Chapter 2 (2/2)
“Your hand erroneously used too th, next ti things” The young nobleman's expression remained exactly the same as before He carelessly spoke: “Put on soet to pay compensation in a bit”
Xiao Xun bowed his head and hummed in acceptance
The conversation interrupted by this s any antly thatto earth, these were not any auspicious words of praise This tiet surrounded and beaten up
Only that young noble the excite htly: “Interesting According what this brother is saying, similar to how those short-lived and lonely oneshas already become disabled, it seems he will soon marry a wife”
Xiao Xun: ”……”
Someone else slapped the table and rose: “What truewithout a wife?! A hero like the Marquis of Jing Ning can have any kind of woht! And if he is interested into hter broke out in the tea shack
Male es had been fashi+onable in the previous dynasty, so although the Great Zhou Dynasty prohibitedthe common people, influential officials were exempt from this taboo There was even precedent of the eolden bachelor in the capital, the Marquis of Jing Ning was the dreairls in their boudoirs But he had delayed uessed his interests were unusual
When it came to these petty rorew even further The young noble to the He always had a hint of a s and wonderful story
After a monow?”
“M nobleman reached out a hand to allow Xiao Xiao to lift him up He carelessly cupped his hand in salute at theto the capital and will leave first”
Everyone raised their hands to bid farewell to hie and let down the curtain The carriage rumbled and horses for hundreds of steps, when Xiao Xun suddenly heard the young nobleive me a pill of medicine”
“But didn't Doctor Du say to take the ?” Xiao Xun took out a delicate purse which contained a white bottle of eggshell porcelain “We still have two more hours before we enter the capital”
“Don't talk nonsense,” a hand stretched out from under the curtain and plucked the porcelain bottle away, “Ahead is the capital's military barracks Our current appearance can fool the ordinary people, but will definitely be recognized in the capital barracks I definitely will not have the time to pretend to be crippled on the spot”
Xiao Xun apprehensively muttered: “But you inherently are actually crippled…”
The ill young noblehter” Marquis of Jing Ning, Fu Shen, lifted his chin and sed a brown pill the size of a fingertip He laughed: “Zhongshan, between a general with hope of recovery and a completely disabled cripple… which do you think would allow you to sleep easier?”
Xiao Xun did not say any more
Fu Shen threw the porcelain bottle back to hi nuo”
Footnotes: (still haven't beat WAFIL's record yet)
1 These are all real-world places in Northeast China You can see the precise locations courtesy of our good friends Wikipedia: enwikipediaorg/wiki/Guangyang_Districtand enwikipediaorg/wiki/Miyun_DistrictAnd yes, this confir
2 To be specific, he asks ”好看么?” which can ?”
3 衣锦还乡 lit ”to come back to one's holory
4The full title in Chinese is 颖国公 Interestingly enough, this saure Fu Youde (same last name as the Fu fa a brilliant general yet ulti) hest non-i soldiers and sturdy horses”
6 势如破竹 lit ”like splitting a ba to overpoith irresistible force
7 The specific term is 蛮夷 (mán yí), which was a coatory I used the si nán) refers to the south of the Nanling Mountains This is an old term for south China, particularly the location of the xi, and Hainan provinces
9甘州 is short for Gansu Province, located in the Northwest of China near Mongolia
10上柱国将军: this was an honorary title oflish translation for this is o/Though 上柱 roughly translates to ”upper pillar”
11弱冠 (ruò guān) refers to how in the past, when Chinese youngof age by wearing a crown
12 将星 lit ”General/Coy/divination, syenerals I believe it was also known as the 七杀星 or ”Seven Killings Star”, associated with bravery, decisiveness, and iy at all so I'le Search over here All these randos are literally just ): 野 ood” I don't know if this has any ulteriorso I kind of translated it at randoainst a crazy tide” basically e a desperate crisis
15 命主杀伐; Please have y
16 Interestingly enough, Chinese actually has e, different froossipers use 嫁, which is the term for a bride to marry her husband (ie Fu Shen would be the ”husband” while the other man would be the ”wife”)
17 Just to clarify, this is calling Xiao Xun by his courtesy naain, people in ancient China often had iven at birth, while 重山 (zhòng shān, roughly iven at adulthood We'll learn the MC's courtesy name sometime soon