In the old days gifts of money were given to children by the older generation and were placed in red envelopes called hong bao. This practice has been discouraged by the Communists because it perpetuates feudal-capitalist consciousness, the worship of wealth and money.

He had grown swollen around the face and porkishly rotund in the midriff, and she noticed that those perfect fingers which, describing their gentle arabesques, had so mysteriously aroused her six years before seemed like rubbery little wurstlike stubs as he adjusted upon his head the gray Homburg that Scheffler obsequiously handed him.

Most people have been married more than once, and adultery is universally tolerated. Open marriage would simply legitimize what we already live.

Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.