Couple get in mix-up over characters
January 31st, 2008A Chongqing municipality man who went on a sightseeing trip with some 30 friends was nearly thrown out of his home by his wife after she discovered a note in his bag which she thought was referring to ’street girls’.
The characters for xiaojie (street girl) and xiaozu (group) are similar when written in Chinese.
The 40-year-old man, surnamed Chen, protested his innocence and called on 15 of his friends to confirm his story.
Chen’s wife said, ‘I found a notebook in his bag saying six street girls cost 600 yuan. I felt so angry. How could he do that?” She admitted that she had been considering divorce.
Fortunately for Chen his friends convinced his wife that the ’street girls’ referred to the six groups of his party.
Source: China Daily News

