Blind Bei and Gou Moli rode their horses back to the main camp together. On the way, Gou Moli said:
"Mr. Bei, do you know the biggest difference between you and me?"
"What is it?" Blind Bei responded.
"What you seek, what you study, what you know, and what you are familiar with is a kind of universality among people, whereas I prefer to look at the specific characteristics of a single group of people, that is, if, Mr. Bei, you consider the wild people as people too."
"You mean, I'm more metaphysical?"
"I haven't heard that word before, but I can roughly guess what it means. Actually, it's not far off. It's like a candle; no matter how bright or hot it is, it still needs a dark candlestick to bear and support it.
Even if you gild this candlestick with silver or gold, its glow can never surpass the candle flame. But without it, without these fittings, that wouldn't work either.
