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The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty
Episode 3
Follow me.
Put her here.
Where are you going?
What should I do?
Sir?
What poison is it?
Eastern Depot's Secret Poison
Tancha .
Tancha Powder?
We tested it seven times.
Definitely it.
It seems that tomorrow
I need to go to the east to have a chat.
Why did you ambush Tang Fan?
Where did that carriage come from?
Your Excellency, the prison is a restricted area!
Wait!
Restricted area my bottom!
This is not my first time here.
Sir.
I didn't stop him.
-Go. -Sui Zhou you bastard!
You kicked down the ladder,
cast aside the bow once the birds are gone,
beat the monk once the funeral is over!
I just ask you this.
Did I have a part in solving the case?
How many leads did I give you?
How many times have you teased me?
How many times have I returned my kindness for your evildoing?
How many times have you bit my hands that fed you?
But for the sake of you retrieving my chopsticks,
I will forgive you.
Can we get down to business?
-Hey... -Just the right timing.
He is going to confess.
He kept his mouth shut under torture for 8 hours.
He is a tough guy, I'll give him that.
You Imperial Guards' torture
really deserves its name.
Yes, we have a bad reputation.
But we're quite efficient
working on cases.
Unlike Shuntian Prefecture which is...
Alright.
Let's get down to business.
Do you speak Mandarin?
Why did you ambush me?
Yes, Lin Chaodong paid me to do it.
Lin Chaodong?
This Lin Chaodong
used to come to the Iron Market
with Mr. Li, the pharmacy owner.
Mr. Li introduced him
as a worker that he trusted.
But six months ago,
Lin Chaodong suddenly came to Iron Market alone.
Hi.
I want some Western Xia grass aconitum.
How much do you want？
All you have.
But then one day
Lin Chaodong came to Iron Market to find us.
He gave us ten tael of silver,
saying he wanted us to rob someone for him.
I need a favor.
We asked him what happened.
He said he wanted us to
get a pill bottle from this person.
Pill bottle?
Yes.
Later that night,
after we robbed you,
he suddenly showed up
dressed like an Oirat.
And
he also wanted to buy some Oirat's customs clearance paper.
Help me get two customs clearance papers.
I want Oirat's paper.
Money is not a problem, but make it fast.
I asked him what happened.
He told us...
What do you need the papers for?
I have lived in
the capital for too long.
I want to go elsewhere to take a look.
Where did you get the carriage?
We didn't have anything to do that night.
So we wanted to go out of town
to see if there was any new grave in the destitute's cemetery.
We thought we could dig up a dead body or two who didn't have family
to get some pocket money.
When we just arrived at the city gate,
we saw a coachman
driving a carriage back and forth.
And he kept murmuring something to himself.
The coachman looked like he was insane,
so we thought he was easy to handle.
But who would have thought
there was a child's body in the carriage?
The coachman saw the child's body
and suddenly flipped out.
He fought us with a whip at his hand desperately
like he didn't care about his life.
So we stabbed him several times and killed him.
We also got
a hundred and twenty coins from him.
Even the two corpses were sold for money later.
You Oirats are really scary.
Who bought the bodies?
He claimed to be a friend of Lin Chaodong.
The first time he came,
he told us that he wanted to buy a female corpse.
But we didn't have any female corpse.
So we had to
dress up the child's body
to sell it as a female to him.
I thought I would never see him again.
I didn't expect him to come again the next day
saying he wanted to buy an adult man's body this time.
I told him...
Men's body is twice as expensive as women's.
Why would Lin Chaodong get someone to ambush you?
And what was that pill bottle he wanted?
That day Wang Zhi asked me to go to Huanyi Brothel to meet him.
What?
Wang Zhi took me to Huanyi Brothel that day.
But he is a Eu...
Huanyi Brothel?
None of these matters.
The one thing that matters was,
after Wang Zhi left early to handle something,
I did meet a woman.
Who?
Feng Qingzi.
Cheng Cheng's girlfriend.
Feng Qingzi...
Huanyi Brothel...
Pill bottle?
Do you recognize this pill bottle?
This is
Fuyangchun.
I know what happened.
What?
That day at Huanyi Brothel,
I showed her
Fuyangchun's bottle.
Shortly afterwards, I was ambushed by Lin Zhaodong's hitman.
Their purpose was this pill bottle.
His girlfriend is Feng Qingzi.
Lin Chaodong was
in charge of filling the prescriptions in Huichuntang Pharmacy.
Lin Chaodong was the one who prepared all the ingredients
for those Fuyangchun pills Zheng Cheng took.
Yes.
And Zheng Cheng's prescription was given by Feng Qingzi.
When dispensing the ingredients,
you can just add some ingredients that would turn the mixture into a slow poison.
No one would find out.
Over time,
Zheng Cheng had been poisoned in chronic way.
So Lin Chaodong and Feng Qingzi
were the murderers of Zheng Cheng.
Zheng Cheng's death is a crime of passion.
Exactly.
Where is Feng Qingzi?
After you met her last night,
she was gone because she had redeemed her freedom.
Did you know Lin Chaodong?
I know Lin Chaodong.
Why didn't you say so the day Zheng Cheng died?
You didn't ask me, Your Excellency!
Every girl working in brothels
has several boyfriends.
Commander Wang, you didn't come to my Eastern Depot
looking for trouble, right?
I heard there is a poison,
and with precise dosage,
the culprit can accurately determine
when the person being poisoned will die.
Have you heard of this poison, Commander Shang?
What are you implying?
I wasn't implying anything.
I am simply asking Your Excellency a question.
Among all the secret services,
everyone knows Eastern Depot's Tancha Powder.
You're just playing dumb with me
pretending you don't know.
You're giving me too much credit.
I have always been stupid.
It is said
a master of this poison
can calculate
when his victim will die,
accurate to the very minute.
Is it true?
Of course.
Then here comes the trouble.
Just say it!
Don't beat around the bush with me!
Han Zao, His Highness's studying companion,
was killed by this poison.
Wang Zhi!
Don't come here to frame me up!
Others might be afraid of you, but I am not!
Your Excellency, please calm down.
I am really here simply to ask for your advice.
I am the only one who knows about it.
And the first thing I did
was coming here for your advice.
No one knows about it
except me.
So rest assured.
This little secret is safe with me.
My Eastern Depot has no secrets.
The poison from your Eastern Depot got into the palace
and even poisoned His Highness's studying companion.
To say the very least,
you can't get away with poor supervision
and dereliction of your duties.
But I believe
this murder has
absolutely nothing to do with you.
I do things following a simple rule.
I help you
and you help me.
Today I help you.
I hope that if I get into trouble one day,
I can count on you to help me.
In Eastern Depot,
who is in charge of
Tancha Powder?
The fact that your commander would deliver you three to Western Depot
is enough to illustrate the seriousness of the matter.
So I'll only ask this question once.
Who did you give
the Tancha Powder to?
OK.
You are no strangers to Eastern Depot's tortures.
Let's try what
our Western Depot has to offer today, shall we?
Are you Fulin?
I am.
Western Depot needs to ask you some questions.
Please come with me.
Yes, sir.
Let's go.
Go get him!
Hurry up!
You losers!
You can't even catch one man.
Your Excellency.
His Majesty wants to see you.
Find out every person
and everything related to the dead eunuch.
If anything goes wrong again,
you'll be the one being arrested.
Yes, sir!
Why are you so gloomy?
You still have the mood to eat?
I haven't eaten or had water in 12 hours
since we were at the Iron Market yesterday.
I'm starving.
Do you want some?
Here.
Feng Qingzi is missing.
Lin Chaodong's whereabouts are unknown.
All leads hit an dead end.
Are you really not worried?
Deep-fried dough sticks just out of fried pan!
The leads are like this deep-fried dough stick.
It doesn't matter if one end hits the dead end.
You just take the other end.
The other end?
If you want to work from the other end,
you have to give me something.
The carriage.
Your Majesty.
You may rise.
I want to practice my calligraphy.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Is it done?
Your Majesty.
This ink block is...
I'm asking about the son of Marquis Wu'an
and Han Zao's case.
It's a complicated case.
Your Majesty, please give me some more days.
It was originally just a small case outside the palace.
But you are making it more and more high-profile!
First, Eastern Depot caught a fire.
Now even you made mistakes, too.
Now your even link the case to the palace!
Your Majesty, you are right.
That eunuch died this morning...
You're doing it too hard
and too fast.
I beg for your mercy.
If you grind the ink like this,
the ink will be lumpy with foam.
And the color will not be glossy.
Why can't you even do this right?
I am so sorry.
Your Western Depot's information network is everywhere in the country.
Are you now curious
how I found out
since you didn't report this?
I certainly shall not have this thought.
Your Majesty is a wise emperor without rival in history.
You know all the things under the sun and even above the...
Don't think the Western Depot is the only source of my information.
General Han Yong just passed away.
And then something happened to Han Zao right away.
Although they were not immediate family,
they were still relatives after all.
Don't delay Han Zao's case anymore.
Yes, Your Majesty.
And also
stop making things relevant to anyone in the harem.
I want you to solve the problem,
not to produce another one.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Today's ink is bad.
You can have this work as a fist from me.
[Hearing voices of all parties leads to good judgments]
At the crime scene
we found two bodies.
Zheng Cheng and Han Zao.
No matter who they were
and no matter how many cases there really are,
all we have to do now is find out the truth
and find out who killed them.
We now know Han Zao
died of acute poison.
So who poisoned him?
Was it the coachman of his family?
The coachman is dead.
Dead man can't talk.
I sent Xue Ling to investigate his background.
Parents died.
No wife or children. Lived alone.
Started to be a coachman at Han Mansion since he was a teenager
more than 30 years ago.
He has only one distant relative in the capital.
Have you found this distant relative?
People in Han Mansion only heard of this relative.
They've never seen them visit each other.
It's OK.
The leads require a lot of searching.
Since there are no shortcuts,
we can only use the dumbest way.
I ask questions, and you will answer.
If you can answer them,
there's more for you.
Did you see that carriage a few days ago?
Yes.
There were people fighting here.
Then did you see
which direction this carriage came from?
There.
Thank you, sir!
Sir, have you seen this carriage?
Have you ever seen this carriage?
No.
Have you seen this carriage?
No, no.
Have you seen this carriage?
Never seen it before.
Have you seen this carriage?
No.
Your Excellencies, do you work in Han Mansion?
Come on, come on in!
Take a seat.
Hou didn't drive the carriage for you today?
The coachman?
Surnamed Hou.
Sir, you know Hou?
Never met the man in person.
But I know Hou the Senior next door.
Every time he comes here to drink tea,
he always brags about his
distant nephew
who is a coachman for a high ranking courtier.
If I didn't see this carriage parked in front of his house
two days ago,
I really wouldn't believe it.
Where is his home?
Coming!
Officers.
What's the matter?
The coachman Hou of Han Mansion.
is your distant nephew, right?
I don't know who that is.
You don't?
Come to Northern Administrative Court with us.
Your Excellencies!
He is my distant nephew.
It was my idea
to tell him to run away.
Please spare my life!
Now everything fits.
According to the distance and time we just spent,
at about 7:30 at night,
the Oirats saw the coachman of Han Mansion
near the city gate.
Let's go back in time,
from 6:00 to 6:30,
Hou was at his distant uncle's house.
The time required to go from one place to another
is an hour.
Let's go back in time again.
His uncle's home to the back door of Han Mansion,
and then from the back door of Han Mansion to the downtown,
the time required is about one and a half hours.
So if you do the math,
it would be just exact the time
Zheng Cheng and I had a quarrel:
3:30 in the afternoon.
Wait a second.
The case used to be quite clear.
Now I got confused by what you said.
We have arrived.
Let's get off and take a look.
I was standing next to this stall that day,
left hand holding candied fruit,
and right hand holding chestnut cake.
Then I went to that direction
when I saw Zheng Cheng.
So Zheng Cheng was here that day
harassing that flower girl.
Right.
Since I saw it,
I couldn't just sit back and do nothing.
So you had a quarrel.
Yes.
But there was another person.
His servant Zheng Fu.
Yes.
After I quarreled with Zheng Fu,
Zheng Cheng was annoyed, and he kicked Zheng Fu to the ground.
The onlookers gathered round
and blocked the road.
So Han Mansion's carriage was stuck in the traffic jam at that intersection.
Why does he get the biggest portion?
Eat it while it's still hot.
It won't taste good if it's cold.
How's you guys' progress?
There are three conjectures.
The first one has been confirmed.
Since Han Zao left the palace,
the only person he touched was his coachman before he died.
But this person was innocent.
This indicates that
the only place he could took the poison was...
In the palace.
How's your progress?
I found that His Highness the Prince is reading
"Historical Records of the Later Qin Dynasty"
which is the 3rd chapter of Abridged Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government every day.
I am sorry to hear that.
What do you mean?
He meant that His Highness regards me as Zhao Gao of Qin Dynasty, a treacherous eunuch,
and every day he wishes me dead.
Does this have anything to do with the case?
Probably no.
I also found out that Han Zao was poisoned by Tancha Powder.
What is that?
What can it do?
Tancha Powder
is a poison secretly developed by Eastern Depot.
It's colorless and tasteless.
The poisoner can control the time of the poison showing effect
accurate to the minute.
This confirms my other conjecture.
What is it?
The two murders are not related.
It was by coincidences that they intertwined.
What about the third conjecture?
I'll tell you when I confirm it.
When?
It's up to you.
Up to me?
You help me and I help you.
It's time you help you now.
Your Excellency.
So I guess I'll see you tomorrow?
Arresting people is our job.
You don't have to worry about it.
Here it goes again!
You kicked down the ladder,
cast aside the bow once the birds are gone,
beat the monk once the funeral is over!
Iron Market is not just any normal place.
It's unusually dangerous.
I can only take four or five people with me.
I don't have time to take care of you.
You will only become a liability to me.
Liability?
I have become a liability now?
Yes.
You will regret this.
Come on, take a look!
Sir.
All in place.
As soon as Lin Chaodong enter our encirclement,
we will catch him.
What are you doing here?
Shuntian Prefecture on a case.
What do you want?
This is the crime scene.
That's right!
Don't forget,
this is my case.
Why don't you say anything?
Feeling guilty, right?
And you should!
If you still have a little bit conscience,
don't stop me.
Stab me.
Sir?
Stab me.
You can stay here if you can stab me.
Don't think I dare not to do it!
First chance. Go on.
Come again.
And you have died three times.
Do you still want to stay?
Everything will be fine after today.
Let's go.
Thief!
How dare you to come here again?
You stole from me!
I will kill you today!
Sui Zhou, that's him!
Stop!
Go get them!
Come on!
Chaodong, what should do?
Hurry up!
Over there.
Come on!
I have hidden two fast horses
in the woods outside Iron Market.
As long as we can get out of here,
We'll be safe.
But the customs clearance papers...
We'll figure a way once we get out of here!
Here.
Go after them!
Over there!
It's over.
Not yet!
We still have a chance.
Remember,
when they get you, you tell them I abducted you.
You don't know what's going on.
Everything was done by me!
She had nothing to do...
Chaodong!
Sir!
Chaodong!
Save him!
-Help me here. -Save him!
Pei.
Save him!
Hurry up!
-Pei. -Come on!
Pei, help him!
Put him here.
Excuse me.
You three, stay here.
Others, out.
Pull up the screen.
-Go. -Yes!
Chaodong!
The arrow is more than two cun deep in the wound.
I'm going to cut the wound.
Tang Fan and Sui Zhou,
after I cut the wound,
You two use your fingers to help me open the wound.
I will use the hook to remove the arrow.
Sir,
this is hemostatic powder.
When I say go,
you pour the powder into his wound.
OK.
Then you will pass me the knife in the brazier.
I will weld the wound with it.
OK.
Are you guys ready?
Grab it tightly.
I'll find another one.
Pour it now?
Wait, wait!
Go with me!
Didn't you say we would leave together?
Don't you just want to know what happened?
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