Have you ever heard about that
the cliff of a snow mountain
once fascinated numerous people?
Legend has it that,
there were treasures at the peak
but also there was a bottomless chasm hidden over there.
The smart, the fool
and the kind people,
all are familiar to you.
On the mountainside, on the cliff,
on the cloud,
and in the human world,
snowflakes are drifting profusely and disorderly.
Joy of Life Season 1
Episode 33
Smash it at critical moment.
It won't take any lives
or hurt anyone physically,
but even Great Masters
will sleep quite a while from it.
Thank you, Teacher!
No problem.
Just don't show off with it.
=Si Lili, courtesan of Joy Tsin House=
The little emperor clearly requires
to send Si Lili back to Beiqi.
Do they have any private relationship?
Don't stare at her!
The curtain is specially made.
She can't hear what we're talking about.
It doesn't make sense.
If the little emperor
really has a private relationship with her,
why did he send her to the capital city
as a secret agent?
=Investigator's Office=
Here comes Xiao En.
=Xiao En, former Head of the Beiqi agents=
The smell of sunlight.
Go! Go! Hurry!
Do you have family?
Tell them to stay alive.
I will find them.
It's your luck to get out.
Don't irritate the descendants at this time.
You'll regret it
if he kills you by mistake.
If I'm killed,
so will be you son.
You'll regret that.
Then stay alive and stop flaunting.
Otherwise the Investigator's Office will catch you again.
Chen Pingping!
Fei Jie!
You are still alive.
Very good!
I prayed in there that
you can live a long life
so that I can still have the chance of finding you.
I'll make you dumb with my poison
if you keep talking rubbish.
Try it!
My son was poisoned to death
by you in the end.
What was the poison?
Do you still have it?
What are you laughing at?
What is he laughing at?
I'm laughing at your legs.
They're destroyed by me.
I thought you are laughing at yourself.
As a loser being imprisoned in jail
for so many years
who couldn't move an inch,
do you feel very comfortable?
Hold him!
You're old now.
Control your temper
and care for your own health.
Do you really let me go back?
Do you really want to stay?
You'll regret it.
He is Fan Xian, Director-General of the Investigator's Office.
He'll escort you.
Nice to see you, Senor Xiao. How are you doing?
Are you going to escort me?
Yup!
Who are these people to you?
Master Fei is my teacher.
The Head is my senior friend.
They all treat me like families.
Take a good look at this kid.
This will be your last chance.
You should take a good look at this yard,
as you may come back again in the future.
Be careful on the way. You're still too young.
I'll learn from you.
Fan Xian,
the mission and your carriage
are meeting you outside the city.
Thank you!
Please trust me.
I'll surely bring your son back safely
to the capital city.
Fan Xian,
let's go! I'll walk you there.
You go first.
I need to talk to him in private.
Send your teacher back early.
He's got injury on his body.
What?
He had a sticky fight
against the Embroidered Uniform Guards of Shen Zhong in Beiqi.
Upon hearing that you're going to Beiqi,
he rode the horse for 800 miles
to get back to the capital city
and experienced six assassinations,
but he didn't stop for any single minute.
He wasn't like this in the past.
Your appearance
changed us both.
He should take a rest.
Let me get him back.
Go to the Taiping Residence.
Someone wants to see you.
=Taiping Residence=
It could have not been you
to lead the mission to Beiqi this time.
Then why is it me in the end?
You're young. You should take up the challenge
to cultivate your mind and intelligence.
Your Majesty think I have mental defects?
Do you know
what the missions are this time?
I heard there are a few,
but I am only told
to get Yan Bingyun back.
Nothing else.
Are my missions
assigned by Your Majesty in person?
They poisoned Si Lili.
Do they mean to kill her on the way?
She won't die.
She is not the target. Someone else is!
It's prepared for the little emperor of Beiqi?
This plan is called Red Sleeve Edict.
I'm afraid it's a death edict.
After getting Yan Bingyun back,
find a chance to kill Xiao En.
You want me
to kill Xiao En
under the eyes of the Beiqi people?
There doesn't seem to be anything else
other than that.
Kill the emperor and Xiao En
in an alien state.
This is thrilling enough.
And I can tell you
the Investigator's Office won't help you
as it may become suspicious as a result.
Your Majesty really flattered me.
What else do you have to say?
I do have a doubt.
Say it!
You can talk to me in the palace as well.
Why do you choose here?
This is different from the palace.
We're in the monarch-subject relationship in palace,
but here...
What's the difference?
Come back alive.
What did you just say, Your Majesty?
Remember to come back alive.
It doesn't matter
even if the mission fails
as long as I can come back alive?
Don't ask while knowing the answer.
This is my order!
Piss off!
There is merely monarch-subject relationship in the palace.
How different is it
in Taiping Residence?
You've met His Majesty?
I felt like I've met a fake emperor.
Do you think it's a bit difficult
about the mission this time?
Not really!
Don't worry, Teacher.
Initially, I wanted to go to Beiqi
along with you.
No!
Head Chen has also said
I have killed too many Beiqi agents.
If I go with you,
it may be bad for you.
Just stay in the capital city for a rest.
Wait for my return.
Pay special attention to such a few people
when you reach Beiqi.
One is the
Commander-in-chief of Embroidered Uniform Guards, Shen Zhong.
Head has told me about him.
The other one is Ku He,
the Great Master.
I heard that
he doesn't want Xiao En to return to Beiqi.
Both of them are Beiqi people, aren't they?
Guo Baokun and you are both Nanqing people.
Do you like each other?
Good point!
But what can I do
if the Great Master
wants to plot against me?
He'll respect his own identity.
If he wants to stop Xiao En to return,
he will send his disciples.
Does he have a lot of disciples?
None of them matters
except the one
named Haitang.
That sounds like
a lady's name.
Haitang is also named as Haitang Duoduo.
She is the last disciple of Ku He.
She is
a famous talent in Beiqi
where the people respectfully call her the Saintess.
So it is a lady!
You're the poetic genius and she is the Saintess.
That's tit for tat.
She is said to be ranked as Ninth Dan.
It's quite easy
to become a Ninth Dan master, right?
There are just too many!
A Ninth Dan master is easy to defeat,
but if Ku He really wants
to stop Xiao En from going back
and does it himself,
we'll have to accept it.
Teacher, you know really a lot
about Beiqi.
Don't flatter me!
There is one more guy
who is the general of Beiqi, Shangshan Hu.
This guy resists the savages for a number of years
and wins all the battles.
Some said he is bad-tempered.
Some said he is soft and humble.
Isn't that contradictory?
That's the strange part.
Does he have dissociative disorders?
Shangshan Hu is Xiao En's adopted son.
He's been looking forward
to the return of Xiao En.
Then it's not likely for him
to plot against me.
After all, I'm escorting his adoptive father back.
Yeah!
He should not plot against you.
Have you baked the meat?
Where is my meat?
Your Excellency,
we have it prepared a long time back.
=Shangshan Hu, Grand General of Beiqi=
Grand General,
we got message from Nanqing.
The Nanqing mission
is sending Mr. Xiao En back.
We can't let my adoptive father
fall in the hands of the throne.
Let's meet them in the territory of Nanqing
and take over him first.
How do we deal with the escorting mission?
Who is the leader?
Fan Xian, the poetic genius of Nanqing.
I haven't heard of him.
Kill him when they come.
Yes!
Teacher,
what's the family name of Shangshan Hu?
Is it Shangshan
or Shang?
The mission is up there.
I'll leave you for now.
Sure! Please take a good rest to recover.
Chen Pingping shouldn't have told you that.
Let me give you some more information.
That little emperor of Beiqi
just took over the throne.
The Empress Dowager hasn't handed over the power yet.
There is already inkling between their fight for the throne.
Got it!
It's a good chance to take advantage
from the battle between a mother and a son.
I intend to ask you to escape
while they're fighting.
Do you want to
get involved into
the political affairs of Beiqi?
No! No! No!
I didn't mean it.
Well...
It's not easy
to get infected with Si Lili's poison.
It can only be infected
when there are intimate contacts
such as tongue kisses.
You know that as well?
It was I who compounded
the Red Sleeve Edict poison.
You have awesome skills, Teacher!
The No. 1 poison expert in the world.
What's this?
The antidote to Si Lili's poison.
It has a manual about its usage.
I'm just afraid that you might not be able to hold it
and get poisoned yourself.
You can use this to save yourself.
How can I get poisoned?
What do you mean that I'm not able to hold it?
Teacher, I'm a decent man.
I don't have any dirty thoughts on her.
You're a decent man.
I'm leaving now.
One final reminder.
Don't lose your life.
Otherwise, I'll go to the capital city of Beiqi myself
and slaughter the whole city
for you.
Don't worry, Teacher.
I'll surely come back alive.
Why are you here?
We already said goodbye
at home, didn't we?
I'm not here to say goodbye.
I'm here to urge you
because you become negligent recently.
What do you mean?
The book!
You are very slow now with the book.
Danbo Bookstore
is in urgent need of your new chapters
for the Red Mansions.
If it weren’t for the poem anthology
the other day,
we would have nothing to publish now.
I've been quite busy recently.
I don't care!
That's an excuse.
There isn't much to do
for your trip to Beiqi.
Spare some time every day
and finish a part.
Once you finish,
send it to me by post-horses.
Write more about the romantic stuff
like you love me but I don't love you.
The ladies from wealthy and influential families
like that.
No wonder you followed me here.
Brother, don't worry.
I'll move to Wan'er's place tomorrow.
Why?
To protect my future sister-in-law for you.
I'll stop her from seeing anyone else.
That's outrageous.
Shall I go or not?
You should!
Beat the hell out of those who ingratiate Wan'er.
Sure, I got it!
As the elder brother,
you have set a wrong example.
Let's call it expression of nature.
You're about to visit Beiqi.
Why are you still so naughty?
These are my bodyguards.
=Gao Da, Commander of Tiger guards of Nanqing= All of them are state-of-the-art.
They will go to Beiqi
along with you this time.
You keep so many guards
as an Assistant Minister of Ministry of Revenue?
Gao Da and the swordsmen under him
are very reliable.
You can entrust them with
whatever you want to do.
I'm at Your Excellency's service.
How to spell your name?
G-A-O, (The name is the Chinese
D-A! translation of 'Gundam')
I have long desired to know you.
Your Excellency have heard of me before?
I kept a small horse in Danzhou.
It is named as Zaku. (a type of robot from Mobile Suit Gundam)
I'll arrange a meeting for you
when I get the time.
Do we need to take a detour
to Danzhou?
I mean next time.
Alright! Forget about him.
He usually behaves himself strangely.
Take care of him
during the trip.
Sure!
Wait outside the gate.
Don't show off or take any risks.
Just remember
you have families in the capital city
waiting for you to come back.
Brother,
drink up this bowl of farewell liquor.
What are you doing?
He's not going to a battlefield.
I think it's pretty much like it.
Let's go!
Sure, Your Excellency!
Watch the road. Don't get distracted.
Stop the carriage! Take a break!
Your Excellency,
where are you going?
You don't need to know it.
Allow me to come along.
I've got a nature's call.
So have I.
I want to poop.
So do I.
Your Excellency, do you want
to quit from the trip?
You are afraid to make any trouble
so you want to escape?
So in your eyes, I am a trouble?
Your Excellency, if you are escaping,
please bring me along.
I don't want to go either.
I'm wiser than them all.
I know how to behave in delicate situations.
Gao Da!
Yes!
Your Excellency!
I'm going to answer the call of nature.
Stay here for further command
and watch the carriage.
No one shall leave.
Yes!
Your Excellency!
Uncle Wuzhu.
According to what you said,
I went to Taiping Residence.
How was it?
The defense is really strict.
You didn't get in?
I got in,
but I'm afraid
it's not possible
to escape along with you.
Did you get under water?
Did you see the mechanism left by my mom?
It's a bit wired.
What is it like?
When I jumped up into the sky,
I found the stone
is actually the key.
It's hard to describe it clearly.
I always feel that
you're the only one
in the world
who can understand the mechanism
left by your mom!
You have to wait
till I get back to the capital city.
Do you really want to open that secret door?
Didn't you say
we'll be in grave danger
once we know the truth?
I know,
but what mankind can't beat
is the curiosity
to the unknown.
Anyway, curiosity kills the cat.
Sure!
What the lady left
in the case
are weapons, aren't they?
Why don't you bring them to Beiqi?
I left them at home.
Take care of them for me.
I'm also leaving.
Where are you going?
To the north.
Are you going to Beiqi along with me?
I'll go first.
Why?
Just now Fei Jie said
Ku He will possibly plot against you.
It's only a possibility.
Why do you look for Ku He?
To fight!
Uncle...
To beat him till he's not able to harm you.
He is the Great Master!
The Great Master is who I want to beat.
That's really daring.
I don't care about anyone
under the level of Great Masters.
I see! Leave them to me.
So, we'll meet in Beiqi, right?
I must drag down Ku He
and therefore can't go to the capital of Beiqi.
We won't meet then.
Be safe!
The last point.
I seem to remember
the name Xiao En.
What do you mean?
The lady used to travel with Xiao En.
My mom?
She also told me that
she came to this world
because of Xiao En.
What else?
That's all I can remember.
So perhaps Xiao En knows
the secrets of my mom.
You can ask him yourself.
But the order I got is to kill...
But the order I got is to kill him.
There you come, Your Excellency!
What's up?
Your Excellency,
Where did you find this guy?
You mean Wang Qinian?
What's wrong with him?
While the mission was distributing solid food,
he stole the fruits in stock.
He is sneaky-behaved and filthy and greedy in personality.
Your Excellency, we can't keep people like this.
I'll talk to him about this.
Thank you for reminding me.
Your Excellency,
let me do it if you want to drive him away.
OK!
Go ahead with your business.
Your Excellency,
you are back.
Are you going to eat
the solid food distributed just now?
No!
Your Excellency,
do you know what I found?
What?
I found
there are fresh fruits
in the luggage cart of the mission.
They are delivered here by post-horses.
I've taken some for you.
Wang Qinian,
I am the leader of the mission.
Do I need to steal the fruits?
Your Excellency,
these fruits are kept
with ice cubes.
They are gifts
we send to Beiqi, sort of.
But they are more and more uncommon
as we go further and further into the north.
You just took the gifts
between two states.
Nobody will count them.
It won't be detected if only we take a few.
It's not a big deal
to take a few fruits
given all the hardship on the way.
No, I won't take them!
Thank you!
It's alright!
Go! Go!
Go!
Your Excellency, take some!
Don't feel sorry for it.
I'll get you a few more.
Don't worry.
I'll be your sentry.
It's not easy to stay in this position.
Go! Go!
There is not much time left. Hurry up with it!
Dad! Dad!
What are you doing here?
I was worried that you'll suffer.
This is insane!
I told you to break off
all relations with me.
Dad!
Did they beat you or insult you?
I am an official anyway.
They treated me well.
You don't need to worry.
Go!
Dad!
I tried to bribe a lot of people,
but got refused.
Every one of them prevaricated
and refused to help.
Silver won't help. It's useless to try.
Dad, I've hired a bunch of killers.
They are the best of their kind.
What are you doing?
Fan Xian went to Beiqi with a mission.
That's a perfect chance.
I'll follow behind him
and initiate an attack
to take his life
when they get to the wilderness
so as to retaliate for you.
You must stop that.
Dad, don't worry.
I've read a lot of book on the art of war
and studied a lot of examples of battles.
They give me a lot of insights.
Now it looks like
I have the potential
to become a good general in the world.
That's not possible.
Don't do silly things.
This is not silly.
The patrol is coming. Leave now!
Dad, wait for my news.
No, don't do that.
It's dangerous to you.
Are you a beggar?
Do I look like one?
Are you a beggar?
Beggar...
Excuse me! Excuse me!
Are you a beggar?
I'm not only a beggar, but also a cook.
I'm Zhao Da!
Are they all here?
Set off now.
Fan Xian has already gone out of town.
Wait a moment, Young Master! They are on the way.
I told you to gather them here
in the capital city!
It's harvest time in the countryside. They will come after that.
Well...
Take a seat! Sit down!
Young Master,
all of us are veterans
retired from the frontiers.
We have farm work only after we got back.
Generally,
we'd also help with
weddings and funerals
so that we have sustenance.
But don't worry, Your Excellency!
We're most adept
in murdering and robbing
without any mistakes.
Fan Xian has already gone!
It's a sure thing!
The mission can't travel fast.
We can catch up with them even if we set off a few days later.
Are you sure?
The Patrol Division has to stop from here.
We'll have to rely on ourselves
further to the north.
There shouldn't be any danger
in our own territory.
But Xiao En is infamous.
Your Excellency,
we must beware of him all the time.
I poison him every day.
It's better to have someone
watching over him all the time.
But I have to look out for the surroundings.
My guards fear him
as much as they fear tigers
and dare not to approach.
Totally understandable.
By the way, Your Excellency,
I saw Wang Qinian
stealing fruits again.
You bumped into him again?
I watch over him all the time.
Your Excellency, we can't let him stay.
If Your Excellency feels embarrassed,
I can be the bad guy and drive him away.
Not necessary!
Why?
Actually, all of his behaviors of such
are an illusion.
He is a first-class
warrior.
Brave and perseverant!
Is that true?
That's...
To be frank,
I'm also worried that
there will be accident
to leave Xiao En alone
in the carriage.
As soon as I said that,
Wang Qinian volunteered
to take the same carriage with Xiao En
for the rest of the journey
so as to set an example for the mission.
Did he really say that?
Absolutely!
Warrior Wang,
I'm sorry.
For what?
I have been misled at the start
by the illusions you put up.
Now it seems
you're the true hero.
I'm flattered!
Xiao En killed people massively
in a cruel and ruthless manner.
He is a real devil on earth.
He is indeed unforgiveable.
You are the only one
who has no fear towards him.
How can you tell that?
Your voluntary move
is no different from
feeding yourself to a tiger.
I truly admire it.
I'm flattered!
From now on,
we are sworn brothers
through thick and thin.
Should you have any misfortune,
I'll surely kill Xiao En
to avenge you.
Your Excellency,
did this guy take the poisonous mushroom?
Actually, he bumped into
your stealing of the fruits.
And he still admires me?
Then,
I kind of helped you out with a few good words.
Mr. Xiao,
I'll stay with you
from today onwards.
I got some warm water for you
for a comfortable face wash.
Do you think
it will work
if I kidnap you as a hostage
to threaten that young guy?
Mr. Xiao,
since they assigned me here,
it means
I'm a person
of little importance.
Right?
Why would the lords
out there
care about my life?
Let me clean your face.
Do you massage?
You want massage?
Aren't you afraid of me?
Your reputation is widely-spread.
Of course, I'm afraid.
What if I kill you?
His Excellency Fan is very rich.
My wife and daughter
will live a good life.
What's your name? (What are you screaming for?)
I didn't scream!
I didn't!
I mean what's your name?
My name is...
Wang Qinian.
Wang Qinian!
I got it.
Come on! This side.
Here. This side.
In the river of history,
time goes round and round.
Memories about the former and present lives
join each other in an endless way.
In the long drunken Milky Way,
one season follows another in a flash,
and the wild geese are flying south.
I just can't give up
to be with you for my whole life.
I have been hovering in the dreams for hundreds and thousands of times.
I can't even say a word when I watch the flowers falling.
Year after year in the wandering,
I count the remaining years.
Even though we can't meet each other anymore,
even though we have ended up the destiny,
I never feel regretful.
In such a chaotic world,
I still miss you as ever.
I can't fall asleep under the moon.
With a gentle heart,
I cherish our remaining years.
Even though we have to go through
all the hardships along the journey,
you always stay by my side,
watching the falling flowers, speechlessly.
Year after year in the wandering,
I count the remaining years.
Even though we can't meet each other anymore,
even though we end up the destiny,
I never feel regretful.
In such a chaotic world,
I still miss you as ever.
I can't fall asleep under the moon.
With a gentle heart,
I cherish our remaining years.
Even though we have to go through
all the hardships along the journey,
you always stay by my side...