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Chapter 119

Chapter 7, Section 5 Rose Tree Roots

[Chile] Mistral

The underground is the same as the ground, there is life, and there is a group of creatures who know how to love and hate.

There were black worms, roots like black ropes, trickles of groundwater like quivering flax fibers.

One day, Xiliu met the rose tree root and said: "Neighbor tree root, I have never met someone as ugly as you. Anyone who sees you will say that it must be a monkey that mischievously put its I stuck my long tail in the ground, left it alone, and walked away alone. It seems that you wanted to imitate an earthworm, but you didn't learn its graceful and round movements. You only learned to drink my blue juice. As soon as I met you, you drank it Half off, ugly, tell me, what are you doing?"

Root said humbly:

"Yes, Brother Xiliu, in your eyes, of course I have no appearance. I have been with the mud for a long time, which made me gray and brown; overwork made me deformed, just like a deformed worker's arm. I am also a worker , I work for the extension of my body that sees the sun. I sucked the juice from you, and it was delivered to her. She was fresh and beautiful. After you left, I went far to find the juice that sustains life. One day, brother, you will go where the sun shines, and at that time, you will go and see how beautiful the part of me is under the sun."

Xiliu didn't believe it, but out of caution, he didn't make a sound, thinking to himself, just wait and see.

When his trembling body grew and came into the light, the first thing he did was to find the extension that the root said.

God!What did he see.

There is a bright spring everywhere, and where the roots of the trees go down, a rose makes the land extraordinarily beautiful.The heavy blossoms hang from the branches, filling the air with a sweet fragrance and a mysterious charm.

Canals of water flowed contemplatively through the blooming meadows: "My God! I can't imagine how beautiful the roots of the ugly trees can be..."

【Together with you】

Obscurity, willing to be ordinary, is actually extending a kind of beauty and a kind of dignity.Ugliness is not a mistake, the fairness of life is that it also gives ugliness a noble beauty.Although Quasimodo is ugly, no one will despise him.Whether a person or a thing is beautiful does not depend on how it behaves externally. The only authoritative criterion is the inner truth, goodness and beauty.People who can serve and dedicate to others are worthy of our praise.Happiness is uncertain, God did not let it stay in the world forever, everything in the world is changing rapidly.It is impossible for anyone to seek an eternity.

(End of this chapter)