Episode 8
Why are you starring me?
Are you planning to tie me up again?
Is it true that no one could ever tie you up?
You still haven't given up, have you?
Who teach you the skill of untying?
As a detective,
if I do not have this special skill,
how could I tackle thieves?
Teach me!
What do you learn it for?
Living in the Jianghu...
Living in the Jianghu?
Oh, err, what I mean is,
if I meet some thieves,
at least I can help myself!
If you stay at home,
how could you meet thieves?
Well, there must be some opportunities for me to go out!
For example, we have an opportunity now!
Okay.
For the sake of your sincerity in learning,
I will teach you.
Actually, it is not that difficult.
You only need to know how to untie a knot.
Oh, I know how to untie a knot!
Really?
Of course.
If you do not trust me, we can have a try!
Good.
Can you do it?
I will finish it quickly.
Have a try.
Which type of knot are you tying?
Oh, the type specific for tying criminals.
From now on,
You go your own way, I go mine.
We go our own way.
I am going back to the capital.
Farewell.
Hey! Jin Yuanbao!
You will be caught by thieves!
You do not need to worry.
I didn't tie the knot tight.
As long as you are diligent,
you can still untie it.
Take care.
Jin Yuanbao!
You bastard!
Brother,
May I know which is the way to the capital?
I am not locals, I don't know.
So where are you heading?
None of your business.
Jin Yuanbao.
Finally I catch you.
Petty thieves.
Do you know who am I?
I am Zeng Biao, and I follow my master's command to help Mr. Liu.
Master is always attentive and take care of his subordinates.
Mr. Liu,
With our help,
I believe we can catch Jin Yuanbao quickly.
Listen,
from now on, you cannot leave Mr. Liu alone.
Yes!
I am grateful to Master's kindness.
The bastard Jin Yuanbao dares to tie me up!
Quicker, quicker!
Brother, is this the right guy? Is this Jin Yuanbao?
Jin Yuanbao?
We are not mistaken. Let's go.
This time we finish the task.
Brother, is that him?
His facial features are similar to the drawing, and he has an accent of the capital.
There must be no mistakes.
Brother, then we have made a great contribution!
You wait here and I will notify our boss.
And remember, without my order, you cannot harm him!
Yes.
Let's have a sip!
Sir!
Sir, we succeeded.
Dead? Living?
Living.
Two?
Only Jin Yuanbao.
Have you ordered clearly?
Don't worry, Sir. I have ordered them clearly.
Before you arrive, no one can harm him.
You go to pester with them first.
I wait you in the front.
Yes, Sir.
Have a sip! Have a sip!
Thank you for your hard work, men.
Come!
Let me help you with the wine.
Good.
What are you laughing for?
I am laughing since I know you are the most useless person here.
Rubbish!
I am the most capable here!
If you are really capable,
why others are having wines and meat
while you are having nothing here?
It is because I am the guard!
Guard?!
Do you know what kind of people works as guards?
What kind of people?
Useless people.
Rubbish!~Look at you...
...you're just like me.
We can only swallow here and watch others having good meals.
You must be the most useless guy here.
So your boss put you here.
Rubbish!
I eat whatever I want and I drink whatever I want!
Go on lying.
Are you thinking I am stupid?
You want to make me leave.
It is not that easy!
You are not dull, you are stupid.
You!
See?
I am tied up here and I can't even move.
What is the use for me to make you leave?
Such a simple reasoning is known to your boss but not to you.
As you are so stupid,
you can ask your boss to give you some bones to gnaw.
Are you treating me as a dog?
If I don't give you a lesson, you will not know how powerful I am!
Come! come show me!
I... I... I...
Why are you not daring to do?
Even your boss do not dare to harm me. Do you dare?
I tell you,
after you chop me, you will be much worse off then gnawing bones.
You will become bones yourself and be gnawed by your boss!
You are getting excited, aren't you?
You don't ever dare to guess you boss's intention.
No wonder why you are the guard with the lowest ranking here.
I tell you, you are not only gnawing bones,
but also only gnawing bones that others have gnawed already!
Fine.
You wait here and see!
I do not only eat meat and drink wine,
but I am also going to get meal and wine now!
I eat and I show you how I eat!
I just want to irritate you!
You wait here!
It's me!
I have told you that we go separate ways!
My kindness is ignored! I come to rescue you!
Who knows if you will tie me up or rescue me?
That guy runs away!
Quick! Let's go!
Stay here!
Stop!
Good! Now we can't run away.
You fool.
Who is a fool?
I am saying you!
You don't know what is good or bad!
Save your breath. Catch them!
Go!
Brothers, let's go!
Jin Yuanbao!
Pretty lady,
your man has run away, follow me!
Go!
Give me your hand!
Don't let him run away! Follow him!
Stop!
Come back!
Where is he?
Boss, he just run away!
Run away? Who is accompanying him?
It seems that someone is helping him and rescues him.
The two guys run away together.
Someone is helping him?
Would it be her?
Mr. Liu, why do you come here by yourself?
Are you worried that we will block your process?
Mr. Zeng comes at a good time.
Jin Yuanbao has run away.
Run away? So what should we do now?
Chase.
Chase!
I thought you ran! I didn't expect would come back.
I don't want you to die in the hands of those people.
If you are going to die, don't die so ugly!
They have caught up with us!
Get down from the horse!
Go!
This way is safe. Let's go!
How do you know that this way is safe?
My guess. Go!
They go to the East. Let's chase them following the Eastern route.
Wait.
Although the horse's footprint is going to the East,
the footprint changes from deep to shallow here,
so the two people has already abandoned the house and walked away.
They want to confuse us.
We should chase them in this way!
Well, it may not be true.
Here the geological structure hardens and we cannot use the horse's footprint as the sole determinant.
We chase them following the Eastern route.
Mr. Liu, are you sure?
What if we cannot chase them?
So what if we cannot chase them if we follow Mr. Zeng's instructions?
Who will be pleading guilty to the Master?
Well...
I am saying it again,
the Master has already given me full power to catch Jin Yuanbao.
There's no use to say anymore. Go to the East!
Go!
Today I am letting you two off. Pray for yourselves!
Is there any news of Yuanbao?
Who is aiming to kill him?
We haven't received any news.
Wenzhao has not sent us any news so far.
Madam, Eunuch Li wants to see you.
Please invite him here quickly!
Eunuch Li,
Bring tea.
Madam, you do not need to be over courteous.
The Empress Dowager orders me to bring a few words to you, and I will leave after I finish.
What is the Empress Dowager's command?
The Empress Dowager said that Lord Jin was attacked during his visit to his wife's maternal home,
and she has ordered Imperial Masters to investigate
and to ensure the safety of Lord Jin and his wife.
With the Empress Dowager's protection, my son could escape from every misfortune.
Eunuch, please transmit my gratefulness to the Empress.
The lucky person always have the blessings from the Heaven.
Madam, please wait patiently for the good news.
You have a bad temper and talks in a nasty way.
You are proud of yourself, overconfident and lacks empathy.
You never know you who you have offended.
Now you know how much you offend others.
On our way we are chased and faced fatal threats.
What do you know?
The fact that they chase me and want to kill me
reflects my importance.
So many people are trying to kill me without concerning the cost means that I have great values of living.
You are so confident even when death is in the corner!
How carefree you are!
Tell you what, I am not used to shocks when I grow up!
I have experienced all kinds of threats and dangers!
The more the people that wants to kill me,
the more the clues I get
and the more the things they expose.
Now I want to ask the great Detective:
on the way you were threatened for a few times,
so what clues have you got?
Do the people that wants to kill you come from the same sect?
What is their purpose?
I have roughly known the mastermind behind the scene,
but it is inconvenient to tell you the concrete proof.
Inconvenient? Actually you do not know and are just too embarrassed to admit it!
I don't want to chat with you and waste my breath!
All in all, if they dare to touch me, they will have misfortunes!
Or else let them have a try!
"I don't want to chat with you and waste my breath!" Ha! If you are that capable, don't embroil me into these stuffs.
I suffer so much on the way.
Luckily I have a live with good fortune.
In addition, with a person like you who have weak shoulders and hands,
even if you know who wants to kill you in the back, can you go to take revenge?
You are just paying lip service to yourself and make yourself feeling better.
Have you finished?
What? Why you have so much superfluous words?
What an unfortunate place!
Why we can fall to this place when we are just walking?
What can we do now?
Well, isn't it great?
At least we can escape from the people who want to chase us.
Yes we can escape from those chaser,
but have a look! No people can notice we fall into this hole
Even if we are not starved to death,
we will be eaten by beasts!
Oh doesn't it match your intention?
Don't you want to live and die with me?
Death is in the corner,
and you still have leisure time to joke with me.
Even if you are willing, I am not.
This rubbish hole
cannot trap me!
You?
You can't even jump to three feet!
How can you escape from such a high place?
Keep boasting!
Help!!!
Anyone hears me?
Save your breath.
No one will notice you even if you shout until you have a soar throat.
If you want to escape from this trap, you need to rely on wisdom, not mere force!
You take a nap first.
When tomorrow comes, I will tell you
what does it mean by miracles.
Keep boasting.
I am looking forward to seeing what you are going to do tomorrow!
Xueer, you come at the right time!
I am arranging medicines for you and they will be ready soon.
Dr. Gu, thank you!
I come to bid farewell to you.
No, you can't!
Although your wounds are healed, you are still weak.
You need to take care of your body cautiously.
Or else they may develop into chronic illnesses.
I specially arrange a healing plan for you.
I know.
My illness is mental distress.
I need to leave and deal with my stuffs.
If not then my illness will never be healed.
Mental distress?
I have it in my healing plan! It can be cured!
But I have more than mental distress.
I have insomnia every night.
Insomnia? It can be easily cured.
I have relevant medicines here.
I am not talking about this.
I think of him day by day,
I cry night by night.
Crying? Are your eyes hurting?
I have some new eye-drops, let me give you one bottle of it.
I have a painful chest and I have difficulty in breathing. I have headache and too many dreams.
I have cool and powerless limbs.
Enough! Enough! Enough! I have known already.
All of your illnesses can be cured by me.
So, why are you leaving when you have so many illnesses?
I have said so much and you still don't understand!
I am leaving anyway.
I understand. I really understand.
I am not the type of poor doctors that only cures your superficial illnesses.
I want to tell you that I really know much.
I know that superficial illnesses are caused by deeper problems in the body. They need to dealt with simultaneously.
You don't understand!
I am so uncomfortable only because of one person.
If I can't find him, my illnesses can never be cured.
I know.
That person is Li Jun.
You want to find him, right?
Yes.
I just want to find him.
I need to find him to ask him clearly.
Otherwise my heart is like being burdened with a heavy stone.
My illnesses can never be cured.
I know.
Actually I want to tell you that
I can cure all of your illnesses
and I want to help you
If you want to help me,
please help me find Li Jun.
I don't know what to do with you.
Fine. I promise you. And you need to promise me
that your illnesses will be cured by me.
Jin Yuanbao! What are you doing?
What's going on?
I have told you before, this place cannot trap me.
Look! It's the time of miracles. Look carefully!
It's here.
Dr. Gu, you make a mistake, right?
This is the House of the Sun family.
But the one I am finding is Li Jun.
I haven't mistaken. I have enquired clearly.
Li Jun aspires for wealth and glory
so he engaged in uxorilocal marriage with the Sun family.
Impossible. Impossible.
I have trust in Li Jun.
Li Jun will not abandon me.
It's not him. Let's go.
Let's knock the door as we are already here.
We will see whether there is the Li Jun you are finding.
Go.
Dr. Gu, let's leave. It wouldn't be him.
We have come already. What if it is him?
I knock the door and let you see.
Who?
How come it is you?
It's you!
Husband, who is at the door?
Wife, it's just someone asking routes.
You really get married.
You find the wrong person.
It's really you.
And you get married.
Have you forgotten your promise
to be with me forever?
Who is that?
Who are you?
Who is this woman?
If you have anything to say, tell me.
I get married under my parents' order and matchmaker's help.
I am the orthodox wife of Li Jun.
What are you doing?
If you have anything to say, speak gently. Gentleman says rather than uses force.
She is ill.
Speak gently?
You come to my house to bully me!
And you let me to speak gently!
I think she is having serious illnesses, really.
You have serious illnesses and still come to other's house to seduce other's husband.
Li Jun, say something!
Marriage...
Of course marriage is by parents' order and matchmaker's help.
We may have made some jokes before,
but all of them are not real. Don't treat them as real.
Have you listened carefully? Get out of my house!
Close the door!
Li Jun, i am ordering you to close the door!
We can finally see the Sun.
What a fortune. How could you find those water?
Fortune?
I observed in details!
I observed that there's moss on the wall.
Why is there moss? It reflects that there is water nearby.
So I take the silence at night as a great opportunity
to listen next to the wall carefully.
I really listened to the sound of water.
So I keep digging.
The Heaven helps those working hard. I finally dug into some water.
So we were saved. Admire me!
I really admire you.
Well, you are not as useless as you seem.
Useless? I am always helpful!
Other than being helpful,
I am charming, carefree and humorous.
and gentle! And...
Miss Xueer...
He said it before: "Let's be two birds in the sky flying side by side.
Let's be two branches on the earth inseparably tied." (A poem in Tang Dynasty)
He said it before:
When we are back to the capital,
he will tell his parents and propose marriage to me.
He was so serious at that time.
How could that be jokes?
Miss Xueer, don't indulge too much in your sadness.
Maybe he has some hidden difficulties.
Difficulties?
What difficulties?
You see it just right before. He has a very good life.
And he has get married.
He was not even brave enough
to admit that we have so many memories in the past.
He said that they were only "jokes".
"He loves his new wife's smile so deep; that he hears not hid old wife weep." (a poem in Tang Dynasty)
I only saw that scene in books before.
But now...
He also said that before:
"Meet or part, live or die, We've made oath, you and I.
Give me your hand I'll hold, And live with me till old!" (a poem in Zhou Dynasty)
It was only half a year
he has betrayed me!
A lifetime sounds very long.
It's only a joke after all,
but I treated it as real before!
People in ancient time said:
"The lovers' hearts become divergent.
Yesterday's blossoming flowers becomes today's homeless grass." (a poem in Tang Dynasty)
It is but a joke.
All of it is only a dream that I made.
Miss Xueer, are you alright
Don't sit on the ground. Stand up.
Come.
For his sake,
I escaped from my home regardless of the costs.
For his sake, I was nearly caught by bandit.
For his sake, I sacrificed everything.
How could he get married with someone else?
I am a joke myself.
A great joke.
Miss Xueer,
if you are sad then just cry.
You will feel better if you cry.
Or what about beating me?
You can relase your anger. Come and beat me!
Swindler!
Swindler! You swindler!
Miss Xueer.
Miss Xueer!
Excuse me.
We finally arrive at Mount E-mei.
Stop talking non-sense.
Mount E-mei is in Sichuan. How could it be here?
I am not talking about that Mount E-mei.
It is the "E" of the meaning of goose. A stupid goose like you!
I don't care what "E" you are talking about.
I really can't walk anymore. I am so hungry and tired!
Hey, can we grill the stupid goose you mentioned before?
I need it be served in a spicy sauce with garlic.
You are really imaginative.
You can't even find grilled sweet potatos here. Grilled goose?! Ha!
If you sit here then either you will be dead because of overwork,
or you will be starved to death. Or you can grill your own fingers to eat.
I don't care what you are talking now. I can't walk anymore.
Really.
Walk for one mile more. When we enter that village we can find something to eat.
Really?
You can trust me or not.
Let's go!
Okay. Quicker! We arrive!
See? I said we can find something to eat here.
How can we find something to eat in this shabby house?
If you don't want to be starved to death, go in quickly.
What?
You go in first. I will come later.
Why don't you go in with me?
I feel painful in my abdominals. I want to go to washroom!
You have too many faeces.
Go inside!
Anyone here? Give me something to eat!
I am almost starved to death.
Coming!
Coming, I am coming, customer.
You alright?
Alright, alright.
This house is so shabby. Be careful when you walk around.
Yes. Yes.
Customer, please sit down.
Let me help you.
Please sit down.
What do you want to eat?
Just give me something to drink first. I am so thirsty!
Let me give some teas to drink.
Customer, please have a cup of tea.
What type of tea?
It is the traditional Golden Tea here.
It is boiled with dried cumquat leaves.
Have a try!
Is this tea?
This tea is a bit bitter when you first take a sip,
but then it will be really sweet!
I can't find any bit of sweetness.
You don't have teacups here?
We use bowls to drink tea here.
Bowls?
You drink tea with teacups. You eat rice with bowls.
How could you serve customers without this knowledge?
Tell your manager to come.
Customer, I am the manager here.
I am the only staff in this small shop.
Fine. Fine. Fine!
Give me all the best food in your shop.
Customer,
please try the dried sweet potatos that I prepared.
The sweet potato is really sweet!
Please!
Fine. Fine. Fine! Go prepare dishes.
Okay.
Wait.
Customer
Have you ever been to the capital?
Why you look so familiar to me?
I have never been to the capital.
Then do you have any relatives in the capital?
Customer, I am only a woman living in the rural side,
how could I have relatives in the grand capital?
Fine. Go prepare dishes.
Okay. Please wait.
Mother!
Qilin!
Mother!
Do you miss me?
You bad girl, where have you been to?
You don't even notified me before! Don't you know that I am worrying about you?
I have been to the capital.
I have brought you back with own son!
What?
There's no mistakes. It's him! He is the one sitting outside.
He is Jin Yuanbao.
You said...
he... he is... Yuanbao? Is it really true?
Of course. It's real!
I have already checked his birthmark on his back.
Mother, I really brought you your own son!
Son! My son!
Son!
Let me to have one more glance on my son.
Madam, take care youself.
Xiaocui, lead her to leave.
Go. Let's go!
I only want to have one last glance on him.
This child is not related to you anymore.
He is the son of Madam Jin and he is the orthodox heir.
Yes...
Madam Jin treats you well enough.
I have said what I should. You need to leave the capital now.
Go as far as you can and never come back.
You have promised Madam
and you should keep your promise.
You also know that how the House of Jin treat those who betrayed their promises.
Listen to me. Leave quickly!
Madam! Madam!
Let me have one more glance on my son.
Madam, let me have one last glance on my son.
My son.
Oh my son!!!
Madam!
I beg you, Madam!
My son!
Mother.
Mother!
So what should I do?
How could I see my son with this outfit?
What should I do?
Qilin. Quickly.
Go get a flower for me, quickly!
Okay, Which one?
The biggest and the reddest flower!
Okay. Okay!
Is it okay?
Okay! You looks great.
Really?
The day finally comes.
You haven't told him, have you?
Not yet.
Qilin, told him slowly and don't scare him off.
Okay.
Do I really look great?
Yes! You look beautiful!
You go to take care of him first. I will come quickly.
Why are you so slow to excrete?
I haven't tried this for a long time.
It smells so good! It is exactly this favour.
You have tried this before.
My mother always prepared this for me. It's delicious!
You are saying that that people of the House of Jiang eat this?
The dishes are ready!
We have corns, sweet potatos, steamed dumplings and vegetables.
It smells great! Aren't you hungry? Enjoy!
I am not hungry now.
How could you not be tired after walking for so long distance?
How could you know that we have walked for a long distance?
Credits to poem translators: Ying Sun (1st poem, http://www.musicated.com/syh/TangPoems/EverlastingRegret.htm)
Xu Yuan Chong (2nd and 3rd poems; http://www.en84.com/article-1356-1.html and http://www.en84.com/article-423-1.html).
The 4th poem is translated by the translator at viki.