Don't play this with me
I know you begging for minister Xun to help you
Minister Xun is gone now
I'm not better than him. I don't have his courage
I still want to stay alive a few more years with my tablet collections
Go back home quickly
Deputy commander passed out
Wake him up
Director Zhong has rules for the interrogation of prisoner
The beats can't go beyond a hundred per day and will stop when the prisoner passes out
I'm in charge here
This is a treason case from the King
I order you to wake him up!
Does it hurt?
My eye hurts
Keep torturing him!
Dad please help me persuade the Director Zhong
to lead the case of deputy commander
Why does it have to be Zhong Yao?
Ding Yi and Yang Qiu are on the same side
Deputy commander will fail if we let Ding Yi keeps interrogating him
After you save the deputy commander
What to do with your brother? Only saving the deputy commander can save our brother
But Zhong Yao this guy
He first is a courter of Han then became a courter for Wei. No way to persuade him
His ability to keep himself out of all the politics
is beyond marvelous
If he refuses to help us on this then what?
We can't let Ding Yi keep interrogating deputy commander anymore
Deputy commander's failure will lead to our brother's death
You are confident you can save your brother after saving the deputy commander?
We have no other options now
The win or lose of this fight involves more than our family's lives
OK I will see what I can do
Why is he sick?
Young master is still small and weak
This is caused by the shock and the cold weather
Shock?
Who terrifies him?
Please forgive me for my incompetence of taking care of him
It's alright. Please stand up
Don't worry Ruier
Grandpa is here. Daddy...
Ruier is a good boy. Grandpa likes you the best
Grandpa likes your daddy too
Daddy will be back soon
So Ruier needs to get better soon
Don't let your daddy worry is that right?
Daddy...
It's your grandpa here
Daddy...
It's your grandpa here
Daddy
It's your grandpa!
Are you afraid of tasting bitter medicine?
I'm not
OK open up your mouth
Does it taste bitter?
Good boy
I want to serve my husband in the ceil
I know nothing about politics so I dare not to plead for my husband
but the prince always likes to be clean and tidy
Ceil like that
There should be someone sending some clean clothes to him
Madam needs to look after little prince she can't leave
I'm the most useless guy in this house
Please let me go
Da Li temple is strict and horrible to many people
It's said that even the birds don't want to stay there
You want to go?
Please allow me to company the prince
Even the laws allow prisoner's family to visit
The tiger doesn't even eat its son
Si Ma Yi wants to meet
He is good at picking the moment
Send him to the backyard
Yes
You stand up
Si Ma Yi
Meets the King
Didn't you get driven away by him?
He let you go and you dare to jump back to this death trap here
Even I don't come here
I will not get away if he gets convicted
I want to be of help even I will die here
I beg you to allow me to visit the prince for once
What do you want to say to him when you meet?
I will say to him
If that letter is really written by him I will persuade him to confess to you
and plead for your forgiveness
If it's not written by him then I will let him don't confess just because of the torture
I will prove his innocence whatever it takes
Whatever it takes? Do I care your life?
You don't need to care about my life
But the life of deputy commander and the title of crown prince matters
Please think more before you made any more decisions
Prince
Wake up
Be gentle
Why do you come here?
My brother in law never abandon you
Please tolerate these a bit now
I will help you get out of this injustice
What is injustice?
Injustice is
The King tell me to die I cannot live
Father tell son to die
I can not live
It's just my flesh
I will return them to him
Prince
You want to leave a bad name of unfilial son and disloyal courtier after a thousand years?
Don't you forget
what you have said to me
in front of the river of Ying
The conversation seems to be just a few days ago with the chains across the river
The rolling river of the destiny
There are some rivers that we can never cross
I drag you down into this
Leave here
Please trust me once more time
You need to believe in yourself too
I need to borrow your clothes with blood
This is..
This is the clothes of Zi Huan? Report to empress
Ding Yi hates deputy commander because of his fail to marry his sister
He took revenge on him using this chance. If he continues to do so
Deputy commander's life will be at risk
My son
Even he is guilty he should be insulted by an outsider
Please help deputy commander empress
The issue of Zi Jian is not resolved yet
Zi Huan is in jail now
What happened to this family?
Ping Yuan duke will be fine with the protection of the King
but deputy commander is not
Then tell me
How to save Zi Huan?
Is that letter written by him?
Deputy commander has been careful and filial
There is no way for him to write a letter like that
I don't believe either but the evidence is there. I can't persuade the King
Framing will be framing after all
There will be flaws when we investigate further
but the key is the person who leads the investigation wants to find the flaws
In order to save deputy commander we need to find someone impartial to lead the case
Who? The director at Da Li temple, Zhong Yao
The key of this case is only on the letter
That letter has deputy commander and minister xun's hand writings
The person who faked the hand writing
I mean if the letter is faked
The calligraph of that person is very high
and he must be an acquaintance to both deputy commander and minister Xun
so that he can have the hand writing to mimic
Will it be Yang Xiu?
He is not a friend to minister Xun
He has no opportunities to gain access to his study room
This time it might not be him
Person that has access to the study room of Minister Xun
and he is extremely good at the calligraph
There aren't too many people
This person must be a courtier
Yuan Chang if we take this letter
and compare it with all the courtiers' hand writings
Will you be able to tell who faked it?
That letter can only be accessed to the leading officer
We were just chatting just now
Please forget what you hear when you leave
This is for your own good
If the King
appoint you to lead this case
How can this be possible?
Ding Yi is already leading the case
Have you ever seen a dog abandoned the meat in its mouth?
Don't play with me anymore Yuan Chang
This is not only related to the fate of Bo Da
The future of Zhong Da
It's even related to the future of the deputy commander and the position of crown prince
Is it true that
as long as only you guys remembering my existence
I cannot give up
My brother in law will get you out of this
At the moment of live or die
I finally realize
It's no point intriguing against each other
Go and bring me the booklet
And the pen
You write down what I say
I want to write down all the poems I remembered
Don't do such thing with your wound
Write them down quickly
I'm afraid there will be no chance in the future
Am I too greedy?
I always want to leave something after I die
Aritcles
are the fundamental thing of a country that can last forever
People will die within decades
The pleasure and the fames only stay with ourselves
These will go when we die
All of these cannot compare with the power of the articles
Yuan Chang!
I don't ask your help just for my family's life
but also for the safety of our nation
Brother
My old friend
Please don't do this
At this moment
If you continue to ignore the situation here
I'm afraid there will be worse things happen on the court in future
When different factions emerge within the court
Then there will be no courtiers serve on behalf of this country
Are you happy to see a court like this?
The court can no longer stand a internal bleeding like this
Right now
We have no way to avoid facing this
If the King appoints me as the leading officer of this case
If I'm able to see that letter
I will misjudge the letter
With my capability on calligraphy
I look up to you on this
Deputy commander please come to the tribunal
He just received the punishment
Even the laws
don't allow to carry the punishment within 20 days
Why does he have to the tribunal in just two days
I don't know anything. I'm just following the orders
What are you talking about?
I will go with you and talk to the director about this
Don't make this hard for him he is just a guard
Don't cry
It's embarrassing
Go
Give me my cloak
Don't worry
I got this
Don't you believe your brother in law?
Director Zhong?
Deputy Commander
How are you since our last meeting?
Thanks for your concern
I'm fine
I come here to lead this case under the order of the King
Please forgive me if I do anything wrong
You don't need to shelter me if I'm really guilty
That letter found in the study room of Minister Xun
Have you read it?
Yes I did
Do you admit that the hand writing of that letter
is the same with your hand writings?
It's very much alike
but it's not written by me
Very much alike?
Do you know the differences between your hand writing and the one on that letter?
I can't tell
Therefore the person who did this is good at it
Is your opinion of your father's crowning himself
the same with the opinion on that letter?
Every words on that letter
have no insights
The words come from a villain's heart
trying to guess the real thoughts of a respected person
I never think like that
But previous emperor used to say who doesn't have a last name of Liu become King. No one will support and everyone will kill him
Do you think it's right for your father to become a King?
That's the reason why
I said the person who false this letter has no visions
His vision
stays at the sentence Han Gao Zu said
but he failed to analyze the current world and the heart of the people
Director Zhong
The Han dynasty has almost died already
Without my father's ability and power
eliminating all the enemies outsides the nation and within the country, setting down the capital, welcoming the emperor
We don't know
what this nation will look like?
I go the battler with me father for twenty years
I saw him working hard all days
He can't even eat and dress properly everyday
If my father only wants to be a King
He doesn't need to be on the field every time then
Why would he sacrifice two of his sons
My father did all this to control the situation
so that he can summon all the citizens and soldiers easily
To fight against Sun and Liu and return peace to this nation
The person who false the letter
only wants to use my mouth
to defame my father's action of become a King
His motive is execrable
Your answer
will be reported to the King
Thank you
You deny that this letter is written by you
I will compare the hand writing closely
I will ask you if I have any questions
Please take some rests
You can leave now
yes
How about his wounds?
I let the doctor take a look
He said although the wound is deep but it doesn't hurt the bones
He will recover within a month if he has good rests
I heard you saying that no need to torture him
How would you want to interrogate then? Deputy commander didn't confess anything with beats like that
Is it really possible
someone fake this letter and try to set up deputy commander?
This person can mimic the hand writing of both deputy commander and minister xun
and he can enter the study room of Minister Xun
I have a wild guess
This could be someone on the court
This person is a good friend to minister Xun and he is good at the calligraphy
I apply for reviewing the memorial of all the courtiers
By comparing the hand writings
maybe we will be able to find out who is faking the letter
You really can know the person who writes it?
One's hand writing, the use of the strength has personal characteristics
Faking the hand writing has no souls of the real person
There will be flaws
This letter contains over 500 hundred characters
There might be some hidden clues in here
You are leading the case
You can decide the way you want to investigate
Director Zhong
Don't be afraid that this might give you some troubles
Don't speculate what I am thinking either
Just investigate
It's coming
What are you doing here?
We are all subordinates of deputy commander
We heard that you took over the case of deputy commander
Therefore we are here waiting for your investigation results
The result will not come out in just one day
What's going on you guys standing in front of the Da Li temple?
Director Zhong, the deputy commander is now at Da Li temple
We waiting here is just a duty as subordinates
Don't worry director Zhong. We know the rules
We will not intervene or affect your daily work
You come over
What are you doing here? Trying to give me pressures?
If you have any results
We can make sure everyone knows it.
You are pushing me on this
I'm afraid it's someone else wants to push you
Counsellor Xun
Don't make this hard to me
Director Zhong
My father and uncle's bodies are still warm
It's unfortunate for what happened here
I come here on behalf of family Xun
waiting for your investigation results
If my uncle is guilty
We family is willing to take the responsibilities
If he is set up by someone
Please give us a result too
You can wait here
We will not handle your meals
Thank you
What did director Zhong say?
He said he won't handle our meals
Dad, your office is a lot more mess than our study room
These are the memorial from all the courtiers. They are carried to here last night from the palace
We need to finish all these as soon as possible
Finding out the memorial that has similar hand writing with that letter
Dad, why do you find me to help you on this?
You are my son
I just let you do some work then you are complaining
Bring me a cushion
I'm guessing
You think the courtiers that are good at the calligraphy are suspects
Therefore
You pick a student like me without any position an titles. Is that right?
The hand writing
of that letter looks very much alike to Cao Pi's
but
I happen to have an old memorial of Cao Pi
He always likes to use the Fei Bai Shu
When he writes, at the end of the character
the stroke is always up and ramify
He can't avoid writing like that even when he writes formally
But this person
His strokes didn't go up and ramify at all
He only mimic the appearance of Cao Pi's hand writing
Why don't you say this to the King directly? You tell me
You don't want to hurt other people
You might hurt someone else if you help Cao Pi
Maybe the King doesn't want to know the truth at all
I hope this is not related to Ping Yuan duke
Otherwise
I don't know what to do with a result like that
Do we still continue to investigate if this case is so dangerous?
Of course we will continue
Review them quickly
Brother
Why don't you go to sleep?
I'm waiting for you. What happen?
I want to talk to you
What do you want to talk?
I heard that you wait in front of the Da Li temple for the whole day is that so?
So did counsellor Xun
This involved too many people
We not only need to give some pressure to director Zhong
He also needs some help
Director Zhong
is willing to help deputy commander right?
So he didn't drive you away
Director Zhong replaced Ding Yi
Deputy commander can have a break because of this
You wait in front of the Da Li temple
is mainly because you are afraid the King will protect Ping Yuan Duke over Deputy Commander
and hide the truth from you is that right?
There are things you just know it but shouldn't say anything about it
But if this is true
You actually are trying to threaten the King with public voice
The King will hold grudges on you
Since I want to support deputy commander to become the crown prince
I need to do whatever I can
I want to help you brother
I want to help you to save our brother
How do you want to help?
I want to become a courtier too
Shu Da
Even you become a courtier tomorrow
What position of the courtier can you be?
I always think
You are a kind person
You should do something that will make you betray your heart
You should do something better other than being a courtier
Deputy commander is in jail
A Zhao must be worried
How is she?
Let me recommend you to the house of deputy commander
Great I want to go there too
Shu Da
The destiny of A Zhao and deputy commander is bonded together for sure
When can you forget about A Zhao?
and think for your own future?
Don't you know the idea that once the water is pour it can never go back?
I just want to a loyal person
so that we can never leave each other
What if deputy commander is that loyal person to A Zhao
They never leave each other for their whole life
Your whole life
should go which direction then?
Are you cold?
I'm not
Let's sit for a bit longer?
Sit a bit longer
I feel I'm useless
Many people think they are useful
but they are not doing the right thing
To my opinion
You are the useful one
Meets father
Are you okay?
I'm fine
Father
I know I'm wrong
I really do
I don't feel good day and night
I must admit something to you
What is it?
The incident of breaking into Si Ma gate
is me who did it
It's not Si Ma Lang
Please punish me for lying to you
I'm glad you speak out the truth
Politics is one thing
A true heart
Is another thing
I didn't misjudge you
Father
Please release Si Ma Lang
Don't mention this again
I want to ask you a different thing
Do you know the incident of your brother's letter?
Yang Xiu came to visit me yesterday
He mentioned it
Yang Xiu
This incident
is related to your life and our family
It's even related to the stability of this nation
No matter what
You must answer honestly to me
Do you understand?
I dare not to lie to you again
The letter found in Minister Xun's study room
Is it related to you?
I know nothing about it
Even I want to be the crown prince
I will not use this kind of method to frame my brother
What about Yang Xiu?
I don't think so
He is acting wild a bit
I don't think he dare to do something big like this
Who on earth is it?
Is it really Zi Huan?
Father
You need to investigate this further right?
You tell me
Father
Brother is alway loyal and filial
If this is done by brother
It's hard to believe so
No matter who is behind this
This will hurt the relationship between you and brother
Maybe we should forget this and treat it as a misunderstanding. Too naive
No matter who become the crown prince
We are brothers
I don't want to see... Stand up
When can you understand me
Do you really understand why I insist you fighting for the position of the crown prince?
Why?
You like my talents
The most important thing is your mercy and kindness
This is what I'm lack of
Confusion said
When a King merges he needs 30 years before he can be merciful and kind
He is right about this
I hope after a few decades
Your kindness
can make people really understand
the achievement that our family make
I'm fearful
My unrestrained action
fail your expectation on me
You are not failing your father
is yourself who you are failing
You need strategies to fulfill your ambition
You need politics
You can't rely on your straight and kind heart
After a hundred years
How do you see yourself?
Father
I really
can't go anywhere else?
I hope
After you get out of here
Figure this all out
Do you want a pie?
Don't be humble eating a pie
Have some porridges. No thank you
A pretty girl
is waiting for me at the city gate
Dad eat something. You are working all night
Dad what happened?
Do you find it?
Let me take a look dad
I'm not at the court
I will be more reasonable than you
Son listen to me carefully
The future of our family
is also the future of you
You need to choose on your own