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This book consists of three independent novels correlated with each other. The stories are set in a village called "Shaoshui Valley" around the local people like the Scholar, Wu Xiong, Huo Yan, Kong Maoyang, Wu Xilang, etc. The Scholar is keen to send letters to distant places, Kong Maoyang is a leader of many beggars, and Wu Xilang can change time... A sea of dialects and local elements run throughout the book, making us see how Yuan Zhesheng has created such a fresh local novel. And the minute description of time ubiquitous in the book shows how Yuan manages to display the various subjective appearances of time in its absolute objective nature.