Old Town by Zhe Lin

Author:Zhe, Lin [Zhe, Lin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2011-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

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WHEN THE COMMUNIST army came down from Old Ridge, the Guomindang’s Youth Corps organized a withdrawal of the students of Old Town’s two technical colleges to Taiwan. These students were now waiting at the docks of the fishing harbor for boats to take them there.

Late that night, the bookshop owner, whose identity as the local department head of the Communist Party’s ministry of youth work had already surfaced, rushed to the harbor, taking with him a group of progressive young people to persuade the students to return to their homes.

The two Lin brothers were told to quickly get in the group at the head of the West Floodwater Bridge. Beyond the bridge was a market town, and beyond that was the bay. There, by the side of the dock were some twenty or thirty small vessels packed with students. A number of other students had already been taken to the small island opposite the harbor. The students didn’t know that a life of exile was now beginning and that hereafter they would forever be separated in life and death from their families.

In one night, the boss of the rice shop at West Gate lost two sons who had been studying at the technical college. Then, after enduring more than twenty years of bitter waiting, he and his wife both hung themselves. Many years later, the two sons returned to Old Town. They knelt right there in the street in front of the door of the rice shop, wailing and lamenting. There was no one at West Gate, man, woman or child, old or young, who failed to shed tears at this scene.

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