太太把她送给你父亲 做房里人
“Madam Ji married her to your father as a housemaid.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她是太太的陪嫁丫鬟
“She is the Madam Ji's dowry maid.”
太太把她 送给你 父亲 做 房里人
“Madam Ji married her to your father as a housemaid.”
怀孕七个月的时候 误食了催产药 一尸两命
“At seven months pregnant, she ingested oxytocin by mistake. One corpse, two lives.”
“Her arrangement was entirely under the matriarch's control, setting up the tragedy to follow.”
Primary wives frequently offered their dowry maids as concubines to maintain control over the husband's bedchamber and secure domestic influence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
concubine; bedchamber maid
A historical euphemism for a maid taken as an informal concubine by the male head of the household.
give someone/something to...
Standard disposal structure; in this context, it reflects the commodification of servants in old Chinese society.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“My lady, someone delivered a letter.”
“and even sending her to your own father's side—”
“her father found her a Chinese man to marry into the family as a live-in son-in-law.”
“If you're just ordinary friends, how could he send his daughter to your house?”
“Jing. Then I won't see you out.”
“Master, I'll send them upstairs. Go back first.”