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Sao Di Wu · Nine Nines Return to One
Throw the cold water, boil the hot water, cold then hot and the empty lane comes to a boil. Work the raw earth, plant the wild flowers. Sprawling gourd vines drum at the glad rain, fruit-fragrance brimming over.
The sweeping-the-floor dance, the wiping-the-floor dance, sweeping and wiping and good things on the way. Lay in the qin and the inkstone, set out the wine and drink a wish. Nine years of one heart, coming and going — the old friends gather.
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