Old Stories of Moya

"Old Stories on the Cliff" is a short story set in Yunyan District, Guiyang. Architect Lin Yuanshan discovered an unsent letter when he was sorting out his grandfather's belongings. The letter mentioned a cliff stone carving named "Wangyun" at the entrance of Qilin Cave in Qianling Mountain. In order to trace the past between his grandfather Lin Chengzhi and a woman named Shen Biyun, he returned to Yunyan, where he had been away for many years, and followed his grandfather's footsteps to find stone carvings scattered in the mountains. In front of Qilin Cave, he understood the profound meaning of the word "Wangyun" - it was the agreement between his grandfather and Shen Biyun in the spring of 1945, and it was also the nostalgia of home and country left by Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si at the same place. As the thirteen stone carvings were found one by one, a regretful relationship that spanned half a century and could not stay together due to the barriers of time slowly unfolded. The novel takes the "six refreshing" experience as a guide and connects the refreshing scenery of Qianling Mountain, the fireworks of Minsheng Road, the butterfly changes of Xinyin in 1950, and the roadside concert in Wenchang Pavilion. In the interweaving of personal memories and urban context, it asks what "six refreshing" means - the joy of landscapes, the fun of the city, and the longing and waiting carved in stone that can never be erased.