Past Events in Wuxi Town: Spring and Autumn

In Wuxi Town, a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, in the summer of 1982, four teenagers lit an old-fashioned brass pony lantern in the patio and made an oath that "the light will never go out, and the friendship will never fade." Shen Qiao was the top scholar in the province. He went to Shanghai and struggled in Shenzhen's business world. He was once very proud, but was betrayed by his partners and returned to his hometown bankrupt. Lu Qiu gave up college to take over his father's carpentry shop, and guarded the old streets, planing and sawing, practicing the word "guarding" throughout his life. ; He Man went to the army, Beijing, and Xiamen, and spent half his life writing poems and books, hiding his unspoken feelings for Qinghan into the manuscript paper; Qinghan married Lu Qiu, stayed at the teahouse, raised her daughter, and waited for someone to reply, and endured the "window period" of illness alone. From 1982 to 2018, they scattered around the world and then returned. Shen Qiao went back to Wuxi to rebuild his old house, He Man came back and finished writing "Han Han", Lu Qiu gave away a fir chair before closing the shop, and Qing Han came out of the hospital bed alive. The demolition of the old street blew and stopped. He Man used a stack of application materials to save his hometown. Lu Qiu took off the "Lu Ji Carpenter Shop" sign, but the light was always on in the patio. Thirty-six years later, the four people sat together under the lamp again. No one said anything, but the shadows under the lamp overlapped. The bowl of cold water is cold, the snow has melted, and spring is here again. The book says: "The lamp will never go out - as long as people are still there, the lamp will never go out." A long scroll of Wuxi's worldly feelings, about running away and returning, silence and waiting, about how life is nothing but a white shirt, a wooden comb, and a brass lamp. Spring and Autumn changed clothes, but they were still sitting together. Read more of my works on China Literature's website!