第一百九十四篇第一百九十四篇Story One Hundred and Ninety-Four

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

Princess Lotus

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in a garden, a mason with a trowel looks up at a swarm of bees streaming over the wall toward a half-built brick hive with only its rafters in place; a scholar with a bee on his sleeve looks on dazed while his laughing friend, an arm on his shoulder, points at the swarm; bricks and a mortar bucket lie about.