The Legend of Chinese Zodiac
♫The twelve zodiac signs form a mystery♫
♫The grand thousands of worlds follow one order♫
♫Rat year, Ox year, Tiger year, Rabbit year♫
♫Dragon year, Snake year, Horse year, Sheep year, Monkey year, Rooster year, Dog year, Pig year♫
♫For generations, leaving countless legends behind♫
♫Who am I? You, who are you?♫
♫He isn't himself, you are not yourself♫
♫You disguise as me, I play you♫
♫Turning and tossing, the twelve signs can reach your inner self♫
♫The twelve zodiac signs form a mystery♫
♫The grand thousands of worlds follow one order ♫
♫Rat year, Ox year, Dragon year, Snake year, Horse year, Sheep year, Monkey year, Rooster year, ♫
♫Dog year, Pig year♫
♫For generations, leaving countless legends behind♫
♫Leaving countless legends behind♫
♫Who am I? You, who are you? He isn't himself, you are not yourself! Who am I? You, who are you? He isn't himself, you are not yourself!♫
♫You disguise as me, I play you♫
♫Turning and tossing, the twelve signs can reach♫
♫Can reach your inner self♫
♫The twelve signs all put on a show♫
♫With the theme being the brewing of the taste of life♫
♫Rat year, Ox year, Tiger year, Rabbit year♫
♫Dragon year, Snake year, Horse year, Sheep year, Monkey year, Rooster year, Dog year, Pig year♫
♫Offspring multiply for myriads of generations in an endless chain♫
♫Men take law from Earth, Earth takes law from Heaven,♫
♫Heaven takes law from the Dao. The law of the Dao is its being what it is. ♫
♫Men take law from Earth, Earth takes law from Heaven,♫
♫Having the law of the Dao, this world can be well-behaved♫
Episode 13
Timing by The Zodiac Warriors and Ninja Academy and Subtitles Brought to you by The Zodiac Warriors Team
Look over there!
- This camel is really big.- So high.
Wandering travelers!
Always on the move! Master Lan's troupe! Tremendously miraculous!
This is the circus Kuwa's mother talked about yesterday.
I've heard that there is no monkey there who lacks performance abilities.
Right, and there's the toxic person soaked in a poison jar.
Look.
Brother Mi, Brother Mi,
Brother Mi, Brother Xing Hu.
Buzz off.
Okay, okay, go!
I want to get in.
How many visitors? If you want to see our Master Lan's troupe performance,
it's thirty coins each, thank you.
- What?- What? Thirty coins? It's a sheep's worth.
Do you see any sheep around? Master Lan's troupe show
is however one of an international expertise.
That's right, international expertise.
- Brother Mi, Brother Xing Hu...- Don't, don't...
- Brother Mi- Okay, okay, thirty coins it is.
- Brother Xing Hu, that's great.- Take.
Hey. Hey, wait.
-You...- I say we let Xue Lian and Little Fish go and watch it.
We won't watch these cheap acrobatics.We'll wait for them outside.
You go in and watch.
Good, good, give me the money.
I'll take it by myself.
Come, I'll give you money.
Let's get inside.
There it is.
- Come and see!- Come and see Master Lan's troupe!
- We're going- Go, go go,
- That's right..
One show costs thirty coins? it must be a mistake.
It's a rare opportunity, let them watch it.
So expensive, one could get two sheep for it.
I'll go aside, huh?
See whether there's any clue for yesterday's kid-kidnapping thief.
This money bag, you take it.
Be careful. Okay, go.
Extremely marvelous!
Gather up to see the show!
- Visitors!- Gather up to see the show!
- Good, great! Look!
What is that?
Hello all! I am the master of this troupe, Master Lan.
And to all of the wandering friends who gathered by fate to watch our marvelous show,
thank you!
Ladies and gentleman, please keep calm.
Our marvelous show begins right away!
- Great!- Great!
Put in some more force. Quick, quick.
Good!
Good! Great!
Sister Xue Lian, look!
Good! Good.
Great! Great!
Ladies and gentleman, more marvels are coming!
Next, please welcome our burning man!
Great! Great!
- Terrific!- Okay, sit down.
- Great! Terrific! Excellent!
Great! excellent! Terrific!
Good!
Ladies and gentlemen, next is our Master Lan's troupe's
most astonishing show: the toxic man.
-Good!- Look!
What is this thing?
Look at this, what is it?
Yes, what is it?
Ladies and gentlemen, look carefully.
Within the jar in front of your eyes
is the bubbling liquid poison of world's most venomous creature.
The poisonous liquid within this poison jar, if one of us regular people will stay in it for a short while,
his death is quite certain.
- Really?- Is that for real?
I don't believe it.
If you do not believe, ladies and gentlemen,
we can just test it!
Great! I'll go!
You can't go.
Who dares go? We may die.
Whoever wants to gamble their life can go.
Okay!
Wait, come back.
Very impressive.
- So ferocious.- Yes.
- Great!- Great!
Great! Quiet! Quiet!
Everyone, listen carefully.
This poisonous man in the jar is called Lan Yan.
Having a mysterious disease since he was young
Is the only reason he can survive soaked in this poisonous jar.
By now he has been growing within this poison jar
for ten years already!
Great! Next, our Lan Yan from the jar
will play a tune for us all.
Sister Xue, having a person living in such a toxic liquid,
Is realy a very bizarre thing.
Great! great!
Sister Xue, what's wrong?
I was just thinking, that toxic person in the jar is quite pitiful, isn't he?
Being obligated to always sit in this
jar full of toxic liquid, living a life of suffering.
Bravo!
Young lady, my name is Mi Junfei.
Jun is the jun from yingjun. (T/N - Handsome and talented)
Fei is the fei from feichang yingjun. (T/N - Extremely handsome and talented
Who wants to know your name?
By counting on my fingers and looking again at your face,
I could tell you want something. And it all became clear in my heart.
- Swindler.- You don't believe me.
If you don't believe me you can test me.
If I guess correctly, you can be with me.
Be off with you!
Then close your eyes and don't peek.
I don't believe that you can correctly guess which of my hands has the rock in it.
You'd be sure of it in a moment, won't you?
Come on.
Ready?
Yes, alright. You mustn't peek.
Young lady.
Many thanks, young lady, for helping me find my purse.
Otherwise, if I was
not careful it might have been stolen by a thief.
Open your eyes.
Go! Hey. Really bad-mannered.
Beat it!
Are you alright?
- Have you been injured? - Are you alright?
Young man, I see that within your looks there conceals obscurity.
The saying goes "losing riches may prevent a disaster, money is like dung."
It would be best if you didn't take it so seriously.
Old man, don't be angry. Look out, something's about to fall down.
Hey, I'm a poor man, when I'm rich I'll come to relieve your distress.
These people just now may be said to have some talent.
But a crude snatcher like you is really a bad taste.
Thanks for letting me win!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
What's gotten into you? Damned fool!
You're still not helping me up, idiot!
Slowly, slowly.
What are you up to? such a character.
- If my child has any problems I'll come and get even with you.- Sorry.
Sorry.
Let's go. I saw a place over there selling rations. We'll go and buy them back.
What's the matter?
Ladies and gentlemen. Below me is the last act on our program.
It is our Master Lan's Circus town-level treasure!
The divine monkey of a hundred transformations!
Good, good. It looks really good.
Come out. Come out!
Come out. Come out now.
Go over there. Hurry up, get over there.
Monkey, transform well and let all our guests see.
Show them why you're called the divine monkey of a hundred transformations. Transform.
- Bravo. Bravo.- Good.
- Hurry up and transform. - Transform.
Great!
- Good!- Good. Bravo. Good.
Transform.
- Good!- It transformed, it transformed.
Sister, is that real?
I never imagined that this monkey could understand the art of transformation.
So awesome! It would be great if we had one.
Hey, sister, why won't we just buy it?
However, Brother Xiao Hu and Brother Mi probably won't allow it.
Good, good, good.
Applause. A round of applause?
Little Fish, look at the expression in that monkey's eyes.
Isn't he bearing a human-type sorrow?
Today's performances have come to an end.
I wish everyone a long life, and may all your wishes come true.[TN - 2 idioms: Long life 100 years old; 10,000 things as you desire.]
Come back next time. Come back next time. Come back!
Little monkey, is there something you want to tell me?
Damn monkey, damn monkey. You still want to escape.
Troupe Leader Lan, it's a sentient being. You must not hit it again.
That's right. He's simply a money-spinner. (T/N - Chinese idiom: Shake-money tree)
If you hit it, you simply can't tell right from wrong.
Of course I know how to handle my monkey. Let's go.
You!
Little Fish.
Sister Xue, why won't you let me save that monkey?
It's inappropriate. However, looking at that Troupe Leader Lan Tong, although he appears fearsome
he appears to care about that monkey. He is only grabbing the areas of tough skin on him.
I do think that that monkey
seems to have something on his mind, and wants to tell me something.
Oh, Sister Xue. If the monkey has something on his mind,
and he tells us, it will increase that Troupe Leader Lan's bullying.
He'll want to make a run for it.
But, just now that monkey
kept pointing backstage.
Could there be something fishy behind the stage?
Lock it in.
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That's strange. How come I can't see Brother Hu and Brother Mi?
I really can't work you out. You're usually such a cunning individual.
Now you somehow let someone pickpocket your money.
I can explain, Xing Hu. Little Hu, Big Brother Hu. Just don't scold me.
Doesn't everyone make mistakes? [TN - Chinese proverb: Men stumble when walking, horses stumble when galloping.]
Our highest priority now is to use trickery to get the money back straightaway.
It's not for me, it's for Xue Lian and Little Fish.
Otherwise they will starve to death.
It's good that you know this.
Hey, hey, hey. Actually, I have a plan. But you need to be my assistant.
Hey, do your really want to do this?
It's for Xue Lian and Little Fish.
This is the only way.
- But.- No buts. Look. The crowd is swelling. Get ready.
Hey, hey, hey. Always moving,
walking past, passing through. Don't pass by this!
An even-better performance than the Lan clan's performance troupe!
I have come to your precious lands
only for the purpose of earning some money for food. I only wish that you great masters who are passing by,
if you have money, please support me. If not,
please borrow money from someone, then come support me.
The performance is about to start.
- Brother, this part depends entirely on you.- Performing what?
For Xue Lian's and Little Fish's sakes,
I'm begging you. Come on.
- Come, come on. - Just this once.
Get started. Hurry up. Hurry up. - What are you performing?
Great! Good.
Go on, go on. Who's watching anyway?
That's good.
Good. Come into the center. Do it in the middle.
-Excellent.-Look what good you've done.
Good.
Hey, hey, hey.
Do something original. Everyone's leaving.
Break rocks, break rocks. Right now, break some rocks.
Hey! Everyone come back and have a look!
He's going to break rocks.
Rock breaking. Hurry up, come and look. Rock breaking.
Here you go, have a look. Go on, break one. Hurry up.
Great! Bravo!
Alright. As expected, extraordinary power!
Great! A round of applause. Alright, alright.
I wasn't lying, it is even more brilliant!
- Let me borrow one of your sweet potatoes.- That's fine. Take it.
Roast sweet potato!
Bravo, bravo!
Excellent. Wait a moment. We can roast things, but the limit is one per family. What else do you want to roast? Bring it out.
Alright, alright. Roast squash. Good.
Roast squash.
Great! Bravo!
How about roasting something else?
Roast watermelon!
Hurrah! Great!
Wow. Wow.
Excellent.
Excellent? Come on.
Everybody cheer!
Here we go, many thanks, many thanks. Give us a cheer.
Come, come. Support us.
Thank you, thank you. Support us, please support us.
Excellent, thank you everyone.
-Excellent, thank you.-Perform again.
Thank you everyone. Support us, please support us.
Excellent.
Look. So much.
- I can't forgive you.- Don't be angry.
Hey, hey, hey! Don't go.
What's happening? Why are they leaving?
You have secretly come to my town to sell your talents.
Do you have our approval?
Who are you? Why do I need your approval?
Who are we? We are this town's Imperial bodyguards.
It appears that I have not let you bumpkins see our ferocity.
You don't know how high as heaven and deep as earth it is. (T/N Chinese idiom: how immense it is)
I have been accustomed to the wild. I have no idea how immense the heavens and the earth are.
What?
- It's a good thing it wasn't me getting a beating.- You're next.
Hey. You wouldn't.
Great Heroes. Great Heroes.
Little Fish, why is it that we still can't find them?
I know! Brother Xiao Hu has a short temper. They probably went back earlier.
That seems reasonable. Let's go back and have a look. Let's go.
Great heroes. Save our children.
Get up immediately.
What's going on?
I'm begging you, take this. Rescue my daughter from her wretched life.
We're begging you.
Help me get my daughter back. Will you, heroes? I'm begging you.
Countless children have gone missing in recent days.
We can only blame the guards for being useless. They are not able to capture the perpetrators.
We are losing children every day.
We have seen your extraordinary prowess.
On behalf of the kidnapped children,
please help us capture the perpetrator and rescue the children.
We will never forget your grace and goodness.
-We're begging you. -Don't worry. We will do everything in our power to find your children.
Excellent. Now, can everyone please tell us the circumstances under which the children were taken.
That way we can investigate any leads.
-I'll speak first.-I'll speak first.
Why haven't Brother Mi and Brother Xiao Hu returned yet?
They're two grown men. Nothing will happen to them.
Besides, Brother Xiao Hu is adept at fighting. Why are you worried?
If Brother Xiao Hu was with us, he would have ferociously beaten that entertainment troupe.
Then he would've snatched back the monkey.
That cannot be done under any circumstance.
No matter what, that monkey is a part of the entertainment troupe.
But Sister Xue Lian, didn't you think that monkey was pitiful?
He put in so much energy to earn money for them, yet they beat him.
Unacceptable. I must rescue him.
The more I think about it, the more upset I am. That Master Lan is bullying me because I am small and can't beat him.
If I can't beat him, I can steal the monkey.
Right, Sister Xue Lian. Why don't we go steal that monkey?
Then while we're searching for the twelve Zodiacs, we can see it transform. It will be very entertaining.
That won't do. You are too kindhearted,
but you don't think before you act. You have a ruffian's temperament.
Look at you, Sister Xue Lian. Why do you always regard me as a child?
But you are a child.
Right, Sister Xue Lian, we have been too focused on entertainment.
We forgot about searching for the twelve zodiacs.
I'll go look for Brother Mi and Brother Xiao Hu now.
Let's go together.
No, Sister Xue. You stay here to look after matters.
Otherwise, if they come back before I do, then they'll have to search for us again.
If we search for them and they search for us, we won't be able to meet until morning.
You are correct. Hurry back then.
Yes, I will follow your orders.
Sister Xue, please don't blame me.
I am acting on heaven's behalf to
rescue that pitiful, mistreated monkey.
It's still early now, but once it gets dark and no one is around,
then that will be the moment I act.
Let's go over there and look around.
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None of this dirt is freshly dug up.
We have already skirted to the outskirts of the Xing Yi city, but have not encountered any freshly dug up earth.
What do you think?
That means that there hasn't been any burials near here recently.
That's correct. Don't you remember those people who lost children had all speculated
something in common? Do you remember?
They said that all the lost children were of the roughly the same age.
They were all around ten years old. But when we were scouting out the people of Yi City,
no one has discovered these children's bodies.
You mean to say?
We can speculate that the children are still alive.
Then that's good.
Also, that masked person from last night is still kidnapping children.
How could so many living children disappear into thin air?
-So?-This means that these children are still alive,
and they must be hidden somewhere in the city.
This matter involves the lives of many children. We cannot be careless.
Although they are still alive now, if we are late,
then it is difficult to tell if they will remain alive.
True. But the most troublesome matter now is
that this masked person's actions are difficult to predict.
We have no idea where to start.
Be careful.
-Halt. -Hey.
Halt.
Hurry and speak. Who sent you to kill us?
Speak.
Hey!
Why did you use so much strength? He's dead.
How would I know that he's fragile, like a sheet of paper?
-It's over. He's dead.-I didn't do it on purpose.
Despicable. We let him escape again.
This isn't good. If someone has come to kill us,
then Xue Lian and Xiao Yu'er must be in danger now.
Then, let's return first.
Xing Hu was just here. Kill him.
It's about time.
There's so many animals here. The little monkey must be here.
Little monkey. I've come to save you.
How do I open this?
What is that sound?
I'll save you in a little while.
Everyone can go back.
Yes.
Great Master Lan.
So it's you. Leave now. Don't come back.
You're letting me go so easily?
You don't want to leave?
What's the matter?
Men.
- Take him away.- Yes.
Xiao Yu'er.
Why didn't Brother Hu and Brother Mi return yet?
Could it be that something really happened?
Brother Xiao Hu, Brother Mi, where were you?
We got help requests from Yicheng villagers and went out to investigate the child kidnapping issue.
- Where is Little Fish?- Right.
He went out very early to find you. Didn't you see him?
No way.
Could it be that...
Impossible, impossible. Little fish is nimble, and also clever. It couldn't be.
We still don't know how this kidnapper works. It's really hard to tell.
Brother Hu, Brother Mi, what are you saying?
- We'll talk later!- We'll talk later!
Go, find Little Fish, quick!
- I want to go back home.- I also want to go back home.
- Let us go.- Let us go.
- We want to go back home.- Let us go!
- Let us go.- I want to go back home.
I want to go back home.
We want to go back home.
Hey, how did you get here too?
We want to go back home...
No way, you were all caught for stealing the monkey?
- Let us go.- We want to go back home.
Speak! Hey!
Don't be so loud, if they'll hear you,
they will whip us.
What is this all about?
My name is Yingying.
We were all taken by them.
They closed us in here and do not allow us to make a sound.
If we yell,
they hit us with the whip,
or threaten to kill us.
This time I'm in trouble.
Brother Hu! Brother Mi! Help!
Anybody there? Save me!
- Little Fish!- Help!
No one there.
It's of no use, let's split up and search.
Very well.
- Little Fish!- Little Fish!
- Little Fish!
- Little Fish!- Little Fish!
- Little Fish!
- Little Fish!- Little Fish!
What do you say?
These two are really ferocious.
Reporting to the troupe's leader: every word is true.
Are they indeed ferocious, or do you use it as an excuse
to avoid being punished for not doing your duty?
I wouldn't dare!
You'll get one more chance. Watch over these two.
If you have an opportunity, act. If you fail again,
you know what the consequences are.
-Go. -Yes.
Stop crying. It's annoying.
You can't cry right now. Hurry and think of how to escape.
Little Fish, you've already been thinking all day.
Have you thought of a solution?
I'm locked in a cage. I can't go up and I can't go down.
At this moment, there truly isn't a solution.
I hope that Brother Xiao Hu discovers that I'm gone and comes to rescue me.
I can only act as the situation allows.
Brother Monkey has come, Brother Monkey has come!
- Brother Monkey!- Brother Monkey!
Did you bring anything good to eat? Give it to us.
Give me some, give me some.
I would like some. Thank you.
Brother Monkey, over here.
Brother Monkey, I want some.
Brother Monkey!
What is going on?
We all call him "Brother Monkey".
We hardly have any food in here.
Some children have starved to death. One day Brother Monkey came in,
and we begged him to bring us food and he understood.
Every day, he will steal food for us.
He is indeed a spirited monkey.
I came to rescue him. That's why I was captured.
Brother Monkey!
I understand now. You wanted to tell me and Sister Xue
that there were a lot of children trapped here, correct?
I have a plan. Go find
that woman who was wearing white who protected you after the performance. Tell her to come save us.
Then Brother Xiao Hu will surely come with her.
Have them come rescue us. Do you understand?
Excellent. Our escape is dependent upon you.
Brother Monkey, you must find them!
Little Fish, Little Fish.
Where are you?
Little Fish.
This isn't a solution. We've already searched many times and we can't find anything.
Of course it's very difficult. Think about it, we don't have a single clue right now.
How are we supposed to search?
If that's the case, I'll search every house, one by one.
You want to search one by one? How many houses are there in Yi City? When are you going to search until?
You haven't even tried yet and you want to give up?
Fine. If you want to search, you need permission as well. We aren't Imperial guards.
-Fine. You want to waste time here instead of searching? Fine. I will go search.-Wait, don't.
-What monster is this?-Let's beat it first.
Wait, Brother Xiao Hu, Brother Mi, I think I recognize him.
Are you that monkey from the entertainment troupe?
Do you want to take me somewhere?
Where do you want to take me?
What is he trying to say?
It looks like he's trying to say that someone is going to be killed.
And he wants us to rescue them.
- Don't tell me...it's Little Fish?- This...!
Let's not worry about that now. Let's go with him first. At that time we'll know what is happening.
Hurry, hurry. Let's go.
Hurry.
Wait, wait, wait.
-What are you doing? -Listen to me.
The place that the monkey is referring to is most likely the entertainment troupe's large tent.
This is very odd and strange. Maybe this is related to the people who ambushed us with the golden needles.
This is a very dangerous and unpredictable situation. How about we let Xue Lian return first, to avoid danger?
True. We can't let Xue Lian be in any more danger.
You go tell her. She will think I'm tricking her.
Xue Lian. Mi Junfei and I have discussed it already.
We're afraid that Little Fish may have already returned to our dwelling.
How about we split up? Mi Junfei and I will go to the entertainment troupe tent to see what the situation is.
You go back first to ensure Little Fish's safety.
Don't say anything more. Hurry and go.
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♫Oh, world♫
♫We are born and die within your bosom♫
♫Our sorrow and joy dance freely upon your body♫
♫You are our home, from antiquity till now.♫
♫We cherish you forever.♫
♫You are the most intimate source of nourishment.♫
♫Please don't reveal your dark side randomly.♫
♫We should make your regions of land become a peaceful and fertile place,♫
♫and get the fruits of endless happiness,♫
♫spread their fragrance freely.♫
♫Satisfying, ripening♫
♫our endless hopes. ♫