Xiao’e. You’re awake?
Bro. Yang Jian, why are you sitting here?
I’m here to wait
until you wake up.
I kind of remember something.
I was sober for a while.
But I can’t remember anything.
What exactly has happened?
Can’t remember anything?
When I found you in the bamboo forest,
you were hurt.
Badly hurt.
Can’t you really remember anything?
I…
How many days have I been in coma?
Seven days.
That long?
I’ve got no memories at all.
Bro. Yang Jian.
Were you always
by my side
to protect me?
I had bad luck.
Wu Ji left
and took away
Lanying’s heart.
Who else could take care of you?
Really?
I’ll fall ill
for 49 days next time
to force you stay by my side.
Xiao’e.
May I ask you something?
Go ahead.
Why are you shy?
Go ahead.
Where is your hometown?
A remote mountain.
Very remote.
Do your clansmen
have a totem?
What is it?
A spirit dog.
You bad guy!
Screw you!
Are you crazy?
I guarded here for seven days and nights!
You took off my clothes, right?
No man
has ever done that before.
You took advantage of me.
It’s not my fault. Master forced me.
Why did he force you?
Experience. He said it was experience.
Experience?
Open! The shop is open!
Get up for work.
I said one day off.
But you said seven days.
How much business did we miss?
How much money did we lose?
Hurry up.
Go get
my lost money back.
You still have a long way to go.
But how many days do I have?
I can’t stand the loss.
Hurry up. Time to open the shop.
Yes, Mistress.
Ruili, how is it going?
Just as the queen expected,
she likes me.
She cried in front of me
and told me
her stories in Jizhou.
Good. Go on.
In the back of her palace,
there is a mourning hall
for her parents.
She often talks with her parents in the heaven
in the mourning hall.
Yesterday,
when she was worshiping,
I heard someone
talking with her.
Someone? A man or woman?
A man.
Who is he? Have you checked?
I went in and checked.
But when I entered the room,
I found Consort Su
was in the mourning hall alone.
No one else was in.
It sounds so evil!
She really is a demon.
I’ll go inform the queen.
The Ma’s Noodle Shop is grandly updated.
Great sale for the second opening!
Buy two and get two free.
We have all flavors that smell perfect.
Eat some and you’ll be blessed.
Eat some and you’ll be kind.
If you’re always angry,
eat some noodles
and you’ll be full for days.
Eat some noodles
and you’ll live a long and healthy life.
Hurry and come.
Miss.
I’ve been waiting for seven days.
Why are you opening so late?
Bro., you’re not on your wedding day.
What’s the problem of waiting?
Greedy!
Yeah.
Then hurry and get in.
You can’t leave before having six bowls.
- Okay. - Get in.
My mistress said
she would get compensation.
Okay.
Hurry.
Father.
See? Another piece fell!
How will you explain to Mother?
She knows the number.
I’ve prepared this time.
I get two more piles.
But then you’ll have one more.
Mother will twist your ear
and ask what’s wrong with the extra pile.
That one is bought, too.
Yeah.
It’s so clever of you.
See? It’s perfect.
What are you staring at?
I come up to see you.
I’m right her by your side.
You’re look at that inn.
I’m just looking around.
Well, I’ll look around, too.
Oh, I saw it.
What did you see?
I saw a man sitting at the window
with a roll of bamboo slip in his hands.
He reads as he thinks of a girl.
What’s he like? He’s lecherous.
Who do you mean?
Wu Ji.
Father.
Do you think he will come back?
Daughter, you’re clever.
You should be prepared that
he might never come back.
Or maybe,
he would suddenly come back.
Then he’ll stick to us
and never leave again.
Father, what are you talking about?
Jiao’er.
Jiao’er. Jiao’er.
I’m thirsty.
I want water.
Finally, you’re awake. Come on.
Slow down.
You’re finally awake.
Do you know
you have been drunk for seven days.
That long?
Mother.
I’ve never been drunk
for such a long time.
I see.
So…
there must be something odd.
Do you remember what happened?
I drank with Xiao’e in the noodle shop.
I…
knew that.
Bi De told me.
What else
would you like to know?
Your dream.
When you were asleep,
you kept
murmuring.
You’ve been sleeping for seven days.
You must have had
a lot of dreams.
I wonder
what you dreamed of
in your dreams.
Tell me.
Mother.
Once a man wakes up,
he’ll forget his dreams.
I forgot them.
That’s why
I’m asking you to think about it.
You had so many dreams.
Even if you might forget some,
you couldn’t forget all of them.
Tell me whatever you still remember.
In the dream,
I saw
a quiet forest.
It was very big.
No not a sound of birds at all.
I thought
the forest was dead.
Go on. Go on.
Then…
A woman walked in.
After that,
a bird chirped.
Very beautifully.
Then…
the forest came back to life.
A lot of birds
started to chirp.
Who is the woman
in your dream?
I… I don’t remember.
Is it me
or Consort Su?
Mother, I don’t know.
Good news.
The Ma’s Noodle Shop is grandly updated.
Great sale for the second opening!
Come in, please. Come in, please.
Our men are in place.
My Lord, when did we take action?
Come in, please. Come in, please.
Come and have some noodles.
Come in, please. Come in, please.
Wait a second. Too many people right now.
We’ll take action after they leave.
Yes.
The Ma’s Noodle Shop is grandly updated.
Come in, please. Come in, please.
Great sale for the second opening!
Buy two and get two free.
Come and get some noodles. Come in, please.
The Ma’s Noodle Shop is grandly updated.
Come and…
get some noodles.
Stop!
Come and get some noodles.
You must be Xiao’e.
How do you know my name?
People in the neighborhood
all know your name.
But…
Why is a noble woman like you
come here?
For noodles.
In such a noisy noodle shop?
May I? May I come in?
Yes.
Come in, please.
Come for noodles in such an elegant dress?
Lady.
Don’t you feel uncomfortable
to sit here?
Not at all.
Why do you ask?
You’re the only female guest here.
What would you like to eat?
I…
I want to meet Jiang Ziya.
Thank you.
Immortal.
That’s hot.
Hotter than the noodles.
I come here,
to invite you to the palace.
Who are you?
I share the same family name with you.
Got it, Your Grace.
The older, the wise.
Excuse me,
why do you invite me to the palace?
To expel monsters.
I don’t have the skill.
You do.
It depends on if you’d like to help.
There are masters in the palace.
That’s a mere monster…
Master Du Yuanxian of the Bureau of Astronomy was dead.
Even he was dead.
Your Grace,
are you getting me to seek my doomed?
Master Du was not only dead,
Besides,
he was killed by
his peach-wood sword
he donated.
Instead of killing the monster,
he was exposed as a monster, too.
Interesting.
Immortal!
I don’t have a choice,
but to come
and ask for help.
Got it.
Your noodles are so delicious.
But you haven’t had any.
I don’t need to.
I can tell from the smell.
That sounds good.
You should have told my wife.
My Lord, what should we do?
Fall out.
Yes.
What are you doing?
Something on your face.
Really?
Where is it?
Stop laughing! Where is the stain？
Here.
Here. And here.
And here. Here.
Are you crazy?
Come on, why the fight?
There’s stain on your face.
Everybody, attention.
My mother commanded that
we should have a meeting.
A meeting again?
For something important. Hurry up.
Bro. Yang Jian, what meeting are we going to have?
Without a meeting,
how could Mistress show up?
You know what, Xiao’e?
Do not fall asleep
when we’re having a meeting.
What if I do?
Screwed then.
Mistress will suddenly ask
“what did I just say?”
What if I have no answer?
More screwed.
She will repeat
the old bad words.
And make it longer.
In the end, she’ll ask again
what did I just say?
What if I still have no answer?
Come here.
Before she relies,
I’ll…
slap you first.
You sprinkled, huh?
I didn’t.
Seriously?
No. No. No.
Sit.
Why do I feel
we’re like criminal?
Don’t push me.
Is everybody here?
Yes. Yes.
Tell the rules first.
First…
we’re having a family meeting today.
You two can only talk,
but can’t vote.
Got it?
- Got it. - Yes.
Got it.
Second.
In case of any divergence,
Mistress shall call the shots.
Agreed.
Mistress, why don’t you make the final decision directly?
We don’t need to have a meeting.
Agreed.
You can’t vote.
What do you mean agreed?
You old fart.
You turn.
Be honest.
Today…
a noble lady came here.
She seems
to be from the imperial palace.
A lady?
Let go of
her identity.
She’s a lady! That’s the point.
Mistress.
I saw her.
She was gorgeous.
I wonder
what’s her relationship with Master.
Oh…
She left
after seeing Master alone.
Master, why are you glaring at me?
Mistress, look at him.
You old fart.
You have a guilty conscience, don’t you?
Confess yourself.
How could that be?
Really?
Master, do you have a guilty conscience?
You can’t even sit still.
I know he has the lust.
- That’s what he is! - Master, here you are.
Dear.
I have no guilty conscience.
I only care for our family in my heart.
That lady
invited me to the imperial palace
for monster hunting.
She also wanted to hire me
as the master of the Bureau of Astronomy.
To the imperial palace?
Master, take me with you.
And me. I’m going, too.
Quiet.
I’m going, too.
Monster hunting? A monster hunts you!
I think
your soul is hunted down.
There are as many girls in the palace
as clods of earth.
Get int here and you’ll find several of them.
You like that, don’t you?
You know what?
Never dream of going to the palace
unless I die.
Besides,
if you go to the palace,
who will do the shopping,
or make fires? How do we run the shop?
You old fart.
What did I just say?
Dear.
We’re in the meeting. Mind the discipline.
Dear.
To be honest,
I refuse most
to go to the palace.
East, west,
home is back.
According to me,
what worries me most is
if they come
and threat us again?
Right?
Yes.
They will come.
Mistress.
People from the palace are rich and powerful.
Besides, soldiers
have swords and spears.
If Master doesn’t go,
they will send troops
to smash our shop.
Yeah, Mistress.
If Master doesn’t go,
not only our shop will be smashed,
even our family
will also be ruined.
I would rather die than go to the palace.
For our family,
I would die for a cause.
There’s only one way to get us all satisfied.
What is it?
Sacrifice.
I must sacrifice myself.
What does he mean sacrifice?
It means hanging himself.
Mistress, Master is going to himself.
He wants to protect all of us
with his own life.
Yes.
Master always taught me
to sacrifice myself.
So he wants me to die for a cause.
Screwed!
He’ll be okay.
Go have a look.
If we’re there,
Master will be shy.
Yeah.
If he’s shy,
he will punish me.
Bro. Yang Jian, why do you want to go to the palace?
You old fart.
What are you doing?
Mother, help!
Hurry. Hurry. Hurry.
Come on. Hurry.
Father.
You old fart.
Wake up!
- Wake up! - Father. Father.
He’s awake!
Dear. Dear.
Don’t cry. Don’t cry.
Don’t cry.
You call old fart, don’t you?
It means
I’ll live until I’m very old.
Yes. Yes.
Dear.
Why did you save me?
Let me die.
If I’m alive,
people will be sent to invite me again.
If they keep coming,
what should I do?
Yeah, what should we do?
How about
I go to the palace
to have a look?
No way.
Dear. Then I’ll hang myself again.
I’d rather you hang yourself.
As long as you don’t hang
in the date tree.
Why?
I’m afraid it won’t grow dates next year
if you hang yourself there.
Father. Father.
- Wake up. - Father.
Wake up. Wake up.
So you always
care for the tree most.
Screw you!
Mother.
My sister is in the palace.
In the palace?
You have a sister in the palace?
But the palace is heavily guarded. Can you save her?
Yes.
I’ve been learning from Master,
just to save my sister
someday.
If you manage to save your sister,
will you
leave us
like Bro. Wu Ji.
I think so.
Why should I stay?
Oh, Xiao’e.
Why do you want to go to the palace?
For fun.
Father.
What the hell are you doing?
I’m doing all this
for our family!
Mother is away.
We must be at cross-purposes
with your mother.
The more we do,
the more she thinks she’s correct.
In the end,
we can get
what we want.
I know.
Will more people come?
I’m afraid they’re already on the way.
Here comes Master Bi.
Shopkeeper.
Father.
Mother, where is my father?
What you want him for?
A rich man comes
for the shopkeeper.
Shopkeeper?
I am!
Master Bi.
It’s been long since you last come.
Oh, Landlady.
Where is the shopkeeper?
I am the shopkeeper.
Do you want wine or noodles?
I want to rent something.
A room or land?
A person.
What kind do you want?
Shopkeeper.
Let me explain to you.
My old master
has a garden,
covered with glossy ganoderma and ginseng.
He said
he needed a lucky man
who could
take care of them.
So I’ve been looking around
for whom I need.
Is it the rent?
Yes.
What kind of person do you want?
With so much gold?
Sure. Lucky persons are rare to find.
He said
he needed to hire two at the same time.
Their ages
must be added up
to a hundred.
They must be hired
for 100 days.
A mere coincidence!
Ten gold bars for 100 days?
Here comes the best part.
They two
must be father and son, or brother.
at least master and apprentice.
Master and apprentice?
I have a pair.
Really?
How old is the master?
Seventy-nine.
What about his apprentice?
Twenty-one.
Count it.
They two
make up 100 years old.
Master Bi.
Luck is the most thing we have,
second only to noodles.
Mother.
You can’t rent my father to him.
You…
Silly girl, see?
Ten gold bars as the rent.
However much gold he gives,
you can’t rent my father.
It seems to rent him.
In fact, I’m saving your father.
What do you mean?
Think about it.
As long as your father is home,
those from the palace will come for him.
Right?
I’m getting your father to run away from it.
Besides, he can also earn money.
What about our noddle shop?
Close it.
Close it for 100 days.
Immortal, here we are.
Are we getting off?
Remember. Do be very careful.
Do not talk madness in the palace.
The more people, the more diverse voices are.
What you said
might be widespread quickly.
I see.
Are we getting off?
Wait a second.
What?
Are you going to
nag me in the carriage
for the whole day?
Fine. Talk later.
No way.
I must tell you now.
Wait a minute.
What are you talking about
instead of getting off?
Come on. Get off.
Here we are.
We must walk from here.
Why are you here?
What does it concern you?
I’m his apprentice, aren’t I?
If you walk in
the glorious palace
And leave me here alone,
how humiliating I will be!
And it’s not
very friendly of you, huh?
Master, I’m going with you.
Why haven’t I expected that?
Immortal.
What should we do with her?
What result we’ll have
if you don’t allow her in?
You know it better than me.
Yeah. I’m clearly aware of it.
Xiao’e.
Are you going to come with us
wherever we go?
So big!
It’s so big!
Her Grace has arranged
your rooms,
right in the Bureau of Astronomy.
How can you start
even before me?
Hands off!
Where are we?
We’re in the palace.
There are rules in our noodle shop.
There are also rules in the palace.
Since we’re here,
we should behave
according to its rules.
When we eat,
we should keep our dignity.
Yes, got it.
Look
and I’ll show you.
What’s the rush?
I haven’t bit it yet.
Master, hurry up.
Are you going to starve us
in front of so many delicious dishes?
I will eat.
But I must have an easy manner.
However…
Jian’er.
Yes, Master?
I’m thinking about the reason why you come to the palace.
Promise me that
without my permission,
you mustn’t act rashly
to save your sister.
We’re in the palace.
If you act rashly,
many people will be involved.
Not to mention your sister.
The queen
who brought us in
will suffer, too.
Even…
Xiao’e, who is innocent,
will be involved, too.
I’m fine with that.
Don’t care for me. Go and save your sister.
I…
I will take care
of myself.
Don’t worry about me.
I understand that
acting rashly will bring great trouble.
However…
I’ve been waiting so long.
I won’t let go of this chance.
Master, don’t worry.
I’ll keep an eye
on her
in case she messes around.
I won’t only care for my sister?
What the hell!
Okay.
There will be a chance.
Fine.
Next,
let’s enjoy
the feast.
Watch when I have it first.
Hurry. Hurry.
Immortal.
The crown prince wants to meet you.
The crown prince?
How does he
know my father?
The crown prince
knows everything in the palace.
You haven’t met him before.
Nor will you see him.
Save your breath.
Who wants to meet him?
What’s the big deal
of the crown prince?
I’m not interested in him
at all.
Immortal.
Please come with me.
Okay.
I…
May I go
after lunch?
But His Highness is waiting for you.
Master, hurry and go.
Okay.
You mustn’t eat before I come back.
Your Highness,
you look simple yet elegant in this robe.
Good.
Immortal.
I was going to
Apologize to my father.
but my mother told me you were here.
So I wait here for you.
What’s your problem?
Immortal.
I want to ask…
You want to ask your dream
over the seven days and nights, huh?
How do you know that?
Whatever I want to know or I can know,
I will know.
Over the seven days and nights,
did you always
have the same dream?
Yes.
Mother also asked me.
But I didn’t know if I should answer.
Nor did I know
how to answer.
How I wish
I could forget the dream completely!
Some dreams should be forgotten.
But some are so deep that
you can never forget.
Yeah.
Tell me about this dream.
In the dream,
I saw a quiet forest.
It was very big,
But not a sound of bird.
It seemed to be dead.
Go on.
Suddenly,
A woman
walked out of the mountain.
Suddenly,
a bird chirped in the forest.
Besides,
it chirped
Very beautifully.
Then,
The forest came back to life.
Many birds
chirped together.
Immortal.
My mother’s eyes
were bleeding.
I don’t dare
to tell her about this dream.
I’m waiting here,
just to ask you
if there will be something wrong
with my mother.
Your Highness.
Could it be possible that
you had a wrong memory about your dream?
No.
As you said,
the dream was so deep to me.
Close your eyes.
go back to that dream
and try to dream about it again.
Holy Lord.
He’s so poor.
I can’t change his fate.
So please allow me to change his dream at least.
Immortal, I remember it!
What is it?
Not my mother’s eyes are bleeding.
But…
the bird’s eyes are bleeding.
No wonder
it sang so beautifully.
Because it couldn’t
see anything.
Whatever it sang
sounded so melodious.
Thank you, Immoral.
Don’t call me that.
So hot.
Call me
Old Jiang.
You mother said the older, the wiser.
Well, I call you Master
just like Xiao’e does, right?
That’s fine, then.
Last time,
Xiao’e got you drunk. Sorry.
If it hadn’t happened,
how could we see your power?
Hasn’t Miss Xiao’e
come with you?
Yes, she has.
But you can’t drink this time.
Yeah. I can’t drink anymore.
I’ve suffered a lot.
I’m rushing
to apologize to my father.
You blame Xiao’e, don’t you?
No. No, I don’t.
I’m very glad
when I can
see her again.
You will see her more often in the future.
See you then.
I’m too full.
I can’t eat anymore.
What are you doing? Get up.
Don’t move.
The floor is too hard.
Without a pillow,
I can’t lie
on it.
Funny.
If you can’t lie, stand!
Stand up!
Will you?
What are you doing? Get up. Get up.
What?
What are you thinking?
About your sister?
Are you really not going to see her?
If I were you,
I would go right away.
When I turn around,
I can see my sister’s palace.
When I walk a few steps from here,
I can reach her.
When I think about this,
how happy I’ll be!
In the future,
I must make no mistake
even if I only have to go
a few steps to reach her.
So…
I must be more cautious
than any other moment.
Beautiful?
What?
I mean your sister Daiji.
Why asked?
Nothing.
Just curiosity.
Yes, she’s gorgeous.
Compared to her,
you’re the green bristle grass.
What are you talking about?
You!
Where do I look like
green bristle grass?
Tell me.
Here. This part.
What?
Just poked by
the green bristle grass.
Did it hurt so much?
How finicky you are!
Before Master comes back,
clean this up.
Why me?
Punishment.
Punishment? What wrong have I done?
Idiot.
What a blind fool!
Idiot!