City years
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From an early age, I knew that our family was a guest in this city. My father comes from a mountain village in the far north, where mountains and rivers stretch out, and the accents of the people there have a metallic resonance; my mother's home is on the seaside in the north. My parents' conversations often remind me of the Mandarin broadcasts on the radio. Compared with my parents' local accent, the city's speech seems very urgent, sharp and muddy, giving people a feeling of stiffness in the tongue. Now I am used to the operation of these two kinds of words, and I am quite proficient in them without interfering with each other. At this point, my parents are far behind me. When they use the city's spoken language, they often slip into distant accents. I also know that the mountain village in my hometown that I have never been to is rich in persimmons. In autumn, the branches of the clusters of dwarf trees on the loess slopes are covered with red fruits.
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