Chapter 3: Falling Stars Elm Village

The Falling Star View is located at the foot of Taibai Peak, the main peak of Zhongnan Mountain, and is a very small and dilapidated Taoist temple.

There is no incense in the Falling Star Temple, only the old Taoist priest leads the little bean to live.

Xiaodouzi was adopted by the old Taoist priest of Luoxingguan since he was a child, and the two depended on each other.

Xiaodouzi is an outcast, with big eyes, and black eyes are always rolling, much like a little black bean, so he was given the name of Xiaodouzi.

There is a small village next to the Falling Star View, and the village is called Elm Village. The village is named after a 100-year-old elm tree at the head of the village.

Yushu Village is built by the mountains and rivers, and the mountains and rivers here are beautiful and picturesque. In the fast-paced modern world, it is more like a secluded paradise.

Yushu Village is also very small, with only twenty or thirty households, and the villagers are industrious and simple, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, maintaining some primitive farming habits.

The old Taoist priest was called Wuchen Taoist, who knew some traditional Chinese medicine and medicinal herbs, and dug up herbs in the mountains in his spare time, and prepared prescriptions to treat the villagers who asked for help free of charge.

The sun sinks into the mountains, and the sky is full of stars.

The old Taoist priest sat on a rattan chair in the courtyard, slowly shaking the big pu fan in one hand, and holding a mud teapot in the other, which was brewed with homemade mountain tea leaves.

The old Taoist priest looked up at the starry sky and watched the stars, and Xiaodouzi lay on the old Taoist's lap to count the stars.

Grandpa, look, Meteor!

A dazzling meteor suddenly appeared in the starry sky, streaked across the sky and finally disappeared.

The old Taoist priest muttered in his mouth, falling stars, falling stars!

Little beans!

You're going to school, and you've got to have a big name.

Daimyo? So what can I call it, soybeans?

The old Taoist priest was amused, and lovingly stroked Xiaodouzi's little head and said, You will be called Xingchen in the future!

Oh, this name is good, there are stars in it, I love it!

Grandpa, is the outside world big?

Well, it's big, just the planet we live on, the earth is big.

But the bigger world is in the sky, which is the endless starry sky we see now, which is called the universe.

Wow! How big is the universe?

In our current understanding, there is no limit to the universe, and there are countless planets like the earth in the universe, that is, those stars in the sky, and there are creatures like us humans living on them, and our earth is only a small part of the universe.

Can those stars be so small that they can live in people?

That's because it's too far away, so it looks small!

The ships you see in the sky every day are the means of transport between the stars.

Grandpa, have you been to those stars? What do those stars look like? Is it all gold?

Grandpa has never been there, only people who study well and have knowledge can go.

Grandpa, then I have to study hard, and I will take my grandfather with me in the future.

Okay, then Xiaodouzi has to study hard, and in the future, Xiaodouzi will take his grandfather on a space trip.

The day of school finally came, and the government welfare department sent someone to pick up Xiaodouzi.

Xiaodouzi offered incense in front of the statue of the ancestor of Sanqing, and knelt down and kowtowed three times.

The old Taoist priest took out a new set of clothes and helped Xiaodouzi change out of the gray robe he wore on weekdays.

The old Taoist priest took Xiaodouzi's hand and walked out of the mountain gate of the Falling Star View, and the villagers stood in a large row beside the mountain road.

Aunt Zhang stepped forward with red eyes and hugged Xiaodouzi, pressing his little head vigorously into the waves on her chest.

Xiaodouzi broke free with a flushed face, making the villagers laugh.

Aunt Zhang scolded with a smile, sigh yo yo! Look at our little beans growing up, we all know that they are blushing.

Little rabbit cub, when you were a child, you loved to eat your aunt's milk the most, and if you didn't give it to eat, you howled, so that the three girls in my family couldn't eat enough every day, and now they all have yellow faces and thin muscles.

Xiaodouzi hurriedly smiled and said that Auntie's milk is delicious, better than Grandma Li's goat milk.

Little Bean's words caused another burst of laughter!

There were two small pigtails on the side, and the three girls, who were thick and strong, although they were the same age as Xiaodouzi, were half a head taller than Xiaodouzi, standing in the distance, crossing their waists and glaring at them with good eyes. For this big villain who grabbed milk from herself since she was a child, the three girls have always been obsessed.

Xiaodouzi hurriedly stepped forward, took out a grass grasshopper made of straw like a treasure, and dangled it in front of the three girls.

Just like every time, the three girls happily took it and changed their faces.

Grandma Li held a large can of goat's milk and asked Xiaodouzi to drink it while it was hot.

Xiaodouzi drank half a jar in one go, and then burped and said, Grandma Li's goat milk is also delicious!

You little goblin, Grandma Li scolded lovingly

Brother Wang stepped forward to pick up Xiaodouzi and put him on his strong shoulders.

Little Bean, you have to study hard in the city!

Little Bean, you have to take care of yourself in the city!

Little Bean, come home often if you have nothing to do!

Little bean, the old Taoist has us to take care of it, you can rest assured!

The villagers surrounded the little beans in the middle and told them gossipily.

Rhubarb wagged his tail and came out of nowhere, and a hare in his mouth was flatteringly sent to Little Bean.

Woo! A wolf howl was heard in the distance, and a tall male wolf sat on the opposite ridge, looking this way.

Brother Wang looked at the wolf and said, this wolf is quite human, probably because of the relationship between Rhubarb, this guy has never plagued the village, and always let Rhubarb bring back mountain rabbits, wild deer or something. Maybe it's hoping we'll be kind to its soon-to-be-born baby.

Everyone also said that the wolves in our final Nanshan Mountain have spirituality.

Little Beanzi stepped forward and hugged Rhubarb's big dog head, and Rhubarb's tongue made his face drool.

Brother Wang touched Rhubarb's slightly bulging belly and said, Xiaodouzi, don't worry, Rhubarb is already pregnant, and when you have a cub, Big Brother will definitely leave you a little wolf dog.

Xiaodouzi nodded vigorously and said expectantly, Well, I also really want to see the rhubarb child, what does the little wolf dog look like!

Bags of small bags with the villagers sent souvenirs, reluctantly goodbye to grandpa and the villagers, sitting in the maglev car, Xiaodouzi looked back, grandpa and the villagers were waving.

Grandpa's gray hair and beard danced in the wind, and his weak body looked even older.

Xiaodouzi held back the tears rolling in her eyes, and waved goodbye vigorously.

Rhubarb chased after the car, but it was chasing farther and farther, and Rhubarb wandered anxiously, not understanding why his friend was leaving.

Xiaodouzi didn't want his grandfather and the villagers to see him crying, so they would be worried, and the elm village gradually drifted away, and the high ridge of Luochenguan disappeared into the trees, and tears flowed down from his eyes.

The middle-aged man who drove the car patted Xiaodouzi on the shoulder and comforted him and said, The conditions at the school are very good, the teachers are also very good, and there are many children like you, you will like it there.

Xiaodouzi stopped her tears and felt a little more at ease.

It's just that what Xiaodouzi didn't expect was that he would be gone for more than half a year.

By the time he returned to Elm Village again, to the Falling Stars where he had grown up, it was already a place of human being.