Another date for laughter

"e;She sat by the river washing her feet, she said: Water, you really keep your promise. You come on time every day. The water spoke back: What I saw yesterday wasn't me, I just got here. She sighed and said: Fortunately, the river hasn't changed, otherwise I wouldn't have a place to go. The water said: The water isn't the same water, so the river isn't the same river either. A flock of wild geese flew by in the sky. She said: Geese, you really don't miss your appointment. You passed by here last year, and now you're coming back at the same time this year. The geese said: It wasn't us who passed by last year. Those who passed by last year died in the south long ago. Then she realized that waiting for others had become a joke. That night, she suddenly turned into a mountain. "e;Can you imagine dying because of a joke? The people of Yanjin are put to a severe test every day. A fairy visits them in their dreams, often turning them into a nightmare that ends in death. So what is the solution? The solution is to memorize some jokes before going to sleep, but exams are very terrifying and can make a person forget what he has memorized. In his novel Another History of Laughter, Liu Jinyun, the author of the most famous novel "e;Divorce in the Chinese Style"e;, tells us about three different generations, a popular story of laughter, a man possessed by the spirit of a woman, a janitor who was a minister in a previous life, and in the midst of all this noise there is a fortune teller who sees the past and the future.