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Updated: September 4, 2025
Her mother-in-law would not let her stand at the door and look up and down the street as some young wives were allowed to do. She also told them that Hung Li, her husband, lived at a city called Yung Ching, and he, she, and Ku Nai-nai were to go back there next day. An Ching was very anxious to see Nelly undress, and got quite excited over her clothes. She had never seen foreign clothes before.
A tall, pale boy of fourteen appeared in the doorway. 'Listen, Chi Fu, he continued; 'I have seen one of the hymn-singers, and he repeated his account of his adventure of the morning, and told his son how he and Chang Nai-nai had gone into the small court and heard Ku Nai-nai call away her daughter-in-law and Little Yi, and tell Nelly to stay where she was.
She made An Ching and Little Yi sing their very best and loudest, until the small court resounded with the strains of 'Art thou weary, and Ku Nai-nai, who was rather deaf, and shouted a good deal when she talked, heard the singing in her room, where she was sitting smoking on the kang.
When they went back to the inn An Ching was very anxious for Nelly to explain all about the sun's movements, but Ku Nai-nai said it was time to go, at which Nelly was not sorry, because she was not sure that she remembered all there was in her geography book about the sun.
One morning the two children and An Ching had been singing and Nelly giving her English lessons as usual, when Ku Nai-nai came out, and in her usual rough, loud, screaming voice when angry, demanded why they were wasting time there instead of helping to get the mid-day meal ready. An Ching had quite forgotten that the old woman-servant was not well, and was shut up in her room out of the way.
The ma-fu suggested that they should ask at some of the shops in Legation Street near them, and sure enough they soon heard that a crowd had been seen following a European and a Chinese child in the streets the evening before. At length, by means of questions and cash, he found some one who had seen Nelly and Little Yi follow Ku Nai-nai into the native house.
When Chang had reassured her, she ventured to go two rungs higher, gave a great sigh, and exclaimed, 'You are not following me! Chang told that he could not very well do so until she was higher still. Chang Nai-nai, who was very determined and not lacking in courage, resolutely went up a little higher. She was now more than half way to the top, and there she stuck, seized by a sudden terror.
'Oh yes, quite, replied Nelly. 'You are sure she won't tell her mother-in-law or any female friends who come to the house? 'I am certain she won't say anything about it to Ku Nai-nai, and I don't believe she has any friends. She wants to get away from here and come to me in Peking. But there's Little Yi, Nelly went on. 'She'll be cross if I tell An Ching and not her.
The family oracle replied slowly that he had thought a good deal about it, and that he had inquired at the mission when the courier was going to Peking. 'You surely did not tell about those children? screamed Chang Nai-nai. 'No, I only asked about the courier, quietly replied Chi Fu, 'and as he has only just left, my letter could not go until next month.
As we all know from experience, especially girls who have got so far as climbing into a hay-loft, it is very much easier to go up a ladder than to come down. Chang Nai-nai might have remained where she was until she dropped off, had not Chang mounted after her and almost carried her down. When the little woman was safely deposited on the ground, she became less irate against An Ching.
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