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Qing -> The Scholars -> In which an introductory story of a good scholar points the moral of the book -> 22

说话之间，知县轿子已到。During this conversation the magistrate's chair had come up.
翟买办跪在轿前禀道：“小的传王冕，不在家里，请老爷龙驾到公馆里略坐一坐，小的再去传。” Bailiff Zhai knelt before the chair and said, “I asked for Wang Mian and found he is not at home. Won't Your Honour go to the local office to rest for a little, while I make further inquiries?”
扶著轿子，过王冕屋后来。Then he escorted the chair past the back of Wang Mian's cottage.
屋后横七竖八，几棱窄田埂，远远的一面大塘，塘边都栽满了榆树、桑树。Behind the cottage were a few strips of arable land and a big lake, its banks thickly grown with elms and mulberry trees.
Then more fields could be seen, stretching to the horizon. There was a hill too, covered with fresh green trees, only a few hundred yards away. If you shouted, your voice would carry there.
塘边那一望无际的几顷田地，又有一座山，虽不甚大，却青葱树木，堆满山上。And round the foot of this hill, as the magistrate's chair advanced, came a little cowherd riding back to front on a water buffalo.
约有一里多路，彼此叫呼，还听得见。知县正走著，远远的有个牧童，倒骑水牯牛，从山嘴边转了过来。

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