The Faded Portrait

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Ying Tang, thirty-four years old and owing nine months of rent to the temple granary, stood in the rain-slicked plaza of the river county, clutching a faded, water-stained portrait of his deceased mentor while the crowd’s hostile whispers confirmed their belief that he had abandoned his post during the last riot. The wet season had not ended in forty days, and the mud from the sawmill edge...

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