Chapter 14 Children of the Stars(2/3)
It excitedly knocked on the telegraph machine, pressing one by one every day and night, trying to tell people about their major discoveries.
Didi,di...
After a long time, Leica kept typing on the telegraph machine.
But humans don't seem to understand its behavior.
Scream - the speaker in the space capsule makes a sound, it belongs to humans.
"Why don't you keep looking for the stars!"
"Don't knock it around anymore! We can't understand it at all!"
"Aren't you a monkey who can send Morse codes?"
"We built rockets not to make you beat them!"
"Silly Monkey!"
Leica was stunned.”
【../.../】
"After Siming went to high school, for some reason, he became obsessed with astronomy. He said on the phone every day that he wanted to save money to buy astronomical books and telescopes, and wanted to be an astronomer in the future. Our family...the situation has been not very good over the years, so... I told him, don't do anything like this, and even said that he...they are distracted..."
It was already late at night. In the taxi swaying towards the mountain road, Li Lijuan had red eyes and talked intermittently about He Siming.
"The child was very stubborn. Even if he made up his mind, he couldn't pull back the ten cows... No matter how we nagged, he still bought books and telescopes by himself."
"I also later learned that in order to buy these things, he did not eat or drink at school all day, and did not go back to the dormitory after school. He went to a nearby small restaurant to wash dishes and do part-time jobs... Gradually, his spirit became worse and worse, and his study could not keep up."
"For this, our family has quarreled with him a lot... I also cried in front of him many times, always saying, "How come it turns out to be like this after all..."
"Because we always feel that this child is rare to have the qualifications to study. If he doesn't go to a university, be a civil servant, be a white-collar worker, or something, he will not be able to support his family in the future. We have always been good for him..."
Shi Zuo listened silently, and suddenly asked:
"Do you think so now?"
Li Lijuan was silent for a while and smiled bitterly:
"The person has left, and it's useless to think about it. I just regret it now. Why did I quarrel with him that night? If I didn't quarrel, he wouldn't have run away from home..."
Speaking of this, Li Lijuan couldn't help but choke again. Liu Yan couldn't bear it and held her hand. Li Lijuan held her hand tightly, her body trembling.
"That night, Siming told me that he did not apply for the undergraduate university in Guangzhou as he had agreed before, but applied to the Department of Astronomy in Hunan. Siming and I were angry and had a big fight. We also said many angry words to the child that we shouldn't have said... He said that he was not our son and asked him to get out of this house..."
Liu Yan closed his eyes slightly, feeling a little sad. Shi Zuo was sitting in the passenger seat, looking silently at the night sky outside the window without saying a word.
Li Lijuan wiped her eyes with a tissue and asked again:
"Miss Liu, Master Lan, are we going back to the town?"
"Not yet." Zuo paused and said:
"He Siming left you something."
6.
"In the days that followed, Lycra began to pound the telegraph machine day and night.
It wants to tell humans that the most beautiful stars are at their feet.
But humans don't understand, but it won't use telegraph machines.
The horn in the capsule rang day and night,
The humans in the trumpet cursed "stupid monkeys" day and night!
Leica was both angry and sad. It yelled at the speaker, but humans only heard the "Wow, wow, wow," because humans were not monkeys, and they couldn't understand the monkey's words.
It was so anxious that it jumped up and down in the space capsule, knocked on the wall, and pressed on the telegraph.
It found that it could not do anything. It wanted to go back to Earth and tell people that they were wrong, but it was now alone and a monkey, furious in the boundless outer space.
It can't do anything.
It can't do anything.
It can't do anything.
The camera is facing it, humans are looking forward to it, scolding it, and it can do nothing."
【-./---/-/】
The taxi stopped halfway up the mountain. Shi Zuo carried his bag and led the two through the woods. There was no moonlight tonight. They walked forward in the darkness. After a while, they finally came to a relatively open cliff - this was the place where Liu Yanshi and Mr. Demon camped overnight.
Li Lijuan asked with some anxiety:
"Master Dao, what are we...doing?"
Shi Zuocai didn't explain. He squatted down, untied his backpack, searched for a while, and took out a telescope from it.
The moment he saw the telescope, Li Lijuan was stunned.
He carefully handed the telescope to Li Lijuan, and began to tell the whole story in his usual calm tone.
It turned out that before he found Li Lijuan in Hejia Town, Shi Zuo Cai first went to Moxing Mountain with Liu Yanxi. Because when Mr. Demon pretended to be a Taoist priest, he asked the information that "He Siming wore a telescope when he ran away from home". The manguard had a guess in his mind: He Siming drowned, but after the body was found, he could not see the telescope. Then one possibility was not ruled out, that is, He Siming was not forced to fall into the water, but took the initiative to go into the water for some reason.
So, Shi Zuocai walked up the river and found a binoculars under the roots of the tree on the edge of the river. "The telescope was covered with a cover, which shows that He Siming did not throw it next to the roots in a hurry, but because something happened, he decided to put down the telescope first and then go down the river - he cherished this telescope very much."
"It is precisely because of this detail that I guessed that he might want to save people. So, I called and asked the rescue team in Moxingshan..."
Li Lijuan rubbed the telescope carefully, and couldn't help but cover her mouth with her hands, crying.
"This kid...this kid..."
Shi Zuo looked at her deeply and suddenly said:
"You are not curious, why is your son going up the mountain with a telescope?"
Li Lijuan raised her head with tears in her eyes.
Shizuo closed his eyes, sighed, and took out a note from his backpack.
"This is the last thing your son left to you."
Li Lijuan took the notes tremblingly and opened them. The content of the notes was just a short fairy tale except for the excerpt from Kant and the sentence "I want to become a star".
"The Little Monkey in Space".
7.
Later, Leica in the capsule came up with a solution.
That must be the most powerful and romantic way!
Lyca thought so, and its heart kept pounding.
Everything will be fine, Leka said to herself.
"Because, I love humans so much, and I love stars so much!"
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Li Lijuan's fingers trembled violently, she stroked every word on the notes, and inhaled her breath gently, her eyes were like a collapsed dam, and tears kept flowing down. After reading the last line of words, she saw the envelope sandwiched at the end of the page. She looked up in despair and helplessly, and asked with a sob:
"What does this... mean..."
Shi Zuo Cai let out a silent sigh from the bottom of his heart, then took the telescope handed to Liu Yanshi's hand, handed it to Li Lijuan, and asked:
"Do you know how to watch stars?"
Li Lijuan was a little surprised. Shi Zuocai didn't explain, knelt beside her and began to teach her how to observe the stars with a telescope.
"Facing the northeast, the angle is about forty-five degrees. If you look there, can you see a cloud of fog-like light? It's a nebula. Have you seen five particularly bright stars, arranged in the shape of a 'w'... Yes, that's Casino."
Shi Zuo Chuai pursed his lips, looked up at the deep and brilliant starry sky, held Li Lijuan's shoulders with both hands, and said calmly, saying word by word:
"Now, I want you to move a little bit left, very slightly, and place the star on the leftmost shape of w in the grid in the upper right corner."
"Now, don't move, I will help you magnify the magnification."
Liu Yanxi looked at Shi Zuocai and Li Lijuan quietly, her eyes were red, and she covered her mouth with her hands and quietly sniffed.
"Have you seen a very small and dark star? You have to pay attention to it because the magnification of this telescope is not high enough."
Li Lijuan remained silent. In the field of view she saw through the telescope, a small and dim star suddenly appeared in the night sky. It had been huddled in the corner of the nearby shining nebula, like a weak and sickly child who was often bullied. However, in this moonless autumn night, it stubbornly emitted a faint light, just like the flashing eyes of a lover.
Liu Yanshi walked over quietly, squatted down and said gently:
"That star belongs to you. Its name is 'lijuan'."
Li Lijuan took off the telescope in a daze, and Liu Yanshi took the envelope from Shi Zuocai's hand and solemnly handed it to her.
In the envelope is a certificate of asteroid naming issued by the International Astronomical Federation.
It is marked with the latitude and longitude of the designated small stars. The constellation to which it belongs also indicates that the naming right has been transferred to the discoverer.
The name of the asteroid is "lijuan".
The discoverer is He Siming.
A small note was also placed in the envelope with the certificate.
To be continued...