Translating Sloth

  The morning written exams ended, the examinee’s names were sealed onto the examination papers to prevent fraud and handed in, in the afternoon the eunuch of the supervisor of the ministry of rites took them to Anle hall. Anle hall was where the maids and eunuchs were brought to when they fell ill, those ill could not serve the nobles, there were two Anle halls in the Forbidden City, one was at Tiananmen gate, where people with more serious illnesses went, if they died from illness it was easier to bring them out of the palace and cremate them to avoid a pandemic. The other was south east of the wet nurse residence, the inner Anle hall of the imperial ceremony office yard, those in here suffered minor illnesses. The inner Anle hall was concealed, it was after all where patients were brought in so it was off the beaten track, most people wouldn’t take a walk around here so it was isolated. During Chunghua’s reign when imperial consort Wan was favoured in the harem and became the “e...

  As a travelling who walked the streets and lanes to attract customer, it was very tiring when it was cold and in the summer, it was obviously better to have the title of imperial female physician, waiting comfortably at home while waiting for rich customers to invite her and live an easy life, it was also a lot more money and it was an opportunity to make connections with influential people, she could reach the heaven in a single leap. It was a surprise for Wei Cai Wei that Lu Bing would help her, in this lifetime she had dealt with her enemy in three days, she had intended to watch over Wang Da Xia— Yan Shi Bo had a group of enemies and political opponents who would trip him up, besides she had already created a good connection with the future empress dowager Li, Li Jiu Bao, so she had no plans to enter the palace as a maid in this lifetime. However Li Bing gave her an opportunity to enter and leave the palace and set up her career prospects as an imperial female physician, this...

  Wang Da Xia was like an ill child looking for attention and wanting to eat sweets, a child who threw tantrums would get sweets, Wei Cai Wei fulfilled his wishes considering that he was injured. Wang Da Xia’s days as a patient could be said were perfect, he was happy as an immortal— if only Wei Cai Wei did not split her time to take care of Ding Wu too. Ding Wu woke up the next afternoon, his throat was swollen and painful, he couldn’t speak, but as Wei Cai Wei and him had lived together for over ten years, she knew what he meant by his expression and gestures, she said: “Your father is fine, he did indeed hear of your kidnapping but he was suspicious and didn’t believe it.” It was good to be suspicious, suspicion can save lives. On hearing his father was fine, Ding Wu relaxed then passed out again. Apart from dealing with the spoilt Wang Da Xia, Wei Cai Wei treated Ding Wu, by the fifth day Ding Wu could speak, his voice however was coarse and could only walk around slowly using ...