Epi. 17
Your Majesty
Dugu Jialuo was gathering her own army
Defying you and started a rebellion
Luckily Grand Master's residence troops and myself
Jointly overpower them?
May Your Majesty judge?saintly
She has started a rebellion
Your Majesty
There must be some misunderstanding
Brother Dugu
I know you care about your daughter
But the proof is so conclusive
Do you still want to lie to His Majesty?
Bring her in
Your Majesty
From Dugu family's ?Compassion House
Found all these things
The food and weapons here
Enough to equip thousand people
This rebel has confessed
Dugu Jialuo gathering her own army
Has been training secretly for quite a long time
Just few days ago
Even instructed them to disguise
And sneak into the capital
Probing around quietly
Brother Dugu
We are ministers serving the same kingdom
Also having a not bad relationship
But I still want to ask a question
Our army has departed for conquest
And the capital is empty
Yet your daughter is doing this
What is the actual motive?
Is this true?
This is really true
No matter how brave I am
Yet I do not dare to?accuse wrongly our Prime Minister
All these evidence
Your Majesty can order to be re-inspected
Luckily that today
I saw with my own eye that Dugu Jialuo was leading her army
And attacking the kingdom army
General Ge Shu can testified this too
Reporting, Your Majesty
That's true
But I think that…Its alright
You may dismiss
Your Majesty, you hear that
That's true
Oh Prime Minister
How do you explain this?
What do you say?
What is all this about?
Your Majesty
This has nothing to do with my father
Someone is setting up a trap purposely
This has nothing to do with this lady
I am the one who gathered all the village troopers
Jialuo
Are you dare
To speak in front of His Majesty
That these things
Is not found from your family Compassion House?
And all these village troopers are not yours?
Speak up
May Your Majesty judge saintly
I am the one who gathered all the village troopers
Recently there is?a fierce tiger appear at the East Mountain
We are only going to hunt for that tiger
Absolutely has no intention to rebel, Your Majesty
Nonsense
Some normal village troopers
How can normal village troopers be some?neat and organised
With so many?excellent weapons
Your Majesty
This person surnamed To
Was a trusted aide of Prime Minister
I?sincerely request for Your Majesty
To investigate this incident seriously
For an answer?to the overall public
Master Dugu
Your beloved daughter has done wrong
And you as the Prime Minister of our kingdom
Should not you be?step sided?
Your Majesty
I have failed in teaching my daughter
So, I should?return home and confine myself
After the official complete investigation on this incident
I
Will absolutely obey your saintly judgement
Just follow as you all have said
Come
Bring Dugu Jialuo
Detained into the prison awaiting for trial
Pull her away
Yes
Third lady has been?punished into the prison
What are you saying?
Master also can not do anything
Lady, please think of something quickly
Lady, are you alright?
Dong Qu
I came in secretly after bribed the chief warden
Only able to say few words
How is Fifth Brother?
Housekeeper has send someone to inquire
Master Fifth is?just fine at the army barrack
Master ask you not to panic
He is now in an awkward situation
Not convenient to come and rescue
But you do not worry
He will surely think of a way to rescue you
Help me to tell my father
He must not bother about me
This incident is clear
That?Zhao Gui purposely setup a trap
Of all the families and residences in the capital
Who do not have their own small troops
He purposely set up a trap
Inducing our men
To fight with Yuwen Hu
And then using the reason of rebellion
To pull?my father down
That is why I alone should bear all in this matter
Must not involved the whole family of Dugu
I have seen Captain To?
He said
It is better to blame all to him
You just say that you were going for hunting
And not aware of all others thing
This could not be
I am the one who get him here
If he is going to take all blame
Then,?won't I become an ungrateful person
Can not…I must leave now
Dong Qu, you must remember
Just follow as what Captain To said?in front of?His Majesty
We were just going out of the city for hunting
Due to being attacked by arrows
So, were accidentally
Conflicted with the Imperial Army
Regarding those things from?Compassion House
Are just to protect the garden...absolutely not to rebel
Alright
Lady has strongly reminded
That you must stay out of this
How can I stay of this?
Master…father…
Father, calm down...Master,?be careful of own self
Quick
Come…come…come
Sit…sit…sit
Go ahead
Its alright
This Zhao Gui obviously?directed at me
It was me that caused Jialuo to be thrown into the prison?
Worst case is that I will go into the palace and resign from my position
With the former Emperor's iron deed
Should be able to save Jialuo
Can not
Father
You mustn't resigned
Once you have resigned
This will just fulfil Zhao Gui's intention
That day, you just should not enter into the palace
If you didn't enter into the palace
This Zhao Gui has long dead
And so there won't be so many consequences
How about you?
If you were to listen to me earlier
And do not engaged in those intrigues
Then, it won't drag Jialuo into this
Am I not doing all this for the name of Dugu?
But now the one going to prison
Is your sister, Jialuo
Master...Eldest Lady
Both of you stop arguing
Allow me to say something
Master,
You absolutely should not resign?
Instead, should follow as what Jialuo said
Only to clean your hand and?stay out of all these
Zhao Gui nowadays is like a mad dog
He will bite you
Without position means loss of authority
By then, how do you protect
The few young masters that are still working as officers at other states
Even Eldest Lady and Second Lady
All will be dragged into this
Even though Dugu family issue is just a small matter
Master, have you ever?thought
That once Zhao Gui bring you down
Just based on this credit
Impossible not to replace you in the future
And able to stand up to?Yuwen Hu as an equal
He won't dare to do as like the?Hong Meng Yen (The Banquet)
But turning at the back
I?am sure that
Once Zhao Gui holds the power
The world will run into chaos.
In the end, the most suffering
Will be the civilian, right?
Father
Jialuo is my biologically sister
How could I not feel bad?
Even Jialuo has high notion of her responsibility
Like a warrior willing to cut her own waist
How about you…
How about you just fulfil her
No way
I will definitely not going to abandon Jialuo
How could I let her alone
To suffer inside the prison
Father
Jialuo will not suffer
I have already order my subordinate
To go to the prison and made all the arrangement
Furthermore
Jialuo is still young
Not even reach 16 years old
Is a little girl
If same as what she said
It was during hunting
That clash with the army
I believe if this to blame down
It won't be too harsh
Being the most
Is to go meditate for few years in the temple.
You need not to worry.
I am going to talk to the Empress now
I, Dugu?Xin, after having a smooth journey through my life
Can't imagine that even my own daughter
I can't protect her
Master…Lady…
The people of Compassion House knew that Third Lady has been captured
Purposely come over
To voice grievance on behalf of Lady
Lady Jialuo is not a rebel
All those village troopers are us at Compassion House.
As self defence preparation against those villain
That's right
It is not of any secret army
Lady Jialuo is not a rebel
Everyone, calm down…calm down
Be quiet…quiet
Family of Dugu is kind and generous
Those staying in Compassion House
Are old and sick like us
If they are rebel
Then we have become rebel too, haven't we?
That's right…Everyone, is that correct?
That's correct
Earlier I have just ate porridge from Dugu family
Dugu family is good man…good man…good man
Calm down…calm down
Thank you all village folks
I am here
To thank you on behalf of Jialuo
Master, don't worry
We are going to the court house now
To sound of drum of grievance
Lady is such a nice person
Definitely won't happen anything on her
Correct…correct…correct
We are going to redress the injustice for her
Jialuo is a good person
We are going to redress the injustice for her
Bring her here
Release me
Release me…release
Release…release me
Jialuo
Hold your horses
Can you see all these torture equipment here?
Let Uncle Zhao tell you that
These things
If were to use on your tiny body
Makes my heart ache just by giving it a thought
Tell me straight forward what you want me to do
Very simple
You just have to
Stamp you finger print on this?confession letter
And to read this once in front of the Emperor
Then Uncle Zhao will not?be tough on you
Zhao Gui
Do you think I am a 3 years old kid?
Don't fail to see what's good and what's bad for you
You are the one who fail to see what's good and what's bad
My father has saved your life before
Yet now you are doing this to him
This finger print
Are you going to stamp
Or not going to stamp?
I will not going to stamp
You are something
You will have to cut off my thumb
To stamp on it
Don't you forget that
The way you frame me is already a big?crime in Imperial Review
If you dare to?torture me
When we are in front of His Majesty
I will see how are you going to explain it
You are really clever
You thought that I can't punish you
Prepare for the punishment
Yes
Let me go…let me go
Don't worry
This will not ruin your beautiful appearance
Furthermore, it won't leave a single mark
Are you going to stamp or not?
Still not going to stamp?
I split
Go for the water punishment....go for the water punishment
Bring her up
Stamp or not?
Throw her down
Master
She has fainted
Splash to wake her up
Then continue again
Master
She has already wet till this condition
Afraid that useless to splash her some more
Then,?force her with medicine
No matter what
Must make her awake
Yes
All citizen around the capital
Are fighting for Dugu injustice
Princess of Ningdu
Has come to me to make an apology
And?willingly to?guarantee with her life
That Dugu Jialuo?absolutely has no intention to rebel
Your Majesty...how about
Princess of Ningdu herself is?not clean from problems
Yet she still dare to bail Dugu Jialuo
Your Majesty, don't listen to Zhao Gui
Prime Minister Dugu is the pillar in our government
How could he simply rebel?
Every rich residence having their own troops and this is quite normal
It must be some misunderstanding
You still speak for them
Do you know that
That Dugu Family and Yuwen Hu
Have already join up
Look at it yourself
This is?from the servant of Qing He's princess
Confession letter
Dugu Bore
Has been communicating with Yuwen Hu secretly much earlier
This Dugu Xin and YuWen Hu
Obviously join forces to put up a good show in front of me
Once I have?alienated Zhao Gui
That I will fall into their trap
No wonder
I have been wanted to get rid of Yuwen Hu numerous time
But this Dugu Xin has been?obstructing very hard
Dugu Xin
You are such a big time criminal
I can't wait to kill you whole family
Your Majesty
Your Majesty, please?calm down
This is a very important matter
Your Majesty, must remain calm
Your Majesty
If Dugu Xin really?has bad intention
Then why does he risk to?rush back to palace under the snow
He just has to let Yuwen Hu give the instruction
And those soldiers?waiting in ambush inside the palace
Will harm you
Furthermore
If really Yuwen and Dugu both families have?collusion
Why the troops of both families
Were fighting at the eastern suburb?
This must be from Zhao Gui, isn't it?
Your Majesty
This is really strange
How could Zhao Gui so coincidently
Encountered with Dugu Jialuo
Fighting with?Ge Shu
And also how come it is so easy
To?search out?troops and food at the Compassion House
I don't care
Anyhow, I just knows that
He, Dugu Xin?keep saying loyalty and patriotic
But secretly kept so many troops
Someone, come
Your Majesty
Thoroughly interrogate Dugu Jialuo for me
Must get the answer from the beginning
Faster go...Yes, Your Majesty
Yes...yes
I advise you better be more sensible
For this is the order from His Majesty
If you still do not confess
It won't matter if beating you to death
Then
It is a meaningless death
Forcefully beat
Wait...wait..wait
Wait...stop
How is it?
You...you
You let me down
I will confess
Faster untie...untie....quick
Paying respect to Priceness of Ning Du
This is the area of prison
Unauthorised persons are not allowed to enter
Who dare to stop me?
Your Highness
It is not I?want to block your way
But Minister Zhao has already gave order
Third Lady is?a serious criminal
Can not allow for any visit
The government has yet to announce
My sister is still a suspect
How to become
A serious criminal of the government and being deny for any visit
That Zhao Gui is just a Military?Minister
How can he control till the prison here?
Your Highness
Please don't make me miserable
Make way
Your Highness
Please go back
Stop the nonsense
Your Highness…this
Lead the way
Jialuo…Jialuo
Jialuo…Your Highness…how are you?
Third Lady hurt herself accidently
We have already ask for a doctor
It should be alright now
This is what you call self-induced
You wanna die, is it?
Chun Shi
Quick
Send Jialuo back to residence
Your Highness, this can't be
Come
By allowing you to come in here
I have already bear serious offence
But Third Lady is still a criminal
To transfer her out of prison
Must have royal decree
If you really want to bring Third Lady out
I
I have no choice to offend you
And then?to commit suicide to apologize to His Highness of Ning Du
Jialuo
Wait me for awhile
I will come back to rescue you very soon
I will going to get you the royal decree now
A normal person won't be so daring
Who did this?
Is it Zhao Gui?
How is it?
The Empress does not feel well today
Perhaps Princess should come back after awhile
I can't
My sister, Jialuo condition is very critical
Can not wait any longer
Please help me to notify again...quick
Lady...can not...can not
Your Highness
It is not that The Empress do not want to help you
The last time she was helping to?plead for your family Third Lady
Has already angered His Majesty
Or else
Perhaps you should go to beg from His Majesty directly
Princess of Ning Du, Dugu
Seeking permission to see Your Majesty
Princess of Ning Du, Dugu
Seeking permission to see Your Majesty
Princess of Ning Du, Dugu
Seeking permission to see Your Majesty
Reporting, Your Majesty
Ning Du...now only come over to beg from me
Ignore her
Just let her stand there
Yes
Bare
Come...get up quickly
My child
You are a married lady
There's no need to do this
Let father myself do this
Father
Is the?Prime Minister
What about this?
I as the Prime Minister
Can't seek an audience from His Majesty?
Prime Minister
It is so?unfortunate today
His Majesty has just fall asleep
Look for yourself
It's alright then
I will just wait at here
Whenever His Majesty wake up
Please help me to notify
Father
Can't be
Jialuo can not stand any longer
If to wait any further
Jialuo might dead inside the prison
What?
Officer
This is an emergency
Please help me to notify again
This...
Then, I shall go and do my best
Thank you for your help
Reporting, Your Majesty...Prime Minister seeks for an audience
Your Majesty...not seeing means not to see
So what about Prime Minister?
The moment when he collude?with Yuwen Hu
Why can't imagine days like this?
Officer
Prime Minister
I am sorry
This...
Chun Shi
Quickly return to residence
Ask from the Duke for the auspicious jade handle
I wanna to see
By having the auspicious jade handle from the former Emperor
Whether can meet up with His Majesty?
No, you can't
Bare
If you continue stubborn like this
It will only anger His Majesty much more
But Father
I, Dugu Xin
Weeping blood to seek for an audience
Princess of Ning Du, Dugu
Weeping blood to seek for an audience
Not seeing them
Means to see them
Just let them kneel till death
This is the person
That father has loyally?assisted to become the Emperor
You treat him as His Majesty
Treat him as The?Emperor
But what?did he think of us?
As a dog
As a pig
As an animal
Prime Minister
You all quickly get up
His Majesty has been drunk
You all don't?take it too seriously
Regarding Jialuo
I have already know about it
Although the case still unclear
But I totally understand your love towards your daughter
How about this?
I will send Imperial Doctor to the prison
To treat?Jialuo
And also to assign few lady servants to look after
No matter how
Will take care of her
When the time come
Either a trial or a judgement
We shall wait for His Majesty decision
His Majesty has persisted
This is the only thing I can do
May you
Out of respect to the former Emperor and also myself
Please do not?be offended by The Emperor
The Emperor himself is really too...
Too?panic and treat everyone as an enemy
I
Wanna to thank Empress for the deep?understanding
I will be?waiting with respect for Your Majesty saintly judgement
Either death or punishment
I will accept all with respect
Father
Bare
Let's us go back...father...Jialuo she
Let's go back
From the words of Master Dugu
It sounds a lot of?complain and hatred
If I were him
Not able to know my daughter condition
I might just do the same thing
Once I heard about the news
I rush here to get you
Jialuo...you don't worry
The Empress has a heart of benevolence and honesty
Definitely will send the best Imperial Doctor over there
Even though Jialuo is inside the prison
She won't has any serious problem
No serious problem?
How could you say there is no serious problem?
You didn't see her look inside the prison.
There is blood all over her body
She has suffered?a heavy injury
She will die inside the prison
She can not die
Jialuo is my precious
Is my sister that I upbring since small
She can not die...she can not die
Bare
I didn't know that Jialuo is that critical
But
But isn't father-in-law said
That even he himself can't do anything
He is sad
But my father is a loyalist
He said
The lord want the officer to die
Then the officer has to die
He dare not disobey the decree...he can't do it
Absolutely can not
I can not let Jialuo to die inside the prison
Absolutely can not
Ah Yu
I am begging you to help me, alright?
Alright
We have about three thousand troops at our residence
Let's us go back now
Deploy the troops
And force our way to the palace
Once Huwen Jue been captured
Then I can proceed to the prison to rescue Jialuo
Then I can rescue her
Bare...Bare
Calm down and listen to me
I know that you are?worry now
But you should not forget
This is?a major crime that will caused our heads
Think about this
Do you want to
Bet all others life just because of Jialuo?
Bare
I know that you are worry now
But you should not forget
We still have other?bargaining chips in hand
For example Zhao Gui
We still have the goods on Zhao Gui
How about this?
You go back and take a rest first
Early in morning tomorrow, I will go to look for him
Aware of the consequences
I believe he will be willingly?to come forward
To help reduce Jialuo's?charges
Is that alright?
Tomorrow
Your Highness?is really thoughtful
Don't worry
I will think of a way when back home
You must be tired after a day
Let's get back to take rest
Let us give this a further thought on this, alright?
I know that you care about me
But I don't feel like going home now
I am afraid that my father
Being too sad
And got into any accident inside house
Just send me back to Dugu's residence
Bare
Really don't need me to accompany you going in?
I think my father now
Don't have the frame of mind to?greet Your Highness
Right
Then...
You just spend time and keep father in law company
If it snow heavier
You just stay here tonight
No need to come home
Early in the morning tomorrow, I will come over to fetch you
Thank you, Your Highness
Don't tell my father that I came here before
Help me to prepare a carriage
Yes
I am useless
May master punish me
Can't blame you on this
Zhao Gui purposely choose
To launch an attack when I was not in the capital
His position is higher than you
If you don't listen to him at that moment
Perhaps this rebellion crime
Is not being charged on one Dugu family only
Really troublesome
If Bare knows that her sister had been threw into the prison
Can't imagine how sad she could be
Master
Princess of Ning Du at outside requesting to meet
I am begging you...rescue Jialuo
She can't stay in the prison any longer
I beg you
Let's go in
It's snowing outside here
I won't go if you don't promise me
Bare
Then you are here now
To beg me as the Princess of Ning Du
Or as the Dugu Bare to beg me
I am the sister of Jialuo
What happen?
Your beloved husband can't help you?
So, you are coming over to beg me now
Bare
You can not be like this
When?of no use
Avoiding me
When moment that I can be of use
Then straight away come over without any greeting
I am sorry
It is my fault
I should not use Jialuo matter
To make fun of you
Let's go in
We will discuss inside the house
I am begging you, alright?
I beg you
Jialuo injury is so critical?
Her injury is really very critical
It is useless even the Imperial Doctor is at he side
Based on Jialuo current condition
She absolutely impossible to stay in the prison
And it is snowing so heavy outside
It is so cold inside there
She won't be able to stand it
Only because of Jialuo
That you will cry till this
It's alright then
I am going to the palace now
Just to say that all this
Was a misunderstanding caused by?Ge Shu
And then you looks for someone to?take the blame at your side there
Do you think that Yuwen Jue
Can accept this as reason?
It is useless
Perhaps Yuwen Jue
Has heard some?slanderous talk from Zhao Gui
My father and I
Have been kneeling for so long under the snow
Yet he just don't want to meet up
Using illness as the reason
What will happen if you are going in now?
Will you force your way in?
Then, what you want me to do?
Deploy the?troops
Deploy the troops to seige the Imperial Palace
I am having three thousand troops with me now
Once both of us combined
My father will not?just sit there and do nothing
He has a very big army barrack outside the capital
Those people definitely will help out
Once Jialuo been rescued
This whole kingdom will be yours
Bare
Have you forgetten?
Those army barracks under your father supervision
Have been mobilised by me to?conquest Qi Kingdom
It is too hasty to deploy troops now
In fact, don't just say three thousand
I can even
Give you the five thousand troops that are guarding the capital
But don't you forget that
There are three thousand Imperial Palace guards
Plus Zhao Gui himself has quite a lot of troops
Now to siege the palace does not favour us of winning
Furthermore, if we are to win it tonight
Just with these eight thousand troops
Can stabilise this kingdom?
Most of my troops are still far away at the border
But those barbarian countries around the capital
Once they know that?the capital is having internal rebellion
For sure will rush up to seize the throne
By that time, I
Will be the replacement Emperor with a weak and detached troops
Which can be?killed by anyone
That's why you have decided
Not to help me rescue Jialuo?
Bare
I am sorry
I know that you worry about your sister
You said this before
That both of us are the most selfish person
Willing to let go of everything just to dominate the world
Correct
I do want to seize the throne
But must be done without any mistake
And only?when with full confidence of winning the battle
You need not worry too much
Jialuo has been so active all this while
With the Imperial Doctor looking after
Shouldn't be any problem
We'll just need to wait for another two or three days the most
And she should be able to release out
We can wait
But Jialuo can't wait
Bare
Since I am aspire to?seize the kingdom
I knew that?unpleasant things
Do happen all the time
Even me myself had lost you before
Therefore now Jialuo to suffer a little bit
Is nothing
How about this?
I really don't know what to do with you
You are taking advantage of me for loving you
My this whole life
Can never resist you ever once
Asking this world
How many years has passed
Only to have a chance rubbing shoulder
To meet again under the linden tree and reflective water
Our fate?engraved on the finger tips
Burning away years
Disturbed the emotion just as the dust
But can not fight against the time
Hundreds and thousands of misfortunate
The most difficult being to let you go
I am willing to wait for a lifetime
Such a long journey for a lifetime
But only to?hope for a moment?
That can engraved around the heart
Now
Can you deploy the troops?
If I able to come home safely
Let's us meet up every day, alright?