"What are you repairing?" Qingfeng picked up the book and blew away the dust. He knew a few words, which were taught to him by a passing salesman, enough to read the notices at the entrance of the village saying "grain collection" and "labor recruitment".
Turning to the first page, the ink was badly smudged: "Introducing Qi into the body can reveal immortality..."
"Immortality?" He sneered and stuffed the book back into the tree hole. Yesterday, the old scalper of Uncle Li's family just died of old age and was buried on the slope behind the house. When I passed by in the morning, I saw wet new soil. What do you do when you live so long? Like the old lady Zhang at the east end of the village, her son and grandson have all left. She guards the empty house by herself and sheds tears when the wind blows. She is not as safe as a scalper.
