Xianggong, Please Divorce Me!

Ch. 8: Sow Rooting Up Chinese Cabbage

Translator's Note: Chinese cabbage (big white vegetable) is slang for a fair-skinned, rich and beautiful woman. When pigs dig and eat through a vegetable field, almost all the other vegetables are easily eaten while Chinese cabbage takes much more effort.

[1] 祖坟冒青烟; Ancestral grave emitting green-blue vapor or smoke is considered to be a very lucky feng shui portent.

[2] 八辈子修来的福; Destined blessing earned from previous lives.  The phrase specifically mentions 8 lives but it's not meant to be an absolute number.

[3] Sow is a mother pig

[4] Furen; the older definition is a lady of high rank, generally the wife of a feudal lord or senior official.

[5] Gugu; a paternal aunt

[6] Lao taitai; a respectful term for an elderly lady

[7] 福瑞院, Fu Rui courtyard; Good fortune auspicious courtyard.  Here are some photos of Chinese family compound with multiple courtyards; Chang family compound in Shanxi.

The Qiao family compound, which is also in Shanxi, is more compact. www.travelchinaguide.com/images/map/shanxi/qiao-family-compound.jpg and also  www.asiaculturaltravel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Qiaos-family-compund02.jpg.  Internet searchs on these two family compounds can be done to see more pictures to get a better idea.

[8] 山不就我，只能我就山了; I asked 4 different native Mandarin speakers about this phrase. No one understood its' meaning.

Ch 8: Sow Rooting Up Chinese Cabbage

Su Tang's 4 limbs were unable to move. She wanted to cry but had no tears. He had her the whole night, could it be that he wasn't tired (at all)!

Song Shi An certainly wasn't tired. To tell the truth he campaigned on the battlefield year in and year out so his body was strong. The "highest grade aphrodisiac" that imperial physician Zheng developed made Song Shi An's passion repeatedly ignite, therefore he strenuously worked the entire night.  After waking up again he was full of vigor and vitality, an iron-willed man able to energetically toil!

But Su Tang couldn't stand it anymore! So she gave a loud shout, "Song Shi An, are you finished!"

Song Shi An's mind finally cleared up. He opened his drowsy eyes and saw Su Tang lying under his body, glowering at him.  After that the realization of detecting "something" wrapped around one's own plaything, comprehended what that thing really was! He abruptly extracted himself, body rolled over to maintain a good distance from Su Tang! After that, he spoke a sentence which made Su Tang bear a grudge for the rest of her life....

"What happened?"

"What happened?!" In an instant Su Tang became angry. Aware of a burst of cold (on) one's own body, discovered that her naked body was exposed.  (She) hastily grabbed the brocade quilt on the side, rolled once to the furthest side, stared and cursed at Song Shi An whose complete face was perplexed.  "You can still ask what happened. I ask you what really happened! Didn't you promise me that everything would be bogus! How could you do this to me, do..."  No matter what Su Tang could not say the rest.

Song Shi An didn't know the concrete particulars and still was unaware of what actually happened. But (he) that knew a mishap occurred, consequently (his) facial expression was a bit awkward—in the final analysis, he seemed to have genuinely raped this woman?

□□?!  This term oozed out from Song Shi An's brain. (His) facial expression became even more crestfallen.

"I'm sorry." He hung his head in disgrace, rather ill at ease.