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Updated: June 18, 2025
I'll attend to the people for you first, and, when they've gone, I'll have all I want." Hsiang-yuen would not agree to her proposal. But giving further directions to the servants to spread two tables under the verandah on the off-side, she pressed Yuean Yang, Hu Po, Ts'ai Hsia, Ts'ai Yuen and P'ing Erh to go and seat themselves.
"I shall to-morrow send again your mistress round to ask Yuean Yang. If you two have spoken to her, and she hasn't given a favorable answer, well, then, no blame will fall on you. But if she does assent, when she broaches the subject with her, look out for your heads!"
What is more, he throws money away as if it were dust. When Yue-ts'un heard this account he also heaved a sigh. "This was indeed," he observed, "a retribution in store for them! Their encounter was likewise not accidental; for had it been, how was it that this Feng Yuean took a fancy to Ying Lien?
"This is quite natural!" old lady Chia answered laughingly; and with these words, she forthwith emptied a cup. Lady Feng with hurried steps advanced to the centre of the room. "If we are to play at forfeits," she smilingly proposed, "we'd better invite sister Yuean Yang to come and join us."
"There now remains," Yuean Yang explained, "one piece, the six and one." "From among the fleecy clouds issues the wheel-like russet sun." dowager lady Chia continued. "The whole combined," Yuan Yang observed "forms 'the devil with dishevelled hair." "This devil clasps the leg of the 'Chung Pa' devil," old lady Chia observed. At the conclusion of her recitation, they all burst out laughing.
P'ing Erh looked round to see that there was no one about. "Here comes the new secondary wife!" she smilingly exclaimed. Yuean Yang caught this greeting, and promptly the colour rose to her face. "How strange it is," she rejoined, "that you've all colluded together to come, with one accord, and scheme against me!
Here Yuean Yang pointed at a bundle on the stove-couch. "These are," she said, "several articles of clothing, belonging to our old mistress; they were presented to her in years gone by, by members of our family on her birthdays and various festivals; her ladyship never wears anything made by people outside; yet to hoard these would be a downright pity! Indeed, she hasn't worn them even once.
"Let's go and sleep in our rooms. Won't it be better there?" Saying this, he made an attempt to pull Yuean Yang to her feet. Then hastily pressing P'ing Erh to repair to his quarters and have some tea, he united his efforts with those of Hsi Jen, and tried to induce Yuean Yang to come away. Yuean Yang, at length, got up, and the quartet betook themselves, after all, into the I Hung court.
They're just like a piece of yellow cedar made into a mallet for beating the sonorous stones with. The exterior looks well enough; but it's all bitter inside." "In very truth," Chia Jung added, laughing also the while, as he addressed himself to Chia Chen, "that mansion is impoverished. The other day, I heard a consultation held on the sly between aunt Secunda and Yuean Yang.
After the game had gone on for a time, Yuean Yang noticed that dowager lady Chia had a full hand and was only waiting for one two-spotted card, and she made a secret sign to lady Feng. Lady Feng was about to lead, but purposely lingered for a few moments. "This card will, for a certainty, be snatched by Mrs.
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