Vocabulary
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| 微臣 微臣 | this small official; humble servant | |
| 禁足 禁足 | to forbid sb to go out; to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc); to ground (as disciplinary measure); to gate; to curfew; restriction on movement; ban on visiting a place; out of bounds; off limits; caveat | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 解药 解藥 | antidote | |
| 趟浑水 趟渾水 | (fig.) to get involved in an unsavory enterprise | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 麒麟 麒麟 | (Chinese mythology) qilin; (old) giraffe | |
| 承蒙 承蒙 | to be indebted (to sb) | |
| 裁撤 裁撤 | to dissolve (a department etc); to eliminate (positions) | |
| 景仰 景仰 | to admire; to revere; to look up to | |
| 忌惮 忌憚 | to be afraid of the consequences; restraining fear | |
| 徒儿 徒兒 | disciple (address) | |
| 撬开 撬開 | to pry open; to lever open | |
| 不时之需 不時之需 | a possible period of want or need | |
| 土产 土產 | produced locally; local product (with distinctive native features) | |
| 回廊 迴廊 | winding corridor; cloister; ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister) | |
| 朝野 朝野 | all levels of society; the imperial court and the ordinary people | |
| 大怒 大怒 | to become furious; to explode in anger | |
| 缉拿 緝拿 | to arrest; to seize | |
| 文士 文士 | literati; scholar | |
| 蛮力 蠻力 | brute force | |
| 权重 權重 | weight (i.e. importance attached to sth) | |
| 惹恼 惹惱 | to offend | |
| 追逼 追逼 | to pursue closely; to press; to demand (payment); to extort (a concession) | |
| 无稽之谈 無稽之談 | (idiom) complete nonsense | |
| 位极人臣 位極人臣 | to have reached the highest official positions | |
| 睥睨 睥睨 | (literary) to look disdainfully out of the corner of one's eye; to look askance at | |
| 智谋 智謀 | resourcefulness; ingenuity | |
| 劫狱 劫獄 | to break into jail; to forcibly release prisoners | |
| 懒散 懶散 | indolent; negligent; slack | |
| 有解 有解 | (of a problem, equation etc) to have a solution; to be solvable | |
| 翻供 翻供 | to retract a confession or testimony | |
| 服毒 服毒 | to take poison | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 拖进 拖進 | to drag in | |
| 逆贼 逆賊 | renegade; traitor and bandit | |
| 人犯 人犯 | criminal; culprit; suspect (old) | |
| 药丸 藥丸 | pill; CL:粒[li4] | |
| 牵线 牽線 | to pull strings; to manipulate (a puppet); to control from behind the scene; to mediate | |
| 平身 平身 | rise (to subjects bowing) | |
| 隐密 隱密 | secret; hidden | |
| 遵旨 遵旨 | obey the decree | |
| 漩涡 漩渦 | whirlpool; eddy; vortex; (fig.) maelstrom | |
| 超然 超然 | aloof; detached; disinterested; impartial | |
| 抓捕 抓捕 | to seize; to capture | |
| 开印 開印 | to start a print run | |
| 贤王 賢王 | sage kings | |
| 冤死 冤死 | to suffer an unjust death | |
| 风雅 風雅 | cultured; sophisticated | |
| 口供 口供 | oral confession (as opposed to 筆供|笔供[bi3 gong4]); statement; deposition |