张衙役那边都打过招呼了吗 都打点好了
“Has everything been arranged with Officer Zhang? It's all taken care of.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Keep a close watch on Ronghua. Yes.”
张衙役那边都 打过招呼 了吗 都 打点好了
“Has everything been arranged with Officer Zhang? It's all taken care of.”
哥 你放心
“Benchang, don't worry.”
“Is the bailiff properly bought off so we won't get caught?”
Traditional bureaucratic interactions often depended on informal bribery or gifts ('dadian') to ensure favorable treatment or immunity from local yamen runners.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
To notify or grease the wheels informally
While literally meaning 'to greet', in bureaucratic contexts it euphemistically means to notify someone unofficially or secure illicit backing.
To grease palms / to bribe or settle through gifts
A classic term referring to preparing gifts or bribes to manage relationships with authorities.
Marks a standard yes-no question checking on the execution of a critical task.
Indicates the completed change of state and successful resolution of the bribery.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Hasn't Officer Zhang already gotten the official document signed by the Prefect?”
“we'll just be beaten to death by these police runners later.”
“Why not send a police runner to his home to check?”
“But you'll have to lure the police runners away from the door first.”
“The officers were probably afraid of him,”
“for questioning?”