The Deer and the Cauldron (Complete 5 Volumes)

Author: Jin Yong
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: In a novel, if the characters are too perfect, it would be unrealistic. Novels reflect society, and in real life, there are no absolutely perfect people. Novels are not moral textbooks. However, many of the readers of my novels are young teenagers, so let me remind these innocent children: Wei Xiaobao values loyalty, which is a good virtue. As for the other kinds of behavior, never imitate them.
The wind was like a knife, and the ground was covered in ice and frost. On a major road near the coast in Jiangnan, a group of Qing soldiers, armed with swords and spears, were escorting seven prison carts, moving northward against the wind and cold. In the front three prison carts were three men, dressed as scholars—one an elderly white-haired man, the other two middle-aged. In the rear four prison carts were women. In the last prison cart sat a young wife, holding a baby girl in her arms, who kept crying. Her mother cooed softly, but the baby only cried louder.
A Qing soldier nearby grew annoyed and kicked the cart with his leg, shouting, "Stop crying, or I'll kick you to death!" The baby was startled and cried even more loudly.