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... courtyard of a farmhouse, a comely girl of sixteen or seventeen, wearing worn, dark blue clothes, gripped a large knife with delicate hands as she struggled to cut through the tough hemp cakes—a thick, roughly ten-centimeter circular cake made from the residue of fried soybeans. Each time the knife slid over the hemp cake, it wobbled and trembled precariously, causing onlookers to feel uneasy.
A few egrets wound their way around the girl, bobbing their heads and flicking their tails as t ...
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