Dagou Station

Puppet Manchukuo, a passing inn in Changbai Mountain. At the age of sixteen, Bai Xiao'e broke two ribs and escaped, making a fire and kneading dough in the Dagouzhan kitchen. Xiaoqin is the niece of the proprietress. She was born mute and squatted on the threshold in a daze. Chen Du is a scholar from a foreign country. He is trapped here in the snow. He can hear everything and can't help him with anything. In the twelfth lunar month, Liu Mazi came with three lackeys. He fell in love with Xiaoqin, but Bai Xiaoe blocked him. On the evening of the fourth day, Liu Mazi publicly accused Xiaoqin of committing adultery. The mute girl picked up the boning knife on the stove and cut herself open - from left to right, without shouting or hesitating. Bai Xiao'e boiled a pot of wine that night. The lackeys never woke up after drinking it and were thrown into the dry well in the backyard. Later, someone recalled that they saw Chen Du knocking on Liu Mazi's door that night, and the two of them headed east one after the other. At dawn, Chen Du and Bai Xiao'e buried Xiao Qin and got on the first train leaving Dagou Station. No one could tell where the three men had gone.