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The Thrown Oranges: A Story of Love, Loss, and Regret
A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who was going to work as a servant in a distant place was dressed in ragged clothes, with a bleak face and chilblains on her hands and face. She was holding a train ticket in the third-class car, but she didn’t know the situation, so she ran to the second-class car in a daze. Regardless of the soot and cold, she struggled to open the heavy glass window, “I” was about to reprimand her, but found that she only wanted to dye five or six “sunshine-like warm colors” in her arms when the train passed by a small village. Oranges”, tossed to her younger brothers…
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How a Chance Encounter with a Stranger Saved Me from a Bad Mood
Everyone has bad times. The depression, boredom, and despair in such a poor state are really terrible, indescribable, and even gods cannot save them. Doctors and writers are both careers of thinking about people—I have these two professional habits, so I have become a person who likes thinking about people: When people are in a very bad state, what do they rely on for salvation? On this day, I was in a very bad state, my legs were heavy, and my head was dizzy. When I walked into Beijing West Railway Station, I saw that there were still more than two hours before the departure time of the…
