Chapter 446 (Four Hundred and Forty Six) Original Place

“Yes.” Tie Hongyan said.

Apparently, Wu Xunsheng also didn’t want the words he said after thinking about it to be true. He was a little emotional, but he didn’t know what he was feeling, so he couldn’t help but say, “Many years ago, here, you asked me to stop and put you down, and sat with you on the roadside; many years later, still here, you stopped first, and then told me to ‘go forward.'” This time, when he said these words, he didn’t blurt them out without thinking, nor did he say them after he had sorted out his thoughts clearly. It was just an expression that was thought out but still dominated by emotion. After he heard her say “yes”, this old place intertwined the past and the present in his mind, making him feel as if he was in a dream, but he seemed to be awake in the dream. In this state, even if he continued to think for a while, I’m afraid he couldn’t figure out what he was feeling.

After hearing what he said, Tie Hongyan could vaguely feel that the core of his emotions was similar to his own, but he didn’t know what to say. He just said “hmm” softly and said nothing more.

Wu Xunsheng didn’t say anything else.

Then, the two of them walked forward in silence.

After walking for a while, Wu Xunsheng suddenly pointed to a stone in front of him and said, “That’s the stone we sat on after you let me put you down for the first time.”

He helped her walk to the stone, and they both stopped again.

“After so many years, this stone is still in the same place.” Tie Hongyan said.

Wu Xunsheng suddenly had an idea and asked half-jokingly, “You said… if this stone can move, could it have traveled to another place for a long time and returned to its original place? Or did it return to its original place before we came here?”

Tie Hongyan smiled and said, “If it really left, it would be difficult to return to its original place accurately.”

Wu Xunsheng said: “Yes, it is certainly difficult to make it exactly the same as before. However, if we ignore some differences, even if it wanders somewhere else and comes back, it can be considered to have returned to its original place.”

When Tie Hongyan heard him say “ignore some differences”, he said: “Ignore some differences… Then if we sit on this stone again now, it can be regarded as returning to the ‘original place’ of that year, right?”

“Yes. It’s just that… for people who have experienced changes, the difference between years ago and now is not easy to ignore. The difference is caused by the changes, and changes are always there. It is actually very difficult for people to try to go back to the ‘original place’ again. Sometimes it seems that you have returned to the ‘original place’, but in fact you may have already left it.”

Tie Hongyan said: “Moreover, even if the stone has moved, after being eroded by wind and rain, the change will not be so fast and obvious. Even if a person has not moved and stands in the ‘same place’, he will soon become different from before.”

Wu Xunsheng touched the stone and said, “If no one moves it, it will continue to be here, witnessing everything that happens here, even though very few people come here.”

Tie Hongyan looked around and saw that the surrounding scenery was not much different from many years ago. He said, “The reason why the scenery here can still be kept similar to the past should have a lot to do with the fact that there are fewer people coming here.”

“Yes, if there were more people coming, they might have been changed by people a long time ago.”

(End of this chapter)