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to welcome them. Elder Brother Yaotsung, there is still something else that you ought to bear in mind. While it is true that one can't risk incurring the anger of these rebels, it is also true that it doesn't do to be too close to them. Way back when the Long Hair rebels came, occasionally even 'Obedient Subject' posters didn't save the homes of the people who posted them. And then when the government armies came back into the area, such Copyrighted material Appendix families were really in trouble. We had better wait until the rebels are on the tiffany & co outlet outskirts of Wu town before taking up this business of posters. The only thing that you ought to worry about now is seeing to it that your family finds a safe hiding place as quickly as possible, but don't pick a place too far away. You're perfectly right. Well, I'm off now to the Chang Suiyang tiffany co outlet temple to tell monk Chang of my plans. Seeming to halfunderstand what Master Baldy had told him, Yaotsung took his leave in a flurry of expressions of appreciation for Master Baldy's advice. People used to say that my teacher, Master Baldy, was the wisest man in all Wu town. They really had something there, for he could have lived tiffany and co outlet in tiffany outlet any age of chaos and come through it without the slightest scratch. From the time when P'an Ku created the universe on down through generation after generation of fighting and killing, through alternations of peace and war, through the waxing and waning of dynasties, Master Baldy's forbears had never laid down their lives to preserve a government, nor had they lost their lives by joining rebel causes. Their line had survived down to this very day and now tiffany jewelry outlet one of them, Master Baldy, was an honored teacher who expounded to mischievous students like myself on the wisdom of Confuciusa man who had been able at the age of seventy to follow all of his heart's desires without exceeding the proper bounds of morality. If one were to explain Baldy's talent for survival on the basis of the modern theory of evolution, then one might attribute his talent to racial heredity. But in retrospect, as I see it today, his peculiar talent must have been gained entirely from books. Otherwise how could you have explained the fact that neither Old Wang, Amah Li, nor myself had inherited this kind of talent? None of us could have even distantly approximated the thoroughness of thought that he had exhibited in his advice to Yaotsung. After Yaotsung left, Baldy did not resume his explanation of the

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Hairs? How could that possibly be? Oh, maybe he means the bandits of Mount Tai or the Red Turbans hereabouts. Master Baldy's brain was in control again and even he realized that they couldn't be Long Hairs. But what he didn't realize was that when Yaotsung spoke, he lumped mountain bandits, ocean pirates, White Hats, and Red Turbans all together as tiffany jewelry outlet Long Hairs, just as he lumped carp and bream together as fish. Hence when Master Baldy began making distinctions between Red Turbans and Long Hairs, it all went right over Yaotsung's head. We ought to have food prepared against their arrival. The reception hall in my home is only large enough to accomodate halfCopyrighted materialLu Hsiin's Vision of Reality recognition of his loyalty. Twelfth Old Gentleman's wife tiffany outlet survived until ; she preferred staying with a married daughter in Hangchow to living with her eccentric son at the t'aimen in Shaohsing. Tzuching married, but his wife died early, leaving him with two sons, EightPounder and Ahkuei the name connoted tiffany and co outlet August, the month in which he was born. For one reason or another some said that Tzuching used to beat them, both sons left home, whereupon their father became a recluse in the orangetree room. His eventual insanity and incredibly inept suicide figure heavily in The White Light and we shall come back to Tzuching when that story is discussed. As has been pointed out, of all the teachers Lu HsUn had as a youth, GreatUncle Chaolan probably exerted the greatest, most lasting, and most wholesome influence; his large library and personal example kindled Lu HsUn with a lifelong enthusiasm for books and prints. Yet even this good man's life impinged upon that of his grandnephew in ways that were sometimes painful. The first bit of unpleasantness was primarily the work of Chaolan's wellmeaning daughterinlaw, Mistress Ch'ien. A very capable young woman, she had long been a favorite of Lu HsUn's mother. Later on, when Lu HsUn was a student in Japan, Mistress Ch'ien requited his mother's affection by putting herself forward as a gobetween for Lu HsUn and tiffany & co outlet one of Chaolan's grandnieces on his wife's side of the family. Even as an old man, Tsojen would continue to blame her for this particular match. An extremely pretty woman herself, Mistress Ch'ien arranged a match with a girl of the Chu family who was almost freakishly small, as if her growth had been abnormally stunted. Since Mistress Ch'ien must have known what the tiffany co outlet girl was like, Tsojen could only conclude that she had intentionally tried to put something over on the Chous by foisting off this

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none of us really liked to talk with him. And yet, much to the amazement of Old Wang and the others, Master Baldy was very partial to him. In the privacy of my own mind, I too sought out the logic for this odd affection. I remembered that in the past Yaotsung, having reached tiffany outlet the ripe old age of twentyone without having sired a son, had taken three pretty concubines into his household. Baldy tiffany jewelry outlet had also started mouthing the saying 'There are three things that are unfilial and to tiffany and co outlet lack posterity is the greatest of these as if to justify Yaotsung's conduct. The latter was so moved by this that he gave Baldy twentyone pieces of gold so that tiffany & co outlet he too could buy a secondary wife. Thus I concluded that Baldy's reason for treating YaotsungCopyrighted materialAppendix with such unusual courtesy was that the latter had shown himself to be thoroughly filial. Although Old Wang was wise in his own way, he was not, after all, so learned as Master Baldy. No wonder that he hadn't been able to fathom the depths of my teacher's wisdom. Even I had to wrack my brains for a good many days before coming up with an explanation for Baldy's strange partiality. Master Yangsheng, have you heard the news today?News? No, not yet. What news?The Long Hairs are coming!Long Hairs? Haha, you must be joking.What Yaotsung meant by the Long Hairs was what Baldy called the Hairy Rebels. Old Wang called tiffany co outlet them that too. They were the rebels who came around away back during the Taiping Rebellion. Old Wang told me that he was just thirty at the time, and since he was past seventy now, that must have been over forty years ago. Even a lad of nine like myself knew through simple arithmetic that there couldn't be Long Hairs around anymore.But I got the news from His Third Excellency over at Ho market. He said that they would be here any day now. His Third Excellency? Then you got the news from the government prefect! In that case it won't do not to be on our guard! Old Baldy held His Third Excellency in even higher esteem than the sages of antiquity; therefore, upon hearing this, his face suddenly changed color and he began to pace round the desk. He said that there were some eight hundred of them. I've already sent one of my servants over to Ho market to see what's going on and to try to find out when the rebels will actually arrive. Eight hundred Long