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... dings, Tonggu Lane still maintains the style of private houses and courtyards decades ago.

  Every house in the alley is a single family.

  Red bricks and bluestones, flower walls and greenery, quiet paths and deep courtyards.

  In one of the wide houses covered with creepers in front of the door, under the perfumed plane tree, an old man with snow hair is scratching his head and ears at the chessboard in front of him.

   not easy to solve, not easy to solve...

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