第一百二十八篇第一百二十八篇Story One Hundred and Twenty-Eight

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

Captain Yang

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a dusty frontier road in daylight, an elderly bearded civil official on horseback turns and raises a hand to stop a grinning military officer beside him, who has drawn his bow with an arrow aimed down the road toward a distant earth mound with a tiny head showing above it, with a bare tree, a boundary stone, low hills and a beacon tower behind them.