Xiao Qi, Wait!

Chapter 19: Official Song, a Rogue

Xiaoqi returned to the room fuming. With one pull, she lifted up the leg of her trouser to expose her entire calf, then lifted her leg to stamp onto the high stool. However, the stool was too high. Xiaoqi's foot reached empty air and she had to move her leg to raise it higher. She waited until she could stand steadily before giving a humph and slapping the table. "Humph, great! Official Song, to actually incite bad people to snatch my, Qian Xiaoqi's hairpins!"

好你个宋知县- "great" this is a really hard phrase to translate. The closest to literal and straightforward way to translate it is when you tell someone "yeah, you're really awesome" in a sarcastic way but there are other connotations like 'alright, since you've done this watch how I'm going to get revenge'.

"Woof woof!" Ha Pi, who had been locked outside the door for an entire night, happily entered and echoed his agreement.

The corners of Xiaoqi's lips pulled downwards as she continued to feel sorry for herself. With a bitter expression, she said, "Devoid of conscience, law breaker criminal, black-official-greedy-official-licentious-official, pervert-official-stinky-official-petty-official, rotten-official-lousy-official-dumb-official! As an official, to not stand up for the commoners, you should just go home and sell sweet potatoes instead! Humph! Infuriating to death!"

Lol, she starts with idioms like "devoid of conscience" which means heartless, "law breaker criminal" which is evildoer then starts cursing him with all the names that people call corrupt officials all in one breath. Chinese cursing requires advanced mastery of language.

Xiaoqi had not been able to find the words to appropriately convey her wrath at first. She stood with one hand pointed forward for half the day, copying the storytelling mister, before she suddenly felt that she understood the deficiencies. Then, she finally conveyed her unbounded aggravation one after another in one stroke.

Lu Liu, who was walking in carrying swallow nest soup, was startled by this chained outburst and slipped, almost dropping the tray. Lu Liu saw Xiaoqi facing the side gnashing her teeth with her entire face full of anger and asked after a giving brief smile, "Why did Miss wake up so early this time? Have you slept to satisfaction? You had better sleep a while longer, if you're not completely awake your head will still feel dizzy!"

Exactly! Xiaoqi felt herself starting to get dizzy and weakly put down her leg before sitting down next to the table. She nudged Ha Pi who was crouched at the side with her foot and said with a pout, "Lu Liu, wuuuwuuu, my babies, my hairpins, my little darlings. Gone la, wuuwuuu, gone!"

"Ah? What's gone?"

"Hairpins!" Xiaoqi pointed at her own messy, luxuriant hair.

Lu Liu sucked in a breath and hurriedly opened the corner of the chest and rummaged through it. Then she asked worriedly, "How is it gone? Was there a thief? Ah, we have to hurry and report it to the government! Every single one is extremely valuable!"

Xiaoqi gave a few fake bawls, then said angrily, "Wen Ruoshui, Wen Ruoshui she, she-she-she carried all of them away!"

"Huh?" Lu Liu froze shocked, then rapidly pressed Xiaoqi, "Why? Did she go through Miss's chest?"

"Wuuwuuu, I let her choose a couple she liked to take as souvenirs and she just, like this," – Xiaoqi gestured sweeping everything towards her with both hands – "and just like that carried it all off."

Lu Liu sighed. "Don't be angry anymore, Miss didn't specify how many either. If she liked every single one, of course she would carry them all off!"

"But what's even more hateful is, Official Song that guy...mMph!" Xiaoqi had only angrily spoken halfway when her mouth was covered by Lu Liu.

Ha Pi got up. Seeing that Lu Liu and Xiaoqi's eyes were full of disagreement, he didn't know whether to help Xiaoqi or to help Lu Liu.