Late Blooming Jujube Flower

He lived his whole life without saying a word. When he was eight years old, the mute in Willow Village had a high fever. After the fever subsided, he didn't speak again. He didn't cry when his mother died, he didn't stay when Widow Zhao left, and he wasn't annoyed when the whole village laughed at him. He listened with his eyes, drew circles with his hands, and wrote in a notebook—one sentence a day for a lifetime. How can a person who never speaks prove that he has lived? When he finally left this world, people dug out a grid book under his pillow. The last page reads: "The jujube flowers bloomed late this year and she didn't come back." No one knows who "she" is. Until twenty years later, a silver bracelet was hung on the jujube tree.