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Qing -> The Scholars -> In which a monk invited to say masses is involved in a lawsuit, and a country gentleman out to raise money runs into trouble -> 6

:“?”:“。”They were enjoying their meal when they heard a violent knocking on the gate. “Who is it?” called He Mei-zhi. “Go and have a look, Mei-zhi,” said the abbot.
But no sooner had He opened the gate when seven or eight men rushed in.
:“ At the sight of the woman and the abbot drinking together at one table, they shouted, “Having a good time, aren't you?
A monk carrying on with a woman in broad daylight!
A fine abbot you are—knowing the law but breaking it.
:“Stow that nonsense!
cried He Mei-zhi.
:“
This is my landlord.
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Then they all swore at him.
“Your landlord, eh? Does he have the run of your wife as well as your land?” Without listening to the others' protests, they took a hempen rope and tied up the abbot, half-naked as he was, with the woman. Then they haled them off, together with He Mei-zhi, to Nanhai County Court. There, the abbot and the woman, still tied together, were pushed up to a stage in front of a temple to wait for the magistrate, while Ho was thrown out.
The abbot, however, had asked him in a whisper to go to Mr. Fan's house to report what had happened.


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