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Updated: June 20, 2025
He reached Feng Tzu-ying's doorway by a short cut. A servant announced his arrival, and Feng Tzu-ying came out and ushered him in. Here he discovered Hsueeh P'an, who had already been waiting a long time, and several singing-boys besides; as well as Chiang Yue-han, who played female roles, and Yuen Erh, a courtesan in the Chin Hsiang court. The whole company exchanged salutations.
When she tries to divine on whom she will depend towards the end of life. "My dear child!" laughingly exclaimed Hsueeh P'an, "your worthy Mr. Hsueeh still lives, and why do you give way to fears?" "Don't confuse her!" remonstrated every one of the party, "don't muddle her!" "A maiden is wounded at heart."
Finishing her song, she drank the "opening cup," after which she added: "the delicate peach-blossom," and thus complied with the exigencies of the rule. Next came Hsueeh P'an. "Is it for me to speak now?" Hsueeh P'an asked. "A maiden is sad..." But a long time elapsed after these words were uttered and yet nothing further was heard. "Sad for what?" Feng Tzu-ying laughingly asked.
As soon as Ch'in Chung and Pao-yue had, at this time, come to school, and they had made the acquaintance of these two fellow-pupils, they too could not help becoming attached to them and admiring them, but as they also came to know that they were great friends of Hsueeh P'an, they did not, in consequence, venture to treat them lightly, or to be unseemly in their behaviour towards them.
"Do you still refer to this?" exclaimed Mrs. Hsueeh and Pao-ch'ai, out of patience. "Wasn't it about this that he was beaten? This makes it clear enough that it's you who gave the thing out." "Really, you're enough to exasperate one to death!" Hsueeh P'an exclaimed.
Other legends recount that P'an Ku had the head of a dragon and the body of a serpent; and that by breathing he caused the wind, by opening his eyes he created day, his voice made the thunder, etc. P'an Ku and Ymer Thus we have the heavens and the earth fashioned by this wonderful being in eighteen thousand years.
As they said this, they were about to pour the wine, when Pao-yue smilingly interfered. "The rhyme is all right," he observed. "The master of the rules," Hsueeh P'an remarked, "approves it in every way, so what are you people fussing about?" Hearing this, the company eventually let the matter drop.
The Ministry of Exorcism is a Taoist invention and is composed of seven chief ministers, whose duty is to expel evil spirits from dwellings and generally to counteract the annoyances of infernal demons. The two gods usually referred to in the popular legends are P'an Kuan and Chung K'uei.
But this Hsueeh P'an was, by nature, gifted with a fickle disposition; to-day, he would incline to the east, and to-morrow to the west, so that having recently obtained new friends, he put Hsiang Lin and Yue Ai aside. Chin Jung too was at one time an intimate friend of his, but ever since he had acquired the friendship of the two lads, Hsiang Lin and Yue Ai, he forthwith deposed Chin Jung.
Hsueeh had not at first been overcome by her feelings; but the moment his utterances reached her ear, she once more began to experience the anguish, which they stirred in her heart. Pao-ch'ai made an effort to force a smile. "You've already," she said, "been the cause of quite enough trouble, and do you now provoke mother to have another cry?" Hearing this, Hsueeh P'an promptly checked his tears.
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