Translation and Timing by the Joy of Life Team @ Viki.com
♫ Have you ever heard of ♫
♫ the snow mountain’s cliff ♫
♫ Once left people with lingering enchantments ♫
♫ Legend has it ♫
♫ But there is also a hidden abyss ♫
♫ The smart, foolish ♫
♫ and kind people ♫
♫ are all people you’re familiar with ♫
♫ On the mountain slope, on the cliff ♫
♫ on the cloudy peak ♫
♫ on this secular world ♫
♫ Let the snowflakes swirl and flutter ♫
[Joy of Life]
[Episode 4]
Close the door.
Tell the servants.
Let them clean up the servants' kitchen
to let Fan Xian move in.
Yes.
- Madam. - Is he still not out?
Yes. There is no noise. It's very quiet.
Sizhe! Sizhe!
Wake up!
Mom, ten taels of silver are enough. (T/N: About 500 grams.)
You–
It's not good for me to show up.
You go to your dad's study.
Tell him that you are worried that he hasn't had any food yet and ask him if he wants any dessert.
And take the chance to check what Fan Xian is doing in the study.
What you say is very true. I will do it.
You can walk Young Master there.
Yes.
He is behaving so well.
It seems that he is improving after all.
- Lead the way faster. - Yes.
Father, you haven't had food at this time.
I, your son, am so worried about you.
- I'm really worried! - Young Master!
- Am I stupid or what! - Young Master!
Madam! Young Master has run away!
[Fan Jian: Southern Qing's Minister of Revenue, Earl of Sinan]
Are you anxious about all the waiting?
I'm saying hello to my father.
To answer your question, I'm not.
I have been waiting for so many years in Danzhou. I'm not anxious about it a little while.
You seem to be complaining with what you said.
Do you need me to cry sadly and hold you for one hour
- to show that I'm really sorry? - Please don't.
That's what I thought, too.
Let's talk about business then.
What kind of person do you want to become?
Being safe all my life and the richest man in the country.
With a beautiful wife and cute mistresses, an elegant Don Juan.
Sorry, I'm really cheesy.
How do you want to start your business?
I have been thinking about this for a long time.
I have a unique technique.
With high temperatures, I can use sand to make things that are smooth, transparent,
magical things that look like crystal.
I call it glass. Once I reveal it to the world–
Where did you get it?
Your mom made it.
And the technique is very mature.
It's okay. I have another thing.
I can use oil to make things that clean the body and clothes.
This thing is smooth and fragrant.
It's tens of thousands of times better than Soap-pod Locust and ashes of coal.
I'll call it soap.
Your mom made it.
We not only have soap but also have scented soap.
It's okay. I still have something.
Now when we eat sweet things, other than honey,
we mainly use caramel or maltose.
Even if we have sucrose, it is pretty rough.
I have a way to purify sucrose,
to make sugar that is as white and small as snow. It tastes so much better.
White sugar. We have two big jars in the kitchen.
Did my mom make it as well?
Yes. Your mom made it.
Why did I never see these when I was in Danzhou?
All these things are being used by rich and powerful people.
They only exist in big cities.
Then it's because I lived in the village?
What other ideas do you have?
Nothing.
Why do I have to be born if there was my mom?
Your mom had so many great ideas for doing business.
The shops at that time were really the top.
It was the center of all the wealth in the world.
I have heard of it.
I heard that after she passed away, the stores went back to the country.
Not the country. It's controlled by the royal family.
It's called "Inside Treasury."
Who named it? It's so vulgar. (T/N: The pronunciation is the same as the word "underwear")
Don't say that. The emperor named it.
Why is that word vulgar?
Ignore me. Keep talking.
The emperor is busy with politics and there are so many things going on in the country.
So he doesn't have the energy to run the inside treasury himself.
So he put Princess Royal, Li Yunrui, to be in charge of the Inside Treasury.
Princess Royal is in charge of the Inside Treasury?
Princess Royal is very beautiful and very gentle.
Although she is not the sister of the emperor, she is very trusted.
And she has not been married until now.
[Lin Yunrui: Princess Royal of Southern Qing]
Father, do you like the Princess Royal?
Stop saying nonsense!
Since we met, you went from talking about the stores to the Princess Royal.
You said that we were talking about business, but we were actually only talking about gossip.
Do you know what gossip means?
Princess Royal has a daughter with the prime minister, Lin Ruofu.
Didn't you say that she was not married?
This is a secret.
So it is gossip.
The daughter of the Princess Royal is Lin Wan'er.
She is the one that you are going to marry coming here.
A bastard for a bastard.
A great match.
It's an order from the emperor.
Whoever can marry Lin Wan'er,
from Princess Royal Li Yunrui's hands,
can take over the responsibility to be in charge of the Inside Treasury.
Chen Pingping and Fei Jie don't want you to come to the capital now.
I will take you there when they are not around.
Because now it's the best chance to take back your mom's business.
You are taking back what should belong to you.
Here.
This is for you.
What is it?
Important things about the Inside Treasury from recent years.
Take a good look at it. It will benefit you for taking back the business.
- Actually– - But you need to be careful as well.
The Inside Treasury is how the royal family gets their money.
There are a lot of people who don't want you to take over.
Yunrui shows her respect to Empress Dowager.
Get up.
Thank you, Empress Dowager.
[Empress Dowager of Southern Qing] You are here at this time.
Empress Dowager, Fan Xian is in the capital now.
It's the kid that Earl of Sinan keeps in Danzhou?
After I gave birth to Wan'er, I sent her outside of the palace.
I always feel sorry to her.
I always want to find a good husband for her. Fan Xian is not talented or famous.
He is a village man from a distant village. How can he be a good fit for Wan'er?
So you–
I don't want Wan'er to marry him.
So Princess Royal disagrees.
That's right. She has disagreed from the beginning.
It's done then.
My mother-in-law doesn't agree. This marriage won't work.
You marrying Lin Wan'er is none of her business.
It's none of the mother's business?
When does the royal family take account of affections?
Are you trying to stop Fan Xian from marrying Wan'er?
Please, Empress Dowager, help me.
[Hong Siku: head eunuch of Southern Qing]
Princess Royal.
Eunuch Hong.
I apologize.
The emperor is the only one that can decide what happens in the harem.
Nobody cares if you like it or not.
This slap is to remind you that you need to know your place.
Yes.
As long as the emperor agrees, it doesn't matter what other people say.
But why does the emperor have to let me marry Lin Wan'er?
The emperor has four sons. The eldest son is outside, in charge of the military and the youngest son is still young.
Now the ones fighting for the position of the future emperor,
is the crowned prince and the second prince.
What does it have to do with me?
The Princess Royal is always supporting the crown prince.
The crown prince is in charge of the treasury of the royal family. This is a big no.
- So the person that's in charge of the Inside Treasury must change. - Exactly.
If I'm in charge of the Inside Treasury, I'm shaking the foundation of the crown prince.
The assassination in Danzhou might start here.
What you mean is that people on the side of the crown prince are trying to kill me.
It's about their benefits. The possibility is large.
You said all this to tell me that Liu Ruyu has nothing to do with it.
- You don't believe me. - You are talking about the crown prince.
Does it matter if I believe or not?
Follow me.
Princess Royal, the emperor wants to see you.
Please, Princess Royal, come this way.
Just lead the way.
[Fan Ruoruo: Daughter of Southern Qing's Earl of Sinan, Fan Jian]
[Fan Sizhe: Second son of Southern Qing's Earl of Sinan, Fan Jian]
I'm hungry.
Are you done talking? Please sit down.
It's all your fault. If you don't eat, Xian might be–
[Fan Xian: illegitimate son of Southern Qing's Earl of Sinan, Fan Jian]
We have some business to talk about. Go out. [Liu Ruyu: Fan Xian's stepmother] [Fan Jian: Southern Qing Minister of Revenue, Earl of Sinan]
Yes.
Just me?
- Go out now. - Yes.
Did you send House Manager Zhou to Danzhou?
You know about that.
Danzhou is far away. I was just thinking that
we would feel more assured to have someone from our family to take care of Xian'er.
In Danzhou, he tried to kill Fan Xian.
Ki-Kill?
Don't you know?
I haven't gotten a letter this month. I didn't know.
There won't be any letter.
Mom has sent him onto a fish boat. He will be on it for a few years.
He was always outside.
It's so unexpected that he could be as vicious as that!
It's so lucky that Xian'er is well.
House Manager Zhou has told everything.
He said that he got your secret letter
to work together with the Inspection and Control Bureau
to kill Fan Xian.
Why is the Inspection and Control Bureau involved?
They have fake orders over there.
The Inspection and Control Bureau only follows the order of the emperor.
Whoever can put spies in the Inspection and Control Bureau
must be from the royal family.
The mom of the youngest princess, Imperial Consort Yi,
is your cousin.
So, Master, I-I want to kill Fan Xian?
- Don't you? - No!
- Why not? - I–
Tell him.
If I wanted to kill you,
I would have found someone who had nothing to do with me!
I wouldn't let House Manager Zhou do it!
I'm not that stupid!
Maybe you are thinking the other way around.
I have no reason to kill you!
The family property is the reason.
No, Fan Xian!
I might be against you. I might suppress you.
- But I would never kill you! - Why?
If you die because of me,
Master will kick me and Sizhe out of the Fan family.
I... The...
- Ruoruo! - I think she is right.
If she wanted to kill you, she wouldn't have let people that are close to her get involved.
Right!
How is it?
A few sentences can't prove anything.
I–
You can look it up yourself. Let's eat first.
You are here.
Your reward from the Princess Royal.
[Lin Yunrui: Princess Royal of Southern Qing]
Your Majesty, Princess Royal is here.
[Qing Emperor, Emperor of Southern Qing]
Don't hate Empress Dowager for her slapping.
I just don't want Wan'er to marry a village man!
You can just say what you want.
Why do you have to destroy his reputation outside?
What are you talking about?
I don't understand.
Don't understand?
Gong Dian.
- I'm here. - Go check.
Who has sent the maids outside today to buy things?
Yes.
Sit down.
Here! Eat when they are still hot!
- Eat more! - There are so many good things!
Here, I'll get you some soup.
- Okay. You are so polite! - This soup is winter melon cooked with clams.
I have asked people to send the clams. You try it.
Thank you so much! Aunt, I have never seen this kind of cooking in Danzhou!
- Really? Try it! - How is it?
- Joy!
- Good! - It's good that you like it.
Aunt, Father. I have brought this fish from Danzhou.
- Try it. -Let me try it!
It looks so good! You are so thoughtful!
If you like it, I will ask people to send more!
- I really like it! It smells so good! - It's good that you like it.
Eat more, Master.
- Here. - Aunt, did you make all of these?
- I did. - My dad is so lucky!
I made those especially for you!
I'm lucky, too!
I will learn cooking from you later.
- Let me cook for you, okay? - Of course.
- Let me see what I want to learn. - Here. Try more.
Sister,
when I was out, what happened to them?
Why are they so close all of sudden?
Nothing. We are just suspecting that your mom wants to kill your brother.
Here! Try this!
- I'll get it for you. - This one is good.
Sister, don't lie to me.
It is all true.
I'm so happy to see you eating!
I'll eat more then.
- Here! - You try this.
Okay.
Your Majesty, the one that arranged things today
was Offical Han from the Harem Bureau.
Where is she?
She has... hung herself.
Do you want to ask me what my relationship is with that Offical Han?
Why do you have to be so clear?
If Your Majesty asks, I will answer.
Are you tired?
I don't feel tired resting all day in the palace.
That's good. Sit here and wait.
Can I please ask Your Majesty what we are waiting for?
For somebody.
Who is coming? If it's a male official, I should probably go.
You will know who it is when he is here.
Your Majesty, Crown Prince has asked to see you.
Let him in.
Look. There he is.
Don't just kneel here. Talk.
I let the maids stop him.
Please punish me.
I'm very disappointed in you.
I know that I'm wrong.
Li Yunrui has admitted nothing.
I made that mistake out of a rush!
I feel so guilty now that I think about it.
You should appoint the person that's in charge of the Inside Treasury.
I shouldn't do things like this.
The Inside Treasury has the wealth of the whole world.
If you don't fight for it as the crown prince,
what kind of crown prince are you?
What makes me disappointed is the means you used.
Let me ask you. What's the difference between a royal family member and a normal citizen?
It's like Heaven and Earth, the cloud and the ground.
Somebody has said that
they all have two hands and two eyes.
The prince and the peasant
are all ordinary human beings.
Your Majesty, these words are madness!
Then, what are all the cumbersome principles and strict laws for?
It's for protecting the foundation of the country.
For protecting the foundation of the country?
It's just for building a high tower
in people's hearts so that you can be superior to the masses with dignity and respect.
Whoever said that should be executed.
Destroying the people's reputation with such scandals!
You have become a joke for them.
If there are too many jokes, people don't respect you.
Without respect, where can you get dignity?
The tower will fall down!
You are destroying the roots yourself!
Your Majesty, I understand.
You don't understand!
Think about it.
Come here.
This is the list for the officials that are about to be laid off.
You should be ready for it.
Look at who is on this list!
Are there any of your guests?
I was a crown prince once.
I have fought for what I should.
But you should at least have a bottom line.
- Your Majesty. - Go away.
- Your Majesty. - Go away!
Father.
I'll go read.
I'll go read, too.
Yes.
Master, I have cleaned up Xian'er 's room.
I'll show him right now to see what's missing.
You can go back to the room now.
I have something to tell Xian'er.
Yes.
This is the capital. You should be more cautious from now on.
I'm always cautious.
You took back the assassin from the Inspection and Control Bureau. Is this cautious?
Do you know about Teng Zijing?
The guards that take you back are the top.
Do you think that they don't know there is one more person?
- What? - Wanted notice. I found this in the case file of the Ministry of Sanctions.
[Wanted notice]
For Teng Zijing? What did he do?
I don't know. And there is no need to know.
Be careful about him.
It was from before. He is not around anymore.
The people from the Inspection and Control Bureau...
Don't get involved with them too much.
Also, if it's the crown prince that wants to kill you–
I will investigate in private. Don't act on your own.
On my own? What can I do?
Can I go into the palace and kill the crown prince?
If it was before, your mom could really do this.
It's so cool!
There were no rules in this world that could limit her.
She could always do what others couldn't think of.
How did my mom die?
Somebody killed her.
Is the one that killed her still alive?
I don't know.
Normally, whoever is involved in your mom's death
should all be killed.
But Chen Pingping and I feel that
there is danger hidden in the capital that we can't see.
So I kept you in Danzhou.
In the end, I'm in the capital after all.
I have said that it's the best chance to get back your mom's business.
- You are right. - Okay.
You are tired. Take a good rest.
The marriage with Lin Wan'er–
I will arrange it. You don't need to worry about anything.
I don't want to marry her.
What did you say?
I said that I don't want to marry that Lin Wan'er.
Didn't you understand anything that I have said?
I did.
My mom had a business.
This business now belongs to the royal family.
Marrying this Lin Wan'er can get back the business.
Now it's a great chance.
I understand all that you have said.
I just don't want to marry her.
Why?
I'm in love with a girl that was secretly eating a chicken drumstick.
What?
It has nothing to do with this.
Maybe if I don't meet her, I will not marry this Lin Wan'er.
The business of the Inside Treasury is what your mom has spent her whole life on.
I understand that this is very important to you.
But-But... How can I tell you this?
Look. Look.
I can move this.
It will bleed if I cut it.
I'm growing recently and I eat a lot.
Vegetables are good for my health, but I still like meat.
Eating too much meat will make my nose bleed,
and my fingernails are growing too fast and I have to cut them every day.
What kind of nonsense are you talking about?
I'm telling you that I'm a human being!
I'm not a chess piece. I'm not a chip.
I'm a real, live human being.
Why do I need to exchange my own life
for a business?
You need to understand, Xian'er,
that if you are in charge of the Inside Treasury,
you will be in charge of
wealth you can't even count.
Did you marry my mom because of her money?
That's enough!
I can't marry her.
I want to live for myself.
It's all people on Crown Prince's side.
His Majesty is punishing me.
It's punishment and a reminder.
People on this list belong to the Ministry of War and Personnel.
Take a look for yourself.
His Majesty wants to tell Crown Prince that
the bottom line is the army. The appointment of people.
If you don't cross the line, whatever you want,
you can do anything.
If that's the case, we can take the Inside Treasury.
His Majesty said that we used the wrong way.
But he didn't say that we can't do anything to Fan Xian.
Aunt, what do you think we should do?
Why does His Majesty pick Fan Xian to fight for the Inside Treasury?
He has never been to the capital and he doesn't belong anywhere.
There are a lot of people like that. Why does it have to be him?
There is a gossip that Fan Xian has a pen name
and wrote a mystery book called "The Red Chamber's Dream."
I was wrong.
I should start from what he is famous for to destroy his roots.
"Red Chambers' Dream?"
Young Master.
- Take this for me. - Give it to me. Give it to me.
Put it down.
There is no need for all of those.
Go back.
Young Master, we will be your servants from now on.
Where can we go?
You... I have hands and feet. I'm very healthy.
I don't need a servant.
Also, being a human, there is no difference between noble and lowly. We are all the same.
You should live for yourself.
Go.
What are you doing?
Young Master, if we have done anything wrong,
you can just criticize us and beat us. Don't scare us like that.
- Yes, Young Master. - How did I scare you?
I'm telling you all of this so seriously.
Also, why are you still saying "servants?"
There is no difference between human beings.
You are your own master.
Young master! We belong to the Fan family, live or die! We don't have any second thoughts!
We don't have any second thoughts!
It's obvious that debating on a different level of knowledge
it's not fair to start with.
Management is art.
Sometimes, you need to be straightforward.
Get out of here!
I'm a lonely person! I don't like people to be in my yard!
Go! Go now! Go! Do what you want!
Young Master, you... if you had said that earlier, we would have understood.
Get out of here if you understand!
Yes, Young Master. We'll go then.
If there is anything, just tell us.
Get out of here! I'll beat you with a board if you don't go.
Yes, Young Master. You guys get a board for Young Master on your way back.
Get out of here!
- Young Master, you have worked hard! Go to bed earlier! - He is living alone. Who will be in charge of his daily life?
It's okay. There are so many weird young masters and ladies in different families.
It's nothing. It's just that what he said in the beginning
- was a little frightening. - Okay, you guys. Listen to me.
It's nothing.
When he said that he was going to beat us with a board, it started to sound a lot more familiar.
Right.
Fan Xian. Fan Xian.
Fan Xia, are you asleep?
I'm Fan Sizhe. I have something to talk to you about.
I'll come in.
You are asleep.
Wake up.
Don't sleep. I have something to talk to you about.
Why are you sleeping so soundly? Fan Xian.
Wake up.
Fan Xian, have you not slept in Danzhou?
Are you awake or not?
I have something to tell you.
Today... I almost beat you.
I shouldn't have done that. We are related after all, right?
Here is the thing. Tomorrow, at noon, we'll find a restaurant
and I will invite you to lunch to apologize to you.
What do you think?
It's a yes then.
Don't forget about it. Tomorrow at noon.
I'll go then. I put it on your table.
Fan Xian!
Who is he?
What?
The guard that sent me back to the capital.
You kick out all the maids
and you leave a guard.
What kind of habit do you have?
Do you have something to tell me?
One more thing. My dad is a little old-fashioned.
But no matter how old-fashioned he is, he is your dad. Do you know that?
You don't have to explain it to me.
Okay then.
Don't tell him about lunch tomorrow.
I know.
Get to your business.
Where were you?
Any place that you can't see.
Didn't you leave?
[Fan]
Let me tell you. He was tricked.
Tomorrow morning, find a few guys and go out with me.
I need to educate this bumpkin from Danzhou.
He is a young master after all.
He is the young master, and I'm not?
- Get out of here! - Yes.
Your case files
were all taken away by the Inspection and Control Bureau.
The only thing that's left
is this wanted notice.
Your crime at that time
was the assassination of an important official.
This is so strange.
Why would the Inspection and Control Bureau
take somebody like you.
Translation and Timing by the Joy of Life Team @ Viki.com
♫ Life goes round and round ♫
♫ Layers of memories, of many lives over ♫
♫ Get stacked up ♫
♫ In an intoxicating river of stars ♫
♫ Before you know it, spring is over and it's almost fall again ♫
♫ The swallows are gone to their wintering grounds ♫
♫ Who can give up the chance ♫
♫ To spend this life with you? ♫
♫ You have been walking around in your dream for so long ♫
♫ The flowers fall from the boughs quietly ♫
♫ Year in and year out, we are on the road ♫
♫ Counting the remaining days of the year ♫
♫ Even if we will never meet again ♫
♫ Even if the bond is broken ♫
♫ No complaints ♫
♫ It's a cold world and I still think of you as I did before ♫
♫ The moon is sleepless ♫
♫ Leave a warm heart ♫
♫ To look after the rest of the year ♫
♫ Even if I have to cross a thousand mountains ♫
♫ Through the fire of war ♫
♫ You are always there for me ♫
♫ The flowers leave the boughs, quietly ♫
♫ Year in and year out, we are on the road ♫
♫ Counting the remaining days of the year ♫
♫ Even if we will never meet again ♫
♫ Even if the bond is broken ♫
♫ No complaints ♫
♫ It's a cold world and I think of you as I did before ♫
♫ The moon is sleepless ♫
♫ Leave a warm heart ♫
♫ To look after the rest of the year ♫
♫ Even if I have to cross a thousand mountains and through the fire of war ♫
♫ You are always there for me ♫