THE FOUR -(Shao Nian Si Da Ming Bu)
Episode 2
My Lord, that is how everything happened.
At the scene I found some black powder.
It's fire powder.
Don't know who it was that purposefully pretended to be ghosts and purposely drove away everyone's confidence.
They were kept in the Six Instigate Department's dungeon. It must have been done by someone in the Six Instigate Department.
Right now is the time to be united to face the outside.Let's not bring up the conflicts between Divine Deputy Bureau and Six Instigate Department
Looks like someone plans to do something even bigger.
The Four Great Villains are only a few of their chess pieces in the big scheme.
We definitely cannot undermine this person's power.
Now that the Four Great Villains disappeared, we've lost our only piece of evidence.
Looks like we can only investigate from the slain lords.
The death of the four lords is quite a coincident as well.
At that time the Four Great Villains were locked in battle with us. They had no chance to leave.
You all do some preparation. Separate up to do the work.
Get ready to make a counter-plan. -Yes.
-Where are you going?-Eunuch Zhang.
We're preparing to go out and investigate the deaths of the four lords.
The case of the Secretaries is a small issue. You all must set your priorities!
Eunuch Zhang, you've come so quickly, did something big happen at court?
Something as big as the heavens! You shouldn't get involve with the case of the four Officials' deaths.
The biggest thing is what His Majesty orders.
If you all don't do it well, you will definitely lost your heads.
Eunuch please do not worry. What His Majesty orders, I will definitely do as ordered.
The Hu Zhou Ladies in Waiting, drugged the soldiers and escaped.
The Four Infamous Deputies are ordered to bring them back immediately without hesitation.
What? We're being ordered to stop the investigation of crimes and go chase down the young women?
What backgrounds, exactly, do these Ladies in Waiting have? They even dare to run?
Oh, don't worry about what background, ok?
-Just do it -Eunuch Zhang.
Consider it hard to be done. The first priority is to investigate the four lords deaths,
the Ladies in Wating come later.
That's right. If we ignore such a big crime, and besides, chase after the Ladies in Waiting.
Eunuch Zhang, isn't this a little..?
You dare to defy the Emperor's royal order?
Coldblood, do you all not want your heads anymore?
You all listen up.
I order the four of you to go immediately to capture the Ladies in Waiting! No mistake is allow.
-Uncle!-Do you not even listen to my word anymore?
-Yes-Yes
This is the portraits of the Ladies in Waiting. Take them.
They should have all run off in different directions. Let's separate and look.
Who knows what will happen in the Capital City once we leave?
I also want to see what this Lady in Waiting actually look like.
Enough. Let's get going.
Open up!
Who is it?
Cousin. (Maternal older male cousin)
Cous...?
Ying Xue! Ying Xue what's wrong? Ying Xue!
Cousin!
Cousin! (Maternal younger female cousin)
Cousin!
-Cousin...-You're awake.
Don't cry, what's wrong?
I thought I'd never see you again!
How could that be? Tell me what's wrong.
My father and my stepmother,
they want to send me into the palace as a Lady in Waiting.
I don't want to go into the palace, so I ran away!
To be a Lady in Waiting? You ran away?
In this world, besides my mother,
you're the one who is closest to me!
Only when I can see you is my heart calmer now.
But what do you plan to do from now on?
The future..
I plan to follow you from now on.
Follow me?
Let me follow you!
But...you don't mind that I'm poor scholar and barely have a cent?
Why would I look down on you? I know you treat me well.
Last year, when I had a high fever, you ran to the river to get ice blocks
carrying them back for me with your bare hands.
When you came back, your hands had frostbite!
You still remember all that?
The good that you've shown me,
I always put it in my heart.
But...the difference between you and me is too big.
I never dared to have any outrageous thoughts for you.
Cousin, I've already run away, I have nowhere else to go.
But I am so poor. Aren't afraid you will suffer with me?
I'm not afraid! As long as I can be with you, even if I have to suffer more I'm not afraid.
But I'm afraid!
-You're afraid I'll drag you down?-No no no
I'm just afraid..
I'm afraid of your father.
My father...
If my father,
if he really treated me well he wouldn't send me into the palace to be a Lady in Waiting.
Right now, he only wants to live with my stepmother and little sister.
He didn't want me since long ago!
Cousin! Okay okay, don't cry. Don't cry. Cousin. Cousin.
Then how about you live here for now.
Your father is far away, he won't come and know you're here, right?
Don't cry. Don't cry.
Are you hungry? I'll make you some noodles, ok?
Okay, wait a second.
Come, have some noodles.
Thank you.
This time, a great catastrophe has fallen onto me!
How come Cousin's expression is kind of weird?
A Lady in Waiting running away is a crime worthy of death! And she comes for my help? Oh..
Cousin, what did you say?
I didn't say anything.
Strange, how come I can hear what he's thinking?
If the government office knew I hid a runaway Lady in Waiting...!
That's a crime worthy of death! I'm done for this time...
Do the noodles taste good?
-It tastes good.-Then have some more.
The bed is made for you. Have a good rest tonight.
Thank you Cousin.
I'll be right outside, if you need anything please call.
Does Cousin not want me to stay here?
How come a girl came?
She ate everything.
There's nothing left behind for us to eat!
Don't know if she's mean or kind yet.
We should just hurry and leave through the tunnel!
This hole leads to the back street alley. Let's go to the alley to find something to eat.
Let's go, before she finds us!
There really is a hole! Ne good, I'll block you up!
So they cannot enter my cousin's house anymore!
All done!
City Report
50 taels for two?-That is not a small amount.
If you know news about the Ladies in Waiting, you can get prize money!
50 taels? We don't have to worry about food and clothing.
Sorry Cousin, I don't want to be arrested by the deputies.
As long as I report to the official, I can have 50 tael of silver.
This money can help me rise in status from now on.
I won't be looked down on by the rich anymore!
Right now, I can only sacrifice you.
Note: I've gone to buy vegetables for you. Be back later.
Cousin even leaves a note for me when he goes shopping. So caring.
Looks like I've thought too much
We've walk a long time already, where is this place exactly?
Just up ahead Sir, we'll be there soon.
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We'll be there soon!
Sir, it's here.
Look everywhere!
You take people that way, you all come with me.
-After her!-Yes!
Go that way!
-Did you find her?-No sign of the girl.
Sir, the girl was inside. Can I get the prize money now?
There was no Lady in Waiting! You poor scholar, even want the prize money? Take him away!
No, I'm innocent!
I'm innocent, Sir!
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Why did Cousin have to betray me?
For just a little benefit, even the one closest to me in this world lied to me.
In this world, I'll never trust anyone again.
Where can I go?
The world is so big.
Where is the place where I can stay?
No! I won't jump down there!
No matter what happens,
I must work to live on courageously!
Miss!
Save me! Save me!
Miss, what could you not think through? Why did you choose to die?
Who couldn't think things through? If I wasn't scared by you I wouldn't fall down!
Hurry up and pull me up, you!
If anything happens to me, let's see how you can bear the responsibility!
You're the escaped Lady in Waiting.
How did you know?
No, you've mistaken me for someone else! I'm not!
If you don't tell the truth,
I'll let go.
Don't let go!
How could you not have any heart?
If I fall down there, I will fall to my death.
Are you going to say it or not?
Hurry and pull me up! Hurry!
I'm His Majesty's woman!
You still know that you are His Majesty's person?
You don't stay in your good place as a Lady in Waiting.
You really are a burden.
If you hang me here I'll fall!
If I fall, I'll lose my life down there!
Hurry and pull me up!
Hey, don't you hear me? You're really a cold blooded animal!
I am the Divine Deputy Bureau's Coldblood.
I have been ordered to capture and bring back Lady in Wating, Chu Ying Xue. for her crime.
-You're one of the Infamous Four Deputies, Coldblood?-Precisely.
Whatever dog fart deputies?
So you all just work for the Emperor to do bad things!
Do you want to come up or not?
Let go of me!
How can you be so brutal? So painful.
Don't you know how to be gentle and delicate?
What a hassle.
If you weren't someone His Majesty wanted, I wouldn't bother saving you.
You think I'm a problem? Then I'll just go now, you don't see-!
Quick mouth and sharp tongue.
What kind of tricks do you still plan to play?
With a cold blooded-
moving object...by my side. (moving objects & animal are same word depending on context)
Where else can I run off to?
Let's go!
Where do we have to go now?
I'm talking to you!
I'm a deputy and you're a criminal. I have nothing to say to you.
I'm a criminal? You deputies truly cannot tell the difference between good and bad.
Those people that want to drag me into the palace are the bad people,
-How come you don't go capture them?-As a Lady in Waiting, you don't keep to your place,
and enticed the others to run away.
Are you not a criminal?
As a famous deputy, you don't go deal with big things,
but stand here dealing with a weak woman with no strength in her hands like me.
I feel ashamed for you!
This is my duty.
This person doesn't look that bad,
He just seems a little hard headed. I should go open him up a bit.
Hey, Commander Leng!
Commander Leng, let me ask you.
Just now you saved me was out of the goodness of your heart,
you didn't know I am a Lady in Waiting, right?
Not answering is the same as affirming.
Then the point of what you did was to save someone, right?
Not responding is affirming again.
Then let me tell you. If I enter the palace I will commit suicide!
Think about it. Who is willingly to be together with a sixty some year-old old man?
And so, why don't you save me all the way and let me go, ok?
I'll tell you one more time.
This is my duty.
Ay, why is your head so hard to open up?
Haven't you heard the phrase of showing pity outside the law?
Today let's just consider me begging you,
I beg you. I beg you. I beg you, okay?
Please, please, please.
Hey! You surely didn't get named wrong.
Cold blooded, cruel, heart as hard as metal and stone, evil, conscienceless!
Hurts to death..
Save me...!
Hurts to death!
Come up.
-Why am I so unlucky? -Come up!
If you want me to, then agree to let me go!
Or else, don't bother with me anymore.
Leave me live and die alone here!
Since it looks like you're not a good person anyway, I don't need you to save me!
I'm so pitiful!
I can let you go.
But you must know that this is a trap that the hunters set to trap wild animals.
In a few days there will be a big tiger come down to accompany you.
Hurts so much!
Come up!
My leg hurts.
I saw wrong in the beginning! I even thought you were a good person!
Hurts so much!
I can't anymore. I have to sit down.
Hurts to death.
No good, I must lose him.
Hurts to death..
Hurts so much.
Got it!
Oh no! Where is my jade ornament?
I must have lost it in that trap back there!
This jade ornament is a token from the Emperor!
If I lost it, I have to beheaded!
I'll go back to look!
You are a Lady in Waiting, not an imperial consort.
Why would the Emperor give you a token of his affection?
Because I caught the Emperor's attention!
If I didn't catch His Majesty's attention,
then why would he send you Four Infamous Deputies who are known all through the Capital City
to deal with a weak girl like me, who's hands doesn't even have enough strength to kill a chicken?
After I enter the palace,
not only will the Emperor give me jade ornaments, but also those rubies,
precious jewelry, and also those pure jades!
Didn't you not want to go back?
Can't I change my mind?
Are you going back or not?
Let me tell you, even though you are Coldblood,
but I am a person who holds a grudge and will always get my revenge!
If I really enter the palace and become the queen, you
-best be careful to treat me better!-Careful I'll kill you first!
Where is it?
It hurts!
I can't go down! If I can't go down, how can I search?
If I can't find it I'm done for, I'll be beheaded!
What do I do?
Who will help me?
Hey, look carefully! It's definitely down there.
You big dummy!
The jade piece is with me!
Be good and stay there,
wait for your lion or tiger to be your companion!
The real person is prettier than the portrait, am I right?
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I can't go anymore, my legs really hurt.
So what if your legs hurt?
-Do you want to switch with me?-Okay!
Then you come down, I won't tie your hands.
Come over!
I'll ask you first.
What direction is this?
The west.
Have you seen the sun rise from this direction?
I knew you would get back at me!
If I knew you would treat me like this earlier, I would have tied-
You best be more honest with me.
Slow down! Slow down!
Coldblood, how about we give up one horse for her to ride?
Oh, no good. No good. No good. This girl is very crafty.
Did you forget that she locked up Coldblood in the hunter's trap?
Since we don't know her personality, it's best to be careful.
-That's correct.-Then let's talk after letting her walk a bit.
He truly is a cold blooded animal.
I have no more strength. I can't keep going.
She doesn't even have the strength to yell at us. How about we let her rest?
Wasn't your voice really loud just now? How come you're like this now?
Coldblood!
Here, eat something.
I'll eat it!
What scent is that?
So stinky!
Now you don't have to walk. Sit well here, it's quite comfortable.
I even found you a companion.
If you like that companion, I'll let you sit here.
I bought this for you.
What other requests do you have?
This place is stinky and filthy, I won't-
You be good and stay here, don't complain anymore.
Boss, we'll have to bother you.
You are too courteous.
Hey, you, don't come close to me! Don't come close to me!
You are so pretty, that's why I came closer
What bad luck! I meet with a perverted pig!
I met with these four deputies who aren't even worth a pig!
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-How handsome!-So handsome!
Handsome my foot!
Make way!
Those are the captured Ladies in Waiting escapees! They are to be sent to take care of the royal tombs.
They can never return again!
These girls are quite pitiful. A good young woman,
just like that they have to enter the tomb and live as a dead person!
You didn't know, this isn't the worst of it.
Xiao Yu?
There was a girl who went to her lover, they are both to be beheaded!
-Really?-That's right.
Seeing those girls, my heart really feel bad.
Let's go. We have to go and report to the Emperor.
Come this way.
What do these young men need?
Boss, give us the best room.
What is so stinky? Smells like a pig feces!
What are you looking at? A person that stink all over can't live in a hotel?
You can (x2). Young men, I'll take you to the room.
Come, please come this way.
Go on!
You go first.
We're going to find something to eat.
Go on.
Young lord, this is our hotel's finest room.
There's even a little garden that way.
Get me some water.
Okay.
-There really is a need for a good wash.-You!
He truly is a inhumane person.
Making me so filthy and still wanting to send me into the palace.
Miss Chu, get washed and change, then have something to eat.
What? You're going to watch me take a bath?
What is there to see when you wash?
I'm watching you to see what other tricks you want to play.
Coldblood, let's go out for now.
Forgot to tell you.
You shouldn't waste your strength. You can't run away.
Since you're not saying it then I'll warn you: Don't peek.
-Customers, here is the food, please enjoy.-Waiter.
-Add another set of rice and dishes.-Okay.
Just now when I saw those girls being taken away, my heart felt really bad.
Those beautiful young women being sent to their deaths!
What a shame, a shame!
What Chaser said is correct. I am the black star of the world.I was born with a black life.(Black star=unlucky, bad things happen to anyone close to him)
Anything falls in my hands do not have a good ending.
All those who end up in your hands are bad people. But Chu Ying Xue is different.
That's right. The Chu Ying Xue that we've captured,
is truly innocent. I believe that her ending,
will be the same as the girls we saw before.
Hey, you only care about eating.
Do you have no feelings in your heart at all?
Our duty is to capture people for their crimes,
and uphold the royal rule. As far as what her end is like,
it has nothing to do with us.
-You really have no pity at all?-Hurry and eat.
-Eat, eat-Have some wine.
Then I'll drink some.
So stinky!
Those are the captured Ladies in Waiting escapees! They are to be sent to take care of the royal tombs.
They cannot leave for life!
These girls are quite pitiful.
A good young girl is being sent to the grave to live as a dead person!
Yu Er...sister...I'm so sorry.
I didn't think that there would be these consequences.
No good. I definitely have to escape from here.
-The more I think about it, my heart--Then don't think about it.
Eat some more.
In a bit I'll get her to come eat.
I'm going to the palace to give the news.
This case can be considered closed.
Your heart seems darker than Iron Hand's!
You simply have a iron clad heart!
The Four Great Villains haven't been captured yet!
In comparison, which case do you guys think is more important?
The Four Great Villains are the next thing. We should first deal properly with this one!
Right now the case is that Chu Ying Xue has been captured by us.
But in reality, she is innocent!
Coldblood, how about..
We were ordered by the Emperor to capture the Ladies in Waiting for the case!
As a deputy, we only need to follow our duty,
we definitely cannot use emotions to do things.
I hope you can all draw the line between those things.
Where do you want to go now?
Go where?
As a weak girl, could I be able to escape you-
the palms of you guys' hands?
Eat something.
Being a full ghost is good too.
I won't eat!
You eat!
I'll eat.
Now where do you want to go?
I just feel hot. I want to get some fresh air.
Very well then.
I'll stay here and accompany you getting air.
I simply don't want to get air with you!
So frustrating!
Caught you! I knew you'd be there!
So frustrating!
That dead thing, following me everywhere I He's not the bug in my stomach!
Hey! You all are inhumane!
Forcing me to the palace, definitely to sleep with the Emperor!
Or I could also be beheaded! Dead or alive I won't go back with you!
-No need to make that big of a fuss is there?-Don't make a fuss. The four of us will stand guard here,
it'll be hard for her to fly.
Coldblood, do we really have to be like this?
Something really bad could happen like this.
-I'm going in to take a look at her!-Don't bother with her!
Don't bother with me? How could that be?
Since I have to die anyway! Then I'll die in front of you!
What Infamous Four Deputies?
Lions, tigers, turtles, idiots!
You are all inhumane animals!
You-!
You all should just take my body to give to the Emperor!
It looks like she really wants to commit suicide.
She is trying to gain your pity!
-Shouldn't we still go take a look?-You'll be tricked by her!
What is this? Finally quiet? It's all good now.
She couldn't be dead?
I'll go take a look.
Miss Chu, are you okay?
You were really serious about this?
Miss Chu, even if you have to enter the palace, you shouldn't commit suicide!
If you die, how are we supposed to answer to His Majesty?
You just go and tell the Emperor that this Lady in Waiting
was forced to die by the Emperor and you four inhumane deputies!
No one forced you!
It's you who want to seek death.
You are going to force me into the palace to sleep with the Emperor,
or be beheaded by the Emperor, if it's not forcing then what is it?
It's hard to defy a royal order.
One phrase "Hard to defy a royal order" lets you do things without conscience?
Or perhaps you do not have a conscience?
In truth, if we have to send her back,
then her fate..
If we don't send her back..
Then nothing will really happen right?
Should we really defy the royal order?
I'm born to live a pitiful life!
First I was betrayed by my cousin,
then I met you inhumane deputies!
I'm done for this time!
Looks like I can only go die!
Miss Chu!
Don't hold her back.
Let her continue acting.
Miss Chu, everything has a solution.
-How about we...-What do you want to do?
Let's help her out.
You plan to let her go?
Letting her go...at the very worst, we'll be blamed by His Majesty.
No, our heads can't be kept!
We'll take the Lady in Waiting pass on her,
and tell His Majesty that she jumped into a ravine to commit suicide.
Good idea! Then you can't even find a body.
-That way, His Majesty won't--No good.
This is the crime of lying to the Emperor.
Should we watch her choose to die and not save her?
I feel like that isn't a bad idea.
I actually really pity her.
When I saw those girls on the cart just now,
Every one of them..
My heart was so bad!
You also saw the fate of those girls.
After she enters the palace, her fate will likely be even worse than those girls.
Once she enters the palace, her life is over!
Actually, deception of the Lady in Waiting pass could work.
But if she doesn't enter the palace,
how is she going to live?
-I can...-You shut your mouth!
Do you expect her to spend life with no place to stay, and live as a wanderer?
How about we send her to that...Spring Flower House?
Spring Flower Room? What kind of place is that?
Spring Flower House? You must think it through clearly.
-You must sell yourself to be a servant.-Selling yourself to be a servant,
is doing stuff like carrying water and tea! It's a physical job.
Once you enter the Spring Flower House it's as deep as the sea. If the servanthood transaction does not work, be careful, you might be force into prostitution!
Being forced to prostitution, means that you have to play the zither for fifty or sixty year-old men,
laugh with them, and also...
What?
Sleep with them.
-Then I'd rather go die!-Miss, miss!
He's just joking with you, don't treat it as real.
You are still daughter of the governor of Hu Zhou.
You are a high class young lady.
I've got it. Let's have her enter the Divine Deputy Bureau to be a maid!
Miss Chu, right now you are wanted by the court.
There is nowhere under the heavens were you can stay.
The Divine Deputy Bureau is the only safe place. Are you willing?
As long as I don't have to go to the palace, or go to some place like Spring Flower House,
I don't mind going anywhere.
Have you all ever considered, if she goes to the Divine Deputy Bureau,
then everyone there will know she is Chu Ying Xue.
Then how will we answer to it?
She can change her name.
That's a good idea!
Then no one will know she is Chu Ying Xue.
That way we can save a life and we have done a good thing.
So you three...
are sure you want to help her?
Originally I didn't want to help her.
But when I saw those Ladies in Waiting just now..
-my heart really...-Even though I am the black star of the world,
but I also don't want Miss Chu to die innocently in my hands.
My three good brothers,
intend to fight against me together?
Right now it all depends on you.
What are you doing?
From now on,
forget the name on the Lady in Waiting pass.
Then what is my name?
A name that can let you live on.
Come, today Mother will teach you some words.
To me and you, these words are very important.
So you must work hard to remember them, understand?
I understand.
The grass on the path departed. Will an old friend come back?
So good. Come.
The grass on the path departed. Will an old friend come back?
Li Mo..
My name is Chu Li Mo.