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Episode 31
Let us drink together.
These things are uncooked.
How do I eat them?
Your Highness.
Ambassador Ye.
I have prepared
tonight's banquet especially for you, Your Highness.
This is one of our country's
most famous dishes.
Its key feature is that you can adjust the flavor and taste
to whatever you wish to eat,
to your heart's content.
There is such a fantastic dish?
Would you like to give it a try?
What flavor do you like?
I like this.
Wait.
Your Highness.
It's delicious.
It tastes very good.
It is delicious.
During my stay here,
this is the best food I have tasted.
Your Highness.
What else do you like?
I like this.
OK.
Your Highness.
These fish balls
were made by the fisher maidens
in the south.
You can't find it in your country.
Smell it, it is savory.
This is the best taste in the world.
It's just fish balls.
Eat them all,
why don't you overeat and die?
What a bunch of ignorant country bumpkins.
When I return to Kezhi,
I must let my father tell his people
that the food here
is heavenly.
Your people must lead a happy life here.
If Your Highness enjoys this,
it is my honor.
Lord Guan.
I wonder what this kind delicious of banquet
is called?
This is... er...
Your Highness.
It is called the World's Best Pot of Peace.
The World's Best Pot of Peace?
The people live a happy life,
the world lies in peace.
It is what the country wants.
Minister.
This name is great.
Don't you think so?
Yes, yes, yes.
It is.
Guojiuye.
Don't you think so?
Yes.
Great.
Come. Come.
My Lords.
For the sake of our two countries' happiness,
in order to thank you
for your hospitality,
I will bring a dance to you.
Great.
Good. Good.
Come.
I can't.
I will teach you.
Great.
No.
Come on. Come on.
You're good.
Alright.
Are you alright?
I'm fine. I'm fine.
I really can't.
I can't do this.
Like this.
Miss Ning'er.
Let go. It hurts. Hurts.
Why are you messing with me? Go hurt dage.
Why me?
Give me your hand.
What are you doing?
What?
She is the princess of Kezhi.
You are just a nephew of a chieftain.
Besides,
can you dance as well as her?
I...
I'm sorry.
Ambassador Ye.
Today we held the banquet for the foreign guests.
A state banquet turned into
a hotpot feast.
Don't you think an explanation is in order?
What is the meaning of this?
Minister.
This matter
is a bit complicated.
How about this?
I will ask Lord Zhen to come here.
He will explain it to you.
Lord Zhen?
What on earth is going on?
Dong shu.
Help! Help!
Help!
I... I'll speak. I'll speak.
Minister.
I am guilty.
Your son,
he asked me to do this.
I thought... I am a fool.
What did you say?
Guan Xiaokun?
Yes.
It was Guan Xiaokun?
He asked you to do this?
Yes.
It was all him.
Who would've known?
That bastard.
What a bastard!
Father.
You were asking for me?
Kneel down.
Father, I...
The future of our family
was almost ruined in your hands.
Father! Father, I...
Beat him up.
Break his legs.
Send him back to our hometown!
Never allow him to step foot inside the capital again!
Yes, sir!
Father! Father!
Father!
Thank you for your excellent hospitality.
Thank you, everyone.
I hope that Your Highness
is satisfied with your journey through our country.
It was my honor to be able to come here.
I am also very happy
that I had the chance to get acquainted with you.
Me?
You Highness flatters me.
Actually, I...
I am just an ordinary man.
But an ordinary person can love the person he loves.
But someone like me,
who is born into the royal family,
we can't.
No.
Actually, everyone
has the right to pursuit their own happiness.
Thank you for saving my life.
Maybe in our next life,
we will meet again.
I hope that in our next life,
you will be an ordinary person,
and I will be, too.
Why did you hit me?
That...
The people from Kezhi are warm-hearted and open.
Maybe this is the way they say goodbye.
Aren't you a bit too happy?
Dancing and hugging.
And kissing.
Is it any of your business?
Why did you hit me?
I hit you for Yingying.
Again?
Yingying has more than 100 brothers.
I warn you, Zhan Ning'er.
I know you have a loose tongue.
You can't hide any secrets.
But this matter,
if you dare tell Yingying one word of it,
you and I will be strangers.
Understand?
Alright. I won't say a word.
Lord Zhen was fired.
Guan Xiaokun's legs
were broken by his father. He was banished to his hometown.
Minister Guan was really forced into a corner.
Guan Xiaokun is his son after all.
Dage.
He must be hating your guts.
It doesn't matter.
But I think that Guan Xiaokun
was ordered by someone to do this.
And the man behind him
must be Li Xuancheng.
Li Guojiu?
Why would he do such a thing?
For Yingying?
I didn't realize this Li Xuancheng
hates me so much.
Dage, it is more than that.
He is handsome,
he has the status,
he can marry any beauty.
But what you did at the Mid-Autumn Festival...
It's not just hatred. If I were him I would kill you.
What are you talking about?
I didn't run away with his woman.
He liked my wife.
So? Can't I fight back?
I fought back and he dares to hate me?
You rich children, are all of you so narrow-minded and intolerant?
I...
What do I have to do with this?
Our family doesn't have such awful men.
It's your own fault for meeting such a narrow-minded guy.
Sister in law is quite dangerous.
She left but caused quite the big trouble.
I'm sorry.
Since I was young,
I have always loved trouble the most.
He wants to mess with me?
Bring it on.
We'll see who will defeat whom
in the end.
Dage.
He is the emperor's uncle.
How can you defeat him?
We'll see.
We have our
own ways.
[Luo's Jade Ware]
Gongzi.
You are here again.
Our Luo's jade ware store has just opened.
You are already our regular customer.
Take a look around.
I will give you a discount.
Enough. Enough.
You can leave.
Please, take your time.
If there's anything just call me.
Go ahead.
That Li Guojiu
looks like an honorable gentleman.
But in his heart, he is actually a monster.
How come?
I heard that he is violent and cruel.
If the servants offend him,
he'd ask his men to kill them immediately.
What a cruel man.
How abominable.
I also heard
that this Guojiu
has a special fondness.
What fondness?
He loves women
as well as men.
He likes both.
I also heard that he and the son of the Ministry of Rites, Guan Xiaokun,
are always together,
doing all kinds of things.
When the minister found out about this,
he broke
his son's legs out of anger.
His son has been
sent back to his hometown Chenzhou.
It was to get rid of
the Guojiuye's pestering.
Unbelievable.
It must be Ye Xiaotian who did this.
Young Master.
I said everything
as you instructed.
Where's Ye Xiaotian?
Our ambassador
is in a meeting with his guests.
Ye Xiaotian!
The ink is black.
The ink's concentration
constitutes changes in the color levels.
Ink has five colors.
Meaning it is colorful.
You can use complex inks
to replace the color levels.
It is written in the "Tu Hua Ge" by Shen Kuo of the Song dynasty,
that the Chinese ink
is natural and beautiful.
He was talking about these ink wash paintings.
Ye Xiaotian!
Come out!
Who is looking for Xiaotian ge?
Where is he?
You're looking for our Xiaotian ge?
What for?
Xiaotian ge?
Who are you to him?
Who am I to him?
What do you think?
What are you doing?
Duo Ni.
Come out.
We have guests.
He is molesting me!
Help!
What are you doing?
He is molesting me!
Ye Xiaotian.
There you are.
What were you doing in Duo Ni's room?
Xiaotian ge! That man...
That man! He molested me!
Shut up!
You shameless woman.
Li Xuancheng!
What did you do?
I don't want to live anymore.
Duo Ni.
I don't want to live anymore.
You can't do this.
I don't want to live anymore.
Li Xuancheng.
What are you doing?
Teacher Yue.
Why are you here?
As the emperor's relative you aren't serving the country.
Sir, listen to me.
Shut up!
You rely on your status and power, came here and humiliated the girl.
It is appalling!
Sir.
Are you going senile?
When did you see me humiliate her?
I saw with my own eyes
those hideous deeds of yours.
How dare you deny it?
You saw with your own eyes?
Are you blind?
You... You are stupid!
You arrogant old thing!
You...
Watch how you talk to your teacher.
This is unbelievable.
Does the law mean nothing to you?
You broke into her house,
humiliated her,
and were caught red-handed by us.
How dare you be this brazen.
You think the emperor's relative is above all?
We scholars of our empire
have principles we stick to.
We aren't scared of you!
You are great.
Fine.
Ye Xiaotian.
Since you try to frame me,
I won't let you get away with this.
Just wait.
This is unbelievable.
I thought I was invited here to give you lessons.
But something like this ended up happening!
I am going to expose him
in front of all the scholars.
I won't let him commit any more crimes in the capital!
I will gather all the officials
to impeach him.
Sir, don't be angry. Let me bring you home.
I'm so mad.
Xiaotian ge.
How did I do?
Didn't I do great?
Oh right, did that bastard do anything to you?
I'm fine.
It was nothing.
Er... Duo Ni.
He didn't touch you, did he?
Of course not.
Dage.
Have we
gone too far this time?
You think so?
But if we
made a mistake while taking care of
the Kezhi princess,
what would have happened to us?
We must fight back,
we can't just defend ourselves all the time.
I have to fight him until he is scared and admits defeat,
till the mere thought of me makes him shiver.
That way,
he won't dare mess with us anymore.
Duo... Duo Ni.
What?
Watch it, I might sue you.
Do you want to harass me too?
I'm gonna kill you.
Ye Xiaotian.
Your time has come.
Hurry. Do it.
I can't.
You have to do this!
There must be blood.
I...
Hurry up! Otherwise it'll be too late.
Murder!
My Lord, are you Ok?
Someone wants to kill me.
He said that the Guojiuye wants me dead.
My Lord! Help!
Go call the physician!
All these fabricated rumors to hurt me,
it must have been that scoundrel Ye Xiaotian!
Guojiuye.
With your respectable status,
If you do something to him,
you will turn the imperial court against yourself.
Am I just going to watch him
stop at nothing to toy with me?
Guojiuye. Guojiuye.
My Lord, bad news!
There are many students at the gate. They're saying bad things about you.
What do they say?
They say you are to be exiled and driven out of the capital.
What do I do?
I'm going to kill them!
Li Xuancheng is lewd and cruel!
Such an evil person should die to pay for his sins!
Li Xuancheng assassinated a court appointed official in broad daylight!
Such an evil person
must be punished by the law!
We students demand that Li Xuancheng be banished from the capital!
Xuancheng, Xuancheng,
is evil and cruel.
Xuancheng! Xuancheng!
Is evil and cruel!
Guojiu, Guojiu,
is beyond redemption.
Guojiu! Guojiu! Is beyond redemption!
Xuancheng, Xuancheng,
is evil and cruel!
Guojiu, Guojiu,
is beyond redemption!
Xuancheng, Xuancheng!
What are you doing here?
What is going on?
Is beyond redemption!
Runner Xing.
We meet again.
Zhang gongzi. I hope that you are well
What is going on here?
You should leave it alone.
Do you see?
These are students.
You can't stop them.
You can't beat them.
You are right.
We have other things to do.
Let's go somewhere else.
Goodbye. Goodbye, Zhang gongzi.
Let's go.
Go. Go. Go.
My Lord.
There are students outside,
You shouldn't go out.
They are just a bunch of useless students,
why should I be scared of them?
Open the gate!
My Lord.
My Lord!
Guojiu! Guojiu!
Is beyond redemption!
Xuancheng! Xuancheng!
Is evil and cruel!
Guojiu! Guojiu!
Is beyond redemption!
How dare you
have my house surrounded?
What do you want?
Are you starting a revolt?
He is Li Xuancheng!
Li Xuancheng!
We're going to let this honorable Guojiuye
know the power of the people!
Hit him!
Punch him!
You...
Stop!
Out of the way.
Li Guojiu.
You are the emperor's relative, you are honorable.
But I
am just a small official.
I can't compare to you
with my status.
But I don't fear you!
Today, right here,
I'm telling you,
Duo Ni is my sister.
I won't let you humiliate her without consequences!
Listen to me.
I'm here now.
You want to fight me?
Come at me!
What nonsense are you talking about?
Nonsense?
You are surprised?
The killer you sent didn't kill me.
Let me tell you this.
I'm not scared of you.
You can do what ever you want,
I will never bow down to you!
What nonsense are you spouting here?
Li Xuancheng!
Stop pretending.
You hired a killer.
You tried to kill Ambassador Ye.
And now you want to deny it?
Li Xuancheng.
You are despicable and brazen.
You're shameless!
If we students
let you continue your crimes,
would justice still exist?
Banish this monster
from the capital!
I'm going to kill you!
Guojiuye.
You have to stop fighting!
Ye Xiaotian! I'm going to kill you!
You can't explain anything right now. You need to get away for now.
My Lord.
Stop pulling me!
Let go of me!
Don't let him escape!
After him!
Don't run!
Hurry!
Stop pulling me! Let go of me!
Hurry, my Lord.
Hurry.
Let go of me!
My Lord.
Why are you pulling me?
- You should leave the capital as soon as possible. - Let go of me.
What?
If I leave now,
it would be like
admitting to those crimes.
If you stay here,
you won't get away from the accusations either.
What do you mean?
Do you want me to bear these accusations my whole life?
No, my Lord.
The people in the capital are angry right now.
You have to avoid them.
As for the accusations,
with time
they will forget.
But...
But all these accusations were made up by that Ye Xiaotian!
That Ye Xiaotian
is just a small official.
Why would he do this to you?
No one will believe you.
My Lord.
You should leave the capital for now.
Get away from all of this.
Why?
Why did I have to provoke
that bloody Ye Xiaotian?
Miss Xia never even
spared me a glance.
I never even held her hand.
Why did I get myself into so much trouble for nothing?
Heaven!
Why do you treat me like this?
Father.
I made this soup for you
using dozens of valuable medicines.
It can prolong life.
Please have some.
Why are you so nice today?
Did you cause trouble again?
Of course not.
I am very well-behaved now.
It's thanks to your strictness.
Stop flattering me.
I am not a fool yet.
If you did something like the minister Guan's bastard son did,
I will break your legs, too.
Yes, yes, yes.
I will bear this in mind.
Father.
The matter I asked of you...
To transfer Ye Xiaotian back to Huxian?
The Ministry granted it.
Granted it?
Awesome.
Thank you, dad.
No need to thank me.
Ye Xiaotian himself caused this.
The six ministries of the capital
are all annoyed by him.
Even the Guojiuye
was forced back to his hometown by him.
Everyone is hoping
that he can leave soon.
Since you were young,
you've caused a lot of troubles for me.
But you have done nothing
like Ye Xiaotian did.
Dad.
What are you trying to say?
If you want to make trouble,
you should do it like Ye Xiaotian.
Cause some big trouble.
When you do that, I will at least
be a bit happier solving your problem.
I understand.
Let me pour you another bowl.
Here.
Xiaotian.
My father
likes you very much.
He doesn't like me.
He must think that I am a troublemaker.
You are not just a troublemaker
You are a big troublemaker.
I think
the different yamens of the capital must be
celebrating your departure right now.
After I leave,
brothers,
I don't know whether we will meet again.
I toast to you two.
Here.
Take care of yourselves.
Take care.
Lord Hua. Lord Xu.
Weird Lord Wang.
I'm coming back.
Let's go.
[Huxian]
So many of the laborers recruited by Assistant magistrate Xu died while repairing the post road.
People are gathered in front of the yamen.
I don't know when this will end. We can only walk around on the streets now.
We are afraid to go back.
Who did you take a fancy to this time?
You are so smitten.
Look! Look!
What a beauty.
Look at her precious face.
Look at...
Ye... Ye Xiaotian?
Tell the assistant magistrate.
Hurry.
Go.
Bring back justice! You've killed innocent lives!
Bring back justice!
You've killed innocent lives!
Give me back my brother's life!
Give me back my brother!
Give me back my brother's life!
Give me back my brother!
So many people are here to welcome you.
Can't you read?
Didn't you see the banners?
Bring back justice! You've killed innocent lives!
Give me back my brother!
You go home first.
I will go check what's going on.
Give me back my brother!
Give me back my brother's life!
Bring back justice!
Give me back my brother!
Brothers, excuse me.
Sh-Sheriff Ye.
It really is sheriff Ye.
Weren't you taken to the capital
to be beheaded?
Nonsense.
Sheriff Ye is blessed by Heaven.
Sheriff Ye has returned.
Those bastards can't do nothing now.
This is going to be fun.
You've killed innocent lives!
Bring back justice!
Lord Sheriff.
What are these people...
Lord Sheriff.
You came back.
Are you all right?
Of course I am.
Tell me,
what happened here?
My Lord.
There is a war in the south.
Large amounts of army provisions are transported through our county.
The post road is heavily damaged.
Imminent maintenance is needed.
They are family members of the men recruited to rebuild the roads.
But someone died?
Yes.
The road collapsed in one place the other day.
Several were buried.
It is the people's duty to do corvée labor.
It is unfortunate that someone died.
But the government will give them a compensation.
The officials and the people only need to obey the rules.
Why would it come to this?
My Lord!
We know that it is our duty
to do corvée labor.
But my husband was already forced to work four times this year.
The corvée lasting for nearly 2 months.
According to the rules,
we only need to do corvée work twice a year,
with each corvée lasting 15 days.
Ma'am. I'm sorry for your loss.
Do you not know that wartime means special circumstances?
But why then did my neighbor Niu'er
only served one time this year.
It should have been his turn to serve this time.
If your government were just and fair,
my husband would not have died!
♪ yòu shì yī chǎng yǔ ♪ ♪ It is raining again ♪
♪ jiù shì jiàn jiàn méi rén shuō qǐ ♪ ♪ Old stories are slowly fading into oblivion ♪
♪ shuí yuàn yì fù yī pán wú jiě de jú ♪ ♪ Who would want to replay an insoluble game of chess ♪
♪ gè zhí qí bù bù wéi yíng ♪ ♪ Move the pieces carefully every step on the way ♪
♪ wǒ bú zài dòu liú ♪ ♪ I won't be staying ♪
♪ chén nián de huí gān zhǐ shèng jiǔ ♪ ♪ The aged mellow has become wine ♪
♪ yǎng zhe tóu ràng huí yì hé lèi dào liú ♪ ♪ Head held high, let memories and tears flow backwards ♪
♪ gěng zhù hóu fēng dǔ xīn de chū kǒu ♪ ♪ Clogging the throat, sealing the heart ♪
♪ rèn huā luò xià ♪ ♪ Let the flowers fall ♪
♪ wèi gāo què piān duò rù xuán yá ♪ ♪ Fear the height, but tumbling down the edge of the cliff ♪
♪ duàn le zhī yā ♪ ♪ Broken branches ♪
♪ shí jiān cuī huà jié jiā ♪ ♪ With time the wounds start to heal ♪
♪ huā luò xià ♪ ♪ Flowers falling ♪
♪ cǎi tà guǒ rù ní shā ♪ ♪ Trod underfoot, wrapped in mud ♪ ♪ bú zhēng zhá suí jì yì fǔ huà ♪ ♪ Struggle no more, wilt away with the memories ♪
♪ rèn huā luò xià ♪ ♪ Let the flowers fall ♪
♪ wèi gāo què piān duò rù xuán yá ♪ ♪ Fear the height, but tumbling down the edge of the cliff ♪
♪ duàn le zhī yā ♪ ♪ Broken branches ♪
♪ shí jiān cuī huà jié jiā ♪ ♪ With time the wounds start to heal ♪
♪ huā luò xià ♪ ♪ Flowers falling ♪
♪ cǎi tà guǒ rù ní shā ♪ ♪ Trod underfoot, wrapped in mud ♪
♪ bú zhēng zhá suí jì yì fǔ huà ♪ ♪ Struggle no more, wilt away with the memories ♪
♪ nà huāng yuán céng kāi guò shèng xià ♪ ♪ In this wilderness, there once grew summer ♪