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Thus the interest on her own money alone comes up to nearly a thousand taels a year." "You and your mistress take our money," Hsi Jen observed laughingly, "and get interest on it; fooling us as if we were no better than idiots." "Here you are again with your uncharitable words!" P'ing Erh remonstrated. "Can it be that you haven't yet enough to meet your own expenses with?"
'Were I even to be dying from hunger, he said, 'or perishing from frostbites, and so much as a thousand taels were offered me for each single fan, I wouldn't part with them. Mr. Chia She could do nothing, but day after day he abused our Mr. Secundus as a good-for-nothing.
That cutting in the face of the cliff in the Feng-hsiang Gorge near Kweichou-fu, where a pathway for trackers has been hewn out of the solid rock, was done at his expense, and is said to have cost one hundred thousand taels. Not only by his benefactions has Ch'en laid up for himself merit in heaven, but he has already had his reward in this world.
In the other, an additional twenty taels had been allowed, as a burial-place had to be purchased at the time. T'an Ch'un handed the accounts to Li Wan for her perusal. "Give her twenty taels," readily suggested T'an Ch'un. "Leave these accounts here for us to examine minutely." Wu Hsin-teng's wife then walked away. But unexpectedly Mrs. Chao entered the hall.
"Mind, I won't have you give them any money!" shouted lady Feng. Chia Lien straightway made his exit. He came and held consultation with Lin Chih-hsiao, and then directed the servants to go and use some fair means, others harsh. The matter was, however, not brought to any satisfactory arrangement until he engaged to pay two hundred taels for burial expenses.
Hsueeh laughingly added, "my filial intentions may well be looked upon as having been accomplished." "Mrs. Hsueeh," interposed lady Feng smiling, "mind you don't forget it! But you might as well weigh fifty taels this very moment, and hand them over to me to keep, until the first fall of snow, when I can get everything ready for the banquet.
"'If a person can be guilty of this really unfilial behaviour during the lifetime of his father, exclaimed Ah-Ping, in a tone of unrestrained vexation, 'can it be prudently relied upon that he will carry out his wishes after death, when they involve the remitting to him of several thousand taels each year?
One boldly asserted that the entire circumstance was the outcome of a foolish jest or wager on the part of a person who possessed a million taels; another predicted that it was a cunning and elaborately thought-out method of obtaining the attention of the people on the part of certain persons who claimed to vend a reliable and fragrantly-scented cleansing substance.
All suggestions of anything other than the strictest high-mindedness were withdrawn from both sides. In order that the day should not be wholly destitute of sunshine at the Golden Abacus, Lin declared his intention of purchasing, at a price not exceeding three taels and a half, the oldest and most unattractive burial robe that the stock contained.
"'Strange indeed to this person's ears are your words, said Ah-Ping, outwardly unmoved, but with an apprehensive internal pain that he would have regarded Quen's display of emotion with an easier stomach if his own taels were safely concealed under the floor of his inner chamber.
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