I nour a house on the west of the city, The ground in the centre was laid out rectangular divisions. Where the windows and doors left a space, firs and bamboos helped to fill up the vacancy. The thorny bushes were pulled up, and a garden made to grow good vegetables and other planta, ying ssu poppy good plant to have." The gardener came to mo to sy lethe
is shaped like a ying (jar); it is called cause, though small, it ssu because the seeds are small and look like ssu (millet). It is sown with wheat, and ripens with panicled millet, (7si, panicum miliacum); when growing: it may be eaten like the vegetables of spring; its seeds are like autumn millet, When ground it yields a sap like cow's milk; when boiled it becomes drink fit for Buddha, Old men who decayed, who have little when they eat meat cannot digest it and when they eat vegetables cannot diatinyui sh their flavour, should take this drink, willow maltot and stone basin. Fry it till it becomes a sweet drink.. It does good to the mouth and to the throat, It restores tranquillity to the lungs and nourishes the stomach.
For three years the door has been closed, and I have gone nowhere and come back from _no' @. I see here the Hermit of the Shade (or Taoist priest) and the long-robed Buddhist priest; when they sit opposite I forget to speak. Then I have to drink a cup of this poppy decoration, Laugh, I am happy, I have come to Yingchuen and am wandering on the banks of its river. I seem to be climbing the slopes of the Lu mountain in the far went,
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