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The Man Was Already Gone

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Intermediate Chinese audio drama: Qingyi bets that Mulan will silence Steward Li, then catches her with a hidden dinner knife. HSK 3 Chinese listening practice.

This is an HSK 3-4 Chinese listening episode that runs about 4 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 8 key vocabulary words such as 身份、证据、保护 and walks through 2 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.

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旁白

正式慕容
家具一件抬进来告诉整座房子女儿已经坐下

清渝

东西太多母亲看了高兴

清峄

不是来住几天她是所有看见住在这里

清渝

她是我的未婚妻进来正常

清峄

正常不会这么东西证明自己

清渝

她的

清峄

我在为什么不怕我看

清渝

进来以后不能当众那个名字

清峄

清渝

还是叫了

清峄

一个办法不问她是先看

旁白

提出回家没有拒绝接受一次必须完成礼貌

清峄

慕容大家都会开始未婚妻

牧兰

本来就是我的身份

清峄

身份可以进来过去进来

牧兰

又要

清峄

因为这个女人一个不去地方三年
我不会眼前走掉

牧兰

旧账身上显得认错

清峄

认错通常急着解释只是

牧兰

代表认识

清峄

我们一个认识她的

清渝

查到什么

清峄

管家明天南城三年见过

清渝

你要

清峄

先让不能

清渝

什么这么肯定

清峄

如果只是长得不必一个管家
如果就是那个一定开口

清渝

所以准备怎么

清峄

先去车站那个已经不在路上

清渝

是在保护证人还是

清峄

一件事不去我是清楚

旁白

车站
一个坐在角落双手放在下车来得及说话

牧兰

管家

旁白

抓住袖子衣服整个向外倒下去帽子下面没有

牧兰

清峄

你来很快

牧兰

清峄

不在车站

牧兰

清峄

开口

牧兰

没有证据

清峄

证据就是你来不许说话

旁白

回到公馆手里始终没有松开东西
早就知道出门

清峄

今晚还有第二

牧兰

出去一趟回来

清峄

放下
不是钥匙

牧兰

赢了一次

清峄

没有你是我只今晚

牧兰

你要留在这里

清峄

今天晚上管家活着明天站在花园

牧兰

以为一张所有事情结束

清峄

不能所以先让走不了

旁白

留在
站在自己家具中间第一次发现这些东西也能变成
English transcript reference

Mulan formally moves into the Murong house.

New furniture is carried in piece by piece, as if telling the whole house: the Fang family's daughter has sat down.

There are too many things. Mother will be unhappy when she sees them.

She did not come to stay a few days. She came to let everyone see that she lives here.

She is my fiancée. Moving in is normal.

A normal person would not use this many things to prove who she is.

You are still looking at her face.

I am looking at why she is not afraid of me looking.

Qingyi, after she moves in, you cannot call that name in front of people.

Susu.

See? You still said it.

Then I will change methods. I will not ask who she is. I will see whom she fears.

Qingyi offers to take her home. Mulan does not refuse, as if accepting a courtesy she must complete.

You have moved into the Murong house. Everyone will start calling you Qingyu's fiancée.

This has always been my identity.

Identity can be moved in. The past cannot.

You are going to talk about Ren Susu again.

Because of that woman, I spent three years in a place I could not leave.

I will not let her walk out of my sight again.

If you put old accounts on me, you will only look like you have the wrong person.

People who have the wrong person usually rush to explain. You are only very steady.

Being steady does not mean I know her.

Then we will wait for someone who does know her.

What did you find?

Steward Li arrives in South City tomorrow. Three years ago he saw Susu.

You want him to identify her?

Mulan will keep him from identifying anyone first.

How can you be so sure?

If she only looks like her, she need not fear a steward.

If she is that person, she will certainly fear him opening his mouth.

So what are you going to do?

She will go to the station first. That man is already off that road.

Are you protecting a witness, or testing her?

They are the same thing. Whether she goes is clearer than whether she says, "I am Mulan."

Mulan hurries to the station.

A man in a hat sits in the corner, hands on his knees, as if he has just gotten off a car and has not had time to speak.

Steward Li? Do not make a sound. Come with me.

She grabs the sleeve. The clothes are empty. The whole figure falls outward. Under the hat there is no face.

A dummy.

You came very fast.

Where is the person?

Not at the station anymore.

You let him leave?

You just told him not to open his mouth.

You have no evidence.

The evidence is that you came, and would not let him speak.

Mulan returns to the mansion, never loosening what she holds behind her.

Qingyi waits for her in the hall, as if he already knew she would try to leave again.

A second trip tonight?

I will go out once and come back.

Put the knife down.

What you hid behind you is not a key.

You won this time.

I did not win who you are. I only won tonight.

You are going to keep me here?

Tonight, this door closes on you. Steward Li is still alive. Tomorrow he will stand in the garden and look at you.

You think one old face can make everything end?

It cannot. That is why I will not let you leave first.

The dinner knife stays by the plate.

Mulan stands among the furniture she has just moved in, and for the first time sees that these things can also become a wall.

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What vocabulary does this episode teach?

词汇
shēn fènidentity

who someone is, or the role they claim

zhèng jùevidence

something that shows a claim is true

bǎo hùto protect

to keep a person safe

jì huàplan

an arranged set of actions

zhèng rénwitness

someone who has seen a person before

jiǎ réndummy

a fake body used to replace a real person

kāi kǒuto speak / open one's mouth

to start talking, especially to identify someone

cān dāodinner knife

a knife from the dining table

* beyond level超纲词

What grammar patterns appear in this episode?

语法
如果……就……

Sets a condition and the result that follows.

如果她只是长得像,她不必怕一个管家。

如果她就是那个人,她一定怕他开口。

不是……而是……

Rejects one explanation and names the real one.

她不是来住几天。

Proper Nouns

专有名词
慕容清峄Mùróng QīngyìMurong Qingyi慕容清渝Mùróng QīngyúMurong Qingyu方牧兰Fāng MùlánFang Mulan任素素Rèn SùsùRen Susu李管家Lǐ guǎnjiāSteward Li

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