白用人家五日墨坊 来生产你李家的墨
“Using others' ink workshops for free for 5 days to produce ink for your Li family.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Li Zhen, oh, Li Zhen. You really are quite calculating.”
白用 人家 五日墨坊 来生产你李家的墨
“Using others' ink workshops for free for 5 days to produce ink for your Li family.”
这得让各家损失多少银钱呀 只借我们的墨坊用五日
“How much money will that cost each of them? Only borrowing our ink workshops for 5 days,”
“Look everyone, he is trying to freeload off our workshops to line his own pockets!”
In traditional Chinese commerce, trades like ink-making were dominated by family clans who fiercely guarded their workshops and resources against rival families.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to use for free; to freeload
Adding this prefix before a verb means doing that action without paying or getting nothing in return.
other people; others
Very common in spoken Chinese to refer to third parties in contrast to oneself or the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you visited our ink workshop just now. May I ask,”
“Please take good care of the family and the ink workshop.”
“We have hundreds of medicinal inks now. Even before it is finished,”
“New Li's Ink Workshop is officially open! -Great! -Great!”
“why insist on shamelessly staying at the Li's Ink Workshop?”
“New Li's Ink Workshop is opening soon. It'll be tough on you.”