Daughter of Gu
by Li Ximin
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That incident happened in the autumn when my father was 5 years old. The countryside and fields were at first peaceful. The father and several older children lit a fire in the wild. They dug out the sweet potatoes in the sweet potato fields, then covered them with yellow mud and threw them into the fire to burn. It was a cloudy day, and the firelight illuminated their faces red and bright. The mountains far away were gray and there was a strange sound floating here and there. When my father heard the strange sound, he felt cold all over his body. He asked another child if he heard the noise, and the child said he heard nothing. The leading child said in an adult tone: "Something must have happened!"...
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