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`` My dear aunt , '' pleaded Chia Yün , `` first appoint me to this one , and if I do really manage this satisfactorily , you can then commission me with that other ! '' `` You know in truth how to draw a long thread , '' lady Feng observed laughing . `` But had n't it been that your uncle had spoken to me on your account , I would n't have concerned myself about you . But as I shall cross over here soon after the repast , you had better come at eleven a.m. , and fetch the money , for you to enter into the garden the day after to-morrow , and have the flowers planted ! '' As she said this , she gave orders to drive the `` scented '' carriage , and went on her way by the quickest cut ; while Chia Yün , who was irrepressibly delighted , betook himself into the I Hsia study , and inquired after Pao-yü . But , who would have thought it , Pao-yü had , at an early hour , gone to the mansion of the Prince of Pei Ching , so that Chia Yün had to sit in a listless mood till noon ; and when he found out that lady Feng had returned , he speedily wrote an acknowledgment and came to receive the warrant . On his arrival outside the court , he commissioned a servant to announce him , and Ts ` ai Ming thereupon walked out , and merely asking for the receipt , went in , and , after filling in the amount , the year and moon , he handed it over to Chia Yün together with the warrant .