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This book is a chapter-by-chapter novel based on folk stories circulating in eastern Changzhou. Taking the late Qing Dynasty as the background, he used fictional characters to connect some folklore in eastern Changzhou in Ming and Qing Dynasties to make it a coherent story. Taigong, Yongchuan, Yinsheng and others in the novel have different personalities, which fully reproduce their growing pains, cleverness, life habits and tragic endings under the historical conditions at that time, and reflect from one side that the lives of ordinary people are closely related to the rise and fall of a country, and peaceful years are precious and hard-won. The book is about 376,000 words, and its writing is modeled after China's traditional chapter-and-verse novels. It inherited China's traditional Confucian ethics ideologically and reproduced the real life of Changzhou people in the late Qing Dynasty. It is a small window for people to know how Changzhou people lived in the old society. There are some stories about ghosts, such as ghost fan, white sail on the northbound ditch, white fish against the king, white dragon girl returning in early August, Tian Tong reed in Song Jianhu, ghost crying in Taihu Lake, etc. These seemingly absurd stories are true stories of people at that time, and most of these legends are well documented. Some phenomena have been explained by modern science, and some need to be deciphered by future generations. The author is based on historical materialism. ...