Another date for laughter

"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. "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 "Divorce in the Chinese Style", 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.