When Zhou Xin was sixteen, his family took in a foreigner from across the ocean.
His family has been practicing medicine for generations, and there are countless red tapes in his home, which is as boring as the floor that has been exposed to the sun in summer.
Zhou Xin leaned on the attic, like a bird trapped in a cage in the old days. He wanted to fly out of the cage, but he could only jump in a limited place.
He overlooked the cage-like Zhou family, but accidentally saw Bai Luozhong sitting on the stone platform playing the violin.
He approached curiously and heard about the ten-mile foreign trade from Bai Luozhong's mouth, learned about advanced Western learning, and understood the current of the times.
For the first time, he felt "alive."
He got close to Bai Luozhong, exchanged with him the skills of traditional Chinese medicine, told him the profound history of the nation, and told him what loyalty and filial piety are, what etiquette and shame are, what love is, and what righteousness is.
Bai Luozhong told him what Western learning was and what a camera was. They took a photo side by side in the dim afternoon.
No one could have predicted what would happen when a caged bird meets a free eagle. Everyone only knew that Zhou Xinchi, the eldest son of the Zhou family, known as a rare medical genius, pestered Bai Luozhong and asked him seemingly stupid questions.
The light shining in his eyes seemed to be looking forward to one day seeing the outside world in person.
Something unexpected happened overnight. Zhou Xin didn't even have time to say goodbye to Bai Luo, so he hurriedly left for the ocean with his family.
After more than ten years of ups and downs, the young man lost his spirit.
When he set foot on his hometown again, Zhou Xin's black hair had turned into white hair. He passed by the ten-mile foreign market, but the ten-mile foreign market was already covered with gray and black scorched earth.
He returned to his hometown and wanted to see the old house where he was young, but he saw the person he thought he would never see again in this life, sitting on an old-fashioned deck chair in the courtyard, guarding the old house.
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Zhou Xin once received a handwritten letter from Bai Luozhong one day in summer. It was densely written in Western characters. Zhou Xin could only barely guess the word "I" based on his half-understanding of Western characters.
He curiously asked Bai Luozhong about other Western contents, but Bai Luozhong just smiled and pushed his face away, asking him to study hard.
Zhou Xin was furious, but had no choice but to hold the letter tightly and run back to the room.
He never opened the letter again until he returned to the old house and opened the dusty wooden box.
What was written densely on it was "I love you."
[Warning for reading the article]
1. Dog blood terrier, if you don't like it, don't spray it.
2. There is a bit of content about the reunion of the broken mirror, but the main content is still the content before the broken mirror.
Purpose: Learn new things and strive to become a new youth
