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“Fortune and Destiny”
On the antique stall at the entrance of the alley, there is an inconspicuous gourd bracelet – eight small boxwood gourds, only the size of a fingernail, but each one is delicate and agile. “This string of ‘fortune and luck’,” the stall owner smiled with narrowed eyes, “will find its own destined person.” College student Lin Xiao bought it casually, just to ask for good luck. Who knew that she had a strange dream that night: eight small gourds were arranged in a Bagua formation on the desk, and each one made a weak cry. The next day, she found that a gourd was missing from the bracelet. Following the memory in the dream, she found it in the flea market – it was being used as an antique weight, pressed on a stack of yellowed house deeds. The moment he redeemed the gourd, the stall owner suddenly burst into tears: “This was my mother’s dowry…” It turned out that those house deeds were the deeds of his ancestral home. In half a year, Lin Xiao met seven owners: the amulet of a kidnapped girl, the military badge pendant left by an old soldier, and the old writer who burned his manuscripts and broke up… When each gourd was returned to its place, different words would appear under the moonlight – “return”, “remember”, “regret”… On the eighth full moon night, the last gourd suddenly cracked and a yellowed photo fell out: the young stall owner was smiling and tying a red string on the gourd string on his wrist. On the back of the photo was written: “It is better to return the item to its original owner than to have good fortune and happiness.” (🪔The gourd bracelet implies: some fate is to help lost memories find their way home)