Chapter 43 · for subscribers
A river is the one thing a valley cannot be talked out of. The Baishi had come down that bed since before the first stone of Baishi was cut, it had carried the town's winter water and turned its mill-wheel and drowned a man every other spring, and on the night of the solstice nine hundred and forty people stood on it in their boots and looked at the fish.
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