所以要借你家公子一用嘛
“Hence, I need your husband for a bit.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“No. I still have business to attend to.”
所以要借你家公子一用嘛
“Hence, I need your husband for a bit.”
你先带宁娘去玩会儿
“Take Changning to play for a while first.”
“I need him to come with me to get this job done, so let him go.”
Describing someone as being 'borrowed' (借……一用) is a lighthearted rhetorical device in Chinese that lowers the weight of a serious request.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
borrow someone or something for a brief moment
A polite yet slightly colloquial expression used when asking to make use of an object, tool, or person's presence.
your young master / your lord
A respectful, traditional reference to another person's master or son in historical contexts.
Softens the request and suggests the stated reason should be obvious to the listener.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So you need to borrow my men”
“I want to use your place”
“I understand what your master means.”
“to look for my child.”
“I want your young master to come and apologize in person,”
“So I could only use the excuse of returning Baopu to come see you.”