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Lao Ge's Scales
At the end of Old Street, Lao Ge has hand-forged steelyards for forty years. His eye is said to be as true as any scale, yet he will not, on principle, forge a single crooked one. When the market's powerful fish trader offers him a fortune to make cheating scales, Lao Ge quietly turns the man's own dishonesty against him. As the old lane is torn down and steelyards give way to digital readouts, he leaves behind one last scale and a lesson no machine can weigh.
Jul 15, 20267 min