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[General And I]
[Episode 31]
Ping Ting, look at how beautiful it is here.
Sadly, we're already leaving.
What is it?
You can't bear to leave?
No.
Your Highness.
Why are there sounds of children out here in the wilderness?
Sister Ping Ting.
Did you hear them?
I wonder whose children are singing.
Why are they singing here?
Mulberries grow fresh in May.
Pick mulberries south of Yangtze River.
Plenty of mulberry leaves.
All right, children.
Stop singing.
The people we're waiting for are here.
Noble Consort?
Prince of Zhenbei, how have you been?
It's Noble Consort Zhang?
What is she doing here?
It's been a long while
but Prince of Zhenbei is still as charming.
- Recently, you must be... - We're in a hurry.
There's no time to spare.
Please leave by yourself.
Hold on, Prince of Zhenbei!
I have already been waiting here for a long time.
Noble Consort, what are you doing?
Does Prince of Zhenbei know who these children are?
On the battlefield in Bai Lan State, many of Great Jin's soldiers died
in the war against Great Liang.
They left behind widows and orphans.
Many of them.
I know that I've sinned greatly in the past
but now I'm pregnant and about to become a mother.
I truly can't bear to see them alone and helpless.
Therefore, I've sent my men to bring them to me and be raised
to be taught to read and write and learn what's right.
Although it has been hard
fortunately the children have all been very obedient.
It's sort of bringing forth blessings to my unborn child.
Noble Consort, who is he?
He's that mighty brother I told you about.
Great General of Zhenbei, Chu Bei Jie.
He's the all-victorious God of War.
God of War!
I believe that Prince of Zhenbei is aware of our current predicament.
He Xia's ambition can't be curbed.
His army is now pressing on our border.
A great war will soon be upon us.
However, His Majesty is already seriously ill.
Other than Prince of Zhenbei
no one else could take charge of handling the current crisis.
As Your Highness can see, I'm now heavily pregnant.
I can't move around easily.
Moreover, there is a deep grudge between us.
I shouldn't be here at all.
However, the grudge between us is nothing compared to the crisis of Great Jin.
I truly can't bear to see more children lose their homes and parents.
And even their own lives.
When a nest is overturned, no egg stays intact.
I beg Prince of Zhenbei to stay for the sake of our people and children!
God of War, please stay!
God of War!
- Ping Ting... - Please stay!
Here, get up now.
- God of War, please stay! - Don't kneel.
- Get up. - Don't stay on your knees.
Your Highness.
It's a cold winter this year.
I'm afraid the snow in Tengri Tagh has yet to melt.
I don't like the cold.
We can leave a bit later.
Ping Ting.
I know how much the people of Great Jin mean to Your Highness.
When Great Jin is in grave danger and your people are suffering
you'd still rush back even if we were miles away from here.
How could I have you act oblivious to this crisis?
But...
Princess Consort of Zhenbei is very empathetic.
I thank you on behalf of our people and His Majesty.
- Anyone there? - Present!
Report to His Majesty that Prince of Zhenbei will return to the palace soon.
Yes.
Noble Consort!
Thank you.
It's good that Your Highness is fine.
Your Highness.
It's your birthday in a month's time.
I'll wait until then to celebrate your victorious return.
I have a great gift for you.
Ping Ting.
Should you come across a shoe store on your way back
buy me a new pair of shoes.
This pair is giving me blisters.
Your Highness, remember this.
One month.
I will remember.
Just one month.
Zui Ju.
- Let's go. - Yes.
Mo Ran.
Present.
Keep this sword with you.
Should anything go wrong
take this sword to Dragon-Tiger Troop 20 miles south from here
and seek help from Great General Chen Mou.
Yes!
He will recognize this sword.
I will remember.
Ping Ting, wait for my return.
Mo Ran.
We should get going.
All right.
It's about time you head back.
It would seem suspicious if you stay here too long.
I'll do as you say.
Your Highness could just give birth to a prince without any mistake
but now you got involved with Prince Consort of Bai Lan?
Your Highness, don't you think it's even more dangerous now?
Are you frightened?
No.
Your Highness has misunderstood me.
Prince Consort of Bai Lan is a wanted criminal of Yan State.
Yet he actually managed to settle in Bai Lan and marry the princess.
He even holds great authority now.
This person must be very cunning.
Does Your Highness find him trustworthy enough to collaborate with him?
He Xia is by no means a righteous man.
I collaborate with him because we have a mutual enemy.
I never expect to benefit from it.
I just want Chu Bei Jie and Bai Ping Ting dead.
Report!
General, there is news from Jin State.
Perfect timing.
Anyone there?
Present.
Send 800 elite solders to surround and annihilate Mount East county house.
Kill everyone in that house!
Yes!
As for Bai Ping Ting...
If alive, bring her in.
If dead...
Go!
Yes.
Your Majesty, His Highness is here.
Good.
Your Highness.
Chu Bei Jie greets Your Majesty.
You're here.
Come here.
Come here next to me.
I knew that you'd return.
Here, have a seat.
Your Majesty's health...
I'm fine.
My eyes fear the light and my chest hurts sometimes.
I'm fine after taking some medication.
It's just wonderful that you could return.
Your Majesty should recuperate in ease.
Leave the rest to me.
My mind is at ease now that you're here.
Your Majesty, this is...
It's just that the tally is in the hands of General Lin An now.
I've already summoned him from the border of Yan State.
He should return in two days at noon at the latest.
You will take the tally from him and set out to war immediately.
I am here now.
Your Majesty can set your mind at ease.
No one shall invade the lands of Great Jin. Not even an inch.
Sister Bai.
Sister Bai!
Woody!
Have you seen Sister Bai?
Princess Consort?
What happened?
I don't know where she's gone early in the morning.
She's not here?
Have you searched everywhere?
I've already searched through this entire house!
Everywhere?
Don't panic.
Princess Consort always knows what she is doing.
How about we split up to look for her?
- All right. - Let's go!
- Sister Bai! - Princess Consort!
You're both in such a panic. Did anything serious happen?
How is it not serious when you've gone missing?
Here, give it to me.
I noticed that the plums in the mountains are already ripe
so I went to pick some this morning before the sun was out.
You have to let me know!
Come and taste these plums.
They are so fresh.
It's so sour!
I find it quite refreshing.
That's because you're carrying a child.
Sour, a son. Spicy, a daughter.
Ping Ting, you'll surely give birth to a prince!
What did you say?
You... Princess Consort is pregnant?
This is great news!
When His Highness learns of this, he will be thrilled!
Come here.
Stupid Woody! Listen up.
Sister Bai has to tell Brother Bei Jie about her pregnancy herself.
You're not to say a word.
Sure, sure.
I... I understand.
Do you hear me?
I hear you.
Mo Ran, pick out a few urns of good aged Huadiao Wine in the market for me.
Yes.
Aged Huadiao wine?
Sister Bai, you're carrying a baby.
How can you still drink?
- Drinking is bad for-- - It's not for me.
I want to soak the plums in wine.
I also stashed away some preserved plum blossoms this winter in the cellar.
Such a blended wine is called Fragrant Melody.
In half a month when His Highness returns is about the right time to unseal it.
How about it? Does it sound good?
Sounds great!
Give me a moment.
This... A little prince is great.
What was that fragrant something she said?
No... You have pig's brains.
Why did you hit me?
Fragrant Melody.
I already remember it.
How can you not?
Fragrant Melody?
My father named that wine.
This wine has to be smoked when the moon is high in the sky
as the summer heat in the wine and earth has dispersed completely.
The heat from the smoke can then be absorbed into the urn evenly.
We have to smoke it again before we unseal it.
That will make it taste best.
Ping Ting.
These preserved candied plum blossoms smell so good!
But Ping Ting, you're even so particular about making wine.
You've put all ladies to shame.
It makes me realize that I've been such an unrefined lady.
But I've been washing with the medicinal herbs that Wei Ya got me.
Don't you think that I look a bit prettier now?
You do.
All right, I won't keep talking about that.
Ping Ting, speaking of which
you're not to go off on your own again like you did this morning.
Do you hear me?
You're pregnant.
It's slippery in the mountain with all that fog.
What are we to do should anything go wrong?
- Exactly! - In the future
just tell me to do all the heavy chores...
No.
Just order this big block of wood to do it.
You're just in charge of ordering him about.
Yes, exactly.
Princess Consort, you're already pregnant.
Feel free to order me to do anything.
All right, we'll have grilled meat tonight.
We can grill meat and smoke the wine at the same time.
Two things done at once.
- Grill meat and smoke wine? - Great!
- This is great! - I'll prepare the ingredients!
Give that to me.
Let's go!
Yes, yes!
I'm going to get some wine.
All right, I'll get going then.
Your Highness, don't worry.
We're all doing well.
How about you?
Is everything going well?
Your Highness.
Prince of Zhenbei.
Noble Consort.
Please halt, Prince of Zhenbei.
Why do you have to avoid me as if I were a viper?
You've misunderstood me.
I still have important tasks at hand.
I can't linger.
You're right.
I wonder when Prince of Zhenbei will set out with the army.
Tomorrow at noon.
I'll leave once General Lin An returns with the tally.
Noble Consort.
What are you doing?
I have a favor to ask of you.
Please leave with the army a few days later.
This is an emergency. Not a second is to be wasted.
How can I delay it a few days?
Prince of Zhenbei might not be aware that I'm already in my ninth month
and soon due for labor.
However, I had a nightmare last night.
I dreamed that the young prince was assassinated.
It really isn't a good omen.
Now that His Majesty is frail, should anything go amiss
there's actually no other man I can rely on in the palace.
This young prince will be His Majesty's only flesh and blood.
Besides, the enemies are only stationed at the border.
They have yet to attack us.
I'd like to ask Prince of Zhenbei to leave after the prince is born.
A military command is by no means frivolous.
His Majesty ordered me to set out tomorrow at noon.
Not a moment's delay is allowed.
Moreover, our enemies are at the border.
They could attack anytime now.
How could I delay a military operation because of a groundless nightmare?
Forgive me for not being able to consent to your request.
Your Highness.
It didn't work, did it?
How could it be that easy to hold off Chu Bei Jie?
He really is unyielding.
He shows no respect at all.
Princess.
Your Highness, Prince Consort has sent a letter.
My wife, Yao Tian, it's been days since we parted.
I miss you dearly.
I'm already close to Jin State.
Treacherous Chu has returned.
Consort Zhang stalls for time as planned.
Bai's life hangs by a thread.
Destroy the ambition of Chu with the death of Bai.
Princess's strategy is indeed remarkable.
All is going well.
This battle will surely be won.
Why are you digging so slowly?
Stop nagging.
Princess Consort, the dirt is loose here. Will this do?
Dig a bit more.
Over to that side. Dig a bit over there.
You're so dumb!
Sister Bai, do you think this will do?
Sure.
Woody, keep digging!
We have fish, chicken wings, and thighs.
Don't be so anxious.
You can have all of them later.
That won't do!
I'm saving some for you and the baby.
I won't save any for Woody.
Princess Consort.
Is this deep enough?
I think it will do.
Zui Ju, help him lower this urn into the hole.
Sure.
Woody, I'll help you.
Sure.
Here.
- There you go. - Here.
It's all done, Sister Bai.
We've buried it.
Mission accomplished.
Let's light the fire to grill meat.
- Sure. - Let's grill meat!
I actually also did this with my father in the past.
It's just that... Later on...
When he went hunting, he met a bear.
Miss Zui Ju!
You...
Don't... Don't cry!
Zui Ju.
It's all right, Zui Ju.
Don't cry. It's all in the past.
- Don't cry. - Exactly.
It's all in the past now.
You...
Let's have the grilled meat.
- Don't cry. - You're right.
I can't make your baby upset as well.
It's actually not all that sad.
I met my mentor after that and he took me in as his disciple.
He taught me everything I know.
Speaking of my mentor, he is a miraculous physician.
Sister Bai should know that he is in charge of treating King of Jin.
Woody, tell us about yourself.
What is there to talk about?
Tell us. Hurry up.
Me? What is there to tell?
Fine then!
I'll tell you about me.
I've been the prince's bodyguard since I could remember.
I grew up in the prince's manor.
I followed His Highness on all his conquests.
I don't know who my parents are, so there's not much to say.
Since you could remember?
How old were you?
About three years old?
You must be joking, Woody!
Three years old?
How old was the prince? 10 years old?
How could he let a three-year-old be his bodyguard?
- Liar! - I didn't lie to you!
- How old were you again? - Three.
No... I don't know what to tell you.
No... You made me tell you my story.
But you can't lie to me!
You... You'd believe it even if I lied to you?
You lie as well as a three-year-old!
I'm done talking to you.
Sister Bai.
What is the matter?
Sister Bai?
I almost forgot that I made some plum juice.
I'll bring it over.
Hold on!
Woody, I'll send you to get it.
- Sit down, I'll get it. - Sure.
I'm not that fragile.
Sit down and grill the meat.
You're so useless.
- No... - Stop talking. Grill the meat.
How am I useless?
Look! You've burned that chicken.
It's burned, but it's not for you.
Try it. See if it's cooked.
- You can't have it even if it's burned. - I don't want yours!
You can't have it.
I've made some plum juice.
It helps digestion.
It goes best with grilled meat.
Princess Consort!
Be careful, Sister Bai.
Give it to me.
- Are you all right? - I'm fine.
I remember it now.
That day when Noble Consort Zhang came
to invite Brother Bei Jie back to the palace
I also helped her to her feet.
I noticed something weird then.
What was it?
That day when I grabbed her wrist, I read her pulse.
However, her pulse was that of a normal person.
It's not that of a pregnant woman.
What does that mean?
When I read her pulse, it was just normal.
That consort isn't pregnant.
Yet she had such a huge belly.
It was just too weird.
This is really fishy.
The birds are alarmed.
There's someone in the woods.
Not woodcutters?
At such an hour, wild beasts are out in the woods.
Woodcutters would only be in the woods in the morning.
Why would they be in there now?
When we're at war, birds are only alarmed when enemies are sneaking up on us.
This means that we now have to act very cautiously.
Princess Consort.
I'll send someone to investigate now.
Sure.
But you must be very careful not to alert the enemies.
I laid out the five elements formation in the woods.
It won't be that easy for them to attack the country house.
Yes.
Zui Ju, we'll sleep together tonight so we can look out for one another.
Bad news! Anyone there?
Noble Consort is having difficult labor!
Bad news! Anyone there?
Noble Consort is having difficult labor!
- Your Highness, bad news! - What happened?
- Noble Consort is in labor! - Difficult labor?
The midwife says that it's critical.
It's a mess in the palace now. Everyone is at a loss.
No one knows what to do.
Your Highness is located the closest to Fangqin Hall.
Please take a look over there and manage the situation.
I'm going to ask His Majesty and the queen over.
All right.
Inform His Majesty and the queen immediately.
I thank Your Highness on behalf of the noble consort.
The child is born!
Noble Consort has given birth!
It's a little prince!
Noble Consort has given birth!
Assassins!
Help!
I had a nightmare last night that the prince was assassinated.
It really isn't a good omen.
Don't come near me!
Spare me!
Help!
His Majesty arrives!
Your Majesty!
Chu Bei Jie...
What are you doing?
Your Majesty, I thought that someone was here
to assassinate the prince, so I rushed over.
Is someone here to assassinate the prince or are you?
Your Majesty!
I have been set up.
The sword is in your hand.
Could anyone set you up?
This isn't my sword.
I didn't kill anyone!
Noble Consort's maid said that Her Highness was having difficult labor.
- I came to-- - Ridiculous!
There are numerous imperial physicians in the palace.
How does her labor concern you?
I heard from the maid that it was a mess in Fangqin Hall
and I was asked to manage the situation.
Hence, I hurried over here.
The hall was already in such a state when I arrived.
I'd never assassinate the prince!
Your Majesty!
Your Highness!
Your Majesty!
What happened?
You deliberately framed me.
Your Majesty!
Noble Consort must have set me up for this.
Please investigate it.
Prince of Zhenbei, what are you talking about?
I just had a child.
I'm still very frail.
I can't even walk around yet.
How could I frame you?
Where is that maid you mentioned?
She's not here.
Your Majesty.
I don't know if Prince of Zhenbei is the assassin
or what he is talking about.
I'm just worried that someone is already out
to harm the prince when he's still so young.
Your Majesty must uphold justice for us!
You have no proof. It's nonsense.
- Guards! - Present!
Chu Bei Jie intended to harm the prince.
Tie him up right now and lock him in the imperial dungeon!
Yes!
Your Majesty.
I find this matter highly suspicious.
Prince of Zhenbei doesn't seem to have killed these people.
He isn't one who would harm the imperial heir.
Could it be like he said?
Someone had set him up?
Queen, don't worry.
You just need to manage the harem.
If anyone tries to harm my heir, I will make him come to a bad end.
- Mo Ran. - Bad news, Princess Consort!
We can't stay at Mount East country house any longer.
- How bad is it? - It can't get any worse.
None of the 10 confidants I sent out to investigate the woods returned.
What should we do now?
How many messenger doves do we have?
We have 15 left.
Send them all out.
Send them out all along the corners of the house.
Yes!
Ping Ting!
Ping Ting, what are you doing at the door?
No one is here.
It seems that as long as we're alive, we can never get any peaceful days.
It's all very vexing.
Ping Ting, what are you talking about?
Here, have some tea.
Let me read your pulse.
Let's see how the little baby is doing.
Ping Ting, why is your heart racing?
Princess Consort!
The messenger doves were shot down right after they were released.
All 15 were shot down. Not one survived.
The entire country house is surrounded.
Surrounded...
What does that mean?
What do you mean we're surrounded?
Princess Consort, this is a critical situation.
I'll take my confidants with me to leave with the prince's sword.
The Dragon-Tiger Troop is stationed only 20 miles from here.
Once General Chen Mou sees the sword, he will come to our rescue.
Even if we tried to escape, we would be like those doves.
If the doves couldn't escape, how can we?
If you barge right out, you're just seeking your own doom.
If we don't leave
are we to wait for death here in the country house?
Mo Ran, even if you can make your way out what about the country house?
Just the elderly women and children are left here.
Our enemies came prepared and in huge numbers.
Once they make their way in, we will be defenseless.
We can't fend them off.
If you leave with the guards, we'll only be in more danger.
Princess Consort is right.
I've been reckless.
None of us are to leave the house.
We can only stay here until His Highness returns.
Mo Ran, you're familiar with the layout of the five element formation.
Station three men each at the four mystical doors of
"Growth," "Rest," "Conceal," and "Scene."
Then at the mystical doors of "Fear" and "Death"
place two archers each.
If they don't have a general who knows the eight-trigram tactics
we should be able to gain some time.
I also need a map of the terrain in this area
reports that were sent in previously
the number of guards we could assign every day
along with a report on their level in combat and their expertise
as well as information on water and food resources.
Daily account of the civilians' hunting and firewood gathering habits.
We can only make use of the advantage of our terrain
to wear the enemies out.
Then we'll act accordingly.
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