He had been on his journey how many days, he had not reckoned, when, on a certain day, as they were about to enter the capital, he furthermore heard that his maternal uncle, Wang Tzu-teng, had been raised to the rank of Supreme Governor of nine provinces, and had been honoured with an Imperial command to leave the capital and inspect the frontiers.
Hsueeh Pan was at heart secretly elated. I was just lamenting, he thought, that on my visit to the capital, I would have my maternal uncle to exercise control over me, and that I wouldnt be able to gambol and frisk to my hearts content, but now that he is leaving the capital, on promotion, its evident that Heaven accomplishes mans wishes.
As he consequently held consultation with his mother; Though we have, he argued, several houses of our own in the capital, yet for these last ten years or so, there has been no one to live in them, and the people charged with the looking after them must unavoidably have stealthily rented them to some one or other. Its therefore needful to let servants go ahead to sweep and get the place in proper order, before we can very well go ourselves.
What need is there to go to such trouble? retorted his mother; the main object of our present visit to the capital is first of all to pay our respects to our relatives and friends; and it is, either at your elder uncles, my brothers place, or at your other uncles, my sisters husbands home, both of which families houses are extremely spacious, that we can put up provisionally, and by and bye, at our ease, we can send servants to make our house tidy. Now wont this be a considerable saving of trouble?
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