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Episode 14
OK.
It's time for us to part ways now.
I'll be going back to Shuixi then.
What are you planning on doing next?
I want to make a trip to Tongren.
As for the future,
I'll just tackle it one step at a time.
Will you...
really not go to Shuixi?
I don't know.
Why?
Did I say something I shouldn't have?
If I did, you gotta tell me.
I won't take it back anyway.
I saved your life.
Is this how you treat your savior?
I promised you to sing a song for you, remember?
When I get home I'll practice hard and sing it for you when you visit me.
What did you say?
Nothing.
She's acting so weird.
She didn't fall for me, did she?
Dage, we've finished packing.
Let's go back to Tongren.
Back to Tongren.
We're back!
Young Master, you're back.
Young Master, you're finally back.
Greetings, Principal Li.
Where have you been all these days?
I looked all over for you.
Er, I went to the countryside to visit a relative of mine.
I left in a hurry, I didn't have time to ask you for leave.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Well, as long as you are here now.
Oh you,
what did you go visit your relative for when the exam is almost upon us?
Even though I'm usually quite able to read,
but my knowledge isn't solid enough and I'm too much of a Jack of all trades, master of none.
Thus I get easily distracted and feel impatient when I study.
So I used visiting my relative as an excuse to relieve some stress.
I was too impatient, I should have made things more clear.
Blame it on my stupidity.
So is it still possible for me to pass the exam and become a xiucai?
Dedicate yourself to your revisions.
As for the xiucai,
as long as you are decent at poetry and calligraphy and you present yourself passably,
everything will work out just fine.
I get it.
Jiaozhu.
You scared me.
- What are you doing? - Shh.
Tell me,
what is elder Dong Tian doing in there?
Elder Dong Tian is an expert in the art of Gu witchcraft. He does research about this stuff every night.
I reckon he's developing new kinds of Gu poison tonight.
I've heard that a strong enough Gu poison can let you kill a cow by hand.
Really?
But if something goes wrong, you could instantly become stupid.
Jiaozhu.
If you are interested, why don't you give it a try?
No thanks.
Tell him to rest early.
Jiaozhu, you rest early, too.
I was just a jailor. Who would have thought there'd come a day where I'll become the jiaozhu presiding over 9 caves and 81 villages,
or where I'll set foot in the examination center to fill out exam sheets. My ancestors must be celebrating in their grave right now.
There's nothing there.
[Guiyang]
[Tian Manor]
Miss, Mr. Xu Boyi is here.
OK.
You called for me, Miss.
Now that you've sought refuge under our Tian family's wing, it will be an easy feat to arrange for a position for you in Tongren.
But if you wished to go a step further, you'd need to become a jinshi or a juren.
I want you to take the national exam and acquire a juren's degree. What do you think?
As you wish, Miss.
Good. Prepare yourself well for the exam.
If you succeed,
I will grant you a decent career.
Thank you, Miss.
Dage.
Dage. How did you do?
Piece of cake.
See? Our jiaozhu is...
Our dage could get a xiucai's degree in his sleep, right?
I think you can even get a zhuangyuan's degree.
Sheriff Ai.
Dage, do you smell it?
The air is suddenly filled with a really pungent smell.
Why don't I smell it?
Is Miss Ning'er not with you?
Really, Xu Boyi, you have such a thick skin.
After you pulled that stunt and got caught,
you still haven't gotten your mind off Miss Ning'er?
Are you here to conduct an investigation?
No idea what you're talking about.
My name is Ye Xiaotian. Why should I conduct an investigation?
But when you were in Huxian...
When I was in Huxian, I posed as the sheriff to aid the county yamen in the hunt for a certain murderer.
In fact, I'm a scholar, too.
You're a scholar?
You came to get a xiucai's degree?
So?
I heard that it's been 5 years since anyone in Tongren got a xiucai's degree.
Well, that's why I came here today.
Looks like
you feel quite confident.
Actually, I wasn't really sure whether I can pass the exam or not.
But now that I've seen you here,
I feel much more confident.
What do you mean?
If even an ungrateful and greedy thing like you can become a xiucai,
it can't be that difficult to get this degree now can it?
You're a vulgar person who isn't worthy of anyone's attention.
You're an insult to the educated men.
I'm so hungry for zhajiang noodles.
Let's go eat zhajiang noodles.
I'm suffocating. The smell is too bad.
Someone like you wants to pass the exam and win fame and honor?
Stop daydreaming!
Miss Ning'er isn't with him? That means that I've got a chance.
This is great.
I must pass the exam and prove to her
that I genuinely like her and that I'm not after her family's power.
Yang Yinglong is obsessed with his ambitions. The imperial court has long been aware of it.
The fact that Ye Xiaotian is now the Church of Gu's jiaozhu
is quite the interesting turn of events.
Yang Yinglong's plotting and planning were all for the sake of that jiaozhu position.
In the end he gained nothing but instead suffered huge losses.
My lord.
I encountered an assassin while in the mountains. His movements matched the person who assassinated Lord Ai perfectly.
I think that he works for Yang Yinglong.
I will look into this matter.
The mountaineers of the Church of Gu are stateless and aren't registered anywhere.
They have always stayed free and away from the law.
Now that Ye Xiaotian gained this group of mountaineers, he's become quite independent.
This is really good.
Good, good.
Good!
Good.
What a lively atmosphere.
Greetings, Lord Magistrate.
S-S-Stand up.
Runners, award the student his robe.
Thank you, my lord.
Today is a day of great happiness, a poem is in order.
I am suddenly overcome with great poetic inspiration.
Would the two of you like to hear?
My lord, you‘re creating another great work?
Of course I am all ears.
I am all ears.
I know.
Listen carefully.
A thousand year iron tree
does not bloom.
Is it that it has yet to reach the thousand years?
This xiucai is only 19,
the tree is even worse than him.
Great poem.
Great poem indeed.
This poem of yours uses tree as a metaphor of man.
this poem is of profound meaning.
It is so very thought-provoking.
It is of course a great poem.
This guy is absolutely shameless. He completely lacks a scholar's strength of character.
I could never kiss up to the magistrate as disgustingly as he does.
Mr. Ye,
what did you think about my poem?
Great poem.
I've long heard about you keeping guard over Tongren generation after generation.
Your acclaimed literary talent is famous among all scholars.
Your poem conveys genuine emotions and is deeply meaningful.
After hearing it, I can confirm what they say about you.
You know to value real talents.
My poem is indeed quite profound and meaningful.
Only someone like you who has a belly full of, er, that learning,
someone educated, can understand the meaning behind it.
You are still very young,
you are very talented,
it'd be a pity if he only stays a xiucai.
I want to recommend you to Guiyang to take part in the provincial examination
and win a juren's degree for Tongren.
What do you think?
My lord, I have little talent and my knowledge is limited.
I just barely managed to get the xiucai's degree.
It it's the juren's degree, I'm afraid I...
In Tongren, no one would dare to say no to me.
If I want someone dead, no one can save him.
Go take the exam in Guiyang.
Are you going or not?
I'm going.
Of course I'm going.
This boy is promising.
Posed as an official?
Faked his hometown registry to take an exam?
Looks like this xiucai has quite a story.
There's so much we have on that Ye Xiaotian.
Why don't we...
Why don't we what?
Even if he posed as an official,
the local government of Huxian is under watertight operation,
If you try to expose it, you'll be going against a tabu among the officialdom.
But he also faked his registry to take an exam.
It's a mere xiucai's degree, not a juren's.
As for Ye Xiaotian, you can just ignore him.
We have an urgent business at hand.
You need to get a juren's degree.
I will not disappoint you, Miss.
I will use all my aptitudes and prowess to render my service to you and repay your kindness.
A juren's degree?
With the little knowledge I have? I scraped that knowledge together by learning from the imprisoned officials when I was a jailer.
It's not easy to get a juren's degree.
It is a difficult task.
That local prefecture magistrate is the local emperor of this place.
If I get into his bad graces,
I guess this xiucai of mine will become a dead xiucai next second.
Dage, I think you should just go and try your luck with the exam.
Who knows? Every dog has his day.
Maybe you'll really become a juren.
The magistrate will look good. Maybe he'll even help you post a notice and find Yingying. It'd make things so much easier.
And if you don't get a juren's degree?
- Well, you are still a xiucai, and his face is still saved. He wouldn't dare to make things difficult for you, right? - That's right.
I think you have a point there.
Yunfei,
tell elder Dong and Duo Ni that we are going to Guiyang tomorrow.
OK.
Yunfei. This is great, help me pack my bags.
Let's go.
- Why do you pack your bags? - I'm going to Guiyang.
I think
there's no need for you to go.
Why?
We three are brothers, we agreed.
We'll go through thick and thin together. Of course I'll come along.
Daheng, look, you've been away from home for quite a long time now,
your dad must be worried sick.
Moreover, you won't be of much help running around with us,
you should better go home, so your dad can stop worrying.
Dage.
Go home.
Your dad will be worried.
Take me with you.
No.
Master, you came.
Daheng.
Heng'er.
Dad.
Dad, w-what are you doing here?
Daheng.
Bugger off.
When you're at home, you only create troubles for me. You should better go.
Xiaotian, why don't you take him with you?
I...
Thanks, dage!
Thanks, dad.
Remember to write me letters when you are away from home.
Report your whereabouts back to me at all times, don't let your dad worry.
Dad, I need to write letters, too?
I will.
OK, let me be clear. A letter every 5 days.
Hear, hear. Is this really my own flesh and blood?
Bargaining with his dad for the amount of letters?
I was thinking 1 letter per week, but since you offer 1 every 5 days, I will not object.
If you miss a letter, little brat,
I'm gonna haul you back.
Xiaotian.
Don't let him rub off his grease on you.
Don't worry.
I will keep my distance from him.
Yes, that way, you won't have to change your clothes too often.
[Hongfenghu]* lit.: Maple Lake
Yingying.
Yingying?
Yingying!
Are you winding a yarn ball or are you wrapping a package?
What's the matter? Is there someone you like?
No.
I‘m not thinking about him.
So you confess.
Great-grandma.
I wonder who that little brat is
that has our Yingying so infatuated.
Is it Gelong?
Don't mention him. He's just one big gorilla.
But who is it, if it isn't him?
No one.
I promised you that I won't ever get married, remember?
I'll always be by your side.
Oh you.
You really know how to cheer me up.
Come.
Yingying.
Sit next to me. Come here.
Listen,
there's nothing to be embarrassed about if there's someone you like.
If you like him and he likes you,
then you two should be together.
I think that Gelong is a good kid.
If you don't like him, then don't force yourself.
I get it now, great-grandma.
You are the best.
You're the best!
Dage.
This is Guiyang.
Over there, just over there,
by the corner at the end of that street,
there's a restaurant that sells a special lovers' menu.
You should go there with saozi,
it's all you can eat for 1 liang.
You and saozi...
I'm sorry, dage. You hate me, right? You hate me.
- I'm sorry. - Of course you have to rub salt in the wound.
Quick, quick, quick.
Miss, where are we going exactly?
We're going to...
Let's go to Guiyang first.
Quick.
Dad.
Let's just settle Yingying's marriage like this.
Gelong is a good kid.
But what is Yingying's view on this?
In the end it will still be my decision.
Bullshit.
Yingying will have her own opinion on this matter. You don't call the shots.
Yingying.
This isn't good! Yingying is gone.
Gone?
Don't run after her.
That kid!
She won't even listen to her dad now!
You are her dad.
But I'm your dad.
I'm telling you not to run after her. Go home.
I told you not to come to Guiyang, didn't i?
You just had to come.
See? Now your are sick.
I feel awful.
As you should.
Damn, it's hot.
I need to go find a doctor and get you some medicine.
Dage.
Dage, you are so nice.
Why am I not a woman?
If I were a girl,
I'd marry you.
I'd make you lots and lots of chubby children
to carry on your family name.
What a bliss.
Daheng.
When you talk seriously,
you are still as annoying as always.
Heaven forbid if I deny our brotherhood.
OK now. Don't let your imagination run wild.
Here.
I'll go grab you some medicine.
Get some rest.
Dage.
I love you.
Dage.
I'm off to get Daheng his medicine and buy a chicken to help with his recovery.
Let me go.
Me, too. Me, too.
We've been traveling for days on end,
I feel like I didn't take good enough care of him.
All right.
You should set out early.
We are strangers to this city,
don't stir up trouble for me.
Don't worry.
Now that you are the Church of Gu's jiaozhu,
you should know your way around the knowledge of poisonous insects.
there's a mountain nearby.
Let's take a walk,
I'll catch a few bugs for you to practice on.
Can I not go?
As the jiaozhu
you should know the profound mystery of the poisonous insects.
That's right, jiaozhu.
How about this,
you go with elder Dong. Yunfei and I will make it quick.
Let's go together.
You win.
Let's go.
Gelong that big gorilla is so annoying.
I only just got back to Hongfenghu when he came, too.
Yeah.
Gelong that stupid giant doesn't deserve you.
And grandpa, too,
we did say we're gonna get married when we were children. I did say that I want to marry him.
But that was when I was 3 years old.
It doesn't count.
That's right.
Marrying a random guy would be better than marrying that big gorilla Gelong.
What? What do you mean, marry a random guy?
Jump down!
Miss.
It's getting late. We should find a place to stay for the night.
OK.
Go find a place.
I'll wait here. I'm tired.
OK.
Miss, we'll look for a place over there.
Don't run off.
I know.
Be careful.
OK now.
Xiaotian ge.
Yunfei and I are off to get Daheng's medicine.
Take care of yourself.
OK.
Bye, dage.
This is a deep forest with dense undergrowth, there must be many kinds of insects.
I will climb the mountain from here
and catch a few insects that you can practice on.
Read this "Secret Manuscript of the Poisonous Insects".
Dong shu*, how long do you need to catch the insects? * uncle
Not long.
I'll be back soon.
Do you need me to come with you?
It's fine.
How is Xiaotian gege doing?
What's that?
What do you mean, what's that?
I'm a person sitting here. Can't you see?
Pardon me.
- Pardon me. - My dress is all wet now.
Don't run away!
Help me up!
Oh no, oh no.
That girl seems like trouble.
What's the matter with you?
Don't you know to apologize?
Miss.
Don't be scared.
A ghost!
They are very tame.
Dong shu!
What happened?
Oh, it's you, jiaozhu.
Everything's fine. I just tripped and fell.
The insects have run away.
Why did I hear a girl scream?
J-Jiaozhu.
Wait here.
I'll catch the insects again.
I clearly heard a girl scream.
Ghosts!
Help!
There's a ghost!
Help!
Miss, Miss, what happened? There's a ghost!
A ghost.
I just saw a ghost.
The kind of ghost that just crawled out of the earth.
His cinerary urn was full of dead insects.
Oh heaven, I didn't commit any sins.
Don't do this to me.
Miss.
How can there be a ghost in full daylight? There really was one.
I saw it myself. It's back there.
Help me, help me.
Miss, don't move.
We'll go take a look.
Don't move from this spot.
Don't move.
Be careful.
It must be you.
You must have a death wish,
how dare you bully our miss.
I-I-I just got here. I didn't see anyone.
I couldn't have scared your miss.
How dare you deny it.
How about this,
take me to your miss,
we will clear this up face to face.
You'll see I‘m telling the truth.
I'm a good person.
This is a recipe I got from Dong shu.
It tastes of mom.
You're so full of it.
A medicine that tastes of mom?
It also taste a little bit of Dong shu.
Erge.
You are already healthy again, aren't you?
Drink the medicine yourself.
Hey.
Look at how sick he is.
Geesh.
I'm back.
Dong shu.
You are still sick?
Dong shu.
Where is my dage?
Jiaozhu?
He isn't back yet?
I didn't see him.
Strange.
He should be back by now. Why has he still not left the mountain?
You went off together,
why did you come back alone?
He must have been snatched by that girl.
Girl?
What girl?
If he got abducted by that girl,
we are in big trouble.
This is urgent,
we have to find the jiaozhu.
Luckily I still have a path-finding bee which I cultivated using a secret formula.
With it we will be able to find the jiaozhu very quickly.
What kind of rubbish is that? It can find dage?
Rubbish?
It's because it has drunk the jiaozhu's saliva.
So magical?
My eyes are bad. I can't see it.
Once I release it, you have to follow it closely.
There!
- Watch it closely. - Where?
Let's hurry.
Go.
Quick.
Dong shu, careful.
Keep up with it.
Erge, here.
Look.
Quick.
Erge, why is the bee flying back?
It's a bee, of course it's flying back. did you think it'd swim back?
Let's go find dage. He must be close by.
Dong shu.
Is something wrong?
No.
I'm just waiting for it to fly back.
Oh, come on,
it's flown back already.
OK.
Let's go look around ahead.
Dong shu, this way.
Where did you go?
I-I couldn't find you. I was worried sick.
Oh right,
I'm a xiucai now.
I achieved scholarly honor and fame.
Now your family won't be opposed to us being together.
Also,
you will never get bullied again.
I've got a lot of brothers who are all very strong.
Why are you imitating me?
Marry me, please?
I-I am a rude and boisterous guy. I don't know how to speak refined and elegantly.
But what I feel for you is real.
I, Ye Xiaotian,
want to marry you, Xia Yingying.
I love you.
I want to be with you.
Even if Heaven came to stop me, I wouldn't be afraid.
You must be a fool.
Ever since the day I left,
my heart has been connected to yours.
I feel happy when you feel happy.
I feel sad when you feel sad.
I will always be by your side.
So what you're saying is...
you agree to marry me?
Get them!
Lao san, be careful.
Get them!
Lao san, be careful!
Duo Ni.
What's happening?
What do we do?
Yunfei, you can do it!
Stop!
Saozi!
Put away the swords.
They are friends of Xiaotian ge.
Saozi.
Really, dage looked for you everywhere,
he couldn't sleep, he couldn't eat.
Look how skinny he got.
My goodness, I was so worried.
That's right.
But it was mainly me,
I worried about dage,
worried about saozi.
Look at me, I lost so much weight I'm only a shadow of my former self.
You are so right.
You poor thing, look how skinny you are.
Poor me.
Duo Ni.
She sounds like that girl.
Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!
Don't be scared.
It's all just a misunderstanding.
All right,
now we've cleared up the misunderstanding.
From now on, we are one family.
Dong shu.
Yingying.
Oh right,
since everyone's here,
I have some good news I'd like to tell everyone.
Yingying
finally agreed to marry me.
Gelong?
What are you doing here?
Why do you have to be everywhere?
Did you two tell him where I am?
Lord Gelong,
it's that girl, right?
Landlord!
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you my lord.
You are so annoying. Why are you always pestering me?
Yingying.
There are too many evil people out there.
You are out here alone,
you didn't even bring along a guard.
How can I not worry?
You're so annoying.
Fine, fine, fine.
I'll call a few guards in a moment, OK?
Go away. Go.
Since I'm already here, why trouble someone else?
It's the safest if I'm with you.
Who are they?
They are my friends.
This is my lover.
Lover?
Yingying.
You promised me that you'll marry me.
You mustn't go back on your word.
Xia Yingying.
What's going on here? Explain this to me.
No, I mean... You are crazy!
I was 3 years old, it doesn't count!
Don't cause trouble.
I'm telling you, I'm gonna marry him.
Marry him?
He is neither tall nor does he have a status.
He has no muscles, either.
How can he compete with me?
I challenge you to a duel.
Fine.
Xiaotian ge.
By then,
I will invite all of Shuixi's rich and powerful to bear witness to our duel.
The loser will give up pursuing Yingying.
How about that?
No problem.
In 3 days,
I'll be waiting for you in Huaxi.
You want a duel? You'll get a duel.
It's a deal.
Let's go back to our room.
Come on, go go go.
You are a fool.
You don't even know kung fu. Why did you agree to the duel?
What's the matter?
I mean, Gelong is... He is...
Do you realize how strong Gelong is?
You're gonna fight him.
He once killed a bull with just one punch.
So?
But, he...
Dummy,
I said that I want to marry you,
even if Heaven came to stop me, I wouldn't be afraid.
But...
But what?
Xiaotian ge is a real man.
One just has to like him.
Killed a bull with just one punch?
But then, with my body...
I'll be dead after one punch.
Dage.
You were so brave just now, why are you suddenly afraid?
That was in front of your saozi. As a man I couldn't just back down.
What am I gonna do in 3 days?
♪ zhè cì huàn wǒ zǒu ♪ ♪ This time it's me who's leaving ♪
♪ yě xǔ nǐ néng shǎo xiē qiàn jiù ♪ ♪ Perhaps then you can feel a bit less guilty ♪
♪ jiù shāng kǒu yě xué zhe sān jiān qí kǒu ♪ ♪ The old wound has learned to remain silent, too ♪
♪ chēng zuò mǒu nián de mǒu mǒu ♪ ♪ Call it a certain someone from a certain year ♪
♪ wǒ bú zài shì wǒ ♪ ♪ I'm not myself anymore ♪
♪ shì nǐ yǎn jiǎo yī wān xī hé ♪ ♪ I'm the rivulet down the corner of your eye ♪
♪ yòng qū zhé gài kuò huí yì de duàn luò ♪ ♪ Use twists and turns to summarize the chapters of memories ♪ ♪ yòng jù diǎn tì dài wěi shēng de mò ♪ ♪ Use a period to replace the silence of the epilogue ♪
♪ bié wàng le wǒ ♪ ♪ Don't forget me ♪
♪ bié wàng le ài céng yǒu mài luò ♪ ♪ Don't forget that love once held a heartbeat ♪
♪ yǒu shēng zhī nián ♪ ♪ For as long as I'm alive ♪
♪ zhè yàng de xiāng yù zài wú duō ♪ ♪ A meeting as this is never more ♪
♪ wàng le wǒ ♪ ♪ Forget me ♪
♪ zhuāng sǎ tuō zài qiáng zhuāng yōu mò ♪ ♪ Act free and easy, then put on some humor ♪
♪ wēi xiào zhe lèi yūn kāi lún kuò ♪ ♪ Smile softly, tears blurring the silhouette ♪
♪ bié wàng le wǒ ♪ ♪ Don't forget me ♪
♪ bié wàng le ài céng yǒu mài luò ♪ ♪ Don't forget that love once held a heartbeat ♪
♪ yǒu shēng zhī nián ♪ ♪ For as long as I'm alive ♪
♪ zhè yàng de xiāng yù zài wú duō ♪ ♪ A meeting as this is never more ♪
♪ wàng le wǒ ♪ ♪ Forget me ♪
♪ zhuāng sǎ tuō zài qiáng zhuāng yōu mò ♪ ♪ Act free and easy, then put on some humor ♪
♪ wēi xiào zhe lèi yūn kāi lún kuò ♪ ♪ Smile softly, tears blurring the silhouette ♪
♪ tuì le ké chóng shēng le gǔ gé ♪ ♪ Shed the shell, a new skeleton is born ♪