It has been raining intensely. When my mother picked me up on Friday, it started to rain. She saw that the sky was dark, so she went back to get umbrellas. We normally walked back, but since it was raining, we took a bus. When we were on the bus, the rain became heavy, as heavy as in Rashōmon. The passengers were shouting, taking videos and so on. It felt like we were in a lake. It fell on the windows, bars and also on my heart. When she walked with me to the train station, it was also raining. As there were raincoats provided at the subway station in Beijing, I didn’t take a taxi. When I was going to work, it was still raining. Many earthworms left the soil and could never go back. It’s really autumn now. A spring day turns inexorably into an autumn one with rain.