怎么能让别人信我窥得天机 怎么混口饭吃
“how could anyone believe I could see fate? How would I make a living?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我有同伙了呢 你若是无辜为何要装盲人 我不装瞎
“about me having an accomplice? If you're innocent, why did you pretend to be blind? If I don't pretend to be blind,”
怎么能 让别人 信我 窥得天机 怎么 混口饭吃
“how could anyone believe I could see fate? How would I make a living?”
那你为何进了刑部大牢 还要继续装 我目不能视
“Then why did you keep pretending after you were thrown in the Ministry of Justice prison? Even blind,”
“I'm not an evil mastermind, I'm just a desperate beggar pretending to be a seer to survive.”
Chinese speakers frequently justify humble, irregular, or morally ambiguous occupations by framing them as merely scraping together food to survive.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
divine heavenly secrets / peek into fate
A literary idiom often used to describe fortune-tellers claiming insight into destiny.
scrape a living / earn enough to eat
A very common colloquial expression expressing modest self-deprecation about one's livelihood.
