an felt another pang of sadness. She tugged on her mother's arm and said, "Mom, let's go home. I'm hungry."I can't stand to be with Wen Lan for another moment."Hungry" Mom said as she walked forward,...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 farewells than usual, there weren't many students on the bus. There were still empty seats in the last row, and he didn't go to sit there. After two stops, quite a few students got on one after another. Among...