An edict under the String?
You are really good at bullshitting
There is no edict under the string. I was fooled by that woman
But on the first night, at the room I slept and took bath
There was indeed an edict
You took bath and slept with her?
You took bath and slept with her right?
How can I explain myself if you behave like this?
This is a long story
The emperor did send an edict to me
Let me and that woman... - Bullshit
The emperor gave order to let you sleep and take bath with her?
And you obey?
How would I do something like that?
I mean that woman is not an ordinary woman
That woman is sent by the emperor
as a pawn to spy on me
What pawn?
Father, Mother
What are you doing Father
Your Mother lost a hair spin
A spin made of jade right?
Have you found it? - I almost found it
Why do you come Shi-er? - It's about you
I think it's not easy for you two stay together for 20 years
Our family can't allow another woman come in
Listen
This is my good boy
Don't worry. I will not do anything to hurt your Mother
It's not a good thing to let others know about this
Don't talk around this in the house. I will handle this appropriately
Shut the door on your way out
I will leave now
I don't believe that an emperor will care about the sex life of his courtier
What did the edict say?
The edict ordered you to sleep with her?
Why do you have to say something like that?
The emperor is a civilized man
He won't write something like that
What did he write then?
The edict said
Return it after conquering it
Return what and conquering what?
He let you fight her on the bed?
He want you two to have babies?
Would I do that?
I refused her directly
I said to her I can't even if I want to
You want to?!
You want to do what?
Your children have grown up now and you think I'm old?
Father, Mother
What are you doing Father
I'm finding a hair pin for your Mother
A jade pin right? - Yes!
Where did it go?
I'm looking for it
Why do you come Zhao-er?
It's about you
I think you two have been together for 20 years and we are grown ups
It's not appropriate to have another woman in our house
I will poison her if she really comes
Poison both of them
You want to poison me? I want to poison you long time ago!
You don't need to worry Zhao-er. I will not fail your Mother on this
Don't talk around about this in the house
Please shut the door, I will handle this issue
Alright
I mean I have stayed with you for twenty years and we have been through a lot
The emperor let me conquer her and return her. What can I say?
I said I will go for it?
Didn't you go for it?
You already conquered her, didn't you?
I swear to god, I never slept with her
I have nothing to do with that woman
If you are really innocent then you go find the emperor tomorrow
Return her! I will return her first thing next morning
You are an asshole if you don't return her
I, Si Ma Zhong Da, a straight person
I never forgot about manners and care about my reputation
Why do you come here? I'm looking for stuff here right now
I know, you are looking for Madam's hair pin
I never intervene with family issues
but I think
Our master said to me many times
The happiest thing ever happened to him is to marry you
I am sick of hearing stuff like that
Therefore I believe our master will never cheat on you
Hope you can think for a moment. Hou Ji really knew me
I knew him too. Why would I know you?
Don't listen to our conversation anymore. Tell them to shut the door
I will let them go away
Let's talk this over
There are many people listening to this
I will respect you on this
I will not say anything if you return her to the emperor tomorrow
If you are not able to do so
You will see
Zhang Chun Hua What? Give me the hair pin or our Father might come
Keep kneeling
Your Majesty
It's late now you should rest
Should I call Madam Guo? No need it's too late now
Don't summon anyone Aye
Bring some hot water
A Weng
Do you think Si Ma Yi is also awake this late?
I heard his wife is a tough woman
Likes playing swords and armors
I'm not sure a weak scholar like him
can endure the beating from his wife
You can check his face tomorrow morning then you will know
My lady, it's one in the morning, now
I think the emperor will not summon anyone tonight
You should rest
I know. You can leave
Zhong Da
You don't look good
You didn't get a good rest did you?
Your Majesty
The present you gave me
I dare not accept it
I now return her in one piece. I hope you can withdraw the edict
Return her in one piece?
You two spend one day and one night in one room together
After playing with her you want to return it?
We stayed under one house but not one room
I obeyed the military law strictly
I didn't do anything during the journey
Did you see the edict?
I did
Did it look pretty?
Yes
I said return it after conquering it
You didn't do anything and even wanted to return her in one piece
You are disobeying my order
Or you think the woman I sent is not good enough?
She is not good enough for you?
No you are too good to me
She is very beautiful but I...
I'm too weak and too afraid
I can't rise to fight her
You can't raise?
How many sons do you have?
How can you not raise?
Are you worried there will be enemies?
Your Majesty, my family issue is hard to explain
You can order me to conquer Liu Bei and Sun Quan
I will do everything I could to achieve it
Enough you are an important courtier
It's normal to have some people serving you
You are too afraid of your wife
Let me tell you
If you let others know that a woman is in charge of your house
It's not a good news
My wife... If you can't even manage your small family, how would you help me rule the country?
If your wife still don't understand this
I will help you repudiate your wife
No, please don't
Why not?
You want to reject the edict?
I dare not
You hold great responsibilities of executing the new policies
Don't let the nation's welfare hindered by a family issue
You can leave
Thank you, Your Majesty
I will leave now
Follow the edict
Return it after conquering it
I will follow the edict
I will conquer everything
Your Majesty
If this really goes south for him
Your gift is not that good, then
Why do you have to do so?
You think
I have nothing to do?
To care about his family issue?
It's just a pawn.
But I'm just curious
Bai Ling Yun is a beautiful woman
Si Ma Yi really didn't touch her?
New policies from government have came out
The selection of the courtiers will not rely on the comments or recommendations from existing courtiers
No matter where you are from, even you are a current government officer
you can send your application in the county's office
You can join the examination
For those are talented, skilled or wants to be a courtier
Please go and apply now
Is this real? This is a fake notice right?
This means even without the comments or recommendations from the courtiers
we still can apply for this selection?
Yes, the central selection department will evaluate one person based on his abilities and talents
You can't bribe the examiner
There are chief examiner above the normal examiner
The chief examiner is also supervised by the minister department
If you want to get selected through bribing the courtier you will never succeed now
Let's have a try on this!
This person can be selected. He looks decent
His family background is pretty good too
Next
I'm Zhong Hui, Name Shi Ji
I'm from Chang She, Ying Chuan
My grand grand father is Hui Di
He didn't join the government because of the fight of the parties
My grand father Hui Li died early
My father is a minister in charge of the public security
Name Hui Yao
I study in central university
My school's evaluation of me
is all in this booklet
You are the son of the minister?
I heard your reputation. All said you are genius
I'm really impressed by you today
It's my honor to have you here
Don't worry. I will look at your booklet carefully
We will not bury your talents here
Thank you. You just evaluate me fairly. That will be enough
Of course
Say hello to the minister for me
Good bye young master
Please keep this booklet safe
Really a talented young man right?
Next
Bring up the booklet
Why don't you talk?
What's your name and family background?
Where do you come from originally?
Is he nervous? - I'm Deng...
Ai....
What are you saying?
What do you think of this place?
You think everyone can join this selection?
How do you become a courtier like this?
Kick him out now
What kind of person is this?
Examiner, I...
I have a farming proposal...
What farming? You need to talk straight first
I have a new policy proposal for farm lands
I hate this kind of person who doesn't know his real capability
Please throw this out for me
Next
Please wait Inspector Si Ma
Our lady wants to talk to you Inspector
Meets the Inspector
You come here really fast
You met with the emperor too right?
I need to hurry up therefore
It seems that last night you
didn't get proper rest at your house?
No need to laugh at me
I have a good relationship with my wife
Even if this is someone else
That person will not accept this kind of thing easily
I understand
You told me at the mansion
However
I'm also a person who is forced to do this
Don't blame me for this
I will not blame you
This is an order from the emperor
I'm grateful for this gift
I don't feel being forced to accept this. I'm happy about this
Ok, let's come in then
Please wait for a moment, my lady
We should plan this in a long term
How do you plan to arrange me then?
Otherwise I will be standing here all the time
If the neighbors see me
and some rumors come out. That would be bad
I'm going to make some appropriate arrangements for you
How about this?
You go back and rest at the mansion for a couple of days
Let me clean up the room for you first
You can come later when I'm ready?
You just said you are grateful for the emperor's gift
You then shut the door for the emperor's gift
Aren't you afraid the rain would become the thunder?
Then it will not only hurt you and me
It will hurt your wife, too
Alright
Come in
Wait
Miss
Wait for a moment
Allow me
to talk to my wife first
My wife's temper is a bit different from others
I understand
I saw her at the mansion, remember?
You haven't seen her being really pissed
My wife used to stand in front of this door
holding a sword at her hand and kicked off General Cao Hong
I have witnessed it
But if you do
go in and talk to her
will she listen to you?
Are you the master of this family?
I, of course, can
It's the house of Si Ma
I'm Si Ma Yi. I'm sure I can
Don't worry
OK. I will wait for your good news here
My lady, his wife really kicked off Cao Hong here?
She was waving a sword against dozens of people
I need to arm myself
Where are you heading?
We are not here to fight. Don't show your kung fu from investigation bureau
Calm down and wait for his good news
I'm back, darling
Did you return her?
No, she is here now
What do you mean?
She is here at the door
Don't get mad, darling. I will explain
Don't sit here
Listen to me
This is not like a present from a friend
I can return the gift if I don't like it
That woman
is a constrain from the emperor
If I didn't listen or obey Deputy Commander in the past
I can be angry and use some way to disobey him
If I don't listen to the emperor now
This is rejecting the edict. I might lose my life because of it
It's not the same now
Back then is different from what is now
The emperor wants to know what I'm thinking about
Therefore I had to accept this pawn arranged by the emperor
If I reject this gift
I'm afraid the emperor will not go easy on you if he thinks you are stopping him
Are you his courtier or his son?
Are your sons using your last name or his last name?
Why do you have to talk like this?
Why does he have to intervene in your sex life?
He is not intervening in my sex life
He wants to find a way to ensure I'm loyal to him
Don't relate everything to sex
That woman is not an ordinary woman
She is totally a politician
Her insight into the politics is far beyond normal courtiers
She can speculate what I'm thinking about
She then can let the emperor know what I'm thinking about
She knew what you are thinking about in two days
I don't know what you are thinking about being together for twenty years
You are an important courtier now. You think I don't know about the politics. I can't help you right?
I didn't mean that.
what do you want then? You really want her inside our family?
My love
Please do not worry
I figured out a perfect plan
I let her come into our house
but I will not live or sleep with her
In this way you don't need to be angry
and I can talk to the emperor about this too. Isn't this a perfect plan?
Si Ma Yi, who are you lying to?
Can you ignore her for one year or one day?
You can ignore her your whole life?
Even if you don't sleep with her in your lifetime, the people outside will still think she is your wife.
That doesn't hurt, does it?
I can ignore her my whole life
Even if others think she is my wife
What harm does this do? No way
I didn't talk to you about this before
Look at Chen Qun
That guy married the daughter of Minister Xun
The King gave him two other concubines when he married her
His family looks pretty good now, doesn't it?
Our family is not royal family but also a big family
Don't be mad. I'm just saying
even if I have many wives
What could others say?
I of course just want to be with you and you alone forever
but if I really do so
Others might say
you are envious and damage your reputation
Is that right? - Right
Si Ma Yi
I now understand why you don't return her
You have wanted this long ago right?
Let me tell you. You will not have many wives this life
I only want us loyal to each other and no one else
My man cannot have two women in his mind
Do you understand? Yes, I do
You want the emperor to give you a wife?
No problem. Just let him give me another man first.
Is this something a woman should say?
I was forced to face this. When do I have two women in my mind?
You want the emperor give you another man?
Who is it? Ji Bu?
You want to murder me? You can try saying that again.
I will really kill you. Get out.
I will not let you bring her in.
This is Si Ma family, Zhang Chun Hua.
Hou Ji Yes. What happened to you, Master?
Hou Ji
This is Lady Bai
Please clean out the west room
Miss Bai will live in that room from today on
Miss Bai
From today on
Miss Bai is one of the family
Congratulations, Master
Please
Miss Bai
Please
This way
The kitchen is outside this room
Just let me know what you want to eat I will make it for you
There is a pond too
Clothes washing and vegetable washing are at there
Master
Your visit is out of no where therefore the room is not very good
Hope you can live well here. If you need anything
Find Hou Ji
Look at yourself
Your wife didn't forgive you did she?
We have been through a lot me and my wife
It's normal for her to be mad
I know you don't want this either
The emperor's order should be followed I mean
I understand
I will not blame your wife
You got stuck between the edict
and your wife
It's really hard for you
It's me who bring you all this trouble
This is a big trouble indeed
No this is emperor's gift
I'm really grateful for emperor's caring for me
When I work hard for the new policies
I can enjoy the companion of a such beautiful woman. I am really grateful
I don't know what I'm saying
Xiao Yun
You asked me?
She is called?
Xiao Yuan
Lady Xiao Yuan
Please take care
Please stay at room if nothing happens
Don't walk too much in the garden
My wife has bad tempers
Madam's temper is beyond bad
Our lady has seen a lot
Even someone try to hurt us
we can handle ourselves
You know how to fight? Just some normal martial arts
Not worth mentioning
Hou Ji, please shut the door
Please
I remember your wife's reputation
I will be careful
My wife is from a different world
She really has a bad temper and manners
It's best if you two can live along
However
My loyalties to the emperor
are really true
I understand
I will tell the emperor
Madam
Shi-er and Zhao-er
I don't want to get my hand dirty. Throw these two people out.
Reconsider, sister-in-law.
My lady is prestigious. Don't touch her
This little girl
My knife will not show mercy. If you dare to move forward
Zhao-er Don't blame me for being rude to you
Stop right there!
Step down
It's not your turn to do anything
Si Ma Yi
What do you want to do?
Have I ever complained about your temper before being married for all these years?
You said I want to rebel
Please think about who should be master of this family
I'm the master
I endured you temper for a long time
It's the emperor behind Miss Bai
The emperor is the real master
You are facing the emperor entering here. And you bring a knife?
Why do you stare at me? Why don't you show some manners to her?
Please don't do that
This is my first day at this family
It should be me showing manners to the your wife
Greetings, Madam- Shut up. You don't get to talk.
Don't be angry. I heard that Inspector loves you very much.
I was under the order of the emperor to take Inspector to my house
He missed you everyday
He wanted to return badly but due to the edict
He was forced to stay at my place
Please forgive him
Listen to her
She is gentle and soft. She has reasons and emotions in her persuasion
Look at yourself. You were just cursing
Such a shrew
Hou Ji Sister-in-law
Don't stop me
Kill this bitch
Zhao-er, don't
Shu Da is right
You want to intervene with my family issue?
I dare not
Sister-in-law
Will you leave or not? Do you believe I will kill you?
Don't kill her, sister-in-law. This will bring death to our family.
Third master is right
I will give you a sentence and you might reconsider
I was under the order of the emperor
I'm afraid you will hurt yourself by hurting me
You might even hurt your whole family
What would the emperor think or do?
Please reconsider
Look at this lady. She is pretty and know how to talk and do things
You don't know about reason and manners at your age?
What did you say? You need to be straight as a model.
You two should learn from this lady
Si Ma Yi!
I will kill you
You are still running?
Your sword threat is great, darling. If we continue like this for three or five days
she won't stand it; she will run away!
Shout out loud
Scold me loudly
Si Ma Yi! Don't return if you go out！
What kind of family are they?
A bunch of barbarians
Do we need to report all these today?
Let me think it over
Xiao Yuan
Load off the furnitures
I need to make some decorations of this room
Yes
You can't kill her
She is an edict from the emperor
but if she stays our mother will be upset
We will not kill her for sure
We will let her stay
We will even treat her well
We will treat her as a noble guest. I now realized why our father wants to let her into our family
It's a spy from the emperor
It's interesting to be an emperor
Arranging woman to our father?
Our father will have more power when he goes up in the court
He will receive more suspicion in the future
Our father will achieve something big
He deserves this kind of suspicion
This woman appears to be the emperor's spy
But if we can use her right
She will also be a pawn of our father
Brother Ai
What happened to you?
I
I want to join the selection for courtiers
but the examiner didn't want me
You can let me come with you next time
You will feel safe if I am present
Give me the booklet
If they don't want to recommend you
it's their lost
I can recommend you
How to spell "recommend"?
Jian
Deng Ai
Zi Ye and Deng Ai
Deng Ai and Zi Ye
This is the most beautiful name in the world
If we can take a cow every now and then we can eat meats everyday
Don't let Ai knows about this. He will lecture on us again
He is just a miserable wretch
He just needs some beatings from us
Ai Ai
I heard you join the selection test
The examiner gave what position to you?
Our talented Ai Ai definitely will become a big courtier right?
A hight rank?
Let's drink
Who are you?
Is Mr. Deng Ai working here?
There is just a small officer Ai Ai
Who...
Who is looking for me? - Mr Deng?
Mr. Zhong?
I read your articles about farming
Your opinions really shock me
This is a great policy for this country and the citizens