Bab 230: Sh*t’s Powerful Ahead

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Hi guys, I think I owe you guys quite a number of explanations for this chapter! First up, about the brothels. You might be wondering why all of these are happening in the brothels. Now, the ancient Chinese brothels operate pretty differently from modern ones. In the ancient brothels, they were like inns with rooms and dining tables. The guests would enter there to feast and dine under the companionship with exquisite women. The richer or more prominent guests would have a room all to themselves while others could probably score one of the girls if they were very charismatic or something. I don’t think you guys could google and find out much about it. These are details that I caught on from watching Hong Kong movies and the likes so if you guys catch them you may get an idea of what I’m talking about.

Secondly, about the rhymes. In the raws, Lin Fan used a poem from Li Bai’s ‘Three Hundred Tang Poems’. It’s a famous poem that children would know from a young age. In fact, he mixed up 2 different poems into 1. So he took top half of A and bottom half of B to create the first poem, followed by top half of B and bottom half of A for the second poem. But there was no way I could recreate this in English, so I opted for the English version of nursery rhymes. At the same time, I couldn’t mix humpty dumpty with twinkle twinkle little stars so I made do.

Lastly, the dog’s fur becoming slick and shiny. For those of you who might be confused, the meaning of the author was that the dog was now like an extremely good breed dog. Dogs of good quality breeds would have slicker furs and stuff, so his intention was to state that the black dog was now of the purest breed in all dogs in this world. Something along those lines.

Wow, this is long. Cheers!