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356 darin was as busy as any one picking them up, much to the disgust of many who thought he was rich enough already.

Pei-Hang offered him three diamonds, each as large as a sparrow's egg, if he would go away and forget that he ever knew Yun-Ying. These the mandarin took and away he went. He was sure that Yun-Ying's mother would have no more to do with him now that she could marry her daughter to one who scattered jewels as Pei-Hang did.

The wedding feast took place, only the bridegrooms were changed. Pei-Hang married Yun-Ying, and took her to where his father and mother lived, and they were as happy as could be.

The pestle and mortar of jade stood beneath the peach tree, for it was too large and too heavy to be moved, and it was certainly of no use to Yun-Ying's mother, because it was too big for her to pound her magic drugs in, even if she could get inside it, which she couldn't. This made her very angry, but it served her right because of the unfair manner in which she had treated Pei-Hang.