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Books by Wansheng Mountain
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The Gold-Spitting Girl 吐金女
I'm the only one in my clan who was raised to spit gold. Unlike my sisters, who spit out bugs and snakes, I spit out gold nuggets. Offer me meat and I'll open my mouth to speak, and whoever offers the meat will receive a huge pile of gold nuggets. So smoke rises from the village chimneys every day, and the smell of meat fills the air everywhere, all in the hope that I'll speak once. But in a year of severe drought, where can anyone find meat? I pat my belly and look at my clan, growing thinner b
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Praying for a Child with a Lotus Lantern 莲灯求子
Have you heard of the lotus lantern ritual for bearing a son? Slice a woman's flesh into lotus petals, use her bones for the wick and her blood for oil, and you can make a lotus lantern. Eat the petals and drink the lamp oil, and your next child is guaranteed to be a boy. I was the third lotus lantern my mother made. The first two were my younger sisters. Every day, Mother ate the petals and drank the oil, worshipping the lotus lantern as a miracle. But the day she became pregnant, I smiled. Bec
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