Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 4 - 7 2018 | Page 234

Sun Wo Kong Spirits
The SMIC Private School Shanghai, Park, Carol - 15
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eaves on the tree rustled in the chilly wind of fall, as the farmers of Cheng Du, Sichuan heard the
same sound under their feet as they stepped around the ground covered deeply in the shades of
canary leaves. The layers of jackets on people seemed to increase day by day, and passerine birds
seemed to chirp more tumultuously in the mornings. Legend says if you caught a falling leaf before it
touched the ground, then your dreams would come true. Most teenagers in the old town would laugh at its
logic, considering themselves too old and mature for these kinds of far-fetched so-as-called “legends”.
However, Lu Yuan, a young boy who had just had his