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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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Geriatric Medical Records
He picked up a lost old man at the train station. The old man would only ask repeatedly: "Who is your name?" He answered patiently, and the old man asked again, and the cycle continued. After struggling for three hours, he finally found his family, who handed him a medical record: Alzheimer's disease, memory of only five minutes. When he was about to leave, the old man suddenly grabbed him and said clearly: "You are a good man, I will remember it." That was the only sentence the old man remember
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A Piece of Engagement Paper and a Pair of Red Threads
He and she were married blindly, and they didn't even see each other's faces clearly during the ceremony. After his marriage, he went sailing all the year round and only sent back some money and a brief letter home at the end of the year. She served his parents and supported his children without complaining. Forty years later, when he returned home to retire, he saw her hands covered with calluses and suddenly knelt down and kowtowed three times. She helped him up and said, "Stop kneeling. The r
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People's Houses Resting on the Water at the Bottom of the Boat
Along the Wuzhen river, grandma guards half an old house and an old wooden boat. The developer came three times, but she refused to move. The grandson didn't understand: "How much is this old boat worth?" Grandma said nothing. Later, the grandson found a line of engraved words on the bottom of the boat: "Afang, wait for me to come back and row the boat to pick you up." Those were my grandfather's words. That year my grandfather was arrested and sent away as a young man, and he never came back. G
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Regular Class Blackboard Reports
During the three years of high school, she always sat in his back seat and looked at the stubborn tuft of hair on the back of his head. At the graduation party, he played guitar by the river, and the moonlight shone on the water. She stood in the crowd and didn't dare to approach. Ten years later, at a class reunion, he drank too much and said, "At that time, I was waiting for someone to come over, but unfortunately she didn't come." She smiled and said, "The moon on the river lit up the entire
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Northwest Plateau Post Office Station
He stayed at the abandoned post station in the northwest Gobi for thirty years, and no one knew why he stayed. Every spring, he would renovate a room, clean a table, and put a jug of water on it. Occasionally, a passing hiker would stay overnight, but he never asked his name. Someone asked him who he was waiting for, and he only said: "In ancient times, this was an inn for delivering letters." Until his death, when people were sorting out his belongings, they found a stack of returned letters. T
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Traveling to a Foreign Country
Later he married a famous lady and I moved away. When we met again at the airport, he held my suitcase and said, "Come home with me." I opened his hand and said, "This time, wait for me." But when we turned around, we both had red eyes.
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Qianshan Lantern Holder
More than 2,000 poor girls have walked out of the mountains - this is the result of Zhang Guimei's more than 40 years of hard work. At first, she went door to door to persuade out-of-school girls to return to school, but she was turned away time and time again. In order to organize a free female high school, she dragged her sick body around and was called a "liar". It wasn't until the school was built and she stood on the podium that she finally lit up the light for them to walk out of the mount
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Under the Osmanthus Tree in the Small Town
Late at night, A Sheng, a young man from a small town, climbed up to the attic and found a jade rabbit clay doll shimmering in the moonlight. He played with it casually, and was pulled into a hazy dream - there was a mother he had never met before, sitting under the osmanthus tree and picking up the soles of her shoes. When he woke up, there was a crack in the palm of the clay doll, and a pair of brand new cloth shoes beside the pillow.
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Arctic Astronomer
She always watches the stars on the rooftop late at night because her boyfriend said, "Look at the North Star when you miss me." After he died in the line of duty, she went every night. In the seventh year, she met an astronomer. The other party told her that many stars have been extinguished long ago, and the light we see was emitted by them hundreds of millions of years ago. She was stunned and burst into tears - it turned out that the sentence "Look at the North Star when you miss me" meant t
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Hou Yinqiao
In order to break the deadlock for his country, Jiang Zhi, the guard of Chenzhou, borrowed the time compass to go back three years, possessed an orphan girl in the cloud realm, and met the gentle young man Mingzhu. The two got to know each other through the piano and promised each other with their hearts. They worked together to investigate an old injustice case, but they were deeply involved in the conspiracy of the powerful minister Pei Yu. The fate of time and space cannot be violated, and th
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Waltz of Fate
Late at night, she sat alone by the lake. The moonlight shattered on the water surface, creating ripples. Many years ago tonight, he played the piano for her here. The wind blows, the sound of the piano is far away, but only the moonlight remains. She reached out and touched the light in the water, and the ripples disappeared, leaving only a drop of tear, falling into silent memories.
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Mr. Constellation
She met a boy who was obsessed with zodiac signs and found it interesting at first. But every time he quarrels, he blames "Mercury retrograde"; when he makes a mistake, he says "Sagittarius naturally loves freedom." She finally understood: He was not studying the horoscopes, but using them to avoid responsibility. On the day she left, she deleted all the zodiac signs matching charts - whether they are reliable or not depends only on people's hearts.
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If Writers Were Replaced by Books
The writer suffers from a strange disease and can only write the outline of the story - the characters, conflict, and ending. The words are precise, but there are no details. Editors mocked him for looking like a skeleton. One night, he dreamed that all the omitted flesh and blood gathered into a torrent and swallowed him up. When he woke up, he found that he had become a thick book, with his entire life written on every page. The other books on the bookshelf have all become summaries.
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You Suddenly Appeared on the Last Shift
Lin Wan believes in horoscopes and even more so in his sixth sense. One night, the astrolabe showed "It is advisable to travel far". She boarded the last train based on her intuition and came to an ancient building. A banquet in the building passed by in a flash, and the guests passed by like a startled giant. She tasted a strange fragrance in a trance, but woke up in her own bed with flower petals at the corner of her mouth. From then on, she firmly believed that there is indeed a banquet in th
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Pure Coincidence?
Ajie, a sophomore in middle school, met his aloof senior sister by chance at a comic exhibition. He lowered his voice and said, "Oi oi, what a coincidence, woman." The senior girl rolled her eyes at him and turned to leave. When Ajie was embarrassed, the senior suddenly turned back and took out his mobile phone: "Is this line from the 7th episode of "The Blade of Darkness"? Add a friend." The two became best friends because of a second line.
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Star Map Star Sea
The young man came from a distant galaxy and was not good at words. He only hid his thoughts in the star map. He taught the girl to identify the arcs of nebulae and orbits, and every halo was a trace of him spanning light years. The girl gradually understood: the curved arc of Orion's cantilever means "I miss you", and the bright red of the Rose Nebula means "it's good to see you." She looked up at the night sky and finally understood that the romance of crossing the sea of stars was never abo
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Audio Assistant
Ah Huan left a noisy audio message before his death. I used AI to separate the noise and heard a vague "the safe code is 0412". Opening his dilapidated cabinet, there was no money inside, only a yellowed photo - the back said: "Son, I'm sorry." That was his address that had been lost for thirty years.
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