1 July 1997, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Europe

After the Chinese flag was lowered, the British flag was raised to the sound of > music, on the top of the flag

When the edge touches the top of the pole, the clock has just passed zero, and at this time, we are already foreigners in this land.

Even though I had the privilege of attending the handover ceremony, I could only stand in the last row, so I was the first to walk out of the council hall.

My fifteen-year-old son was waiting for me outside, quietly, and we had one last look at Northern Ireland. This is typical of the English

The summer night was damp and foggy, and the fog drifted like a light veil in the yellow light of the street lamps, and brushed on the face like a drizzle. at

Amid the dim lights and misty fog, Belfast resembles a tranquil European countryside. This is before I spent it

Half a life place, after an hour we will leave with everything, but I can't take my childhood,

Youth and dreams, they will always stay in this quiet and foggy land.

Originally, the Sino-British Liaison Group was supposed to work until the beginning of the next century, but I persuaded the leaders to transfer to NSU as soon as possible

Land to go. On the surface, I give myself the reason that it is better to leave early than late for my future; But inwardly

The real reason in the depths is to leave the newly divorced ex-wife who has lived with her for 16 years as soon as possible, though

She is Chinese, but as a senior official in the consulate, she has to stay in the North Ileland for a long time. I'm hopeless

Keep her, just as China has no hope of keeping Northern Ireland. Fortunately, my son came with me.

"It's you who lost Northern Love!" my son said angrily. In my son's eyes, I am ****, more

To be precise, an incompetent ****. He thinks I should divide Russia into smaller ones

countries; He thinks I'm lending too much to poor Western Europe, and asking too little of them; He admitted

For many years ago I should not have let those terrorist states in the Middle East and some totalitarian states in Asia

The home goes on; In particular, on the issue of Northern Ireland, he thinks that I should trade sovereignty for governance, rather than give it up...... In a word, he thinks that China's leadership in the world is losing from me, even though I am an ordinary diplomat with the rank of deputy director. My son seemed to be covered with aggressive spiritual spears, which he really looked like his mother, and my forbearance and family manners he did not inherit at all, but became the reason for his disappointment in me. He came back with me not because of me, but because he couldn't bear to live in Northern Ireland as a foreigner anyway.

An hour later, a special plane carrying the last Chinese evacuees left Northern Ireland in a dense fog below

, we fly into our new life in the night.