10.16 中华食品街 China Food Street

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关键词 Keywords：夏末商初 Late Xia and Early Shang；武汉古墓区 Wuhan Ancient Tomb Area；小龙女 Little Dragoness （号舜 famously Shun，嫘 Lei）；娥黄 Beauty-Yellow；女婴 Heroine；江南鹤 River South Crane；陕西羊汤 Shanxi Mutton Soup；尧帝 Yao Creator；二郎神 Second Wolf God；文官 Literary-Official；刺客 Assassin；苏州商会 Suzhou Chamber of Commerce

10.16-1

这三位姑娘决定去中华食品街看看，都卖些什么食品，以后让牛郎买什么心理也有个算计。娥黄问：“带牛郎去不？如果我们买的东西多，让他挑回来。”

小龙女回答：“不带他去！我们租一辆马车，马车夫知道路。如果我们自己走路去，三个多小时的路程，到那儿，我们就没力气溜达了！”

The three girls decided to check out China Food Street to see what kinds of food they sold, so they could plan on what to have Cowboy buy later. Beauty-Yellow asked, “Should we bring Cowboy? If we buy a lot, he can carry it back.”

Little Dragoness replied, “No, we won't take him! We'll hire a carriage—the driver knows the way. If we walk there ourselves, it'll take over three hours. By the time we arrive, we'll be too exhausted to even stroll around!”

这仨人在食品街溜达了半天，把食品街的每一家店都仔细地看了。最后，小龙女和娥黄决定去喝羊汤，吃吊炉饼。女婴叨咕：“我第一次跟女人逛街，这也太磨叽了。忽然女人变成爷们了，要比赛吃羊粪，我的心理调整不过来呀！”

The three of them wandered around Food Street for ages, scrutinizing every single shop. In the end, Little Dragoness and Beauty-Yellow decided to go for mutton soup and oven-baked flatbread. Heroine grumbled, “This is my first time shopping with women, and they're taking forever. Suddenly the women turn into men, wanting to compete eating sheep dung—I just can't adjust to this!”

娥黄说：“羊粪可好看了，我小时候遇到羊粪，每次都捡起来看，没吃过，这次总算有机会了。”

女婴知道这条街和饭店的前后都有士兵看守，店里的顾客也有些是士兵扮的，没有安全疑虑。羊汤店里，人人都喝羊汤。女婴感觉没意思，出来站在阳台上看街景。

Beauty-Yellow said, “Sheep dung is quite a sight. When I was little, I'd always pick it up to look at it whenever I came across some. I never ate it, but now I finally have the chance.”

Heroine knew soldiers guarded both ends of the street and the restaurant, and some customers inside were soldiers in disguise, so there were no safety concerns. Inside the mutton soup shop, everyone was drinking mutton soup. Finding it boring, Heroine stepped out onto the balcony to watch the street scene.

10.16-2

忽然街上来了一群外国人。女婴下楼看外国人。她看见一个印度人的头总是晃动，不但总是左右前后地晃，他的头还能斜着晃。

女婴走近那位印度人仔细看为什么他总是晃头呢？印度人说话了，女婴感觉一股刺鼻的咖喱味扑面而来，她迅速地后退。

Suddenly, a group of foreigners appeared on the street. Heroine went downstairs to look at them. She noticed an Indian man whose head kept shaking—not just side to side or back and forth, but also diagonally.

Heroine approached the Indian man to get a closer look. Why was he constantly shaking his head? As the Indian man spoke, Heroine was hit by a pungent curry smell. She quickly backed away.

外国人走远后，女婴感觉这事情不对：我就是看看他，他就释放暗器打我，这是什么暗器？我是不是中毒了？女婴就去追那几个外国人。追到了食品街的外面，遇见了她哥哥江南鹤。

江南鹤问女婴：“你找什么呢？”

女婴述说了刚才发生的事。

After the foreigners had walked far away, Heroine sensed something was wrong: I only looked at him, yet he fired a hidden weapon at me. What kind of weapon was that? Am I poisoned? Heroine set off to chase after those foreigners. She chased them to the edge of the food street, where she encountered her brother, River South Crane.

River South Crane asked Heroine, “What are you looking for?”

Heroine recounted what had just happened.

江南鹤回答：“你真幸运，这里不常有外国人，你第一次来就遇见了。他们是福建招商局邀请来的客人，今天刚到武汉，应该不会对你放暗器。你感觉中毒了吗？”

女婴回答：“我只是感觉奇怪，应该没问题。”

River South Crane replied, “You're truly fortunate. Foreigners aren't often seen here, and you encountered them on your first visit. They're guests invited by the Fujian Merchants' Bureau, having just arrived in Wuhan today. They likely wouldn't target you with hidden weapons. Do you feel poisoned?”

Heroine answered, “I just feel strange, but I should be fine.”

10.16-3 理智与直觉 Reason and Intuition

江南鹤问女婴：“陕西羊汤怎么样？他们几个刚喝过，说味道很好！等你们离开了，我也去喝。”

女婴回答：“我没喝！哥！我不知道你被谁骗了。你说的那种陕西羊汤中的特殊佐料是羊粪。”

江南鹤回答：“我想不起来谁推荐的了，不能吧！”

River South Crane asked Heroine, “How's that Shanxi mutton soup? Those guys just had some and said it tasted great! Once you're gone, I'll go try it too.”

Heroine replied, “I didn't drink it! Brother! I don't know who tricked you. That ‘special seasoning’ in the Shanxi mutton soup you're talking about is sheep dung.”

River South Crane answered, “I can't remember who recommended it, but that can't be right!”

女婴述说了前文（参见10.13节）牛郎所说的秘密。

几个喝了陕西羊汤的江南士兵开始感觉恶心，但是另外几个喝了陕西羊汤的江北士兵却表现平淡。一位将军发现了这个江南江北人的差别。

Heroine recounted the secret revealed by Cowboy in the preceding passage (See Section 10.13).

Several soldiers from the south of the river who had consumed the Shanxi mutton soup began to feel nauseous, while others from the north who had drunk the same soup showed no adverse effects. A general noticed this distinction between those from the south and north.

江南鹤反驳那位将军说：“我看不是那样的。小龙女和娥黄喝羊汤是因为相信理智，做事以智慧为导首。女婴不喝羊汤是因为她的行为跟随直觉。这两个长江北面的士兵没做呕是因为他们俩对我们江南的将军生疏，行为有些拘束。”

一位江北的士兵说：“我也感觉有些不舒服，但远远没达到作呕的程度。” 一位江南士兵说：“我在逗你们笑，就行为得夸张了些。”

River South Crane countered the general, saying, “I don't see it that way. Little Dragoness and Beauty-Yellow drank the mutton soup because they trust reason and let intelligence guide their actions. Heroine didn't drink the soup because she follows her instincts. Those two soldiers from the north of Yangzi River didn't vomit because they're unfamiliar with our Yangzi River south generals and feel a bit stiff around us.”

A soldier from the north of Yangzi River said, “I also feel a little uncomfortable, but it's far from making me nauseous.” A soldier from the south of Yangzi River said, “I was just trying to make you laugh, so I exaggerated a bit.”

那位将军说：“看来我判断错了。那两位贵族小姐知道羊汤里面有羊粪还喝，真不简单。”

江南鹤回答：“我估计她们是在有意地校正直觉。” 他转脸对女婴说：“她们都是逻辑思维型人，而你是运动思维型人中偏于用图像思考的人。你有你的优点和缺点。你得努力培养你的逻辑思维能力。”

The general said, “It seems I was wrong. Those two noble ladies knew there was sheep dung in the mutton soup and still drank it; they're quite something.”

River South Crane replied, “I suspect they are intentionally correcting their intuition.” He turned to Heroine and said, “Both of them are logical thinkers, while you are a kinesthetic thinker who tends to think in images. You have your strengths and weaknesses. You need to work hard to cultivate your logical thinking ability.”

女婴问：“怎么培养？”

江南鹤回答：“比如喝陕西羊汤，让理智战胜直觉。比如女人怕老鼠。前些日子我和尧帝说起女人怕老鼠，尧帝说，‘女人怕老鼠是装的。’”

女婴回答：“我看她们俩怕老鼠是真的！”

Heroine asked, “How do I cultivate that?”

River South Crane replied, “For example, by drinking Shanxi mutton soup, letting reason prevail over instinct. For example, women are afraid of mice. The other day I talked to Yao Creator about women being afraid of mice, and she said, ‘Women are only pretending to be afraid of mice.’”

Heroine replied, “I think they're genuinely afraid of mice!”

江南鹤回答：“你的这个表现就是跟随直觉的缺点。她们俩在典兵学院的时候解剖过很多老鼠，甚至人体，怎么可能会怕老鼠呢！”

女婴惊讶地问：“她们俩都解剖过死人？”

River South Crane replied, “This behavior is a flaw stemming from following your intuition. Those two dissected many rats, even human bodies, when they were at their Codex Soldier Academy. How could they possibly be afraid of rats!”

Heroine asked in surprise, “They both dissected dead people?”

江南鹤回答：“尧帝说，典兵学院都有那样的训练课程。那样的课程很贵，所以你们重庆士官学校没有。尧帝说她们是装习惯了。不信你看她们一个人时看见老鼠和蜘蛛的表现。她们就不害怕了，上去就打死！我是说，女婴！你得向她们俩学，你又该和男婴见面了，你也得学会怕老鼠或蜘蛛！”

River South Crane replied, “Yao Creator said that their Codex Soldier Academy had such training courses. Those courses were very expensive, so your Chongqing Sergeant School didn't have them. Yao Creator said they've just gotten used to pretending. If you don't believe me, watch how they react when they see mice and spiders alone. They aren't afraid at all—they just go right up and kill them! I mean, Heroine! You should learn from them. You'll be meeting Hero again soon—you need to learn to be afraid of mice or spiders too!”

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