第一百八十一篇第一百八十一篇Story One Hundred and Eighty-One

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馎饦媪

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

The Old Woman with the Dumplings

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a winter night in a scholar's bedroom, a bent-backed old woman beside a brick coal stove lifts the flap of her coat with one hand and drops dough pieces into a steaming iron pot with the other, while a young wife sits up in a curtained carved bed, clutching the quilt and watching her in fright, with a table of books, a cupboard, a lattice window and a wooden chest around them.