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The King's Woman
Episode 21
Tell me. Did Li'er not achieve great merits?
Madame Li indeed achieved great merits for suggesting that Qin withdraw its army from the battle with Chu.
But since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, a royal consort overly interfering with state affairs
will usually lead to disasters to the country and its citizens,
too far is as bad as not enough. Hope Your Majesty can check on those.
Does Grand Queen Dowager remember
that I previously said
that I want a rare and highly skilled woman like Queen Shang to be my queen?
I remember.
Madame Li is both intelligent and skilled in fighting and can look far into the future. Hence,
I want to make her my queen.
What did Your Majesty say?
The matter of choosing the queen is not a small matter. In the present six states, Qi and Chu are the strongest.
If you can make a Chu consort your queen, the relationship between Chu and Qin will become better,
Qin will then have one less problem and you will be able to push for your grand ambition of uniting the world.
It is exactly because Qi anc Chu are still strong. Inside the Qin palace, consorts from all the six states are present.
Regarding on establishing who the queen is, if we will just consider which state she would come from,
it will not be beneficial for my Qin and will just bring about endless troubles.
Why not just a daughter of an ordinary citizen? No more family nor relatives. And there will not be any worries for her family to govern the state.
Your Majesty, I am just from a common citizen status.
I am not beneficial nor harmful to the six states. If you insist on making me your queen, that may not also be beneficial to Qin.
Moreover, if I become the queen, I must manage the royal harem
and do some celebrator and offering ceremonies.
I feel that I really am not able to do such things.
Do not worry.
I already expected that Grand Queen Dowager will be against it.
I actually thought of an idea.
What idea?
To ensure that Madame Li does not lose to the other royal concubines,
in my next expedition, I will bring her with me.
If I win,
no one can stop me from making her my queen.
Your Majesty!
In the battlefield, swords and spears are heartless.
Madame Li is a royal consort. If the news of she accompanying Your Majesty to war goes out,
I am worried that it will destroy the reputation of our Qin.
It is exactly because Madame Li is a royal concubine but she has the skills and courage of a heroine from the jianghu realm.
If this news gets out, everyone will think that all the people of my Qin are trained to fight,
the state is strong and prosperous. Is that not a good thing?
Your Majesty, forgive me for being direct.
There are so many royal concubines. Why must you only take Madame Li?
Ruo'er, if you also want to accompany me,
I will grant you an armor, a war horse, and a sharp sword.
You also can accompany me to war. How about it?
Your Majesty, you really were so impressive earlier.
You actually dared to talk to Grand Queen Dowager like that earlier? I was already perspiring a lot.
I just felt sorry for my Madame.
- Really? - Yes.
The words of Qing'er today are really pleasant to hear. I must reward you handsomely.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, why must you be this reckless regarding the queen and going into battle?
How am I reckless?
I thought about it long and hard before making those decisions.
I am not interested at all in the queen position. Can you not see that?
This is a status that all royal concubines want. How come you do not want it?
If I make you my queen, Grand Queen Dowager and Madame Chu will not dare cause you trouble.
If I get to be the queen, Tianming will surely get pushed to the heart of the struggle for the crown prince position.
By then, someone will use that reason to harm us two.
A position that is that messed up, I really do not want it.
As for going out to war, you never discussed it with me
and you just directly announced it to Grand Queen Dowager. On what basis must I accompany you to your war expedition?
Wait.
I have a gift to give you.
Come.
This is the gift you want to give me?
What? You do not like it?
This is quite delicious.
Here. Eat some.
Your Majesty indeed did not listen to my words.
I just told Grand Queen Dowager and the others the difference between Yunmeng orange and Huaibei orange earlier
and you are giving me such a gift?
You did not even discuss with me the matters regarding the queen position and the war expedition.
Are you deliberately trying to cause a fight?
Since wife does not want it, then let us just discard them.
Your Majesty, that is not what I mean.
This...you surely will like.
What is that?
The dagger of grandfather.
This belongs to you to begin with.
Now, it is returned to its owner. You can carry this from now on to defend yourself.
Is Your Majesty returning this dagger to me because you already fully trust me?
Of course.
What? You do not want it. If you do not want it, I will just take it back.
I want it. This is mine.
Then...with this dagger...
can wife go out to war with me now?
Your Majesty, just let me think about it first.
Still thinking? Then return me the dagger.
Your Majesty! As the king of a state, how can you just take back your words?
I do not care. This is Qin. I have the final say here.
Hurry, accompany me to war.
Domineering.
If you do not want to join the war expedition, just bear me children then.
I do not want to. Let go.
Hurry and let go.
If you do not let go, I will stab you with my dagger already.
You will not bear to.
It is all thanks to your help this time, Brother Gao. That a stupid person like me
- was able to understand the meaning behind the clues to the whereabouts of the sword manual. - You are being too courteous.
I want to invite you to go to Song Mountain with me and Lan'er.
Brother Jing,
this sword manual is especially being passed down to you by Warrior Gongsun.
It is really improper for me to peek into it.
But I really hope that once you are able to learn this sword technique,
we can talk with our swords. Will that not be a joyous thing?
Okay then. Brother Gao,
let us part here then.
Brother Gao, take care.
Take care.
Lan'er, let us set out too.
Call for Han Shen to enter the hall!
Respectfully greeting Your Majesty, Madame Li.
Guard Han has injuries so you do not need to be so formal.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Read my decree.
Yes.
Following the mandate of the heaven at this timely hour, His Majesty is announcing
that Guard Han Shen of the inner palace was courageous, loyal in service, and did a meritorious deed by protecting his master.
He is especially being promoted to Middle Guard position and will be immediately under Chamberlain Li Zhong. That is all.
Thank you for the graces of Your Majesty.
Guard Han, considering that you have achieved merits by protecting Madame Li and that you two are siblings from the same sect,
I am especially allowing you and Madame Li to talk privately and you can say whatever you want.
Thank you for the good graces of Your Majesty.
You are already able to see your senior.
Are you already going to accompany me to battle?
Eldest Senior, I heard from Royal Physician Zheng that you were gravely injured that day.
Good thing that your energy channels were not injured.
Or else, if you lose your martial arts cultivation due to that, how can my conscience be clear?
If junior did get hurt, it is me who will never be at ease.
Li'er, after what happened last time, I am sure that you already saw how dangerous this palace is.
From the ministers to the servants, they appear to be willing serving Qin but in actuality is just thinking about themselves.
That is why, Li'er, now matter when or where, you must always be careful.
You must know that anyone may just casually sacrifice you. Ying Zheng is not an exception.
Before Ying Zheng is sure that Qin can unite the world,
no matter if it is in the court or in the royal harem, he will maintain this situation where there balance of power.
He does not want to make Madame Chu or Madame Min as queen and only favors you.
It looks as if he is being neutral. But actually, it is in accord with his political considerations.
Actually from the start, I really want him to die.
But afterwards, I also do not know why,
I just charged towards him to save him that day. Honestly,
I also do not know if I sincerely wanted to save him
or if I was just thinking of what will happen to Tianming if anything bad happens to him.
Tianming is actually safer if he stays outside the palace.
Even if Ying Zheng dies, I will help you find Tianming.
Eldest Senior, do you still remember the dagger that grandfather gave me?
Of course, I do.
That dagger got confiscated by Chamberlain on the day I entered the palace.
But today, Ying Zheng returned that dagger to me.
Ying Zheng actually was being used and manipulated by people before.
He has always wanted to look for someone that he can really trust.
Li'er, you could not have fallen for Ying Zheng already, right?
I just feel that Ying Zheng is not really a scheming person.
Li Zhong, am I being too lax on Madame Li?
Your Majesty is generous. You know very well how Madame Li give much importance to her loved ones.
Allowing the two of them to reunite is also a good thing.
Madame Li will surely be more accepting of Your Majesty from now on.
That is right. Only by giving her freedom can I make her accept me.
The reason that I was able to be ruthless before
was because I have no burden, I have no one or nothing that I care about.
But right now, it is different. I have Consort Li. This will be my only weakness.
Your Majesty, because of this weakness, will you not be able to return to how you used to be?
I am the king of Qin.
If I have a weakness,
then it means that my Qin also has a weakness.
I do not like people to know my weakness.
But...
I just cannot control...
that desire to move towards her.
In this world, a person without any weakness most likely do not exist.
If a person has no weakness, then he has no one or nothing that he cares about.
Your Majesty cares for Qin so much. Even if you cannot bear to separate yourself from Madame Li,
you still have to put the state before the beauty. I can totally understand.
Lord, Madame Li now is getting more and more powerful.
How should we proceed?
Based on the present situation and the information we were able to get,
although Madame Li this time was able to let His Majesty withdraw the army from Chu,
she might not really be standing on the side of Chu.
We can then conclude that she may not be our enemy but she is also not our friend.
Presently, we may opt not to do anything with her.
But you should still send someone to keep watch of Madame Li. If anything happens, immediately report back to us.
Yes, this I know.
What are you doing?!
What do you think am I doing?
How dare you?! You are just a lowly guard of the inner palace and you dare block the path of our Madame?
Are you blind?
My eyes are not blind.
But maybe the eyesight of Madame Chu is a bit poor.
My eyesight is very good. What nonsense are you saying?
Really?
Madame Li is my junior sister. I was tasked by His Majesty to stay here in the palace to protect her.
But you repeatedly tried to cause trouble to her.
You can choose not to be afraid of Madame Li.
But bullying my junior sister is publicly going against me.
That is why I said that your eyes have problems.
What did you say?
Guard Han, you actually dared to threaten my Madam?
That is right. I am indeed threatening you two.
You two can go and report me to Grand Queen Dowager Huayang.
His Majesty has to consider the maintenance of a good relationship with Chu but I have nothing to consider about.
That is why, you better listen. If you dare to touch my junior sister again, I surely will not let you off.
You! Hey!
Madame, he really is being too much.
Relying on the fact that he has Madame Li and His Majesty backing him up,
he actually dared to be shrewish and make a scene in front of you in broad daylight.
Master, a letter from a messenger pigeon. [Danding Sect, Manor of Xia Houyang]
- Leave first. - Yes.
Jing Ke and Lan'er are on their way to Song Mountain.
Looking at the expression of Master, looks like it is good news.
That is right. Our disciple from Yuzhou reported back that they discovered the whereabouts of Jing Ke.
There is still a woman by his side called Lan'er. The two of them will soon be heading to Song Mountain.
Master, if I did not remember it wrongly, I might have met this Lan'er before.
She is the daughter of Ge Nie.
The daughter of Ge Nie?
Looks like that Ge Nie who acts like he is morally better than anyone
is not involved here. Immediately instruct our men.
Bao Ye, lead a group of our men to Song Mountain.
Master wants me to go to Song Mountain?
The thing that we want most likely is in that place.
Villagers,
just want to ask if we continue going straight at this path, will we be arriving in Song Mountain already?
Right. Miss, why are you two going to Song Mountain?
Just have some things to do.
I can see that you two look refined
and do not seem to be hunters. You two must be careful.
Careful about what?
A lot of people say that there is a fierce beast in that mountain.
A lot of people got curious and wanted to hunt down the beast.
In the end, they never came back.
Take care.
There is a fierce beast?
Let's go.
Your Majesty, are you really allowing Madame Li to come with us?
A king never lies. Moreover, are you worried about a warrior that previously defeated you?
Since Your Majesty already agreed to let me join the battle, you must not take it back.
Wife, do not worry. The person who does not want you to go is Meng Wu, not me.
If you also defeat him in terms of merits, he might also need to yield to you the commander position.
Since Your Majesty said that we are going out in an expedition, where really are we going?
Have wife heard of a person named Han Fei?
Han Fei?
Is it Lord Han Fei who is well-versed in the Suyuan (source) Taoist technique and the author of 'Solitary Indignation' and 'The Five Vermin'?
I previously heard my grandfather mention about him.
General Gongsun mentioned him before? What kind of person is he?
Lord Han Fei is well known for his outstanding literary talents.
He just has a stuttering illness.
Moreover, the king of Han is such a mediocre.
That is why the outstanding talent of Lord Han Fei was not given any importance.
Really great. It is totally the same as what I have heard.
What are the meaning of those words?
In this expedition against Han, I want to invite Lord Han to come to our Qin.
General Gongsun, please.
There is a poem that say, "Only Song Mountain can be considered a high mountain. Nothing is more dangerous than it."
During the Shang dynasty, people even call this as Chong Mountain (towering mountain).
But I never heard that there is a fierce beast in here.
In my opinion, this fierce beast rumor is just some citizen misinterpreting natural phenomenon,
making groundless rumors, and just randomly making assumptions. No need to put it to heart.
Anyway, even if we do face a fierce beast, since we are swordsmen, we are not afraid.
Kill.
This way.
Be careful.
After them.
Although it was mentioned in the poem that this sword manual might be here in Song Mountain,
Song Mountain is very vast so where are we going to find it?
I want to first look for a high place to observe the terrain
and then compare it to Master's poem. Let us see if we can find some new discoveries.
Weird, we have been following those two all along so how come they suddenly disappeared?
You all are really stupid. This place is spacious and empty.
No matter what direction they go, they cannot just disappear right in front of us.
Unless...they already sensed that we are following and had hidden themselves.
Had hidden already?
No problem. This place only has a few boulders so they also just have a few places to hide in.
- Continue looking. - Yes.
Your Majesty, we have already crossed the Yi River. It is only a half a day travel to Nanliang.
I suggest to let our men rest and organize for one more day.
Do as you suggested.
Your Majesty, they are here.
Jifengjian (strong wind sword) greets Your Majesty.
Mangbianlin (python whip forest) greets Your Majesty.
Great masters, thanks for your trouble. This is Madame Li. She is accompanying me in this expedition.
The commander at Pu Yang this morning is really good.
What is the use of him being good? Did he not eventually got killed by the four great warriors of Qin,
the Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain? He died so tragically.
Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain...
- Madame! - Get lost!
Stop!
Are you two not going to hurry and leave?!
Must you really kill them before you will stop?
Yes, I am indeed going to kill the two of them. They are the killers of my grandfather!
You cannot bear to lose such great warriors, is that it?
It is not that I feel sorry about losing them, I am worried that you will get hurt.
Who was the one who said to bring her?
Your Majesty.
Tell those two to stay far away. If they dare to appear in front of Madame Li,
I will ask for their lives.
Yes.
Bao Ye.
Master.
How is your task going?
Informing Master, we followed Jing Ke up the mountain but we lost them at this area.
I am guessing that they have hidden themselves.
Hide?
The terrain is vast and empty that you have extensive field of view. Where can they hide?
Okay already. Stop making guesses.
No one will be able to hide here. You all disperse and search every part.
Yes.
Let us go.
Lord Jing, stop hiding already. Come out.
Lord Jing, long time no see.
You just arrived here yet you already had your disciples leave.
I then knew that you already discovered where we are.
But you pretended to not know it and had your disciples leave.
You plan to keep the sword manual to yourself and not share it with your disciples. Am I right?
Just separating for a few days, already making one see you in a new light. Looks like I had belittled you.
Lord Xia Hou is praising me too much. I cannot even compare by a bit to how scheming you are.
Since that is the case, then do not mind me for being discourteous.
Let us go!
This...
Come out!
Bao Ye?
Why are you here? Did I not order you to search somewhere else?
I...
Do you know that you ruined my grand endeavor?!
Master, please wait.
You dare to disobey my order and came back on your own. What else can you say?!
I know that I destroyed the chance for Master to get the sword manual.
No matter what I do, I cannot make up for my mistakes.
I beg Master to give me one last chance.
I surely will catch Jing Ke and hand Master the sword manual.
Okay. I will leave the task of going after Jing Ke to you then.
Once you have succeeded in your mission, I will surely treat you handsomely.
But if you dare do some little tricks or schemes, I will not forgive you this easily anymore!
Yes, Master.
Still angry about what happened this morning?
Not only angry, it is hate, unwilling to accept it.
I hate that I do not have the ability to defeat those two evil people.
What I am unwilling to accept is I actually am now serving my enemy, is currently in the camp of the enemy, is helpless.
You are blaming me? It is not me who ordered to attack Puyang.
Is there a difference?
Fine. It was all the fault of Qin.
How about this? I will give an order now
and ask Meng Wu to catch those two evil people then throw them at Yi River and let their blood flow with it.
How about it? Will that dissipate your anger?
Of course, you cannot.
My grandfather will then get laughed at by the whole jianghu realm if you do that.
My grandfather died because those four great masters surrounded him. And now, I am going to ask the king of Qin to execute them?
If the people in the world know about this, will they not call me a witch wife?
Then what do you really want?
How about this then? Did you not already get your dagger back?
Come. Stab me to release your anger.
You really wanted to?
How come a woman like you is this heartless?
Do you always think about killing your own husband?
Do not be angry anymore.
I will take you to see something good. Let us go.
Look. The next ones that I am conquering is Zhao and Han.
Once I get the two states, I can then move forward north and conquer the borders.
I will then move along this border and construct the great wall.
This way, the citizens of the world need not suffer the attacks of the foreign tribes.
Why? You do not agree?
No matter how magnificent the ambition to unite the world is,
it surely will be full of fierce battles and danger.
Any place with war will surely plunge the people into suffering and misery.
For the people of this world, a short pain is way better than a long one.
If with the current overwhelming strength of my Qin, I am able to unite the six states,
I can then use the smallest possible sacrifice in exchange for a grander peace.
Even if I am to be deemed as a criminal for thousands of years, I will not regret it.
If the war in this world don't stop, there will be more lives of innocent citizens that will get taken by it.
Am I being too hasty?
Uniting the world has never been done before. No matter how much sure Qin is that you will be victorious,
the matters in this world is hard to predict and it will still be hard every step of the way.
Your Majesty examines your thoughts carefully and is not hasty in achieving things.
Only after planning and preparing do you send out your troops to conquer the east. That is correct.
You know that I am not talking about that.
Reporting!
- Informing Your Majesty. - What is it?
The tent of Madame Li has already been prepared.
- I know already. Leave now. - Yes.
It is unsafe outside. How about you just sleep here?
I had been following grandfather in visiting different places since I was little. I am able to sleep even by leaning on a huge tree.
No need for Your Majesty to worry about this anymore.
There are snakes outside. It is not safe.
I am not afraid of snakes.
There are still tigers and bears. What then? Are you afraid?
Is a tiger scarier than Your Majesty?
You are not allowed to go.
I am not allowing you to leave.
If you dare move one step forward, I will not lightly forgive you.
Fine already. I am tired. I will not go anymore.
Your Majesty, just release me already.
Are you alright?
I am fine. Are you alright, Brother Jing?
I am fine.
Where is this?
I also do not know.
Let us get up and take a look around.
What is wrong?
I...seemed to have sprained my ankle. It is a bit painful.
You must have sprained it when we fell. Let me take a look.
No need. This little injury is no big deal.
We better just hurry, look for the exit, and leave this place.
It is better that you do not force it.
- Let me carry you. - No need. Brother Jing, really no need.
We are currently outside so it is just proper that I take care of you.
Let me carry you on my back.
Thank you.
Come.
Your Majesty.
No, what do you mean?
You even said earlier that you will be staying here.
What bed are you setting? My bed is so big. It is enough for two people to sleep in.
Look at this bed of yours. It is so small. Look. Look.
I can occupy it all just by myself. It is just enough for only me to sleep on.
That is why, this is the bed where I am going to sleep on alone while you will be sleeping on your bed.
If you are going to do that, I might not be able to sleep then.
What is wrong?
Did you had a nightmare?
I am here. I will protect you.
Brother Jing.
Lan'er, where did you go?
I went around to look for an exit.
But although this cave is huge, there are no exits to the outside world.
If we have finished eating all our rations and I still was not able to learn the Huluo sword technique by then,
we will then die here from starvation.
I fear that is the case.
Madame! Bad news! Bad news!
Jing liangren is pregnant.
This tea was gifted to me by Grand Queen Dowager.
Does it taste good?
It tastes good.
Do not run anymore! Be careful for the floor is slippery!
Be careful for the floor is slippery! We said the same words.
You run so slowly.
I caught you, did I not?
Okay already. You won.
- So tired already. - Be careful.
Can the two of us stop running already? I am so tired.
- Your Majesty is tired already? - Yes.
Servant, escort His Majesty back to this chambers.
No need. I am going to sleep here today.
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