"Notes in the Clouds" Author: Alai Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction
This story has been brewing for ten years. After the Wenchuan earthquake, Yunzhong Village, which has a thousand-year-old legend, migrated to the plains. Year after year. The priest Aba felt that the smell of Yunzhong Village on his body was getting weaker and weaker, his strength was dissipating, and his heart was getting more and more uneasy. So, two horses and an old priest set out on the mountain road back home. He passed through the mountains and fields, stone towers and mills, and came to the ruins of every household in the village. Burning incense and dancing, telling the past. So, the long years of a village and those vivid faces came to the fore. In this way, the priest sang praises for the village and appeased the dead. In this way, he also found inner peace. However, from the beginning he knew that this land and all the memories would soon sleep at the bottom of the river with a landslide...