王婆 / Wang Po

王婆 is the tea-shop neighbor and intermediary in 番外 15：半拿铁讲《金瓶梅》啦，而且还是绿色的. After 西门庆 is struck by the falling window pole and notices 潘金莲, he repeatedly returns to Wang Po’s shop to look across the street and gather information.

The episode reads Wang Po as a skilled broker rather than only comic background. She withholds, teases, misdirects, and prices information until Ximen Qing openly names his desire and offers silver. In the source’s Urban Everyday Fiction frame, her shop is a small institution: neighborhood visibility, gossip, hospitality, and transaction all pass through it.

Connections

• 《金瓶梅》 - novel in which her brokerage becomes plot machinery.
• 西门庆 and 潘金莲 - characters connected through her information and access.
• Urban Everyday Fiction and Household As Social Web - frames for reading shops and neighbors as social infrastructure.