[Comedy + female friendship + play the pig to eat the tiger]
As the saying goes, funny girls have life made.
At a young age, Tao Qian was sold into the imperial palace, where she began her leisurely life of listening to gossip every day and whispering behind the consorts’ and emperor’s backs.
Sometimes she’d tease the Noble Consort’s pet cat, sometimes tug on the emperor’s dragon whiskers, and sometimes steal vegetables from the imperial garden.
The only downside was that every so often, the chief palace matron would punish her by making her scrub the privies...
Two beauties lie in wait beside the slop buckets of the Ye Ting:
Tao Qian wields her broom and commands raccoon dogs, stews frogs to feed the little ones, and splashes sour slop to drive off wolves; Yu Kou steals butter offerings to lure a lover, only to get hit with tribute cakes and land herself in a scandalous affair.
These two palace troublemakers cuddle raccoon bellies with one hand and break apart royal cakes with the other, yet Matron Tang still sends them off to scrub every privy in the Six Palaces!
Before the gold-lacquered chamber pots, the two raise their arms and shout: “Scrub! Scrub until they’re polished smooth! Scrub until even the Bodhisattva holds her nose! Scrub until every noble in the palace is terrified to use the privy!”
After all, they’ve finally realized: a chamber pot isn’t a good chamber pot until it’s thoroughly pickled, and life isn’t good until it makes the matron cry!
