"Come, put on some nice clothes and wrap up in this pretty scarf."
"Where... are we going?" The old man watched Ling Yu patiently dress him and asked like a child.
"Traveling!"
"Traveling... ah!"
"Do you remember this?"
"Ah... uh!"
Ling Yu helped the old man out the door. A grown woman and a little girl stood behind them. Pointing at a stone slab in front of the house, he said, "This is where you found me. Don't you remember? It was winter, and when you came back from outside, you found me lying at our doorstep. I wasn't wearing anything. If it hadn't been for you, I would've frozen to death! Do you remember now?"
"Ah... uh!"
"Did you forget? When I was little, our cooking smelled the best. Whenever anyone in Morning Glow Village caught a whiff of our food, they wanted to come over and mooch a meal!"
Ling Yu slowly walked through the village with the old man, pointing at the dirt road beneath their feet.
"Look at this road. Does it seem familiar? You walked this road for decades. Do you remember? A few years ago, I overslept on the mountain that night. You searched all over the village for me, worried sick. You asked everyone you saw. When I finally came back, you hit me for the first time. You gave me such a beating that even now, thinking about it makes my butt hurt! Do you remember?"
"Look ahead. That's Uncle Li's house in the village. Isn't that where Fatty lives? When we were little, she thought I was good-looking and always liked me. She wanted to be friends with me, and you even urged me to marry Fatty! Do you remember?"
The two slowly made their way around the village beneath the