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第八十四回
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槽劄齊備
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

槽劄齊備 The Mangers and Posts in Order

shèxiàyuànluòkuānkuòcáozhábèicǎoliàoyòuyǒupíngbǎidōuyǎngdexiàquèjiànshèxiàzàikāidiànduōniányǒujiànmíngshèxiàyuànluòkuānkuòcáozhábèicǎoliàoyòuyǒupíngbǎidōuyǎngdexiàquèjiànshèxiàzàikāidiànduōniányǒujiànmíng


逐句解 Line by line

shèxiàyuànluòkuānkuòcáozhábèicǎoliàoyòuyǒupíngbǎidōuyǎngdexià shèxiàyuànluòkuānkuòcáozhábèicǎoliàoyòuyǒupíngbǎidōuyǎngdexià

My yard is wide, the mangers and posts all in order, and there is fodder besides: several hundred horses could be kept here if you liked.

The sales pitch is entirely practical, which is why it works. is a feeding trough and is zhá, a driven post or stake — the two things a stable yard needs. That reading is not the one the character falls to by default; it is recorded in the old rime books, which gloss the sound by using the character as its own example. reads de here, the shape that says a thing can be done — 養得下, they could be kept.

quèjiànshèxiàzàikāidiànduōniányǒujiànmíng quèjiànshèxiàzàikāidiànduōniányǒujiànmíng

But one thing: my house has kept an inn here many years and has a poor name of its own.

賤名 is a worthless name, the humble way of introducing your own. It is the standard formula and she is about to use it to introduce a business she is clearly proud of.


總評 Commentary

She has answered a question nobody asked. Pilgrim never said the horses were coming here; she has heard a hundred head and started describing her yard.

The pitch is worth reading as a piece of commerce. Space, fittings, feed, capacity — four claims in one sentence, in the order a horse dealer would want them, from a woman who has done this before.