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The Koi Carp Banquet

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Old Li was responsible for cleaning the ornamental pond at Guanyin Bridge. These past few days, he was swamped. The koi carp in the pond, originally symbols of good fortune, had somehow collectively turned belly-up. Over thirty woven bags were filled with their cold corpses, piled up in a corner by the bridge like swollen gray tumors.

Old Li was an honest man who had been in this line of work for almost twenty years, and had seen his fair share of "accidents." He habitually sighed, feeling that these fish had truly had bad luck. Guanyin Bridge was known as a feng shui hotspot, but these koi carp didn't seem to appreciate it; even in death, they caused a commotion here.