The crane soared, and the tears in Cao Zhen's eyes were dried by the wind again and again.
Listening to his mother's calling over and over again in the China Cloud, her voice eventually turned into a murmured storytelling, and then into alternating bouts of crying and laughing. Finally, she said to the surroundings, "Son, remember to eat and don't stay up late over there."
"I know," Cao Zhen quietly responded. Although he always told his mother 'I know, I know' in the past, this time was the first time he didn't reply nonchalantly like before, but his most earnest response was actually one his mother couldn't hear.
Cao Xinbang embraced his wife gently and said, "Our son is still alive. You shouldn't cry like this; it's inauspicious."
Upon hearing her husband say this, Wu Xuehua completely stopped sobbing. She too feared bringing bad luck to her son who was not dead.
