The Warning Voice (2010)
The Warning Voice
“To make a great song and dance over a trifle like this would be plain ridiculous. You can take them both back to the kitchen. The mother is to keep her job. Qin Xian’s wife will have to go back where she came from. There is to be no further mention of this matter. Let there be no slackening in the daily inspection of the Garden, though. That’s most important.’ As she turned to go, Cook Liu and her daughter stepped quickly forwards and kotowed their thanks. Lin Zhi-xiao’s wife then conducted them back to the Garden, after which she reported to Li Wan and Tan-chun on what had been decided. Both expressed satisfaction that the matter had resolved itself without further trouble.
The victory that had been gained by Chess and her faction was thus an empty one, and Qin Xian’s wife, that aunt of Chess’s whose installation in the kitchen had been the result of long and patient scheming, enjoyed only the briefest moment of triumph in her new position. Beginning in a great bustle with a general ...stock-taking of the kitchen’s equipment and stores, she detected – or claimed to detect – various shortages in the latter.MoreLess
The victory that had been gained by Chess and her faction was thus an empty one, and Qin Xian’s wife, that aunt of Chess’s whose installation in the kitchen had been the result of long and patient scheming, enjoyed only the briefest moment of triumph in her new position. Beginning in a great bustle with a general ...stock-taking of the kitchen’s equipment and stores, she detected – or claimed to detect – various shortages in the latter.MoreLess
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