and crooning a song, with a white flower in her loose hair. No one cared what she was singing. After the song, she went into a
has burned
he painted screen appears
Jiangnan. The green plums
tle boat drifting along with t
the bridge. Someone is telling his un
N
ns south of th
aised her head, she felt frightened because she saw lots of winged insects fluttering. A few days later, she was ravenous and began to eat raw locusts. She chewed the locusts and greenish liquid filled her mouth. She couldn't help but vomit up the locusts, but for surv
. She needed a deep pit to bury them so that the bodies wouldn't be dug out and eaten by other hungry villagers. There was nothing left but a
terrible. Her fingernails were so long that they had even been curved; her
cratched the noxious sore on the crown of her head and the woun
n and cursed, "You dirty
tretched out her hands. "Pleas
nd picked up a broom to drive
noise outside the gate and became annoyed. He stood up and saw a beggar standin
manded while twisting a long hair
ed ugly and ferocious, and then extended her hand to him
e had bright eyes and graceful eyebrows with a good figure. It was summe
name?" Li Q
Ci," she answer
to eat. Then, go to tidy up the woodshed. I will go to see he
said, "Follow me. My master is kind-
f her head was sucking the pus and blood from the noxious sore. 'My master is a lecher. This woman is t
me steamed buns." With that, Sa
e of blood in her throat made her uncomfortable. She sw
to the ground and e
a and kicked her in the shins. "Don'
ruggled to her feet. She chomped hungrily through the st
re some water in the woodshed. Yo
basin of water on the ground. Ci squatted down and kept drinking from the basin till her be
ed, "Th
iot! You will ha
a pile of wood and fell asleep. No matter how hard life was, she could s