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So, my dear, do you want me to do something for you?’ Fang Yi’s face was still flushed, and she was unable to form a reply. It was the Little Countess who spoke. ‘Brother Laurel, surely you don’t need to wait to be asked. Do this for us! Do the right thing, if you are a person of honour and courage!’ ‘No!’ cried Trinket, with a wave of his hand. That’s where you’re wrong. I do need to be asked. The more a certain someone calls me “dearest husband” and “darling husband”, the more inspired I’ll be to do the right thing!’ After much hesitation, Fang Yi finally came out with: ‘D puma racing shoes ear Laurel, dearest brother Laurel, please do this for me.’ Trinket’s face was unmoved. ‘It’s got to be “husband”., .’ ‘This is very wrong of you!’ protested the Little Countess. ‘My sister-in-arms is betrothed to Liu. He’s going to be her husband. So how can she call you husband?’ ‘In that case I’m very jealous/ was Trinket’s reply. ‘Most terribly jealous,’ ”My brother-in-arms Liu is a fine young man,’ went on the Little Countess, ‘I don’t care how fine he is! The finer he is, the more jealous Til be! Woe is me! I shall die of jealousy! Ha ha ha!’ And laughing hysterically, he picked up the bundle he had carried with him from the Library and walked out of the room, locking the door after himself again. He mounted his horse, and set off with four junior eunuchs to Young Wu’s residence in Chang’an Street West. As he rode along, he kept waving his right hand in the air, and giving excited whoops of joy. Understandably, his escort could not imagine what it was he was so excited about. Little did they know that Laurel Goong-goong had received an Imperial order to make himself rich, and was about to lower his bamboo bucket deep into the Satrap’s well! 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Wu was a young man of the world, and had already dealt with more than one crisis in his life, but this quite unmanned him. He fell to his knees again, in utter terror. This time he was kneeling directly in front of Trinket. ‘Laurel. . . Goong-goong .. . this isn’t true! We have been framed! Please . ., please, Goonggoong, you must put in a word for us with His Majesty!’ These weapons were brought into the Palace by rebels plotting to murder the Emperor! And they have your father’s mark on them!" ‘My father and I have many enemies,’ pleaded Wu. ‘One of them must have plotted this,’ There may be a grain of truth in what you say,’ said Trinket gravely, ‘But will His Majesty believe it?’ ‘You must put in a word for us, Goong-goong! 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