you will find that even the entire Earth is just like a grain of sand in the entire universe, and not even as good as a grain of sand."

After saying this, Du Haiqing continued: "In the observable range of the universe and the range based on evidence, there are about two trillion galaxies. Listen clearly, two trillion!"

"And each galaxy has at least hundreds of billions, or even trillions of stars. The sun is just one of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way. In the entire Milky Way, the sun is ordinary to the point of being ordinary. In the entire universe, the sun is not even as good as a grain of sand on Earth."

"The stars like the sun in the universe add up to be much more than the grains of sand on Earth. But you feel that there is too much sand, so a small grain of sand doesn't deserve to have a fate. Then I ask you, a star a hundred times larger than Earth is just a cosmic grain of sand in the universe. Does it deserve to have a fate?"

Du Haiqing's words were like a thunderbolt to Su Zhiyu, and she couldn't say a word.

She had never understood the whole world from such an angle. Just trying to think about the entire macro universe in her mind, she could immediately feel her own insignificance and ignorance.

If the sun is just a grain of sand in the universe, then the Earth can only be counted as a speck of cosmic dust.

If humans are so small that they need to live on a speck of cosmic dust, then what are humans?

How much of the world can the so-called science that humans can glimpse from this speck of cosmic dust represent?