The first day of National Day holiday, good sunshine followed the heavy rain last night but a little cold in the early morning. It gradually got warmer around noon. Seeing the bedroom so warm with bright sunlight, I couldn’t help considering cleaning my body and changing my underwear. The fine weather will last at least for a few days according to the forecast. This is what we want for working after son’s departure. He has booked the train ticket back to school the day after tomorrow. Mother has to move to the west room when the kang in the east room is torn open for clearing the ash inside.

I’m inclined to eat meat as the cool autumn
advances. So I went to the butcher’s for a little.

天凉乃思肉，少許市中購。Cooked with vegetables, it would give a
nice smell over the dining table on the warm kang.

雜以烹菜肴，香飄熱炕頭。

The contemporary poets and calligraphers
lag far behind the ancient sages to catch up with them.

詩書猶推古聖賢，當世尚須仰頭看。The masterpieces of poetry and calligraphy
handed down to us for thousands of years have won immortal fame. Why don’t you,
poets and calligraphers in name only, feel ashamed to face these magnificent
works?

千年文墨傳芬芳，爾僭何為不汗颜？

Today is the twenty-second of the seventh month by the lunar calendar, the Birthday of the God of Wealth. Early in the morning, I first heard some explosions of firecrackers not far off. I had mistaken them for the signal of the beginning of a funeral. Soon I realized my misjudgment when more and more crackers exploded with bangs here and there. Then I guessed people must be celebrating the Birthday of the God of Wealth. By the evening the celebration reached high tide. I not only heard the deafening noise but saw the fireworks being set off in the street and smelt the dynamite.

I have been stripped to the waist recently when I am at home. But today was different. I was greeted by the cooler wind coming through the opened back window. As a result, I began to run at the nose and sneeze as well. Then I had to put on one of my T-shirts welcoming the first appearance of the autumn wind. However, outside the sunlight was still fiery.
Found a lot of rolled sheets of straw deserted outside the slaughterhouse near our bungalow in the dim light. I spent two hours carrying almost all of them back with my wheelbarrow. They are good fuels.

It is really the rainning season for this period of time. It usually have a suddenly shower for the most of the days. This week the rain become heavier and oftenner too. The worse case is that the clothes can not dry except for the inconvinience. Otherwise the autumn season should come as I can aware a little bit cool in the midnight. It should be transparent and dry in this lovely season even it looks not like what our previous memory about the autumn season. The weather should be complained because the emotion becomes blue and wet too. This moment we expect and hope that we can have the shining sunny days. What you give up and what you persist? The hardest is not to make the choice, it is the courage, it is the courage to continue this jouney even there is not much choices. We can not change something, we can change ourself at least.

Bran thought about it can a man still be brave if he is afraid that is the onlu tome a man can be brave his father told him do you understand why I didi it ?he was wilding they carry off women and sell them to the others his lord father smiled old nan has been telling you stories against in truth the man was an oathbreaker a deserter from the night watch no man is more dangerous the deserter knows his lfe is for frit if he is taken so he will no flinch from any crime no matter how vile but you mistake me the question was not why the man had to die but why I must do it bran had no answer for that king robert has a headsman he said uncertainlu he does his father admitted as did the kings before him yet our way is the loder way the bllod of the first men still flows in the veins of the starks and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword if you would take a mans life you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words and if you cannot bear to do that , the perhaps the man dees not devserve to die    one day,bran you will be robb bannerman holding a keep of your own for your brother and your king and justice will fall to you when that day comes you must take no pleasure in the task but neither must you look away a ruleer who hides behind paid excutionens soon forgets what death is     that was when jon reappeard on the crest of the hiull before them he waved and shouted down at them father bran come qiucklu see what robb has found then he was gone beyond a doubt his lord father said come let us see what mischief my sons have rooted out now he sent his horse into a trot the rest came afgter they found robb on the riverbank notrh of the bridge with jon still mounted beside him the late summer snows had been heavy this moonturn robb stood knee deeo in white his hood pulled back so the sumn shone in his hair he was crad;ling something in his arm while the boys talked in bushed excited voices    the riders picked their way carefully through the drifts groping for solid dooting on the hidden uneven ground were the first to reach the boys was laughing and hoking as he rode bran heard he breath go out of him gods he exclainmed struggling to keeo control of his horse as he reached for his sword sword was already out robb get away frin ut ge called as gus girse reared under him rreobb grinned and looked up from the bundle in his arms she can not hurt you she is dead bran was afire with curiosuty by then he would have spurred the pony faster but his father made them dismount bedide the brige and approach oon fdoot bran jumped off and ran by then jon jory and had all dismounted as weill what in the seven hells is it a wolf a freak look at the size of it brans hear was thumping in his chest as he pshed through a waist high drift to his brother side half bured in blood stained snow , a huge ardk shapq  slumped in death ice had formed in it shaggy greo= fur abd tge faint sell of corruption clung to it like a womans perfume bran glumpse blind eyes crawling with maggots a wide moth full of yellowed teeth but it was the size of it that made him gasp it was bigger than his piny weice the sieze of the largest bound in his gfathers kennel its no frak hon said calmly thats a direwolf they grow larger that the otehr kind there not been adirewolf sighed south of the wall in 2 hundred years i see on now bran tore his eyes away from the monster that was when he noticed the bundle in robbs arms he gave a cry of delight and movce  closer thepop was tiny ball of black fur uts ete stiill closed it nuzzled blindly against robbs chest as he cradled it searching for milk among his leathers  making a sad little whimpery sound bran reached out hesitantly go on rpbb told him you can touch him

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crystal alive with light voices raised in song the tullys kept a gods wood as all the great houses did but it was only a place to walk or read or lie in the sun worship was for the sept for her sake ned had bulkt a mall sept where she might sing to the serven faces of god but the bllod of the first men still flowed in the veins of the starks and his own gods wrer the old ones the nameless faceless gods of the green wood they shared with the vanished children of the forest at the center of the frove an ancient weirwood brooded over a small pool where the waters w were black and cold the heart treee ned called it the weirewoods bark was white as bone it leaves dark red like a thousand bllodstatined hands a face had been carved in the trunk of the great tree it features long and melancholy the deep cut eyes red with dried sao and strrangely watchful they were old those eyes older than winterfell itself they had seen brandon the builder set the first stone if the tales were true they had watched the castle s granite walls rise around them it was said that the children of the forst had carved the faces in the trees during the dawn centuries before the coming of the first men across the narrow sesa in the south the last weirwoods had been cut down or burned out a thoudsand years ago except on the isle of faces where the green men keot their silent watch up here it was different here every casstle had it godswood and every godswood had its heart tree and every heart tree its face    c found her husband beneath the weirwood seated on a moss covered stone , the gratsword ice was across this lap and he was cleaning the blade in those waters black as night a thousand years of humus lay thick upon the godswood floor swallowing the sound of her feet but the red eyes of the weirwood seemed to follow her as the same ned she called softluy he lifted his head to look at her he said his voice was sdistant and formal where are the children he would always ask her that in the kitchen arguing about nbames for the wolf pips she soread heer cloak on the forest floor and sat she could feel the eyes watching her but she did her best to ignore them Arya is already in love and Sansa is charmed and gracious but rickon is not quite sure    is he afraid  alttle she admitted he  is noly 3 he must learn to face his fears he will not be three forever and winter is coming yes the  words gave her a child as they always did the stark words every noble house had its words family mottoes touchstones prayers of sorts they boasted of honor and glory promised loyalty and truth swore faith words not for the first time she reflected on what a strange people these northerners were the man died well I will give him that Ned said he had a swatch of oiled leather in one hand he ran it lightly up the greatsword as he spoke polishing the metal to dark glow I was glad for brans sake you would have been proud of bran i am always proud of bran watching the sword as he stroked it she could see the rippling deep within the steel where the metal had been folded back on itself a hundred time in the forging had no love for swords but she could not deny that ice had its own beauty it had been forged in valyrica before the doom had come to the old freehold when the irosmiths had worked their metal with spells as well as hammers 4 hundred years old it was , and as sharp as the day it was forged the name it bore was older still a legacy from the age of heroes when the startks were king in the notth     he was the 4 this year ned said grimly the poor man was half mad something had put a fraer in him sodeep that my word could not reach him he sighed ben writes that the srength of the noght watch is down below a thousand itis not only desertions they are loseing men on rangingsa as well is it  the wilding who else ne lifted ice looked down the cool streel length of it and it will onlu grow worse the day may come when I  will have no chice but to call the banners and ride notth to deal with this king beyond the wall for good and all

beyond the wall the thought made c shudder ned saw the dread on her face mance is nothing for use to fear there are darker things beyond the wall she glanced behindher at the heart tree the pale bark and red eyes watching listening thinking its long slow thoughts his mile was gentle you listen to too many of old nans stories the others are as dead as the children of the forest gone eight thousand years maester luwin will tell you they never lived at all no livinig man has ever seen one until this morning no living man had ever seen a firewolf either c reminded him I ought to know better than to argue with a t he esaid with reeful smile he slid ice back into its sheath you did not cometo tell me crib tales I know how little you like this place what is my lady c took her busbands hand there was grievous news today my lord i didi not wish to tourble you until you had cleansed yourself there was no way to soften the blow so she told him sreight i am so sorry my love jon a is dead his eyes found hers and she could see how hard it took him ,as she had known it would , in his youth ned had fostered at the e and the childless lord a had become a second father to him and his fellow ward when the mad king had demanded their heads the lord of the e had raised his moon and falcon banners in revolt rather than give up those he had pledged to protect and one day 15 years ago this second father had become a brother as well as he and ned stood together in the sept at riverrun to wed 2 sisters the daughters of lord t     it was the kings seal and the letter is in own hand i saved it for you he said l was taken quickly even maester was helplesss but he brought the milk of the poppy so jon did not linger long in pain that is some semall mercy i suppose he said she oculd see the grief on his face but even then he thought first of her jons boy what word of them the message said only that they were well and had returned to the e I wish they had gone toriverrun instead the eyerie is high and lonely and it was ever her busbands place not hers momory will haunt each stone i know my sister she needs the comfort of family and friends around her your uncle waits in the cale dose he not tbrynden will do what he can for her and for the boy that is some comfort but stul go to her take the children fill her hall with noise and shouts and laughter that boy of hers needs other children about him and lysa should not be alone in her grief would that i could the letter had other tiding s the kiongs ri rideing  to winterfell to seek you out it took ned a moment to comprehend her words but when the understanding came the darkness left his eyes is coming here when she nodded a smile broke across his face  wished she could share his joy but she had heard the talk in the yards a direwolf dead in the snow a broken antler in its throat dead coiled within her like a snake but she forced herself to smile at this man she loved this man who pit no faith in sign i knew that would please you we should send word to your brother on the wall ben will want to be here i shall tell maester to send his swiftest bird ned rose and pulled her to her feet damnation how many years has it been and he gives us no more notice than this how many in his party did the message say?I should think a hundred knights at the least with all their retainers and half again as many freeriders and the children travel with them ro will keep an easy pace for their sakes hee said it is just as well that will give us more time to oreoare the quees brothers are also in the party ned grimaced at that there was small love betwwen him and the