Where is Long Bo taking the Crouching Fire?
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You are a mercenary that kills for money.
You should keep to your word.
The one who funds all of our operations in Chang'an is He Fu.
This is not what I want to hear.
You already knew?
You only ask about Long Bo but not He Fu...
because you are both officials.
You want to protect him.
You don't understand.
I have to think of the future.
Long Bo is right. All of you deserve to die.
All the people in Chang'an deserve to die.
I want to make sure that there are no people
like you in the future of Great Tang.
Darned official.
In Great Tang's future, I want to make sure that no people
will lose the homes they lived in since they were young.
I don't want them to suffer...
until all they know is hatred towards the human world.
I don't want to see anyone else...
willing to be used and to sacrifice themselves...
just because they feel some warmth from that person.
I'm doing it willingly. It's none of your business.
Every life in Tang has value.
Your life is valuable and so is Long Bo's.
You shouldn't die in vain.
We have already prepared ourselves for death.
Is it worth it to die like this?
He thinks that it is.
What about you?
I will kill you if you untie the rope.
I'll untie one rope for one answer.
Do you think it's worth it for Long Bo to die?
He's doing it for others.
Who?
Chief!
Guards! Guards!
The criminal is trying to escape! Quick! Quick! Quick!
[The Longest Day in Chang'an]
[Episode 23]
Xu Hezi!
These festooned vehicles are chosen by various local officials.
They are sent to the capital to add some color to the Lantern Festival.
Today's Lantern Festival is different from the previous ones.
After the lantern is lit, they will come into the
city from three directions: east, west, and south,
while showing off their talents along the way.
Finally, they will gather in front of Xingqing Palace at two in the morning.
You should go back to the Peacekeeper Corps.
I want to go to Liu's Bookshop with you.
Two people are too big of a target.
The mercenary is a very cautious man.
I'm afraid that he'll have spies around the area.
Xu Hezi!
Commander Zhang!
Me! It's me!
I want to go with you!
No.
Commander Zhang, if I can be even a little bit of help,
then the church could be of use to the Imperial Court.
Always about the Imperial Court.
It looks like you really want to play up the Imperial Court.
Our fellow friars just want to stay in Chang'an.
Please bring me along, Commander Zhang.
I am willing to do anything that can help.
I'm willing to be the first one to extend a helping hand.
Fine. I'll do the work,
and your church can take the credit for it.
The friars in my church have already sacrificed their lives.
I have to make a contribution.
Only by making my church well-known...
can they be remembered by the people.
Then they will not have died in vain.
Let's go.
God bless me.
I already told you.
You need a guard to protect you.
I'll continue with the interrogation.
Aren't you Captain Cui?
What are you...
Don't call me "captain" anymore.
You should go in now.
Sir An, how did you get back so quickly?
It wasn't far. Let's go.
Move aside!
- Move aside! - Move aside!
Order from General Gan! Withdraw now!
Line up, Right Cavalry!
Yes!
What are you still guarding here, Captain Cui?
I already brought the Royal Escort to join the Right Cavalry.
Peacekeeper Corps can't be without any guards.
You want to be ingratiated with both sides. So greedy.
If you don't go back to the Right Cavalry now,
I'll report you for disobeying orders and running away,
and you will be removed from the army.
You are a soldier. Your job is to obey orders.
Depart!
Greetings, Chief Li.
We came back upon your order. We are here to accept our next tasks.
♪ Warrior of Zhao, undecorated belt ♪
♪ Hook of Wu, shines with frost and snow ♪
♪ Silver saddle on white horseback ♪
♪ Gallops blurred into meteor lights ♪
♪ A kill with every ten steps ♪
♪ Never stops with enemies in sight ♪
♪ As the smoke clears, I lay down the armor and leave ♪
♪ Living in hiding, away from the glory days ♪
You made Li Bai's poem into a song.
Sounds nice.
♪ Warrior of Zhao, undecorated belt ♪
♪ Hook of Wu, shines with frost and snow ♪
You hate the Imperial Court. Why are you still willing to die for it today?
Your interrogation skill is not good. Li Bi didn't teach you well.
Since I can only know you for one day, I want to know you better.
You already looked at my body. Now, you want to look at my heart?
I can remember you better if I do that.
I want to look at your heart, too.
If you knew my brothers from the Eighth Division, you would understand.
There are two people who I admire the most.
One is Wen Wuji.
Back then, when we were at the defense beacon,
there were only twenty of us left.
Our enemies had backup, increasing their numbers to thousands.
That night, we asked Old Man Wen to leave
because he had a daughter in Chang'an that needed him.
But he said that he wouldn't retreat.
Wouldn't retreat?
Old Man Wen didn't die in the hands of the enemies...
but he died in Chang'an.
What about the other one?
There's another one.
Just now, you said that you have two people who you admire.
Xiao Gui. He is a living treasure.
Today is the first of the first month!
The brother is teaching the sister how to play with the lantern!
The brother is happy and the sister is delighted!
Rise and shine, you damned slaves!
Why isn't he tired?
Rise and shine!
Some people are just born differently.
No matter how bad it is, they can still laugh.
We were able to hold it until the end because of him.
He told us
that it's better to fight the enemies there than fighting them in our hometown.
- What happened to them? - Who?
There were nine survivors in the Eighth Division, right?
What happened to them?
Wen Wuji died in Chang'an.
You should have known about it since you've checked on me.
Three of them went back to their hometowns.
Another three of them died because of the pressure here.
Ding Laosan's family died due to famine,
so he ran away. No one has seen him since.
What about Xiao Gui?
Please.
I heard that he's doing business in the Western Region,
but I've heard no word of him since then.
You never thought of seeking him out?
Speed up. It'll take us 15 minutes to reach Pingkang Street.
Wake up.
Wake up!
Does the law of Tang allow Taoist priests to wear armor?
Take a look.
- Do you want to live? - Yes.
No matter what happens later, don't make a sound.
Find something to block up this hole.
All right.
Quiet.
Door.
Get the door.
Don't go.
You are too loud.
Slowly. Hold this.
Hold it.
Don't move.
Hold it tight.
Yes.
Hold it tight.
Yes.
The Royal Escort has taken all of the armor that was here.
We are left with only three sets of spare armor.
I'll take them out.
Why did you come back?
You were kicked out by the Right Cavalry, right?
Quickly, put it on.
How did you know that I was looking for armor?
I didn't know. I just feel that the Peacekeeper Corps is in danger.
When you sent the Royal Escort away,
why didn't you think of that?
Why are you suddenly so kind?
It was too hard for you in the Right Cavalry, right?
You want to come back to get into Li Bi's good graces?
Li Bi has no time for you now.
You...
- Tell him for me— - Sir Cui.
You can't be too greedy.
Betray us once,
it means that you have the guts to cling high. (T/N: high expectations)
Betray us again,
it means that you are shameless.
When I was a soldier in Longyou,
I was always anxious before we were ambushed by the enemy.
Now, I have the same feeling as then.
It's very possible that the Peacekeeper Corps will be in danger.
You have to tell Chief Li about it for me.
What proof do you have?
I have none. It's just a feeling.
Get lost.
I want to guard the Peacekeeper Corps.
Please give me a set of armor.
Before I came back to Chang'an,
I was a soldier.
I was a good soldier.
All of us think that we were clean in the past.
But what is important is in the now...
the decision that we make at present.
Trust me this once.
If this is a mistake,
you can blame it all on me.
If there are merits,
you can take them all.
Follow me to see Li Bi.
Where are they?
All the important criminals are being interrogated in Li Bi's chambers.
Let's go.
I'll kill him.
There are different cuts.
We have more than one enemy.
I'll get some backup from the Ministry of Capital.
Without formal documents, nobody will risk their lives for you.
What should we do then?
[Zhang Hua]
I... was a solider of Longyou
for nine years from the 23rd year of the old
calendar until the 2nd year of Tian Bao.
This is genuine baked camel hump.
- Give me some. - Have a taste. How is it?
- You're not giving me any? - Your hometown has such a delicacy.
Why did you come to Chang'an?
You have a beautiful new wife in your house, too. Right?
But you still came back here to work tonight.
It's my choice.
Come.
Don't you think Chang'an is strange?
You want to scold it when you open your eyes every day.
But if they asked you to leave, you would be reluctant to do it.
There won't be many good days left.
It's better to leave while we can.
During the 29th year of the old calendar,
I saw ancient jade dug out by Tian Tongxiu with my own eyes.
The phrase "Tian Bao" was truly written on that jade.
And His Majesty decreed at once to change the title of reign to Tian Bao.
His Majesty must have wanted Tang to be the treasure
of this world, (T/N: tian = sky/world, bao = treasure)
to rule forever, unlike the previous reigns.
- You are right. - You are so right.
From time immemorial, there has been no imperial
reign that has ruled so long. Count it yourself.
From time immemorial, there has been no empire as prosperous as Tang as well.
- Yes, that's right! - You are so right!
- That's right! - Why did I hear that the phrase "Tian Bao" on that jade...
looks like the handwriting of Prince Yong?
Somebody said that His Majesty had secretly ordered Prince Yong
to do this together with Tian Tongxiu,
and that jade was made by Mao Shun.
That's why this propitious omen from the earth
was just a show to trick the people. It's nothing.
The important thing here is that His Majesty is driven
to do his best to make the country stay prosperous.
- Isn't that great? - Yes, you are right!
If you think like that, then it's quite right.
If only I could be like His Majesty
and suddenly get a young and beautiful 25-year-old bride.
Look at this good-for-nothing.
I haven't been doing this so that I can work forever.
I have been doing this so that I can have a generation after generation!
You are right. My wife has the same thought, too!
Young at heart though advanced in age.
Why else would His Majesty leave and stay at the Hot Spring Palace of Mount Li... (T/N:
the Huaqing Palace, site of geothermal pools, located about 25 km from Chang'an.)
...for four months a year after he took up with Yan Taizhen. (T/N: Wife of the emperor's son who became a Taoist nun as
a sly maneuver by the emperor. He then took her as a royal consort for himself and bequeathed a new wife for his son.)
All the public affairs and other important affairs
are handed over to Guo Lishi. How do you explain that?
Recently, he even ordered the Ministry of Works
to fully renovate this Hot Spring Palace.
He even wanted to change the name to Huaqing Pool.
He said that he's going to stay there for the long term.
How are you going to explain this?
Unbelievable.
- Chief Li is here. - Chief Li is here.
Chief Li!
Come over here, Chief Li.
This is the special baked camel hump from my hometown.
- Have a taste, Chief Li. - Tian Bao. Tian Bao.
The prosperity of Great Tang...
might end in this Tian Bao regnal year.
Protect Chief Li!
- Go now, Chief Li! - Guards!
Help!
Hey!
- Get down! - Get down now!
Get down.
Chief, I beg you. Get down.
Look at you.
You are officials of the Peacekeeper Corps... of the Great Tang.
Give me Li Bi and I'll let you live.
Chief. Chief!
I am Li Bi.
Let them go.
Finally, we meet.
You are Long Bo, right?
San'er.
Sir!
Chief. Chief!
Give me your name.
An Zhuguo!
Sogdia citizen.
39 years old, official of the Peacekeeper Corps.
- All right. - Sir An!
- Sir An! - Sir An!
Sir An!
You said that you would let them leave.
My man has suffered here.
I need to avenge him.
Next.
Sir Wang!
Come out.
Wang Dazhu. Chang'an citizen.
49 years old, official of the Peacekeeper Corps.
You said that... you would let them live.
I've regretted it.
Peacekeeper Corps, the pivotal government office of the city defense...
- is weak. - Who are you?
Chang'an...
- is weak, too—- Tell me your name!
Ant.
We are just a group of ants.
Where the ants pass, everything will turn to dust.
Kill them all.
You said that you would let them live!
Chief!
Where is the Royal Army?
Where is the Right Cavalry?
Where is the Royal Escort?
The Royal Escort is here!
Who am I?
I am Cui Qi of Longyou.
I became a soldier on the 23rd year of the old calendar.
I have 84 heads of our enemies under my belt.
I never heard about a Cui Qi in Chang'an!
Chang'an. You are not worthy to mention the name Chang'an!
You were once a solider in Longyou?
Yes.
Me, too.
Then you better surrender.
- What? - You better surrender!
You are a soldier. You have to obey the orders!
Fool.
Take it.
I'll play three songs with the drum upstairs.
If you are still alive by then,
I'll let them go.
Keep Chief Li safe!
Chief, let's go now!
- Forget about us. - Let's go!
Royal Escort is here.
Chang'an is here.
Chief, we have to go now.
Chang'an!
Cui Qi!
- Close the door now! - Close the door!
Close the door!
- Hold the door! - Hold it!
Hold it! Hold it!
Hold it!
Cui Qi!
It's me, Yao Runeng.
[Longyou]
Chang'an.
Cui Qi.
You are a true citizen of Chang'an.
Night!
Everything... is gone!
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♫ A day is too short ♫
♫ a hundred years full of hardship ♫
♫ The universe is vast ♫
♫ the life full of calamities is too long ♫
♫ Even the hair of Goddess Magu ♫
♫ half has turned to frosty grey ♫
♫ The God and Goddess ♫
♫ who has probably laughed a million times ♫
♫ I desire to seize the six dragons who haul the Sun God’s chariot ♫
♫ tie them to the Fusang tree ♫
♫ Pour a cup of fine wine into the Big Dipper in the sky ♫
♫ persuade each dragon for a hearty drink ♫
♫ Fortune and wealth are not what I am after ♫
♫ I only hope to halt and preserve youthfulness ♫
♫ A day is too short ♫
♫ a hundred years full of hardship ♫
♫ The universe is vast ♫
♫ the life full of calamities is too long ♫
♫ Even the hair of Goddess Magu ♫
♫ half has turned to frosty grey ♫
♫ The God and Goddess ♫
♫ who have probably laughed a million times ♫
♫ I desire to seize the six dragons who haul the Sun God’s chariot ♫
♫ tie them to the Fusang tree ♫
♫ Pour a cup of fine wine into the Big Dipper in the sky ♫
♫ persuade each dragon for a hearty drink ♫
♫ Fortune and wealth are not what I am after ♫
♫ I only hope to halt and preserve youthfulness ♫