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Linguistic Terms
He is a professor of linguistics, and he speaks a lot of professional jargon. His family members don't understand it well, and he doesn't explain it. When his wife was ill and hospitalized, he visited her every day and talked about "pragmatic functions" and "semantic fields", and his wife smiled and nodded. After his wife left, he stopped talking, and his children thought he was speechless. It wasn't until I sorted out the belongings and found in his notebook that he wrote: "After she left, I re
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Blind Sheng
She is a sheng craftsman, and she only makes one instrument in her life - sheng. People in the village said the business was in decline, but she didn't listen. The sheng she made has a gentle sound, like the wind passing through the bamboo forest. A blind boy walked by, picked up her sheng and played a song, which made her burst into tears. It was a song written by her late husband when he was young. The young man said that he was taught by an old man. She asked where the old man was, and the yo
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Ginger Ginger Back
His name is Jiang Sheng, and he is an orphan. He was picked up by a ginger farmer in a ginger field, so he was named Jiang Sheng. He hated the name and thought it was uncouth. When he grew up, he went to the city and never came back. The ginger grower sends him a box of ginger every year, but he never accepts it. The ginger grower was old and asked someone to tell him: "Jiang, ginger is only spicy when you are old, and only when you are old can you understand." He did not respond. The year the g
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The Cellar Is Brewing, and the Wine Kiln Is Brewing Too.
When he was young, he fell in love with a girl who loved flowers. The two of them drank among the flowers, and she said, "When I get old, you will drink with me here." Later, the girl married someone else, and he never married. He planted the flowers she liked in the yard, put a pot of wine every year when the flowers bloomed, and clinked glasses in the air. The neighbor laughed at him for being crazy, and he said: "She said that when the flowers are there, the wine is there, and the people are
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Amer Trail
Amir, a guzheng musician, encounters a mysterious girl at a Silk Road station. She will dance like the wind when she hears the music of "Alam Khan". Amir plays this song all the way across the desert in pursuit of her traces. Finally, he found an ancient mirror in an abandoned inn, and the figures in the mirror danced gracefully - it turned out that Alam Khan was a dancing girl from thousands of years ago, and her soul sent music to the piano. From then on, Amir spent the rest of his life playin
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Oden Cooking Worker
When he was studying in Japan, he worked in an oden restaurant. The boss was an old lady who couldn't smile. When there were few guests, she would serve him a bowl of hot soup without saying anything. Three years later, when he was about to return to China, the old lady said for the first time: "The radish must be boiled until it is transparent before it tastes delicious." He nodded. Many years later, he also opened an oden restaurant in his own city. When a customer asked him the secret, he sai
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Tree Feather
He is a bird feather collector. He has collected more than 3,000 feathers in his life, but he has never seen a bird fly with his own eyes - he was born blind. When someone asked him how he collected them, he said: "Listen to the sounds. The calls of birds are different, and the sounds of feathers falling are also different." He touched each feather with his fingertips and could tell what kind of bird it was and what season it fell. After his death, his family scattered three thousand feathers in
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Axisymmetric
He is a paper-cutting artist who only cuts one pattern in his life - symmetrical butterflies. People said he was good at his craftsmanship, but no one ever asked why. When he got old, he took on an apprentice. The apprentice asked: "Master, why are butterflies always symmetrical?" He said: "Because love is an axis of symmetry. You are here, she is over there, and it is complete when you cut it out." The apprentice asked: "What about the master's wife?" He did not answer, but took out a piece of
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Green Coat and Luo Orange Time
She planted orange trees outside Luoyang City, wore a green cloth gown, and waited for the oranges to mature every year. A scholar passed by and said he would come and marry her when her oranges turned red. The oranges turned red again and again, and the scholar never came again. When she grew old, she planted orange trees from Luoyang to her hometown. Someone asked her if it was worth it, and she said, "He was talking about the Luo Orange period, not which year." Later, a young man came to look
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Kawasaki Sauce
He studied in Kawasaki, Japan, and what he missed most was not the food from his hometown, but the hot pot sauce made by his mother. He called to ask for the recipe, and his mother said: "Tahini, chive flowers, fermented bean curd, and a little secret." He tried dozens of times but couldn't get it right. He flew home during the winter vacation that year, and his mother was making sauce in the kitchen. He saw her add a spoonful of boiled water to the bowl and stir it. He was stunned: "Is it that
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Handwritten Postmark Set
She is the owner of a second-hand bookstore. She found a collection of handwritten love letters on the bookshelf, signed "Xiao Chen", and each letter had only one word: "Ann". She had been curious all her life, and before she died, she handed the book to her granddaughter: "Help me find Xiao Chen." The granddaughter found the nursing home based on the postmark. An old man with white hair took the book and said in a trembling voice: "I have been writing 'Ann' all my life, just to ask if she is ok
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A Small Tree in Brooklyn
She grew up in a ghetto neighborhood in Brooklyn with a tree outside her window. Neighbors said it was a tree of paradise, the only tree that can grow in concrete. She talked to the tree every day, but the tree never answered. When she grew up, she became a botanist and traveled all over the world looking for this kind of tree, but she never found it. When I got older and returned to Brooklyn, I found that the tree had been cut down and only the stump remained. She sat on the tree stump and crie
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Self-Introduction Before the Hospital Bed
She suffers from Alzheimer's disease and doesn't recognize him every day. He introduced himself again every day: "Hello, I am your husband." She smiled and stretched out her hand: "Hello, please take care of me." After five years of this, he collapsed from exhaustion and was hospitalized. She suddenly woke up one day, walked to the hospital bed and said, "Why are you so old?" He was stunned. She held his hand and said, "I get lost in time every day, but I know that you have been waiting for me a
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Zhaozhao Restored Ming Dynasty
She was the last queen of the Ming Dynasty. When the city was destroyed, she jumped off the tower with her young son in her arms, but was caught by a tree. When she woke up, she found herself among the crowd of visitors to the modern Forbidden City, wearing a T-shirt and jeans. The tour guide pointed to the city wall and said: "There was a queen who died for her country here." She smiled and took out the Chongzhen Tongbao in her pocket, with the words "Zhao Zhao Fu Ming Dynasty" engraved on the
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I Would Like to Hear the Princess's Lesson
She was an abandoned daughter who was consecrated to the palace and was born unable to laugh. In order to win her a smile, King You of Zhou used beacon fire to play with the princes. She smiled sadly. The princes stopped caring for the king, and the dog soldiers attacked Haojing. She hugged King You's body and said, "I don't laugh because I'm afraid you love me too much; I laughed because I know you don't understand me." The history books scolded her for disaster, but she said: "What was burned
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I'll Be Waiting for You at the End of Time
After losing her memory, she only remembered one thing - to pick up someone at the subway station every evening. Her family told her that no one would come, but she didn't believe it and waited rain or shine. Three years later, a white-haired old man appeared at the subway station with a cane. She went up to him and said, "You are finally back." The old man cried: "I can see you waiting for me on the surveillance camera every day, but I had a stroke and couldn't walk. Today I crawl here to tell
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Huangquan Acacia Tree
She planted an acacia tree in front of his grave and watered it every day. People in the village said she was crazy, but she ignored them. When the tree grew up, she became old and could no longer walk, so she asked her grandson to help her. The grandson asked: "Can grandpa really hear?" She said: "Yes, these trees are his ears." There was a severe drought that year, and all the trees were withered, except for the lush acacia tree. Meteorological experts came to study and could not find the reas
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Kawasaki Story
He has worked as a quality inspector at Kawasaki Motorcycle Factory for 40 years, and he can identify faults by listening to the sound of the engine every day. On the day of his retirement, he bowed deeply to the last motorcycle that rolled off the assembly line. The co-workers laughed at him and he said: "They are all alive." Later, he suffered from ear disease and was almost deaf, but he squatted on the roadside every day and listened to the sound of motorcycles passing by. When his grandson a
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Used Bookstore on the Street
The used bookstore on the corner has been open for thirty years, and its owner is a silent old man. When someone comes to buy a book, he never bargains, but occasionally asks: "Is this book a gift?" If so, he wraps it carefully in old newspapers and ties it with a red string. Later, the bookstore closed and he passed away. When his son was sorting out his belongings, he found a thick notebook in which he recorded who each book was sold to and who it was given to. The last page read: "Book 4312 w
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Mountain Traveler
He is a blind traveler who has traveled all over China's mountains and rivers. The reporter asked him: "How can you feel the scenery if you can't see it?" He said: "The mountains have a smell, the sea has a sound, and the wind knows where my feet are walking." Everywhere he went, he would have someone take a photo and send it to his mother. His mother posted photos all over the wall and told him about them. Later, when his mother passed away, he said in front of her grave: "Mom, the mountains an
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Going Back in Time, There Is No Train
He spent his whole life building a time machine, and finally succeeded before his death. When his son asked him which year he was going, he said, "Before your mother marries me." The son was stunned. He said, "I want to tell her, don't marry me, marry a rich man, and don't suffer from me." The son cried and said, "Mom's greatest happiness in this life is to marry you." He smiled: "I know, but I just want to say sorry to her in person." He pressed the button, but the time machine did not move. Th
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Space Theater
She is an astronaut on the space station, and her only entertainment every day is looking at the Earth through the porthole. Colleagues laughed at her for being boring, and she said: "The earth is performing dramas every day. You see, the aurora in Antarctica is the stage, the typhoon is the special effects, and the sunrise is the lighting." She stayed in space for 400 days and wrote a book "Space Theater" to record every scene she saw. On the day she returned to Earth, she took one last look ou
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Xiaozhiyaoyao
She is the daughter of a wealthy family, but she yearns for the world. Her parents forced her to get married, but she ran away overnight, leaving only a letter: "I only wish you a happy life." Her parents were so angry that they sent their servants to chase her for three years but failed to find her. Ten years later, she opened a tavern in the Western Regions, with plum trees from her hometown planted at the door. An old man with white hair walked in on crutches, and she recognized him as her fa
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Watching Flowers from Across the Bank
She is a photographer, but she suffers from an eye disease and her eyesight is getting worse day by day. She decided to take a final set of photos - "seeing flowers in the mist", all of which were intentionally out of focus and blurry. On the day of the exhibition, the audience said they could not understand. She smiled and said, "This is the world I see, and it is also the world that most people are unwilling to see." A blind man stood in front of the painting and touched it for a long time, an
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The Divorce Plan at That Time
She was an ordinary maid in the palace and witnessed Concubine Liu using a skinned civet cat to take away the prince born to Concubine Li. She didn't dare to say anything, but she secretly wrote down the prince's birthmark. Eighteen years later, when the new emperor ascended the throne, she risked her life to stop him and presented him with an embroidered handkerchief with the location of the birthmark and the truth about that night embroidered on it. The government and the public were shocked,
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Schrödinger's Kitten
He is a physicist who has been obsessed with Schrödinger's cat all his life and firmly believes in the existence of parallel worlds. His wife couldn't stand him doing experiments all day long, so she left with her daughter. He guards the laboratory alone and keeps a black cat. Before he died, he said to the black cat: "I'm going to another world to see if I can keep them there." After he left, the black cat jumped on the experimental platform and stepped on the start button. When my daughter was
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Stars Can Read Minds
He claimed that he could read minds and set up a fortune-telling stall on the street, and his business was very good. In fact, he is just very observant and can guess 70-80% from his clothes and expressions. Until one day, a mute girl sat in front of him, looking at him quietly without making any gestures. For the first time, he panicked and couldn't see anything. The girl suddenly laughed and wrote a line in the notebook: "You can't read minds at all, but you made my dad laugh." He then realize
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Give Me a Window Flower
She is a paper-cutting artist. Every New Year's Eve, she cuts a window grille and sticks it on the window of the lonely old man across the street, never leaving her name. The old man would say to everyone he met: "My daughter is here to see me." After twenty years of this, after the old man passed away, she found twenty window grilles stacked neatly on the old man's window sill, each one decorated with plastic and the year written on the back. The oldest one had turned yellow, and there was only
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Qingdeng Ancient Wine Tea
He is the lantern keeper in the temple. He adds oil and removes the wick every night to keep the green lantern alive. The proprietress of the mountain tavern brought him a pot of tea every day and said: "It is better to pair green lanterns with ancient wine than with clear tea." He never responded. She spent thirty years, from black hair to white hair. One day when she didn't come, he went down the mountain to look for her and found that the tavern was closed and a piece of paper was posted on t
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Triangle Inequality
He was a math teacher who spent his life teaching triangle inequalities: the sum of two sides is greater than the third side. He and his wife and their children, about three of them, lived in the same town and knew each other. When his wife fell ill, the children came to deliver medicine every day, and he boiled the medicine every day. I think this is the most beautiful angle in the world. Before his death, his wife held their hands and said: "You are my two sides, and together they are longer t
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Expert Clinic
He was once the best surgeon in the city, but his license was revoked due to a medical accident, and he began to drink heavily. On his daughter's wedding day, he didn't dare to go and hid in the alley and watched her from a distance. A drunk man fell on the roadside. He instinctively rushed to rescue him, and his technique was still precise. The drunkard came to life, and onlookers recognized him and called the police. When the police came, he smiled: "These hands, after ten years of uselessness
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Autumn Fence Cardamom
There is a bamboo fence in her yard, and cardamom flowers are in full bloom every autumn. The neighbor's grandma always said to her through the fence: "The cardamom is ripe, it's time to get married." She smiled and said nothing. Later, she married in a foreign country. On the day she left, she broke off a sprig of cardamom and pinned it on her luggage. When she returned to her hometown forty years later, the fence was still there, the cardamom was still there, but her grandma was gone. She was
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Star Magnifying Glass
He is an astrophotographer and has photographed stars all his life, but has never seen them with his own eyes. Because he was born with severe myopia, the nebulae in the lens had to be enlarged in post-production to see clearly. Colleagues laughed at him for deceiving himself, and he said: "Stars are already out of reach, but I photograph what I can see." In his later years, he became blind, but asked his grandson to point the telescope at the sky. He touched the barrel and said, "It's spinning,
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Green Jacket Corner
She is the most inconspicuous apprentice in the embroidery workshop, and can only embroider blue clothes. The embroiderers laughed at her for being hopeless, but she didn't defend herself. Many years later, she became an old girl and the embroidery shop was about to close. She took out the embroidery from the bottom of the box - a green jacket with the same sentence embroidered all over it: "Waiting for you to come back." The shopkeeper asked her who she was waiting for. She pointed to the door
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Mountains and Foggy Fields
She is a forest ranger who has been guarding alone in the mountains for twenty years. Every morning, she calls out to the mountains, "Mountains face foggy fields" - this is the secret code for her and her late husband, who was a geological team member and disappeared in this mountain forest. That year of heavy fog, she finished shouting as usual, and suddenly heard an echo from the distance: "Ye Chao Mountain." She was stunned, stumbled and ran over, and saw an old man with white hair leaning on
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Distant Karst
He worked in the geological team all his life and traveled all over the karst landforms in the southwest. After retirement, he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and did not recognize his family, but he talked about "peak forests, sinkholes, and caves" every day. His son took him back to Guangxi. He stood in front of the mountain he had explored, suddenly woke up and said: "I have measured every mountain here." He pointed to a cave and said: "I have carved a name on the third stalagmite inside."
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Ancient Book Life-Extending Clinic
He is a library restorer and works with damaged ancient books every day. The apprentice thought this work was boring, so he said: "Books also have a destiny, and we are doctors." A Qing Dynasty county chronicle was soaked in water and became shapeless, so he spent three months repairing it. At the end of my practice, I suddenly found an unsent letter from home in the mezzanine, which was written to his wife by a magistrate who was about to take office. He repaired the letter and found the descen
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Nursing Home Notes
He is a demolition worker and has been working on construction sites for thirty years. His ears were shocked to the point of being almost deaf. After he retired, he returned to the village to take care of himself. People in the village said that he had a good temper and never got angry about noise. The grandson asked him: "Grandpa, why do you always say nothing?" He smiled and pointed to his ears. Fireworks were set off in the village that night, and everyone covered their ears. Only he looked u
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Xi'an Haute Couture Clothing Store
She opened a high-end dress shop under the old city wall of Xi'an, all in Tang Dynasty style. She never changes the design if her customers find it unfashionable. Until an Italian designer came here and looked at her works and exclaimed: "This is the real oriental aesthetics." She took him to see the murals, pointed to the ladies' dresses and said: "A thousand years ago, there were evening dresses in Chang'an." During Milan Fashion Week that year, her "Chang'an Series" stunned the audience. The
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A Dream in the Flower Room
She is a gardener at the Botanical Garden, and she talks to the epiphyllum after the garden closes every night. Colleagues laughed at her for being silly, but she only said: "It is gathering strength to bloom, and I encourage it." That summer, the epiphyllum suddenly bloomed all night long, and I had never seen so many flowers before. She fell asleep lying next to the flowers, and dreamed of a young man in white saying, "I have listened to you for three years, and tonight they finally bloom." Wh
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Weather Observer
He is a weather observer who has been in the mountains for thirty years, recording clouds and rain every day. Some people said that he was wasting his life. He said: "When the clouds overwhelm the rain, God is about to cry." There was a severe drought that year and the crops were about to die, so the villagers begged him to find a way. He looked at the sky and said: "It will rain at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon." At three o'clock the next day, not a drop of rain fell. The villagers called hi
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It's Cold, Just Hold Hands
She was very poor when she married him. She only had one cotton-padded jacket in winter, and they took turns wearing it. He went out to work while she was shivering from the cold at home. When he came back, he took off his cotton-padded jacket to her and huddled under the quilt himself. Later, life got better and the wardrobe was full of coats, but she was always reluctant to throw away that tattered cotton-padded jacket. In the winter when he fell ill, she took out a cotton-padded jacket and co
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Courtyard House
She built a small wooden house in the corner of her yard, planted with flowers and plants, but never occupied it. The neighbor was curious and she said, "It was built for my mother." But her mother had died many years ago. Every year on my mother's birthday, she would place a table of food in the hut, put two pairs of bowls and chopsticks, and talk to herself all afternoon. Later, her daughter asked her grandma what kind of person she was. She said, "Her biggest wish in life was to have her own
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Clouds and Rain in Hometown
He has been working in the south for ten years. What he misses most is not the food in his hometown, but the clouds and rain. The rain in the north is too fast and the clouds are too light. That year he saved enough money and returned to his hometown in Guizhou. It was the rainy season. His clothes would not dry dry and mushrooms grew on the soles of his shoes. He stood in the rain and cried. When his neighbor asked him why he was crying, he said, "The rain is the same as when I was a kid. It's
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Transmitter of Ideas
He is a marathon runner and has never won a medal, just because the country needs someone to participate. At the Olympics, he ran last, but the audience stood up and applauded him - he was the only representative of a war-torn country, and his running shoes were still stained with the dust of his hometown. After crossing the line, he knelt down and kissed the runway. A reporter asked him why he persisted. He said: "My country does not have a runway, but I want the world to know that we are still
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The Fire of Yingying Can Start a Prairie Fire
She is the only teacher at Shancun Primary School, teaching five students and earning a monthly salary of 800. A friend persuaded her to work in the city. She pointed to the fireflies that filled the mountains at night and said, "Look, the fireflies can also light up a field." Ten years later, three of the five students were admitted to college, and one of them returned to the village to take over her class. The new young teacher wrote in the circle of friends: "What the teacher taught me is not
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Tea Time Has Passed
He is a tea taster and can tell the origin and year of tea, but he cannot tell what is in the tea his wife brews. Every spring, his wife would pick wild tea and fry it for him. He would take a sip and put it down, saying "it's over." The wife never defends herself. When she was seriously ill, he personally went to pick and fry tea. He was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and then he realized how difficult it was to control the heat. He picked up the tea he had made. It was bitter and ast
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Dad at the Stairs
He promised to take his father to climb Mount Tai, but his father suddenly suffered a stroke and became hemiplegic. He quit his job and carried his father on his back up the stairs in the community every day, from the first floor to the 18th floor and back down again. Neighbors said he was crazy, but he only said: "I am training." Three years later, he really carried his father on his back to the top of Mount Tai. His father sat on the top of the mountain and cried, saying, "Son, I'm dragging yo
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The Moon Is on the Branches, the Plum Trees Are on My Heart
She is a mute girl who falls in love with a painter. The painter painted everything in the world, but he could not paint her voice. She pointed at the moon in the sky and the plum blossoms in the courtyard, and drew a circle in her palm with her fingers. The painter doesn't understand. She left and went to the south. Many years later, the painter passed by a plum garden and saw a woman teaching a child to write under the moonlight. It was her. She gestured in sign language, and the child transla
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By the Side of Yanzhou
He has worked as a conductor at Yanzhou Railway Station for forty years, repeating the same actions every day: punching tickets, collecting money, and making change. Someone asked him why he didn't change his job, and he said, "I'm waiting for someone." It turned out that when he was young, a girl got off the train at Yanzhou Station and dropped a book of poems at his window. He flipped through the book all night and found a note inside the book: "If you also like Haizi, come find me." There was
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