Far, far away there is a piece of forest

Author: Peng Yi
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: There is a man who travels thousands of miles alone every year just to see a certain grove of trees. Those trees always bring tears to his eyes. Although there is no beloved woman lying in eternal rest beneath those trees, as soon as the autumn breeze begins to rise, the man sets out. It is a place far, far away. This makes me wonder—what kind of trees are they? How could they possess such great charm? If only one man were infatuated with them and sang love songs for them every summer, I might understand. But how could so many men, completely unrelated to them, come from all directions just to see them? I also don’t believe they are merely there for a glimpse. There must be a mystery here, a hidden one. Could it be that there is a life-giving spring buried beneath those trees? So, in an orange-yellow autumn, I set out too. I went to the distant Ejina.