公益局一向无公可办，几个办事员在办公室里照例的谈家务。
Since there was never much public welfare to be attended to at the Bureau of Public Welfare, a handful of office workers were, as usual, gossiping about family problems.
秦益堂捧着水烟筒咳得喘不过气来，大家也只得住口。
Until Qin Yitang began choking on his own pipe, obliging everyone else to fall silent until he recovered.
久之，他抬起紫涨着的脸来了，还是气喘吁吁的，说：“到昨天，他们又打起架来了，从堂屋一直打到门口。
At length he raised his flushed and swollen face and spoke, still trying to catch his breath: "And yesterday they went at it again.
Fought all the way from inside the house right out to the front gate.
我怎么喝也喝不住。”
Nothing I could do to shut them up.”
“老三说，老五折在公债票上的钱是不能开公账的，应该自己赔出来……。”
“Number Three said the money Number Five had spent on government bounds couldn't be charged to the family account, he should repay it....”
“你看，还是为钱，”张沛君就慷慨地从破的躺椅上站起来，两眼在深眼眶里慈爱地闪烁。
'It's always about money,' Zhang Peijun sighed, standing up from a shabby divan, his deep-set eyes shining with benevol-ence.
“我真不解自家的弟兄何必这样斤斤计较，岂不是横竖都一样？……”
“I really can't under-stand why brothers squabble like this over trifles.What difference do these things make anyway?”
“像你们的弟兄，那里有呢。”
'There's not many families like yours out there,'
“我们就是不计较，彼此都一样。
“We don't squabble, but share and share alike.
我们就将钱财两字不放在心上。
Ideas about money and property never enter our heads in the first place.
这么一来，什么事也没有了。
That's why we never have any trouble.
有谁家闹着要分的，我总是将我们的情形告诉他，劝他们不要计较。
Whenever I hear of a family about to split up, I make it a point to tell them how it is with me and my brother and plead with them not to be so picayune.
益翁也只要对令郎开导开导……。”
If you'd just help them straighten out their thinking,
“那－－里……。”
'They'd never listen.”
汪月生说，于是恭敬地看着沛君的眼，“像你们的弟兄，实在是少有的；我没有遇见过。
said Wang Yuesheng, looking Peijun admiringly in the eyes.“You and your brother are really exceptional; I've met no others like you.
你们简直是谁也没有一点自私自利的心思，这就不容易……。”
The fact is, neither of you has a selfish bone in his body.
A rare thing.”
“他们一直从堂屋打到大门口……。”
'All the way out to the gate ...”
“令弟仍然是忙？……”
'How is your brother?” '^-1
这几天可是请假了，身热，大概是受了一点寒……。”
You know he's been out on sick leave the last couple of days.
Has a temperature.
Probably a touch of cold."
“今天的报上就说，现在时症流行……。”
"This morning's paper said there's a seasonal epidemic making the rounds right now."
“那我可说不清了。
'Can't remember off the top of my head.
记得是什么热罢。”
Some kind of fever, as far as I remember.”
沛君迈开步就奔向阅报室去。
Peijun rushed off to the reading room.
“真是少有的，”月生目送他飞奔出去之后，向着秦益堂赞叹着。
“They're really exceptional,” said Yuesheng admiringly to Qin Yitang, as he watched Peijun hurry away.