第三百五十七篇第三百五十七篇Story Three Hundred and Fifty-Seven

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

The God of the Peak

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a morning in a city street outside a temple gate with stone lions, a bearded official in a square cap stops with one hand raised to his chin and stares across the flagstones at a physician inside an open-fronted drug shop, who looks down to weigh herbs on a small steelyard with a paper packet in his other hand, among walls of medicine drawers, hanging herbs and a gourd sign.