是郭师爷身边的小厮喊我们来的
“It was Advisor Guo's page boy who sent us.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是郭师
“It was Advisor Guo...”
是郭师爷身边的小厮喊我们来的
“It was Advisor Guo's page boy who sent us.”
你说谎
“You're lying!”
“Don't blame us; we were just following Advisor Guo's servant's instructions.”
In imperial and pre-modern China, a Shiye acted as a magistrate's influential private advisor, and his household servants often carried borrowed authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
personal attendant / servant at one's side
A historical term used to denote young male domestic servants or personal pages.
called/summoned us here
A colloquial way to explain why one has arrived at a place on someone else's request.
Acts as part of the 'shi...de' construction to emphasize the agent who initiated the arrival.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Uncle Guo must've been heartbroken.”
“This is my dowry prepared by Zigui.”
“He has an uncle who is an advisor at the county government office.”
“Master Gou wouldn't let me tell anyone.”
“Say that to Master Gou.”
“The fellow disciples who promised to meet me”