We said we'd go to Suzhou together.
Later, he stayed in the county town, and I went to Beijing.
That autumn in our final year of high school, something happened to Lin Bo's family.
He didn't take the college entrance exam and didn't tell me why. He only said:
"Go by yourself."
I got into a university in Beijing and rode a slow green train alone for more than thirty hours.
The mountains outside the window changed from Yunnan to Guizhou, then Hunan, then Hebei.
Beijing was so big. So big that I thought I could forget him.
Lin Bo came to our class reunion that year.
Sitting across from me, he asked, "How's Beijing?"
I said, "Pretty good."
He smiled and said nothing more.
I didn't tell him:
I still have the train ticket to Suzhou.
On the back, there's a line written in ink:
"Lin Bo, let's go together."
Theme: Even when fate is unpredictable, keep striving to grow toward the light
It looks good and is well written.