Chapter 66: Digging Your Own Grave - Part 2
Niang niang - honorific for the Empress and imperial concubines
Da sao - sao is an honorific for sister-in-law (in this case), children also use it to refer to the wife of a paternal uncle
Dimei - honorific for a sister-in-law who is the wife of a younger brother
Huibing - how servants/nubi address others of higher status
Zhang nu - eldest daughter of a household
Sinister aura - the harmful or evil distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing, or place
法師 Fǎshī - can be translated to Taoist master; in many dramas and novels, their job is to: identify evil spirits in people’s homes, perform rituals, and hopefully banish them
厌胜之术 Yàn shèng zhī shù - ancient witchcraft involving curses; if a family was cursed, they might be homeless, physically injured, die, or even lose their home and family
Convent - a monastery but specifically an institution of female monastics (nuns) only
Lao Furen frowned: “What?”
Luo mama hesitated for a bit, glancing at Da Furen’s tense expression, and said: “Huibing Lao Furen, it is tu.”
“Tu?” Li Xiao Ran was a Prime Minister and had yet to come across this plant that grew in countryside fields, “What is that?”
Li Wei Yang’s lips slowly lifted. Shock appeared on Li Chang Xi’s face, how could that be?
Luo mama went up and carefully cut the clumped meat open. Everyone saw there was something indigo inside. Li Xiao Ran frowned: “Well, what is it?”
”This is a type of poisonous grass. If it grows near crops, nothing can be harvested, therefore it is called tu.” Luo mama’s expressions were rather solemn. She had lived many years in the residence but had yet to see these filthy things. She had thought something like this could not possibly appear in the Li family…
“Why would it be here?” A bit of suspicion appeared on Li Xiao Ran’s face, “What is it used for?”
Li Chang Le hastily said: “This placenta here was what Wumei had given me—— ”
Li Chang Xi saw that something was not right and quickly responded, “Dajie, I did not put this inside the placenta…”
Li Chang Le shot her a hostile glare. Li Chang Xi truly did not put those things in, but because she could not stand the smell of the placenta, she secretly sought out Physician Song. He said she only needed to add some herbs to suppress the smell, that was all, so she said: “It was Physician Song who suggested I put herbs inside to take away the stench.”
“Father, tu is not an herb but a harmful, poisonous weed. When I was at Ping Cheng, I had heard of it, that ten years of drought, nine years of flooding, if rice is stored there and tu grows in the yard, the whole family can only eat dirt! You see, isn’t this a lethal type of poison?” Li Wei Yang suddenly said.
Li Xiao Ran could not believe his own ears: “The destructive potential of this poisonous grass is even more terrifying than floods and droughts?”
Li Wei Yang nodded, “Indeed, it is much more terrifying. For that reason, commoners despise these things. Furthermore, it does not have the ability to take away odors. Dajie, has Dajie misunderstood then?”
Da Furen suddenly realized something was not right. Her face grew solemn: “Wei Yang, do not speak carelessly!”
“Silence!” Li Xiao Ran motioned to her, then he frowned, “Chang Le, why would you bring this into the residence?”
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