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红楼梦Chapter22

　　Saying this， she promptly tore the paper， and， delivering the pieces to the servant girls， she bade them go at once and burn them.

　　You shouldnt have torn it! Tai-yue remonstrated laughingly. But wait and Ill ask him about it! so come along all of you， and I vouch Ill make him abandon that idiotic frame of mind and that depraved language.

　　the three of them crossed over， in point of fact， into Pao-yues room， and Tai-yue was the first to smile and observe. Pao-yue， may I ask you something? What is most valuable is a precious thing; and what is most firm is jade， but what value do you possess and what firmness is innate in you?

　　But as Pao-yue could not， say anything by way of reply， two of them remarked sneeringly： With all this doltish bluntness of his will he after all absorb himself in abstraction? While Hsiang-yuen also clapped her hands and laughed， Cousin Pao has been discomfited.

　　the latter part of that apothegm of yours， Tai-yue continued， says：

　　We would then find some place on which our feet to rest.

　　Which is certainly good; but in my view， its excellence is not as yet complete! and I should still tag on two lines at its close; as she proceeded to recite：

　　If we do not set up some place on which our feet to rest， For peace and freedom then it will be best.

　　there should， in very truth， be this adjunct to make it thoroughly explicit! Pao-chai added. In days of yore， the sixth founder of the Southern sect， Hui Neng， came， when he went first in search of his patron， in the Shao Chou district; and upon hearing that the fifth founder， Hung Jen， was at Huang Mei， he readily entered his service in the capacity of Buddhist cook; and when the fifth founder， prompted by a wish to select a Buddhistic successor， bade his neophytes and all the bonzes to each compose an enigmatical stanza， the one who occupied the upper seat， Shen Hsiu， recited：