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If time repeats itself again, I will still choose to catch him that night, just because his eyes were so familiar at that time, so familiar that I couldn't let go. If time repeats itself, I will still choose to save her that night, just because her eyes were too cold at that time, so cold that I couldn't let go.

The novels collected in "Fleeting Time" all take towns as the writing objects. "Fleeting Time", "Has Saddam Been Caught", "Crossing the Road Is a Dangerous Thing", "Single Bed", "How Deep is the Water", "Ye San Slope", "Opening Day" and "Sun Everywhere" have created a variety of characters who live in the city, but also experience the loneliness and bitterness left behind in the city. There is always a hint of "everyone" in their glances, which is about you and me in this world, and the immeasurable meaning of the tunnel of life.

This collection of novels is a representative work among the author's dozens of short stories. It focuses on showing the life conditions of all kinds of ordinary people in the process of transition from tradition to modernity, reflecting people's struggle, swimming, survival, glory or destruction in the tide of the times, thereby expressing the complexity of human nature and the subtleties and twists and turns of the relationships between people. The narrative of the work may seem random and natural, but it is completely washed away and unintentionally expresses the reason and meaning of life.

The novels collected in "Village Passed" all take rural areas as their writing subjects. "The Craftsman", "The Flat Nose of the Eagle", "Brother Brings the Knife to the Door", "Inn in the Mountains", "Grand Childhood" and "Death in the Village", write about different but interrelated people in rural areas - craftsmen, strangers, farmers, village cadres, nouveau riche, etc. The views are rational, the techniques are changeable, the layout and concepts are unconventional, the pattern is generous, and the momentum is extraordinary.

One day after the May Day holiday in 2003, Wang Bai from Houerling Village was sitting on a train bound for Beijing. Wang Bai was planning to get married on May Day, and the invitations had been sent out, but due to SARS, they were not allowed to hold a banquet. Wang Bai felt very frustrated. He got married once in his life and then encountered SARS. Ever since I was a child, I have never had a typical incident happen to me. SARS, which has never happened before in the world, got mixed up with my marriage. The more I thought about it, the more useless I felt. Wang Bai, who was originally busy preparing to get married, once the wedding was cancelled, and he was free, his previous inertia still carried him forward, which made him feel very boring. If he wasn't planning to get married this year, he would go out to work. But now that he couldn't get married and had nothing to do, he felt like he was going crazy. He turned on the TV from morning to night. The TV in the mountains could only receive one station, and most of them were SARS news, which was not very interesting.

Before leaving for Xinjiang, Long Xiao went to Mount Wutai. Mount Wutai is the first of the four most famous Buddhist mountains in China. It is the monastery of Manjushri Bodhisattva and is also included in the World Cultural Landscape Heritage list. But Long Xiao went there not to worship Buddha or to travel, but just because he felt that doing so would make him feel more at ease. Long Xiao also sat by the TV and leaned in front of the computer to pay attention to what happened in Urumqi that summer. He was very worried about the people there. Later, every time Long Xiao heard news about Xinjiang, it was almost always related to that. But after all, the distance was far away, more than 3,000 kilometers away from his hometown. It took more than 30 hours by express train and nearly 4 hours by plane. It felt like two worlds. Occasionally I want to eat mutton skewers, so I look for those men with tall noses and deep eyes. The mutton skewers they grill are much more authentic than the local ones.