第一百五十八篇第一百五十八篇Story One Hundred and Fifty-Eight

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

A Ghost Gives a Banquet

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on an autumn morning in a scholar's bedroom, a sick young wife sits half upright in a curtained canopy bed and points a scolding finger, while her husband, already in cap and gown, bends toward her with his hands raised in startled bewilderment, beside a table holding a potted chrysanthemum, dogwood sprigs and a medicine bowl.