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This reply evoked further laughter from the whole company. "Altogether, it's a twig of flowers," Yuean Yang added laughing. "The flower dropped, and a huge melon formed." old goody Liu observed, while gesticulating with both her hands by way of illustration. The party once more exploded in loud merriment.
Thus the new Toba kingdom was a tribal state, not a military state. But the tribes were no longer the same as in the time of Liu Yüan a hundred years earlier. Their total population must have been quite small; we must assume that they were but the remains of 119 tribes rather than 119 full-sized tribes.
But about this time old goody Liu caught the strains of music, and, being already under the influence of liquor, her spirits became more and more exuberant, and she began to gesticulate and skip about. Her pranks amused Pao-yue to such a degree that leaving the table, he crossed over to where Tai-yue was seated and observed laughingly: "Just you look at the way old goody Liu is going on!"
This Ta Chieh-erh of mine has often been inclined to ail, and it has quite puzzled me to make out how and why it was." "This isn't anything out of the way!" goody Liu said. "Affluent and honourable people bring up their offspring to be delicate. So naturally, they are not able to endure the least hardship! Moreover, that young child of yours is so excessively cuddled that she can't stand it.
Old goody Liu a shook her head and put out her tongue. "My Buddha's ancestor!" she shouted. "One wants about ten chickens to prepare this dish! It isn't strange then that it has this flavour!" Saying this, she quietly finished her wine. But still she kept on minutely scrutinizing the cup. "Haven't you yet had enough to satisfy you?" lady Feng smiled. "If you haven't, well, then drink another cup."
This mirror was, in fact, provided with some western mechanism, which enabled it to open and shut, so while goody Liu inadvertently passed her hands, quite at random over its surface, the pressure happily fell on the right spot, and opening the contrivance, the mirror flung round, exposing a door to view. Old goody Liu was full of amazement as well as of admiration. With hasty step, she egressed.
A man named Li was the most dreaded of the trio of rebel chiefs, a man of marvelous strength, and who seemed to be able to fascinate his men and get them to do anything he wished and Liu, the ch'en-tai, set himself the task of capturing him.
Pao-yue cast a glance at her but made no reply. But, in a short time, the company broke up. Pao-yue eventually gave old goody Liu a tug on the sly and plied her with minute questions as to who the girl was. The old dame was placed under the necessity of fabricating something for his benefit.
In the next place, you are country-people, and are, after all, I don't expect you'll get angry when I mention it, somewhat in poor circumstances. Were a person then as poor as you are to suggest a name for her, you may, I trust, have the effect of counteracting this influence for her." When old goody Liu heard this proposal, she immediately gave herself up to reflection.
Her father had become a Taoist in his later years and had vanished in the clouds without ever returning. The mother lived in poverty with the daughter; yet since the girl was beautiful beyond measure she was seeking a distinguished husband for her. Liu I was content to take her, and the day of the wedding was set.
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