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[Go East]

[Episode 4]

I chatted with Yu for a long time.

I'm so thirsty.

-No! -No!

What's the smell of this water?

What are you guys doing?

-Oh no. -Oh no.

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.

Well...

What should we do now?

Be careful! Be careful!

Ah Shu!

Wang Kunwu!

Yuchi Hua!

Kunwu!

It's me, Kunwu!

Wang Kunwu!

Ah Shu, figure out a solution now!

Figure out a solution now!

Hang in there.

Kunwu!

Help! Help!

Wang Kunwu!

Help! Help!

Kunwu!

Ah Shu, hurry up! Ah Shu!

I'm almost done.

Ah Shu!

Ah Shu, hurry up!

Wang Kunwu!

Jin!

Me. It's me. I'm Yuan Mo.

Get sober.

This is Yuan Mo.

Ah Shu! Ah Shu!

Hurry up!

Hurry! Hurry, Ah Shu!

I'm sorry, Wang.

I didn't do it on purpose.

Shouldn't you apologize to me first?

My pants are wet.

Water.

It's the water spilt by him.

What are you thinking about?

It's my fault.

I didn't anticipate the consequences.

I'm sorry, everyone.

Thank you, guys.

It's been two years.

I finally saw my buddies again.

You're welcome.

By the way,

what were you shouting

when you were out of your mind?

Jin?

He's your buddy, isn't he?

What's wrong with him?

Nothing.

It looks like Dragon Scale Grass and Soul-restoring Incense

can really make people crazy.

How did you feel after being poisoned?

My head ached so badly.

I saw that Yuan Mo was tied with a rope

which was as red as blood

and was very dazzling.

A powerful force seemed to be attracting me

to go towards him.

Look at you two.

It was fine that you tied me up,

but you shouldn't have found a red rope,

and I was almost killed because of it.

Could it be that the person poisoned by it

will take red as the target?

Then Cao Huo...

Do you remember in the center

of the banquet hall that day,

there was a red carpet?

And the fan which Ms. Hua tossed to Dou Chun

was also red.

So someone poisoned Cao Huo on purpose?

And his real target was...

Dou Chun.

So he wasn't trying to poison the chairman of the Mobei Chamber of Commerce,

but to take advantage of his madness

to kill General Dou?

Let's go.

Let's meet the Governor.

Let's go.

Well... Well...

I'm sorry.

It's not us.

It's you.

You can go by yourself.

I'm not going.

Your brain is still useful.

I need you to continue to analyze it.

I'm not a member of your Sifang Pavilion.

Why should I listen to you?

Let go of me now! Let go of me!

Did you...

hear anything?

Your arm...

Wang Kunwu, you bastard!

I'll beat...

Bastard, is this all that you can do?

Come on! Come on!

You're so noisy.

I'll ask you one last time.

Are you going or not?

Let's go.

Okay.

He's more ruthless than I am.

How amazing.

I want to learn it.

[East Court]

Kunwu.

What are you doing?

Why are you yelling?

You're not serious at all.

Go aside to play.

Ah Shu, take him away!

This child...

You... You are...

It's not important.

What can I do for you, Mr. Yu?

After you get off work,

empty the office of the East Court.

You guys had better move back to the West Court.

Why?

Why?

You guys from the West Court

took away the task of our East Court previously.

What happened in the end?

There was a murder in Governor Dou's mansion.

We haven't found the murderer yet so far.

Cao Huo was in charge of the Mobei people in the West Market.

But now they're all here to ask us for the murderer.

And the foreign merchants

are all staying in the mansion and are unable to leave.

Don't you know how much trouble

you guys from the West Court has caused

within just a few days?

Kunwu.

You guys did work so hard before.

Xiuyi.

I'll leave the rest of it to your East Court.

There are not many Mobei people in the West Market,

but they are fond of bravery and fighting.

They tend to cause trouble easily.

You must handle it properly.

Don't let any problem occur again. Got it?

Please don't worry, Mr. Yu.

I've asked Susu to do it.

Okay.

The professional tasks

should be handled by professional people.

Am I right?

Yes, yes.

From today onwards,

the East Court will be in charge of the affairs in the Governor's Mansion.

As for you guys from the West Court, go back to do the job of affixing seals.

This is an order.

Wait

I don’t care if others go back to the West Court.

As the Advisor of the Ministry of Justice,

I request that Wang Kunwu should assist in the investigation of this case.

Hua.

Our East Court can also assist you in your investigation.

You?

Okay.

Then let me ask you.

How did Cao Huo die?

What was the situation of the crime scene?

Who was the murderer's real target?

The real target?

So this case is not over yet?

Mr. Yu.

It's an important matter.

I think we should...

Enough, Little Xiu.

If you keep nagging,

Uncle Dou will die.

Uncle?

What do you mean?

Butler Jiang.

Before I ask the guests,

[Shady willows and Blooming Flowers]

I have a few questions for you.

Ms. Yuchi, please go ahead.

Who decorated the banquet hall that day?

I decorated it.

So the red carpet under the Governor's table

was also put by you?

The Governor moved to a new house.

There were many red decorations in his mansion

mainly for the purpose of celebrating it.

Those were just some common banquet decorations.

What?

Is this related to Cao Huo's death?

Nothing.

The guests who attended the banquet that day

live here respectively.

If you want to ask them,

please do it by yourselves.

I'll leave you alone.

Thank you.

What the butler said makes sense.

There is nothing suspicious.

Let's split up and ask the guests.

You two.

Go to that room.

Wang Kunwu.

You really don't treat me as an outsider, do you?

You just treat me as your subordinate, don't you?

I think Ms. Hua is playing the Pipa so well.

But I don't like listening to it.

Finally, someone is here.

You two are here to investigate the case, right?

Let me tell you.

I thought about it all night.

There must be something fishy about Cao Huo's death.

You feel quite at ease while talking to strangers.

Sit. Officers, please sit down.

Have a seat.

Please sit down.

Come on. Tell me about it.

Do you still remember what happened

before Cao Huo was possessed by a ghost?

The strong wind blew out the candles?

What happened before that?

Ms. Hua danced with a fan?

That's right.

Soon after she tossed the fan to the Governor,

the candles went out.

Then Cao Huo went crazy.

So there must be something wrong with Ms. Hua.

Young man.

Look. I've provided you

with such an important clue.

Can you let me out first?

I'm sorry.

Not yet.

How long are you going to lock me up?

It's not a big problem for others.

But I still have a lot of business

which I need to deal with urgently.

What's more,

the travel pass issued by the Sifang Pavilion

will expire soon.

If I don't renew it soon,

I'll be kicked out of Changle.

What business do you do?

I just... do some ordinary business.

If my guess is right,

you do spice business, right?

The Soul-restoring Incense offered by Cao Huo

was bought from him.

Buddy.

Don't talk nonsense.

Soul-restoring Incense is for sale in my shop.

But I have so many shops.

How do you know

it was bought from my shop?

Even if it had been bought from my shop,

I didn't kill anyone.

You smelled the incense yesterday, too.

He was possessed by a ghost.

Yes, yes, yes.

He was possessed by the ghost of Wei Yunqi.

Why are you nervous?

I'm not nervous. I just...

Why aren't you making a written statement?

You're not from the Jingzhao Prefecture, are you?

You're from the Sifang Pavilion?

Neither is right.

How about this?

Take the money

and find a way to let me out.

Think about it.

You are not an official.

This is not against the law.

I really can't afford to waste time anymore.

I really can't do this.

Got it.

With just a Pipa,

you could perform the grand song, Dance of the Cavalry.

I admire you.

I'm flattered, Retainer Wang.

I've been practicing it hard for ten years.

That's why I can master the essence of this song.

Ten years?

This song has been played in the palace

for no more than two or three years.

How did you know this song ten years ago?

There's something you don't know, Retainer Wang.

Although this song is the music of the palace,

it originated from the army at first.

When His Majesty was still the Governor,

after he defeated the invaders,

he wrote new lyrics for an old song in the army to celebrate it.

That was how the Dance of the Cavalry was created at first.

It seems that

it's been ten years till now.

I see.

But since it's the music of the army,

how come you can play it?

What?

Is this related to the soul-restoring murder case?

I'm just a weak woman.

I was lucky to be invited by the Governor to entertain everyone.

I didn't expect that something like this would happen.

Retainer Wang.

You have to speak up for me.

Why did you toss the red fan to the Governor

while you were dancing for him last night?

Retainer Wang, you don't know that?

It looks like you seldom go to a brothel.

I've always danced with a red fan.

And the guests all consider getting the red fan

as a big joy.

Where is that red fan?

I gave it to the Governor.

What? Do you also want it, Retainer Wang?

As long as I can leave this place which is full of trouble,

not to mention a red fan,

I can give you anything you want.

It's not like what you're thinking.

I'm not thinking about anything.

Why are you having a guilty conscience?

What did you find out?

Ms. Hua knows the music of the army quite well.

That's unusual.

It's still about listening to the music.

You...

It feels so good to be rich.

This heavy feeling is so great.

What are you doing?

Where did you get so much gold and silver?

Yuchi.

You came at the right time.

There's something wrong with that foreign merchant, Guan Feng.

He's actually a spice businessman.

He was also the one who sold the Soul-restoring Incense to Cao Huo.

In addition,

he used this money to bribe Yuan Mo so that he could leave here.

Exactly.

He even wanted to bribe me?

How could he not think about whether I'm that kind of person?

Yes, you're.

Why do you think so?

I'm just trying them on.

[Shady willows and Blooming Flowers]

Buddies.

I've really been wronged, buddies.

Why are you arresting me?

Did you catch the wrong person, buddies?

You guys did this, right?

I gave you all the money, didn't I?

Go, go, go.

Buddies, I've really been wronged.

Buddies!

He's even trying to deny it?

He was caught red-handed.

He even wanted to bribe us?

No way.

Let's go, Ah Shu. Time to eat.

Wait.

What's wrong?

Take them out.

What... What should I take out?

Cut the crap.

Don't force me to use violence.

When did you hide them?

Wang Kunwu, let me tell you.

I'm just like your debtor.

Let's go.

There's more.

There's nothing else.

Look.

It's empty. There's nothing else.

I'll do it myself.

Well,

I found such an important clue.

I just took a small sum of money.

What's wrong with that?

There's really nothing else this time.

It's empty.

Yuchi,

there must be more.

You...

Guards!

Yes!

Help him.

There's nothing else.

Pour them out.

Nothing else. There's really nothing else.

Go on.

No.

Wang Kunwu.

I haven't got even with you for breaking my arm.

Nothing else. There's really nothing else.

I heard that Wang Kunwu was scolded by Yu.

He didn't allow the West Court to interfere in the Governor's case.

It was not easy to get this task,

but it was taken away by An Xiuyi again.

In the future,

life will be hard for Ji and the others again.

There's nothing they can do.

That's because the people of the West Court don't have a say with their humble positions.

Why don’t you find a way to help them?

For example, finding the murderer.

I never help people for free.

Think about it. Just think about it carefully.

Sir.

Give me a portion.

Okay.

Here you go.

You're just treating me to this?

Aren't they just some pastry crumbs with sesame on them?

How stingy.

You don't understand it, do you?

It's true that these pastry crumbs can't be served in a banquet.

It's also a low-end dessert.

But after it's covered with this sesame and is fried,

it'll be both fragrant and crispy.

It's really delicious. Let me tell you.

It can't be served in a banquet and it's a low-end dessert.

Got it!

What do you mean?

I've been thinking

what phrase I should use

to describe you.

I finally figured it out.

These pastry crumbs can't be served in a banquet and are low-end desserts.

And you're also

not good enough to attend a banquet, and you're a low-end

and annoying man.

So I should call you

scum.

Scum.

It's such an appropriate word.

Retainer An.

What's the matter?

This case is not over yet.

Since you're in charge of this case,

let me remind you.

Beware of Ms. Hua.

Wang Kunwu.

Do you know what I hate the most about you?

What I hate the most

is your attitude of being in the high position.

You're telling me to beware of Ms. Hua?

Don't I know I should beware of her?

I don't need you to remind me.

Why do you always think that you are better than me?

I've never thought so.

Then why do you always compete with me in every aspect?

I was demoted to this place from the army.

I don't aspire to make contributions,

but I just hope to make no mistakes.

Only after I get through this tough situaion

will I have a chance to be transferred back to the army.

I'm really getting more and more confused.

You've been working so hard in the Sifang Pavilion

just in order to leave the Sifang Pavilion?

It's up to you whether to believe it or not.

Investigate him.

Yes.

You mean

the bandit's target was the Governor?

Yes.

After the investigation of our East Court,

the murderer's target was Governor Dou.

So tonight,

the Governor must be transferred to a safe place

and be guarded closely.

Please take a look, Retainer An.

This place is surrounded by water.

There's only a small boat used as a ferry between it and the shore.

I've ordered the people to guard the shore more closely.

As long as this bandit goes into the water,

we will definitely catch him.

It turns out that Butler Jiang

has already figured out a safe measure for Uncle Dou.

I admire you.

Please don't worry, Butler Jiang.

The East Court and the soldiers of the Jingzhao Prefecture

will certainly guard the place all night.

I guarantee not even a bird can fly over.

Thank you, Retainer An.

Greetings, Uncle.

Xiuyi?

Sit.

Uncle.

I'm here to tell you something important.

What is it?

Although this is a very safe place,

among all the guests,

you still need to beware of Ms. Hua.

Her?

Xiuyi,

I think you're just too careful.

Ms. Hua?

She's just a weak woman.

Even if she wants to kill me,

what can she do?

In the past few days,

you've been working so hard for me.

Tonight,

just drink with me.

What do you think?

I'll do as you wish.

I'd like to drink a toast to you.

Cheers.

Although the Governor is quite composed,

the bandit is still there and we have to be careful.

We still need to take special care of Ms. Hua.

Since she's the prime suspect,

and you are so worried,

I'll keep an eye on her personally.

Retainer An, please guard the door outside.

Just in case.

Don't worry.

Thanks.

Please forgive me if I didn't take good care of you.

What do you mean by doing this, Butler Jiang?

For the safety of the Governor,

I've decided to accompany you personally tonight.

Please forgive me, Ms. Hua.

You...

In the middle of the night,

you and I are alone in a room.

If this news gets out, how can I maintain my reputation in the future?

Don't worry, Ms. Hua.

I won't do anything improper.

Young Master.

I'm fine.

You've just had a drink with the Governor.

Have some congee to warm your stomach.

Thank you.

Why don't you take a rest first tonight?

I'll guard this place for you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Judging from the coagulation of the blood,

I think he died around 12 o'clock last night.

There are disorderly knife wounds on the body.

There are three wounds altogether from the same weapon.

They are mainly in the chest

with different depths.

But the fatal attack is here.

Where were you at 12 o'clock last night?

Yesterday, Retainer An reported to the Governor that

Ms. Hua was suspicious.

So... So I was in her room

to keep an eye on her all night last night.

Was there anything unusual?

She stayed up without going to sleep

and played the Pipa all night.

I guess

she was worried that I might do something improper to her.

Did she go out of her room?

No, she didn't.

Retainer An guarded the room outside.

He can testify, too.

You were there all night?

I...

Were you there or not?

I had a drink with the Governor last night.

Later, I felt very tired and sleepy,

so I left first.

But Susu was there all night.

And the people of the East Court, too.

I guarded the room outside all night.

Including Ms. Hua,

no guests in the mansion left their own rooms.

What's more, I've asked the guards.

No one went into the water last night.

So the murderer couldn't have entered

the Mid-lake Pavilion from outside.

Did a ghost come?

[Sifang Pavilion]

I told you to beware of Ms. Hua.

What did you do?

I also wanted to ask you.

We listened to you

and kept an eye on Ms. Hua all night.

But she never left the room.

Did you play tricks on me by telling me some fake news deliberately?

Nonsense!

You just hated me for taking away your credit,

so you set a trap on purpose to make a fool out of me, right?

I wouldn't do such a meaningless thing.

Really?

Instead of doing the job as the Guoyi Commandant of the Mingwei Prefecture,

you came to our Sifang Pavilion to be a civil servant.

Do you think no one will know

your scandals if you don't talk about them?

What did you say?

What did I say?

Isn't it your specialty

to frame your colleagues?

Back then in the desert,

those several buddies in the army

died because of you, weren't they?

You are not worthy of mentioning them!

Young Master, be careful!

-Why did you hit him? -Why did you hit him?

Stop!

Are you all that ill-behaved?

This is the Sifang Pavilion!

It's not a barbarous place.

Get out, you all!

How should I criticize you two?

It's fine for you to argue with each other.

But how could you fight with each other

in front of your colleagues today?

No matter what caused your fight just now,

Retainer Wang,

from now on, don't fight again in the Sifang Pavilion.

Understand?

Rules are rules.

Though I look like an easy-going man normally,

if it happens again next time,

I won't tolerate it.

Retainer An.

There are some things you can say,

but there are some things you can't say.

Understand?

Similarly,

there are some things you can do,

but there are some things you just can't do.

Since I asked you to receive the foreign officials, you should've done so.

Why did you take up the job of guarding the mansion at night?

Now Vice Minister An is asking me whether Dou Chun's death

has anything to do with our Sifang Pavilion.

How do you think I can explain it to him?

I'll reply to Vice Minister An myself.

I won't make things difficult for you, Mr. Yu.

Susu.

Take Retainer An to treat his injury.

Yes.

Retainer An.

Retainer Wang.

I beg you. Stop asking for trouble. Okay?

Just pity the dozens of people in the Sifang Pavilion.

They all rely on this job to support their family.

Buddies.

Retainer Wang?

Assistant Minister Tan.

What brings you here?

I often come here to have a drink when I'm free.

You're not on duty today?

I don't belong to the Sifang Pavilion after all.

Would you like to have a drink with me?

Sure.

Bring me a pot of wine.

Yes.

Sit.

You were demoted to the Sifang Pavilion

because of them, right?

I know a little about you.

You want to return to the army, right?

I want to go back to Wuzhou

to eliminate the Faceless and take revenge for my buddies.

The Faceless is mysterious.

Even if you return to Wuzhou,

I'm afraid you won't find any clues.

Wang Kunwu.

What do you think of being demoted

to the Sifang Pavilion?

It was the punishment from the superiors as I acted recklessly.

Look at this wine pot.

It was just a piece of unpainted clayware before calcination.

Only after calcination can it become useful.

Wang Kunwu.

Sifang Pavilion

is the most well-informed place in the world.

For you, it can be a cage,

but it can also be a furnace to forge weapons.

It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

Wang Kunwu.

In order to take revenge,

how long can you wait?

Let go of me!

If we find the murderer together,

then you won't feel upset, will you?

There are not any clues.

Soon the whole Changle City will know that

the Jingzhao Prefecture is quite useless.

Where are you going?

I've worked so hard

because I don't want to embarrass my father!

Why are you so angry?

[The Key of Law Is Stability]

Why are you here?

I'm here to calm you down.

Do you have any clues?

Don't forget that

I was the one who deduced that

the murderer's target was Dou Chun.

Yes.

What's that saying?

It's just sheer luck for a blind cat to catch a dead mouse.

Your Yong dialect has improved a lot.

You are not a blind cat.

Go catch a dead mouse and show it to me.

Although this brat is annoying,

he's kind of a capable man.

Whatever he does, his goal is to gain benefits.

Just tell me what condition you want.

As a citizen of Yong,

can't I even have the awareness of

finding the real murderer and bringing justice

to the dead people?

Speak in human language.

I need to raise maids

and I'm short of money.

You said that the depths of these three knife wounds on the body were different?

Yes.

I think it was caused by the murderer's unstable emotions

when he tried to kill him.

There's a second possibility.

There was more than one murderer.

I've thought about it, too.

It's likely that multiple people committed the crime.

There's a third possibility.

There was only one murderer.

He did that in order to confuse us.

That makes sense, too.

There's a fourth possibility.

No.

There's no fifth one.

But there is really a fourth possibility.

Tell me.

The murderer guessed that

I could guess that he might be confusing us.

So he deliberately created a facade of confusing us

in order to confuse us.

What?

You must be very puzzled.

It's okay. This is not important.

What matters is

how the murderer avoided all the guards

and went into this pavilion.

Nothing.

Is there anything special?

No.

There's nothing special.

This is the wine which the Governor drank last night.

What's wrong?

It has a different smell.

They are the same kind of wine.

Though they are the same kind of wine,

the wine in the cup

has one more smell than the wine in the pot.

Did someone put drugs in it?

An Xiuyi also had a drink here last night.

He felt very tired and sleepy after that.

He fell asleep very soon.

I found it.

I found it.

What did you find?

Important evidence.

Where is it?

Look.

Ah Shu, come on.

Come on.

A secret passage?

Let's go down and have a look.

Okay.

I still have to rely on myself.

If they are safe when they're back,

go down with me to have a look.

Are you having fun here?

Go in front of me.

I thought you were very bold.

We've just passed by the fork road.

Those who are in front of us won't know that we're inside here.

But those who are behind us might know that.

It's so dark.

I can't see anything.

Why didn't you take out the fire stick earlier?

Who is it?

What does this have to do with us?

How could you lock us up for so long?

Let's leave here at once.

What a big trouble.

[Luxuriant Grass and Trees in Spring]

What a waste of time.

This is ridiculous!

I'm sorry.

Forgive me if I didn't take good care of you.

What's going on?

We came here for dinner.

I'm sorry.

What a waste of our time.

I told you it had nothing to do with us.

But you insisted on locking us up.

Alright. Let's go home now to take a rest.

You've locked us up for so many days for no reason.

How could you do this?

Yes.

Forgive me if I didn't take good care of you.

Butler Jiang, my condolences.

The murderer has admitted it and will be punished.

The case could be sovled successfully

mostly due to your help.

You've also worked very hard these days.

My master has just died.

I'm sorry but I can't see you off farther.

The four of you, follow me.

Is Yuan Mo's trick reliable?

What if those guests run away?

This brat is quite smart.

We can give it a try.

There's one more thing.

I need to go back to the Sifang Pavilion and ask about it clearly.

[Sifang Pavilion]

Yu.

We've really found out about the truth this time.

I don't believe it.

Don't lie to me.

How many times have you lied to me about this matter?

As for the report I'm going to submit to the Ministry of Rites,

I tore it and then wrote it again and again.

How old am I?

I can't bear your torture like this, can I?

It's true this time.

This is definitely the final conclusion.

Alright.

Then tell me who the murderer is.

We haven't caught him yet.

What did I say?

You're just trying to fool me.

Because before we catch the murderer,

there's something

I want you to help me with.

I can help you,

as long as the case can be solved as soon as possible.

Just tell me.

Although the murderer has been confirmed,

we're still not clear about his motive.

For the sake of caution,

the Jingzhao Prefecture has released everyone temporarily.

On one hand, we can keep an eye on the murderer secretly.

On the other hand, I can ask you carefully

about the reasons and consequences of Wei Yunqi's rebellion case back then.

Wei Yunqi?

Is this case closely related to him?

It's very closed related to him.