The old man, the courtyard, the old house and a dimly burning lantern. It makes up all the memories of my childhood. There were no TVs or mobile phones at that time. My only pastime is imagining the world described by the old man, those legendary "past events" that haunt me...
He said: "These are all in the past. It seems that I am really old. Only old people can drink tea and chew the past slowly. You still don't understand how sad it is to be old. In this world, the most inescapable thing is time, and the most inescapable thing is sadness."
I was still very young at that time, but for a moment I looked down at the world through those old and cloudy eyes.
A lonely old man's dictation reveals the helplessness and sadness of the world through memories of past events.