第二百三十篇第二百三十篇Story Two Hundred and Thirty

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Story Two Hundred and Thirty · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Beauty’s Head

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: In a plain inn room by daylight, three startled travelling merchants react to a young woman with a high chignon who has put her head and one bare arm through a round knot-hole in the plank partition, one sitting half-risen on the brick bed with his hand raised, one pointing with his mouth open, and one stepping forward to catch her hand, with a low table, teapot, abacus, lantern and bundled luggage around them.