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Friends: Wouldn’t it be nice if our children got married in the future？

Husband: No way！ My daughter is only one， and your son is two； when she’s ten， your son would be 20. That’s disgusting！

wife: No， sweetie， your math is wrong. Our daughter will be two years old next year， and they will be the same age by then.

This joke is adapted from Xiaolin Guangji （《笑林广记》， Extensive Gleaning from the Forests of Laughter ）， a joke book published in 1781 that epitomized Chinese humor.

AASWERS FAR LAST ISSUE

Across： 1. 花果山；3. 百年之好；5. 体育老师；7. 新加坡；9. 壮族

Down： 2. 茉莉花；4. 加法；6. 山体滑坡；8. 年轮； 10. 老当益壮；11. 好为人师

CRASS WARD

ACRASS

1. The highest organ of power in China

4. Agree on a three-point decree； lay some ground rules

6. The small machine that keeps you connected， can be addictive

7. Secret code， password

10. Trifling skill of a scribe； literary skill of small order

13. Only the toughest grass can stand strong winds； adversity is

the best testing ground for strength

DAWA

2. What Edward Snowden leaked

3. Approximately， by estimation

5. Classic Yunnan cuisine involving chopped black pickles and two other ingredients

8. Winter worm， summer grass

9. An idiom for proficiency in a particular field

11. Famous poet of the Southern Song Dynasty， from whose famous lines the name “Baidu”was taken

12. Ignorant