
Blessings and Misfortunes
by Qin Zhiquan
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In autumn, the wheat has just been harvested, and a heavy snowfall arrives as expected. The Tianshan grassland is covered in silver, and the half-year-long winter begins. A man in the country feeds the livestock at home while his wife and baby warm the bed; a man in the city holds his wife in his arms and gnaws on a sheep's head. In winter, the Tianshan grassland has two feet of snow on the plains, and the average temperature is 30 to 40 degrees below zero. Large households in urban and rural areas have to kill dozens or hundreds of sheep for the winter. Mutton is a hot food, so eat more mutton to resist the severe cold. People had nothing to do in winter, so they burned the sheep's heads and hooves in the fire, scraped them clean, cooked them and ate them slowly. On this morning when the sky cleared up, Liu Maoyuan held a long-handled jade cigarette pot in his mouth, twirled his short legs, and waddled to the door of the Chen family's courtyard. The foreign dog in the yard stuck out its blood-red tongue, barked a few symbolic barks, and got into the kennel again.
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