Love Never Grows Old

By Lu Yongqiang

During the wartime, a young Chinese man got foot sores due to the long trek.

In the hospital, the nurse who changed his dressings was such a dignified and angelic woman that he unconsciously fell in love with her. After that,he always found an excuse to go to the hospital in order to catch a glimpse of her.However, when he finally got the courage to write a love letter and give it to her, the hospital was relocated due to the war. He felt at a loss.

Later, after he moved to the revolutionary base,he miraculously found the hospital where she worked.He was so overjoyed that he wrote many love letters to her,but his letters were like stones dropped into the sea, without receiving any response from her side. As the war stretched on, he ended up losing the woman, as he had been wandering from place to place.

This young man was none other than Wu Guanzhong,a painter who would later be renowned both at home and abroad. Several years later,Mr. Wu married another girl named Zhu Biqin, but the memory about his bittersweet first love still remained in his heart.

Half a century later, his memoir article “My First Love”was published in a newspaper.Then a miracle occurred. It turned out that the beautiful nurse was still alive. Her son read Mr. Wu's article and told her the whole story.

Ordinary as her life was, Ms.Chen, who'd retired from a hospital in Liuzhou, Guangxi,could not have imagined that such a spellbound man had secretly fallen in love with her and written many love letters to her while he kept wandering.

The two elders had gray hair at the temples and had had their own family and children. Ms. Chen told her son to write a letter to tell him that she hadn't received any of his letters and how she was touched by his memoir.

For a long time, I have been caught up in the true story.Never will that called love be old. It can travel through time and space, for 50 years or even 100 years.