Young Sherlock
♫ 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. ♫
Timing and Subtitles by The Chivalrous Team @ Viki
Young Sherlock
Episode 25
But I heard your father exposed him.
If Zhang Tianshi is so cunning, how did your father find out the truth?
Zhang Tianshi is simply a scammer from the pugilist world.
His magic tricks
can be found in any acting troupe.
How can he deceive my Haoxuan?
Haoxuan was the master of the acting troupe.
These tricks were too simple.
So he exposed Zhang Tianshi in his presence.
Maybe that's why
he was killed.
Now you should know why I don't want to talk about him.
Yes.
Hey! Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!
What is the Tong family doing here?
What impudence! Why are you blocking us?
Let us inside!
Let's go outside and take a look.
Okay.
Our two families have been influential for generations.
Since Miss Shi Yan was met with misfortune, our family has come to visit.
What? You're not going to hurry inside and announce that we're here?
Are you here to cause trouble? How can you come here?
Who do you think you are to talk to my dad in such a way?
The Tong family is here because we respect the Shi family. Don't reject this favor from us.
- What did you say? Say that one more time! - Do you not understand human speech?
- You! - Stop!
- Elder.- Elder.
Elder Madam, I have brought my whole family here to pay homage to Miss Shi Yan.
Let them inside.
Yes.
Okay, hurry inside.
Even the watchdogs here have learned to bite people.
What did you say? You!
Watchdogs.
What are you looking at? Get over there!
Uncle, you all have come too.
Mengyao, you're all here.
Let's go.
Brother Shi, I am sorry for your loss.
Mid of July, light up flint.
Yuanfang.
Sell melons.
The melons are bitter. Sell tofu.
The tofu rots. Scramble eggs.
Egg, egg cracking.
Inside a brother sitting.
Brother comes out to greet the ghost.
Inside a grandma sitting.
Kids, can you sing for me the nursery rhyme that you were just singing again?
No.
Let's go.
Elder.
I taught them that nursery rhyme.
It's a very old nursery rhyme.
In the past, it was only sung on Ghost Day.
Later, even less people know about it.
Elder, can you sing it for us again?
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 light the lanterns.
She falls into the river and can't return.
Master Shi, where is Madam Shi? Why isn't she here?
How could she come here?
If it weren't for our many years as husband and wife,
I would have kicked her out of the house.
I've been so unlucky my whole life.
It's a family mishap.
Then where is Madam Shi?
Ever since we came back from Xuan Nü's Hall,
she locked herself in her room.
She won't see anyone.
She hasn't come out since.
Then may we go see her?
Go ahead, Young Sir Di.
Madam. Madam.
Young Sir Di and Young Sir Wang would like to see you.
Madam!
This...
Get out of the way.
Madam!
Wanqing.
Cuiying! Cuiying!
- Cuiying! - Cuiying!
Cuiying!
- What a sin!- Heavens!
Why would you do this to the Shi family?
- What's going on? - Madam Shi is dead.
What?
Nothing from the scene of the crime was changed?
No. We came to see Madam Shi, but she didn't answer after we knocked on her door for a while.
We forcibly pushed open the door to come in.
We didn't think it would be like this when we came in.
Do we know the cause of death?
It's poison.
From initial speculation, she died two hours ago.
Two hours ago?
Two hours ago? Wasn't that before we spoke with Shi Yan's spirit?
Could she have committed suicide?
Magistrate Tu, how can you be sure?
Look, there is a broken cup on the floor.
Madam Shi must have taken the poison while sitting in bed.
And then the poison started working.
She dropped the cup and broke it.
And then she fell on the floor.
Cuiying! Cuiying!
Why are you so foolish?
Cuiying! Cuiying!
It's because you wanted to divorce her!
That's why she committed suicide.
A wife of one day is gratitude of 100 days.
We're already at such an age.
To be able to be with each other until death is a great fortune.
How can I—
Cuiying! Cuiying!
It's my fault!
No, Madam Shi didn't commit suicide.
Someone intentionally broke the cup.
How do you know?
If it's as you say and Madam Shi drank poison while sitting in bed,
The cup should've been dropped near her feet, not over there.
But that might not be the case.
What if she drank the poison, then broke the cup,
and then sat on the bed to wait for the poison to kick in?
I've also considered that situation.
If she broke the cup first,
then shards of the broken cup wouldn't be on her clothes.
Who was it? Who killed her?
Who was it?
Magistrate Tu, the murderer could be among us.
No one can leave here tonight.
Listen to my orders: guard the front and back yards.
Without my order, no one can leave here
until we catch the murderer!
Yes.
Dragon-Slaying Hall
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.
The woman comes out to call back the spirits.
She's hung on the tree and can't return.
This song is very interesting.
My lord, I've already done what you asked.
Very good. How many people are there now?
In this area, most people are my disciples.
Very good.
My lord, when will we start?
I've already prepared everything.
It is not time yet.
It is not time yet?
Something has come up.
My lord, I don't think that's necessary now. Right now, I—
I know that you've earned a lot of money from incenses, and you don't need this,
but I always reward when necessary.
Things need more time.
Take it.
I understand. Please don't worry, my lord.
I will be ready at any time.
This waiting has taken many years.
My lord.
What is it?
I learned that a murder case happened
- in the town Di Renjie is in.- Oh?
I've already sent people to investigate this situation.
In a few days' time, we will gain more information about it.
Watch them closely for me.
Yes.
Shi Manor
Master Shi, you must be tired.
You should go in and rest.
No.
I want to be with them.
Okay.
But the dead can't come back to life.
Please restrain your grief.
Shenji, you should go inside and rest.
Tonight, I need to guard the Shi manor.
Yes.
Wanqing, be careful.
You too.
I'll leave this to you. I'll go outside and take a look.
Okay.
Mengxi, you can't fall asleep?
So many things happened recently. Everything feels like a mess inside.
Don't think too much about it.
Everything will pass.
Besides, I'm awaiting your wedding.
Wedding?
It is getting colder with every rainfall in the autumn.
Madam Wang, it's so late. Where are you going?
I'm going to the restroom.
Okay.
Hand!
Be careful!
Where are you going? Shenji is missing.
Don't worry about that for now. Something is happening upstairs!
Di Renjie, come upstairs and then talk.
Okay.
- Footprints. - There's blood.
Mengyao. Mengyao.
- Mengyao, wake up. - I'm sleeping. Stop being so noisy.
Mengxi is dead. Wake up.
Mengyao, don't be scared.
Don't be scared. Don't be scared. It's okay.
Don't be scared. It's okay.
It's okay. It's okay.
Your Excellency, look.
Close the main doors.
Until the criminal is caught, no one can leave.
No one can leave the Shi Manor. Hurry and go!
Yes.
Mengyao.
Magistrate Tu, this... was likely done by Shenji.
Sh-Shenji?
Just now, I saw her sneak out of her room.
I followed her until she got to the main door.
And then she attacked me and left.
Impossible.
Shenji has no reason to kill Tong Mengxi.
She has nothing against her.
Then why did she sneak out in the middle of the night?
And how do you explain her knocking me out?
Wanqing, those are all guesses.
You can't just look on the surface.
Your Excellency! Your Excellency!
Let me go! Let me go!
Your Excellency, she tried to sneak out, and we caught her.
- Bring her here.- Yes, sir!
Let me go!
How dare you!
You secretively snuck out in the middle of the night.
You must be hiding something.
Say it!
Did you kill this person?
Who? Who died?
You're pretending to be confused?
In this manor, everyone was in their own room.
You're the only one who tried to sneak out.
If you didn't kill her, then who did?
Your Excellency, it really wasn't me. I didn't kill her!
Murderer! I'll kill you for my cousin!
Mengyao! Calm down!
How can I calm down? She killed my cousin!
- You killed my cousin because you were jealous that she was prettier than you! Isn't that right? - Mengyao!
Why would I kill her? I have nothing against her!
Besides, why would I kill someone?
Until we fully investigate this, don't jump to conclusions.
Then may I ask why you snuck out at night?
Also, you knocked me out. How will you explain this?
Say it! Say it!
You can't say why, can you? You killed her! I'm going to kill you!
- Mengyao! - Let go of me!
- Calm down! - Let go!
Then may I ask where you were when the crime was being committed?
You all have no proof.
What gives you the right to frame a good person?
Frame a good person?
You and Xuan Nü use witchcraft to cheat people out of their money. Are you considered good people?
In any case, I didn't kill anyone!
Alright! Alright! Alright!
Stop fighting.
You are interfering with my judgment.
Fine. Until the culprit is caught,
let's take Shenji with us for now.
- Let's go. - Your Excellency! I'm being framed!
Your Excellency! I didn't kill anyone! Your Excellency!
- I didn't kill anyone! Your Excellency! - Mengyao.
Don't be scared. It's okay.
What have you discovered?
Something's not right.
Not right? What's not right?
The candle isn't right.
Candle?
Madam Wang, do you remember the shadow of the chopping just now from downstairs?
Yes, I remember.
Although it was far away, I saw the shadow holding a dagger.
And then?
And then... and then...
and then the hand moved a bit and the candlelight went out.
That's not right.
So you mean that, given the candle's current position,
it wouldn't show the shadow of the hand movement?
According to how big the shadow was just now,
how bright it was, and the angle,
the candle should have been here.
Flint...
Come here and look.
Look at what this is.
Mengyao.
Is this your cousin's?
My cousin never played with this kind of thing.
I think somebody mentioned it recently.
Do you still remember?
What happened to Mengxi? What happened to my Mengxi?
- Father! - Master!
- Quickly! Quickly! - Father, sit.
What bastard killed my Mengxi?
What—
Shi Taiji, did you kill my daughter?
Stop with your venomous slander! Why would I kill your daughter?
After your daughter died, you suspected that my family did it.
To avenge yourself, you killed my daughter!
You! You old bastard!
You bastard!
- Master. - Nonsense.
Master.
I'm not stupid. If I really wanted revenge, I wouldn't do it now.
That's like digging my own grave.
That's not necessarily true.
Right now the Shi family is desperate.
You can do anything.
Speaking of those who are desperate, you're more suspicious than I am!
Hey! Why are you dragging me into this?
What does this have to do with me?
You and your two sons never liked Mengxi.
Everyone in town knows that!
Now that Yan'er is gone,
Li Runnan will definitely marry Mengxi.
You're afraid that it would adversely affect your inheritance!
- So you— - Bullshit!
I'm telling you, I get nothing out of killing her!
What good does it do me?
Just because you didn't kill her yourself doesn't mean you didn't order someone else to!
I knew that since Shi Yan died,
you'd definitely suspect us.
We specially attended this memorial service
because we were afraid you'd wrongly push crimes onto us.
Today, our whole family is here.
Young Sir Wang was keeping watch over us the whole time.
He can be the witness. Right?
Yes, they didn't go anywhere.
Don't blindly say things that you don't know.
I'm telling you, I never took this Mengxi as a threat.
Besides, she wouldn't get any part of the inheritance anyway!
Enough. Shut up! Do you think it's not chaotic enough?
No, Master, I—
Scram! Scram!
Fine, I'll scram!
- Mother! - Mother!
Mengxi.
Madam Tong, please hold on.
What do you want?
I said I'm not the murderer! Are you done?
Don't misunderstand. I just wanted to know what you meant by what you just said.
- What did I say? - The part about how Mengxi wouldn't get any part of the inheritance anyway.
You want to know?
Fine. Think about it.
Tong Anbo is so rich and influential.
It's not hard for him to find a suitable son-in-law.
Why would he let her daughter marry the poor Li Runnan?
Could the Li family have done something for the Tong family to gain favor?
That's not it.
Everybody knows the hidden story behind this, but nobody ever says anything.
- What do you mean? - Because Tong—
Because Tong Mengxi isn't Master and his first wife's biological daughter.
Tong Mengxi is actually Master and his first wife's sister's child.
His first wife never would have thought that her own sister seduced her husband.
Come here and look. This will be your new home.
Live here from now on.
I'll go help you move things.
- Move things inside! - Yes.
Everyone loves you.
So annoying.
We're done for.
- Dear, I— - Get out!
Sister, I'm begging you!
Master didn't want the family scandal getting out there,
so he had his first wife, under the guise of being pregnant, go back home with her sister.
When the child was born, his first wife took her away.
She told others that it was her own daughter.
Her sister never came back to Shengze.
Rumor has it that she died from having a difficult labor.
- Now do you understand? - Yes.
- Can I leave now? - Yes. Thank you.
This means...
Madam Wang.
Young Sir Di.
Madam Wang, did you hear everything Madam Tong said just now?
Do you know what she means?
Me?
You'll have to ask her about that.
How can I talk about their family matters?
Did you know that Mengxi wasn't his first wife's biological daughter?
I did know. Everyone in town knows.
Then... what about your son?
He also knows.
But this isn't the reason why he didn't want to marry Mengxi.
I think he doesn't like Mengxi.
So I've always been thinking about whether I should have them married.
Is that so?
Sorry for bothering you.
Uncle Tong, what I want to ask is...
Mengxi isn't your first wife's daughter, right?
Yes.
So this is why
you insisted on marrying Mengxi to Li Runnan?
That's what others think.
But actually...
Mengxi isn't my biological daughter either.
What?
She is my wife's sister's and Zhang Tianshi's child.
She is Zhang Tianshi's illegitimate child! My life...
So Mengxi and Shi Yan are both Zhang Tianshi's illegitimate children.
How-how is that possible?
Young Sir Di, when Zhang Tianshi came to Tong Manor to practice alchemy,
it was at the same time as when my younger sister came to visit.
She was young back then and hadn't been around many men.
She saw how handsome Zhang Tianshi was
She couldn't resist his seduction,
so she got together with him.
But I heard that she was sent home and died from a difficult labor at home.
That's just a story to deceive the public.
The family was embarrassed that she committed adultery,
so they married her off to a faraway place.
So the townspeople are all mistaken.
Even Mengxi didn't know her own identity.
Young Sir Di, even though Mengxi isn't my biological daughter,
but I've always treated her as my own.
That child was very understanding.
That child was so considerate. How could—
Uncle Tong, don't be upset.
Mengxi wouldn't want to see you like this.
I am sorry for your loss.
Young Sir Di.
Young Sir Di, you all and Mengxi are good friends.
You must think of a way to find the murderer
and avenge Mengxi.
Such a good child can't die in vain.
I'm begging you!
Uncle Tong, don't.
I promise you that I'll definitely find the murderer. I promise.
Don't be upset. Sit down. Rest.
Zhang Tianshi.
Then Mengxi isn't Uncle Tong's biological daughter.
This also eliminates the Shi family as a suspect.
This also explains that Shenji did all of this.
The only thing I can't understand
is why Shenji killed Mengxi.
That's also what I can't understand.
This case isn't that simple. It's not like what we thought.
Right now, all the clues point to 20 years ago.
Seems like we need to figure out what happened 20 years ago to crack this case.
Also, I found that those bloody footprints are fake.
How could those footprints be fake?
I didn't say that the footprints are fake. Those footprints
only exist to cover up the truth.
If the murderer left these footprints after committing murder,
the footprints just stop here.
Also, look. There are no footprints on the window lattice.
This window lattice is more than half the height of an ordinary person.
People cannot step across it without stepping on something first.
That means the murderer didn't leave from here.
Then where did the murderer leave from?
There's no other place to escape from here.
That means the murderer didn't leave. The murderer is still among us.
That also means that these footprints have nothing to do with how the murderer escaped.
The murderer intentionally left them there to lead us to the scene of the crime.
You mean the murderer intentionally let us know that they killed someone?
I think the silhouette on the window, the bloody footprints,
and Tong Mengxi's flint were all left behind by the culprit.
It's to lead us to follow the clues that he personally created.
And, that flint also appeared in Granny's rhyme.
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 light the lanterns
She falls into the river and can't return.
Why is that nursery rhyme so scary?
I'm too scared to even sleep by myself at night.
That's not right. There's something wrong with that nursery rhyme.
Magistrate Tu, what is it?
In your nursery rhyme, is there a grandma that burns incense and a woman.
Grandma comes out to burn incense.
Inside a woman sitting.
Woman comes out to light the lanterns.
She falls into the river and can't return?
Isn't this identical to the midwife and Shi Yan's deaths?
Oh my God, that's too scary.
How can it be the same?
Elder, is there more?
Yes. Mid of July, light up flint.
- Light up flint...- The flint sparks. Sell melons.
The melons are bitter. Sell tofu.
The tofu rots. Scramble eggs.
Egg, egg cracking.
Inside a brother sitting.
Brother comes out to greet the ghost.
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.
Woman comes out to visit.
She loses her brain and can't come back.
Is it talking about my cousin?
This... this isn't a nursery rhyme.
This is a ghost tale! A murder tale!
Could it just be a coincidence?
It's not just a coincidence. Several people died that way.
Is there more?
No.
Oh wait, there is more.
I can't remember though.
It's a nursery rhyme for a very long time ago.
It's been many years.
Grandma, when I was here when I was young,
I've never heard about this nursery rhyme.
This nursery rhyme is too bloody for young children.
People say that if this rhyme is sung, something bad would happen,
so very few people sang it to pass it on.
Timing and Subtitles by The Chivalrous Team @ Viki notice.
♫ 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 to walk to the ends of the world with you. ♫
Timing and Subtitles by The Chivalrous Team @ Viki
I can get in touch with Tong Mengxi's spirit.
I can also help you predict the future.
All the murder cases have something to do with this nursery rhyme.
If my guess is correct, twenty years ago,
you are the Miaozi who burned herself in the ghost temple 20 years ago.
Then there's only one answer. You are the murderer.
Help! Help!