Vocabulary
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| 颠颠 顛顛 | glad and diligent | |
| 素日 素日 | usually | |
| 榜眼 榜眼 | candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination; top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see and; top scorer in college entrance examination; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field | |
| 娘儿们 娘兒們 | (dialect) woman; wife | |
| 哑巴 啞巴 | a mute; mute; silent | |
| 心窄 心窄 | narrow-minded; intolerant | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 主仆 主僕 | master and servant | |
| 同日 同日 | same day; simultaneous | |
| 干娘 乾娘 | adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
| 窝主 窩主 | person who harbors criminals; receiver (of stolen goods) | |
| 大族 大族 | large and influential family; clan | |
| 死而不僵 死而不僵 | dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis; to die hard (idiom); to die yet not be vanquished (idiom) | |
| 安寝 安寢 | to sleep peacefully | |
| 护着 護著 | to protect; to guard; to shield | |
| 拉扯 拉扯 | to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in; to chat | |
| 但凡 但凡 | every single; as long as | |
| 岂能 豈能 | 岂: how? what? · 能: to be able; can, permitted to; ability | |
| 作贼 作賊 | to be a thief | |
| 主子 主子 | Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine) | |
| 赌钱 賭錢 | to gamble | |
| 扯谎 扯謊 | to tell a lie | |
| 姥娘 姥娘 | maternal grandmother (dialectal) | |
| 觉察 覺察 | to sense; to perceive; to come to realize; to be aware | |
| 现世现报 現世現報 | 现: appear, manifest, become visible · 世: generation; world; era · 现: appear, manifest, become visible · 报: report, tell, announce | |
| 监守 監守 | to have custody of | |
| 自有公论 自有公論 | 自: self, private, personal; from · 有: have, own, possess; exist · 公: fair, equitable; public; duke · 论: debate; discuss; discourse | |
| 善恶 善惡 | good and evil; good versus evil | |
| 探花 探花 | candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf.); (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet | |
| 清白 清白 | pure; innocent | |
| 口舌 口舌 | dispute or misunderstanding caused by gossip; to talk sb round | |
| 还清 還清 | to pay back in full; to redeem a debt | |
| 一拜 一拜 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 拜: do obeisance, bow, kowtow | |
| 相公 相公 | lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband | |
| 筋骨 筋骨 | muscles and bones; physique; strength; courage | |
| 姨太太 姨太太 | concubine | |
| 及至 及至 | by the time that | |
| 趁便 趁便 | to take the opportunity; in passing | |
| 奔四 奔四 | to be pushing 40 | |
| 孝服 孝服 | mourning clothes | |
| 红肿 紅腫 | inflamed; red and swollen | |
| 生母 生母 | natural mother; birth mother | |
| 露水 露水 | dew; fig. short-lasting; ephemeral | |
| 须要 須要 | must; have to | |
| 解闷 解悶 | to relieve boredom or melancholy; a diversion | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 偏要 偏要 | to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything | |
| 看不清 看不清 | not able to see clearly | |
| 颓丧 頹喪 | dejected; disheartened; listless | |
| 斟酒 斟酒 | to pour wine or liquor |