[🔎👁‍🗨The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty👁‍🗨🔍]
[Episode 44]
Please.
Wuyun.
There is one last thing that I need your help.
Mr. Wang, what is this supposed to mean?
Wuyun.
I'm so sorry.
But I have to do this for the safety of His Majesty.
Hua Yuhu, Gurijabatu, Liu Bai and you.
The four of you are the best marksmen in the world.
You also said that
if anyone wants to shoot His Majesty at the ceremony from distance,
he should be someone as good as the four of you.
So Please stay here until the ceremony is finished.
Mr. Wang, you're so shrewd.
Wuyun, rest assured.
I'll let you guys out immediately after the ceremony.
And I will compensate you guys generously.
I don't know if Tang Fan is still alive or not.
But if you don't mind, Mr. Wang,
I also want to ask you to do me a favor.
Find him,
no matter he is dead or alive,
it is a closure to everyone.
Tang Fan is lucky
to have a bunch of friends like you guys to be by his side
and anxious for his safety.
Sure.
You help me and I help you.
I promise you.
Your Majesty.
It must be because things happened suddenly that day
so Tang Fan had no choice but to let Gao Yi
win the trust of Li Zilong with him as a present
then got the intelligence that
Li Zilong plans to assassinate Your Majesty at the Beginning of Spring ceremony.
I see.
Where's Tang Fan?
We don't know if he's still alive.
I'm afraid chances for him are slim.
What about those Bolangs?
Your Majesty, rest assured.
I have my people guarding them under strict security.
Nothing will go wrong.
You have to see to it personally
to make sure nothing goes wrong.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Coming.
What brings you here?
Tang and Sui have not returned yet.
I am almost bored to death.
You don't know yet?
Know what?
They left a child at home all night.
They didn't care about me.
I'm furious.
Think about I even prepared wontons trying to give them a surprise!
Speaking of which, what are you doing here?
I come to eat your wontons, of course.
Sure!
Let's play Go after that.
Okay.
Too much.
Tang said wonton means a wish for a family reunion.
Because the dough stuffed with mince
means safety and reunion of one's family.
So if a loved one is away, you eat some wontons often to
pray for their safety and reunion with you.
So Your loved one will return soon.
What if Tang Fan will not come back?
He will.
Although Tang and Sui are always busy out there all day long,
they always come back at the end of the day.
This is our home.
I'll just wait for them to come home.
Dong，
I can't play Go with you today.
I just remembered there is something important to do.
Okay.
Dong.
Tang is in trouble.
I'd like to see your boss.
Do you think you can come in and just ask to see our boss?
You guys again!
We just want to see Ms. Jin San and ask her some questions.
We mean no harm.
Please tell her that.
There is little common ground for understanding between persons of differing principles.
You guys are definitely up to something evil.
That's right!
Leave now
before we kick you out!
Sir, there is no point talking to these people nicely.
I think they just want their ass to be kicked!
There are rules in the underworld.
What kind of hero are you to bully others
just because you have better kung fu skills?
Our Imperial Guards never want to be called heroes.
Wait a minute. Don't fight yet.
We can let you see our boss
if you have a contest according to our rules.
If you guys win, we'll tell you where she is.
And when she knows we do it according to the rules,
she certainly won't blame us.
Have a contest?
I think I can save trouble by beating you guys up!
Wait.
Say it.
What is this contest?
Game of chicken.
So it's about the guts.
I'm quite popular.
What did you say?
What can I do for you?
It was all your fault.
It's you who bewitched my teacher into betraying me
and tipping off to your royal court.
Since he was your teacher, you know his character better than anyone.
Do you think I can bewitch him?
Who else can it be?
He had stayed with us in the Oirat for thirty years.
He has been more like Oirat than real Oirat people.
Why did he betray us
just after several meetings with you?
We Han people have a saying,
"One day as a teacher and a father for life".
Since you still call him your teacher, you recognize his contributions
to the Oirat over the three decades in your heart.
And don't forget
General Gao was born and raised in the Ming.
The loyalty to the Ming is deep in his bones
and can't be wiped out even after he was away for thirty years.
You should know
General Gao always hopes that the two countries will never fight
and can get along in peace.
Is what you call peace
by the Oirat becoming a tributary of the Ming
and paying tribute to you guys every year?
My teacher also taught us another saying,
"Die making a voice rather than live silently".
Please have some tea.
Don't bother entertaining us.
I just want to see Ms. Jin San.
Sir, to be honest with you, she did take a job.
So she went out the day before yesterday and hasn't returned ever since.
Do you know who the customer is?
You know our rules.
We just drive the carriage for the customers.
We never ask anything else that we're not supposed to.
So We don't know where she is now either.
And also since you guys came and
taught us a lesson, Boss set a new rule that
we'll never take illegal business again.
Right now we only take legal business of providing carriage services.
But when Ms. Jin San works alone outside,
she's not afraid she might meet any danger?
We have our own way to seek help in distress.
Guys!
There is a signal flare on the north side.
Something happened to Boss!
Let's go!
Go, go, go!
Mr. Tang.
You have made yourself at home here.
Just say it.
What do you want me to do?
You are also a businessman.
You will never do anything useless.
You have kept me alive for so many days.
There should be a result by now.
Mr. Tang,
I came this time just to ask you a question.
If you can
sacrifice one person to save a million people,
will you do it?
Your Highness.
How's it going?
I am sorry.
Although we haven't apprehended Li Zilong and his associates,
we have arranged
the security procedures of Beginning of Spring ceremony.
All hidden dangers have been resolved.
Please rest assured.
These few days
I can't eat or sleep.
If I close my eyes,
all I can see are horrible scenes.
I deserve to be punished for making Your Highness to worry about it.
Never take it lightly.
His Majesty's safety is our top priority.
Never slack off.
Yes, Your Highness.
This is it!
Judging by where the signal flare was shot up,
she must be in this area.
Let's scatter and search her
with here as the center.
OK. Hurry up!
Let's go.
Come here! We found her.
Boss!
Step aside!
Boss!
She's still alive.
It will be too late if we don't hurry!
- Let's go! - Boss!
How did it go?
Do you have an answer for my question?
I gave it many thoughts.
Something is not right with your question.
What's the problem?
You can't gain personal interests at the expense of others.
This has nothing to do with numbers.
If you justify killing one person to save millions,
then will there be one day when
you will kill one thousand to save a million?
This is not the essence of my question.
The essence is that you have to make a choice.
Let me give you an example.
When a wolf eats sheep,
only when the wolf is full after eating the first sheep
can you save the lives of the rest one hundred sheep.
So for the herd of sheep,
sacrificing one sheep is not called sacrifice.
That's their hope.
But the biggest difference between humans and animals is that
sometimes humans prefer to sacrifice one million to save one person.
Sorry. But that's the rule.
You have to choose.
I am such a fool.
It took me so long to figure out the key to the problem.
This "one person" is not the bad guy here.
I don't have to kill one to save a million
or sacrifice one million to keep one person alive.
Because the real bad guy is the one who made the rule.
It's this man who should be killed.
That's kind of interesting.
But not romantic at all.
Let me tell you, the reason rules are rules
is because of their cold and strong existence.
You can never shake this existence.
The rule is about who dares to stand out and choose.
The true hero
always has to be the person who dares to kill one to save a million people
and then bear all the consequences.
It's not those who only talk the talk,
who are intelligent in small ways,
who are hypocritical and irresolute,
who talk about benevolence and morality
while actually get everyone killed.
It's the real rule maker.
Sorry.
All the Bolangs are in my hands now.
So I am the one who makes the rules.
That's impossible!
Bolangs are in the Western Depot.
How could you have them?
Because the eunuchs in the Western Depot are self-righteous like you.
A bunch of losers.
Why are you telling me this?
Because I want to give you a chance.
I want you to experience
what it's like to be above the rules
to decide the life and death of others.
All right.
Mr. Tang, choose one person, or choose millions of people?
It's up to you.
Why hasn't you killed him?
I am a businessman.
Why would I kill him when it can't bring me any profit?
What is your plan?
Since I don't kill him,
of course I can only let him go.
You don't kill him, and you even want to let him go?
Releasing him is the real strategy of killing two birds with one stone.
I don't understand.
First purpose,
I want to use him to find all the Bolangs.
I need to find the place where the Western Depot hides them.
I need them.
As for the second purpose,
I want to use him to force those people to make up their minds.
Make up their minds to what?
To surrender the emperor.
Doctor Pei.
Open the door, Doctor Pei.
Doctor Pei!
Open the door!
Dr. Pei, help!
Come on.
Yu!
Boss!
Yu Boss!
Boss!
Hurry up!
Boss!
Easy and steady.
Will she be alright?
You guys all go out and get some hot water in here.
Okay! Hot water.
Hot water. Get some hot water.
Don't worry.
Now all of you, out.
Ten Ashes' Styptic Powder.
Okay.
How is she?
I'm afraid she can't stand the suture right now.
Use high heat to make Jiuhuai Decoction as soon as possible.
Got it.
Thank you. Good job.
If you go on like this,
the best doctor in our clinic
will soon be you, Yu.
Thank you for your assistance today
otherwise I wouldn't have been able to save her.
You should thank yourself.
Okay, you'll take the better part of the credit
and I'll take the smaller part.
How's it going?
She'll live.
Can I ask her a question then?
Tang Fan's whereabouts are still unknown.
Something happened to Tang Fan?
Don't tell Tang Yu for now.
I'm still investigating it.
But our lead met a dead end with Jin San.
I'll try with some old ginseng decoction.
Maybe that will wake her up for a short while.
Boss! You woke up.
Ms. Jin San.
This is very urgent.
What happened the day before yesterday?
Iron Market.
Iron Market?
This is Sui Zhou from the Northern Administrative Court of the Imperial Guards. I need to see…
Any news?
Currently, we only know they're at the Iron Market.
But we don't know if he's alive.
The Imperial Guards are understaffed
so I need the Western Depot to send reinforcements.
Send someone to cooperate with the Imperial Guards to search the Iron Market.
We must get him out of there, no matter he is still alive or not.
Yes, sir!
Block all exits.
Don't miss any exit!
Yes!
Check from door to door.
Quick. Over here.
Come on out!
You go over there.
Who are you guys?
What are you doing?
- What's wrong? - Out.
- What are you doing? - I said out!
Let's go.
Move!
Get out!
I have made a decision.
I choose the one million people.
Give it to me.
I told you.
What's inside
can decide who will make the rules.
You will take it back and help me persuade those idiots
to make up their minds as soon as possible.
You aren't afraid that I will blow you up here?
All the things have been arranged.
Even if you kill me here, there is no turning back.
You stayed with me for so long.
How will others believe you
if you come back without a scratch at all?
Hurry up, let's go!
Let's go!
Let go of me!
Move.
Go over there.
Hurry up.
Faster.
You guys came to the Iron Market to make troubles time and again.
Do you really think you can bully us?
These people are looking for their own death!
We should have given them a lesson long time ago.
Faster!
Yes, you! Don't move.
Don't move! Let's go!
Keep searching this place!
Yes.
Let's go!
Hurry up. Let's go!
Come on.
Move, move!
Move.
Let's go!
Sir, they made such a big scene
but we can't find any movement that might be Tang Fan.
It feels like a long shot.
He must be here somewhere.
He is still alive.
Let go of me! I will fight you with my life!
你们这些人欺人太甚
Fight with them!
This is the Imperial Guards investigating a case!
Please cooperate with the search.
Don't make troubles or you'll face severe punishment!
Zhou!
Zhou…
Hang in there!
I'll take you to Pei Huai.
No.
Take me to see Wang Zhi now.
Tang Fan.
You can't die like that in chaos.
I knew you won't die just like that in chaos.
Look, you just got a minor injury but you're still alive and kicking.
Why do you sound so disappointed?
Come on.
What happened?
Something serious happened.
You robbed this Bolang
from Li Zilong?
I wish I robbed it from him.
Li Zilong personally handed it to me.
This is a finished product.
Mr. Tang.
You are a daredevil by running around carrying a Bolang.
At this point my humble life is nothing.
Li Zilong wanted us to hand over His Majesty.
This is absurd.
One choice is His Majesty and the other is millions of people.
- How are we gonna choose… - Tang Fan.
Can you not be carried away by a desperado?
He told you to make an either-or choice
and you are really going to choose?
You often said there are many solutions to one problem.
Don't fall into his trap.
Okay.
Let me think about it.
Their secret has out.
We will definitely mount strict security operation at the ceremony.
They have absolutely no chance of poisoning
or get close enough to assassinate His Majesty.
The world's best marksmen are in the cell of the Western Depot.
It is impossible to ambush from a distance, either.
What other way can they possibly have?
The Bolangs.
The Bolangs?
So why did he give you this Bolang so easily?
That means there are still more than one in his possession.
The existing Bolangs had been destroyed.
The rest are hidden for safekeeping by me.
How can he still have so many of them?
But he said those he had
were stolen from your Western Depot's warehouse.
That's impossible.
The Bolangs are under super strict security.
We change the place of storage often.
And even the persons in charge of guarding
don't know what they are guarding.
They can't steal them.
Then where did this Bolang from?
Are you sure the Bolangs in your hands
are really still there?
Have you ever thought about
maybe this is just a small fish that he uses as a bait to
catch a big fish, which is the Bolangs stored in the Western Depot?
I thought about this possibility.
But no matter how shrewd Li Zilong is,
such a stake is too huge for him.
If we don't believe him, he would lose a Bolang,
which might be the only one he has.
Won't his plan fail then?
If we believe him,
we can still confirm the Bolang's inventory of the Western Depot
in a sufficiently confidential situation.
Then how sure is he to steal them in the highly alerted capital?
You know
the remaining Bolangs have been made into finished products by Ding Rong.
It was His Majesty's idea.
But this one from Li Zilong is a finished product, too.
If It was not stolen from your Western Depot's warehouse,
where else can it come from?
I will arrange it.
But let me be clear first.
I never made serious mistakes.
Most of the troubles came from you, Tang Fan.
If anything goes wrong this time, I will hold responsible for it.
Put it on.
Let's go.