Chapter 11 postscript

In Shanghai in 2002, Harlem Harlem's "Love is Not You" was everywhere, but I shut myself at home to write such a story. One morning not too long ago, I took my coffee out into the sun to try to figure out how this story started, only to find that the inspiration was just a lovely word a lovely girl said to me. "My brother is going to marry a wife, and I'm dying of grief," she said. At that time, her eyes were a little red, like two unripe cherries, so I saw Xiaomi. It was winter after I finished writing, and a little girl from Datong wrote to me and said: "This is the most touching story I have ever read in my life, but why did you make me cry?" She told me that Xiaomi's diary made her The whole winter is immersed in sad nostalgia.

"Finish the story," the girl said again, "I want to know if the two cherry trees in full bloom will bear fruit." Thus, "Love in the Sand" came into being. These two girls, who were almost strangers to me, made me suddenly realize that there is such a group of people living in this world: they think about someone all their lives, and they will never say it until they die. It was a group of people who were doomed to be silent and lonely, and I couldn't really imagine what they looked like, just because they were so similar, if you looked out the window of this place, they would be drowned in the street, in the crowd, but , you'll never be able to tell them apart.

Maybe one day, you and I will be like this. I have always stubbornly believed that the reason why I chose to be a novelist is to speak for those who have been silent all their lives, so I did not write the story of Xia Chui and Xiaomi as a fairy tale.They are not people in fairy tales. They lived in the eyes of all ordinary people in the 1970s. Therefore, I am familiar with their appearance, their lives, and I have also witnessed their love. It's a pity that they are not people from fairy tales, otherwise God would allow them to perform miracles. In fact, I have always been entangled with the heartbreaking relationship between Xia Chui and Xiaomi, but after the heartbreak, what stays in my heart is happiness, a kind of love that no longer exists in the world. Happiness, very strong, very strong...

The story is finally over, and I want to get a good night's sleep and put all the plot behind me. But I think, for a long time in the future, as long as I close my eyes, the two cherry trees in full bloom on the campus will appear in my mind. Perhaps, you will feel the same way.