Su Yu gave Ye Duhong a cup of tea, which was full of fragrance. He said to Ye Duhong,"The island owner and I have told stories. It's your turn to tell stories."
Ye Duhong looked like he wanted to talk about it for a long time. He took up a tea cup and drank a small sip of tea and said,"You all talk about what happened when you were young, so I'll learn from you and tell you about my experiences as a child. What kind of experience am I talking about? It was a wonderful childhood that I will remember all my life. The season I talk about is summer, the summer day is very hot, and at night, the yard will be cooler, so I will go to the yard to enjoy the cool. There used to be a plane tree in our yard, but it was cut down by my father, so I enjoyed the cool not under the tree, but under the sky. At night, I sleep on a yellow bamboo mat, which is so big that I can roll on it. When I roll on it, I get great happiness. When my mother was laying this bamboo mat, she had to use a broom to sweep out a place in the yard that she thought was clean. Why should she sweep it? Mother said, there is soil on the ground, there are ants. Mother swept out the clean area and spread the bamboo mat in the yard. The bamboo mat was also wiped clean by my mother with a dishcloth, and I lay on the bamboo mat. There is a pillow at home, which is really high for me when I am young. I was pillowed on a soft folded towel, and I was lying on my back, and guess what I saw? What I see is the vast starry sky, so many stars, so brilliant stars, so high night sky, so deep starry sky, so charming space, so imaginative area. At that time, there was a wind, and the wind was not a hot wind, nor a cold wind, but a warm wind, which was like a soft hand to touch me, my body and my soul. I looked at the stars with my eyes wide open. I didn't know why there were so many stars in the sky, and I didn't know what was on top of them. When I looked at the stars, I felt that the stars were looking at me, and the stars almost hugged me. I gradually want to go to the starry place, but my body can't actually get there. I want to go to the moon, I want to go to the stars, this is a pipe dream, I am whimsical, but I just like this fantasy. When I am dreaming, my soul is wandering in the starry sky. "
Ye Duhong drank the tea in the cup and continued,"You don't know how much I love the starry sky, but now you know, I can't see the stars. I look up at night and see only the dark sky, and there is no bright starry sky. Also, I do not have the kind of childhood curiosity in the face of everything, my heart is like a dry wrinkled rag, not interested in many things that should have been interesting, where is my innocence? I miss my childhood."
Su Yu took a sip of tea and listened carefully to Ye Duhong's speech.
Ye Duhong's story is not over yet."Lying on the bamboo mat, I use my eyes to count the stars in the sky. There are many stars in the sky, but I believe I can finish counting them. I think, count some today, count some tomorrow, and I will keep counting. No matter how many stars, I can count them all. Not only did I lie on the bamboo mat to count the stars, but I also sat on the stone in the field and looked at the starry sky in the distance. I found that the starry sky looked better when I sat on the stone than when I was lying on the bamboo mat.But the only disadvantage is that sitting and looking at the starry sky is not as comfortable as lying down. When I lie down, I can have a good rest until I am very sleepy and want to sleep. Once, when I was lying on a comfortable bamboo mat looking at the stars in the sky, I suddenly saw a star moving from one place to another, and then drew an arc in the sky. I shouted that the star had fallen. I told my grandmother that I was going to find the star. I was sure I could find it. Then, I saw more stars falling from the sky, many stars intertwined into gorgeous pictures, they passed and fell, and my heart became very romantic with the fall of the stars. Ah, it was a meteor shower. I saw a meteor shower at that time, but I didn't know that what I saw in my childhood was a meteor shower until I grew up many years later. "
After listening to Ye Duhong's story, the island owner asked Ye Duhong,"You must miss your childhood when you counted the stars?"
"Ah,"Ye Duhong took a deep breath."When I was a soldier, I also saw numerous stars in the barracks of the Red Army. At that time, our army camped in the wilderness. At night, I couldn't sleep, so I came out to pee. Instead of peeing, I walked around under the excuse of peeing. I came to a stone, and the stone stood on the clearing. It seemed to be prepared for me. It was very smooth and suitable to sit on it and look at the stars. I sat on that stone, next to some grass, I could smell the fragrance of the soil and grass, there was wind, the wind was blowing from far away, and it wreathed around me. I really felt the smell of the wilderness. Ah, this is the wilderness, the beautiful wilderness. In such a pleasant state of mind, I looked up at the starry sky. I was shocked by the brilliance of the starry sky. Sweet in my heart, I remembered the scene when I was looking at each other with the stars in my childhood. At that time, I wanted to go to the stars. When I had this idea and tried to think about it, my soul was really among the stars, and I was really in the starry sky. In the barracks, in that wilderness, I knew that I could not reach the starry sky, and I did not have the purity of my childhood, so I looked at the starry sky and thought about my childhood. I could still feel all kinds of beautiful things."
"At that time, what were you thinking?"Su Yu asked.
"I miss you."Ye Duhong said calmly. "I left the underground residence and from the wilderness to the wilderness where the barracks are located. We are in two wildernesses, but we can look up to the same moon. I think, when I look at the moon, you must also be looking at the moon, when I miss, you must also miss. You don't know, I am a person of weak nature, but I have to be extremely strong for a long time. There are many people in this world who are like dragons and tigers. I am in a big world and I am afraid of being hurt. I pretend to be strong. It seems that in this way, it will not be easy to be hurt by others. But I was still hurt, and it all seemed inevitable. Seemingly good life, in fact, there are a lot of unsatisfactory. Unpleasant things are omitted by me, what I say are all good things, so they are all warm, and what I say can warm people's hearts. "
When Ye Duhong finished telling the story, he poured himself tea and tasted the light tea carefully. At the same time, he was also savoring his memory.
The room was warm, but there was some cold outside, the cold water was beating on the side of the ship, and the ship was still advancing automatically, still in a heroic posture.
Su Yu brought two plates of banana slices. The three of them ate banana slices and stopped talking. The banana slices were delicious.
The room wasn't very bright, because it was dark outside and they didn't turn on the lights, they sat quietly. Ye Duhong reached out to open the inner window, and the translucent window turned into a transparent window. Through the window, they could see the vast starry sky.