第一百二十三篇第一百二十三篇Story One Hundred and Twenty-Three

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Story One Hundred and Twenty-Three · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Minister of Five Ramskins

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a cold winter morning in a bare earthen-walled room, a lean bearded scholar with loosened hair sits cross-legged on a heap of straw, wrapped in sheepskins, lifting a corner of one skin and counting on his fingers with a rueful smile, while thin rays of light fall from a torn-paper lattice window, with a broken jar, an overturned stool and a barred wooden door nearby.