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The Plough Department Of Song Dynasty
Episode 23
Well,
I gotta go.
I made this grasshopper
for you.
If you don't think I'm good at it,
come back and teach me.
Three-foot Longquan Sword.
Was left in the box.
Having a potent bow.
With hundreds of sharp arrows.
Loyal to the country.
Fought for the country.
I was determined to make contributions.
Hoping one day I can get summoned by the emperor.
Stop! Stop!
Master.
What's the grass?
I've never seen this.
It's called
dog-tail grass.
Dog-tail grass?
Kinda like that.
Master.
Look, so beautiful here.
With all kinds of strange things.
Better than our dark cave.
Master.
I don't want to go back there anymore.
No problem!
Later, I will
take you to live in a beautiful place.
How do you say?
Really?
Yes!
Master, not a lie?
I mean it.
Yeah!
Then let's go now!
Let's go!
Quickly!
Donkey,
dog-tail grass.
Master,
even the grass has a name.
What's my name?
Look, my memory is so bad.
My apprentice,
your name is Taisui.
Taisui?
My name is Taisui.
Why do I think
it's not as good as Busi?
Don't mention that name again.
Got it?
Okay.
But why?
Don't ask me why!
You must be obedient.
Let's go!
Okay.
Taisui came back to life again.
his body regrouped.
Should have lost memory and intelligence.
Didn't expect that he gets as simple a mind as a child's with vague memories.
I need to be more careful.
I can't expose the secret that
Taisui is undead.
Otherwise,
don't know what horrible things will happen.
Why are you here?
Just passed by.
Went to see Taisui?
Then walk with me.
Okay.
Meng Dong and I always came here.
Also rainy days.
The same place.
I envy you.
He and I
have never been so romantic.
It's true, my Lord.
It's really thunder and lightning coming down from the sky.
Killed my master and Shishu Guangyi.
This is an act of God.
Now you report to me,
What can I do?
Well...
My lord!
Qingyuan is so young,
he can't express clearly.
Let me tell you about it.
On that day,
our master ran into the woods
in the rain all of a sudden.
Qingyuan saw the master
saying somthing facing the woods.
He didn't know what our master saw.
Suddenly there was a giant thunder
falling down from the sky.
Struck our master to death
by the lightning on the spot.
Help!
Master was struck by lightning.
Help!
Master was struck by lightning.
Help!
And I
was disturbed by his yell.
When I saw that,
I asked other disciples to come over and help.
A huge thunder struck master to death!
But Shixiong GuangYi rushed into the woods
trying to drag master out.
But as soon as he went into the woods,
he was also struck to death.
And...
And what?
And after that,
Qingyuan told me
he saw with his own eyes that
the thunder did not come from the sky,
but from the woods.
If so,
it was sorcery?
I don't know
whether it's sorcery.
But our master is so kind
and polite.
How could he be punished by God?
It was raining heavily,
why did your master go to the woods?
I don't know.
As for the doubtful points,
this is the biggest one.
As for the next two thunders...
Forget it.
The pleadings of Kongsang Sect,
I'll handle it.
Thank you, my lord.
Thanks.
Bow in respect before your highness.
You're here.
Have you ever heard of the lightning strike of Kongsang Sect?
I've heard of it.
Kongsang Sect is located in Xuanyuan hill.
Xuanyuan hill was the Yellow Emperor's capital.
Therefore, Kongsang Sect always enjoys a high status.
Now lightning disaster has happened,
rumors got spread at once.
Many gossips.
I want your department
to look into this case.
Your highness.
The Fengcheng Department has taken over the case.
This matter has discomposed civilians.
We should clear up the rumors as soon as possible.
You take over this case.
Yes, your highness.
You just got here,
just stay in the room,
and don't go anywhere.
In the future,
we'll live here.
Listen.
Don't run around.
It's dangerous outside.
There're many bad guys.
What if you meet a bad person,
or someone bullies you?
What should we do?
In addition...
Taisui.
Where did he go?
Look,
am I awesome?
Brother, you are so awesome.
Can you teach me?
One by one.
Don't grab!
Each of you can have one.
If you play with me,
I'll make it for you
and teach you how to...
You bastard!
I wasn't finished.
And you snuck out.
Go home with me.
You brat.
Let's go!
Brother!
It hurts.
I told you it was dangerous out there.
You brat.
Hurry.
Master was right around here at that time.
Which tree was he looking at?
This one.
Has Fengcheng Department investigated the scene?
Yes!
You asked other disciples here,
then carried Chongxuan
and Guangyi into the room?
Yes.
About the situation,
tell me carefully again.
Don't leave out any details.
Okay.
At that time,
master!
Shixiong!
Master!
Stop!
Strange gestures.
Why is it a strange gesture?
Because it's not a gesture that we usually used.
We've never seen that.
Can you still imitate it?
Yes.
Chongxuan was struck by lightning.
He was dying.
Why was he still trying to climb back?
He also put his hand on Guangyi's back.
Even if it's an instinct that
he wanted to escape from the most dangerous place.
But...
Why did he make a gesture
that no disciple has ever seen before?
Why?
A man on fire.
What should I do?
Master.
Why you're here?
You're running around again.
Want make more troubles?
What are you doing?
Master!
Look back,
there is a man on fire.
A man on fire?
Master.
Right here.
Look.
Shidi Dilingzi.
Shidi!
What happened?
Shixiong Xuanxuanzi.
I...
Shidi!
Shifu.
Who is he?
He is the acting master of Biyoufeng Sect.
My Shidi.
That is to say
you two were both taught by the same master.
Not the same master.
Our masters had the same Shifu.
Cut it out.
Go back first
Okay.
Shifu.
Water.
Shifu.
Why do I suddenly have a Shishu?
There's something
I haven't told you.
Now it's time to tell you.
I also had a Shifu.
Our school is Biyoufeng Sect.
Mt. Biyoufeng is located in the depth of Mt. Mang.
There are two founders of Biyoufeng Sect.
Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.
Both are famous in Tang Dynasty.
Think it carefully,
My Grandmaster is
Li Chunfeng.
While you Shishu Dilingzi's
is Yuan Tiangang.
His Shifu is my Shibo.
Called Di Zang,
who is my Shifu, Tianguizi's Shixiong.
Shifu.
So complicated.
At first I thought in our school
we were the only ones.
He woke up.
Shidi.
You're awake.
Come.
Careful.
Shidi.
Why did you get down the mountain?
Who hurt you?
Shixiong.
I'm the acting master.
So I have many things to deal with.
I went down the mountain to do something.
But got someone following me.
I found him.
Then he tried to hurt me.
Shidi.
Don't worry,
Take your time.
He is good at using firearm.
I got hurt.
Feeling terrible.
Shidi.
I've fed you the elixir
and nurse your inner injuries.
But as for your poison,
I don't know how to treat it.
I'll write a prescription.
Please help me get the herbs.
No problem.
Who is he?
Shishu.
He is Taisui.
My new disciple.
Shifu.
I'm following...
You should go sleep now.
I have something to tell your Shishu.
No.
Now go.
Shixiong.
You are really lucky.
I didn't expect
I've got one more disciple call me Shishu.
Hurry go.
Okay.
Excuse me, Shifu.
Little grasshopper,
Shifu told me to leave,
is there anything funny?
And he kept it from me.
I'd like to eavesdrop.
But,
should I do that?
Will Shifu scold me?
No.
Okay.
I listen to you.
Shixiong.
I know you're used to leisure.
But...
Now I'm seriously injured.
I hope you will
go back with me and take charge.
Our school is in danger now.
I should take my responsibility.
It's just...
Once I get up the hill,
who can take care of Taisui.
Shixiong.
Since he is our disciple,
just take him back.
To tell you the truth,
his mind is as simple as a child's.
Our school has lots of rules.
I'm afraid...
Shixiong.
Screw it.
Forget him.
Shidi.
The injury on your back
make the clothes stick to your skin.
I'll clean your wound
and bind it up.
Wait till dawn tomorrow,
I'll buy the medicine according to your prescription.
When you're a little better,
I'll send you back.
But...
If we go back together.
What about your apprentice?
Don't worry.
I'll give my neighbor some money
and ask them to take care of him.
Okay.
Come.
Shidi.
Lie down.
There was a big thunder last night.
I thought it was going to rain.
Nothing happened at last.
It's sunny.
You also heard that?
I saw it.
I didn't sleep last night.
Went out and had a look.
Guess what?
What?
I saw a fire burning in the woods.
Fire?
There's no fire in the woods.
A monster, is it?
A monster?
Don't scare me.
I...
I go to cut firewood every day.
It's...
If there is a monster,
Village head.
What are you talking about?
Village head.
A strange thing happened in the woods yesterday.
There was thunder but no rain.
In addition,
there was a flash of fire up into the sky.
Bullshit.
Don't speak nonsense.
I saw it with my own eyes.
Really scary.
Shut up.
Don't talk nonsense in the future.
No more nonsense,
Or you'll be punished.
Back to your work.
Qi.
Come here.
Bro, what's the matter?
Listen to me.
There was a thunder in the woods last night.
And I saw a strange light, too.
What?
Bro, you...
Lower your voice.
Listen.
Go to the county right now.
And report the lord.
There are bad people in our village.
Bro.
What the hell is going on?
When you get someone to check it out, we'll know.
I'll be right there.
Go ahead, hurry.
Okay.
Have you heard about this?
The monster appeared in the woods of our village yesterday.
What kind of the monster?
It is a monster.
Do you know?
What the hell is going on?
Don't keep me guessing.
Come on.
There's a fox devil
that's about to change into human figure.
That shocked the God.
God sent thunder king to catch it.
They fought in the woods of our village.
A burst of fire,
a burst of thunder.
The fox devil was beaten and screamed.
Bro.
Don't brag.
It sounds like a real thing.
Did you see the God catching the monster?
Are you silly?
God caught the monster,
would I see that?
So you're bragging.
Who's bragging?
I saw that with my own eyes last night.
Lights of fire.
If it's not the god catching monsters,
what could that be?
Enough.
Cut it out.
Village head ordered me to report the news to Yamen.
Waiter.
Check out.
Manglin village.
Let's go
to Manglin village.
How about Kongsang Sect?
It won't run.
Even if we go there now, it's not the first crime scene.
Might as well go to Manglin village.
We might get something.
My lord, take it easy.
It's okay.
Dou Cheng.
Wenqu.
What are you doing here?
Greetings.
Little Dou Cheng, where are you going?
We are going to Manglin village.
How about you?
Where are you from?
Kongsang Sect.
Just got back.
Kongsang Sect?
Your department also interferes in this matter?
I don't know why,
the empress dowager seems to have attached great importance to this case.
So we intervened.
That's great.
Did you get anything?
Detective Liu, never mind.
My Lord is also under the order of the Court of Judicial Review
to investigate the case.
You Court of Judicial Review intervenes, too?
Normally, cases directly handled by your department.
The party involved must be an official.
Why this time...
Well,
Kongsang Sect is located in Xuanyuan hill.
Xuanyuan hill was also under the jurisdiction of the court.
Therefore, their master was kinda an official.
That...
Makes sense.
Detective Liu,
what did you find?
Just say it.
In fact, we got
nothing special.
But we think that
the master of Kongsang Sect and Guangyi were not hit by lightning.
If it's not an act of God,
someone must be behind it.
That's right.
Well,
Why are you going to Manglin village?
Here's the thing.
Just now in the teahouse, my lord
heard from a messenger
from Manglin village
that there was something abnormal last night.
He said in the woods outside the village,
there was thunder
and lightning on sunny day.
Occasionally, there was fire.
They suspected that it was some monster.
Yes.
That's what the messenger said.
So I suspect the two things may be related.
Since that,
let's go to Manglin village together.
Let's go.
Sir.
According to this prescription,
I only found three kinds of herbs,
don't have another three kinds.
You have to go ask in the county.
Because
I don't think you can
find it in other villages.
Okay, I know.
Thank you.
Bye.
Sir.
Take care.
Mrs. Wang.
See you.
Thank you, doctor.
Wish you have a baby soon.
Sir.
Are you going to see a doctor
or buy medicine?
Excuse me.
Where does the village head live?
Village head.
He lives right behind my house.
Go ahead.
Thanks.
Shidi, how do you feel?
Shixiong.
There's not many herbs here.
I'm afraid I can't get fully recovered.
It's...
What should I do then?
Shixiong.
I think you'd better send me back now.
We have enough herbs in our school.
Then I can recover.
Okay.
But you can't walk,
I have to borrow a carriage from my neighbor.
Meanwhile,
I've to arrange something for Taisui.
Thank you, Shixiong.
Never mind.
Taisui.
Come with me.
Okay.
Village head.
You mean here?
Where's the blood?
Right here.
There, blood.
Go.
Look,
Right here.
There are struggling signs.
If I'm right,
one used fire,
while the other used thunder.
How to use the lightning?
I don't know.
But...
According to Kongsang Sect's case,
that man does have the ability to control lightning.
Using thunder and lightning,
isn't that an immortal?
Xingyi.
What do you think?
All I can say is that there were two people fighting here.
There's a patch of burnt grass over there.
Except that,
I didn't find anything.
Here!
Look,
look at this ground,
someone must have been here.
From the position,
this guy's supposed to be lying here.
He saw the two sides in front of him.
Let's go back to the village.
Mr. Niu.
Coming.
Taisui,
call Mr. Niu.
Mr. Niu.
This is my apprentice, Taisui.
Please take care of him for a few days.
No need to school him.
Just give him some food,
to eat, that's enough.
Don't worry.
No problem.
Taisui.
I'm going out for a few days,
don't run around.
Go home and sleep when it gets dark.
Listen to Mr. Niu.
Can't act up.
Got it?
Just ahead.
Village head.
You said several people in the village saw flames and lightning last night.
The people who was there may be one of them.
Let's start with them.
Okay.
Well.
Mr. Niu,
Please take this money.
We are neighbors.
No need this.
Just give him some food.
Take it.
Take it, please.
I... I've never been to the wild woods.
Never.
Sir.
Don't be afraid.
We're here to investigate the case.
Need to get some clues.
We don't want to embarrass you.
Just tell us everything
you saw that night in detail.
I remember now.
At that day,
a lot of people saw it.
There's a big fire.
Village head.
If these men
didn't see the fight,
we need to gather all the villagers for questioning.
Okay.
Village head.
A child is missing.
Whose child?
My neighbor's.
Xuan who has just moved here.
He said he was going out.
Let me take care of his disciple.
After a while, he got lost.
- You... - Village head.
Please ask the villagers to look for him.
If we can't get him back,
when Xuan comes back,
what shall I tell him?
Taisui, Taisui.
I think it's a bad name when I heard it at first.
I have met with bad luck.
Taisui.
What do you mean? Taisui?
You...
What are you doing?
Yaoguang.
Calm down.
Sir.
I'm sorry.
We also have a friend called Taisui.
But...
He has been away from us for long.
We miss him very much.
The Taisui you're talking about.
What kind of a man he is?
He is a foolish young man.
Like a child.
A young man?
Taisui.
My lord.
Here!
What did you find?
My Lord, look.
Burnt clothes.
The villager once said
he had seen the flames.
Yaoguang.
What's wrong with you?
Yaoguang.
Hey, look.
What is this?
I made the new grasshopper on my own.
He is still alive.
He's really alive.
Liu suifeng.
Did you see that?
He's alive.
He's really alive.
Taisui is alive.
Yaoguang.
Taisui has been pressed into...
What I mean is...
He wouldn't come back to life.
No.
Look.
Look at this.
This grasshopper was made by Taisui.
He's the only one who can make it.
And the villagers also said that
the man's name is Taisui.
Yaoguang.
I know you miss Taisui.
But you can't bring a man back to life.
Liu Suifeng.
You are a big idiot.
Dou Cheng.
I'll tell you the good news.
Taisui is alive.
He's still alive.