老马是村中有名的木匠兼画匠,到了73岁时他已不再下地干活,平日里除了在村口看看牌局、聊聊天,就是和村里另一名木匠老曹一起做棺材生意。但现在政府大力推行火葬,越来越少有人来寻两个老人制作棺材了。老曹近一年觉得自己身体状态很差,遂找了老马为自己制作了一个画着仙鹤的棺材。做完这一副棺材,老马就去女儿家过中秋节,回来时老曹已驾鹤归西。老曹的尸体被偷偷埋在槽子湖旁的玉米地里,老马来这里拜祭,回去之后宣称自己在湖边看到了仙鹤。老马偷偷告诉孙子他最后一个心愿就是将自己埋在槽子湖边,待某日仙鹤将他驮到天上去。。Katherine of Alexandria, brought up as a nomad and living in the desert, was aged just 11 when Emperor Maxentius saw her whilst out on patrol. Consumed by her beauty, impudence and uncanny talent for languages, he abducted the child, killing her family. The slaughter was witnessed by her young friend, Constantine, who would later become Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He never lost hope of finding Katherine. As a young woman, Katherine refused to submit to Maxentius' offers of marriage and she continually denounced his brutal enforcement of pagan religion upon the masses. Still obsessed with her beauty, Maxentius brought Katherine before 50 of Rome's finest scholars in an open court in Alexandria, where she eloquently demolished their arguments. When Constantine learned of Katherine's whereabouts and imprisonment at the hands of Maxentius, he led his army from York in a desperate bid to save her.。