Mrs. Du's silence made Chen Ji anxious, and just when he was about to say something, the heavy iron door was unexpectedly opened again, startling the couple.
Every time the prison door opened, it meant Chen Ji would be tortured. This time, however, it was not the two jailers who dragged Chen Ji to the torture chamber every day, but the Prison Head.
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"Oh, it's snowing!"
On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Mo Yan got up early, dressed, and opened the window to find that snowflakes were gently falling outside.
The weather had been overcast since yesterday afternoon and it seemed likely to snow, but Mo Yan didn't expect it to actually start. Fortunately, the snow was light and had just begun to fall, so there was no accumulation on the ground yet, and it wouldn't affect travel for the time being.
