Chapter 186: Bird's Nest, Shark's Fin and Bear's Paw

Don't think that just because you are a famous college student, you feel that you are very great. You should feel that you should see smiling faces no matter where you go.

If you think this way, you are obviously wrong. There are many excellent people in real life. Even famous college students are many in some famous companies. If you want to get ahead in these places where talents are abundant, of course it is very important.

It's not easy anymore.

So, whether we can get into college or not, the reality we have to face is the same. We have no choice. Of course it is a good thing to get into college, but good things in the world are not always good things.

Although it feels a bit regretful to go to college, many regrettable things may be a good thing.

If we want to look at some things more broadly, we must learn to look at all problems in reality from a philosophical perspective.

What is a good thing? It can be said that there is no absolutely good thing in this world. Everything is a beauty and a disaster. The better something is, the more bad it is.

For example, things like snake venom make us feel that they are bad things when we hear them. Because many people may be seriously injured or even die because of being bitten by venomous snakes.

But poisonous snakes are very good Chinese medicine. People use snake venom to treat many diseases. Do you think the snake venom is good or bad? Obviously, we cannot say whether it is good or bad. When you are bitten by a poisonous snake

When you are sick, you will definitely say that snake venom is a bad thing. But when you are cured of your disease because of snake venom, you will definitely say that snake venom is a good thing.

Bacteria are annoying things. It seems that when we get sick, it is because of bacteria. In fact, bacteria are really important to us humans, because we humans are a combination of bacteria and cells.

There are one hundred trillion bacteria living in our human body. Thinking about this number makes people feel numb. What kind of number is one hundred billion? We simply cannot imagine. We can only say that this number

There are as many billions as there are grains of sand on the beach.

There are one million species of bacteria on one of our palms alone. Watch out, it's one million species, not one million.

In fact, we humans are just a bunch of bacteria. This is because we evolved from bacteria. If we didn't have a single bacteria in our body, we wouldn't be able to survive for a moment.

In fact, we humans can't produce anything. The real producers in this world are plants and bacteria. Plants can produce organic matter and allow animals to satisfy their hunger. The growth and photosynthesis of plants are also inseparable from bacteria.

Even the oxygen on the earth is produced by bacteria. Without bacteria, of course there would be no life and humans.

Each of us feels like we are living for ourselves when we are busy every day. In fact, we are not living for ourselves, we are just living for the bacteria on our bodies.

Every grain of rice we eat is just to nourish the bacteria in our body. Our body cannot digest any food. Only bacteria can help us digest food.

All the nutrients our human bodies need are produced by the bacteria in our bodies for our life activities.

We humans are just hosts for the hundreds of billions of bacteria in our bodies. These bacteria live on us in order to get an ideal place to live. In our bodies, they can live comfortably.

These trillions of bacteria support our life system. Without these trillions of bacteria, we would not be able to live for a moment. Not to mention that we ourselves cannot digest food, even viruses in our external environment can quickly digest them.

It kills us. The reason why we can live to old age is because the bacteria in our body are always protecting our life and health. Although we sometimes get sick, the bacteria in our body also secrete antibiotics to fight against it.

Viruses that invade our bodies.

Each of us has our own dreams and wants to have an ideal life. But in the final analysis, it is not that you want to have a bright future. It may be that the bacteria on your body want to have a bright future.

It seems a bit alarmist to say this, as if we have become the puppets of the bacteria on our body. But in fact, this statement really makes sense. Our survival instinct may come from the bacteria on our body.

These countless bacteria.

These countless bacteria are considered probiotics in our bodies. They are bacteria that are beneficial to our lives. But relatively speaking, some tiny bugs are not so lucky. These bugs, called Cordyceps sinensis, are caused by a species of Cordyceps sinensis.

After infection with fungal spores, they become nutrients for these fungi.

These Cordyceps fungi regard the larvae of bat moths as their own food, and then grow crazily in the bodies of these larvae. They torture one larvae to death, and then this larvae becomes a large spore that continues to reproduce and grow.

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With the body nourishment of bat moth larvae, these Cordyceps fungus spores can grow and reproduce smoothly, spreading the next generation of spores in the nearby soil, allowing the unfortunate bat moth larvae to become their victims again.

In fact, Cordyceps sinensis is not a particularly mysterious thing. It is just a parasitic fungus. However, it is much crueler than ordinary fungi. Ordinary fungi just grow on some moist rotten wood. But Cordyceps sinensis turns out to be

Treat a living organism as your own host, and then torture this organism to death. Finally, treat this organism as your own feast, so that you can grow and reproduce smoothly.

So, of course, when people want to eat these Cordyceps sinensis, it is because we still don’t know much about this kind of thing. We only know that it is a precious traditional Chinese medicine, but we have no idea what kind of thing it is.

In fact, many expensive things in this world are not necessarily good things. It is just because they are expensive that we ordinary people regard them as good things.

'Heaven and earth are not benevolent and regard all things as rotten dogs.' Originally, all things are the same. There is no such thing as valuable or not. There is no such thing that is very important to human life and is missing.

No. Whether we like to eat rice or noodles, we can all live well.

Whether it is rice or noodles, they are the same thing when they enter our stomach and small intestine. They are decomposed by the bacteria in the small intestine into some simple organic substances that our bodies need, such as amino acids, sugars, fats, and carbohydrates.

Wait for these simple organic molecules.

If we eat different things, our body cannot absorb the nutrients we need, then how can we live? Because whether we eat delicacies from the mountains and seas or drink simple tea, when it enters our body, it is absorbed by the nutrients in our body.

After the bacteria decompose them, they form several organic molecules that our bodies need. In particular, amino acids, the raw materials for synthesizing the proteins that our bodies need, are mainly produced because the bacteria in our bodies break down the things we eat.

If there are no bacteria in our body, we cannot digest food and cannot survive. When we suffer from indigestion, it is because there are not enough bacteria in our body. At this time, we have to eat some

Medicine. In fact, it means to supplement some bacteria that our body needs.

Whether it is delicacies or ordinary food, they are all the same thing to our human body. Because these delicacies are ordinary things to begin with. They are just exaggerated by some boring literati and become something extraordinary.

. As if these things can cure all diseases.

Having said that, I would like to mention the so-called health products. No matter which kind of health care products, they will say that they have the ability to treat various diseases. Since your health care products can treat diseases, why not directly make them into medicines?

Go buy it. If it can really cure diseases, wouldn’t it be more profitable than selling health care products?

Obviously, these so-called health care products that can cure diseases and protect health are all exaggerated claims. It can also be said to be a kind of false advertising, because the raw materials used to produce these health care products must be ordinary things.

Even if some expensive things are used, what's the big deal? Shark fins are just fins of sharks. Why don't we eat shark meat but eat shark fins? Shark fins are just a part of the fish.

We eat fish fins instead of fish meat. What’s the point of this? Obviously, it’s not the reason why shark’s fins are very delicious but shark’s meat is not delicious. It’s just because sharks are very ferocious fish in the sea.

.In ancient times, hunting technology was relatively backward, and it was not easy to catch a shark.

Because of this, it is very difficult to eat fresh shark meat. Even eating shark fins is not easy. This is why this kind of shark fin is so valuable. The same goes for bear paws. If you want to catch them,

It is certainly not easy to find a ferocious big bear. Therefore, it is also not easy to eat bear meat.

This is why shark fins and bear paws are more valuable. Of course, the same goes for bird's nests. This bird's nest was originally a nest built by swiftlets for breeding offspring. It was built on the cliff with its own saliva.

.Because it is very difficult to pick these bird's nests. Many people may die because of this. Therefore, this kind of thing is very precious.

In fact, the so-called precious thing is something that is so precious that it is not easy to obtain, and many people will even lose their lives because of it. The reason why this kind of thing is precious can be said to be that these things are soaked in the lives and blood of ordinary people.

Precisely because ordinary people may have to pay the price of their lives to obtain these things, these things are very valuable in the market. Ordinary people cannot afford them at all, only dignitaries can afford them.

We know that bird's nests, shark's fins and bear paws are precious ingredients that have been passed down from ancient times. The reason why they are precious is because in ancient times, people's technological level was relatively low, and it was very difficult to catch these ferocious animals.

Difficult. You may even pay the price of your life. In addition, picking bird's nests is very dangerous. In the absence of modern rock climbing tools, ancient people obviously took huge risks when picking bird's nests on cliffs. There may be

Many migrant workers accidentally fell off the cliff and died here while picking bird's nests.

All of this is the reason why these so-called precious ingredients are worth hundreds of times. It does not mean that these things themselves are of great benefit to the human body. They can cure all diseases and prolong life. It is just because it is not easy to obtain these things, and these effects

If something that contains the blood and lives of ordinary people is not precious, then it is unjust.

In fact, precious things such as bird's nests, shark's fins, and bear paws do not have high nutritional value in themselves. It is no exaggeration to say that the nutritional value of bird's nests is far less than that of eggs. But why are bird's nests so expensive and eggs so cheap? This is mainly

It's because the ease of obtaining these things is different. Therefore, the prices of these things in the market are very different.

There is a saying that goes, 'things are rare and valuable'. Everything is like this. The reason why housing prices in Beijing are so high is not to say how good the quality of the houses in Beijing is, but just because they were built in Beijing.

If it had been built elsewhere, it wouldn't be as valuable.

No matter where the houses are, they are all built with reinforced concrete. Those houses worth several million or even tens of millions are not much different from houses worth hundreds of thousands. The difference lies in the fact that they stand

The place is just different.

There is no difference in all things. It is because of people's likes and dislikes that everything is divided into different things. Anything that is rare will be very valuable. Anything that is available everywhere will be very common, or

Said it was worthless.

Having said this, we will find a strange phenomenon. In our human society, everything that is very useful to us is very cheap. The more something we can't live without for a moment, the less valuable it is.

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Meals, vegetables, and radishes are all necessities in our daily lives. But these things are very cheap. Otherwise, we ordinary people would not be able to live in this world.

Air is something we can't live without for a moment. If we don't eat or drink, we can live for three days. But if we don't breathe, we can't live for three minutes. But air is worthless. This is because air is everywhere, and people
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