Chapter 42 · for subscribers
Nineteen villages had put their names to the pegs in nineteen different ways. Hezui's headman signed for forty houses in one morning in exchange for the aqueduct being mended, and nobody in Hezui had ever been told that a peg over a door is not a blessing coming in. It is a pipe going out, and the only question a pipe ever answers is which end you are standing at.
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