Remember...
I, the white-haired woman, am your master.
There are no weaknesses among my apprentices.
You have to stand up after you fall down.
And you have to be even stronger than before.
Otherwise, it's useless to stand up.
Seven Swords
Episode 16 Seven Swords
Brother Yang, these are my faults.
I hope you won't blame it on Fei Hongjin.
In the future, I hope that...
you can help her.
You are my brother.
Thank you, Brother Yang.
Princess. Come here.
Are you all right?
This is a waste of your talent.
What talent?
What are you talking about?
It's hot and muggy here.
You cannot survive without water.
No one can do without water, but you are the most important of them all.
One man has collapsed.
Get him up.
Give me some water.
Spring. Tell Zhang to come here. I want to speak to him.
Yes.
Zhang. The princess wants you.
How long will this take?
We're nearly there. We'll arrive at the camp before sunset.
It's too hot. I want everyone to take a rest.
And have a drink.
We'll be there very soon.
If your highness knows that I have slowed us down during our way,
then...
Princess, how are you feeling?
I feel a little dizzy all of a sudden.
There is a market place nearby. We can take a rest there and get a drink.
Then why don't you take us there immediately?
If the princess is becomes sick,
none of us can bear the responsibility.
If I have offended you in any way,
please forgive me.
Zhang, Spring is an honest person.
Forgive her.
We cannot hold on any longer with the water we have left.
We can only hope that you can find some water very soon.
The lives of all our people depend on you.
I would never disappoint you, right?
Don't worry.
The Eagles of the Desert will come back very soon.
Aierjiang is dead.
Why are you still following us?
I want to help you.
I am one of the people, I am also responsible for finding water.
Please yourselves.
Let's go.
General.
Zhang has arrived with the princess.
Where are they?
They have just arrived in the military camp.
Princess, put on the hat.
I want to bask in the sun.
I was only trying to help.
What did you say?
Oh.
Prepare the letters for me.
I will deliver the letters to them in a while.
Yes.
Stand back.
Everybody quiet.
In a while, our princess...
will call out your name, and then you can come forward.
Hazhaka.
Hazhaka. It's a letter from your mother.
Thank you Princess. My mother has sent me a letter.
Mafu.
Here.
You have two letters.
One of them is written by the head of the village.
The other one is from your mother.
Take it now.
I'll tell Spring to read it to you later.
Thank you Princess.
I have two letters.
Princess. You should take a rest now.
I can handle it here.
All right. Who's who?
Can you name them?
Princess. I... I... I am...
Misan.
Oh. It's me.
You have a letter.
Here.
Thank you Princess.
I.. I have a letter from my home.
Sun Fuyuan.
The prince is coming.
Come here!
Why?
Give me the letters.
I don't suppose that all these letters are yours.
Come here now!
Daughter. Come. Come on.
Minghui. Come here quickly.
Your Highness.
I didn't teach her properly.
Please punish me.
Those who got their letters from home,
go to the office to hand back your letter.
Those who've read them,
will get 20 beatings.
Those who haven't... 10.
Nalan Xiuji.
Yes Sir.
You have allowed your daughter to commit martial law and ruin morale.
You will be punished with 30 beatings.
Go to the office for the punishment later.
Thank you Your Highness.
Now.. Take your daughter out of the military camp.
Immediately.
Yes sir.
Daughter, I don't blame you.
You were used to the casualness of my military camp.
I should have warned you first.
Father...
I want to stay here and take care of you.
You should not oppose the law. Go back.
Don't worry about me.
General.
You are wanted at the office.
All right.
Father.
Don't worry about me.
It's just 30 beatings.
Let's go, Zhang Hui.
Princess.
Come with me to find the prince.
Your Highness. Princess Nalan wants to see you.
Let her in.
Yes.
I came here to apologize.
I didn't know the law here.
I was guilty.
It's reasonable for you to be angry.
A woman should not come to the military camp.
You may go now.
I won't go.
Please forgive me.
Don't kick me out of the military camp.
I have been without a mother since childhood.
My father raised me all by himself.
My father has the temper of a general.
He does everything for the country and never quits.
I just hope that...
you can let me stay with my father.
Let me be a good daughter.
I will behave myself...
in the military camp.
I am willing to be punished...
if I have broken any laws.
You are a woman.
How can you abide by the military law?
Lady Mulan became a soldier.
I believe I can do...
whatever she did.
The daughter of Nalan Xiuji.
All right. I will consider your request.
Go back now.
Your Highness. There is one more thing.
What is it?
Please forgive my father.
Please take back your order of beatings for all the men.
Impossible!
It is possible.
Miss Nalan.
This is a must in the military camp.
You should not be involved in this.
May I ask... Have you ever received a letter from home?
I guess not.
That's why you don't understand what they are feeling.
There was a time that the Chu soldiers were surrounded by enemies.
They were surrounded by the soldiers of Han dynasty.
The soldiers of Chu Dynasty were homesick. That's why they were defeated.
By delivering the letters to them,
you have made a big mistake.
Homesickness is a normal thing.
If you know how...
to use homesickness to boost morale,
then it won't become a weakness...
at the most crucial time.
That's why benevolent people are undefeatable.
I cannot take back my word.
I have a method.
It can help maintain your word,
and you would not lose face.
General.
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
All right.
You have to treat everyone the same,
then the power and dignity of our soldiers can be maintained.
Let's start.
Wait!
Don't do it yet.
General Nalan. Come with me.
The prince is making an announcement.
I am very angry about the letters today.
We are soldiers.
I don't want the letters to ruin the morale of the soldiers.
I want my men to be undefeatable.
I think you should all understand this.
There are reasons for everything.
If your family members were truly concerned about you, then they wouldn't write.
And you would not be beaten.
So, it's the letters that we should condemn.
Hear my order.
The letters will receive 30 beatings.
Get up.
Take your own letters and go.
If anyone loses morale because of the letters,
then I will punish him.
So, no more punishments?
He has already punished the letters.
So you are spared.
Thank you Your Highness.
This is mine. Mine.
Nalan Minghui.
Young Mistress.
You should go and take a rest now Ok?
Get some rest.
Leader. It must be one of the villagers.
There may be water ahead...
But we don't even have the strength to reach it.
Have some strength!
We have to find a water source.
The gods are not helping us anymore.
Who told you to kneel down?
Get up! All of you get up!
Look at you...
You don't deserve to be called the Eagles of the Desert.
I know we haven't found water yet,
but this is not the place to die.
There is still some water...
that has not been marked on the map.
I know where it is.
Follow me!
Leader. Don't comfort us anymore.
This is the last resort.
The gods are not helping us anymore.
You don't believe me?
Get up! Come with me!
Get up! All of you get up!
God bless the Eagles of the Desert.
We have to part ways with the Eagles of the Desert.
Only if we find water...
can we be saved.
This is not the way to go.
Let's go! - Yep.
Hey.
Wake up.
Didn't you leave?
Don't speak.
Yang Yunchong...
You promised to save Aierjiang.
But you failed.
Did you feel bad?
I felt very bad.
Me too.
A year ago I was a different person.
I would never do anything that I didn't want to do.
There was no such thing as responsibility.
As long as I was in love, I was willing to live with him forever.
But it's different now.
What is different?
There have been so many promises...
since the Eagles of the Desert was formed.
Do you know that...
it's their talking eyes that I cannot stand?
Their eyes say so much.
Fei Hongjin. I'm very thirsty.
Fei Hongjin. I don't want to die.
Fei Hongjin. Fei Hongjin. Fei Hongjin.
Before I came to the desert,
I was an enthusiastic person.
I helped people to fight the government.
But after that,
they thought of me as a traitor.
That's when I understood that...
being misunderstood by people...
is the most painful thing in life.
I have not talked so much for a very long time.
Don't you have a true friend...
in the whole desert?
I have only enemies...
and partners by my side.
I have no friends.
I even killed the one I love.
I don't deserve a friend.
That's not true.
Why not?
I don't know.
But you are not right about that.
Then tell me,
Who do I have?
The world is just the same.
It's not changing.
Don't think about the troubles anymore.
We should drink happily.
All right.
Your Highness.
Father.
Daughter. Don't go too far.
Come back soon.
I understand.
Go.
Daughter.
I have made this suit of armour for you.
And I was right.
You look smart in it.
It's very good looking.
Father. You have to be careful.
I know.
Daughter.
Daughter. How are you?
How come you act like your mother?
You were very happy just now.
All of a sudden, you're crying.
I'm not.
Yes, you are.
Chengbin.
Your Highness.
Is Miss Nalan still following us?
She's at the back.
Send an order to Nalan Xiuji...
His daughter must go back.
We have to hurry.
Yes.
Oh, and send someone to protect her.
Yes.
Women are really troublesome.
General Nalan. His Highness orders your daughter to return.
Daughter, go back now.
Take this.
Thank you Father.
Be careful.
Don't worry.
What are you doing here alone?
I'm looking at the water.
I remember you telling me...
that one doesn't need weapons to hurt other people.
Look.
This water is shapeless and natural.
Why would it cause so many disputes? And so many deaths?
This is the desert.
Water is more important than people.
Last night...
it seemed that I drank a lot of wine.
We found water.
Everybody is very happy.
A lot of people were drunk last night.
How about you? Are you all right?
I'm better than you.
You cannot drink a lot.
I feel very stupid.
I fell asleep on the hillside last night.
And I kept dreaming.
It was a weird dream.
What kind of dream?
I dreamt that...
I dreamt that I was young...
Yang Yunchong.
Stay and join us.
You are like us.
I don't want to know about your past.
Everyone has a past in the Eagles of the Desert.
As long as we are together...
we can always live freely...
in the desert or the grasslands.
I'm sorry.
I have to leave this place tomorrow morning.
A few months ago,
my brothers and I...
followed our master's will to come down the mountain to save people.
we had never thought that...
we would be framed.
I had wanted to find out the truth.
So that I can tell my master what happened.
But then I came to this place.
I understood that...
even in a deserted place like this...
troubles will never cease to exist.
I can never figure these things out.
Perhaps I will never get used to it.
That's why you should stay behind.
And join the Eagles of the Desert.
Then you would understand a lot of things.
Why?
Don't ask me why.
You can ask any warrior randomly.
Each of them has an unspeakable past.
But after joining the Eagles of the Desert,
Life has become free.
Just because I don't think about it, doesn't mean things are solved.
Don't pretend to be smart.
This time, I came up the mountain,
and I don't intend to go down again.
This mountain, that mountain,
which mountain are you really talking about?
Mount Heaven. I am an apprentice of the Mount Heaven School.
There are no good men in Mount Heaven School.
They only bring bad luck.
You have to swear...
that you will turn against them your whole life.
The apprentices of Mount Heaven School?
Right? What?
Yang Yunchong. You have helped us.
I will let you go this time.
Leave by tomorrow morning.
Or if I see you again,
then I will kill you for sure.