23.刷子李

Lesson Twenty-three

Childhood Discoveries

1. When I was nine years old, I discovered the law of embryonic development, which was the result of my independent thinking.

2. After listening to this, you may can’t help laughing. It doesn’t matter. Anyway, laughter will not bring you disaster.

3. I’m different from you. After three years, I remembered my discovery and couldn’t help laughing. I was punished in public.

4. My discovery began with flying in my dream.

5. I dream every night, I fly. I am so infatuated with flying that I could leave the ground and fly into the air with just a little jump on my feet.

6. Later, I even learned to glide, hovering over the streets, above the birch trees, on the green grass and the clear lake.

7. My body is so light that I can do what I want. I can move freely with my arms and legs. It seems that I can fly where I want to go.

8. I thought I was the only one among my classmates who had the talent of flying.

9. However, one day I finally understood that my friends would fly in their dreams every night.

10. That day, several of us decided to meet our teacher and ask him to answer this wonderful question.

11. “Flying in a dream means you are growing up!” The teacher explained.

12. “Why is it last only when we sleep at night?”

13. “You are so naughty during the day that you hinder cell growth.

14. In the evening, the cells proliferate.

15. “So why do people fly when they are growing up? What is the reason?

16. “It’s your cells that go back to ancient times, when people were birds.”

17. “How can man be a bird?” We were very surprised.

18. “It’s not just birds! Man evolved from simple life.

19. At first it was Paramecium, then fish, frog, monkey… All this knowledge will be explained to you by the teacher in class when you get into the senior grade.

20. Senior, it’s so far away from us, but the flight is still going on.

21. The conversation with the teacher stimulated my imagination even more.

22. I’m eager to find out how people come from. I think I’m so obsessed that if I catch a fish from the river, I’ll look over and over again. I’d like to find some characteristics of future people from the fish.

23. Children in rural areas know that their mother is pregnant for nine months before giving birth to a baby.

24. “Why nine months?”

25. I racked my brains to think about the answer to this question.

26. Think and think, hey! Finally I get it: “Ha! It’s like drawing a map.

27. The distance on the ground is far away, only a few centimeters on the map.

28. People are made up of cells... It took a long time to change from cell to small fish.

29. Now, this period of time is converted into one month. It takes a long time to change from small fish to frog, and then it is converted into one month.

30. Based on this calculation, it will take exactly nine months to become an adult.”

31. My discovery is so simple and clear, and I am especially happy about it.

32. I don’t think anyone has found this truth yet.

33. Three or four years later, I was in the sixth grade.

34. The teacher began to teach us biology.

35. On one occasion, young female teachers talked solemnly about the origin of human beings and their development and evolution.

36. At this time, I clearly heard the teacher say that some scientists believe that the fetus in the mother’s womb reproduces the process of evolution from simple life to adulthood.

37. At that time, the classroom was so quiet that everyone kept silent.

38. I suddenly remembered my discovery and couldn’t help laughing. The teacher gave me a hard look.

39. “Fyodorov! What are you laughing at? Laugh again and get out of the classroom!”

40. “Olga Ivanovna, I…I remembered what I had found…”

41. There was a burst of laughter in the classroom.

42. Olga Ivanovna, pale with anger, strode towards me.

43. “Fyodorov! You get out of the classroom right now.

44. My face suddenly flushed with embarrassment and shame.

45. It was then that I realized that my teacher had misunderstood my laughter and thought it was malicious.

46. Fortunately, she didn’t let me explain, otherwise, my classmates would laugh more wildly when they heard me say that I discovered the theory of evolution three years ago!

47. However, when I was thrown out of the classroom and stood outside, I came up with a reason to comfort myself. I understood that a great discovery in the world sometimes brings people the risk of being expelled and persecuted.