1. Today will be a tranquil day, Yu Qiuyu is just leaning by the window, watching the wind play with the leaves outside. At fifteen, he would never have thought that thirty years later, he would still be in a high school under Qingcheng Mountain in Dujiangyan, continuing to repeat a year. By then, it had stopped raining in Dujiangyan. But the school still had a small depression used as a viewing lake—its surrounding vegetation had long disappeared. This area was only a small part of the local rainfall's contribution.
2. After thirty years, he had already turned gray. The wind outside the window was a bit strong, so he hurriedly closed it, accompanied by a few curses and a cough. Remembering the paper he wrote his college application on when he was eighteen and the letter he confessed with, he suddenly felt a rush of excitement, and opened the window again, forcefully flipping out, turning over the pale clods of earth, digging for a long time, and finally discovering a pile of torn paper scraps, the writing already blurred.
3. In the principal's office across the way was Ye Shan, who graduated in the same year but became the principal of his school, writing "The Water of Dujiangyan: Water of Paradise" with a pen, and when he paused to think, he noticed him.
4. Tears fell.
October 29, 2024