He lingered so long that the keeper of the shop facing the street popped his head out to look, and upon seeing him, exclaimed with surprise, "Lord Pei is here!"
Pei Yunmeng came back to his senses as the old keeper of Zhenbao Pavilion greeted him with a smile, coming up from inside.
"Great fortune to Lord Pei!" the old keeper said enthusiastically, ushering Pei Yunmeng inside, "You've come to pick up the moth you ordered, haven't you? It's been ready for a while, and we've kept it just for you!"
At the end of the year and the beginning of the new one, the people of Shengjing "cut Golden Moths from black golden paper, decorated with red and pink, and wrapped them around needles with small copper wires, accompanied by cypress leaves" to play with, inserting them into their headwear, known as "stirring up the moths."
