第三百四十三篇第三百四十三篇Story Three Hundred and Forty-Three

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辽阳军

Story Three Hundred and Forty-Three · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Soldier of Liaoyang

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in the main hall of a county office by day, a plainly dressed soldier kneels on the stone floor with hands clasped and face raised, pleading with a frowning, bearded magistrate who sits at a broad desk on a low dais stroking his chin, while a clerk beside the desk writes in a ledger and a court runner stands behind the kneeler holding a long staff, with a wave-and-sun screen, round pillars and an open door showing a pine-shaded courtyard behind them.