Mist System: Legend of Stars and Moon

Aunt Chen plucked a grape and put it in her mouth: "You kids are getting prettier and prettier. Why don't you keep them as my daughters?"

They put a grape in their mouths and shook their heads.

Xun Diexin said: "It's not necessary if you stay. Thank you, Auntie."

Chen Juan said happily: "Then be my goddaughter?"

Xun Diexin said, "Is it okay? I'll go back and ask my parents."

Chen Juan said: "No need to ask, you are my children now, you can come and play anytime."

Ye Shurou asked: "My parents don't allow me to go to other people's homes to play, can you keep it a secret for me?"

"Shu Rou, I won't tell anyone."

"Thank you auntie."

Xun Diexin asked: "Auntie, how long have you lived here?"

"It's been a long time. I've been here since I was born. My lover was also my playmate since childhood. But he died of illness before me. Now I live alone. It's very comfortable."

Xun Diexin asked: "Auntie, won't you feel lonely by yourself?"

Chen Juan said, "No! A person can do many things. He can grow grapes, raise chickens, ducks and pigs, learn embroidery, and read books. My life is very fulfilling now." After that, she asked Shurou gently, "Shurou, what about you? Actually, I like you very much, but I don't know how to say hello."

Ye Shurou replied: "I like to draw when I'm alone."

Chen Juan said: "Painting, I can embroider, but I can't paint, but I can turn your painting into embroidery."

Ye Shurou said happily: "That's great, but I didn't bring it today."

"Next time you guys come with me."

Chen Juan turned to Xun Diexin and said, "Shu Rou has been alone for so long, now she finally has a friend, you must treat her well."

Xun Diexin agreed: "Yes."

Chen Juan asked: "Die Xin, you should live in the city, why do you want to come to your hometown this year?"

Xun Diexin said: "My parents want me to come and gain some experience and accompany my grandparents."

Chen Juan said: "Oh, so that's how it is. How many children do you have?"

Xun Diexin said: "Two, me and my brother."

Chen Juan said excitedly: "What a coincidence, both of you have two children." Then she continued to ask: "Then why didn't your brother come?"

Xun Diexin replied: "He is a senior this year and has to write his undergraduate thesis, so he didn't come."

Chen Juan said: "Yes, I heard that writing a paper is still a bit difficult. You can bring him over to play next time."

Xun Diexin said: "Okay."

Chen Juan knew that Shurou also had a brother, so she asked, "Shurou, I haven't seen your brother for a long time. Is he also a senior?"

Ye Shurou said: "No, he started working this year, so he might have been a little busy and didn't come back."

Chen Juan asked: "Then will you come back for the New Year?"

"Maybe!"

"Die Xin, where is your family? If you come here to celebrate the New Year, you two can come to my house together. It might make you happy just thinking about it."

Xun Diexin said: "Maybe not this year, because they said they want to take grandpa and grandma to the city to celebrate the New Year."

Chen Juan smiled and said, "Okay! Okay! If you can't come during the Chinese New Year, then come in the summer. The weather is good in the summer, and I planted cherry trees in the field. Unfortunately, the cherries didn't bear fruit this year."

Xun Diexin comforted her: "We will definitely be able to come next summer."

Chen Juan said expectantly: "Okay, okay, I'll wait for you."

As they were chatting happily, a kitten ran over, meowing and jumped into Chen Juan's arms.

Chen Juan picked up the kitten and kissed it: "Her name is Xia Tiao. I forgot to tell you that I feed cats. Xia Tiao was picked up by me and fed. It has been a year. You can kiss me now."

Ye Shurou and Xun Diexin supported their faces with their hands and watched quietly the interaction between Chen Juan and the kitten.

Chen Juan touched the cat's face affectionately: "This year, Xia Tiao gave birth to a litter of puppies. Do you want to raise them?"

Ye Shurou frowned and said, "Aunt Chen, I really want to raise one, but my parents don't like small animals, so we can't raise one."

"Die Xin, can your family raise one?"

Xun Diexin said, "I think Grandpa can take the cat with him when he goes fishing, so he can eat while fishing. But Grandma is embroidering, and I'm afraid the cat will mess up her thread. I'll go back and ask them for their advice!"

Ye Shurou smiled and asked, "Shurou, you found a good partner for your grandfather. The cat ate all the fish that your grandfather caught, and he would get angry with the cat and then fight with it."

Xun Diexin thought of the scene of Grandpa fighting with the kitten, and laughed and hit Shurou: "The cat's front two legs evolved into apes, and it fights with Grandpa like this."

Ye Shurou also competed with Xun Diexin: "Will Grandpa be angry if we say this about him?"

Xun Diexin continued, "No, he won't know. That's it. Grandpa is so angry that he can't beat the kitten that he's mad at his head."

Chen Juan watched the two children perform quietly. The kitten yawned tiredly and lay quietly in Chen Juan's arms and fell asleep.

Chen Juan woke up Xia Tiao: "Xia Tiao, go back and accompany your children to sleep! They need you more now."

Shrimp Strips seemed to understand what Chen Juan said, so she jumped down. However, she did not return to her nest, but climbed onto the roof to bask in the sun.

Chen Juan looked at the kitten sleeping in the light and said, "Xia Tiao likes to stay in the sun and bask in the sun. I met her in the same way a year ago, and she followed me home."

Shrimp Strips stretched leisurely in the sun, found a suitable sleeping position, and finally curled up and fell asleep.

Ye Shurou took Xun Diexin's arm and said, "Xia Tiao is so happy."

Xun Diexin said: "Well, she doesn't have to do homework and doesn't have to be lectured by the teacher. She is so happy."

Chen Juan said to them: "In fact, everyone has their own happiness, and you can also find your own happiness."

Ye Shurou's eyes were blurred: "Happiness?"

Xun Diexin looked at Ye Shurou in silence, because she was about to leave for school and could not stay with Shurou.

Chen Juan comforted Ye Shurou and said, "Shurou, if you feel unhappy, come and teach me how to draw, and then I will teach you embroidery, although it is not as good as Grandma Zhou."

Ye Shurou said: "Yes."

Xun Diexin said to Ye Shurou: "Time flies when we are studying. We will meet again soon."

Chen Juan also began to recall her school days: "When we were studying as children, time passed by so quickly."

Xun Diexin asked curiously, "Aunt Chen, what did you do when you were in school? Was there anything fun?"

Chen Juan said, "When we were little, we had fewer toys than you did. I still remember that there was a magical stone near the school. There was a small hole in the stone. We put ashes into the hole and poked the hole with a stick, and the ashes inside fell out. Then we used a leaf to catch them. We called that stone the 'noodle beater'. But later, due to construction work at the school, it was dug away. That stone was of great commemorative significance. I still remember it to this day. I'm afraid I'll still remember it when I'm buried."

Chen Juan smiled after she finished speaking.

The girls imagined what the big rock looked like in their heads. Ye Shurou said, "How interesting."

Xun Diexin asked: "Is that stone very, very big?"

Chen Juan said: "I can't remember some of them clearly. They shouldn't be very big. It's just that we were too young back then."

Xun Diexin said: "What about skipping rubber rope? We are skipping rubber rope now, and the amaranth is blooming."

Chen Juan said: "Well, we also danced it back then, and I didn't expect it to be passed down."

Ye Shurou said nothing.

Xun Diexin continued to ask: "Is there anything else fun?"

"Climb mountains, catch fish, there used to be small fish and shrimp in the river." Chen Juan then said regretfully: "Now it's your generation and they're all gone."

Ye Shurou said: "I see that the water in the river is still very clear."

Chen Juan said, "Be careful when you go down to play, the water now is different from the water before."

Xun Diexin said: "Our water will return to normal."

Chen Juan said happily: "Well, it will change back."

Chen Juan looked at the grape vines outside and said, "In fact, we used to like playing on the grape vines. We were all young at that time, so climbing the grape vines was a piece of cake."

Xun Diexin said: "If we climb up, we can see the sunset."

Chen Juan said: "Yes, it was just to watch the sunset. Our legs were almost broken just to watch the sunset."

Xun Diexin asked with concern: "Are you okay now?"

Ye Shurou said: "Yes."

"Now it doesn't hurt if I don't climb the vine leaves."

Xun Diexin: "That's good. If we crawl, will Aunt Chen beat us?"

Chen Juan said anxiously, "Die Xin, you can't do that. You can't do that."

Ye Shurou laughed and said, "Die Xin, don't scare Aunt Chen. Hahaha, I will never believe that you are an introvert."

Xun Diexin said, "Occasionally I want to be a little outspoken and make a little joke!"

Chen Juan said gently: "Die Xin, you really know how to joke."

Xun Diexin added: "Aunt Chen, my joke is Schrödinger's joke. When it is in the box, you will never know whether it is a joke or not."

Shurou asked in confusion: "What do you mean by Schrödinger's joke?"

Chen Juan suddenly said, "Let's stop chatting. I'll go back to the house and get the baked cakes. We'll continue chatting."

"it is good."

Chen Juan entered the house. The kitten on the roof was sleeping soundly. Ye Shurou asked, "Die Xin, look at that kitten. It's sleeping so soundly."

Xun Diexin looked at the kitten and said, "Well, I want to get a kitten today. If grandpa and grandma don't like it, grandma will send the kitten back."

Ye Shurou said: "Yes."

Xun Diexin smelled the scent of red dates, and she asked Shurou: "Shurou, do you smell the scent of red dates?"

Ye Shurou said: "Mm, it smells good"

Chen Juan brought out the baked cakes: "Date and bean cakes, a little hot, they taste great right out of the pan."

Chen Juan handed one to each of them: "It's delicious. Eat it and take it for yourself."

Ye Shurou took a bite and said, "Hmm, soft, sweet but not greasy. Aunt Chen, how did you do that?"

Xun Diexin ate bite after bite.

Chen Juan said: "Next time you come to my house I will teach you."

Ye Shurou said: "Okay."

I don't know how long we chatted, the afterglow of the setting sun gradually appeared, and Chen Juan said, "I'll take you to see the kittens!"

Xun Diexin said: "Well, Aunt Chen, I will bring one home today. If they don't like it, I will ask grandma to bring it back."

Chen Juan trusted Grandma Zhou very much: "Well, then come with me to pick one!"

"it is good."

Xun Diexin and Ye Shurou went to see the kitten hand in hand. When passing by a room, Xun Diexin caught a glimpse of an embroidered picture of grape vines in Aunt Chen's room. In the picture, there were two children watching the sunset on the grape vines.

Kittens are all very cute. Ye Shurou looked at a black kitten. She stretched out her arms to tease it and held it in her arms: "Mimi, you are so small. I like you so much."

Xun Diexin stroked the other kittens and played with them.

Chen Juan asked Shu Rou, "Do you like this one?"

Xun Diexin also stood up and stopped teasing the cat: "Shurou, do you want to keep it?"

Ye Shurou said, "Well, let's go with this little one! She is dark and hides in dark places, so she won't encounter any danger."

Xun Diexin said: "Yes, invisibility."

Chen Juan said: "Then you should protect it well."

They answered at the same time: "Yes."

The ground began to become dark, and a cold wind blew. Ye Shurou said, "Aunt Chen, we're going home first."

Ye Shurou handed the kitten in her arms to Die Xin.

Chen Juan said: "Well, I'll wait for you to come and play next time."

Xun Diexin said: "Aunt Chen, I have to go back tomorrow. I will come next summer."

Chen Juan took out a few bunches of grapes and said, "Take them in the car and eat them."

Xun Diexin held the cat in her arms and waved, "Thank you, Auntie. I don't need it."

Chen Juan thought that it was because Die Xin had the cat in her arms and couldn't pick it up, so she said to Shu Rou, "Shu Rou, you pick it up."

Chen Juan said: "This is yours, and this is Die Xin's."

Ye Shurou also waved her hand and said, "No, Aunt Chen is too polite. My family won't let me take anything back. I'll be scolded."

When Chen Juan saw Xun Diexin holding the cat, she took less so that she could just carry it home.

Xun Diexin thought Chen Juan had given up, but unexpectedly Chen Juan stuffed another string of small strings into her hands, carried them out of the door and closed it.

Xun Diexin had no choice but to say, "Thank you, Aunt Chen."

Ye Shurou said: "Aunt Chen, I will come and play with you."

Afterwards, they took another route back home. Ye Shurou would touch the kitten in Xun Diexin's arms from time to time: "Good little kitten."

Ye Shurou suddenly remembered something: "Die Xin, what is Schrödinger's joke? You didn't say it just now."

Xun Diexin said, "I forgot about it while chatting."

"Now explain?"

Xun Diexin explained: "Does Schrödinger's cat know?"

Ye Shurou shook her head and said, "I don't know."

Xun Diexin continued to explain: "It's like a cat trapped in a box. You don't know whether it's dead or alive. How do you explain it? If you don't open the box, it could be dead or alive. You're not sure until you open the box."

Ye Shurou asked: "You're just not sure, right?"

"Well, it will be whatever you think it is, if you don't open it."

Ye Shurou said: "That's amazing, there are still such uncertain things in the world."

Xun Diexin said: "There are many interesting things in the world, Shurou, I want to take you to see them all."

Ye Shurou said: "I will study hard, and then we can decipher the mysterious things in this world together."

"Ah."

The afterglow of the setting sun was brilliant and blurry, stretching out the two small figures. It seemed to be their daily companionship as they grew up.

Xun Diexin said: "Shurou, give me your clothes now!"

Ye Shurou took off her coat and helped Xun Diexin hold the cat. Xun Diexin took off her coat and handed it to Shurou, and Shurou gave her her coat.

Finally they said the usual goodbyes.

"Goodbye, Shurou."

"Goodbye, Diexin."