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Before the Spring Equinox That drop of blood stayed on the seventh step for seven days. For the first three days, it was reddish-brown, its edges turning black from oxidation—flat and irregularly circular. On the fourth day, the humid southern winds arrived, and the moisture caused the salt in the bloodstain to resurface, forming a layer of white frost that felt rough to the touch. On the afternoon of the sixth day, a janitor wiped it with a mop soaked in 84 Disinfectant, yet faint pink traces remained…-
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After the white dew The barbed wire fence on the northern slope of Greencen Mountain appears gray-white in the midday light.The rusted metal wires intersect into a diamond-shaped grid, and the barbed wire on the top rusts to reddish brown, the same color as blood after oxidation. Wei Zhiheng stood in front of the net, holding a painting box in his left hand. The belt buckle dug into the hollow of his shoulder, leaving a red mark under his collarbone.He looked up and saw that the net was about two meters…
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white dew Wei Zhiheng's tongue searched in his mouth.The roof of the mouth, the base of the tongue, the gums—the places where taste buds should be ridged—are now flat.He swallowed, his throat making a dry friction sound.There is no sourness, no bitterness, only the moisture of the rice paper after getting wet, sinking at the base of the tongue. Huang Jinye pushed the enamel bowl over.The red oil floats on the surface of the rice noodles and condenses into a film, with the edges curled…
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After the heat In front of the sink in dormitory 307, the faucet was not closed tightly.The water droplets hit the ceramic, making a sound similar to the movement of the second hand.Wei Zhiheng lowered his head and spit out a mouthful of pink foam. Blood mixed with toothpaste stuck to the edge of the porcelain basin, refusing to slide off.The upper gums are broken again.It's not pain, it's swelling, like a small stone embedded in the gum, pushing against it with the pulse. He swallowed his saliva and…
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Before summer heat The whistle of the high school military training came up from Jiujiu Square.The copper whistle, with its high frequency, became dull and sank between the floors across three floors and two rows of camphor trees. Wei Zhiheng is sitting on the third drawing table in the art classroom of Changgu Tower.Your right hand hovers over the drawing board, with your fingertips touching a 2B pencil.The purpura on the palm suddenly swelled, and the bleeding point as big as a needle cracked under the…
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After a slight summer heat The infusion room of the county hospital is on the second floor of the old building.The ceiling fan rotates overhead, with three iron blades painted white, with rust on the edges and a reddish-brown color.The bearing is short of oil and makes a squeaking sound every time it turns, counting to four to complete a cycle.The fan blades cut the light coming from the window, casting rotating shadows on the ground. The shadows move at the same speed as the fan blades, sweeping across…
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Xiaoshu Wei Zhiheng was sitting in the second-to-last row of the examination room on the third floor of Miluo Building.The artificial leather surface of the plastic seat was cracked, and the cracks were radiating, consistent with the shape of the bruises from the puncture on his left hip.He holds a 0.5 mm black pen in his right hand. The tip of the pen hovers over the filling box of question 12 on the answer sheet, and the ink smudges into an enlarged black dot.This black spot overlapped with the fixed…
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2 before summer solstice The setting sun cuts in through the gap in Greencen Mountain at a very low angle, illuminating the limestone mountain in the backyard of the villa translucently.The mountain is exposed, with gray-white rock formations cut longitudinally, no vegetation, and exposed calcareous concretions.The wind comes from the mountain pass, carrying water vapor from the underground river, fishy and sweet, sinking to the ground level. The cutting machine of the stone factory in the distance…
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1 before summer solstice Wei Zhiheng pedaled his bicycle uphill.The grinding feeling of the rotating steel needle in the waist.The wound after the bone marrow puncture was on the posterior superior spine of the left hip. When I woke up in the morning, the blood was soaked through two layers of school uniform pants. It was dark brown and hardened.With each pedaling revolution, the chain clicked and the vibration was transmitted to the pelvis through the sit bones. He arched his back and pressed his…
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Before Grain in Ear The television was muted. A rectangle of blue light projected onto the wall, where a news anchor’s mouth moved without sound. Wei Zhiheng sat in a rattan chair, his waist pressed against the hard bamboo slats of the backrest. The dull pain from the bone marrow aspiration persisted, a rhythmic throbbing deep within his ilium. He had maintained this posture for twenty minutes, right leg crossed over his left knee, the fabric of his canvas trousers rubbing together. His right hand hung…
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