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Usage examples of cheng.

I did not mind so long as it kept me away from the Starving Mongoose, but this morning Cheng Fu took our son away from his studies.

I even brought Cheng Fu his favorite lunch of pork dumplings and prostrated myself before him in shame.

I think perhaps, like me, he understands more than he shows, and so now I must be very careful when I translate for Cheng Fu.

But we will be in the back at the old table while Cheng Fu talks with customers.

After all, it looked as if the Cheng dressmakers were on their last legs.

He had come during lunch, you see, and so out of politeness Cheng Fu offered to share.

If any Chinese man had done such a thing, Cheng Fu would have flown into a rage.

And then, before he left, he spoke to me in English so Cheng Fu would not understand.

He would be stricken from the Cheng records, disowned by his father and relatives, and cast aside without family connections or recourse.

Indeed, Ru Shan suspected that Lydia had somehow asked the man to buy the Cheng family shop.

In his mind, they represented himself and his Lydia, together forever, holding up the beautiful tendrils of her hair just as together they would support the entire Cheng family.

He had spoken quickly, and in a low undertone that the Cheng family had not heard.

He could not even hold on to a white wife who could save the Cheng family.

A second wife, of little importance except that she could make the designs that would bring gold to the Cheng family.

But he knew that would only deepen the evil that beset the Cheng family.