275:, a group of illegal kidney-sellers were exposed by an internet blogger, who went undercover in the group as a kidney seller for fifteen days and later, on May 28, 2012, called the police. During the fifteen days undercover in the house, he recorded his conversations with the kidney-sellers and asked them why were they selling their kidneys. One of them said that he sold his kidney so that he could afford to purchase a new cellphone for his girlfriend, and be able to support his family. In a part of the novel, a man disguised as a woman is caught working as a prostitute. This is similar to an incident reported in the autonomous
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332:– an honest and reserved man born on a moving train. He was adopted by a young switchman and raised with love. At the age of 41, Yang died in a gas explosion in a restaurant while reading a news report on his ex-wife Li Qing's death. Having no funeral urn nor grave, he roams around the land of the unburied as a spirit, and encounters his ex-wife, Mouse Girl and her boyfriend, Zhang Gang and Li, Li Yuezhen and 27 infants, and finally his father.
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On the second day, Yang Fei meets his ex-wife, Li Qing, who rejected many suitors to marry him. However, Li Qing divorced him and married a new man because Li Qing wanted higher achievements in her business. They bring up the memory, and Li Qing tells Yang Fei that he was the only husband she had.
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