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The Story of Ming Lan

Episode 33

- Mother! Mother! - Mo'er! Mo'er!

- Mother! - Mo'er!

Mo'er!

Let me see you. My Mo'er...

You... How come your father let you out?

Could it be... the marriage with the House of Liang is set?

That's right. It was that old woman from Shouan Hall who personally went to propose marriage.

Regardless if she's an old fairy that has lived for decades,

didn't she still submit to our tricks in the end?

You have finally achieved success. Me too.

Mother, Father let me out to see you.

I... I am afraid that from now on...

From now on...

I'm worried about you.

Don't be afraid.

When that Concubine Wei died, he also did something like this to me.

What happened in the end? Didn't he reconcile with me too?

It's fine. Moreover, that woman in Shouan Hall isn't really his birth mother.

He won't be that obedient with that Old Madam. Don't worry.

At most, at most I'll just employ some tricks like attempting to commit suicide or something.

Your father will obediently return to the palm of my hand.

When will the wedding be? Did they say?

They said that they will choose an auspicious date within this month to fetch me with a wedding palanquin into their house.

This month... It's a bit rushed.

But for a marriage that was so hard to obtain like this, it's better to do it as soon as possible for us to be at ease, to prevent any more nightmares.

Okay.

Come. Come.

These are the items I've saved for the past years.

A count's house is an aristocratic family.

If you don't bring a lot of dowry, you might get laughed at.

But it's just that these items...

I must save some for your older brother...

or else..?

Mother, even if you give me all of that,

it won't even reach half of the dowry of Eldest Sister.

I'll just bring a few more.

Also, when you married into the Sheng Family, you didn't have anything.

But now, you live as grand as Big Madam.

I have the resolve. Even if I don't rely on my maiden dowry,

I still will be able to live a splendid life among my in-laws.

My Mo'er is obedient and ambitious. You are stronger than your older brother!

If your older brother could have even half of your scheming,

this Sheng Family would have been under our control a long time ago.

Too bad...

Mother.

Mother, if once I'm gone

and your days here in the Sheng Family become unbearable,

don't be troubled by it. You just need to patiently wait for a few days,

wait for me make a footing in the House of Liang,

I'll then come back to fetch you.

Okay. Okay.

With just those words from you, I'm at ease.

That very fertile farmland in the capital outskirts

and the shop in the south, give them to me.

Third Brother won't have any use for them.

Bringing them can provide me something to rely on.

Fourth Miss, when you go out later,

don't stand too straight. Slightly bend your body, okay?

Fourth Miss is coming out!

I'm going out of my chamber today and saying goodbye to my parents.

Hope Father and Mother have a long life and unending wealth.

Since you're leaving your chamber today, you will become a member of another house.

Once you reach your husband's house, be filial to your father and mother-in-law, be considerate to your husband.

Everything is your fortune.

Okay already. Let's not delay the auspicious time.

Go out now.

Mistress, the duty of sending off a lady out of the woman's chamber is the job of the main wife.

You're a person from the back courtyard. It's not proper for you to move forward.

It's my daughter's wedding today. Can't I at least see her get into her wedding palanquin?

Master said the Sheng Family couldn't bear to be embarrassed by letting people from the House of Liang who are here to welcome the bride

see how unruly you are,

Darling Hong! Darling Hong!

Quickly drag her back!

Mother...

I'm leaving soon.

Father, are you still not willing to talk to me?

Starting today, you will become part of another family.

There's nothing to say.

I am deeply grateful to Father for raising me.

No need for that.

I've doted on you, but didn't expect that you'd grow up like this.

Once you reach the Liang Family, whether you enjoy good fortunes or misfortunes,

they are all your own fate.

If you suffer any grievances in the future, no need for you to come back here and cry about it.

Wasn't this a path you chose yourself?

Why must you cry now?

Father, you said it right.

It's a path that I've chosen myself.

I will never regret it.

Third Brother, let's go.

The bride is leaving her chamber!

[ Sheng Manor ]

Minister, there are still a lot of guests outside.

We still have to entertain them.

Have to trouble then, my wife.

What are you doing?

Dongrong! Dongrong! Dongrong!

I'm the mother-in-law of the son of a count!

Who dares to touch me!

I'm the mother-in-law of the son of a count!

My daughter is a future Big Madam of the Count's Manor.

If you all dare to be disrespectful to me, I'll make sure that you will die a miserable death!

What are you planning?

Darling Hong! How can you be this heartless?

I chose not to be the main wife

of someone and become your concubine!

I suffered supercilious looks for more than twenty years!

I bore and raised a son and a daughter for you.

Darling Hong! Darling Hong! Darling H-Hong...

How could you be this heart... heartless!

This...

Stop hitting!

All of you, go out.

I'll kill you!

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Send her to Pingling Farmstead outside the city. Imprison her there, and she's not allowed to leave forever.

What about the other people of Linqi Pavilion?

Cane those two that disguised themselves as Molan to death.

For the rest, look for a slave trafficker to sell them. Not even one must stay behind.

Master, think about it carefully. If they will just die or get sold like this,

the whole courtyard will become empty.

I fear that outsiders will deduce that something happened inside our house.

Those two that accompanied and disguised as Molan didn't report the situation immediately.

They are one with the masterminds and should be beaten to death.

Just find a reason to explain that to the people gossiping outside.

Just keep the others at first.

Send them to the front courtyard to do manual labor, like cleaning commodes or washing clothes.

After a year or more, when things have settled down,

look for a slave trafficker and slowly sell them off.

Yes.

[ Lady Li Guards the Niangzi Pass ]

[ Lady Li Guards the Niangzi Pass ]

Wait!

Is Mistress Lin inside?

She is. Miss XIaotao, do you have any instructions?

Old Madam ordered that Sixth Miss will follow your carriage.

She must personally see Mistress Lin enter the farmstead.

Mount Pingling is a very nasty place. How could the Sixth Miss go there?

I also don't know why Old Madam made such an instruction.

How about you go ask her?

I dare not. I dare not. I just fear that Sixth Miss might tire herself because of this.

You leave first.

Okay.

Let's go.

Quickly!

Go.

[ Sheng Manor ]

Sixth Miss has entered her carriage and left.

I saw how late it is, so I ordered that she be assisted

by four physically-strong servants.

Since this is a special task,

don't know if we get to have some rewards when they return.

Nanny Fang, don't you know about it?

Sixth Miss said that it was Old Madam who told her to escort the carriage.

When did I tell her to escort Lin Qinshuang?

When I heard it, I already sensed that something's wrong.

I then just pretended to know and hurriedly returned.

This concerns Sixth Miss. It's better to be careful.

Go get Danju and let's ask her.

I've already asked.

Danju said that Sixth Miss told her

that she's just going to stroll in the garden before she left. Nothing was abnormal.

Could she have went there to mock Lin Qinshuang?

I really thank for escorting our Miss on this trip.

Here. This is for your tea.

Can you hear that bitch

shouting?

With her committing such a crime, must our Sheng Family

still invite a doctor for her?

Damned lamb!

Did you come to laugh at me?

Was it Darling Hong who told you to come?

It must be that shrew Wang Ruofu who told you to come, right?

Listen well. Although I got thrown in here,

I'm still the birth mother of the daughter-in-law of a count.

Once my Molan has stably seated herself inside the House of Liang,

I can still return and stably sit in my Linqi Pavilion.

The House of Liang once wanted you as their daughter-in-law.

Too bad, my Mo'er was more skillful than you.

Even if you vomit blood or drip blood

out of envy now, it's of no use!

I've never thought of marrying into the House of Liang.

You didn't want to be married off into the Liang Family?

You did it deliberately.

You deliberately got close with Big Madam Wu?

You deliberately...

You caused us...

caused us to think that you're getting married off into the House of Liang.

This way, Mo'er and I would make a dangerous move of privately meeting Liang Han.

It was you. It was you!

But why?

Why didn't you want to be the main madam of the House of Liang?

Why must you let my Mo'er...

What did you know?

Impossible. How could you know anything?

I'm not afraid!

I'm not afraid.

Even if you sue me in Kaifeng Court, they won't find any evidence against me.

It was she who harmed me. It was she who harmed me first!

It was she who went against me first!

I'm not afraid of anything.

She was bought by that bitch Wang Ruofu

to deal with me.

A woman bought by that bitch Wang Ruofu...

She clearly knew that darling Hong loves me the most, yet she had to keep bearing him children!

After giving birth to a little bitch like you, she even wanted to bear a son to depend on!

Anyone who blocks my path will be kicked away by me!

I'm not afraid!

What really are you scheming against Mo'er?

What are you scheming against Mo'er!

Minglan...

What else...

are you scheming?

Tell me.

What evil plan do you have? Tell me.

Don't go! Come back here!

Sheng Minglan!

Servant!

Help!

Someone wants to harm...

the daughter-in-law of the House of Count Yongchang...

Don't leave. Sheng Minglan!

Grandmother, I especially came to greet you and wish you good health.

I'm currently doing some liuyao divination (T/N "Six Lines" method of trigram reading from the Yijing, fortunes)

but am still unable to decipher your thoughts.

I indeed am hiding something from you.

You're sure that I won't expose you?

Grandmother, I'm thinking that

you are the person who dotes on me the most in this world.

The person who dotes on you the most

has now been manipulated by you.

So lamentable that after raising you for so many years,

I actually got tricked by you,

and still can't bear to expose you.

I have a grand undertaking.

I dared not inform you beforehand.

I also dare not ask for your forgiveness.

Since you couldn't tell me beforehand, but now that things have been done,

say it then.

It's still not the time to say it?

You're now a grown-up and have learned to have bold ideas.

You have learned to beat around the bush with me.

If there is any problem, just directly tell me.

I will solve it for you.

Still not telling me?

Fine. Don't go out of your room these next few days.

Go back to your chamber and think about it well.

Once you've thought it through, come here to tell it to me.

Yes.

This girl...

What really is she planning?

Miss has never left her courtyard by a step these past two days.

She only practices writing or embroiders flowers. When she gets bored, she just strolls around the garden

and tends to her flowers.

She didn't mention Pingling Farmstead?

She didn't. Miss isn't a talkative person to begin with.

She never talks more than what's necessary.

Have you asked Xiaotao?

I did. Xiaotao said

that Miss entered the room

and told her to stay outside.

After a while, Miss came out and took her away. She also doesn't know anything.

That Sixth Girl can really keep her composure.

If it were the others, they would have started panicking after being treated coldly for these past few days.

She's able to remain so calm

and still won't tell it to me.

She has grown up and has her own ideas.

When you attend to her,

keep watch of her more.

If there are any movements or clues, come back to report them to me.

Don't be afraid for her to call you a spy.

You indeed are serving by her side, but I was the one who sent you to her.

Yes.

I'm here to congratulate Big Madam.

I'm here to congratulate Big Madam!

Rulan still has no marriage prospect.

How can I have things to celebrate?

Today, a servant from Pingling Farmstead came back to report that

that woman from Linqi Pavilion has died in prison.

Is that for real?

She got locked up for just two or three days.

How come she's dead?

- Did you hear it incorrectly? - I pulled that messenger aside and asked him repeatedly.

No mistake. It's true.

How did she die? Did he say?

He said that she died from illness.

You didn't even go ask around.

I know your thoughts very well.

I've meticulously asked around.

They said that it's a complication from caning her.

Dongrong was the one who caned her.

Dongrong is the trusted aide of Minister. How could there be something wrong with his caning?

I heard that Dongrong knows a special skill that has been passed down in their family.

Just one caning and he can lacerate your flesh.

A special skill?

His grandfather used to work in the local court.

No wonder when her son almost lost Hua'er's betrothal geese,

he was able to actively jump around in less than two days after being caned.

Could that bitch bear to let her son be caned like that?

I heard that after that bitch suffered lacerations,

the people in the farmstead didn't give her any medical treatment.

Afterwards, the skin became necrotic.

In a few days, she died.

If Master learns about Dongrong's skills.

He surely knows.

This means that bitch suffering this much and dying from it

must be Master's—

Madam, don't be afraid.

Master must have been so mad.

That bitch indulged her daughter excessively.

If not because Old Madam came out to help, all the children in this family would have suffered.

Master must be so angry at her.

The Minister isn't only angry at her for tainting the reputation of our family,

he also hates her for deceiving him for so many years.

He also hates her for not continuing her lies,

when she had already deceived him.

Hates her for saying the truth

when she was about to achieve success.

Madam, I'll go warm you some yanggao wine (T/N "Little Lamb" wine)

to warm your body.

Informing Old Madam, Concubine Lin has died.

When did it happen? How did she die?

She was discovered this morning.

When the person delivering her food went in and touched her, she was already very cold.

They said that she was already sick when brought in there.

She was spouting so much rubbish. She must have died from her illness.

We and her family are not really old acquaintances,

but her family claimed to have one. When their family fell, they just handed her to me.

That person Lin Qinshuang

could pretend to be confused and ignorant

even if she had so many ideas in her head.

Having an ending like this...

How many troubles has she caused our family?

We still don't even know if she committed murder.

Old Madam, you've already been extremely benevolent with her.

Murder?

It was that.

- So, it was like that. - What do you mean?

Sixth Miss is here to greet you!

Miss, quickly come in. We have newly-brewed tea prepared.

[ Testimony ]

[ Liu Xiaodie]

I'm here to ask for punishment for my crime.

You went to Pingling Farmstead

to do this?

Grandmother, you already know?

I'm still not old and demented.

You all stop what you're doing.

- Something is happening here today, so you all do your work first outside. - Yes. Yes.

- Tell the people outside that if there's nothing important, don't come in here. - Yes.

Lin Qinshuang killed my mother, destroyed the evidence, and was able to evade the law.

Now, I've finally found the witnesses from that time

and obtained their testimonies.

However, Father was unwilling to allow this scandalous incident see light again.

I had no choice but to set up a plan

and let Mistress Lin walk into it.

That mother and daughter were greedy for vanity. They willing degraded themselves and did such a scandalous act.

How could it be something that you could plan?

It was I.

At first, I just wanted to anger Fourth Sister and force her to commit a mistake.

This way, Mistress Lin would defend her like she used to and commit a mistake with her.

But when Fourth Sister saw me being close with the Liang family,

she became very jealous and repeatedly berated me in anger.

I then realized that there was actually this another path that I could take.

Hence, I tried to get closer with the House of Liang

to anger Fourth Sister. Forced her to almost damage my face.

But I never thought that Father still chose not to punish Mistress Lin.

It was I. I've longed known that Liang Han and Fourth Sister were having an affair.

I just watched as they stepped deeply into the mud. (T/N got themselves in trouble)

It was also I...

who hinted that Big Madam should go to Yuqing Monastery...

and find out about their secret affair.

Are you muddled?

Is this something that an unmarried rich daughter like you can do!

With such a complicated and twisted scheme,

just one wrong move and you could have ruined your reputation!

Your life would be over!

Did you thought about that?

I did.

But the grudge for my mother's death was absolutely irreconcilable!

What are appearance, reputation, or marriage?

All those are nothing!

Concubine Lin Qinshuang killed my mother.

One corpse, two lives.

Now that she's dead, she deserves it!

Even if I had died, I would climb up from my grave to seek vengeance!

You usually looked so obedient and docile, always stooping to compromise.

Is that all just an act?

The heavens and earth can be my witness

that my respect and love for you are all true.

It's just that... after I've done such a thing,

I know that I deserve to be punished with death.

May Grandmother punish me.

It's my fault... my fault.

I didn't seek justice for you.

I allowed you to do such a dangerous thing by yourself.

Grandmother, I don't regret it.

It was I who wronged you.

I've been lying to you.

Hit me.

Sorry, Grandmother.

Does it hurt?

It doesn't.

Do any of the servants in your courtyard

know the truth?

I dared not leak any of it.

I was afraid that it would alarm the enemy.

Okay. That's good then. Other than the two of us,

no one else must know about this matter.

Let's just treat that it has never happened.

Just let this matter...

pass like that.

Move aside!

Move aside!

Move aside! The Emperor's army achieved great victory! They've defeated the rebel army!

Good!

Brother Bai! Oh wait, I should be calling you Officer Bai now. (T/N Second Master Gu Tingye's alias of "Bai Ye")

Behind closed doors, it's better to call me "brother". Saying "officer" feels like we're strangers.

I wouldn't dare go to your house next time!

What are you saying? The gates of our house are always open for you.

There will always be good food and tea waiting for you whenever you come.

Don't glare at me once I've eaten all your family's rice!

After fighting in the south for several months, there are actually so many newcomers here now.

Young Master.

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T/N In the following song, "Don't You Know, Don't You Know?", Lines 5 to the end are the poem by Li Qingzhao, a famous female poet of the Song Dynasty, the poem is titled "Spring Ends".

♫ One morning, a flower opened and approached a willow tree, beautifully fragrant and mistaking him for her lord ♫

♫ Even if drinking in water in the morning, red clouds have half a day of sunshine, the wind and rain do not affect them completely ♫

♫ In the palace, you are constantly brave and growing thin, from on high, your cold tears of distress flow ♫

♫ Brocade letters delivered to me dismiss me, only suddenly to recall me,

not for many years can I see you other than stealthily♫

♫ Last night, gusty winds and rain during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect ♫

♫ When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before. ♫

♫ Don't you know, don't you know, there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers? ♫

♫ Last night, gusty winds and rain during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect ♫

♫ When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before. ♫

♫ Don't you know, don't you know, there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers? ♫

♫ Don't you know, don't you know, there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers? ♫