A Brief Introduction to The Story of the Stars in the Day

At dawn, aunt Amy came to the Catholic church halfway up the mountain alone. It was the first time in her life that she believed in Guanyin Bodhisattva and confessed to her father. She looked up at Jesus Christ on the cross and said to her father, "My dear father, my name is Amy, and I want to confess something to you … I have sinned …". Aunt Amy's guilt was buried in her heart for 30 years, until a foreign priest came to the tribe and Aunt Amy decided to learn English from him. Her inner secret was opened by these 26 English letters.

Aunt A runs the only aunt-free shop in the mountain tribe alone. This small grocery store lists all kinds of goods. Although the sparrow is small and complete, it has all kinds of food, stationery and medicines. She often serves the tribesmen at any cost. There is a conscience book in the store, which allows inconvenient residents who are short of money and cash to buy things on credit, and then pay off their debts after the peaches are harvested, 365 days a year. Children in mountain primary schools regard Aunt Amy as the kindest underground principal, especially Biya, a single mother, entrusted by her grandparents who grow peaches, as close as mother and son.

A store without aunts is also like the personal office of Midori, the postman. No matter whether the villagers want to send letters, express delivery, or buy things at the foot of the mountain and pick up the children, any service will do. Midori, an angel in green, is sure to get home in a hurry, just charging extra for "oil/mail" and earning some extra money privately. He hoped to travel around the country with his aunt amiri one day, so he actively saved a travel fund.

On this day, Father Jimmy came to the tribe alone with his backpack. He met the postman Midori, and he took Jimmy to Aunt Amy's grocery store. Aunt Amy first saw the foreign boy and thought he was a mountaineer. Later, Jimmy came to an abandoned Catholic church. The door of the old church was locked, so he broke in. After that, Jimmy buried himself in sorting out the dilapidated church that had been abandoned for a long time Midori and Aunt Amy thought that Jimmy was a new pastor. Aunt Amy was curious, because the aborigines of the tribe were all believers in the "true Jesus Christ" church, and the clergy of the Catholic Church had been evacuated for 20 years, just like the abandoned logging railway of the tribe, it would never be possible.

Jimmy saw a sermon sign in the church. He said with emotion, "There will be no more trains coming from the abandoned tracks. It is not that God is far away from the abandoned church, just like the stars in the sky, which still exist during the day, but people's eyes are invisible. " This unintentional remark touched the biggest regret that Aunt A had been repressed for a long time, reminding Aunt A of the wound in her heart. The biggest regret of that life has never been forgotten because of the passage of time.

One day, the aunt-free shop that never rested suddenly pulled down the iron gate. Tribal residents have been talking about this. In the afternoon, Jimmy sat on a bench outside the church and dozed off. His crooked head was hit by a peanut. Jimmy woke up and saw aunt and Biya standing in front of him with slingshots. Aunt grinned at Jimmy. Jimmy looked at Aunt Amy's smile and felt as meticulous as the Virgin Mary. Aunt Amy took Biya to the church to learn English from the priest. Gradually, Aunt Amy became Father Jimmy's only bosom friend in this tribe. Midori ate all the vinegar and thought she was a star that Aunt Amy couldn't see during the day.

After nearly a whole year's hard work, Biya learned the English alphabet and then told the truth about the accident a year ago. Aunt Amy's learning English has actually brought a series of surprises and touches to the tribes on the mountain.

On Christmas Day, Aunt Amy came to the church alone, took out the confession letter she tried to write, knelt in front of her father, and slowly told the secret buried for 30 years in her fluent and nonstandard English. "God, I am guilty ..." The secret was overheard by the priest. Aunt Amy wants to learn English. Is it atonement? Or make a wish? And what kind of turmoil will this secret, which has been hidden for many years, cause on the mountain tribes?