Translating Sloth

 The first reaction Wang Da Xia had was the embroidered uniform guards wanted to arrest him, again? Didn’t I already prove my innocence? This isn’t right, how does the embroidered uniform guards know I’m hiding at the young widow’s home? Wei Cai Wei’s first thought was also that the embroidered uniform guards wanted to arrest her, however, she was already prepared, her confidence was watertight… Wei Cai Wei pointed at the back door in the courtyard saying quietly: “Quickly leave, don’t worry about me, it won’t be good if the embroidered uniform guards found out you stayed at mine last night.” That’s also correct, if the embroidered uniform guards came in to search the house, such a large living person as myself can’t be hidden. Wang Da Xia slipped away with the bundle on his back. Wei Cai Wei: Really...he can’t do anything right, apart from running away quickly. After Wang Da Xia left via the back door, Wei Cai Wei opened the door. When she opened the door, the embroidered uniform guar

  Wei Cai Wei stared blankly for a while before she roughly guessed what Wang Da Xia’s words meant, her face changed at once, at such a young age, he was thinking such things! No wonder he would sell his mother’s farm, redeeming Miss Ying Ying and what not! Wei Cai Wei casually picked up the knife used to cut the watermelon, she wanted to personally castrate him! But… He’s your husband, beloved. The heavens have pity on me, letting me return to before my husband’s castration, isn’t so that I personally castrate him right. This thought was like an invisible hand, it stopped her from attacking Wang Da Xia. “What are you doing? Let’s talk it through, don’t make a move!” Wang Da Xia lifted the pillow to protect his body, looking like a man intensely protecting his chastity: “Even if you use a knife to force me, I won’t sleep with you. I don’t hit women, but if you’re set on forcing an innocent man, I definitely will resist.” At this moment Wei Cai Wei suddenly experienced Wang Qianhu’s des

  Wei Cai Wei took a lantern, leading a wolf...no, leading her dead husband into the house, she placed the lantern onto the table, then lit another candle for light. “Tonight sleep on this day bed, I’ll go get bedding from upstairs.” “Many thanks.” Wang Da Xia somewhat rigidly sat on the day bed, it was his mother’s dowry, it belonged to him, yet he felt uneasy--- not an awkward uneasiness but that kind of vaguely excited uneasiness. This young widow must have set her eyes on him! Otherwise why would she have treated me to wontons the first time we met, especially as the bowl had just been offered to her husband? Last night when I was beating the injustice drum at Shuntian prefecture yamen, it was she who called me to be look out for the cold arrow. Manager Chen repeatedly warned her I am an unreasonable Ya Nei, she however surprisingly compared me to King Zhuang of Chu who amazed the world with a single brilliant feat, she’s always been nice to me, her gaze filled with appreciation. N

  Wei Cai Wei used the key manager Chen gave her to open Wang Da Xia’s lock, then she used her own key to open the other lock, then she pushed open the door to go home. Having been busy most of the day, Wei Cai Wei was too lazy to open the chests and tidy up her stuff, she cleaned herself first, feeling refreshed all over, she lit a mosquito-repellant incense in the courtyard, separating her damp hair she let it blow in the night wind. Outside was a young man pushing a wheelbarrow selling watermelons, Wei Cai Wei brought one, cutting in half, she used a spoon to eat it, scooping it out as dinner.  Wei Cai Wei ate half a melon, the moon was as cool as water, gently shining on the stone table in the courtyard, she noticed there were notches on the stone table, holding a lantern she took a look, it was a tortoise, beside the tortoise there were some scribbles: “Wang Da Xia was here.” There was no need to guess, her damn husband had done this “masterpiece”, boasting he was a hero but was a