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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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Loveless Artist
He is a painter and has painted portraits all his life, but he has never smiled in his paintings. Critics called him cold and unloving, and he never defended himself. Before he died, he asked his students to open the locked cabinet in the studio, which was filled with portraits of the same little girl - smiling, crying, angry, and coquettish. Only then did the student learn that his daughter was abducted when she was three years old. He had been painting her for fifty years. The daughter in the
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Finally, the Remaining Lotus Remains to Listen to the Sound of Rain
She guarded a patch of residual lotus in the lake and refused to clean it up every autumn. Developers wanted to fill the lake to build buildings, but she sat on the shore and refused to leave. Others laughed at her as crazy and asked what was so good about Can He. She didn't say why. Until an old man came to him with a cane and cried in front of the broken lotus. He is her husband. He has lost his memory for many years. He just remembered that when they were young, they fell in love by the lotus
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Bookmark or Stamp
She dug out an old book and found a small piece of yellowed paper with perforations on it, like a stamp or a bookmark. I showed it to my grandpa, who suddenly had red eyes. It was a love letter from sixty years ago - he disguised it as a stamp, affixed it to an envelope and sent it to grandma, avoiding detection. There was only one sentence in the letter: "This ticket is always valid." Grandma kept it for a lifetime and later included it in this book. She returned the piece of paper to her grand
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Half Pillow on the Bright Moon, Half Pillow on the Breeze
He is a tombkeeper and has been guarding the tomb on the barren mountain for fifty years. When someone asked him if he was afraid, he said, "No, I have the bright moon and the breeze to accompany me." In fact, he was guarding an empty tomb with only a strand of hair in it. When he was young, he fell in love with a girl. The girl said she would marry him when he built a house on the mountain. The house was built, but the girl died of illness. He put her hair into the coffin and slept next to it.
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Probabilistic Event
She is a professor of probability and firmly believes that everything can be explained by numbers, except that she does not believe in fate. She has failed on 99 blind dates, and her friends said it was a "low probability event". For the 100th time, the other person was half an hour late and she was about to leave when the man came running over with sweat on his face, holding a book she wrote in his hand and said, "I have been looking for this book for three years." She was stunned - it was her
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Sea of Flowers and Prose Poetry
He has been planting flowers in the sea of flowers for ten years, just to give his wife who suffers from eye disease a miracle. The doctor said there was little hope of regaining sight, but he didn't believe it. He planted a kind of flower every day, saying that when the flowers bloomed into a sea, she would be able to see. In the spring of the tenth year, flowers really bloomed all over the hillside. He led her into the sea of flowers, and she closed her eyes and smelled it for a long time,
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Preface to the Lanting Collection
He is a calligraphy teacher. He has copied "Lanting Preface" all his life, but he has never been able to write the charm. When a student asked him what was wrong, he said: "There is a zigzag missing." On the day of his retirement, he piled the manuscript papers he had copied for forty years in the yard and burned them, and the fire illuminated his face. When the last page was burned, the wind suddenly blew up the ashes, and the ashes floated in the air like a zigzag. He froze, then smiled, very
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Outside the Bamboo Forest in the Courtyard
He comes from a poor family and plays the flute every day outside the courtyard wall of a wealthy lady. She listened fascinated, but never dared to climb over the wall. Later, her family fell into decline and she married someone else. Forty years later, he became a folk artist. He was playing the erhu on the street when an old lady came tremblingly and put a copper coin into the bowl. He looked up and recognized her. She said nothing, turned and left. He caught up and asked, "Do you remember the
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Trees Full of Camellias
He planted a camellia tree in his yard, but it did not bloom for ten years. The neighbor persuaded him to cut it down, but he refused and continued to water and fertilize it every year. His wife laughed at him for being stupid, and he said, "It is saving strength." In the spring of the eleventh year, the camellias suddenly bloomed, and the trees were full of red, and the whole village came to see it. He stood under the tree and cried, and his wife asked him what was wrong. He said: "She planted
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The Alley That Rests in My Heart
He is a blind masseur. Every morning he stands at the alley for a while, saying he is "looking at the fog." The neighbor laughed at what he was looking at when he couldn't see. Later, an old lady told me that thirty years ago he sent his fiancée away in the fog, and she married overseas and promised to return in three years. His head turned white and his eyes went blind from crying. Someone asked him if he hated it, and he said: "No. There is mist only when there is love, and there is no mist wi
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Old Handkerchief Old World
After my mother developed Alzheimer's disease, she gradually lost recognition of everyone. She forgot her husband's name and her daughter's face, but she did one thing again and again every day - folded an old handkerchief again and again and carefully stuffed it into her pocket. The family was curious and opened it while she was asleep. There was a yellowed photo wrapped in the handkerchief, with the words on the back: "My little girl, happy full moon." On the photo, it was the smiling face of
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Smell It Several Times Day and Night
I am the last priest guarding Haiyuan, and I use my spiritual power to suppress the seal day and night. Until one day, a voice came from under the seal—it was exactly the same as mine. It told me with a smile that it was not spiritual power that suppressed the seal for thousands of years, but my inner demon. Every time you recite the mantra, you are feeding it. Today it is powerful enough. I looked down and saw that my hands were slowly turning black. It turns out that I have always been protect
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Genealogy Signing Office
His surname is Sima, which is the only surname in the village. He has been called "Sima Guang" and "Sima Yi" since he was a child, and he always bows his head and remains silent. Before his death, his grandfather gave him a broken stele, saying that his ancestor was a historian, and because he offended the powerful with his straight writing, he was demoted to this position and changed his surname to "Ma" from then on. He cut out the stele and signed it with "Sima" according to the ancestral inst
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Cotton Wool Homesickness Song
She was a tailor and he was a passing scholar. They stayed overnight and she gave him her quilt. He said he would come to high school to marry her in the future. She waited year after year, and the quilt was washed again and again, but it was so thin that she refused to change it. Later, he sent someone to deliver the money and a letter of divorce. She accepted the money, returned the letter, turned the quilt over and sewed a new layer of cotton. When her son asked her why she didn't replace it
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Plum Heart and Snow
Her name is Mei, she has never married, and she guards the old house and a wintersweet tree in the courtyard. The people in the village laughed at her for being crazy, but she just kept silent. That winter, someone sent a yellowed letter, with only one sentence in the letter: "Wait until I come back to enjoy the snow." She pressed the letter under the plum tree, and stood under the tree every year when the snow fell. Until the day she grew old, the plum blossoms were in full bloom and the branch
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A Liter of Self-Made Wine in the Center of the Lake
The woman in white comes to the pavilion every night to pour wine, saying nothing. After the scholar got drunk, he saw a pair of embroidered shoes hanging on the top of the pavilion, with drops of water dripping from them. During an inspection the next day, we found out that a bride drowned in this lake a hundred years ago. Her wedding dress sank to the bottom, but her embroidered shoes were hung on the pavilion beams. It was night when the woman came again, with half a red rope slipping out of
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If You Come, It Will Be Sunny
She lives in a small inn in the mountains, and the roof is renovated every rainy season. A passing traveler asked her why she bothered, and she said she was waiting for someone. One rainy day twenty years ago, the man said he would pick her up when she settled down. From then on, she repaired the roof every year before the rainy season, fearing that it would get wet when he came. In the seventh year, sunflowers were planted in front of the house; in the fifteenth year, a path was built. When the
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Provisional County Records
He was responsible for repairing a damaged county chronicle from the Ming Dynasty and worked overtime until late every night. One night when I fell asleep at my desk, I dreamed of an old man wearing a long gown, pointing to a certain page in the book and saying: "The place name here is wrong." I woke up half-convinced, and after consulting many sources, I found that it was indeed wrong. He corrected and revised according to the instructions in the dream, and that night he dreamed of the old man
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After the Rain, the Rainy Season Will Never Come Again
When she was seventeen, she liked to hold a transparent umbrella on rainy days and wait for him to ride by. He would always stop, hand her the raincoat, and go home in the shower. On graduation day, he asked her to meet him at his old place, but she didn't see anyone until the rain stopped. Ten years later, at the class reunion, someone said that he had a car accident the day before graduation, his leg became lame, and he never rode a bicycle again. She found his house. He opened the door with a
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The Girl with Shasha in Autumn Bridge
She goes to the river every day to do laundry, and she always sees a young man sketching on the other side. Across a river, no one spoke, only occasionally looking up at each other. In autumn, the river swelled, and she walked around two bridges to the other side, only to find that he had left, leaving only a painting - in the painting, she was doing laundry, with four words on it: On the water side. She took the painting home and hung it on her bedside. Twenty years later, my daughter dug out t
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Can You Write Another Letter to Me?
She is a psychiatrist, but she cannot cure her own heart disease - there is always a voice in her dreams asking: "Can you cut off the other side of my heart?" She looked through ancient books and found that this was the final letter written by a general to his wife thousands of years ago. When his wife received the letter, the general had died in the battlefield. She went to burn a letter in front of the general's tomb, and that night she dreamed that her wife said to her: "I am waiting for him,
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Coarse Food Hall All over the World
"Have Anjie eaten?" His father asked this question every day on the hospital bed, even though he could no longer recognize anyone. Every time, my mother would come close to her ear and reply: "Eat the noodles you made." Then he would smile reassuringly. Sixty years ago, Anjie married a rugged military officer, and no one looked forward to it. She couldn't get used to eating in the canteen, so he secretly built a stove in the yard. She didn't know how to make whole grains, so he taught her step b
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Knowledge Mailbox
After the only teacher in the village primary school retired, the children no longer had anyone to teach them. A college student from the city nailed a wooden box at the entrance of the village and hung the sign "Knowledge Mailbox." The children wrote down the questions they wanted to ask on paper and put them in. He came to take them away every Saturday and brought back answers and new books next time. From "Why is the sky blue" to "How do planes fly?", The boxes are getting older and the lette
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How Could Yu Feishui Know What I Was Saying?
He was a son of a powerful man and he set up a golden cage for her. She escaped for three years and was finally captured. He pinched her chin and sneered: "If you run away again, I will make the Shen family disappear from the capital." Later, when his family was in trouble, she gave him the chance to escape. He refused to leave and asked why with red eyes. She said: "In the past three years, you have imprisoned my people; just in that second, you finally imprisoned my heart."
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