Epi. 42
Mistress. Too bad.
What happened?
The little girl who lives in Dugu's mansion is sick.
She is now in critical situation.
Steward dares not….
I go back immediately.
Jian.
I have to go back immediately.
The little girl is my relative's daugther.
She has been staying in our house all the while.
She is Lihua?
You….
When do you know that?
I know about her quite sometime ago.
Don’t worry.
I won't tell others.
Forget it.
It's unstable outside.
Let me go with you all.
Thank you.
I didn’t mean to hide from you.
But this matter is too complicated.
It doesn’t matter.
I have figured it out clearly.
I don't blame you.
Indeed.
What happened to Lihua?
Nanny is coward.
She heard that empress has passed away,
she thought our mansion would fall soon.
So, she left a letter and ran away.
This side yard seldom has people to come in.
Now only I find out that no body is taken care of little master,
It's my fault.
Mistress.
Please punish me.
Don’t say so much now.
What did doctor say?
He feeded her medicine, and gave her injection.
He said her fever would be gone tonight.
What if her fever isn't gone?
No.
Lihua will be fine.
Lihua.
Don’t say so much nonsense.
Give me some liquor.
But….
Use liquor to wipe her body,
her fever will be gone.
When I was in the battlefield, I used to do that.
I go to take now.
You don’t know where do I put.
I will go to get it.
Luckily you're here.
Since I'm here,
I can't do nothing but just to sit here, right?
Well. Lihua.
Here.
Be good. Lihua.
Be good.
Be good. Lihua.
She is better now.
Lihua. Don’t cry.
Lihua. Don't do that.
She will choke.
Lihua. Be good.
Don’t cry.
Let me hug you.
It's alright.
Lihua. Be good. Don’t cry.
Little Lihua. It's alright.
Don’t cry.
Be good.
Lihua.
Why not you wear my dad's cloth first?
Sorry.
Lihua is still very young.
It's nothing.
Since she is your daugther,
I will treat her as my biological daugther as well.
Thank you.
But you have to remember,
you can only love me in future.
Of course.
Okay.
It's worth since you say so.
Mistress. Lihua has awaken.
Let's go.
Okay.
Her fever is gone.
Are you at ease now?
Jian.
Thank you.
I was really scared just now.
After lossing my sister,
I was so worried that I would lose someone I love again.
You worried too much.
It's normal that child will fall sick when they're growing up.
Why not bring Lihua to Yang's mansion after she gets well?
So that you can see her everyday,
and feel at ease?
This is not convenient.
Lihua's background is too complicated.
It doesn’t matter.
You can continue saying that she is your relative's daugther.
If you don’t mind,
you can also say that she is my concubine's daugther
So that it is reasonable for you to raise her up.
Lihua is the burden of Dugu's family
I don’t want to drag you into this matter.
I have told you many times.
Your business is my business.
If you grow her up in Dugu's mansion without a proper reason,
it's not a long term solution.
Bring back Lihua to mansion,
I will treat her as my biological daugther.
When she grows up,
I will give her wonderful dowry.
Thank for your kind intention.
But I have to think about it.
After all,
Lihua's background is very unique.
The politic situation is so unpredictable now.
Jian.
I didn’t meant to reject your offer.
It's just that… I understand.
You're right.
It's a big matter to change surname of Yuwen's daugther.
Why not I go back first,
and you discuss with Yuwen Hu later?
Why do I have to discuss with him?
Don’t worry.
I won't think too much.
I don’t mind he is your ex.
You can tell him that this is my proposal.
When Lihua stays in Yang's mansion in future,
he can still come to visit her anytime.
After all, they are father and daugther.
I can understand.
What are you saying?
I mean,
Yuwen Yong can come to see his daugther anytime.
I won't stop him.
Isn't this enough?
Er…
Master.
Are you thinking that Lihua is Yuwen Yong and young mistress's daugther?
Well.
Stop pretending to me.
Isn't Lihua calling you mother,
and calling him father?
You…
Come out with me.
So,
you thought Lihua is Yong and my Illegitimate daugther?
No wonder you spoke to me strangely
and wanted to bring back Lihua to mansion
to treat her as biological daugther.
Isn't it right?
Lihua looks like you.
You're really a fool.
Lihua looks like me,
and her surname is Yuwen. That's right.
But I'm still a virgin,
I'm unable to deliver her.
She is…
She is Yuwen Hu and my sister's daugther.
Do you still remember my sister miscarried in Longxing Temple?
The baby is safe actually.
The baby is Lihua?
You will understand if you look at her eye.
She has a special outlook.
People will know her background if they see her.
So, I raise her up secretly in the side yard.
She is too young and can't differentiate people.
Nanny doesn’ teach her properly also.
So, she always call me mother.
Yong will come to visit her sometime.
So, she calls him dad also.
I didn’t expect that you have misunderstood.
It's nothing.
Lihua,
when you grow up,
I will buy you delicious food.
That's great.
Lihua's fever is gone.
Master's fever is gone too, right?
What an impolitely maid.
Yes.
I'm wrong.
Don’t hold it.
Just laugh if you want to.
Well.
It's still sister's national mourning period.
But, it's good to bring Lihua to Yang's mansion.
So that she can be in the mourning event openly.
Yes.
What are you doing?
I would like to say thank you on behalf of Lihua and mistress.
In the past, I felt that you're unrealiable.
Now,
I can pass mistress to you without worry.
Who do you think you're?
What an arrogant person.
But,
I have something don’t understand.
Master.
How do you know about Lihua's matter?
Who told you that Lihua is mistress' Illegitimate daugther?
We have to go to the guest house for this matter.
Say it quickly if there is anything.
I'm busy.
Oh. Yes.
Elder sister said that,
after she left,
each of us can take half of her belonging.
I will take the cash.
As for property and jewelry,
please send to Longxi after encashment.
In addition,
officer Wang said that
her imperial maid are all very capable.
So, I'm going to bring them all.
Please stop packing.
I have something to ask you.
why do you cheat me that Lihua is Jialuo and Yuwen Yong's daugther?
Isn't she their daugther?
Your boyfriends are many.
Yang Jian.
Seem like she has more than one cuckold
Dugu Mantuo
It's enough.
Second sister.
Lihua's background isn't what you think.
She is sister's daugther.
With who?
Yuwen Hu.
Yuwen Hu doesn’t know about this actually.
If you still care about relationship,
please don’t spread this news everywhere.
Sister wanted to keep this secret during her lifetime.
I think Lihua is unwiiling to know her mother was killed by her dad.
Okay.
I will keep the secret.
It's my return for receiving elder sister's heritage.
Second sister.
I haven't been asking you for all this while.
Aren't we a family?
When did I offend you?
Why do you keep on the frame me up?
The accident is a case.
Duke of Longxi is another case.
And now, it's Lihua's case.
Because I hate you.
My talent and beauty are comparable as you and elder sister.
It's just because I was born by concubine,
I was looked down by others all the while.
Elder sister,
you,
father,
Li Bing.
All of you destroy me gradually.
You took my brother Jian.
You took my happy life.
You make me lost my baby.
Now I still need to pack my thing and go back Longxi sadly.
What else you want me to be?
Sister and I harm you?
Have I done anything terrible to you?
Have sister done anything let you down?
Didn't she send officer Wang to help you?
Didn’t she promote you to be princess?
I don’t want her to pity me and give me all these.
I just want what I want.
Which part am I weaker than you?
Why can't I be the empress?
Why can't I marry to brother Jian?
Why did she give me a title of princess after you?
Why insult me in the palace when you ran away from home?
I hate you all.
Why did elder sister pass away?
Why did she carry a dead fetus?
I thought I could be an imperial aunty in proud.
I thought I could go back to Longxi in honor.
It's all gone.
Sister left miserably.
She even planned for us when she left the world.
But you're still complaining her now.
I don’t want to see you all again.
In future,
let's break off all our relationship.
I don’t bother whether you're good or bad.
Don’t worry.
Even you don’t tell, we will leave here too.
But there is a thing that you make it wrong.
I'm not your brother Jian.
I'm just Jialuo's husband.
In fact, I shouldn't say anything after empress left the world.
Jialuo.
Many people could withness that
you're disgusted with my low position,
At first, you have affection for Yuwen Yong,
and then Li Bing.
I didn't.
You have been cheating yourself and others.
You used to push all the reposibilities to other when making mistake.
I was silly in the past,
so that I was cheated by your illusion
and crushed on you.
Forget it.
Just like what you said,
let's break off all our relationship.
Madame of Longxi.
When you leave the capital,
we won't send you off anymore.
I hope you can take care yourself.
Let's go.
What happened?
Do you feel that I'm not man?
I spoke too over just now.
No.
This is my personality.
When I like someone,
I can do anything for her.
If I decide to break up,
I will no longer return.
Please don’t misunderstand.
I didn’t mean that I would do this to you.
I know.
I didn’t think in this way too.
But when sister left,
she pulled our hands together.
She said, Dugu's daugthers are only two of us.
She hope we could help each other.
We're not really breaking up with her now.
She is now getting herself into deadend.
When she figures it out few years later,
we will still treat her as our relative.
I like your words.
Which word?
we will still treat her as our relative.
Sound like we're one country.
Of course.
You're empress dowager
I'm just a servant.
I would like to follow your leadership.
Let's go.
Too bad.
This is signal from His Majesty.
He said unless emergency, otherwise he wouldn't use it.
Go quickly. Alright.
Greeting. His Majesty.
His Majesty.
His Majesty. Are you alright?
Quickly summon imperial doctor.
No need.
I'm poisoned severely.
Imperial doctors have checked it out,
there is no antidote for this.
Initially, this poison will take at least a couple of week to be effective.
But in order to take preventive action against Yuwen Hu,
I drank small portion of poison everyday after Bore left.
But I didn’t know that
these two herbs mixes together will cause to deadly disease.
I felt unbelievable in the past few days.
How possible Yuwen Hu will let go me?
But I know it now.
He is waiting me to die in poisoning.
So that he could announce to the world,
emperor and empress have strong affection, they live and die together.
Then, he can sit on the throne after that.
Imperial brother.
Your Majesty.
Please don’t say anymore.
I will go to look for antidote that dad left to us.
No matter how,
it's good to earn extra time.
Don’t go.
Franckly speaking,
I don’t really want to live.
I specially appreciate that I have taken these two herbs together.
So that Yuwen Hu is unprepared.
Yong.
I always feel that,
my throne shouldn't be taken by Yuwen Hu after I leave.
So, I have decided to let you be the emperor after I die.
Imperial brother.
I have no talent.
I can't do it.
No way.
Yong.
I know that fame and gain are nothing to you.
My decision may give you a hard time.
But Yong, please think about that.
How did Yuwen Hu force Jue to die?
I believe that Jie wasn't die in peace at that time.
If you don’t want to be the emperor,
I can't die in peace too.
I beg you, okay?
Promise me.
Oh. Yes.
I have appointed someone to inquire about your mon's whereabout.
There is an update.
Your mom is still survive.
The emperor of Ashina is arranging your mom to come back.
So that,
when I pass away,
you can be the emperor,
and immediately grant your mom as empress dowager.
In future,
no one will say that you come from a poor background.
Do you understand?
Really?
My mom is still survive?
How is this possible for me to lie to you at this moment?
Promise me.
okay?
Jialuo.
Help me to persuade Yong, please.
Brother.
What are you doing?
Brother.
I beg you.
If you don’t promise me,
I will kneel here till I die.
Brother.
Do you want to promise me?
Really?
Yes.
Help me up.
Yong.
I have sent out signal just now
to summon all officers to come to palace.
When they come to palace,
I will send out decree to pass my throne to you.
But Yong,
you must remember what I told you on that day.
You must bear responsibility and blame,
assemble the power secretly…
Brother. Don’t say anymore.
I know all that.
Please don’t say anymore.
I can't stop.
If I stop,
I have no more chance to tell.
Yang Jian.
Jialuo.
Both of you must take care yourself.
Take more attention on Yuwen Hu.
Don’t fight with him obviously.
I will send out my decree to appoint Yang Jian as governor of Suizhou.
You have to report to work immediately.
Within ten year,
you can't change your position.
The East is a bit desolate.
But it's near to Chen and Qi.
Moreover,
General Yang's armies are there.
It's not far from Jialuo's clanmen.
If there is anything happen in future,
it's a back up plan.
This is what I can do for you all.
Thank Your Majesty.
Yang Jian.
I know that you're unhappy with Yong last time.
But one of you is my brother in law,
another one is my brother.
So I hope you two can work together to fight against Yuwen Hu.
Yong is weak since young
and doesn’t receive dad's favor.
He has suffered a lot in the past.
Today,
he is forced to handle this difficult situation,
he really has a hard time.
So, Yang Jian,
for the sake of me,
please help Yong in future.
Your Majesty. Please don’t worry.
I will support new emperor with my best.
The misunderstanding among Yang Jian and me is eliminated much earlier.
Please don’t worry.
That'ss great.
Brother.
I swear under the name of imperial father,
I will try my very best to kill Yuwen Hu in my life to revenge for you.
That's good.
I'm herewith your vow.
Good.
His majesty arrives.
His majesty.
Quickly inform master to come to palace immediately.
Something happened out of sudden.
The effect of the poison was brought forward.
Yes.
All officers.
Since empress passed away,
I feel extremely grieved.
Imperial doctor says that
my life is going to the end soon.
Do we want to…
No.
He is going to die now.
If we take action now,
we will cause to public wrath
Quiet.
Because my illness is critical now,
so, I summon you all to palace.
Country shouldn't have no emperor even one day.
But I have no son.
So, after I leave,
I will pass my throne to my biological brother Yuwen Yong.
Empress has a message before she left.
Suizhou is an important place of the East.
We shouldn't overlook it.
So, I would like to appoint General Yang Jian to be the govenor of Suizhou
with immediate effect.
He will be taken care of all military affair of the place.
Within ten years,
no demotion,
no moving,
no transfer of position.
I will follow imperial decree.
This is my last decree.
Could you follow my decree?
Your majesty.
Please do not simply conclude that it's your last decree.
Your majesty is always healthy.
Yes. Your Majesty.
Prime minister Linghu,
and all generals,
you all were once the late emperor's followers
Uncles,
for the sake of previous relationship,
please assist new emperor in future.
Do not let new emperor to follow emperor Xiaomin's step
and my step.
Otherwise,
the late emperor couldn't enjoy peace in the underworld.
and same to emperor Xiaomin.
I will not enjoy the peace in the underworld as well.
We will follow your decree.
Please do not worry.
All rise.
Thank you. Your majesty.
Yong.
Come over.
Your majesty.
Yong.
From now on,
the heavy burden will be transferred to you.
I will follow imperial decree.
All rise.
Officers,
I will leave the new emperor to you all.
Great Zhou will be passed to you all too.
Hope you all remember that
I'm sick because of missing empress,
it's nothing to do with others.
Imperial tutor is loyal and honest,
he serves emperor sincerely.
I hope you all will learn from him
to contribute to Great Zhou with cautious and conscientious.
Am I right? Imperial tutor?
Imperial tutor?
Your majesty's words are always true.
How can I give any comment?
Congratulation. New emperor.
Imperial tutor.
Imperial brother is still here. Joking is not allowed.
Imperial tutor.
Come over here.
I will return the token of military power to you.
I know I'm useless in your heart.
But there is something you overlook,
I'm not afraid of death.
Because I can see Bore very soon.
We live and die together.
We will receive and enjoy the worship together forever.
As for you,
you will no longer take away her from me.
You!!!
Your majesty.
Imperial tutor.
Let go of your hand. Yuwen Hu.
You're over doing.
Quickly let go his majesty.
Your majesty. Let him go.
Imperial tutor. Quickly let go.
Imperial tutor. Quickly let go of emperor.
His majesty has demised.
Your majesty…..
Congratulation for new emperor to inherite the throne.
May your majesty live forever.
All rise.
Thank you. Your majesty.
Emperor and empress passed away one after another.
I'm very grieved.
During the national funeral period,
imperial tutor will take care of all military affairs.
Has imperial tutor recovered from ill?
Your majesty gives me a responsibility.
I dare not disobey.
Maid and servents have received their dismissal compensation and left.
Young mistress.
I'm alone for whole life.
I have no place to go.
I hope young mistress can allow me to stay here to guard the mansion.
so that I can worship old master regularly.
Thank. Uncle.
Thank young mistress.
Who knows that the reputable Dugu's mansion will be fallen?
I will return one day.
As long as there are still Dugu's generation,
Dugu's family will no longer break.
How about you?
Do you want to follow me to Suizhou?
This is a poor village.
Of course I will go with you.
I have signed ten years agreement with you.
You can't deny.
Second sister.
Don’t be passionate.
I'm not here to see you.
I just come here to see the place that I was growing up.
I will return here one day.
Princess.
Our madame received a special decree.
She has to back to Longxi today.
Madame said that
princess is busy.
You don't have to send her off.
Officer Wang.
Please take care of second sister.
Yes.
Second sister.
I don’t care whether you like me or not,
please take care of yourself.
I only have one sister now.
Don’t worry.
Your second sister is clever.
Since she could beat down Li Cheng,
She will live well in Longxi too.
I don’t worry about her at all.
Stubborn.
It's strange if you don’t worry.
You are like an egg.
Look tough but it's soft inside.
Same to you.
Your tone is disconsolate,
you haven't let go her in your heart, have you?