Tales from the Chinese Studio: That Knife

[The second part of the Liaozhai Legacy series | The orthodox sequel to "The Tenth Man"] Shen Nian, a 26-year-old convenience store cashier, can hear hundreds of years of obsessions and past events hidden in old things. Three months ago, she used a thread-bound notebook from three hundred years ago to clear up an injustice and became the spokesperson of that forgotten past. Now, deep in her ancestral home, she found an ancient sword that chirped in the middle of the night. The blade of the blade was cold and trembling as if weeping. Every time it buzzed, it was pulling her through the fog of three hundred years of history. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, a tragic past event that has not been recorded in history books is slowly being revealed with the sound of swords: The poor Orion Tian Qilang and his mother depended on each other for life. He originally wanted to guard the mountains and forests and live a pure life. However, due to the "great kindness" of the wealthy gentry Wu Chengxiu, he was wrapped up in the world and bound by righteousness, and finally embarked on the desperate path of committing suicide. A knife drank up the sorrow of the people at the bottom, and also carved a sentence that is engraved in the bones and blood: "The rich repay others with wealth, and the poor repay others with righteousness." Three hundred years later, the sword roared again, and the grudges were still unresolved. This time, Shen Nian held the handle of the knife, and wanted to pick up the character and heart that had been submerged by the years for the hunter who drank the blade, and finally put an end to this fate that had been entangled for hundreds of years. Liaozhai's legacy is to pick up the forgotten things and carry forward the unfinished meaning.