2 posts tagged with "Sports"

Old Wang, or as the neighbors more familiarly called him, "Master Wang," ran a tiny watch repair shop. It felt like an old-fashioned pocket watch forgotten in the city's breast pocket, its hands lazy, yet stubbornly recording the passage of time. Squeezed between a noisy Mala Tang stall and a clothing store perpetually having a clearance sale, the shop seemed out of place, like an old scholar insisting on writing letters in archaic script.

The sky was gloomy, like someone's grandmother had died, holding back a torrent of tears. But the "Juxian Teahouse" at the entrance of the old Beijing hutong was as lively as a boiling pot.