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- I am lucky to have this small house.
- When Lady Chang arrived in Canton, she only had her clothes, her finger jewels, and her precious son Ko. Everything else - her husband, her lovely home, her staff, even her hamlet – had been wiped away in the sudden flood.
- I am the butcher, Mother.I am working in the market. See how cleverly I kill this goat, and how I cut it up for customers
- “What are you doing, my son?
- She found a house which costs very little, for it was in a poor part of the city, near the rubbish dumps. Every morning the carts rumbled by, taking all the city rubbish to be burned and buried.
- So said Lady Chang. “I can clean my house in the morning, play with Ko in the afternoon, and weave and embroider in the evenings when he sleeps. It will sell well, and I can feed and clothe Ko as well as myself.”
- The Lady Chang sighed. “Indeed, my son learns quickly. He should not be here to copy the ways of rough men. He should be learning to be a scholar as his father was
- She looked for a house near the university.“Living here will be expensive,” she mused. But she didn't pause long. She sold her final pearl and silver ring and moved her and her kid into their new home near the market.
- Lady Chang's life was indeed difficult. She had to get up early every day to earn money for Ko's education. She'd clean up, cook, wash her clothes, and weave late into the night. Lady Chang smiled as she wove the bright threads and watched the cloth grow under her busy fingers.
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