第四百二十四篇第四百二十四篇Story Four Hundred and Twenty-Four

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

The Giant Scorpion

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: inside a ruined, weed-grown Buddha pavilion by day, a armoured general presses one hand to his forehead and grips his sword with the other as he looks up at a huge scorpion crawling down a wooden wall, while one soldier with a spear turns to flee through the broken doorway and another shrinks back with raised hands, before a cracked clay Buddha, a broken altar and cobwebbed beams.

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