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It must be explained, however, that the maid Chi'ao Hsing was the very person, who, a few years ago, had looked round at Yue-ts'un and who, by one simple, unpremeditated glance, evolved, in fact, this extraordinary destiny which was indeed an event beyond conception.
They had, therefore, to be both moved into Madame Wang's quarters, where servants were told off to take their turn and watch them. Dowager lady Chia, Madame Wang, Madame Hsing and Mrs. Hsueeh did not budge an inch or a step from their side. They sat round them, and did nothing but cry.
But if even she doesn't, it won't matter; for none of the inmates will have any idea what the object of your mission could have been." After listening to her suggestion, Madame Hsing began again to feel in a happier frame of mind.
We could therefore safely say that none but the four cousins sat along with their old grandmother. The seats occupied by Madame Hsing and Madame Wang were below. Lower down came Mrs. Yu, Li Wan, lady Feng and Chia Jung's wife. On the west sat Pao-ch'ai, Li Wen, Li Ch'i, Chou Yen, Ying Ch'un, and the other cousins.
Deducting, therefore any period, spent by Hsing Chou-yen on a visit home, lady Feng allowed Hsing Chou-yen as well, if she extended her stay in the garden of Broad Vista for any time over a month, an amount equal to that allotted to Ying Ch'un. Lady Feng weighed with unprejudiced eye Hsing Chou-yen's temperament and deportment.
Madame Wang and Madame Hsing occupied places at the high table below; while round several tables outside sat the posse of young ladies. "Do let that girl Feng have the seat of honour," old lady Chia shortly told Mrs. Yu and her contemporaries, "and mind be careful in doing the honours for me, for she is subjected to endless trouble from one year's end to another!" "Very well," said Mrs. Yu.
Yu forthwith invited mesdames Wang and Hsing, as well as her own mother, to adjourn to the other side, and they all in a body walked into the garden of Concentrated Fragrance; while lady Feng and Pao-yue betook themselves, in company with Chia Jung, over to this side. Having entered the door, they with quiet step walked as far as the entrance of the inner chamber. Mrs.
This explanation satisfied lady Feng and she let the matter drop. "What has she got to do," she purposely went on to ask, "that she will trouble her day after day?" Madame Hsing was driven to her wits' ends. As soon as the meal was over, she returned home; and, in the evening, she communicated to Chia She the result of her errand. After some reflection, Chia She promptly summoned Chia Lien.
Now he emptied one wine-kettle; now another; and, without waiting for any one to press him, he, of his own accord, gulped down one drink after another, with the result that he unconsciously made himself nearly quite tipsy. Hsiang-lien then got up and quitted the room, and perceiving every one off his guard, he egressed out of the main entrance. "Go home ahead," he directed his page Hsing Nu.
"Hsing Erh," she said, "informs your ladyship that the pieces of gold in that bundle of the other day amount in all to one hundred and fifty-three taels, one mace and seven candareens; and that the ingots of pure metal and those not, contained in here, number all together two hundred and twenty." With these words, she presented the tray. Mrs. Yu passed the ingots under survey.
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