Young Sherlock
Timing and Subtitles by The Chivalrous Team @ Viki
♫ Let love subtly weave our separations and reunions ♫
♫ I do not regret how persistent I was in staying by your side ♫
♫ Everyone hopes for a time ♫
♫ When they can love someone without thinking about moral sense ♫
♫Hear the wind howl, the lilting sound of the flute as you are lost in your thoughts ♫
♫ He who holds the sword dances lightly in the wind on the journey home ♫
♫ The song has spread ten thousand miles. Where are you now? ♫
♫ Can you hear it clearly? ♫
♫ I am here, waiting for you. ♫
Young Sherlock
Episode 26
Mid of July, the ghost door opens.
The ghost door opens, out comes a ghost.
The ghost suffers and sells tofu.
The tofu rots, so he scrambles eggs.
Egg, egg cracking.
Inside a brother sitting.
Brother comes out to sweep the tomb.
Inside a grandma sitting.
Grandma comes out to burn incense.
Inside a woman sitting.
Woman comes out to visit.
She loses her brain and can't come back.
I've discovered that all the murder cases are related to this nursery rhyme.
Please.
- Help! Help! - Don't come over!
- Your Highness Xuan Nü, you must not! You must not! - If you keep coming closer, I'll kill him!
Don't come over here! You must not come over here!
Your Highness Xuan Nü, let's talk things out.
Talk it out? Will you believe me?
Tell them to release Shenji! I can prove that Shenji didn't kill anyone!
How can you prove that she didn't kill anyone?
I am the proof!
- Don't come over! - Don't! Don't!
Okay, we have a witness. What about physical evidence?
I can get in touch with Tong Mengxi's spirit.
I'll have her tell you who the real murderer is!
I think you can just give up on your deception techniques.
Will you agree to it or not? If not, then I'll kill him!
Agree to it! Agree to it! Your Excellency, as long as it will save my life, just agree to anything!
Fine. I'll agree to it.
He agreed to it. Let me go.
Hurry and let me go.
- Lock this woman up! - Hold on.
Solving the case is more important. Didn't she say that she can speak to spirits?
Then, let her speak with the spirits.
We'll talk about everything else later.
Pst, hurry up.
Your Highness Xuan Nü, is this how you speak to spirits?
You only used a few thin silk strings from the west
that are capable of carrying heavy weights.
Thus, they are invisible to the eye.
Moreover, you use your fingers to raise your holy altar.
What? Natural silk?
So that means Xuan Nü's magic is fake.
Yes, there's no magic.
And ghosts don't exist in this world.
Xuan Nü only used everyone's mischief to create this scene.
I believe that everyone present, with the same tools, can do the same as her.
Xuan Nü is a fraud.
Don't listen to his nonsense!
Speaking to spirits requires a very high-level spell!
Not only can it raise the holy altar,
it can summon ghosts and drive away demons.
It can cure all diseases!
Your Highness Xuan Nü, don't get worked up.
I will expose every part of how you deceive others.
Young man, you must think before you speak.
Don't forget that when you first came to this town, you were possessed by the devil.
I was the one who removed the decaying flesh from your body.
Otherwise you would have gone to see the King of the Underworld long ago!
If you didn't say anything, I would've forgotten.
I want to perform for you, your special act of "removing the decaying flesh."
Young Sir Wang, I have to remind you.
You must not offend Xuan Nü.
There will be retribution.
Thank you for your reminder, Madam Wang. Don't worry.
Magistrate Tu, may I use your subordinates?
- Come in. - Present.
- Take that away. - Yes.
It's fake.
You have nothing to say, right?
But if her magic is fake,
Young Sir Wang, how did she cure your abdominal pain?
This is only her usual tactic.
First, she'll sneakily poison you when you're unaware of it.
Then she'll perform before you.
And in the end, she'll give you the antidote.
After all this, your so-called superpowers are only an act?
He was only cured after taking the antidote?
Yes. Xuan Nü was taking advantage of everyone's dependence on medicine.
She also used the word of mouth of her cured patients
to deceive people of money with her tricks
and control people's thoughts.
That's too much! My wife trusted you so much.
You were using her trust!
How many townspeople have you deceived?
Aren't you ashamed?
Are you able to sleep at night every night?
How dare you trick me and the audience?
Come in. Hurry and arrest this woman.
Wait.
Why?
Magistrate, even if Xuan Nü's magic is fake,
she knew all of our past
and was able to predict what would happen to us in the future.
That can't be fake, right?
That's right! Didn't she use her spells to help you find the old woman's corpse?
Yes, and she was even able to call Miaozi's spirit
and told us that Yan'er was Zhang Tianshi's illegitimate daughter.
That... that's not just coincidence, is it?
Some of what Xuan Nü said was reasonable.
That's right. As long as you believe me,
I can help you overcome disasters.
I can also help you predict the future.
Okay. Then tell me,
what does my father do for a living?
If I am not mistaken, your father is a minister of the court.
He is a colleague of Young Sir Wang's father,
but he is of a lower rank.
Am I right?
You can deduce this from the way Young Sir Wang and I speak and refer to each other.
It's not hard to guess.
I am right.
But you are unwilling to admit to my supernatural powers.
What kind of logic is that?
The question he asked was too simple.
It's not strange at all that you were able to guess it.
Then let me ask you something.
Do you know where Di Renjie's father is right now?
I need to think.
He is in the capital right now.
But he is now imprisoned in the dungeon.
Young Sir Di, you shouldn't stay here.
You should hurry back to the capital to save him!
What a joke! Complete nonsense!
You're really wrong this time.
Di Renjie's father did go to the capital,
but we received a letter a few days ago, saying that after reporting his work,
he has returned safely home.
And the more you said, the worse you made it.
You said that because you just want Di Renjie to hurry and leave so that he won't expose you.
Indeed, my father is home right now.
What do you want to say now?
Then I really don't understand.
She can't guess correctly when it comes to you guys,
but she's quite accurate with us. What's going on here?
This... can it be that sometimes she's accurate and sometimes she isn't?
In any case, she's able to guess half correctly.
She probably knows some magic.
It's not strange at all that Xuan Nü knows your past and what happened 20 years ago.
I... I really don't understand what's going on.
For example, Xuan Nü was a townsperson here 20 years ago.
Then the things she knows wouldn't be strange.
She was a townsperson here 20 years ago?
- Who is she? - I don't know.
Who is it?
Who exactly is she?
If my guess is correct, twenty years ago,
you are the Miaozi who burned herself in the ghost temple 20 years ago.
That's strange.
What did you say? I don't understand.
She... didn't she die?
That's not possible. We all saw it.
She and her child turned to ashes.
That Shenji is your daughter, isn't she?
Impossible! Impossible! That's impossible!
Previously, I sent Er Bao and Magistrate Tu's men to Xuan Nü's hometown to investigate her.
- Come. - Come in.
Please tell everyone what you know. Thank you.
- We found her master. - Master?
Yes. Twenty years ago, Xuan Nü studied spell-casting from a famous sorceress there.
Her master told us the whole process of how she became her student.
- Continue. - Yes.
The sorceress said that not far from Shengze,
she met the starving and cold Xuan Nü, along with a child.
Xuan Nü described her miserable backstory, and asked the sorceress to take her in as a student.
Out of compassion, the sorceress took her in.
And then? And then?
Then, the sorceress renamed her Xuan Nü,
and taught her ways to trick people,
until a few years ago when Xuan Nü left and went to a few villages.
She used the techniques that the sorceress taught her to deceive the people,
but the sorceress doesn't know where she is now, and has not seen her since.
You mean that the sorceress
was really referring to the past...
Definitely, because the sorceress said that she once told her that her old name is Miaozi.
That's right. I am Miaozi from back then.
Yes. She really is Miaozi. She is Miaozi.
Miao-Miaozi, it really is you.
How? Did you come back from the dead?
I never died.
That year, I was unable to handle the humiliation, and wanted to die.
At the time, I already lit the fire,
but to my surprise, the child in my arms started to cry.
I suddenly changed my mind and gave up on the idea of suicide.
But the whole temple was burned. You couldn't have escaped.
Yes. It's impossible. Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
There's a secret passage in that temple.
I thought, since I couldn't stay in Shengze any longer,
I planned the whole scene to appear as if my child and I burned ourselves to death.
And then I escaped through that secret passage.
Secret passage? What secret passage?
I found out about that secret passage when I was with Zhang Tianshi.
Miaozi, come here.
At the time, he had already repented. He could no longer stand the days of deception.
Look. This is all the money I earned these years from deceiving people.
So he planned to live a normal life with me.
He hid nothing from me.
He told me all his deception methods.
He used a switch in the tunnel to release a fragrance
to make the women unconscious. Then, he would take advantage of their bodies.
You weren't afraid that people would recognize you?
You all must have thought that Miaozi was dead.
How could people recognize someone who has disappeared from their memories?
You know what happened to Zhang Tianshi.
You weren't afraid of facing the same fate after being exposed?
I knew the lie would be exposed one day,
so I didn't plan to stay long.
I planned to leave after finding the money that Zhang Tianshi conned back then.
But I didn't find it, and I couldn't accept that.
I thought I'd just leave after I conned enough money.
But I didn't expect to have such bad luck and run into you guys.
Then why did you come back this time?
Is it to kill all of us?
I do hate you. I hate you for not giving me a way out.
But I never though to kill anyone.
Forget it. I don't believe a single word you say now.
You don't know magic. How did you know where the grandmother's corpse was?
There's only one answer.
You killed her, didn't you?
I didn't know the grandmother was already dead.
I only knew because they asked me about it.
But you might just be pretending that you didn't know.
That's right.
Do you remember how I answered you back then?
I remember.
Of course. What is it that you want to know?
We want to know where the old lady is.
Why are you looking for her?
We saw a letter asking to meet her at the ghost temple.
Ghost temple?
Can't you talk to spirits? Use a spell and tell us the answer.
Not today. Today is not suitable for summoning spirits.
Come again tomorrow.
Then, will you definitely know tomorrow?
Yes, I'll definitely tell you tomorrow.
Yes, you did say that that day.
But that doesn't prove that you didn't kill anyone.
You asked me if she died in the ghost temple,
so I thought about that secret passage.
So you bought some time to go take a look at the secret passage?
Yes. I thought that since it was such a small room, someone couldn't just disappear
unless the murderer also discovered the secret passage and hid the body there.
How could there be such coincidences?
Thus, I was afraid to say too much.
That's why I lied, saying I would summon the spirit on the following day.
I was afraid that others would find the secret passage,
so I moved the old woman's corpse under the altar.
The second day, I pretended to summon her spirit,
as if I received the heaven's will and could feel the deceased's spirit,
and told you where the body was.
I am under the foot of it.
You moved the corpse because you didn't want others to find the secret passage.
Then why did you hide the body in the ghost temple?
I wanted to hide the corpse elsewhere, but it was almost morning,
so I could only take the risk of hiding it under the altar.
Then you didn't kill the old lady.
Then how do you explain Shi Yan's death?
Shi Yan's death has nothing to do with me at all!
Wanqing, you examined Shi Yan's corpse.
You tell everyone.
When Magistrate Tu asked me how Shi Yan died,
after examining the corpse, I found that
besides missing her arm, she had no other injuries.
From what I see, she drowned to death.
There were no signs of water having accumulated in her abdomen.
There's no dirt in her hands and no seaweed or anything in her mouth.
There's no blood congestion in her ears.
So according to what I just said, it's not possible that she drowned to death.
Shi Yan was killed first, and then the murderer dumped her corpse into the river.
So Shi Yan didn't die from drowning or excessive bleeding.
And there were no obvious wounds on her body.
It didn't seem like she was poisoned.
On the surface, it seems no different from a natural death.
Unless...
Unless she died of the poisonous gas in the temple.
We found a letter on her.
That letter was soaked, so we can't read it anymore.
But some words can still be faintly made out.
It said: "Twenty years ago, died."
The murderer must have used that letter to get Shi Yan to meet at some place
and then killed her.
After Madam Shi read it, she said "Miaozi."
Twenty years ago... [Miaozi]
Miaozi? Miaozi came to find me.
And then she fainted.
Yes, and then later you called spirits
and said Shi Yan was Zhang Tianshi's illegitimate daughter.
So that day, you must have been the one to write the letter that got Shi Yan to go to the ghost temple.
You wanted to tell her about her biological father, right?
So after Shi Yan got to the ghost temple,
you used a fragrance to poison her to death.
You carefully planned all this, didn't you?
From what you said, it really does seem as if I killed her.
But I really didn't kill anyone.
If you didn't kill her, then why did Shenji show up at the ghost temple?
Shenji was helping you guard the surroundings, right?
I didn't kill anyone! What's there to guard?
Or the murderer wasn't Shenji.
And you are an accomplice to murder.
No, she is even less likely to be the murderer!
Then, last night, I saw Shenji secretly leave her room.
I followed her to the door, but she found me.
After knocking me out, she snuck out. How do you explain that?
Because Shenji is the one most likely to have murdered Mengxi.
After she broke free from you, she went back and killed Mengxi.
No, Shenji wouldn't kill anyone.
I can prove that she didn't murder anyone!
What proof do you have?
You have to have a motive to murder! She has no motive!
You don't get the final say on if she was the murderer.
If you aren't the culprit, then she is.
- Come in. - Here.
- Lock Xuan Nü up. - Yes.
- We didn't kill anyone! Your Excellency, we're innocent! - Let's go.
- We didn't kill anyone! - Let's go.
You have to believe me! I didn't kill anyone!
We didn't kill anyone, Your Excellency!
We're innocent! We didn't kill anyone!
Let go of me! We didn't kill anyone!
Meiniang, is something on your mind?
I was just thinking, I am so lucky
to receive such favor from Your Majesty.
And all I can do for you
is to not distract you on my account.
Since I have come to the Inner Palace, criticisms appeared, one after the other.
On my account, it seems as if you let a lot of people down.
I'm afraid that I'll become a burden and nuisance to you.
Meiniang, how could you become a burden and nuisance to me?
Do you know how much I used to hate the palace
and how much I love it here now that I have you?
I don't like going anywhere. I just like staying in the palace.
Because the person I care about is here,
and because of this, I don't care about others.
What have I done to deserve Your Majesty's love?
I really can't return the favor.
I don't need you to give me anything in return.
I just want to stay here with you, quietly.
I don't care about anything else.
Oh yeah, I heard that Minister Zhangsun got sick recently.
I don't know if it's real or fake.
Regardless of whether it's real or fake, he and Your Majesty are on the same boat.
Neither of you need to hurt the other.
Moreover, Minister Zhangsun was entrusted to be your guardian. He is Your Majesty's biological uncle.
No matter for what reason, Your Majesty should go visit him.
My Meiniang is so open-minded.
Do you know how much Minister Zhangsun opposed your coming to the Inner Palace?
But now, you are being so tolerant. This is very rare.
Okay, I will visit him personally with the imperial physician another day.
How dare you, criminals?
Confess all your crimes. Do not lie.
I don't know what crime I've committed.
You dare to quibble?
Let me ask you, did you kill Tong Mengxi?
- No. - No?
You snuck out of your room in the middle of the night
and knocked out Li Wanqing, who was keeping watch over you.
Then, you turned around and killed the victim. Correct?
No.
Your Excellency, even if you ask a thousand times or ten thousand times,
if I didn't kill her, then I didn't kill her.
Fine. You are quite stubborn.
Later, I will show you if your stubborn mouth can outlast my whipping board!
Xuan Nü, did you order her to murder Tong Mengxi?
How is that possible? How could I possibly have my own daughter commit murder?
It's possible that you had your daughter kill the children of your rivals in love.
Yes, you had to kill Mengxi
because she is the daughter of the man you love and someone else.
So that's why you did that, right?
Correct. A woman's jealousy is the ultimate culprit of murder.
But I didn't even know that Tong Mengxi was Zhang Tianshi's child.
You even knew that Shi Yan was Zhang Tianshi's biological child.
How could you not know that Mengxi was also his?
Who would believe that?
Madam Shi was my mistress.
I knew that Shi Yan was an illegitimate child.
That's natural.
But I didn't even know that Tong Mengxi was also Zhang Tianshi's child!
No one would believe you!
Master, she and Zhang Tianshi both used deception to earn money!
And they really hate our town!
Miaozi, you can't blame us. All the evidence points to you.
You have to give us an explanation.
Forget it. I've been deceiving you all for so long,
you won't believe me.
Seems like...
only by dying
can I prove that we are innocent.
Who are you trying to scare?
- Mother! Mother! - This...
Mother!
- This... this... - Mother!
How is she?
She had a poisonous pill in her body. She bit it open herself.
Wanqing, hurry and save her. There are a lot of doubtful points that aren't clear yet.
Mother. Mother.
Mother! Mother!
Mother, why are you so stupid?
We clearly didn't kill anyone.
We're innocent! Why did you commit suicide?
Mother!
Alright. She clearly died to atone for her crimes.
You can stop pretending now.
Yes, all the evidence points to you guys.
Even now, what do you have to say?
Why?
Why did this happen?
Who is trying to set up my mother and me? Who?
Miss Shenji, right now, you have to tell us
where you were and who you were with when Shi Yan and Tong Mengxi died.
Only then can you prove your innocence.
Say something!
If you don't say anything, then that means you killed them.
That's right.
Fine. If you want to continue like this and hide the truth,
we will judge your crime like this!
- Announce the news! - Okay.
Wait.
I... killed them.
So? Master, so what now?
Say so earlier! You were dragging out the time so much.
You even caused your mother to die. What's the point?
You really killed them?
Why did you have to kill Yan'er?
What did you have against Mengxi?
Why did you commit such a crime?
In order to take revenge for your mother, you killed all the children of the women who had a relationship with your father?
You are so heartless. I need to take revenge for my cousin!
- Mengyao! - Enough!
Stop forcing Qiu Yan!
Brother Runnan!
Qiu Yan? Who's Qiu Yan?
She's not Shenji.
Her name is Qiu Yan.
Runnan, what nonsense are you saying? Shut up.
Mother, now that things have gotten to this point, there's nothing I should hide from you.
I want to tell you that I've been with Qiu Yan the past two days.
I can prove that she's no the murderer.
- She absolutely wouldn't do that kind of thing! - Shut up!
Because we've been meeting together secretly.
I really like her.
You bastard! Yan'er just died,
and you're already secretly meeting with this woman?
- Silence! - Runnan, tell me clearly. What's going on?
Mother, I am unfilial. I was wrong. I shouldn't have hidden it from you.
But Qiu Yan and I are truly in love. She is a nice woman.
Because of her mother, she had no choice but to do this.
Mother, I'm begging you to forgive us.
I'm begging you... I'm begging you...
to please stop talking.
You've already pushed my mother to her death. Please don't push us.
Since you two are truly in love, why didn't you tell the Tong and Shi families?
These two women died uneasily because they were fighting over you.
I didn't know things would become like this.
I didn't know the two women would die so young.
If I had known, I would've made it clear to them.
But...
It's not that they weren't good enough.
It's that I don't have that fortune.
I really love Qiu Yan. I can do anything for her.
I wanted to wait until after Qiu Yan broke away from her identity as Shenji and her mother's control
before I told the truth, but...
It's too late.
Brother Runnan, these two girls are both beautiful,
both are noble, and both were crazy for you.
And Shenji... did Xuan Nü bewitch you?
I'll say it one more time! She's not Shenji!
She's just a normal woman.
Two years ago, on my way to the test in the capital...
I saw a mother and a daughter, them.
- At the time, Shenji was very fragile. - Save us!
She was wearing coarse clothing, and was very weak.
Help!
Let go of me!
Miss, hurry and get up.
Sir, let him go.
Don't chase after him. I'm afraid he'll get help.
Miss, are you okay?
Thank you for saving me.
Otherwise I don't know what would have happened to us.
Very few people take this path. You should have taken the main road.
Moreover, Shengze Town is not far from here.
You can go rest there.
You're from the town Shengze?
Yes. Ma'am, you have relatives in that town, right?
No, we're just passing by.
Qiu Yan, thank this man. We have to be on our way.
Thank you, sir.
No need for the formalities, miss.
Miss, your name is Qiu Yan?
- I— - Qiu Yan, we have to be on our way.
Sir, are you an educated man?
You can consider me a scrubby scholar.
Are you going into the capital for a test?
- Ma'am, how did you know? - I just read your future.
You will surely do well.
Sir, hope to see you again.
Hope to see you again.
Hope to see you again...
So you knew them two years ago?
And you knew they weren't Xuan Nü and Shenji.
You just didn't expose them.
Yes. After I returned from the capital,
I heard that two magical women came to town.
Everyone believed everything they said.
When I visited the temple for a look,
it turned out that Her Highness Xuan Nü and Shenji
were the mother and daughter that I rescued.
I never expected that such a weak and timid girl
could be so deceptive.
It really is you.
S-Sir. Sir.
Are these the props that you use to deceive the people?
W-We haven't.
If I had known you were these kind of people, I definitely—
If you had known, you wouldn't have saved me, right?
I know you look down on me.
Actually, I look down on myself too.
That's not what I meant. What I wanted to say was—
My mother is a fortuneteller.
She occasionally uses harmless spells to earn some money.
You can say that my mother is deceiving the people, but we will never harm people.
Since we came to this town, we haven't hurt anyone.
Sir, you saved us. I am grateful.
I hope that you will continue to be kind and not expose us to others.
If the two of us are chased out of town,
I really don't know where we can go.
Why are you wandering? Where is your father and family?
I have no father or brothers.
I am an illegitimate daughter.
My father abandoned my mother and me.
We have to rely on each other for survival.
What kind of father
could be so heartless and abandon you two?
I've never met my father. I've only heard my mother say that
if she ever sees that Zhang guy, she'll kill him.
My mother hates him to the core.
Your father's last name is Zhang?
I heard my mom say that he is a liar.
Others call him Zhang Tianshi.
Zhang Tianshi?
And then I found out that
the two of them are like me and suffered because of Zhang Tianshi.
We had the same experience.
We secretly met with each other and came to appreciate each other.
Shenji has always wanted to break away from her identity.
But with pressure from her mother, she had no choice.
From then on, no one ever knew her real name.
That Zhang Tianshi has done so many bad things!
If I catch him, I'm going to kill him!
I did not say a single lie! I can promise with my life!
Li Runnan! Li Runnan!
Did you think you can trick us with your eloquently?
You are letting your emotions blind you!
Mother, everything that I said was the truth.
I am not blinded by emotions!
Okay, fine.
You... You think you're grown up now, huh?
You won't even listen to your mother?
You bastard! I don't have a son like you!
♫ I will accompany you as you grow old ♫
♫ but who knows what's on my mind? ♫
♫ Even the sky clears as my questions are answered ♫
♫ Only fools will have such worries ♫
♫ It is hard to control the timing of fate ♫
♫ I sincerely believe that ♫
♫ no one wants to see a pair of swallows fly separate paths ♫
♫ Moral sense can be cut away with one slice of the sword ♫
♫ The Heavens are too high for us to reach ♫
♫ and no amount of guessing will help. ♫
♫ The pugilist world is too dangerous♫
♫ Once you enter, you cannot leave ♫
♫ Entangled fates cannot be revealed nor explained clearly ♫
♫ Why don't you understand my heart? ♫
♫ As a wanderer, I am willing ♫
♫ to walk to the ends of the world with you. ♫
♫ The air is thick with yearning. ♫
♫ Can you tell me how to deal with it? ♫
♫ The human heart is too fickle♫
♫ to leave the secular world forever ♫
♫ Entangled fates cannot be revealed nor explained clearly ♫
♫ Why don't you understand my heart? ♫
♫ As a wanderer, I am willing
♫t o walk to the ends of the world with you. ♫
Timing and Subtitles by The Chivalrous Team @ Viki
The truth that I want to know...
He might be the only one who can solve it.
I need to borrow something from you.
Please tell me what it is, Brother Di.
I want three drops of your blood.
The person who killed your father is someone who knows the entire truth.