Translating Sloth

  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 ...

  Lu Bing saw things were fine and retreated, he took the seriously injured Ding Wu and others away, but he didn’t dare leave Ding Wu next door in case Yan Shi Bo got up to his old tricks and like him use the ploy of setting a fire to put it out, then rush in to take Ding Wu away, Lu Bing and the others hard work tonight would have been wasted. The embroidered uniform guards around the moat actually noticed a suspicious person, it was almost the night curfew, the children swimming in the moat were all forced home by the ear by their mothers, they appeared when the bustling river like dumplings in a pot had settled, they were even carrying a burlap sack. That person carried the sack into the river, when they pulled the rope open, they were apprehended by the embroidered uniform guards. This person was willing to sacrifice their life, they bit the pouch of medicine hidden in their collar, blood flowed from the seven apertures of their head, they died foaming at the mouth. The embroid...