led, not expecting to meet people who remembered her when she returned to Qining after many years. And these two were complete strangers to her; she didn't even remember them. But did the proprietres...Ting Lan was about to close her notebook when she saw, on the last page, a single line of elegant script:

Some flowers bloom high up in the trees.

Tinglan recognized these characters. They were a line from the poem "Bride" by the poet Hai Zi. The poem starts with:

and many days after that

Many farewellsandong seeing this, asked Officer Chen to write a private settlement agreement, paying him off and ending the matter. Today was just to teach this kid a lesson, so that he would stay away from him in...