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Wanjuan Zhaoguan River
In the fifth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty, a remnant of Longyou's Chronicles of unknown origin was publicly burned at the Bianjing Secondhand Book Market. The streets were full of paper ashes heading westward against the wind. Only Yu Zhiwei, the "calligrapher" of the Secret Pavilion, could see: the words in the fire were escaping one stroke at a time. He used the remaining pages to repair the book, but fell from the repair place into the past where ancient books were preserved. T
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Outside the Mountains and Rivers
In the second year of Yuanfeng, a map was taken to the court of Dali Temple. There is an extra river on the map that the government does not recognize, and a village whose official records are not recorded; the postman who sent the map to Beijing died outside the Suzaku Gate, leaving only a few words before his death: The map was not wrong, but the world was wrong. Lin Shenwei, the secretary and provincial scribe, was ordered to inspect the drawings. He can remember every road he has walked, but
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Guwai Mountains and Rivers
In the second year of Jiaxi in the Southern Song Dynasty, it rained heavily in Lin'an. Book restorer Ying Heng brought an old book box left behind by his late father into the city. He just wanted to find a job copying damaged books in the secret pavilion in exchange for the signboard of his hometown bookstore that would be put up for sale. But in the moth-eaten layers of a Tang Dynasty volume of "Old Notes on Mountains and Rivers", he read an ink line that had never been written into history boo
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The Fragments of the Scrolls Listen to the Tide
In the winter of the eleventh year of Xianfeng's reign, on the first snowy night after the city was destroyed in Hangzhou, the books in Wenlan Pavilion were treated as waste paper and sent to the paper mill by the truckload. Papermaking apprentice Xi Wangye fished out a page of "Si Ku Quanshu" from the boiling pulp pond. When the water covered the old ink, he heard half a sentence read by a long-dead schoolmaster, and also heard the whereabouts of thirty-six boxes of books secretly sent out of G
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