Two days later, at night.

"In our countryside, there is a kind of magical elves who live like our neighbors, playing around us."

"But ordinary people cannot see them, only the innocent heart of children can capture their traces."

"If you calm down and listen, you can vaguely hear their running sounds in the sound of the wind."

Yang Fan sat beside Aunt Thirteen's bed and told Guoguo before bed.

On the bed, I looked at his fruit with my eyes wide open, and the Thirteenth Aunt was half lying down.

"Tonight we are telling a story that happened in the countryside." Yang Fan said.

"What's the name of the story?" Guoguo asked.

Before listening to the story, she likes to know the name of the story first.

"It's called "The Totoro"," Yang Fan said.

"Is there an animal like chinchilla?" Guoguo asked.

"Some." Yang Fan said.

He also wanted to introduce this creature more, and Guoguo's eyes shone: "Can you eat it?"

Aunt Thirteen had a slightly frown on her eyebrows.

A chinchilla, also known as a shingle, looks a bit like a mouse, a bit like a cat, and a bit like a rabbit.

Not only do they look strange, but they are also gentle in nature and are very easy to be domesticated into pets.

This kind of small animal is naturally timid. Once domesticated as a pet, it is very clingy and becomes very dependent on its owner.

"When you finish telling the story, you can see if it can be eaten." Yang Fan smiled.

Then, he told the story of "The Totoro".

There is almost no conflict in this story, the style is fresh and quiet, full of deep family affection, making people feel like spring breeze.

When the corn is about to mature, the father takes his two daughters to the country house, waiting for his mother who is about to be discharged from the hospital.

It's that simple, all the stories revolve around these two little girls, aged four and twelve.

Cleaning the house, going to school, planting trees, visiting mom, getting lost...

Perhaps, young and young girls have done all these simple things during the summer vacation.

However, it is precisely because of the familiarity of these things that make people feel friendly and reminiscent of the story of the two little girls.

Even the appearance of the chinchilla is not surprising. Who had never dreamed of it when he was a child?

There is a huge and boundless friend who takes us through the dense forest and flying over the green cornfield.

One of the happiest things for adults is to relive the beautiful dreams of the past, especially the innocent dreams without any impurities in childhood.

After growing up, my childhood dream was long forgotten, and this story helped adults find it back.

Aunt Thirteen, who was standing beside her, was in a daze, as if she could smell the smell of grass and soil by the river again.

She remembered Twelve again.

The twelve childhood was spent in the countryside.

The countryside mentioned in Yang Fan’s story is somewhat similar to the countryside described by Twelve.

Thirteen did not yearn for the childhood of Twelve, she just yearned for the countryside in Twelve's mouth.

Twelve also said that there, she seemed to see many elves that people could not see.

She is very popular with small animals and can communicate with many small animals.

They can understand her words, but she can't understand what they say, and can only communicate with them by guessing and feeling.

Thirteen did not have the same experience as Twelve. She recalled her childhood and found that she was a child wrapped in steel and concrete and electronic toys, losing the ability to communicate with the elves.

The pastoral beauty in "The Totoro" seems to confirm the Twelve experiences: Only a clean mind like a child can feel the beauty of nature without desire and achieve harmony between man and nature.

Among the scientific research projects she participated in, some of them were not what she liked or wanted.

The scientific research projects she likes are life sciences, not life-destroying projects.

She has always been a girl's mind, and she is still naive at the age of twenty. She told Thirteen that nature is the best gift given to people by God. People cannot change the laws of nature, but can only adapt to it.

Later, I moved from the countryside to a relatively prosperous research institute. I yearned for nature every day and wanted to return to the countryside where I spent my childhood.

There are lush green forests, gentle and cute animals, and mountains, rivers and rivers full of unknown fun.

In "The Totoro", the Xiaoyue sisters who moved from the city to the countryside are bathing in the embrace of nature. Although they do not have their mothers around, the two sisters meet the magic Totoro in the surrounding nature, live in harmony, help and care for each other.

"Dad, can I raise a chinchilla?" When the story was almost over, Guoguo couldn't help but ask Yang Fan.

The chinchilla only appeared four times in the story, the first time it was when Xiaomei crawled into a tree hole.

The second time was when the sisters got off the bus when they were waiting for the bus in the rain.

The third time was when the oak trees in the yard sprouted.

The fourth time was when Xiaoyue was looking for the lost Xiaomei.

Chinchillas don't appear frequently, just like the Santa Claus in the minds of Western children.

Once it appears, it brings happiness to the sisters.

Yang Fan's image description of Xiaoyue sisters and Totoro both show cuteness and innocence.

He shaped them delicately and profoundly, without any roughness or sloppyness, which made Guoguo feel the same and made Aunt Thirteen feel distant.

"The chinchilla is very cute, but only smart, cute, well-behaved and obedient children can meet them." Yang Fan said: "No children who are disobedient cannot touch the chinchilla. Even if they encounter it, they are not cute chinchillas."

"I'm not smart and cute, not well-behaved and obedient?" Guoguo looked disbelief: "I'm still very beautiful, super beautiful, super..."

Before the little girl could finish her words, Aunt Thirteen took her finger and pushed her little head: "I'm so mean."

Guoguo ignored her mother and begged Yang Fan: "Dad, I also want a big, very gentle chinchilla."

Yang Fan smiled. The chinchilla in the story is huge, and she is as curious and childish as a child, and is very kind.

"There is no chinchilla like that." Aunt Thirteen wanted to break her daughter's dream.

Guoguo widened her eyes and looked at Yang Fan with anticipation in her eyes.

I hope he says there is, and she believes it.

Yang Fan said: "Hope and miracles exist."

This was said to Guoguo and also to Aunt Thirteen.

This story is more suitable to tell children, unlike the story of Yang Family Generals. After a while, Guoguo fell asleep.

So until the story of "The Totoro" was told, Guoguo was not asleep.

The little girl still wanted to talk to Yang Fan, so Aunt Thirteen took the initiative: "Don't ask questions, it's time to go to bed. If you don't sleep again, you will never tell you bedtime stories again."

The little girl had to close her eyes.

After a while, she fell asleep with a smile on her lips.

In the dream, she saw a chinchilla blowing on the treetops in the distance.

"Guoguo~" Yang Fan called in a low voice.

The little girl didn't respond.

She still didn't respond after calling twice.
Chapter completed!