SUBTITLES BY Babel Fansub
Katherine, Alina
Candle in the Tomb: The Weasel Grave
[ All characters in this publication are fictitious, any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincident ]
Episode 01
I'm Hu Bayi.
My family has an incomplete book,
named The Sixteen-character Geomancy Secrets of Yin and Yang,
written by seniors of Mojin Xiaowei.
By virtue of this magical book,
Me and my childhood friend Wang Kaixuan joined Mojin Xiaowei as grave raiders.
Over the past years,
I've seen many things and met many people.
I've never regretted the wilderness and hardships since I saw amazing things never been experienced before.
Looking back, there were killings and terror.
But now I've quit the business,
ready to leave for America
and a new life.
Hu!
Gosh!
What a gook lock!
Did it do something to piss you off?
Get up.
No more sleep! Hurry, get up!
Get up!
Your room...
Why so messy again?
Didn't I clean it up for you two days ago?
If you mom saw such a mess,
she would nag at my mom.
After that, my mom would nag at me.
So annoying!
Look, you've had no improvement over the past ten years and more!
I've been acting as your wife, your mom and your bro.
I must have owed you in my last life!
What time is it?
4 p.m.!
You'll miss the plane if not leave now!
Why are you smoking again?
Smoking does harm to your health. If anything bad happened to you,
who can take care of my future?
Hurry, get up and change.
According to the traditional almanac,
today is not a good day
for hair-cutting and receptions.
How about
we leaving some other day?
What did you say?
Miss Yang is waiting in the United States of America,
looking forward to our arrival.
She even bought us the tickets!
So expensive!
How could you quit? Is it appropriate?
Hurry up! Change your clothes and leave!
Listen to me,
going abroad is in fashion.
All talented youths in China
are scrambling to go out like fireworks.
Maybe it could be the second spring of our career.
It's okay that you don't want to go. But don't get in the way of my wealth.
Because I wanna go to America to earn dollars!
You still keep the photo?
Look.
Look, what you were.
I was pretty handsome, right?
Time flies.
Many years have passed by.
[ Serve The People ]
Everyone!
Be careful.
The sun sets earlier in the mountains
than it does back home.
The wind blows coldly.
Roads are slippery when it snows.
You might sprain your ankles.
Safety is first when you go hunting in daytime.
Doors must be shut during your sleep in night.
Don't walk about in the woods when you're free.
Keep guns around whether you shit or pee.
When animals show up,
just... Just fire.
Do you hear me?
Secretary.
I can only rest easy
when every one of you come back.
Are you ready, everyone?
Why do you guys follow me all this time?
Secretary.
Give us some tasks.
Cut firewood or make a fire, everything is okay as long as we can enter the mountains.
Yes. Yes.
Nonsense. Back off.
If you make us stay longer in the village,
we'll die of boredom!
Yes.
Brats, stop pretending.
Let me see you die of boredom.
We're from everywhere of the country.
But for a common purpose, we're all here at the Great Khingan.
On behalf of educated youths,
I'm making the request sincerely!
No matter what,
please allow us to join the revolutionary struggle of this winter hunt!
Right!
Stop kidding me.
Chairman Mao has taught us to go against liberalism,
and obey arrangements of the organization.
Now, all men go hunting in the mountains.
Only women and children are left behind home.
If the brown bear comes, what could we do?
You educated youths should protect this village.
To keep everyone here safe.
Get it? This is your task.
Yanzi!
Coming!
What's up, secretary?
Watch them.
When I'm not around,
make sure that they behave.
Don't worry.
I'm their landlady.
I'll watch them closely!
Let's go.
-Go back with me. -Let's set out if you're ready! Secretary. Secretary.
We can discuss it more.
I'll make you pancakes back home!
Go.
Set out. Set out. Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go.
Go back, everyone.
Get up!
-What are you doing?! -What are you doing?!
Why did you lift our quilt?
Tell me, where did you hide it?
What did she mean?
Even a rabbit doesn't graze beside its burrow.
But you guys!
We're not rabbits.
You're thieves!
Worse than thieves!
Look at your yourself!
You want to hunt for workpoints? Pooh!
We only have one quilt.
How come we become thieves?
You can have as many quilts as you want!
Pack up! Get lost!
We don't house thieves here!
Wait. Wait. Yanzi.
Have you lost something?
What's that?
What have you lost?
Chickens.
How many?
You don't know how many chickens my family has?
Only feathers are left.
If you educated youths didn't do it, who else could it be?
Yanzi
If I stole the chickens,
no one else would know.
Yanzi,
If it were me,
I wouldn't left a single feather for you.
How arrogant you are!
If you're that capable, find back the chickens!
Right here. Right here.
The bastards are inside this room.
Bastards in the room!
Come out of the room!
Does it have anything to do with that bastard?
Bastards in the room! Come out!
Come out! Come out!
Since the educated youths came to our village,
have we ever lived a peaceful day?
No!
The moment secretary left for the mountains with our men,
all chickens in our village went gone overnight.
Yes!
Without any feather left.
We must figure it out today!
What are you shouting about in such an early morning?
We stole the chickens?
Did you get any evidence?!
Come on.
Chairman said to seek the truth from facts.
Xu Erhei
Show everyone here the evidence you got.
What evidence do you want?
Isn't it obvious?
Look, this one, fair-skinned.
Looks so smooth and shinning.
Effeminate.
How could they be manual workers?
What does a poor farmer look like?
Just like me!
Right! Yes! Right!
They know nothing but blah blah blah.
Quite talkative, glib-tongued.
How can we believe that you didn't steal the chickens?!
You stole the chickens!
How can we believe you?!
Screw you!
Wanna hit me?
Fatty. Fatty. Fatty.
Fatty.
Come on! Come on!
What a cornered beast!
Come on, hit me on the head.
You're a coward if you don't!
Xu Erhei!
Don't fight.
Shut up!
We can't let any good man be wronged,
nor let go of any bad man.
They look exactly like what they were since they came here.
What kind of evidence is that?
Yanzi
Why are you helping outsiders?
Yes.
Aren't you nuts?
All chickens in our village are gone. We must find out the reason.
Yes.
Want a reason, right?
Here it is.
There are chicken feathers stuck to your shoes.
And blood stains on your pants.
It seems that you've played a role in the chickens stealing.
Are you questioning me?
I had these because I've made investigations in others' chicken nests.
You're the black sheep in your family.
How could you have the sense of justice and make investigations in others' home?
How could a black sheep have sense of justice?
I think you've been disliking them
since the day they came here.
Are you here to find fault with them?
I'm afraid that rabbits from the city graze beside our burrows!
Yes!
Everyone here!
Everyone, listen to me, quiet!
I've found the thieve.
Where? Where?
Where?
Everyone, look here.
Footprints there, footprints here.
And here, too.
Also, a wisp of yellow hair.
The thieve should be...
Weasels.
Don't believe that! That's impossible!
Weasels?
How could weasels steal all the chickens in our village?
You gotta show us the evidence!
Footprints, hair,
isn't it all here? Are you blind or what?
You must find out thieves with the loot.
The footprints and the hair might be faked by you.
If you're capable, catch the weasels here.
Right?
Open their stomachs and let us see
if our chickens are inside there.
Don't catch them! Don't kill them!
Weasels are weasel fairies.
If you catch them,
bad luck will befall all of us!
Weasel fairies, bless us.
Look
Are you scared?
Dare not to catch them?
I will!
I will go catch those weasels!
I will kill them and get candies for you from the supply and marketing cooperatives!
No! No!
Come here. Come here.
-Hit me again? -Shut up!
You bastard!
Can we really get candies?
I'm the bastard if I lied!
Candies?
All right.
They left. You're safe.
Xu Erhei is just a wastrel.
An idler in our village.
Don't be mad at him.
Winter comes earlier this year.
Weasels have no food. So they came here.
Yanzi
How long has it been since you ate fruit drops?
Don't try to make trouble!
Weasel fairies are clever.
It's said that whoever saves weasel fairies,
for whatever he wants,
weasel fairies will get it for him
and make him live a rich life.
Back then,
Xu Erhei's uncle killed a weasel.
But it didn't take long before he hanged himself.
It was done by the weasels.
Comrade Yanzi is right.
Chairman's revolutionary line is the bright path in the middle.
On the left, there is a hole called left-leaning.
On the right, there is a hole called right-leaning.
We must not stand in the wrong side and take the wrong path.
Otherwise we might fall into the holes.
But,
there is no outsiders here.
We only talk about gossips.
No state affairs.
I remember,
there's a mound in the Mt. Tuan nearby,
called the weasel grave?
Yes. Yes. Yes.
That place is full of weasels.
Not far away from our village.
We've been here for months.
Never have we been to Mt. Tuan.
In my opinion,
we should take actions.
We should set up traps in the mountain tonight.
Get some weasels back.
Trade for fruit drops!
It's not just about fruit drops.
Listen,
We must use the fearless spirit of our proletariat
to avenge those dead chickens.
A great career to clear the name of our educated youths!
Don't. Don't go there.
Secretary has said it before he left that you guys can't mess with liberalism!
What's up?
Almost everyone of the revolutionary mass
in our village has joined the winter hunt to fight famine.
How could we just eat and make no contributions?
Although weasels are small,
they have furs and some meat.
We can use your family's leather bag
to get some weasels.
Consider it a contribution to our socialist career,
a help to the revolutionary cause of people around the world.
Commander Hu is right!
Revolution goes beyond times!
Just seize the day!
After walking for so long,
we haven't seen any weasels.
Yanzi
Do you really know the road?
Climb over the ridge ahead and we'll be there.
What's that?
Don't be a brown bear.
Shut up.
Be careful.
So scaring. Hu?
Hu?
Yanzi?
Where are they?
Hu?
Ghost!
Fatty!
Ghost!
Don't chase me! Don't chase me!
Hu! Hu Bayi! Help!
Hu!
Fatty!
-Hu! Where are you? -Fatty!
Hu!
Wang Kaixuan!
Fatty!
Wang Kaixuan!
Hu! Hu Bayi! Help!
-Hu! -Fatty!
Ghost! Ghost!
Fatty!
Ghost! Ghost!
Ghost! Ghost! Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!
What grievances do you have?
Hu! Help!
Gosh!
It's a girl.
Let me see.
A chick indeed!
Why didn't you sleep at night
but pretending a ghost here?
Fatty.
It hurts. It hurts.
We can talk.
Hu Bayi! Wang Kaixuan!
Why didn't you wait for me?
Huamei?
Why are you also here?
Put it out.
Who's she?
She's Huamei.
A ranger of this forest farm.
All villagers know her.
The ranger girl looks so pretty!
What... What are you looking at?
You've never seen such a spirited educated youth?
Let me introduce us.
He's Hu Bayi.
I'm Wang Kaixuan.
My friends call me Fatty.
Which part of you deserves that name?
I was fat when I was a child.
You don't know how fat I was back then.
Back then, for one meal, I could eat...
Fatty. Fatty.
I got this.
Go ahead. Go ahead.
Don't...
She's really a ranger?
Comrade Huamei
Can we talk?
It's so late.
What were you doing in Mt. Tuan?
We've eaten too much.
So we went out to take a walk.
Lie.
There are many things to be done in this vast land.
And workpoints to be earned by the way.
If you wanna earn workpoints,
I have an idea.
Really?
Shoot.
Weasels.
A few words will be enough!
It's cold here.
A few more words.
Save some food for me!
Hurry up!
Comrade Huamei
There's a mystery in your words.
There's a ridge in the south.
Over that ridge, there's a mound,
called the weasel grave.
All weasels in Mt. Tuan are there.
You're a good hunter.
Why don't you go there?
A good hunter once becomes a forest ranger.
She can't go hunting without the village's permission.
Only can earn workpoints as you do.
Earns less workpoints than you do.
That's to say,
Your hunting skill is useless?
Yes.
Useless.
I heard seniors say that weasels are weasel fairies.
There will be consequences if we hunt them.
That's your business.
Has nothing to do with me.
It depends on whether you have the balls.
Fine.
Just to hunt weasels, right?
After that, we'll give you some workpoints.
I'll tell the village,
weasels stole chickens,
so it's justifiable to kill them.
Excellent.
Isn't it?
Very excellent.
Whether or not, after we hunt them.
Now I'm only thinking about one thing.
To earn workpoints for you.
You may borrow this gun!
Comrade Huamei supports us to hunt weasels.
The more we hunt, the more we earn.
Hu, may I ask you a question?
What will comrade Huamei give, money or labor?
She has no money.
Nor labor.
Neither money nor labor.
But steps in?
Here is the thing.
We must talk about the workpoints.
Yanzi.
Harmony brings wealth.
Listen to me,
when we get workpoints,
there will be some for her.
Hu
Where are there so many holes here?
Weasels like to burrow.
We're downwind.
Weasels can't smell us.
No rush.
Let's see how it goes first.
Hu
Let's get started. Nothing is going on here.
Okay. Nothing is going on here.
Okay.
Look
Here it is.
Yanzi, I gotta say sorry to you first.
In order to catch weasels,
I saw the eggs of your hen.
So I took an egg .
And a wisp of its feathers.
-Hu Bayi. -What are you doing?
I just bought the hen.
You may steal the eggs.
Why did you have to pluck its feathers? All right, don't be so mean, okay?
Yanzi. Yanzi. Yanzi.
Fight verbally, not manually.
I'll make that bastard write a letter of self-criticism.
Dig deep into the wrong motives of his mind.
But now,
make him explain to us
how to use the feathers to catch weasels.
Take it.
It's quite easy to entrap weasels.
Just needs the egg and the feathers.
These gluttonous creatures will go crazy.
Take out your family's leather bag.
Right here.
Stay away from here.
I'll go find you when it's done.
When you leave,
remember to clean up the footprints.
Got it.
Hu
Hurry. Hurry. Hurry.
Just wait.
God bless us.
Catch more weasels tonight!
A female one.
Nice fur.
It'll be easy to trade for five kilograms of fruit drops.
Nice.
Is it a weasel?
It's a weasel fairy.
This sly weasel is really fat!
That beast can't be full.
It's must be wondering...
Silence.
Watch it closely.
Now!
Leave anything else aside.
Give a credit to that fart of mine!
No more nonsense.
Comrades
Fruit drops and workpoints are ours.
Let me have a look.
Why does this bastard stay still?
Don't be dead.