永恒
Eternity
林清玄
By Lin Qingxuan
有一次,她告诉他一个故事。
She once told him a story.
说是有一对情侣一起去登喜马拉雅山,恰好遇到雪崩,他被滚落的雪卷走,到一个不知名的地方,而她则站在那滚去的雪堆旁边,呆在当地。
In the story, a couple of lovers went climb Mount Himalayas and happened to encounter an avalanche; he was whirled by the rolling snow to an unknown place, while she stood beside the snow drift, dumbfounded there.
她回家以后,常常在梦里出现他在雪中呼喊的影像,她决心去找埋在雪中的他。每一年,她都去喜马拉雅山出事的地点找他,一年一年过去了,找了二十年,终于在山脚下找到他。
Her dream was often haunted by his image calling in the snow after she returned home, so she decided to look for him buried in the snow. She went to look for him just at the site where the accident occurred in Mount Himalayas every year. Many years passed. At l