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Pao Ding was cutting up the carcass of an ox, King Hui of Liang was marveled at his amazing skills.
“How did you acquire such skills?” Said King Hui.
Pao Ding replied, “At the first begining when I was a newbie, an ox is an ox, I only saw its body. But three years later, I could see its internal structure. Now when working on an ox, I use my mind more than my eyes.”
“Ah, now I understand,” Said King Hui, “Does it have anything to do with the knife anyhow?”
Pao Ding answered,
“Not really. Normally for a so-so chef, he needs to replace his knife each month, a good chef needs a new one each year. My knife has been used for nineteen years.”

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J was not home, she went to work early in the morning.

I can remember some classmate of Allan showed up and we talked to each other and probably other activities with him or them. My classmate who now lives in Dongguan city seems once showed up, not sure.

I have been sleeping from the morning to the next morning, almost a whole day but J was not back. Later some girl appeared, but I felt she was not the real J. Seems she had been trying to prove she was the real J, my girlfriend. Seems she talked to someone near my house for that. She even brought my ex girlfriend. But as I can remember my ex girlfriend was not so white and the one before me a little short and slender…. She had the appearance I like better, but she was not the right one either. I was sensing the current J was a fox spirit.

In ancient China, at Shang Danysty, the Ruler Zhou met a fox spirit, her name was Daji, she became his fox-ghost concubine and inspired Ruler Zhou to murder his loyal ministers and even his own son…. Pu Songling has many stories about fox spirits in his book, Liaozhaizhiyi,translated as Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai or Tales of the Strange, but they are stories in a collected book which everyone knows they are faked stories.

If J was the fox spirit leader, then the other beautiful girls should be her sisters. I did not believe the world around me are the previous world. However I cann’t find any way back.
I tried to call the China mobile service number 13800138000, see if reachable or what. But right at this moment, my bedsheet caught fire, I looked through the many gaps of my house seems the fire was from outside. I cried out loudly, and broke out and cried, “Fire! Help!Fire!…” The fire was lighted several places here and there. Fortunately I was able to get water and put them down. But no one showed up or came up to help.

After that, I was still worried. I began to realize I was in a dream, I tried to wake up, just cann’t. There are some cactus outside, I tried to use them to hit me, if I can feel the pain, then possiblely I would wake up and go to the real world I had been living in for more than 20 years; otherwise it was a false world in my dream.
But I did not feel any pain….

Not sure how I woke up later. It was right half past ten in the morning.  I was so exhausted, and thirsty too. I powered on the cook to boil some water, it boiled as I can hear, I went to get the oatmeal and sugger, I did not grasp the box tight enough, it falled down to the ground, I can see it and hear the sound which is a pleasant thing. Also I can taste the oatmeal…Now I feel I am in the real world. However still I am a bit scared about the dream might come again, in case I cann’t wake up from it. It is necessary to write down something in the real world, so when real J comes back and I am just not here or cann’t remember the real she. Someday when find out what I write, she will understand what happened…..

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A man decided to buy new shoes in the market. He measured his feet at home with a ruler. When he arrived at the market, he found he had left the measurement at home Then the man hurried home to fetch it, but by the time he went back to the market again, the business hour was over and it was closed.
“Why not try the shoes on at the market?” a neighbour asked him.
“I trust the ruler more.” replied by the man.

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A prince would always free doves at New Year’s Day to show his kindness to his citizen. The ministers knew that the prince made it a custom, all of them would set out to catch lots of doves before Chinese New Year‘s Eve. One day some one told what the minister would always do about the doves for the prince, the prince recognized his improper behavior and did not set free doves any more.

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