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The Story of Ming Lan
Episode 10
Flower arrangement is a very deep and refined art form.
Even though I've worked for many decades in the Palace I have only a superficial understanding.
I can only be your guide.
Flower arrangement places emphasis on external form and inspirations from the heart.
Not only does it need to be beautiful but more importantly it needs to be interesting.
If you can also illustrate some point of philosophy then it would be transcendental.
Misses you'll need to study and comprehend
the abstruse philosophies and mastery involved yourselves.
Give it a try yourselves first.
The form is rather graceful.
But the colour combination is lacking.
Momo please show me.
Colour combinations can be heavy and rich or light and elegant,
be cold, or warm be complementary
or one main and the other supplementary.
Your arrangement Miss, does not have any point which draws people's attention.
Yes it is light, but there is no elegance.
What if I put in this one?
This one is colourful enough, but glaringly so.
Give it a bit more consideration Miss.
Momo,
Momo, how about I switch it to these?
These flowers are already very pale in color,
if you switch in this light purple it would be even paler and cold.
Momo...
Momo, what about this crimson one?
The colour is bright and eye catching.
If I was to choose, I would choose these two bright yellow ones.
Try it.
Put it here.
Yes, indeed, it's the final touch required Momo-Kong.
Once the bright yellow flowers were added all the flowers in the vase seem to come to life,
without loosing the light and elegant feel.
No need to rush Miss.
You have just started and has already made much progress. It is very good already.
Then Momo, you must swiftly teach us,
how to match it to our cloths and to people's disposition.
I have talked much today and my throats a bit dry.
I need to return to my room and drink something soothing.
Misses continue with your work. No need for obeisance.
I'll be back shortly.
- Please take your time. - Please take our time Momo-Kong
Fourth-Sister, you are certainly putting in a lot of effort.
You don't put effort into ladies arts like weaving and embroidery,
instead you focus on incense preparation, flower arrangement,
things that noble and prestigious families like.
It's as if you would have need of such knowledge in the future.
As Momo-Kong said, while such skills are trivial,
it's better to know it and not use it, than be ignorant and a laughingstock.
I've always been obtuse, but I don't want to loose face for the family,
so naturally I must clarify things I'm unsure about.
Fourth-Sister, if you know you're obtuse then you should be more sensible.
Don't constantly hog Momo-Kong's time.
Can't you tell the old Madame doesn't want to bother with you?
That's why she lied about going back to her room for medicine. It's so that she can avoid you.
When have I hogged Momo-Kong?
It's because Father told me to study diligently with Momo-Kong,
He would test me on everything later on. i dare not disobey.
So what if I ask a few questions about what I don't understand?
Stop always pressing me with Father.
Momo-Kong was especially invited here for me and Sixth Sister.
We are her actual students.
You? You were forcibly stuffed in here.
You got an advantage but you flaunt about it.
You really did learn some low maneuvers.
You see someone with something nice, you snatch it and once you've got it, you whine about how it's unfair for you.
What are you talking about, Fifth Sister?
What low maneuvers? What snatching from others?
We are all born to the same father. Why is it you both can learn, but I can't?
You're just bullying me because I am a concubine-born.
Fine, fine, fine. I am just an extra.
Why bother being born in this world and be an eye sore?
I'll just die instead.
Crying, and crying, and crying again!
Every little thing happens, and you act like you're in mourning. Faking it again.
Why do you always cry like your own mother died?
Last time it was clearly you who scourged me.
But you faked your crying before Father and caused him to punish me.
What are you trying to get out this time?
Are you just trying to have the governess see it and deem that I'm bullying you?
And get Father to punish me again?
Fourth Sister, please stop crying.
Fifth Sister, you speak a few sentences less too. If Momo-Kong hears you,
she'd think our Sheng daughters are ill-mannered.
Fourth Sister, Momo-Kong won't be at our house forever.
She'll leave when it's time.
Do you want to learn on the more side or less side?
Just over a bought of grudge, to delay your learning would be a loss with no gain.
Enough. No need to talk to her.
Who cares if she learns or not.
Big Sister married into a count manor, but not everyone has that luck.
I advise you not to be hold such foolish hope.
You just belittle me for being a concubine-born.
You deprecate me left and right with words.
Fine, fine, fine. I know I am an extra.
I'll just won't live anymore, is that alright?
Fifth Sister.
- What? Hey! - Let me just hit my head to death.
- Fourth Sister! - Hey, you let go!
Hurry and come help.
Let me hit myself to death.
- Miss. You can't. - You all don't mind her. She can't bear to die.
Fourth Sister.
What in the world has happened?
It's so late and class hasn't been dismissed so the girls can eat.
Fourth and Fifth Misses were fighting, with crying and screaming.
Momo-Kong is punishing them to transcribe Fragrance Invitation.
Fifty times per person and each not dismissed until they're done transcribing.
Each hall's servants are hiding outside.
No one dares to go in the room to plead for the misses.
This time, Sixth Miss is having to be punished along the two older sister again.
Unfair again.
Perhaps you'd like to go take a look?
I invited her to come teach my granddaughters rules.
How can I break the rules myself first?
That old sister of mine is most fair.
She won't wrong anyone.
This is good too. Give them a lesson.
Later on, they will walk fewer crooked paths too.
[ Fragrance Invitation ]
Master. Master.
Master.
Momo.
I've disturbed everyone today.
Originally, this matter needn't startle so many.
But since Old Madam entrusted me, I don't dare to languish in my duty either.
Hence we've disturbed Your Lordship and Your Ladyship.
Also, since Miss Mo is raised in Small Madam Lin's room,
I've caused you to come make a trip too.
Please speak at ease.
I imagined there were fast mouths on the way,
that reported the fighting that occurred this afternoon to the three of you.
Though it's a petty matter of the boudoir, the misses are all grown.
Some things must be made clear from right and wrong.
They need to be aware that a thousand-mile long embankment can be collapsed by one ant hole.
If minor wrongs are not punished, they will brew to big wrongs.
You delinquents! To incur such shameful acts!
You all kneel.
The floor is cold. Let's not freeze the misse's knees.
Come. Lay cushions down for the misses.
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You lack knowledge of etiquette and speak nonsense.
How are you different from the coarse village women?
What face do you have left to be descendants of Sheng House?
You're at least all girls. If you were boys,
you'd hardly spare yourselves from fighting over house and inheritance in the future.
And this is would be the calamity that divides the brothers!
There is no earnest if we don't apply the house punishment.
You needn't be upset, Your Lordship.
Blind punishment isn't apt either.
The misses must come to realize where they've wronged.
I am the governess that's teaching the misses.
So to be loose, I am a half teacher too.
How about letting me to ask them?
Momo, your refined knowledge is the top-notch.
Even the noble ladies of the palace back then were at your disposal for asking and scolding.
So these delinquents? Please ask to your pleasing.
Do you all know your wrongs?
We do.
You all say you know your wrong but I think, maybe not so.
In this world, most matters can't escape from reason.
I am someone who's never been fond of saying one thing to the surface but another behind.
It will just cause misunderstanding.
So today, before you in person,
and before your parents, let us speak to the clear at once.
Then let's start with the cause.
Fourth Miss, raise your head. I will ask you.
Fifth Miss said you are always snatching the sister's thunder.
Hogging my lesson time. Do you acknowledge?
It's all Mo'er's fault.
Mo'er had thought, it's a rarity that Momo-Kong is here.
So I wanted to learn more.
So I can earn honor for my father and for the family.
I didn't think.
I didn't think I've incurred the displeasure of the sisters instead.
It's all my fault.
Forth Miss, you are smart and sharp and outstanding in all matters.
But today, I must advise you.
Don't let your smart
regard everyone else as fools.
You must be aware that the smart man can be ruined by his smarts.
You wronged in two things.
First, a wrong in speech.
When you argue with your younger sisters, you should not have
kept saying concubine-born and main wife-born.
Though I have not been in this house for long, I can see clearly.
Fourth Miss, ask your own conscience.
How does your father treat you?
Though you are a concubine-born daughter,
you are allowed to be raised under your birth mother with no worries of clothing or food.
One word of discord and you whine and cry wildly about dying.
Is this the behavior of a grand house?
Secondly, you held bad intention.
You kept saying you wanted to learn.
You wanted to earn honor to your family.
Do you mean then, that you're the only daughter of Sheng?
Only through your earning of honor will the Sheng be honored? Then what about your younger sisters?
They needn't learn and they needn't earn honor then?
Fourth Miss, I know you always push yourself to be top.
But every person has their own fate.
Today's matter. It appears as though Fifth Sister started it.
But in actuality, it's very linked to you.
These last ten days or so, you are always fighting to be the top, and be a standout in everything.
Any sign of displeasure and you sob with lament and blame your birth as a concubine-born.
Does your behavior pay any regard to your sisterhood?
Any regard to the kindness of your father?
Father, I didn't.
Earlier you've said I'm the Old Madam's old acquaintance.
So I will be thick-skinned and speak a few more words.
A family with lots of children has to have the parents play fair.
In order to achieve a serene house of harmony.
Though the sisters should concede to one another.
But it has to be both that concede.
We can't always have one side concede always.
After time passes, that will likely bring about suspicion between the sisters and the parents.
Minister Sheng, do you agree?
You are right, Momo.
Today, Fifth Miss was quite mighty.
Arguments among sisters are a common occurrence.
You angered your sisster but you added oil to fire with no filter to your words.
Pricking out what hurts her.
You must know that the source of a disaster is the mouth.
Your temper needs to be changed.
Or it will court a big disaster in the future.
As I see it, you should be punished more severely than your sisters.
I know my wrong. I don't dare ever to speak nonsense.
Sixth Miss, you must surely deem yourself without wrong today.
That you shouldn't be implicated. Is that right?
Then let me teach you a principle today. A family of siblings.
They are tree branches attached together. Together is their glory and together is their demise.
If you're glorified later on, your entire family is glorified.
If you shamed yourself, the entire family shames with you and not one is spared.
Today, though you committed no wrong,
your older sisters both wronged, hence you've wronged without committing a wrong.
I will punish you along them soon. Do you concede.
Momo, Ming'er didn't do anything wrong.
And she's the youngest too and weak bodied.
How about just giving her a few words of reprimand.
She's most sensible and obedient usually.
She'll remember your words to heart in the future.
No. If we spare her solely today,
it will nurture an air of indifference among the siblings.
And later on, if something happens to one sibling, what if the rest just stand and watch?
She must be punished.
Punish. Punish.
The beatings Miss Ming receives today,
is to let the sisters know what it means to be one family.
Momo is right. I deserve to be beat.
You sisters argue and fight.
A little thing and you turn into a great big fight and chaos.
Compared to the small households where food and clothing are sparse.
Fighting over fruits and clothing to wear. How do you differ?
You must know if a house wants to flourish,
it requires absolute joint effort of the siblings.
So many great houses in the past came to ruin from inside.
May you misses be sage.
Today, I punish you each 10 hand beatings.
Please hold, Momo.
Momo, please don't mind.
Though this isn't a place for me to talk.
But I feel guilty and I must speak to ease and I ask for your understanding.
Today's happening was rooted in Mo'er's insensibility.
And she's the cause of the trouble.
Especially for Sixth Miss. At such young age, having to be suffer a beating alongside.
It's really too unbearable for me.
How about having Sixth Miss's 10 beatings,
taken by Mo'er on her stead?
Small Madam Lin's words are erroneous.
I am punishing the misses together.
It's to amend affection among the sisters.
If they suffer a beating together today, they can start afresh tomorrow from it.
If we pardon one and punish another, wouldn't that court more suspicion?
Small Madam Lin has great intention.
But it lacks moral orthodoxy.
Yes, your words are right.
It's my ignorance.
But today, she's implicated the sisters to a beating.
I just can't bear it.
It's all my fault that I didn't teach Mo'er well.
Perhaps you should just punish me too.
To make a minor amend.
This act again.
I see that Small Madam Lin really does need to learn some rules.
Your word are getting more ill-fit as you speak.
You said you should be punished because you hadn't taught Sister Mo well.
Then Sister Ru was taught by Big Madam.
Miss Ming was raised by Old Madam.
Should both Big Madam and Old Madam be punished too then?
And I, as the teaching governess,
even more so that I can't be spared from punishment. Is that what you mean here?
- No, no. I didn't mean that. - Small Madam Lin.
I must say a word to you today too.
A person's value is in self-awareness.
But you are ignorant of two things.
You knew what your status is.
When I am discussing with His Lordship and Her Ladyship, should you or not barge in to talk?
Thankfully I am an old acquiantance of Old Madam.
If it were another person, you'd cause the laughing of others to say Sheng House has no rules.
Secondly, you committed the wrong knowing it was a wrong.
First you say you shouldn't talk, but you chose to talk anyway.
You keep saying you are ignorant.
Since you know you're ignorant, why do you still barge in?
Into the matter of the misses's teaching?
You clearly knew everything but you still defied it all.
It's adding another offense of committing knowingly.
Can't be that you think you are raising a few kids,
and you are above the rules?
Big Madam and the governess is here.
Is there a place for you to talk?
Look how you've raised the kid and you still have the face to talk here?
Back off and stop embarrassing me here.
I punish you each ten strikes on the hand.
When you go back, finish transcribing 50 times, the fragrance invitation script.
Whoever isn't done transcribing by tomorrow, do not come here.
Today's punishment incident, you are not allowed to talk to the outside.
You must preserve the honorable reputation of the misses.
Go now.
Yes.
Punish.
Father.
Did you take the book box?
I've got it. You needn't worry, Miss.
Did you not ache enough earlier?
And you still remember about your stuff.
The governess said 50 copies of Fragrance Invitation and I need to finish transcribing it tonight.
Such a thick book. How can you finish transcribing it?
I just have to do my best.
One extra word written is better than one word less.
Momo Kong beat you and you're not mad at her?
And you seek more suffering for yourself.
She did it out of Sheng House's sake.
The elder already spoke of that principle clearly.
Put out your hand for me to see.
Does it hurt?
It hurts.
Since it hurts, why didn't you cry earlier?
I've wronged and deserved the punishment. There's nothing unfair.
Good child. You are a good child indeed.
Momo Kong said something that enlightened me earlier.
No matter if it's managing the house or teaching children. It should all be a level bowl of water.
If you suffer anything unfair in the future, come tell me.
I will stand up for you.
All is well for your daughter now.
I thank Father deeply for the care.
Father. Father, save a life! Father.
What happened? Why this fretting?
Momo Kong dismissed the reprimanding meeting.
But Big Madam won't let Little Madam go and insists she kneels and take a beating.
Father, help Small Madam.
What?
Master hasn't even spoken more than two words to you and he's summoned away again.
It's no loss.
The time I needed him is already passed.
Miss.
Sheng House
Old Madam asks you to come for a look.
Yes. I will put away the items and change, then come.
You can't. You can't. Big Madam, what are you trying to do?
Can't be that you're using private punishment unauthorized?
It's all my fault, so on what base do you punish my mother?
Funny. A concubine is a servant.
It's due to His Lordship and my mercy that we allowed you to be raised by her.
Now she's undisciplined in teaching her child and disregarded the master, putting shame to whole family.
As the mistress of the house, why can't I beat her? Beat!
No, no.
Move. You can't hit her.
Big Madam, you can't.
What are you doing?
Father.
Stop crying.
Lin Clanswoman is at fault but why must you do so before the child?
Did you forget what the governess said, Minister?
Grand families all befall from within.
Undisciplined in managing the house and inapt in teaching children.
That's endless future disasters.
All due to Minister's bias and spoiling, that we've come to plight.
She's the slave and I'm the master. I have to pick a place to discipline?
Big Madam said the three of us mother and children are due to spoiling by Father.
So you mean Father is at fault too.
You oaf born to a concubine! What face do you have to speak here?
Get lost. Hit.
- You can't. You can't. - Be merciful, Madam.
Mo'er. Mo'er.
You lot of concubine and illegitimate children.
You sure know how to put on a good show.
- Hit them all. - Who dares!
This is all for Sheng family's sake.
You're just venting out your own grudge.
Sheng family? Sheng family is nothing to your eyes.
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Grandmother, Momo Kong is so admirable.
You got beaten and a principle was beaten out?
She knew we committed wrong but she didn't rush to air it.
She just let Fourth and Fifth Sisters fight in the open and dark.
Until today, when the fire is lit,
that she stand out to take charge, to point out the wrongs and punish severely.
That has you admired? Then you ought to learn diligently.
This skill of patience in grinding water isn't something everyone can do.
Someone like Big Madam has never achieved it in her life.
Momo Kong's most noble act.
Is that she prepared way in advance the cushions for kneeling.
The stick for hitting the hand and even for after the beating,
the iced towels, she had them bring them too.
Even if Father was present and wanted to make a plea for leniency, there was no room for it.
Just let me hurt. Hurt me to death instead.
Father hit me so hard. He must not dote on me anymore.
Hurry and let me put medicine on you. It's all my fault.
I'm always telling you to stand out and win.
I forgot about the skill of hiding one's talent.
Today, you hit the whirlpool.
Don't fret, Miss. His Lordship was paying respect to Momo Kong that he punished you.
His Lordship cares about you. Look how's sent the ointment right away.
If it were another day, Father would've been here a long time ago.
But even my mother was scolded too today. What do we do?
Maybe Father doesn't dote on us anymore.
No fear. No fear.
No fear.
It's a matter of adopting appropriate measures to suit.
Momo Kong wouldn't be in our house forever. She'd have to leave eventually.
And Big Madam is no match to our Mo'er, right?
Master is here.
How is it?
Your hand still swollen?
What are you doing here, Father?
I thought Father doesn't love Mo'er and doesn't want Mo'er anymore.
Nonsense. How can that be?
At Weirui Balcony, in front of the governess, I can't show bias for you, Mo'er.
So that's why I had you hit. You can't blame me.
It's all my fault that I didn't teach our daughter well.
And provoked Big Madam's anger.
Why do you mention her?
Alright, Mo'er. Just rest now.
I will escort Your Lordship to sleep. Mo'er still needs to transcribe.
Transcribe what? Her hand's so swollen.
Mo'er, the ointment I got works very well. A night's sleep and you'll be fine.
Sleep.
Pitiful thing. Sleep.
Someone like Small Madam Lin, who's been at Sheng House for over a decade. She's not faultless.
But because she's clenched Father's doting affection,
that whatever bitterness she airs, Father will take her stand.
Your father might not be truly blinded by her.
He actually knows it very clear.
Momo Kong's most skillful act lies in that.
She didn't try to expose Small Madam Lin's true colors.
She knew that if a person wants to pretend asleep, you can't awake them.
Father already knows,
no matter how great the affection he has for his women, that is not greater than the entire Sheng honor.
Momo Kong reminded Father so he is aware.
That pampering the concubine overly would only make the home in disarray and siblings divided.
If pushed to the worst, it will trouble his officialdom.
As long as Father is reminded of that,
no matter how he treasures Small Madam Lin, he will have to punish her.
This is a case of defeating the enemy by capturing their chief.
Grandmother, I finally realized today that you invited Momo Kong,
and learning about tea brewing and evaluating fragrance, that's all secondary.
The urgent matter is that you wanted me to learn how to place myself in the future.
From a governess like her, I am willing to be beat contently daily.
You're a child who's experienced suffering so you understand these principles.
But the big madam of our house.
It's due to her life as a child being too good.
The entire family spoiled her and she is completely unaware of how to exercise forbearance and patience.
She does not how to exercise balance.
That's why she was taken advantage of by Small Madam Lin all these years.
Big Madam is quick tempered and a straight talker.
She does what she contents without restraint. Living so in life.
That seems quite good too.
That won't do.
If a person's life is too smooth,
they will go blind and deaf.
Ming'er, you must be awake always.
- Ming'er understands. - Old Madam.
Sixth Miss's aunt is still waiting outside.
She is saying it's late and wondering when Sixth Miss will return to sleep.
I replied, Sixth Miss is still conversing with you and I invited her inside to wait.
But she said she will just stand and wait in the yard.
Your aunt is concerned about you.
Go on.
That Goddamn whore!
She was clearly at fault today.
But she put on that coquetry act again to have Minister embarrass me.
You should've stopped when it was apt.
Why did you insist on having Small Madam Lin kneel and beaten?
His Lordship comes and Young Master Feng is pleading too.
Why didn't you take that chance to get off the donkey and just scold her a few words?
How can that do?
I finally got ahold of her vice and I can't breathe if I can't vent.
But you can't just say a mouthful of concubine birth.
You poked His Lordship where it pains him and why wouldn't he get upset?
Now, even her wrong is not a wrong anymore.
His Lordship was angry wasn't because you hit and scolded Lin Clanswoman.
It was because your words were improper.
I was anxious and forget about everything.
I was just teaching Ru'er not to always talk about concubine birth a few days ago and I myself forgot instead.
Why didn't you stop me?
A great chess board and a total loss.
Minister ran over to that whore's room again.
You've learned this lesson.
And in the future, you ought to be more prudent.
Don't always let your momentary emotions rule.
What matters most right now is Young Master Bai's learning.
You must judge what matters and what's urgent.
Yes.
As long as my son wins top marks at the imperial exam, who'd fear that we can't press down the lot of them?
Yes, yes, yes.
If they weren't guilty of anything sinister, why would Nanny Zhou seek you out?
I came to the Sheng house and everyone already knew on the first day.
No one came to pay court but only she came to you to talk this and that.
She's not so diligent usually.
But she's diligent come now and it must be because she's guilty.
She must be the one who framed Xiaodie.
She is shrewd. I don't know if it's because her maidservants were in an in-fight.
Or if she was plotting something else. But plot what?
Ming'er, what do you think it can be?
I don't know.
Aunt, you go back to Yangzhou tomorrow.
Tomorrow?
No, I need to stay here and guard you. You're my big sister's only blood and flesh.
If I don't find out this mystery, I can't be pacified.
But we need you to go so the peculiarity can show a tail.
You go tomorrow and furtively.
When they discover you're gone, they'd feel anxious and follow you.
Follow me and then what?
Aunt, you've farmed the fields before.
If there's a poisonous snake in the field, what will you do?
Strike it with a stick and he'll slither out.
I understand now. I understand.
You're that bamboo stick to hit that snake.
Miss. Come have this pot of tea.
You need to energize to finish 30 more of this.
Xiaotao.
You almost got it burned.
Give to me.
Sheng House
What's the reason for her to leave in the middle of the night so secretly?
Your man knows some runners, right?
Yes.
Follow her and take care of things in Yangzhou.
Don't let all these years be tripped by a farm woman.
Don't worry, Small Madam.
Your family is too cordial.
Half of my feet are already buried in the ground (almost dead), so why would I have the need for all this stuff?
If someone asks later on about my family's daughters' appearance and character.
May you speak a few fond words.
This elderly understands how you love your children.
But I think you needn't bother.
As it's said, the distant travel requires horsepower. What kind of disposition and conduct the misses show,
after some time, the capital will spread the word on its own.
It won't require me to speak here and there.
Big Madam, your eldest daughter,
at the House of Count Zhongqin, everyone praises her and that's a live reputation for you.
So you needn't worry about the prospect of the other girls.
Yes, you're right.
Alright, I'll leave now.
Children, you be good.
Careful.
Father.
You say you're out to seek knowledge everyday.
But so many ministerial scholars and you don't visit them. Just going to Sheng’s daily.
I don't know what exactly you've learned.
Scholar Master Zhuang is teaching recently about a man establishing himself in the world.
I wonder how you view it, Father.
A man can establish himself in the world as long as he can stand up against the world with a clear conscience, with loyalty and allegiance to his nation and harmony in his home.
You need to bother asking me that?
Clear conscience and harmony in the family.
In Classic of Rites from the Great Learning, "Wanting to harmonize his own clan, one must first cultivate himself."
I wonder if there's anything against your conscience, Father?
You learned a few days of knowledge and you haven't written a couple of essays.
Instead you come and test your father?
Second Gu, Second Gu, you're so easily scared. Scared of what?
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T/N In the following song, "Don't You Know, Don't You Know?", Lines 5 to the end are the poem by Li Qingzhao, a famous female poet of the Song Dynasty, the poem is titled "Spring Ends".
♫One morning, a flower opened and approached a willow tree, beautifully fragrant and mistaking him for her lord♫
♫Even if drinking in water in the morning, red clouds have half a day of sunshine, the wind and rain do not affect them completely♫
♫In the palace, you are constantly brave and growing thin, from on high, your cold tears of distress flow♫
♫Brocade letters delivered to me dismiss me, only suddenly to recall me, not for many years can I see you other than stealthily♫
♫Last night, gusty winds and rain during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫
♫When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.♫
♫Don't you know, don't you know, there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫
♫Last night, gusty winds and rain during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫
♫When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.♫
♫Don't you know, don't you know, there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫