Why Do Women Pick on Women
“Is that how you handle things?” After hearing Cui Mama’s report, Madam Mu was very angry.
He heavily dropped the teacup in her hand, Madam Mu was really angry, she had clearly ordered Cui Mama to handle that Yu Ling Long, not only Yu Ling Long is still unharmed, but now she wants us to arrange a place for her to stay? How would other people look at this? Just this morning she had been flagrantly bullied by Yu Ling Long, yet now she demands a place for her to stay, she is clearly making everyone feel that a dignified Madam of the courtyard is scared of a little concubine’s child? How could she show her face to anyone now?
Cui Mama had already thought about a countermeasure, seeing Madam Mu being very mad, she quickly said: “Madam do not worry, please listen to what I’m about to say. Madam how great your status is, there is no need to bother yourself with the likes of her, about what happened this morning, if you were to appease her now, if others knew about this, they would praise Madam for being broad-minded, definitely no one would feel as what Madam had said, you could also stop those people who gossip behind your back. If Madame heard about this, she would naturally feel that you handled things appropriately. As for how we should arrange Fourth Miss a place to live, I’ve got an idea about it.”
Listening to Cui Mama’s analyzation, Madam Mu’s expression was better, Cui Mama was right, as a Madam that’s controlling the courtyard, if she were to bother with the likes of her, wouldn’t that be a bigger joke? It’s better to be generous, pretending that I wouldn’t mind about it, that way not only Yu Ling Long can be appeased, a good reputation can be forged if I treated a concubine’s child kindly.
Madam Mu nodded her head noncommittally, she asked: “What kind of idea do you have in mind?”
Cui Mama quickly whispered in her ear, said a few words, Madam Mu’s expression suddenly cleared, she can’t refrain from smiling: “What a good way, with this, we can kill two birds with one stone.”
Cui Mama was relieved: “So……. should I arrange the plans now?”
Yu Ling Long gave them a deadline, if they don’t handle things in time, I’m afraid Yu Ling Long would cause them an even bigger trouble.
Madam Mu let off a cold humph: Alright, we’ll do it this way! Also, when the sun starts to shine tomorrow, I don’t want to see that again!”
It was to urge Cui Mama to quickly dispose of this disturbing wench called Yu Ling Long.
Cui Mama wouldn’t dare to lower her guard, she quickly answered: “Madam, please do not worry, I had already made arrangements, I guarantee that good news will come tonight.”
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In the garden behind Yu Courtyard, Cui Mama was in front of them while leading them, Yu Ling Long was bringing Xuan Cao along, as they walk, they were admiring the scenery.
The Yu Courtyard was just a normal General Mansion, it wasn’t really big, but the garden’s scenery is worth admiring, it was night time as well, the garden was filled with green plants, beautiful mountains, elegant pavilions, paired with murmuring of running water, a really good place to relax and ease up.
In Yu Ling Long’s heart, she looks down on those ancient girls, every day staying inside their homes not being able to go anywhere at all, no need to worry about food and clothing, of course, she could only find some intriguing games to play, otherwise life would be so boring.
When she had just turned at a corner, she immediately faced two people who were obviously here to nitpick.
“Oh, isn’t this Fourth sister? “ This fake warm-hearted voice, why does it sound so fake.
Two young girls with age of about 15 or 16 appeared in front of Yu Ling Long, one of them seemed to be slightly older, and had a slightly large body, delicate face with a slight smile on it, it was as if she is gentle and amiable. Whereas the other one had irresistible charming eyes, light-weight body, she looks like someone with dignity, yet she gives a scornful look at Yu Ling Long.
Cui Mama bowed and greeted them: “Greetings Second Miss, Third Miss.”
Yu Ling Long gave an annoyed glance to those two who were so called sisters, Second Miss Yu Qian Fang was still alright, at least she wasn’t showing any obvious signs of hostility. But this Third Miss Yu Qian Liu, at first glance I knew that she was someone extremely difficult to get along with. If I had not encountered her face to face, I wouldn’t be willing to respond to this eccentric person.
Yu Qian Fang slightly smiled at Cui Mama: “Where are you headed to, Cui Mama?”
Cui Mama smiled back and said: “Madam had arranged a place for Fourth Miss to stay, I am leading her to her new yard.”
Just when she was finished, Yu Ling Long felt a look filled with jealousy was cast upon her. Needless to say, it was obvious that nitpicker Yu Qian Liu.
About Yu Qian Liu’s deep anger, she herself as a concubine’s child had endured suffering for so many years in the courtyard, yet Madam did not even treat her with proper respect. Whereas this Yu Ling Long who had only entered the courtyard for a few days, she had already beaten up Madam’s underlings, taking away Madam’s lunch box, not only Madam did not punish her, instead, she gave her a place to stay? Why is Madam treating Yu Ling Long this nicely?
Yu Qian Liu wouldn’t dare to challenge Madam Mu, she could only abreact her deep anger onto Yu Ling Long, he had disdain the concubine’s child who had entered the courtyard before, now that we’ve met face to face, naturally she would have to take the chance, and dispose of this wench that came out of nowhere!
“Fourth Miss, you are so lucky, Mother treats you with such good care, and you should show filial piety to Mother! Otherwise, wouldn’t you be an ungrateful wench which doesn’t know how to appreciate what’s good?” Yu Qian Liu said the two words “Filial Piety” heavily, her voice was filled with mockery.
Filial Piety? Who doesn’t know what Yu Ling Long had done to Madam Mu this morning? Brave enough to take away Mother’s lunchbox, isn’t this already being ungrateful?
Yu Ling Long slightly squinted, coldly said: “Whether I show filial piety or not, what does that have to do with you?”
Everyone on the spot was frozen, she actually burst foul words? Is this the things a rich young lady should say?
Yu Qian Liu was stunned for a minute, then she recovered from it and said: “You, what did you just said?”
Yu Ling Long continued further, staring at the stunned Yu Qian Liu, her exquisite face still filled with disdain, the air pressure of the surroundings were extremely lowered.
“I said: What, Does, That, Have, To, Do, With, You!”
One word at a time, it was as if every word was a heavy punch, pushing Yu Qian Liu back a few steps.
A young lady like this, not mentioning whether she had seen it before, she had not even heard about it!
Seeing Yu Qian Liu being at a disadvantage, Yu Qian Fang quickly pulled her away, smiling to Yu Ling Long and said: “Please be patient Fourth Sister, Third sister was just concern about you, let’s talk things out.”
Yu Ling Long let off a cold humph, concern, is there a wench that would care so much?
“Alright, a good dog should get out of the way, now scram!” Yu Ling Long had no mood to argue with them, letting them off this easily was already very nice of her.
But, her kindness was taken in a bad way, Yu Qian Liu’s brows were straight, she said angrily: “Yu Ling Long, don’t you dare to act like you’re someone important! Who doesn’t know that your mother was just a lowly whore? Who do you think you are, after showing you some of my kindness and you repay me with such rudeness?”
Yu Qian Fang who was standing beside heard that something was off, quickly trying to pull Yu Qian Liu away, it was only too bad, because it was too late.
Yu Ling Long swiftly stopped her footsteps, a cold smile appear on her pretty face, show some kindness? We still don’t know who is repaying kindness with rudeness yet!
Seeing the cold smile on Yu Ling Long’s face, Yu Qian Liu couldn’t refrain from acting timid, she had changed her mind but she had already straightened her back, although she is a concubine’s child, she is also Yu Courtyard’s miss, she is also Yu Ling Long’s sister! What’s wrong with teaching her a few lessons? Surely Yu Ling Long wouldn’t really dare to slap her?
Unfortunately, before she was able to recover from thinking, her leg had already suffered a heavy kick!
How Could Yu Qian Liu’s small sized-body be able to endure such a heavy kick from Yu Ling Long, she immediately kneeled on the ground!
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I agree with Sabruness. Seems like you haven’t really read this genre/type before. Each housing compound or “mansion” in your words has separate courtyards. They are individual areas with a house, yard, garden, etc…in their own area, which are part of a larger compound. It is very appropriate to say “courtyard”. Courtyards are NOT “rooms.” There is a room in a house in a courtyard. Plus, typically, these courtyards are named something to distinguish them from all the other courtyards, often in flowery chinese descriptions. So the main wife can live in “Red Azalea Courtyard”, the 1st concubine can live in “White Lotus Courtyard”, etc… And using “yard” instead of “courtyard”? Who cares. I’m a stickler for decent grammar as well, but this argument is just stupid. They could very well dump someone in the yard of that person’s courtyard if you want to be literal. Anyone who reads these types of stories is very used to yard, vs courtyard, vs named courtyards, etc… They are NOT rooms. I can see where you’re coming from, but when it comes down to it, you’re trying to apply modern terminology and their meanings to Ancient Chinese culture and structures. They are not the same. This is why Sabruness asked if you had read this type of story before. If you had, you would not have an issue with courtyard or their names being called as such. Think of the manor/compounds as minuture cities with a main courtyard containing the primary house, garden, and guest areas; then many other courtyards for various residents such as the different wives, concubines, children, elders, etc…; then other areas where the slaves and workers are housed. They are separate areas all within one bigger manor.
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1. If there are multiple courtyards divided up between people, each should have its own name. “the courtyard” when you could mean any number of courtyards, is only confusing. Yet over and over “the courtyard”, no named courtyards except for the whole mansion.
1b. A walled self contained city with its own structures built into its walls is called a CASTLE. So they live in a castle, not a courtyard.
2. If the whole building they are in is inside the walls of a greater structure that it is not part of, and thus itself is a courtyard, then he wouldn’t show her to her courtyard or “yard”, he would show her to her room.
3. This is is about making it so people can understand it, not about the fact that grammatically some of this is all wrong. As I said before, I progressed through many chapters confused about what was being described, I still don’t have a good idea of what they live in etc.
3a. Shouldn’t we word things so its most understood by the most people? Not just those familiar with a particular genre.
3b. Whatever is traditional for the genre, there are terms like castles, mansions etc that would be just as understandable for those who know the genre as those who don’t, so why not use them?
3c. Courtyards within courtyards all called “courtyard” individually with no name or sometimes yards and the overall structure is also called a courtyard with a name? [sarcasm] Gosh, no one could possibly get confused by that.[/sarcasm] And then what if the author needs to describe something happening within a actual courtyard, or a actual yard?
This has to stop. I am closing this thread
Thanks for translating. It’s appreciated by many.
Thanks for the chapter!
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So…I’m confused. Why is Yu Ling Long walking around like she doesn’t have a slit wrist, mild blood lost and scorpion poison in her body? Does dying and getting a new soul mean the body is magically healed? Or why doesn’t anyone else involved in the medicine breeding notice this? And how is Madam’s daughter suddenly on the way to recovery when Yu Ling’s blood that was in the bowl was all spilled. In fact, where did all the scorpions go?
Yeah, somehow a powerful soul means your body becomes all different. I suppose the poison went away as part of coming back from the dead with the gods or whatever. But yeah, it doesn’t feel like much of Long’s ass kicking comes from skill, but rather from strange supernatural strength. A malnourished never exercising highly abused 14 yo girl would not be able to deliver much power with her body, no matter what mad combat skills she knew. Putting aside muscles etc, her simple lack of weight would put her at a disadvantage.
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And yeah, with the daughter healing, the scorpions and stuff. I really like the premise and stuff, but the particulars seem rushed and ill thought out.
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BTW, why was there so many scorpions. The idea was to dilute the scorpion venom, then you just have say one scorpion venom bite her. Or better yet, bleed the girl, milk the scorpion venom, and mix the blood and venom together outside the body. Well if you survive poisons, you do develop antibodies that help with it, though that isn’t how it’s worded (translation problem or author problem, who knows) but even then, again, one scorpion, why a whole blasted pot filled with them, how is she possibly suppose to survive a swam of stings in order to give blood for a cure.
Yeah, somehow a powerful soul means your body becomes all different. I suppose the poison went away as part of coming back from the dead with the gods or whatever. But yeah, it doesn’t feel like much of Long’s ass kicking comes from skill, but rather from strange supernatural strength. A malnourished never exercising highly abused 14 yo girl would not be able to deliver much power with her body, no matter what mad combat skills she knew. Putting aside muscles etc, her simple lack of weight would put her at a disadvantage.
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And yeah, with the daughter healing, the scorpions and stuff. I really like the premise and stuff, but the particulars seem rushed and ill thought out.
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BTW, why was there so many scorpions. The idea was to dilute the scorpion venom, then you just have say one scorpion venom bite her. Or better yet, bleed the girl, milk the scorpion venom, and mix the blood and venom together outside the body. Well if you survive poisons, you do develop antibodies that help with it, though that isn’t how it’s worded (translation problem or author problem, who knows) but even then, again, one scorpion, why a whole blasted pot filled with them, how is she possibly suppose to survive a swam of stings in order to give blood for a cure.
Some weird uses of the word “yard” and “courtyard” in especially this chapter, but other chapters too.
A yard is outside land with plants growing around a house, usually trimmed grass. Yard=lawn. Well lawn usually means plants, especially grass. Yard can mean any expanse of open space, especially near a structure. (like say “junk yard” is open space used to store junk, dockyard is open space for ships and ship related stuff. Never a building)
A courtyard is outside but surrounded or at least mostly surrounded, by structure. A space in the center of the house without roof or walls.
So when it says something like ” I am leading her to her new yard.” You are saying she’s going to park Long outside on the lawn for her to sleep on the ground outside only for the foolish servant who did that to be beaten within a inch of her life for the offense. I think not. Probably should say “room”
And “courtyard” is used over and over. It’s a mansion, right? So why not call it that? If “Courtyard” is part of its proper name, as in a mansion named “Yu Courtyard” then you wouldn’t say “the courtyard” You would say Yu Courtyard or perhaps just shorten it to Courtyard if you must (though it’s only two characters and a space, and not shortening it means less confusing) You typically don’t put “the” in front of proper names, and you are suppose to capitalize the first letter of proper names. Also, if the mansion is formally named “Yu Courtyard” that would be very very odd name. Why not “Yu tiles” or “Yu decorative trimmings” for names while we are at it. I got to wonder about that name.
There is no such housing type called “courtyard”. I even looked it up to be absolutely sure.
” had entered the courtyard before” setting aside possibly changing courtyard to mansion or something, I am not sure entered is the right word you want if you mean, moved into, became a resident of. Maybe you could say moved into or became a resident of, or you might use “joined Courtyard” or “joined the mansion”. “became a resident of” might be the most precise wording to choose, but it is a bit longer. “entered” sounds like she just walked in for a short while.