Notes on MDZS chapter 1.4, flashback part 1
Longest notes so far, this corresponds with chapters 13 and 14 of the webnovel.
- "Probablemente todo había empezado el año en que cumplió los quince, cuando llegó a Gusu con Jiang Cheng para pasar tres meses estudiando con el clan Lan." 追本溯源，大概要从他十五岁那年和江澄一起来姑苏蓝氏听学的那三个月算起。← The ambiguity re: how long the cloud recesses lectures were drives me a little crazy. MXTX whyyyyy
- Says many people avoid and even hate Lan Qiren
- 在他堂上教养过一两年的 "Anyone who spends one or two years studying with him" ← so maybe Nie Huaisang isn’t that unusual
- 对此，魏无羡表态：“我现在岂非已经足够人模狗样？”江澄则很有远见地道：“你一定会成为他教学生涯中耻辱的一笔。” —Bueno, pero yo ahora ya parezco medio decente, ¿no? |A lo que Jiang Cheng respondió con gran clarividencia: Tu vas a ser una mancha vergonzoza en su carrera.
- Ninguno tenía más de quince o dieciséis años a lo sumo. 这些公子们都不过十五六岁年纪 ← All within one year of each other
- 世家之间常有往来，不说亲密，至少也是个脸熟 Como los clanes prominentes solían relacionarse, si bien no podía decirse que fueran amigos, al menos se conocían de vista.
- 人人皆知魏无羡虽然不是江姓，却是云梦江氏家主江枫眠的故人之子和首席大弟子 "Todos sabían que, a pesar de no apellidarse Jiang, Wei Wuxian era el discípulo principal del clan Jiang de Yunmeng. También sabían que era hijo de un viejo amigo de su líder, Jiang Fengmian, y que este lo consideraba un miembro más de la familia. Lo que dice es que lo trataba como a su propio hijo"
- Didn’t care about families or status and all became friends
- Hora cerdo y conejo 9 pm to 5am 姑苏蓝氏卯时作，亥时息，不得延误
- Wei Wuxian: bufalo a serpiente 2 a 9
- We don’t know if it was Nie Huaisang that asked if YMJ was more fun, it says one boy asked
- 那名少年立刻蔫了。这位是清河聂氏的二公子聂怀桑，其兄长聂明玦作风雷厉风行，在百家之中素有威名。虽说兄弟二人非是一母所生，但感情甚笃，聂明玦教导小弟极其严格，对他功课尤为关心。是以聂怀桑虽敬重他大哥，却最害怕聂明玦提起他的课业。
- Spanish: Nie Mingjue: energetic and resolute, reknown by everyone for his bravery/daring
- Different mothers, close relationship
- Nie Mingjue v strict with Nie Huaisang especially in education
- Nie Huaisang idolized him but is scared of talking with him about his studies
- El líder del clan Lan de Gusu tenía dos hijos, Lan Huan y Lan Zhan ← Lan Xichen introduced via birth name
- 过了十四岁 spanish says desde que cumplieron los 15 años, do not like this random change
- 跟你我一般大 exactly as old (big) as you and me
- Wei Wuxian thinks Lan Wangji is particularly handsome but looks like he’s at a funeral
- Lan Wangji has been in seclusion recently
- Wait. If Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are roommates, why didn’t Jiang Cheng know that Wei Wuxian snuck out?
- Jiang Cheng cerró los ojos y apretó los dientes. -¡Acabamos de llegar y ya estás causando problemas! ¿Qué pasó?
- Hora del conejo 7am - when they let people in in the morning
- Jiang Cheng has Wei Wuxian induced headache
- Wei Wuxian binding everyone through fuck these rules attitude
- Nie Huaisang says Wei Wuxian 嚣张 arrogant
- Wei Wuxian says he’s not scared of Lan Wangji, since he’s such a prodigy he must spend all day meditating and cultivating in seclusion
- Classroom: large windows lanshi 兰室
- Everyone avoids Lan Wangji, wants to sit as far from him as possible
- Lqr: tall, thin, perfect posture, long beard but not old, handsome. Air of pedantic rigidness 迂腐死板 so he seems old. Comes in holding a scroll with the rules, everyone goes pale.
- After Wei Wuxian is kicked out and the class ends, his classmates find him (not just Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang) but then only the two of them seem to talk after the first two lines
- Jiang Cheng: it’s fine to spout nonsense at home, doing it in front of lqr is seeking death!
- Wei Wuxian: nothing I said would make him like me so I may as well say what I want. I wasn't insulting him, I was answering honestly.
- The above is why I think it's highly likely he would have gotten into demonic cultivation anyway. He’s not just saying it for shock value, he means it, he’s thought about it. (That and the bit much later about how even with orthodox cultivation there was a limit to what he could achieve)
- Nie Huaisang interested in using resentful energy
- Also, re: the reaction expressed to what Wei Wuxian said: I could see an au where Nie Huaisang gets into demonic cultivation outright, but I just can't see Jiang Cheng using demonic cultivation, he's too by the book.
- Que el hijo de un clan prestigioso tardara mucho tiempo en formar el suyo era un hecho deshonroso, pero Nie Huaisang no parecía avergonzado en absoluto. ←Nie Huaisang does not give a fuck
- 魏无羡笑道：“我放着好好的阳关大道不走，走这阴沟里的独木桥干什么。真这么好走早就有人走了。放心，他就这么一问，我只这么一说。喂，你们来不来？趁着没宵禁，跟我出去打山鸡。” "why would I take the single plan bridge instead of the sunny wide road?" Smiling as he says it, tells Jiang Cheng to relax, comes hunt pheasants with me
- Wei Wuxian seemed thoughtful when they found him, so I think he WAS thinking seriously and after Jiang Cheng scolds him he deflects and basically is a lying liar who lies
- Lan Qiren gives the message about punishment to Jiang Cheng to tell Wei Wuxian
- What lqr tests on: la evolución de los clanes a lo largo de los años, las divisiones de poder, frases célebres de cultivadores distinguidos, genealogías...
- 求求你啦魏兄，我今年是第三年来姑苏了，要是还评级不过乙，我大哥真的会打断我的腿！—¡Ayúdame, hermano, te lo ruego!¡Este es mi tercer año en Gusu; como no consiga sacar buenas notas de una vez, mi hermano me va a cortar las piernas de verdad! ←No mention of passing, just of good scores
- Again with fandom’s assumptions about Nie Huaisang: what he says is this is my third year in Gusu, if I don’t get (a good grade), dage will really break my legs!
- Lan Wangji catches everyone that is cheating, lqr is angry and sends letters home
- Before Wei Wuxian students tried to pay attention and sit still, with Wei Wuxian’s arrival: sobrados de malicia pero escasos en iniciativa start misbehaving: sneak put at night, drinking, rule breaking
- JFM: Wei Wuxian has always been like this, don’t hesitate in applying the disciplinary measures you deem necessary
- After this he gets the one month punishment: has to copy two chapters supreme justice and etiquete principles, no one can come near or help,he can only go to the library since morning and Lan Wangji will be watching him