Candle in the Tomb: the Weasel Grave
(the entire story is fiction, any resemblance to real life events is purely coincidental)
Episode 6
Let's talk!
That gold, where did you get it?
From where?
Picked from the man-bear stomach...
Piss off!
Piss!
Does man-bear stomach come with gold?
Let me tell you,
Hu Bayi is idiot, but I'm not!
You hear that? My big bro is totally not idiot!
My big bro cannot be an idiot!
If any word I said is lie,
then let the thunder hit me!
Big bro.
He said more than one word!
Fatty, wake up!
Fatty!
What's the time?
Just past midnight.
Here, look.
So sleepy... - I finished drawing.
Do you see any pattern?
It's midnight, why do you keep me guessing?
I'm almost seeing silhouettes!
The stars in the sky and roads on the land.
Things must come around, before they go around.
I don't understand anything.
Look carefully, what do you see?
Fine. Tell us then.
How did you find gold from the man-bear stomach?
This man-bear...
was starving...
It raked in everything into its stomach...
What's buried underneath Mt. Tuan...
Do you know?
What???
Gold vein!
Big bro, he knows where the gold vein is!
Big bro, what is gold vein?
You know...
where the gold vein is?
This looks like a dragon.
It's a gold vein.
The dragon head points to northeast, tail to southwest.
In Feng Shui,
this is called "front mirror back support, side embraces", "water in the embrace".
The miners wanted to hold down this gold vein,
so they built a temple.
If you deduce backward with Feng Shui,
you can find the temple? If you find the temple, you find the gold?
Clever!
I say it here, this spirit temple cannot escape this mountain!
But such a large mountain area,
how many years do you need to find it?
Look again.
Anything familiar?
This looks like that man-bear cave!
Do you know where the gold vein is?
Where?
I scoured the mountain for so many years,
and finally found some clue.
OK bro.
Tell us where the gold vein is, and we won't let you down! You hear that? My big bro won't let you down!
Won't let you down!
It's hard to explain...
Paper...
Pen..
We don't have pen and paper.
A chopstick is fine.
Give him!
Take it!
My hands are tied...
How?
Big bro, hands are tied, how?
Untie him!
Big bro, we must not untie him!
The three of us can't beat him!
Big bro...
You see how strong he is?
Can we do it?
Are you scared?
Are you scared now?
We are the same kind of men.
You saved me,
how could I hurt you?
Right.
We are the same kind. Untie him.
Behave yourself!
Pick it up!
Come here, gold vein, gold vein!
This...
is the Mt. Tuan north slope.
This,
is the man-bear cave.
The gold vein...
is west of the man-bear cave...
What you drew...
if north slope is like this, and the man-bear cave is here,
then this is not west, west is here.
He was right, if west is here, then south is here.
West is of course here!
But man-bear cave is here...
Out of the way!
Big bro, west is here.
Here, right?
Big bro, save me! - We agreed not to fight! Release my brother!
I...
Get lost!
Your hair isn't even grown, you wanna me to tell everything?
Release my brother first! We can talk! Get lost!
Get me some warm food first!
Go go go, get... get food!
Go!
How about you eat this for starters?
I...
I chop you, I...
Let me go!
Big bro!
I'll get... I...
I take you down with me!
Quickly!
I got him!
Huang Niu, Bai Gou, hurry!
I got him! Hurry!
That way!
Strangle him!
Come here!
Bai Gou!
Come here!
Trip him! Trip his legs!
Come on!
Take him down!
Big bro...
Rabbits don't eat grass near the burrow, but man-bear does.
It's gluttonous and lazy, always foraging near its cave.
It must've dug up the gold nugget nearby.
The way you put it, I'm confused again.
What does the spirit temple have to do with man-bear?
Man-bear found the gold nugget, means it often appeared near the gold vein.
The spirit temple must be near too.
To find gold, one must find the temple. This man-bear pointed us a way.
I see.
This temple is close to man-bear's territory.
If you find the temple, you find the gold!
Old Hu, we are getting rich!
Don't get excited too soon.
I still feel, the old man's story is not complete.
What has he left out?
Things about the spirit temple!
Fatty.
Do you remember,
what's written on the lower right corner of the map?
You learned something, even know Japanese!
My grandpa dealt with the Japanese.
He has a Tokyo-accent, very authentic!
Yeah right, keep boasting!
What was written?
Showa year 11, by Osaka archeology team.
Does digging gold, require archeology team?
I also felt it's strange. - Right.
When we went to hunt man-bear, I left with Yanzi.
What did the old man discuss with you?
He said my ancestors were Mojin officers, now it's passed down to me.
Mojin officers?
What's that?
"Man lights the candle, ghost blows out the light".
"Raiders find tombs by seeking the stars".
There are 4 major schools of tomb raiders.
Faqiu generals,
Banshan taoists,
Xieling warriors...
And Mojin officers.
Mojin officers, is the only school among the four,
who used Feng Shui and astrology to find tombs.
So many jargons involved!
Your tomb-raider legacy totally doesn't show on you!
No wonder you enjoyed digging holes as a kid!
It's in your genes!
Each profession has its norms, and way of life.
What are you doing?
Brooding eggs?
Hurry up and go!
For what?
Didn't we agree to light the chicken roost first?
Yeah...
Big bro, my legs are numb, can't move!
Roll over! OK!
Damn, he's too single-minded... - You roll over too!
Hurry up!
I'm really not...
Go!
Fatty!
Go have a look! Fire! Fire! Get the coat!
Fatty, put out the fire!
What's going on? - Don't ask, put out the fire first!
Yanzi, careful!
Yanzi! - Who did this?!
Which bastard did this?
Water!
Fatty! - We don't have water!
What shall we do?
Yanzi, go get water!
Here here!
Fatty, over there!
Water is here! - Over there!
Yanzi, hurry!
Fatty! Here!
My gosh...
That way, go! - After him!
Xu Erhei!
Let's go back first!
Old Hu, have you lost anything?
What have you lost?
The map and the book are both gone.
Luckily the compass is with me, otherwise it's gone too!
Me and Yanzi know it's Xu Erhei just by looking at his back!
I know his place!
Let's go find him! - Let's wreck his home!
How come this room is so smashed up?
Easy!
Old Hu.
What is this?
My gosh!
Isn't this Hua Bangzi?
Isn't he held by the village secretary, how come he died here?
These bastards, how come they have this?
It's all your fault!
We didn't get the chicken, but almost burned my new outfit!
Why didn't you just die in the fire?
New outfit? I won't even take it for free!
If I groom myself in the new outfit, I look better than bridegroom!
Get lost!
I tell you, look at your punk face!
If you don't groom you're uglier than ghost, if you groom even ghost gets paralyzed!
What did you say? You wanna get messed up?
Mess me up! If you don't you are my son!
You wanna revolt?
Fine fine, I give up. I give up Ok?
I kick you!
You dare kicking me?! Stop! You little bastard, thinking you got better than me?
Stop right there! - Big bro, he hit me!
Enough!
You've been fighting the whole time!
Does keeping quiet kill you?
If you kill each other, do it away from me! Big bro, don't get mad!
Big bro, what's this book good for,
you never let it off your hands!
You usually raid graves. - Let me see!
Today you dig up a temple.
Big bro, don't we dig gold?
Did you not hear Hu Bayi?
You find the temple, you find gold.
He was bullshitting, you think he can be trusted?
He didn't bullshit...
He's a Mojin officer.
Not an idiot!
What do you want?
Dig!
A luoyan-shovel, customized too.
I heard all the master tomb raiders use this.
Don't know where Xu Erhei got it from.
Before the liberation, a group of bandits roamed the mountain. They called themselves "the digger army".
Xu Erhei's grandpa was their pathfinder.
Raiding graves or kidnapping, he did whatever brought money.
Xu Erhei was raised by his grandpa. He learned something more or less.
This bastard, with boils on the head and feet running with pus! He's deliberately opposing the Four Modernizations!
Hua Bangzi died in his home, he disappeared too.
He must've gone to the mountains to dig for stuff.
Most likely aiming for the gold vein.
If the gold falls into his hands,
then the revolutionary development of our village,
will suffer badly!
To find gold, you must find the temple.
I don't think he's capable. Why not?
He stole your book. And a map!
Map?
Drew it myself. - Why did you draw it?
To find ways! - The way that's right below your feet?
To find an untraveled way. - You found it?
I'll find it as I work on it. There won't be any delay.
It's fine if you figured it out.
When the time comes,
I go with you into the mountain.
Old man,
before we go, we wanna hear a story from you. Which one?
In the weasel spirit temple, other than gold,
what else is there?
The clay statue of weasel spirit,
incense burner, and a bronze bell.
What else is there in a temple?
I'm not asking about these.
What do you wanna know?
The things you know,
but we don't!
Geomancy is not child's play. If you don't tell us everything,
we don't feel safe.
This work, cannot be done!
I heard there's a bronze locker.
With the relic of the weasel spirit inside.
This relic guards the temple.
More precious than gold?
It's all hearsay, nobody actually saw it!
Now you said it, I understand.
Understand what?
Gold is important, the bronze locker too.
No matter which we find, we contribute to the socialism construction!
Do you think...
it is true?
Perhaps...
it is true.
Yes! It is true!
Here!
Here.
Let me dig some here.
Big bro, digging this rock is too hard!
Let's take a break, OK?
The weasel can run, but the temple can't. Fine.
Let's call it for the day, we continue tomorrow.
Shit, so tired.
Let me light you a cigaret!
Big bro, just like you said, look!
Big bro... Two weasels!
The gold is dead, can't run.
Let's catch the two live weasels first.
Don't look that way! Act like nothing happened!
You two play a bit, start playing!
Play? Big bro, let's play shamanistic ritual!
Alright.
Er Langshen has arrived! (3-eyed warrior god)
Heavenly Queen Mother too!
Encircle and flank them!
Bai Gou, you go that way.
Huang Niu, that way!
Watch my sign! Go!
Get them!
My butt! - My leg! - Get up!
Don't touch my leg!
Where are you two? - Big bro, here!
My waist...
Even the flashlight stopped working...
Match! Big bro, please calm down first, don't get mad.
I said "match"!
Match... Bai Gou has some!
I have match? I only have chicken feet.
You only know to eat! Hurry!
Big bro, chill, I have it.
Big bro, here.
What is this place?
Give it to me!
Big bro...
Why do I feel this place is a bit evil?
This place...
Looks like the ghost...