Translating Sloth

  Lu Bing was too stubborn, he had to maintain a tough image to others, he couldn’t be weak at all. Banquets for officials usually meant men drinking to their heart's content, if someone gave a toast, he had to drink. It was natural instinct for someone to cherish life, but Lu Bing always placed his duties before his own health, emperor Jia Jing had not gone to court for over thirty years, he remained at the Xiyuanli in the palace concocting pills of immortality, Lu Bing’s embroidered uniform guards was his main way to control politics and court. The so-called “a good man has a no good wife, a lazy man has a perfect wife”, from the smallest family to the state, where there’s a lazy person there’ll be someone diligent, otherwise life wouldn’t go on. Emperor Jia Jing had a lot of time per day to concoct immortality pills only because he had the weapon Lu Bing to defend his authority, protecting his position as emperor. Lu Bing had been in his position for almost thirty years, he didn...

  Wei Cai Wei asked: “How did I hurt you? I’m willing to compensate you.” “I—” Wang Da Xia was at a loss for words. He also didn’t know how he was hurt, if Wei Cai Wei had not presented herself as a widow at the start, what would have happened between her and him? He would still be curious. However Wei Cai Wei actually said she was a widow, his young boy’s heart often moved but was suppressed by the point of her being a widow. He always felt she had taken a liking to him because of her misdirected affections towards her deceased husband Wang Erlang, she had considered him as her deceased husband. He repeatedly rejected her, resisted her, but he also enjoyed having a crush on the pretty young widow, the feeling of being wanted and being helpful, now together it seemed like a huge joke. Because there simply wasn’t a Wang Erlang. The so-called Wang Erlang was only a name that Wei Cai Wei wrote randomly after renting the house, writing the word “Er” was because it had the least amount ...

  Wang Da Xia’s brain was filled with money, everything was about money. Wei Cai Wei remembered when Wang Da Xia set up this “accidental encounter” at the altar tonight he had said Lu Bing had gone to the underground prison to see the convict Ding Ru Kui early this morning, ordering the jailors to set up an altar in the courtyard tonight. Just now they had “accidentally encountered” Ding Ru Kui, Ding Ru Kui had held a remarkably written thousand word speech and read it aloud as a eulogy, offering sacrifices to an old friend, she heard the eulogy was written for Wei Nan Shan and his wife. Ding Ru Kui had been locked underground for ten years, cut off from the rest of the world, of course he wasn’t aware Wei Nan Shan and his wife had passed away within a day of each other. So, the clever Wei Cai Wei guessed what Lu Bing had said to Ding Ru Kui this morning. Wei Nan Shan was just a retainer who looked after Ding Wu, Lu Bing wouldn’t have gone to find Ding Ru Kui for an insignificant p...