第三百四十八篇第三百四十八篇Story Three Hundred and Forty-Eight

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

A Man of My County

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a morning in the main room of a village house, a rough countryman sits on a long bench with one hand on his chest and the other raised as he tells his tale, his wife stands in the middle with her head tilted in doubt, and an old neighbour at the right holds a straw-tied parcel and counts on his fingers, with a lattice window, a table with a teapot, a water jar and a doorway onto a yard with chickens behind them.