"Oh, I think I found it, Aquila. Right! I'm pretty sure it's in that area, mostly in the middle of the galaxy, right? William's hand gestured a range in the sky.

Bai Xinrui nodded happily and desperately: "Yes, yes!" There it is, that's right! Do you see the brightest star in the constellation Aquila? ”

"See. It can't be called α Aquila, right? William asked tentatively.

"Huh? Haha, no wonder everyone says you're smart! Bai Xinrui said, took William's hand, and jumped up excitedly.

With a gentle smile in his eyes, William looked at the little girl in front of him and asked softly, "So, I won?" ”

In fact, he couldn't understand the meaning of knowing the stars in the sky in the middle of the night on the barren seaside, blowing the cold sea breeze, and guessing the stars in the sky.

Bai Xinrui stopped jumping, stretched out a slender index finger, shook it lightly, and said, "Wait, in fact, my problem is ...... What are the names of these two stars in China. ”

"Ahh ”

The exaggerated performance of the drama spirit made Bai Xinrui laugh loudly: "Haha, I won." Is it okay for you to do whatever you want? ”

"Okay. Willing to gamble and lose. William spread out his hands and made a gesture of being slaughtered.

He closed his eyes slightly, expecting Bai Xinrui to pounce into his arms like a fawn.

After waiting for a long time without movement, I opened my eyes and saw that the little girl had climbed onto the top of the Humvee and sat down.

She patted the open space next to her and said, "Sit down, you told me a story just now, and for the sake of fairness, I'm going to tell you one too." ”

"Oh, okay." William shrugged helplessly and sat down beside Bai Xinrui.

Bai Xinrui leaned on William's shoulder, looked up at the starry sky, and said: "In China, the α star in the constellation Lyra is called Vega, and Vega is the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, and she will use a special silk thread to weave colorful clouds in the sky. The α star in the constellation Aquila is called the Cowherd Star, and the Cowherd is a boy in the world......"

Hearing this, William couldn't help laughing, "Haha, I thought that only the western United States had cowboys, but it turned out that there were cowboys in ancient China." ”

(Because there is no word for cowherd in English, Bai Xinrui translates cowherd as Cowboy.) ）

"However, this cowherd is not a boy from the American West who wears jeans and rides a horse, but an ancient Chinese boy who plows the fields all day with a cow." Bai Xinrui squinted at William, blaming him for interrupting the story.

"One day, Lao Niu suddenly spoke," Bai Xinrui said, suddenly turning over and crawling on the roof of the car like a baby.

William didn't understand what she was going to do, and was afraid that she would toss and fall, so he had to turn his body completely around, sit cross-legged, and look at her.

Bai Xinrui arched her back, followed the example of the old cow, deliberately held back her voice roughly, and said: "Tomorrow, the seven fairies in the Heavenly Palace will go down to the mortal world to take a bath, you can hide by the river where they are bathing, and take the opportunity to hide the clothes of the most beautiful fairy among them, and let her promise to be your wife." ”

Looking at her funny appearance, William couldn't help but want to laugh and quipped, "Are you sure this is an ancient Chinese story?" It's even more daring and romantic than an American movie......"

Bai Xinrui found that William was not focused on the story because of her hard performance, pretended to be angry, and thought for a moment: "Okay, it's your turn, now you are the Cowherd, I am the Weaver Girl, you have to do what the old cow says......"

"Me?" William pointed at himself, surprised.

Bai Xinrui ignored him, took off the white coat on his body, threw it to the side, only wore a white silk dress, and changed into a charming and enchanting mermaid lying with her back to William, her hands were still holding her long hair, pretending to bathe in the river.

Although William felt that it was boring to play this kind of play with the little girl, he didn't want to ruin her interest.

He crept over and snatched the clothes from the roof of the car.

Bai Xinrui heard William's movement, pretended to be startled, turned around, covered her mouth with her hands, and hurriedly protected her body, as if she was really undressed, and screamed in a thin voice: "What are you going to do?" Give me back my clothes. ”

William said the preset line very cooperatively: "Unless you promise to marry me......"

"Oh, no," Bai Xinrui covered her face and said with a crying voice, "My mother is the Queen Mother of Heaven, and she will not agree to the marriage of the two of us......"

After all, William is the president of the school's drama club, and he immediately developed the following plot without a teacher.

He prostrate in front of Bai Xinrui exaggeratedly, grabbed her hand, and said, "Look into my eyes and tell me, do you love me?" ”

Although this line sounded very Shakespearean, Bai Xinrui didn't care at all, stared at him affectionately, nodded, and said, "Yes, from the moment I met you, I was deeply in love with you. ”

"You have to believe in the power of love, as long as we are together, there is no need to be afraid of anything!" Without thinking about it, William said the improvised line.

Afterwards, the two men hugged each other tightly.

Suddenly, Bai Xinrui broke free from William's embrace, stood up, put on a noble and cold expression, pointed to the non-existent weaver girl in William's arms, and shouted fiercely: "My daughter, you are the princess of the heavenly court, how can you marry a mortal?" Come back with me today! ”

After speaking, she threw herself into William's arms again and continued to perform the frightened Weaver Girl.

She shrunk her body, and said in a trembling voice: "No, Mother, we are in love, I and the Cowherd live happily in the world, and we have two children, I can't be separated from them......"

Before William could react, she stood up again and scolded condescendingly in the tone of the queen mother: "Immortals can't fall in love, this is the rule of heaven." Have you seen the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals I brought? Today, you must come back to Heaven with me! ”

After saying this, he also pretended to pull the weaver girl in William's arms hard.

As if she saw that the Weaver Girl was still resisting, her eyes widened angrily, she waved her arm, and slapped her other hand with a "snap", however, she took out a non-existent long sword from her waist, pointed at the void that originally belonged to the Weaver Girl on the roof of the car, and said: "If you don't leave, today, none of you want to live!" ”

Bai Xinrui rolled onto the roof of the car again, pretended to be reluctant to stand up again, pulled the queen mother who did not exist in the air, and cried: "Mother, I will go back with you, please don't hurt the cowherd and my child......"

William sat on the roof of the car for a long time without a single line, and couldn't help but be a little stunned when he watched Bai Xinrui perform his one-man show very devotedly.

In the past, in the rehearsals of the drama club, this rude and willful little girl has always behaved like a child, as if she was here to play tickets, and the role she played had no acting skills at all.

Today, what's going on? Is the Oscar-winning actress possessed?

Bai Xinrui's performance continued, she ran to the edge of the roof, her hands were softly stretched into the air and made a flying gesture, she looked back at William sadly, and said softly: "Save me......"

William stood up and pretended to chase after him.

Bai Xinrui showed a majestic posture again, pretended to pull out a golden hairpin in her bun, swiped in front of William, and said coldly: "Stay away from my daughter, this is the Milky Way, I see how you come over!" ”

"Ahh I can't go on! What does the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have to do with their mother? Weaver Girl's mother is too much! Why break up a couple who love each other well? William felt that the play was paradoxical, and a little indignant.

Bai Xinrui tossed for a long time, and was a little tired, so she sat back on the roof of the car, supported her cheeks, blinked a pair of big eyes, and looked at William without saying a word.

may be too deep into the play, she has already regarded herself as a weaver girl and William as a cowherd. At this moment, there are still thin tears in her eyes, as if she is feeling the pain of falling in love with her beloved but not being able to stay together.

Seeing that Bai Xinrui didn't speak for a long time, William asked, "Later, how happened to this story?" ”

Bai Xinrui's face was so pale as if she had just vomited a liter of blood, and she said with a gloomy expression: "Later, the Cowherd picked up a pair of children with a flat shoulder to catch up with the heavens, looking at the turbulent Milky Way between them, and wanted to cry without tears. He took the children to scoop the water of the Tianhe River with a wooden scoop every day, and in this way, day after day, year after year, their actions touched the bird clan, and every year on the seventh day of July, many magpies will fly from all directions, and build a magpie bridge over the Milky Way, and the two can only meet briefly on this day every year......

William was stunned for a long time, the reversal of personal heroism he expected in the American blockbuster did not appear, and the final ending was still a tragedy, and it was the kind that made people feel more uncomfortable the more they thought about it.

After pondering for a long time, he stared at the Cowherd and Vega in the sky, and sighed: "Steve Pinker said: There are two ways to end tragedy, one is Shakespearean, at the end of the tragedy, there is some kind of justice floating in the sky, but the stage is full of corpses; One is Chekhovian, and at the end, everyone is alive, but they all feel disillusionment, bitterness, disappointment, and heartbreak...... I think it's a Chekhovian tragedy. ”

For a long time, no one responded to his words.

William turned around and found that Bai Xinrui had fallen asleep on the roof of the car.

He couldn't bear to wake her, so he put the coat she had just taken off over her again, and lay down beside her.

The sky swept across the ground, the dark scent of the moonlight flowing in the air, and the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks in his ears, and the pleasant feeling made him drowsy again.

"No, we can't separate ......" perhaps because she had just played too crazy, the little girl whispered softly.

William looked sideways at the petite girl in the crook of his arm, she was so different.

At this moment, her white dress and white dress were shining with a little spot of light, which was the starlight in the sky sprinkled on her, and her whole person seemed to be shining. In a trance, William, a girl, illuminates his world and takes him back to the beautiful ...... that he has inadvertently left behind