Note 254 — XLIII. THE QUARRELSOME BROTHERS.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
A sham entertainment given by the Fu-t‘ai, or governor, to all the successful candidates. I say sham, because the whole thing is merely nominal; a certain amount of food is contracted for, but there is never anything fit to eat, most of the money being embezzled by the underlings to whose management the banquet is entrusted. return to text