Her parents were told it was 'unknown death' and received a small sum in compensation. But the villagers said it was the new disease, guolaosi. Overwork death.

he speaks to this very question: which he does with so many hacks and hesitations

I hated to wash windows, because for some unexplainable reason, I could not leave them smearless.

And, as it happened, reaching up for a sup, / He took a bottle full of poison up / And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, / Drank from it also, and they perished both.