All you old lady know, rejoined Kou Erh, after he had heard what she had to say, is to sit on the couch and talk trash! Is it likely you would have me go and play the robber?
Who tells you to become a robber? asked goody Liu. But it would be well, after all, that we should put our heads together and devise some means; for otherwise, is the money, pray, able of itself to run into our house?
Had there been a way, observed Kou Erh, smiling sarcastically, would I have waited up to this moment? I have besides no revenue collectors as relatives, or friends in official positions; and what way could we devise? But even had I any, they wouldnt be likely, I fear, to pay any heed to such as ourselves!
That, too, doesnt follow, remarked goody Liu; the planning of affairs rests with man, but the accomplishment of them rests with Heaven. After we have laid our plans, we may, who can say, by relying on the sustenance of the gods, find some favourable occasion. Leave it to me, Ill try and devise some lucky chance for you people! In years gone by, you joined ancestors with the Wang family of Chin Ling, and twenty years back, they treated you with consideration; but of late, youve been so high and mighty, and not condescended to go and bow to them, that an estrangement has arisen. I remember how in years gone by, I and my daughter paid them a visit. The second daughter of the family was really so pleasant and knew so well how to treat people with kindness, and without in fact any high airs! Shes at present the wife of Mr. Chia, the second son of the Jung Kuo mansion; and I hear people say that now that shes advanced in years, shes still more considerate to the poor, regardful of the old, and very fond of preparing vegetable food for the bonzes and performing charitable deeds. The head of the Wang mansion has, it is true, been raised to some office on the frontier, but I hope that this lady Secunda will anyhow notice us. How is it then that you dont find your way as far as there; for she may possibly remember old times, and some good may, no one can say, come of it? I only wish that she would display some of her kind-heartedness, and pluck one hair from her person which would be, yea thicker than our waist.
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