No one knows where the beggar came from.
He only appears at night. Under the city gate, he was wrapped in a tattered coat, and a wine gourd never left his hand. He is crazy and stupid during the day, but often makes surprising remarks after nightfall. Some people say that he is a scholar who fled, some say that he is an imperial prisoner who got into trouble, and some say that he killed someone when he was young. But no one knows the truth - even he himself seems to have forgotten it.
Until that winter night.
The domestic servant A Luo, holding his dying three-year-old child, knelt in front of the medical center and was turned away. In despair, the beggar leaned under the city gate, looked up at the stars, took a sip of wine, and said:
"Wherever in life is one's return to the dust, falling into the mundane world is destined..."
