Mother's Wish

## Steps

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## Dialogue

* Chu Tang, daughter of the Chu family from Qingzhou, is proven competent in the exam and is hereby appointed by His Majesty as Secretary to the Magistrate of Yunyang County.
* Having reported to my new post, I was granted a few days off so that I could visit my parents in Qingzhou.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** Father, Mother, I'm back.

**Lord Chu:** I still don't get it. You barely made it to secretary! If you had listened to me, you would probably have become a concubine.

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** Those words won't make a change. Anyway, we should celebrate.

**Lord Chu:** [Mumbling] Celebrate what? That she is no wife to His Majesty?

* That being said, Father still held a three-day party in celebration, receiving guests coming from near and far.

**[Villager] Bai Qian:** Congratulations my lord and my lady! Our school has never had a female official. Chu Tang is the first to become one!

**[Girl] Bai Yun:** Secretary Chu is a true female role model!

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** Thank you all! Come on in. This way!

**[Man] Yanghe:** Congratulations Chu Tang!

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** [Beamed a smile] Yanghe!

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** (I thought I would have to look for him, but look! Here he is!)

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** [Sourly] Chu Tang.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** [Stepping back] I mean, thank you, Mr. Yanghe

* I sneaked off from the pleasantries exchanging with my parents' friends to see Yanghe.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** [Finds him] Yanghe!

**Yanghe:** Chu Tang...agh.[Laughs] I need to address you as Secretary Chu now.

**Chu Tang:** And now you're teasing me.

**Yanghe:** Congratulations, Chu Tang. You'll make a great official.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** I will become a great official for the people.

**Yanghe:** I have no doubt in that.

**[Maid] Fengyan:** [In haste] My lady, your parents are looking for you!

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** Yanghe...

**Yanghe:** Just go. It's your day. You shouldn't be here.

* Mother looked quite upset. And after the banquet, when there were just us two...

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** You shouldn't be seeing him anymore.

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** A paint dealer like him is not good enough for you.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** Mother, don't say that. He passed the Imperial exam at least at the court level.

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** oh like he can put that to good use! He's selling painted scrolls for the rest of his life I'm quite sure!

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** He ranked first on the provincial level. Hadn't someone illegally supplanted him, he would have been a promising official now.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** He felt hurt. And disappointed.

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** Oh, sanctimonious! You must stop seeing him.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** Mother, you can't decide that.

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** Do you hear yourself? Are you out of your mind?!

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** You are an official now. I am telling you this for your own good.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** All right, I got it.

**[Lady] Chu Zhou:** It's getting late. Go to bed now.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** Okay.

* Our conversation went sour that day, but mother didn't stop me from going places.

**[Man] Yanghe:** Chu Tang? Didn't expect to see you here.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** But here I am.

**[Man] Yanghe:** Your mother...

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** She can be hidebound sometimes, but she always comes around.

**[Man] Yanghe:** If I were her, I wouldn't want you to have a poor friend like me.

**[Secretary] Chu Tang:** I'm already having enough of such talk from them. I thought I could get a change from you.

**[Man] Yanghe:** I'm just saying I get them. Parents all want what's best for thier children.

**[Man] Yanghe:** And I was bitter and cynical back then.

* He laughed at his old self. Somehow that laugh passed over a sense of relief and I was touched.