Historical background:

The story happened in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

During the period of Song Wendi, a general guarding the city was ordered to be stationed in Luoyang City, during which he met a local woman and soon made a private reservation for life. At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty invaded and the general was ordered to go out. When he left, he took the woman by the hand and said, "When I win, I will definitely come back and marry you ..."

The two men said goodbye, and the woman stood at the gate, watching the general sit in the saddle and leave without looking back. ...

The general's expedition lasted for several months, during which Liu and Song lost their positions. In a fit of pique, Song Wendi even cut two generals, and the Northern Wei Dynasty attacked all fronts and crossed the Yellow River. Song Wendi didn't listen to the courtiers' advice and launched a storm. After the defeat, Luoyang fell. Song Wendi had to retreat, while the seriously injured general was exiled. After the general recovered, he wanted to return to the DPRK, but at this time, Liu Song's tide was gone, and going back was only a dead end. Death, the general has never been afraid, but the thought of his vows, coupled with Song Wendi's indiscriminate killing of him, has been chilling. In desperation, he committed himself to a foreign country, hoping that one day when the war was over, he could return to her side.

At the gate of their farewell, a woman often sits on a slate, waiting for her beloved to come back. Every time I meet someone who comes back from the front, the woman asks if she has seen the general, but there is no news of his triumphant return.

Women never give up and still wait day after day. Decades later, the woman finally obeyed the fate of her generals and became a nun. This story, from one story to ten, from ten to one hundred, finally reached the ears of the general.

But the general can't go back. At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty had moved its capital to Luoyang. This is an indisputable fact. The war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties continued. He must live to the end of the war. ...

Many years later, the war finally ended.

For the first time, the general returned to the place where he thought about it day and night.

Dressed as a civilian, he came to the broken and mottled city gate. He went to the place where they parted, next to the withered tree, and touched the slate on which she sat waiting for him to come back every day. ...

The elegant shepherd flute came from the suburbs. Passers-by told the general that there was a woman here who had been waiting for her beloved to come back. ...

When he set foot on the familiar land again, his heart felt so complicated, as if everything had returned to the year when he envied others. ...

He found her in this broken and lonely city, but he couldn't find her all the time. It rained one after another. ...

He believes that she has been waiting for him. ...

The monk in the lonely city told him that she was always alone … until the day she died …

The monks returned to the futon, sat quietly and beat the wooden fish. ...

The rain in the sky is still falling, falling on the slate spread out outside. ...