Translating Sloth

  The ladder from when Ding Wu had climbed over the wall was there, Wei Cai Wei climbed down from the top of the wall into the next door’s courtyard… Self-rain pavilion. The impersonator Wang Da Xia was tied onto the water wheel, when it had turned the fifth time, he couldn’t take it anymore. He had underestimated the water torture, he thought he was great at swimming, when the wheel went under water he held his breathe and waited to breath when the wheel left the water. In truth however, he was tied like a kite on the water wheel, this up and down motion was very tough on the body, he really couldn’t stand it for a long time. Wang Da Xia switched from faking his cough to real coughing on the sixth turn, the water irritated his throat painfully, Wang Da Xia thought, I won’t swim any more this summer! At the tenth turn, Wang Da Xia’s head was buzzing, he only thought: Leader Lu hurry up and save me! I don’t want to die, I still haven’t married. Yan Shi Bo was playing the guqin insid...

  Lu Ying knocked on her own family courtyard’s door, the old housekeeper opened the door, “Fourth—”, then he saw two strangers behind her, he hurriedly changed to say “Young master has returned.” Lu Ying said: “No need to make a fuss, move three ladders to the pond.” The three of them entered the courtyard, it was like a park in Jiangnan, a rock garden built with stones from Lake Tai, a multistory pavilion, two ponds were joined into one by a wooden bridge which looked like it was covered with wriggling snakes, under the wooden bridge were all kinds of green jade lotuses, pickable if one stooped over. The middle class noble like the Wang family didn’t have such fine courtyards, Wang Da Xia was curious, he even threw away the basket full of cape jasmines and picked a few tender lotus seed heads to peel and eat. “So sweet, the lotus centre isn’t bitter either.” Even at this moment Wang Da Xia was in the mood to eat lotus seed head. At the end of the east pond was yanshenggong’s cour...

  Mask Wu was from a family who had been in the embroidered uniform guards for several generations, carrying on the father’s job, but he had not cleaned his gun properly, blowing up his chest and ruining half of his face, destroying his future, he had wanted to give up his position but he had an elderly mother and a young child, and only because of his deceased wife he begged Lu Bing to give him a position, as long as his family had enough to eat. Lu Bing took pity on him, asking him to look after the firearm storeroom, conveniently also letting every new recruit come to “see” what happens when they don’t clean their firearms properly. His ruined face was like that of a ghost, in order to avoid scaring people, he wore the mask all year round, people called with mask Wu. Mask Wu had always been very earnest, so him using the steel teeth cricket to distract the jailor and switch the zongzi surprised everyone, the person who had been given Lu Bing’s favour was actually the traitor! Th...