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Cousin Hsing to indite on the word 'red; your elder cousin Li on 'plum; and Ch'in Erh on 'blossom." "If you let Pao-yue off," Li Wan interposed, "I won't have it!" "I've got a capital theme," Hsiung-yuen eagerly remarked, "so let's make him write some!" "What theme is it?" one and all inquired.
Chia Chen was himself at this time rather unwell, and being also very much cut up, he entered the room shuffling along, propping himself up with a staff. "You are not well?" therefore remarked madame Hsing and the others, "and you've had besides so much to attend to during these consecutive days, that what you require is rest to get all right; and why do you again come over?"
But when Pao-yue perceived them rise, he too felt a wish to go back along with them, but madame Hsing remarked smilingly, "You had better sit a while as I've something more to tell you," so that Pao-yue had no alternative but to stay. "When you get back," madame Hsing added, addressing the other two, "present, each one of you, my regards to your respective mothers.
At the sight of the four bleeding wounds Liu Ch'in could not refrain from calling out indignantly: "This priest is a wicked man, thus to make a martyr of a woman in order to obtain the succession!" Having thus spoken, he left with his companion for the kingdom of Hsing Lin. On their return the King was overwhelmed with joy.
In the inner apartments there were only a small number of ladies of close kinship. Mesdames Hsing and Wang, and lady Feng, and the women of the whole household, were entertaining the guests, when they heard a servant announce that Mr. Chia Chen had come. Lady Feng alone composedly stood up.
"After sitting here for a while," madame Hsing explained, "they all went at the back; but in what rooms they have gone, I don't know." "My senior aunt, you said you had something to tell me, Pao-yue observed; what's it, I wonder?"
"Looking from a distance it seemed to me like her; but I couldn't see distinctly. It was a mere surmise on my part that it was she at all." "Go and fetch her at once!" lady Feng shouted to a servant. "Tell her that I've come home, and that Madame Hsing is also here and wants her to help her in her hurry." Feng Erh quickly came up to her.
It was only the other day that I mentioned to your brother that: 'Wen Hsing too was young, and not fit to attend to everything that turns up, that Ying Erh could not alone do all the waiting, and that it was necessary to purchase another girl for your service." "If we buy one, we won't know what she's really like!" Pao-ch'ai demurred.
Such a piece may be compared to the AEsopic fable; but, while it is the object of the fable to inculcate the virtues of morality and prudence, an historical interpretation has to be sought for the metaphorical pieces of the Shih. Generally, moreover, the moral of the fable is subjoined to it, which is never done. in the case of these pieces. The Hsing have been called Allusive pieces.
At this suggestion, Madame Hsing directed her servants to come and change her costume. Lady Feng quickly waited upon her, and in a while the two ladies got into one and the same curricle and drove over.
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