When Shan Shan and Xian He finds out that the couple helped them to paint, they are incredulous.

单珊和冼赫发现国忠夫妇竟然帮他们洗墙壁，感到难以置信。

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He comes from a loving family who occupy the ground floor of a shabby apartment in southern Xian, where his father sells remedies to people too poor to afford a doctor.

他来自一个充满爱意的家庭，家里人居住在西安南部一栋破烂的公寓的地下室中，他的父亲靠兜售一些药方给无力就医的穷人为生。

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Xian took his wife's body and carried it up to the hills, where he buried her.

宪天全将妻子的尸体背到山上埋了。

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He had come the way I had, from Xian, 1, 600km westward down the Gansu corridor between the wastes of the Gobi and the cold heights of the Qilian Shan.

BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

Mr Thubron spent eight months travelling the 11, 300 kilometres (7, 000 miles) of the old Silk Road from Xian in the heart of China to Antioch (Antakya) in Turkey and, although he scrupulously admits in a note that his trip was broken by fighting in northern Afghanistan and that he was obliged to continue the following year, this interruption does not disrupt the flow of his narrative.

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