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Grass Life
The north wind on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month was like a blade wrapped around it, picking up fine ice particles as it blew across the loess slopes of Liujiatun. Chen Alian huddled in a pile of wheat straw in the corner of the mill. The torn cotton padding under her body had already been soaked by amniotic fluid and formed into a cold hard lump. With each contraction, her fingernails scratched a few white marks on the edge of the millstone - the wheat grains embedded in the stone mill for
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A Copper Thimble
In the autumn of 1945, Zhaojiazhuang in southwestern Shandong was filled with the sweet smell of ripe sorghum. Eighteen-year-old Shuan Zhu followed his father, Lao Zhaotou, and drove a donkey cart for thirty miles to a dilapidated market. In the corner of the market squatted a few ragged human traffickers, with several sallow-looking girls standing beside them. "That's it, two bags of sorghum, no more." Old Zhaotou poked one of the girls on the shoulder with his rough fingers. The girl trembled
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Begging for Life
The 31st year of the Republic of China (1942), spring, Jiaodong, Shandong, Wangjiatuan** The last weak flame in the stove licked the cold bottom of the pot, reflecting the sweaty temples of Mrs. Wang Zhao and the bloody hands of midwife Li. A weak cry of a cat rang out in the earthen house filled with the smell of blood and firewood smoke, tearing through the chilly night of early spring in Jiaodong. "It's a baby girl!" Grandma Li wrapped the little red and wrinkled thing in rags and stuffed it
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Broken Porcelain Disaster
>I am the humblest mortal in the immortal world, and I have been Fairy Yunyi's stand-in for ten years. >The Immortal Lord always thinks that I am not good at learning, yet he hugs me to sleep every night. >On the day Yunyi was resurrected, he left me coughing up blood and rushed to the celebration. >Before I died, I bit my finger and left a bloody note on the pillow: "I would rather be a mortal concubine than the wife of an immortal king." >When the Immortal Lord returned, my body was already co
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Rebirth: Journey to the West with Brother Monkey
Modern young man Chen Xuan, originally a programmer in the 21st century, traveled to five hundred years before Journey to the West after a car accident and became a handyman disciple of Qingyun Sect. He discovered that gods and monsters in this world really exist. Later, he discovered that Journey to the West is just a chess game set up by saints. By chance, the protagonist went to the Five Elements Mountains to save Brother Monkey, and followed Brother Monkey to fight in the world of Journey to
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