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[Investiture of The Gods]
[Episode 14]
Who is that?
I'm not sure either.
He was brought back this morning.
His Lordship just came back. Originally, he was coming straight to see you.
But for some reason, he turned and went over there.
Send someone to my brother to tell him to hurry.
Bring me my zither.
Yes.
Wu Ji!
Good skills.
As expected, you are a hero.
This is a competition.
If I fought with my life, I would probably not be standing here.
Wu Ji, how hurt are you?
A small shallow wound. I'm fine.
- Who told you to follow me? - Can't I be worried about you?
You can't tell my good intentions. If you die, you deserve it.
Didn't you agree to not hurt him?
You are a prince. Why don't you keep to your words?
Only a superficial injury. It's not worth mentioning.
I don't care. Regardless, you said if he fought, you'd let him go.
Are you letting him go? Are you?
Who is this guy to you? You are so mindful of him.
So you two...
She's my younger sister.
I stayed at her noodle shop for a while.
That's right. I'm just his younger sister.
If he wants to leave, I won't hold him back.
I will keep my promise.
As long as he wishes to speak, I'm all ears.
If he leaves, I definitely won't stop him.
Even if he really is a spy.
Spy?
What spy?
If Prince Wucheng suspects I am a spy, interrogate me with torture and be done with it.
Why the need to dispatch such a big disposition of troops?
What if I killed someone? What would you do?
Swords and knives have no eyes. Life and death are ruled by fate.
Their deaths mean their skills are beneath that of yours.
Plus, I would kill you to offset their lives.
If you are killed,
the same phrase applies. "Drag you out to feed the dogs."
Don't tell me that someone would dare to come to my manor demanding justice?
Treating human life as it's nothing,
you are worthy of being the high prince.
- What do you want to do? - I want...
- Come. - Yes.
Drag this girl out of the manor.
- Let's go. - I'm not leaving. Let me go.
Wu Ji! Are you looking to die?
Let me go! Let me go!
The girl has left. Continue.
I've heard Prince Wucheng's archery skills are godlike.
The sound of a bow's release can make flying birds fall.
I wish to learn one or two things,
but this place is cramped.
It would be better to ask the advice of Prince Wucheng as to how he is matchless in his marksmanship.
How dare you!
I haven't touched a zither in three years.
You can play the zither?
I can't. I've just heard much of it.
How does the zither sound?
The insides of this zither are tangled and complicated.
It should be a good zither.
But of the first two notes in the pentatonic scale, the second note is dull.
Two more strings should be added.
I'm talking about the rhythm, not the zither.
The zither’s sound is faint and vibrates like thunder. And yet, it sounds like the sound of a large bell.
It must be that the heart suffers from pent-up frustrations and that there is an outcry against injustice.
Where could you find something more than meets the eye like this?
Coming across injustice is something we’re powerless to avoid.
I just directly crush my way past it.
If there's a power greater than mine, then I'll compete with my fists.
Prince Wucheng is pretty straightforward.
Those practicing martial arts are all about being direct.
That will be it today.
I have more important business, so I won't badger you anymore.
But I want to ask you two questions.
1. Are you from Xiqi?
2. Are you willing to follow me?
Prince Wucheng is not afraid I'm a spy now?
Let me tell you.
Even if you are a Peng from the sky, you will have to fold your wings in front of me. (T/N: a giant bird that transforms from a Kun giant fish in Chinese mythology.)
Even if you are a dragon in the water, you have to obediently lie on your stomach.
I'm sorry. I'm letting you down.
I am not from Xiqi, and I'm used to being at leisure.
A wild carp from the river cannot jump through the dragon gate. (T/N: I'm not good enough to work for you.)
If Prince Wucheng allows it, I will take my leave now.
Whatever.
Come.
Take out 200 taels and give it to this strong man. Send him out the door.
Thank you, Prince Wucheng.
I heard that all of you who walk the rivers and lakes treat money as dung.
How come today you did not say a word of decline?
I escorted the messenger to give Prince Wucheng his letter.
Prince Wucheng gives me a reward. It's reasonable and fair.
If I don't take it, it'll make me seem pretentious.
Pretentious.
Seems like I'm the one looking pretentious.
Fine.
I hope we see each other again.
See you again someday.
My brother is right inside. Let me go in!
Move away!
Brother Wu Ji.
Hey! You bastard.
Brother.
Sister.
The empress allowed you to come home to visit.
Is it because something has happened in the palace?
I think you have probably heard more or less of matters in the palace, Brother.
The empress has been fighting with Su Daji.
I don't know how many rounds they've fought,
but I've never seen the empress win a match.
I don't know what happened a couple of days earlier,
but the emperor marched angrily to Virtue Palace.
After that, the empress let me come home and visit right away.
If I haven't guessed wrong,
Brother, the empress wants me to urge you to coordinate with her from the outside,
and punish Su Daji for a crime in order to depose her.
Now that the Eastern Barbarians have revolted again,
Zhaoge has no soldiers to dispatch.
We can only depend on the Grand East Duke to send troops to put down the rebellion.
Sister, go comfort the empress's heart.
Don't let her argue with the emperor anymore.
Brother, I just don't understand.
Our family have been nobles for nine generations with each giving outstanding service.
Jiang Huanchu has been granted land and given a tile of duke not even 50 years yet.
Why should the Jiang family have an edge over our Huang family in everything?
Regarding family background, we're from the direct bloodline of Empress Fu Hao.
How can the Jiang family compare to that?
Before Su Daji entered the palace, the empress pretended to be pretty, virtuous, and kind.
And since she gave birth to the crown prince, I was able to tolerate her.
But ever since Su Daji came into the palace,
look at the empress. What evil act has she not tried?
Du Yuanxian's death was caused by her, wasn't it?
Brother, you have no idea.
A couple of days ago, the empress went all out.
She slapped Su Daji with her own hand.
If this kind of woman can be the empress,
why can't I be?
Shut up!
With your bad temper,
if you really became the empress, we'll see how long you could last.
Brother, you don't know.
The empress is relying on her position as the daughter of the Grand East Duke, so she has the upper hand.
But the way I see it, if she continues fighting with Su Daji, it will cost her dearly.
Even if it doesn't, nine times out of ten, both sides will suffer badly.
If that does happen, should we or should we not compete for the empress's throne.
Compete for what!
What should we compete for?
Is our Huang family's position as the country-stabilizing Prince Wucheng's family based on back-court fights?
To be granted titles of "Prince" while we are military leaders,
our family is the first in the 400 years of the Shang dynasty.
If we want to leave our riches to our descendants,
we must rely on one word: endure.
That's right.
Half of the Shang country was conquered by our ancestor Fu Hao.
Do you know why, as the empress,
Fu Hao never returned to the palace but lived alone in her titled land?
Do you know why she wasn't even 30 yet, but died suddenly?
Why?
Brother, why?
All because she couldn't give birth to a son.
She made great achievements for the Shang country,
but she still had to endure to preserve the noble status of our Huang family.
Right now, our Huang family is at the top of the apex.
If we continue to compete for more, we will fall into the abyss and be doomed eternally.
Brother, then can you find an opportunity to let me charge into battle?
I want to go to the battlefield.
I don't want to stay in the palace.
Every day in the palace is a day without hope.
It's too bitter. I don't want it.
I know you feel wronged,
and that you've suffered a lot of hardships.
I also know your wish
is to imitate our ancestor, Fu Hao, by dashing onto the battleground.
But the Shang dynasty now is different from the one 200 years ago.
You should give up on that dream.
Brother, there's a question I don't know whether or not to ask.
Don't say anything you shouldn't.
But this question, I must ask it.
Brother Wu Ji!
You bastard.
I'm telling my father to not take you as a disciple.
I-I-I'm also getting my mother to drive...
With the situation just now, that's all I could do.
I'm sorry.
I thought you were mad at me.
How could you say stuff like that?
What meeting by chance?
You were so mean. You scared me to death.
You are so bad. I hate you.
All right. All right.
Don't cry. It's all my fault.
I was wrong, okay?
When I told you to go home,
why did you insist on following me?
That was very dangerous, you know?
You came to find me just to let me see this?
Foolish girl.
Stop crying. Stop crying.
Go to the inn next to your noodle shop and rent a room for me.
What're you doing? We're going home.
What else do you need to do?
- Did that Prince Wucheng threaten you again? - No.
With all the things that happened today, my heart feels anxious.
I won't go back just yet. Tell that to Master for me.
- As soon as people get money, they turn against others. - Huh?
Then, are you still coming to my place to eat noodles?
Of course. I like eating your shop's noodles.
Do you like eating noodles or do you like eating my family's noodles?
Is there a difference?
Teach me to read.
Sure. But one character in exchange for one bowl of noodles.
How are you my father's disciple?
Clearly you are the disciple of my mother.
Five characters for one bowl of noodles, okay?
Three at most. Deal.
You dare to lie to me?
I really did kill the kid prophesied to destroy the Shang country.
You!
You led me astray and framed loyal officials.
Do you think I'm unaware of this?
I'll cut your tongue out to put it on the fields and plow it,
and let out my hatred.
Spare me! Spare me!
Spare me! Spare my life!
Wu Ji!
- Yang Jian? - Yang Jian?
Why are you here?
Go over there.
You're really not returning to the noodle shop?
That won't do. I'll go with you to live in the inn.
Which one of you is Yang Jian?
I am. What's wrong?
Is your father the Lord of Jizhou, Su Hu?
No.
Do you not even recognize your own father?
Sorry. You have the wrong person. Please go your way.
What's there to be afraid of?
You're right.
My father is the great Lord of Jizhou, Su Hu.
Wasn't the Lord of Jizhou, Su Hu, already vindicated?
That's right. That's right.
His Majesty vindicated the Lord of Jizhou long before!
Capture him!
Order them to stop.
Don't move. If you move, you'll lose your life.
Lan Ying, bring Yang Jian and run away.
Lan Ying, hurry up and go. The two of us will stay here.
Hurry up and go!
Do you not want to live anymore?
Tell me! Why must you capture us?
What crime did we commit?
It isn't the time to ask this right now. Hurry up and leave.
I can handle them myself. Hurry up!
Let's go!
Nobody move. One movement and he loses his life.
- Screw you! - Quickly!
Chase after him!
Hurry!
Twenty years ago, the skies changed drastically.
Was it a sign of calamity? Or a sign of good fortune?
Brother, I don't believe that you don't know about this.
The divine interpreter was killed by the emperor.
The female priest also disappeared without a trace.
What in the world happened?
The falling star was clearly Dixin.
Unless His Majesty's fate is nearing its end?
No wonder I found it strange.
His Majesty was originally a rare heroic genius.
Why has he suddenly become so tyrannical?
Blasphemous!
Brother, I don't believe that you've never considered this.
If it really is so, then whether or not I should compete for the position of empress,
it doesn't have any point anymore.
But Brother, you should make plans early.
You can't walk on a dark path until its end.
What nonsense are you spewing? Shut your mouth.
Brother, from when we were young until now, you've doted on me the most.
I always listened to you.
Our parents passed away early.
This time is the same.
I'll listen to you. I believe in you.
As long as you believe your brother, all is well.
Why don't you return to the palace now?
Brother, before I entered the palace, it could be said that my zither skills were the best in Zhaoge.
At the time, I listened to you.
You said that you were afraid of provoking the empress, so when I entered the palace, I didn't even dare to bring my zither.
After so many years of not playing, my fingers have become stiff.
Before I return to the palace, I should properly play a song for you.
Don't play it. Hurry back to the palace.
Why?
The thoughts in your heart can be heard in the zither.
If someone else hears them, it'll cause trouble.
Since when have you understood music?
How would I understand that?
I heard it from a strange person in my manor.
A strange person?
A wanderer from the martial arts realm with high skill levels.
He is literate and can read maps.
I always suspected that he's someone related to Xiqi.
But when I saw his reckless temper,
I wasn't entirely sure.
So I let him go.
Then, what did he say after hearing my zither?
Where there is injustice, there will be an outcry.
"Where there is injustice, there will be an outcry"?
He really said that?
At the time, he said a load of words.
When I inquired further, he stopped talking.
Brother, try to remember what else he said.
Perhaps I could help you guess where he hails from.
He said, "Where there is injustice, there will be an outcry."
First, this means you are troubled by injustice in your heart.
Second, he said that the belly of your zither is complex.
It's a good zither.
But...
he also said that within your zither's tune,
the second tone is a little low.
So you should add two strings.
What is the outer appearance of this person?
His appearance? He's tall and strong, pretty average.
Brother, you know. I learned to play the zither at a young age, taught by a master.
In this world, only Xiqi's Bo Yikao might be better than me.
But we haven't competed to this day.
After hearing what you said just now, this person definitely is not Bo Yikao.
I've asked.
He doesn't know how to play the zither. He only understands how to listen.
He's heard it a lot.
Sister, you⁠—
What are you—
Brother, the ancient zither (Guqin) only has five strings.
Only an expert like Bo Yikao will know to add on the two additional strings.
The ancient zither prioritizes the balance of the zither surface.
To be able to tell the reasoning of "Where there is injustice, there will be an outcry," he
is definitely not an average person.
So in my eyes, even if this person is not Bo Yikao,
he must be someone who has interacted with Bo Yikao.
Sister, is what you said true?
Your Highness!
Reporting to Your Highness. Please go outside and have a look.
- What is it? - The woman that was with Wu Ji came back.
What?
Without His Highness's permission, no one can enter.
We only just came out of the manor. Let us in.
[Prince Wucheng's Manor]
This, Sir, I am Wu Ji.
I have an urgent matter for which I wish to seek help. Please notify His Highness.
- Did you hear? Hurry up and go. - Wait a moment.
If you dare to barge in, I'll kill without mercy.
Big Brother.
Hurry!
Hurry up and capture them!
Whoever resists will be killed on the spot.
Hold onto this. Protect Lan Ying.
Big Brother, what are you dong? Fight!
Hold onto it.
Prince Wucheng, Wu Ji requests to see you.
I, Fei Zhong, am here to capture a criminal. I ask Your Highness for your help.
Who dares to act outrageously at my manor?
Your subordinate, Fei Zhong, greets Your Highness, Prince Wucheng.
Prince Wucheng,
I, a grassroots citizen, was unfortunately chased after by this person on my way here.
I ask Prince Wucheng to be wise.
- Come inside to speak. - Yes.
[Prince Wucheng's Manor]
- Your Highness. - Don't talk to me about right and wrong.
Tell me. Why should I help you?
Official Da, these couple of friends are my guests.
Why don't you just go back?
I don't dare to stop the person next to you, Your Highness, or the girl.
As for that other fellow, he's the court's wanted criminal.
My duty is calling. Please understand, Your Highness.
Lord Fei, I have always sided with my kin and not reason.
I believe that you understand.
What happened today, just count it as a misunderstanding.
This person is both a repeat offender and a criminal.
Your Highness, please reconsider.
A criminal?
Okay.
Then I will interrogate him myself and send him to His Majesty.
Wouldn't everything be resolved then?
This⁠— Although I haven't received a formal decree,
when I report this to His Majesty, he will allow it.
Please turn this fellow over to me.
I've always been a straightforward person, not caring about right and wrong.
For those weaker than me, I'll just grind them over.
For those more powerful than me, I'll fight it out with my fists.
What?
Does Official Da want to fight it out with our fists?
How could I, a lower-ranking official, dare to compete with Your Highness?
Then, I'll comply with Your Highness's instructions.
What happened today was all a misunderstanding.
Goodbye.
I helped you.
How will you repay me?
Rest assured, Your Highness.
I will certainly do as I said.
Kneel down!
It's all my fault.
It's my fault I'm useless and couldn't restrain the crown prince.
If you can't restrain him, what use is there to keep you?
- Attendants! Drag him out and beat him to death! - Yes.
Also, wake up the crown prince.
Even if you have to beat him, wake him!
Your Highness, Crown Prince made no error.
It's all my fault. Please forgive the crown prince.
Fine then. Tell me clearly,
where exactly did the crown prince go to these days,
and who did he drink with that he's in this state?
If you tell any lies, I will cut you into eight pieces.
Your Highness, ordinary people aren't a match for the crown prince's alcohol tolerance,
but... but the person we met this time isn't an ordinary person.
If there is anyone to blame, it's that girl, who doesn't become drunk no matter how much she drinks.
Girl? How could that be?
I think the old man from the noodle restaurant interfered somewhere,
but I can't be sure.
You are talking about...
Are you talking about that old man named Jiang Ziya?
Yes.
So later, I especially asked around after we left. I heard that
he can tell fortunes with striking precision.
People all say he's an immortal who descended from Mount Kunlun.
He can tell fortunes?
And he's from Mount Kunlun?
Yes.
Your Highness.
Retreat for now. Think about your actions carefully.
All of you, retreat.
Tell me. What is it?
Your Highness, a palace maid died at Longevity Palace.
I heard she committed suicide.
Another one died?
Isn't this exactly what you want?
Yes.
Looks like Longevity Palace will require a few more maids to be sent over.
Your Highness, I already chose three people.
They are all very reliable.
Your Highness, rest assured.
That won't do.
The people we have in the palace definitely won't fool Daji.
How about we find some people outside the palace?
They will be more reliable.
Yes.
The 37 scrolls detailing the geography of the Yong Province,
show the road there has many winding mountains and rivers.
It will roughly take two months.
Wu Ji, I have already prepared brushes, paper, and ink.
I will have people send it over right away.
Could I borrow military books?
Of course. But not for now.
I must see you correct and finish this map
before I give you military books. Do you agree?
Yes. I agree.
Don't move!
What did you see?
What do you mean, what did I see?
When I picked it up, it was pretty heavy.
And then my eyes went blurry
and my hands were neither cold nor warm.
And then I'm here.
How did it become light?
I'm telling you!
This guy. His ability to observe what others think
has already reached the point of perfection.
- How could that be real? - Who'd believe that?
With just one glance from his master, he will wag his tail and beg for pity,
and will even bark like a dog!
Name a price!
I want him!
- What are you doing? I gave the price first. - He's yours!
Bring him down.
The next one is a slave brought from Jizhou City.
The price is only 50 qian!
If you shout and liven it up, it'll be 2 bronze coins.
Everyone, her personality is extremely crude and vulgar,
but...
We definitely don't want her.
A fortunate whore.
I'll kill you! I'll kill you!
Stop!
I'll buy this slave.
She's already a dead one. You can't buy her even if you want to.
So much money.
Is this money enough to buy this life that's already dead?
If you want her, take her.
- Let's go. I'm not buying anymore. - Let's go.
You old fart. The suns already high in the sky.
- You're still sleeping here? - It hurts. It hurts.
Twisting the other ear.
What did I say?
You said there was a seven-day break.
One day!
One day? Then you should twist Xiao E's ear instead.
She told me it was seven days. Why twist my ears?
The twisting has been done. Remember it. Next time, I'll twist your ears two times less.
Three times. You twisted my ears three times earlier.
Two times.
Such a grievance has appeared.
It was clearly three times yet you say it's two.
Also, seven and one sound exactly the same.
You clearly said it was seven days.
Nope. One day.
- Seven days. - One! The one in 1-2-3-4!
Can't you understand?
Oh, one day.
Then I should quickly get up.
It's really weird.
Why is one day so much shorter than before?
Buy noodles, weigh vegetables, make ground tofu, get day-lilies. What did I say?
Buy noodles, weigh vegetables, make ground tofu, get day-lilies.
And then go get the meat. Remember it.
Don't use the Han family's shop meat.
Walk some more and go out of the city to get the Sun family's meat.
Only their meat can be called meat.
- Did you hear me or not? - I got it.
Don't use the meat from the Han family's shop.
Walk some more and get Sun family's meat.
Only their meat can be called meat.
70% fat, 30% lean.
Remember, get the cut from the peak of the torso.
- 30% fat, 70% lean. - You got it backwards!
70% fat, 30% lean.
You can't even discern between fat and lean meat. You're really becoming more and more muddled.
Wife, where is the peak of the torso?
The peak of the torso is the butt of a pig.
Then, why can't you just say it's the butt?
Doesn't calling it the butt sound disgusting?
What's disgusting about that? Everyone has a butt.
Pigs have butts. I have a butt.
You also have a butt.
You have to consider the feelings of the majority and say it clearly, right?
Talking back? Are you going to stuff yourself to death if you don't have a mouth?
You're leaving without saying goodbye?
Wife, I'm leaving.
Leave, if you're leaving. Stop being so slow.
Wife, I still have a question I must have answered.
Say it. What question?
A butt is round,
so where does the peak come from?
This is the deep spirit of the moonlight.
This spirit is too turbid.
It really makes one unable to feel any interest.
Come, here.
Thank you.
Take it.
Thank you.
Such a nice person.
Here.
Take this.
Thank you.
Here.
Here, take it.
Here.
- Thank you. - Take this. - Thank you.
- So handsome - Right.
Is this for me?
Miss, your hair accessory disappeared.
Where is it?
I don't know.
What's going on?
This isn't the scent of a human.
Miss, buy one.
It's quite good.
No need.
How much is this?
I'll buy one.
Here.
What do you want?
You aren't someone from here.
Or you could say you aren't a human at all.
What?
Are you trying to say immature words like "I'm so beautiful I'm not like a human,
but like an immortal fairy descended from the heavens" to get my attention?
In consideration of your elegant appearance,
I'll pretend I didn't hear.
You're blocking my path in broad daylight.
If you're rejected, wouldn't you be really embarrassed?
You've got good skills.
Your appearance is of a normal person.
I didn't expect you to be an expert.
Your skills would probably take eight or ten years of practice, right?
Do I look like a thief?
It doesn't matter how nicely you smile.
The fruit in your hands is of unclean origin.
I only do this because I am in a tough situation.
Say, you look like a talented person with graceful eyebrows and bright eyes.
Why do you have to do this?
Exactly.
Yet, with my graceful eyebrows and clear eyes, I still didn't become enthralled with you.
But I believe it should be able to bewitch you.
Looking closely, you look as ugly as a fox.
The way you smile is like you're slicked with oil in a way that makes people puke.
What to do?
You're not the face I like, the more I look at you.
Looks like you really aren't afraid of me.
Because you still don't know who I am.
How do I not know who you are?
You are a thief.
Nevermind.
On the basis that we're from the same line of business, I'll let you go this time.
You, don't do this anymore. Restart your life.
What an interesting soul.
She is human but doesn't have the smell of a human.
So interesting.
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♫ Like water flowing through the years ♫
♫ Bid farewell to life and death ♫
♫ A chaotic world shakes the mist ♫
♫ The divide is love or hate ♫
♫ To fall is foolish ♫
♫ Roaming about and meeting again ♫
♫ Sincerely exiled to a faraway place ♫
♫ What's done is done ♫
♫ You and me have different ways ♫
♫ How do you know heaven and man are forever separated ♫
♫ But when I come back ♫
♫ Dedicated heart and soul. Exchange jades ♫
♫ A moment in this world. To never forget ♫
♫ Seeing through Heaven. Overgrown and flourishing ♫
♫ Who's following? Who's following ♫
♫ It's hard to let go. Happiness and suffering ♫
♫ Only understanding tears after laughter ♫
♫ Just want to be with you ♫
♫ Struggling with the order of impermanence ♫
♫ Promises don't change. Oaths don't change ♫
♫ Coming together and separating is also fearless ♫
♫ Using a lifetime to go in a circle ♫
♫ Is regretful... is remorseful ♫
♫ It's hard to let go. Happiness and suffering ♫
♫ Only understanding tears after laughter ♫
♫ Just want to be with you ♫
♫ Struggling with the order of impermanence ♫
♫ Promises don't change. Oaths don't change ♫
♫ Coming together and separating is also fearless ♫
♫ Using a lifetime to go in a circle ♫
♫ Is regretful... is remorseful ♫
♫ Never regret ♫