Just that "old books" is one word, and probably sounds a bit more impressive than in English (is it the same in Chinese?), and that "there's a hidden meaning in your words" is a homonym for "there's a bone in your horse." LOL.
Oh, that's neat! Idioms are so cool.
Regarding "old books" ... When the seller calls ZYL, in Chinese she says 藏书, "collection of books", and the rest of the instances seem to be 古籍, which, yeah, is a single word meaning "ancient texts, antique books". But because Chinese works the way it works, it's a compound whose literal meaning would be "ancient records", I think.
100% agreed. He's doing it so deliberately that Zhao Yunlan kind of has to play along a bit, rather than calling him on it. (It's a delicate line for Shen Wei to walk, given he doesn't want Zhao Yunlan to front with him. I think that's why he's so obvious about it being a lie here?)
Yeah, 100% agreed as well! He's being extra deliberate and obvious about it so ZYL won't press him about it, as he probably would if he were more subtle ...
Oh! Oh, I just had a thought about this. Maybe when they were setting up the shield Zhao Xinci advised them to do this with some malarkey about past cases so that he himself would be able to enter unimpeded?!
OHHHH!!!!! Now that you say it, that seems really obvious? OF COURSE, otherwise the shield would block Zhao Xinci, and he would NOT want that! OMG. He must have had a nervous moment when Lin Jing first came up with the thing! :D
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Oh, that's neat! Idioms are so cool.
Regarding "old books" ... When the seller calls ZYL, in Chinese she says 藏书, "collection of books", and the rest of the instances seem to be 古籍, which, yeah, is a single word meaning "ancient texts, antique books". But because Chinese works the way it works, it's a compound whose literal meaning would be "ancient records", I think.
100% agreed. He's doing it so deliberately that Zhao Yunlan kind of has to play along a bit, rather than calling him on it. (It's a delicate line for Shen Wei to walk, given he doesn't want Zhao Yunlan to front with him. I think that's why he's so obvious about it being a lie here?)
Yeah, 100% agreed as well! He's being extra deliberate and obvious about it so ZYL won't press him about it, as he probably would if he were more subtle ...
Oh! Oh, I just had a thought about this. Maybe when they were setting up the shield Zhao Xinci advised them to do this with some malarkey about past cases so that he himself would be able to enter unimpeded?!
OHHHH!!!!! Now that you say it, that seems really obvious? OF COURSE, otherwise the shield would block Zhao Xinci, and he would NOT want that! OMG. He must have had a nervous moment when Lin Jing first came up with the thing! :D