"The Mo family, who have been scholarly for generations, gave birth to two baby girls on the 24th of the Snowy Month in the first year of Lausanne. The strange thing is that they were conjoined when they were born. The biological mother Zhi Shi learned from the pain, cleverly separated them with silver needles, and each embroidered the small scars into a water lotus and a mint. It is said that the city was filled with the faint scent of water chestnuts that night..."
This story has been circulating in Nianshu for sixteen years.