Chapter 23: The Moon of Low Intelligence

  The night wind is gentle, the moon is floating in the sky, the wind blows the tree shadows, and the water ripples...

  Missing the star of hometown, missing the moon of hometown...

  Life is like a segment of a bewildering movie, depicting the various aspects of human life. Who would have thought that Yue Kang, who was still working in the company just a few days ago, woke up one morning to find himself here?

  Although his heart is filled with pain, he can only deeply hide it in his heart. He is not carefree; he will think of the place where he grew up as a child, think of his simple and kind mother, and his father who appears strict but actually dotes on him very much. Yue Kang really wants to ask the sky if they are doing well.

  There isn't even a breeze to bring back their voices, and Yue Kang is destined to never touch their silhouettes again. He also wants warmth, to cry in his mother's arms when he's frustrated, and wonders if his father's asthma is still as severe, if one cough would make him struggle to breathe in pain, and whether or not his father takes his medicine on time without a child around.

  The girl who said she would accompany me until we are old and grey, I don't know if she has already found the one in her heart or is still sitting quietly in the garden where we first met, not shedding a tear or making a sound as she waits for my return.

  Too many thoughts, too many worries, accumulated in Yue Kang's heart, it's hard to pass, can't find someone to pour out his bitterness to, in this world he is suffering, he is lonely.

  "What are you doing here alone?" A crisp voice came, followed by a string of clinking sounds, and Bai Miao Dan walked over.

  "I want to create a poem with this moonlight." Yue Kang said lightly. He didn't want to show his weakness in front of people.

  "Oh? Has it been created then?" Bai Miao Dan was unusually calm tonight.

  "I was about to think of it, but you interrupted me." Yue Kang said with a spread of his hands.

  "You can't even write a decent word and you think you can compose poetry? You're dreaming." White Miao Dan sneered.

  Yue Kang smiled and didn't say anything.

  "You haven't told me where you got that poem you wrote last time, don't tell me you made it up, from my sister's expression I can tell that the poem is quite good." Bai Miaodan really wanted to know the origin of those few poems by Yue Kang.

  Yue Kang warned: "I can say it clearly, I really only know those three poems. This time you use a snake to bite me, I still can't do it."

  "Cut it out, who asked you to compose poetry? You're beautiful, but even Miss Ah-Luo can come up with a couple of poems. I'll recite them to you another day. If you have nothing better to do now, go to the rooftop and count the stars with me," said Bai Miao Dan.

  Yue Kang was curious, what's wrong with this girl today? Not only did she not bother me, but also asked me to accompany her to watch the stars. Wouldn't she push me down from the rooftop? I'm a little scared, at worst I'll pull her down too! "Accompanying you to count the stars is not good, right? With your IQ, do you still need to count the stars? Don't glare at me, I'll accompany you. After we go up, I'll count the stars, and as for you, just count the moon!"

  The little girl's chest was heaving as if she wanted to say something, but Yue Kang stopped her just in time and laughed, saying "I'm teasing you."

  She's so slender yet so clumsy, can't even climb a wall, making me be the one to take the fall. Yue Kang muttered to himself as he pushed Bai Miao Dan onto the rooftop and climbed up after her.

  Two people sat on the rooftop, neither of them speaking, each lost in their own thoughts.

  "I heard you have a way to get the Bai family out of this predicament?" Little girl spoke up first.

  Yue Kang said to Bai Miao Dan with his back turned: "I'll do my best, I also want to contribute to the White family, can't just eat without doing anything!" Putting everything aside, Yue Kang sincerely felt heartache for the three daughters of the White family, if he didn't do something, he would feel uneasy.

  "If you can really make up for the loss of the White family this time, I promise not to trouble you again and get along with you well." Actually, Bai Miao Dan also realized that the difficulty the White family encountered this time was a very tricky matter.

  "After that, you still have to call me brother-in-law when we meet." Yue Kang said with a sly smile.

  The little girl used her elbow to bump against Yue Kang's back, and the latter groaned in pain, "You're still making progress."

  Yue Kang smiled and didn't dislike this girl from the bottom of his heart, although she was a bit mischievous, but her heart wasn't bad, with some innocence and naivety, after all still a child.

  "I asked you, why did you run into my sister's room that night?" Bai Miaodan asked, she had been thinking about this question for many days and still couldn't understand it.

  "You wouldn't believe me even if I told you, so just take me for a philanderer! " Yue Kang sighed bitterly, it's all fate!"

  The little girl didn't continue to ask questions, gazing at the sky. "I don't care if you're really a flower thief or not, I just hope you'll be good to my sister, her life is really tough." The little girl secretly wiped away tears that had flowed out.

  "Little girl is great, knows how to care for people. If your grandma and sister knew, they would be overjoyed." Yue Kang said with a smile.

  "They've always treated me like a child, thinking I don't understand things, not letting me get involved in anything. In their eyes, I'm still a kid who can't grow up, but I'm already sixteen this year." A hint of bitterness was hidden in Bai Miaodan's words.

  Yue Kang glanced at Bai Miao Dan again, her long silky hair fluttering in the wind. Her eyelashes sparkled like stars when viewed from the side. He thought to himself, "Isn't that right? At 16 years old in those days, they were already considered adults. Some even had developed breasts and would fall in love, kissing people."

  "What do those few stars in the sky look like if you observe them carefully?" Yue Kang asked, pointing at the sky.

  Bai Miao Dan followed Yue Kang's finger with her eyes and couldn't make out anything special, "Isn't it just a few bright stars?"

  "Those few stars in my hometown are called Orion, you carefully observe if they are connected together, like a hunter holding a rod, those three connected stars are the hunter's belt, and the two below are two legs." Yue Kang explained.

  Bai Miao Dan thought for a moment in her mind and felt more and more like it. "Huh, really, why didn't I realize it before?"

  "It would be difficult for you to discover this problem with your IQ." Yue Kang said with a smile.

  The little girl made a gesture to hit, and Yue Kang dodged early with precautions and continued: "It is said that the hunter was a war god in heaven, with infinite strength, and his stick could open mountains and rivers. When he saw him, all demons and monsters would run away. He had a beautiful and clever wife when he was in the mortal world, they lived in a small mountain village, living a simple life, later a man-eating monster came to the mountain village."

  "The village was eaten by many people, the hunter fought fiercely with the monster but ultimately lost. Afterwards, the hunter met a Taoist priest who said 'I have a way to make you an immortal, and after becoming an immortal, you can kill that monster.'"

  The hunter agreed readily, and the Taoist priest made him an immortal. He used his divine power to destroy the monster, and the villagers were extremely grateful to him. Later he went up to Heaven and was appointed God of War by the Jade Emperor, but his days were not happy; he missed his wife and wished to return to the world below to live with her again.

  "But that would have violated the heavenly rules, and he would never see his wife again. He lived in pain, day and night thinking of her, until one day he could no longer bear the torment of life. He stood in the heavenly palace where he could see his wife and destroyed his divine body, but his soul did not disperse. His spirit transformed into stars, hanging in the sky every night to guard his wife."

  "What a devoted young man, they are really pitiful." The little girl's pure heart felt a pang of sadness, "I will remember this Hunter constellation well from now on."