Mist System: Legend of Stars and Moon

When Xun Diexin arrived at the door, she met her grandfather who was coming back from fishing. Her grandfather smiled and said, "What a coincidence, baby."

"Hi! Grandpa, I'm going to go find grandma first."

Xun Diexin happily went back to the house to look for her grandmother: "Grandma."

"Grandma, I want to make osmanthus cake."

When grandma saw Die Xin coming back, she said, "Die Xin, now that you're back, get up early tomorrow morning and I'll teach you how to make it."

"Well, grandpa is back too." Xun Diexin said again: "What are we having for dinner tonight? I'll wash the vegetables."

"Then let grandpa come and wash the vegetables together."

Xun Diexin put the leaves Ye Shurou gave her between the books, put the flowers in a vase, and put the painting on the table first, which she would take back to her room later.

Grandma picked out the vegetables to be washed, and she and grandpa washed them together while grandma went to cook.

Grandpa asked her, "What happy thing happened to you?"

Xun Diexin replied: "I made a friend."

"That's great. Is that the person you go to see every day?"

"Well, I was planning to say hello to her tomorrow, but she left the drawing board today. I thought she was sucked into the painting. I walked closer and saw that I was actually in the painting. Then she tapped my back and I was scared." Xun Diexin's voice became smaller and smaller.

Grandpa laughed and said, "I tell you every day that as long as you take a brave step forward, she will become your friend. If she doesn't do that, I don't believe you will take the initiative to say hello to her tomorrow."

"I think so! Because for things that are not happening, I won't regret missing them. They will just be forgotten with time." Xun Diexin broke the beans in her hand.

Grandpa said, "You can choose to forget, but what about the one who painted you? Will she forget? A painting is a person's heart. She presents her heart in the painting. She will remember you for the rest of her life."

Xun Diexin listened to her grandfather's words and said, "Well, I should be braver, so that our vacation can be longer. But she said that we are just right, and I think it's good, because today a ray of light shines on our crossed hands."

"Well, just figure it out. You were very brave to go and check on her safety when you felt she was in danger."

Grandma came over at this time: "Have you washed the vegetables? I'll clean the last one."

Grandma washed the vegetables again and started cooking. Grandpa would come to help her while she was cooking. Then she would put the gifts in her room, which was on the second floor.

After dinner, Xun Diexin went to the balcony to look at the stars. When her grandparents returned to the house, Xun Diexin was still outside, so they asked with concern: "Baby, remember to go to bed early."

Xun Diexin said loudly to her grandparents: "Oh! OK."

After saying hello, I continued to look at the stars.

The stars were shining at night, whispering to each other through their light, a sight never seen before, and the moonlight illuminated the distant meadows.

Xun Diexin was imagining how happy it would be if she could hold Shurou's hand and run on the grass. Unfortunately, they were restricted by their age and could not go out at night. Sometimes it would be better if they grew up.

The wind blows the long grass sideways, and when the wind stops the grass bounces back. Will the insects standing on the grass leaves be blown away?

The gray clouds moved away from the ground. The night was their paradise of freedom. They built a castle in the clouds and lived in it with Shurou.

Everything around is so interesting. Xun Diexin wants to go back and rest. She has to get up early to meet her friends.

Xun Diexin returned to the bed and pulled the curtains, but the moonlight coming through the gap in the curtains made the glass vase look colorful. She entered the colorful light and went to a fantasy world.

The next day, Xun Diexin made the osmanthus cake, put the book of "The Little Prince" in her bag, and went to a familiar place to find Ye Shurou.

Ye Shurou was still in front of the drawing board, painting her favorite picture. When she saw Die Xin coming, she smiled gently and greeted her: "Great, you're here."

Xun Diexin walked up to Shurou and said, "Where are we going now? I brought the osmanthus cake."

Shurou pointed to a tree in the distance and said, "Today's sun is not as hot as yesterday. Let's go under the tree among the purple flowers. It should be nice there."

"Ah."

The tree was much taller than both of them. Shurou asked, "Die Xin, when did this tree come here?"

"I read in a book that you can calculate the tree's growth rings by measuring its circumference. I think this tree is tens of thousands of years old! It's as big as a dinosaur and older than us. We should call it grandpa."

Xun Diexin suggested: "It must be very lonely! It has lived for so long, let's hug it, I'll be on this side and you on the other side."

"Well, we can't hold it or play with it even if we have our hands. Let's hold it a few more times."

"Ah."

When Xun Diexin wanted to start spinning, she gave Shurou a signal: "Shurou, I'll start spinning from the right side!"

"Okay." Shurou turned to Die Xin's position: "Die Xin, I'm going to your position."

"Shu Rou, I'm going to turn around."

"Oh!" Shurou wanted to sneak attack Die Xin so she said, "Die Xin, I'm behind you."

Xun Diexin imagined that Shurou was behind her, and she began to chase Shurou around the tree: "Shurou, I'm behind you."

Under the blue sky, there is a tree and two girls. The tree will always be there, but the people may not.

Xun Diexin said: "Shurou, we stopped."

"Oh!" Ye Shurou quietly turned in the opposite direction to scare Xun Diexin.

Xun Diexin was waiting for Shurou there. Shurou quickly sat next to Diexin and they smiled at each other.

Ye Shurou took out a picture from her bag and asked Die Xin: "Dinosaur, is it this dinosaur?"

Xun Diexin looked at the painting and said, "Wow! It's so lifelike."

“I’m super awesome!”

Xun Diexin asked: "Will it jump out and bite me?"

Ye Shurou said: "If you have magic, you can conjure it up and have it chase you and bite you."

Xun Diexin shook her head: "No, you have to control it. As its owner, you have to be responsible for it and can't just bite people."

"No, no, no, it will bite you if it doesn't bite others."

"why?"

"Because it's fun to bite, and it wants to play with you."

"Oh! Dinosaurs are creatures from another era. We shouldn't use modern thinking to speculate on their behavior. But I saw it would use modern thinking to escape."

Ye Shurou smiled and said, "Then when you see it, just tell it that I am Ye Shurou's friend, and it will just chase you and won't bite you."

"Then you need to come quickly and stop it from chasing me."

"Ah."

Xun Diexin opened her schoolbag and took out The Little Prince: "I'll show you this book."

Then he took out a lunch box: "Osmanthus cake."

Ye Shurou also opened her schoolbag and took out the things inside: "Ice jelly, pot cake."

Shurou handed a round lunch box to Diexin: "Two servings of ice jelly."

Die Xin said: "Thank you!"

Ye Shurou picked up a piece and tasted it and said, "It's sticky and fragrant. Are there clouds added in it?"

Die Xin looked at the crumbling clouds in the sky: "Shu Rou, have you ever eaten clouds?"

"Well, I dreamed at night that I took a bite of a cloud, and it was sticky."

"I also want to dream about eating clouds. You connect your brain to mine."

"Future scientists will figure that all out."

"When will that be?"

Ye Shurou replied: "In my lifetime."

"We can definitely wait for it in our lifetime." Xun Diexin picked up a pot cake and put it in her mouth: "It's icy and cool, perfect for summer."

Ye Shurou said: "Well, I like to do this in the summer. This summer, you are here, and I can finally share my delicious food with you, Die Xin."

"We will do this every summer, making delicious food for each other."

"I want to share more with you, everything." Ye Shurou opened the "Little Prince" that Die Xin gave her: "Die Xin, when I was five or six years old, I always chased my relatives and asked if my painting was good. I told them that it was the heart in the night sky. They just smiled, praised me perfunctorily, and left. However, they looked at me as if I was a fool. I don't know if I saw it wrong. After that, I painted quietly and no longer asked for anyone's praise."

Xun Diexin comforted her, "Shurou, it's not that no one praised us, it's that we found the wrong people. Those people are used to this world and seem to have forgotten how they came here. We should ignore them."

Ye Shurou said: "Well, I think when you grow up, you won't think so much."

Xun Diexin said: "The adult world is also tiring, just like my parents. I never dare to disturb them."

Ye Shurou said: "But, at least you can control your own destiny! Even if survival will wipe out a person's dreams."

Xun Diexin took Ye Shurou's hand and said, "We can now control our own destiny. If we study hard, we can change our destiny."

Ye Shurou shook her head and continued reading.

After a while, Ye Shurou asked, "Do people forget their childhood when they grow up?"

Xun Diexin said: "I won't forget, but the memory will become blurred. I seemed to have foreseen this earlier, so when I learned to write, I wrote down everything that happened every day, including my feelings. I will not forget, including this moment between us."

Shurou asked: "You write in a diary, and I record through painting."

Ye Shurou took out her old album from her bag and said, "Die Xin, look at this painting I drew. If you hold it up to the light and observe it, you will see a different world."

After observing it for a while, Die Xin said, "Is this the heart in the night sky you mentioned?"

"Well, I think we have a heart, so the earth also has a heart. Could it be hidden in the starry sky? Because our hearts are hidden in our bodies."

Xun Diexin was pleasantly surprised and said, "It's really dreamy. In fact, sometimes I wonder if there is a world inside our human body. Since there is a world outside the human body, there should also be a world inside the human body."

Ye Shurou asked curiously: "What is it like?"

Xun Diexin described it to Shurou carefully: "It was a room without lights. When my soul went in to observe it, it was empty and the door couldn't be opened. I imagined myself standing at the door."

Ye Shurou interrupted: "Then do you also have a small house inside your body?"

Xun Diexin nodded: "Yes, it is endless, just like when we look in the mirror, there are endless selves in our eyes."

Ye Shurou said: "Why do we in this world have souls? And I just happened to meet you who has a soul."

This question stumped Xun Diexin. Xun Diexin thought and answered: "This... this... is a philosophical question, just like who I am, where I come from, and where I am going."

Shu Rou said: "Let's put aside the existing answers and think about our own answers."

Xun Diexin felt that if there were no answers from predecessors, it would be even more difficult. She randomly thought of a mysterious answer: "Because there is a place in the universe where souls are created, we all come from there, and souls will directly attract each other, and I am attracted to your soul."

Ye Shurou asked: "It seems that our soul attraction is not enough, causing you to stand there and not dare to come over."

Xun Diexin said: "No, that's not the case. I was preparing in my mind."

"You'll never come here even if you prepare for it your whole life."

Xun Diexin pouted: "Impossible."

Ye Shurou took the bowl of jelly from Xun Diexin's hand, covered it, and put it in her bag. Xun Diexin also put the box of osmanthus cake into her bag.

Ye Shurou lay sideways against the tree: "Die Xin, after death, can we all go to the place where souls are created together?"

"I think so!"

"So are we going to drink Meng Po soup?"

"No, when we die, we will run away and go to the place where souls are made. We will not drink Mengpo soup or matchmaker soup."

Ye Shurou laughed after hearing the "matchmaker soup": "Die Xin, I don't think you are introverted, you are still quite humorous, it's just a matter of choosing people."

After Xun Diexin finished speaking, she covered her face and turned away from Shurou.

The afternoon sun was scorching, but the tree blocked the sun and a breeze blew away the heat.

Xun Diexin sighed: "It's so comfortable now."

Ye Shurou took out her sketchbook and said to Die Xin, "It's such a nice day, let me teach you how to draw!"

"it is good."

"I'll teach you how to sketch first." Ye Shurou sat on a stone pier holding a sketch pen and looked into the distance: "Die Xin, do you see the Kuiba tree over there? Isn't the blue sky and white clouds a beautiful background? Do you see it?"

Xun Diexin was still looking at Shurou's profile. When Shurou turned her head to look at her, she covered her face and turned like a crab, reluctantly looking in the direction Shurou pointed.

Ye Shurou said, "If you want to draw me, you have to wait until you have good painting skills. I don't want to become an ugly monster in your painting."

Xun Diexin assured: "Don't worry, I won't."

"That's good. If the painting is ugly, just don't let me see it."

“I will never draw something ugly.”

"Okay, now let's learn to use a pen to measure the tree we want to draw." Ye Shurou gestured to Xun Diexin, "Just like this, try it out."

"It's like a ruler. It seems that the scenery in front of me has a scale. It's quite magical." Xun Diexin returned the pen to Shurou after reading it.

Ye Shurou continued to explain: "Painting requires carefulness and caution. If you are more natural, the lines can be clearly and beautifully outlined, one line at a time, just like this, we first outline the outline of the painting, the pointed, sharp, and round places..."

Xun Diexin listened carefully, and Shurou asked her to practice on the sketchbook from time to time.

After Xun Diexin returned, she recorded everything that happened between her and Shurou that day, but later she put the diary away. Sealing it away does not mean destroying it, but hiding it deep in her memory.