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[Novoland: Eagle Flag] [Based on a fiction by Jiang Nan]
[Episode 25]
Is it time yet?
There's still three minutes to go.
Pull him up to check.
You are really not afraid of death?
For now...
I can't die.
I still have someone to kill.
You said you are here in the capital to kill someone?
It was the previous person...
who was in-charge of this prison.
My mother and I suffered under his extreme bullying and humiliation.
Mother.
Mother!
Release my mother.
Mother!
Release my mother!
I will never spare anyone who caused my mother to suffer.
You are a soldier from Lower Tang.
How could you have spent time in this prison?
I...
I was born in the capital. When I was young, a misfortune occurred in my family.
Father left with the main wife and my younger brother.
He didn't remember to take my mother and me along with him.
When we were caught, we lived in this place.
This place won't drown me.
I was imprisoned in this Water Prison.
Main wife?
Are you the illegitimate child of a concubine?
Yes, I'm an illegitimate child.
You said that you are here in the capital to kill someone.
You must live.
Even if you pay a heavy price,
you must live.
Your Highness, what are you looking for?
Our Dali Temple has preserved the dossiers of seven hundred years of the Great Yin dynasty.
Within the last 20 years, I want to see any file that contains a "Ji" character.
Why are you still standing here?
Look for it!
- Yes. - Yes.
Look for it now.
This is not it. Look for it in the front.
I found it. I found it!
I found it.
Prefecture Princess.
Sun Zhimiao?
It's Sir Sun. He achieved excellent at work,
and has been promoted to the Treasury Department.
There are no records of that woman's final outcome in here.
No records? She's probably dead.
Dead?
How did she die?
We don't continue to pursue the cases of criminals in Dali Temple.
Bring a brazier here.
Prefecture Princess, this is the only copy.
I'm warning you. It's best that you see this and forget it.
If not, I will dig out your eyes.
Prefecture Princess, spare our lives.
Lord.
Go in. Let her eat something to boost her health.
Yes.
Eat this.
Lord.
Send her back to the prison later.
Lord has a charitable heart.
You always tell me to deliver food to her when you are done with her.
Back then, I was just a prison guard.
There was a woman who was quite pretty.
Every time we finished, she would ask me for a bowl of chicken soup and a drumstick.
The women in prison are really pitiful.
Sir, today is the day to open the private treasury.
You should leave.
All right, I know.
Auntie, why did you ask me to be here?
You told me to come, but won't speak to me.
What are you writing?
You are writing a letter to His Lordship?
We should tell him about the situation here.
You are telling him about your situation instead.
You always seem so stern but you are so warm and gentle towards him.
This is just like how the Crown Prince treats you too.
It's a huge world and there are different kinds of people.
It's not easy to find someone who's warm and gentle with you.
You should cherish him.
Why do you always mention the Crown Prince?
Do you think Asule and I must be like you and His Lordship? Using each other for mutual benefits?
Is this how you think of my relationship with His Lordship?
You are his new bride.
He has weak health, of course you should take good care of him.
Take this gold tally. It will make it easy for you to enter the Grand Qing Palace.
So Auntie called me here today is to send me to Grand Qing Palace?
Auntie, do you really care about Asule's health,
or, you only care about Lower Tang and Qingyang's stupid alliance?
I'll tell you. I care about both.
You are his wife and he is my niece's husband, of course I worry about his health.
But it also involved Lower Tang's future.
Since you care about him so much,
then you go stay by his side.
Yu Ran.
I'll make it clear to you today.
Asule is my friend.
I only care about whether he lives well.
If you want to use me to control him,
you should kill that idea.
I know the person you really care about is that kid Ji Ye.
That's the most difficult rope to untie in this world.
It's when one person cares about another.
Often times we can't do what we want.
Ye'er.
You must stay alive.
No matter how great the cost,
you must stay alive.
Your Majesty.
Today is the day to open the treasury.
Have you prepared the 20,000 taels of gold, Your Majesty?
Lord Li, please stay calm and not rush.
What I promised, I will surely have it done.
Sun Zhimiao.
You are the official at the Treasury Department.
in charge of coin minting and related matters.
You are most familiar with the reserve in the private treasury.
I now order you to prepare carriage and horses,
to carry all the reserved money in front of the grand hall
for the Lord of Li State to inspect personally.
I shall obey.
However, this private treasury
is owed by the royal family, not just myself.
So I would ask my Aunt to provide the other key.
Ning Qi.
I, Sun Zhimiao, shall carry out your command.
Within two hours, I will complete the mission.
Your Majesty, Grand Princess, and Lord of Li State, please wait for a short while.
I will take my leave.
Get up.
Go.
Master, same as before, 100 pieces of rice cakes.
Princess, you are really benevolent. Those children have lost their parents,
but luckily they have you and His Majesty. This is the kindest grace from Heaven.
It's my brother's idea. I'm just doing it for him.
Today is the day when my brother opens the treasury for Ying Wuyi,
so he can't come. I'll go see the children for him.
His Majesty is opening the private treasury for my sake.
I feel indebted.
Crown Prince, you shouldn't feel so indebted.
Ying Wuyi was simply using a scapegoat.
Do you really think he would left my brother off if he didn't have you?
The Thunder Calvary is getting more arrogant than ever.
Princess Little Zhou,
when I left this morning, Yu Ran asked me to do a few things for her.
Untie him.
You can all leave.
If anyone eavesdrops, he'll lose his ear.
- Yes. - Yes.
Aren't you afraid
that I'll use you as a hostage again?
Why would you?
The oldest son of Ji family in Revelation City is a descendant of a noble family.
Why would you do anything that is ungrateful?
Besides, I have a gift to give you.
How did you find out?
I went to the Ministry of Justice to check your file.
Fourteen years ago, the emperor announced the Heavenly Samurai Regiment as insurgents.
A Ji family was affected by connection.
This family has had Samurai for generations. Even the descendants were low-keyed in style,
their identity was dug up by troublemakers.
Ji family's patriarch found out about it in advance.
He escaped with his family in a hurry.
But he left behind a lowly concubine
and the son that she bore.
Mother and son were imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice's prison.
Even adults often go in but never come out.
A child...
how did he stay alive?
It's because he had a beautiful mother.
Shut up!
Don't talk anymore.
You need to listen.
Don't you want to know the truth from back then?
You were still young, didn't know much.
You've always suspected but can't be sure, right?
So I questioned Sun Zhimiao's housekeeper.
The housekeeper keeps visiting the prison.
He would bring out some female prisoners who were pretty.
He said his master has an unusual hobby.
He likes to molest female prisoners.
Even though he is now a high official, and there are pricey prostitutes who would love to appease him,
but he always says these women aren't good enough
and won't let him do as he pleases.
The housekeeper also said, Sun Zhimiao has a strange habit even to this day.
Every time he finishes molesting a female prisoner,
he would let someone give her
a braised chicken drumstick.
The reason is that the woman that had fully satisfied him before
always asked for food after they finished.
I think that woman was trying to keep her son alive.
Otherwise, how could such a small boy
stay alive until now?
Sun Zhimiao is here.
That's the gift I'm giving you.
Stop!
Charge!
What's going on?
Please relay this report. Sun Zhimiao's caravan has run into an assassination. Many guards are dead or injured.
Your Majesty! Something bad happened!
Why are you so flustered?
According to troop report, treasury official Sun Zhimiao,
on this way back, he encountered an assassin.
What? Who is that brave?!
How is Lord Sun?
We don't know yet but it wasn't easy for Guard Jinwu to escape back to the palace.
He's injured and has lost consciousness.
You...
Who are you? Are you crazy?
You even dared to rob a Treasurer's official carriage?
Robbing a Treasurer's official carriage is a death sentence!
You...
Kill him!
Someone! Where are you?
Someone! Save me!
Someone!
Don't come near me.
I will give you whatever you want.
Someone's life is in danger.
Over there.
Over there. Let's go.
Over there.
Spare me and I will give you gold.
I will give you an official post.
When you submerge my mother in water then,
did you ever think of sparing her?
Did you?!
You...you are that woman's child.
Did you ever spare her?!
Stop!
Ji Ye?
What are you doing in the capital?
Why are you killing him in the street?
He deserved to die.
There must be a misunderstanding.
You are not one to kill innocent people.
Come with me!
There is no mistake. I am the kind to kill innocent people.
This eagle is finally ready.
Ji Ye.
Let's go.
Yu Ran is here in the capital.
Don't you want to see her?
Move aside!
Move aside! Everyone, move aside!
What's going on?
To answer Your Majesty, Grand Princess.
Treasurer Sun Zhimiao was just killed by someone in the street.
What's going on with all those bricks?
Could it be that when the the assassin killed Lord Sun, the gold was secretly replaced?
Crown Prince, what are you doing here? What did you personally witnessed?
Your Majesty, I was just passing by. I don't know what happened.
I am honored by Your Majesty.
and opened his personal warehouse.
Everyone in Li state is extremely grateful.
But how did the gold ingots turned into bricks?
Your Majesty, this joke has gone overboard.
The military expenses that I requested from you, it's not for my personal stash.
I have exerted my strength and wisdom,
in order to help Your Majesty in the Northern Expedition and clear away all the treacheries in the Bai family.
Now that this has happened, how do you expect me to go on the expedition?
I can only remain in Revelation City
and slowly raise the fund for the military expense.
Don't worry. I burned the dossier in Dali Temple.
It will be incinerated soon.
The past will be forgotten.
You only need to remember that you have a good mother.
And what she did for you.
But I remember. I remember everything.
My father usually says that it's hard to remember people who are too good.
It's said that Revelation City is the core of the Nine States.
I don't see anything great about it.
When you drink a cup of warm tea with it, your mood will feel better.
Wait here.
Good. Please come again.
Welcome, Miss! What do you want to buy?
Just these only!
Help the lady package these.
Here are your items.
Wow Miss, you are really generous.
Take care!
Here.
Only the capital has such good stuff.
Aren't you happy now that you've revenged?
Didn't I already say? If you don't have strength and power in this world, then you have nothing.
That Sun guy deserved to die.
But if not for me, then at this time you would be on the run.
If you were caught, the lightest sentence is execution.
I know all that.
How do I think you?
No need to thank me.
I have my purpose to help you.
What's purpose?
My father regards you highly. There aren't many such people.
He said that some day, when you become a strong general, you can go fight with him for the world.
That means you are qualified to become his enemy.
My father will rule all nine states.
His enemy is someone who will work for me or die.
You want me to work for you, but my family is in South Huai.
If I pledge allegiance to you, my family will suffer.
Pledge allegiance?
It's not enough to pledge allegiance. I want you to be my slave.
Your slave?
I am the Prefecture Princess of Li State, there are plenty of braves who will be my slaves.
I am not using your gratitude to get something from you.
To be my slave,
finish three missions for me.
You can do whatever you want before you finish those missions, I won't care.
Once you finish the missions, you can go wherever you want,
I won't care, either.
What if you don't let me finish those missions?
I would be stuck forever.
Then maybe someone I'll get into a good mood, lose interest in you, and just set you free?
Alright.
There are only 300 men in my father's Thunder Brave Camp.
but they dared to charge at 3,000-men Iron Calvary.
The first mission that I want you to do is
to join the Thunder Brave Camp.
Everyone there wears a mask, so should you.
Then no one will recognize you as the older son of Ji family.
From today on, you are my slave.
Why are you here?
I saw Ji Ye just now.
How is that possible? Isn't he in the border troops?
He is in the capital now.
An official was assassinated in the street just now.
The killer is Ji Ye.
Why did he kill the official?
I don't know either.
I asked him, but he wouldn't say.
Then where is he now?
This is an arrow belonging to Perfecture Princess Ying Yu of Li State.
Ji Ye left with her.
So the hero that killed Sun Zhimiao turns out to be my precious daughter.
With Sun Zhimiao's position, he wouldn't have offended you.
Why did you kill him?
He is an animal hidden under righteous exterior.
Ever since he was in charge of the prison, his favorite hobby was to molest female prisoners.
Then he is despicable and deserves to die.
This can't be your only reason to kill him, right?
He is also Ji Ye's enemy for revenge.
Who is Ji Ye?
He's the one that you said would become a strong general before the battle at the old monument.
The one that you tied up and brought over?
Yes.
Father, haven't you always taught me to conquer someone's heart in order to conquer the person?
I beat that rascal for half a month, he never...
he never said one word to beg.
So I wondered, how do I conquer his heart?
I learned that he had an enemy at the capital.
He came to the capital in order to kill that enemy.
It's Sun Zhimiao. So I personally devised a plan to let him carry out his revenge.
Of course he obediently became my slave.
Alright, no more on that matter.
There is something else. After the carriage was turned over,
did anyone replace the gold ingots?
It was all under my watch. Who dared to?
Alright,
you can leave.
Who dares to intrude into the Lord of Li State's manor?
I admire your guts.
Come on out by yourself.
I might not kill you.
This manor is not different from a military camp. No one would use fragrance.
You may not be able to smell your own fragrance, but I can.
Come on out!
I didn't expect the Li State's Prefecture Princess has a nose like a canine's.
What's going on?
You are from Lower Tang.
Your clothing style is Baili family's.
Your position must be pretty high in Lower Tang.
I am Prefecture Princess Yu Ran of Lower Tang.
What can you do with me?
You are Bailing Jinghong's daughter?
I am not his daughter.
If he didn't beg me, I wouldn't have wanted to become a prefecture princess.
Like I thought. Baili Jinghong is so ugly,
how could he have fathered such a pretty daughter?
Besides, the personality is very different.
As a prefecture princess, you intruded into my residence,
are you here to spy on me?
What nonsense is that?
Your daughter captured my friend.
I am here to find my friend.
We have a dungeon at the manor. In it are soldiers who have violated military rules
as well as spies who mixed in here.
I admire this little prefecture princess's guts.
Go. Find your friend.
If he didn't commit a big crime, take him away.
But he is not a soldier or a spy.
What is his name?
His name is Ji Ye.
Ji Ye?
We do have someone named Ji Ye,
but he is my slave.
He is not anyone's slave.
He is my slave!
Go find him. If you find him, I'll let you take him away.
At the Li State's Thunder Brave Camp, every brave is a slave.
From the moment they enter the camp, they are not called by their names.
They are called numbers like 65, 89, etc.
When one dies in battle, another takes his place.
The new one inherits his predecessor's mask.
I threw that Ji Ye into this camp.
Go look around. If you find him, you can take him away.
Line up!
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