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Fortune Teller
He was sitting on the creaking bamboo chair, with the yellow linen cloth with the word "fortune telling" spread in front of him, spinning the string of twenty-seven beads in his hand. He didn't answer right away. Sunlight leaked through the gaps in the leaves of the locust tree, painting a mottled light and shadow on his face. He squinted his eyes, as if thinking about something far away. After a long time, he said: "Do you know how many things are in a word?" I didn't speak. "A person's entire
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Orange Jam 33 Days
Under the plane trees in the east of Luoyang City, orange jam from three hundred years ago is buried. I dug it up before the old house was demolished, and a copy of "Hu's Miscellaneous Records" was buried with it. Hu Chubin was a bachelor of the Northern Gate of the Tang Dynasty, but he wrote in his entire notebook about his daughter Xiaojuezi: He learned how to practice archery at the age of six, mastered the classics at the age of eight, and became a lifelong friend with Wu Zetian at the age o
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Dad on the Moon
In 1978, educated youth Zhou Jianguo died of illness in a rural primary school, leaving behind his fiancée Fang Lizhen and their unborn child. From then on, Fang Lizhen supported her life alone: working as an accountant, working on a sewing machine, and raising her daughter Fang Xiaohong. She locked the secret in the drawer, swallowed back her tears, and told her daughter, "Daddy lives on the moon." Fang Xiaohong loved singing since she was a child, and her teacher said she could be a singer.
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Premarital Lovers
Fifty-one-year-old Lu Zitao always took the wrong path until he met his neighbor Su Wan who looked exactly like his old love. It turned out that she changed her name and came from Xi'an and waited for thirty years. He struggled between responsibility and love, and finally chose to rush to the belated reunion. The decent appearance of his wife Liu Yun gave this reunion a painful weight.
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Bright Moon and Clear Breeze Night
Spring 1937, Shanghai. Gu Pengfei, an underground member of the Communist Party of China codenamed "Qingfeng", sneaked into Shanghai as a purchasing specialist of Yong'an Company. His mission was to get close to Tian Yuxin, a female teacher at St. John's University. Her father was Tian Boyong, the confidential secretary of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, a key figure who took the initiative to show his goodwill to the CCP. Is it a true defection or a military trap? Gu Peng
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