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家是一所大房子，房子后边有块空地，尽是些肥沃的土壤，却偏偏遇着我们这一家，不喜欢什么花花草草，种上些小葱大蒜的，倒也实在。 Home is a big house. There is a vacant lot behind the house. It is full of fertile soil, but it happens to meet our family. I don't like flowers and plants. It's true that I planted some shallots and garlic. 黑的土壤里有块小地方，特别显眼，那儿的土不是黑的，中间一小块是黄色，右边是青色，左边是白色，下边是红色。 There is a small place in the black soil, which is very conspicuous. The soil there is not black. The middle one is yellow, the right one is cyan, the left one is white, and the bottom one is red. 父亲告诉我，这叫五色土，传说女娲补天的时候，用的就是它，女娲也用它创造了人，所以我们有黑色的头发，黄色的皮肤，蓝色的眉毛，红色的血液和白色的…… My father told me that this is called five colored earth. It's said that when Nuwa mends the sky, she uses it. Nuwa also uses it to create people. So we have black hair, yellow skin, blue eyebrows, red blood and white “白色的什么呀？”我问。 "What's the white one?" I asked. “自己想。” "I think so." “那你的眉毛不是蓝色的啊？” "Then your eyebrows are not blue?" | 
