Let's Be Together in Yin and Yang

A high fever permanently reduced Jiang Zhao's intelligence to that of a five- or six-year-old. The one child in the Jiang family with any hope of getting into university and escaping their remote mountain village, the family's brightest star, was gone.

For a long time afterward, layer upon layer of gloom hung over the Jiang family's courtyard. Beneath those dark clouds, the occasional sounds of Jiang Zhao's grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother crying in sorrow mingled with Jiang Zhao's carefree, hearty laughter now that his fever had passed.

Whenever a neighbor walked past the Jiang family's gate, they couldn't help stopping to listen to the family's duet of joy and sorrow.

Wei Lin would stop to listen too.

Of course, Wei Lin's reasons were different from the adults'. He mainly wanted to hear his good friend Jiang Zhao's voice, to figure out whether Jiang Zhao really had gone stupid, as people said: spending all day with one eye askew, drooling and giggling foolishly, unable to get a single coherent sentence out...

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