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The Story of Ming Lan

Episode 50

What's the use of you standing there?

Does it hurt?

I'm saying nonsense.

You... does it hurt?

I was too muddled.

I... also do know her personality,

but I didn't even have her body searched.

How is this your fault?

That woman Manniang is good in everything, except that she is bearing evil intentions.

She's like a crazy person when she does things.

If she wants to do any evil, you can't guard against her.

She said that Chang'er is dead.

I heard.

I don't believe it.

I don't. That evil woman has never said any truth to me!

I already said earlier

that he can't come in the day after tomorrow.

No matter how many days more, he also can't come.

It's all because of a ruthless and dumb man like you.

You drove me away.

You kicked me out.

Those few money I have

would never last for long!

First, he got sick.

I invited so many doctors, but it didn't work.

He died in my arms!

It was all because of you!

You cruel father!

Servant! Bring the torture equipment!

Yes!

When you married this woman,

when you became the marquis,

when you were showing off your prestige...

... here in Bianjing City,

your son...

... has already been buried.

Rainwater and snow have already soaked him.

Rats and bugs have gnawed on him.

- Get me the torture equipment! - They're getting it, Marquis!

It's you! You are devoid of conscience!

Gu Tingye, you are devoid of conscience! You kicked me out!

It's all because you drove me out of the house!

With her delicate appearance, a few floggings might kill her.

You then won't be able to learn about the whereabouts of Chang'er.

Look at her. She's like a crazy woman.

Wrong, she's indeed crazy.

If I don't use any torture, what can I get from her?

I saw it.

But she... isn't afraid of any torture or execution right now.

She now feels that the whole world has wronged and framed her.

Whatever she promises you now might be broken by her tomorrow. She's not trustworthy at all.

You still think that torturing her can get anything?

If I don't torture her, am I going to even provide for her?

Before, you kept looking for her, but end up with nothing.

Even when you posted an official missing person notice, you didn't find her.

How come she suddenly charged in here this morning

and that person from next door was even coincidentally here.

She saw us take her into our manor.

So what if she saw it?!

You think I'm still afraid of them?

But Manniang is an ordinary citizen.

You bought her out of the slave status and burned her slave contract.

Officially, she's now an ordinary citizen.

This morning, a whole person entered our manor. If she's hurt,

the adjacent house will surely come to visit

and insist on enforcing justice.

What justice does she still want?

A third rank government high official like me

was attempted to be assassinated by her. In court, I even am the one to be seeking justice.

Even if she committed a crime, she had to be tried by the court.

We can't take the law into our hands and do the torture here in our house.

What's worse is His Majesty's throne is still not completely stable.

Empress Dowager is peeking everywhere.

If you make any more flaws

and the other party grabs hold of it,

this matter won't be just our private matter anymore.

Assassinating a high official of the government

is a crime that should be punished by immediate execution.

Isn't she afraid at all?

Don't. You must not. Executions must be documented.

If it gets dug out by people with evil intentions in the future,

this... what about the marriage of Rong'er?

You mustn't destroy the future of Rong'er

just by a moment of rashness.

Looks like I can't do anything with that evil woman anymore.

I can't just watch as Chang'er gets destroyed in her hands!

Maybe, there's another way to ask her.

If torturing can't get her to talk, what other way can I come up with?

Since we can't ask her, let's change to ask another person.

Husband, look, does this look like her?

It does. It's as if she's standing right in front of you.

I'll then draw 7 or 8 more based on this drawing.

Why must you draw it by yourself?

Call for the secretary or some more helper to draw it for you.

Don't know how many spies there is in our manor.

The lesser people knowing private matters like this, the better.

If you pity me, just lose to me for two rounds in our touhu games.

I'll lose to you forever.

Boss, have you seen this person?

I saw her a few days ago. She went to look for a man from Yangzhou who's selling incenses.

- Who are you?! - Let's go!

Who are you people?!

Help!

Help! Help!

When Manniang left, she got tracked by the Bai Family.

She couldn't resist the good life being offered to her by the Bai Family.

Hence, she colluded with them.

They had her come to Bianjing,

stay by my side, and find a chance to kill me.

This way, with you having no son,

Chang'er will become the only heir.

By that time, they can control Chang'er like a puppet.

They promised Manniang that they would only take 1 to 2 tenths of my assets.

Manniang is greedy, hence, she agreed to kill me.

You wrote a will before to delegate your heir.

They don't know that it's blank.

What's the use of killing you?

That's why, they colluded from both inside and outside my house,

and made a connection with that one in the adjacent house.

The Bai Family wants to let that stepmother intervene

once I die and invite our clan elders

to void the legality of that blank will of mine.

They then can fully support Chang'er as my only heir.

As a condition,

the Bai Family said that Chang'er is still young,

hence, unable to serve the government.

Therefore, it should be my third younger brother, Tingwei,

who would inherit the marquis title.

Just for a marquis title and assets, they've attempted to assassinate a high officials of the imperial court.

This is... a major crime that is punishable by beheading.

How could they have dared?

But this matter

isn't a bad thing. It's a good news.

How is it good?

At the very least, I know that

Chang'er is part of their plan.

It then means that he's still alive.

Go!

[ Bai ]

Slowly. Slowly. Okay. Slow down.

Get on the boat! Hurry!

Move! Hurry!

- What sound is that? - Hurry!

I'll go take a look.

What are you people doing?!

Move! Move!

My ship is full of salt.

Adding all up can get you 3,000 to 5,000 taels of silver.

I'll give them all to you, okay?

Hurry! Move!

You are not here to steal the salt?

Older Brother! Older Brother!

That little bastard Gu Tingye...

You are Gu Tingye's people?

He wants his son!

Oldest Brother! Oldest Brother!

You...

That shrew was the one keeping the child! We never saw him!

- Second! - We never saw him!

- Save! - Save my older brother!

- Older Brother! - Save me! Help!

- You... Save him! - Save me!

Here. One more time.

Stabilize your hand.

Shoot.

One more time.

Marquis, news from Yangzhou.

Rong'er, here.

How did it go?

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How are things going?

The Bai Family also don't have any news about Chang'er.

I can't let Chang'er be like me,

clearly having a father

but living like he has none. I must find him.

Is younger brother still not found?

I surely will find him.

Father, I'll go beg mother. She dotes on me the most.

She surely will tell me where little brother is.

She's now sick.

You're still little. You mustn't get infected by her.

Once she's better and your little brother is back.

I'll take you to see her.

Father, I know that mother isn't sick.

It's late. Go to sleep.

Be obedient and just sleep.

Maybe, your mother will tell me

Chang'er's whereabouts by tomorrow.

When you wake up, you'll be able to see your little brother already.

Okay?

Come, quickly go to sleep.

Be good and just sleep.

I... .will take you to watch the lanterns next time.

Miss Rong, why did you come here?

This place is wretched. Quickly go back.

My father told me to come here and ask some questions.

You're the one doing the interrogation?

Quickly open the door.

Mother.

Mother.

Leave! Why did you come here?

Mother!

Mother.

Don't call me mother.

While I was suffering outside,

you had quite a luxurious life in this house.

You now have a marquis father and a legitimate mother.

With such enormous wealth and splendor,

why will you still want me?!

Mother, I'll leave with you.

I'm fine even if it's to live in the mountains or in rural villages.

I want to be with you and little brother.

I'm not greedy for wealth and splendor.

Mother!

Why leave?

Just be obedient and stay here!

I want that bitch to see you.

Whenever she sees you, she'll think of me!

She'll then remember that you are not her daughter, but mine!

She then won't be able to keep that virtuous noble lady act of hers.

Mother, where is little brother? Let me see him.

He's dead.

When you were enjoying the wealth and splendor

in this huge mansion,

when you wear those gold and silver with you,

when you were taking in delicious and exotic food and drinks,

he died.

Mother, I'm afraid.

You want to see him, is that it?

Go to hell to see him!

I'll let you go to hell to see him!

Just meet him in hell! You hear me?!

Go to hell...

... and meet him there!

Go to hell!

Let go of me! You go...

Pull her away! Rong'er!

Rong'er! Rong'er!

You...

Don't! Don't use force, husband!

Quickly take the child back

and let her rest.

Do it slowly. She's traumatized.

Tie her up! Send her to the official court tomorrow to be tried for her crimes!

You kept saying that you're seeking revenge for Chang'er.

Do you really love him

or is just using him as a tool?!

I'm the person who dotes on him the most in this world.

What does a bitch like you know?!

Marquis clearly loves the two children a lot.

Even if Chang'er's status then wasn't legalized,

he's still is considered an eldest illegitimate child.

If not because you secretly took him away,

he would have been like Rong'er right now,

being raised in a luxurious manner inside the marquis manor.

In the future, his studies, martial arts training, food and clothing,

ranking in the civil examination would surely be among the top in this empire.

But you took him away and treated him like a tool

to achieve your goal. You even used him to threaten the marquis.

Marquis has been searching for him for so many years.

You hid him so tightly,

that you didn't even invite any teacher for him.

You even claimed that you love him?

You think all the people in this world are blind?

I'm the person who dotes on him the most in this world.

What do you know?!

He also loves me the most!

That brute Gu Tingye!

In my son's eyes, he's nothing!

Tell me where Chang'er is.

I'm swearing by my dead mother's soul that I will never treat him unfairly.

You little bitch...

When we were in the Yu Manor,

you scolded me to the extreme.

Now, you got married into the Gu Family,

and living a happy life.

You think when the Yu Family learns of this,

will they hate you?

When my Little Mother was still alive, she told me

that if parents love their children,

they must plan for their future.

If you really love Chang'er,

think about his life 10 years from now,

20 years from now.

Do you really want him to keep wandering with you?

Or, it's better to let him settle down and be nurtured in the marquis manor?

Go to hell to look for him then!

The past affairs of life is like a river flowing away.

In the end, everything will just be like a dream and disappear.

I can only get drunk to get back to the flat roads of my homeland.

Other than that, where else can I go?

It's good for girls to learn more.

But how come you had her learn that kind of poem?

That kind of poem sounds ominous in the morning.

Doesn't it become depressing when you hear it at night?

Xian'er, recite something happier.

Mother-in-law, if you didn't like it,

let's change to a poem by Scholar Su then.

Xian'er.

You all just have fun together for a while.

I'm a bit tired now and will go back first to rest.

Mother, take care.

A major event happened in that house.

Earlier, don't know why Rong'er

suddenly went into the room where that lowly woman was being detained.

She almost got choked to death by her.

What?

Madam, don't panic.

She didn't really die and was saved.

I never saw a mother who's like that.

How did Gu Tingye handle that mistress?

Did he kill or beat her up?

He didn't do anything at all.

He didn't do anything at all?

It doesn't fit his temper.

That illegitimate daughter from the Sheng Family

saw that Second Young Master's face has drastically changed. She immediately pulled Rong'er away

and had him leave.

That illegitimate daughter from a small and low status family

have always been cautious all her life.

With her around,

I fear that Second will never commit any grave mistake.

Then... that evil woman will be of no use then.

A member of the Yu Family vomited blood out from anger because of her.

She was also a woman that Second once slept with.

Letting her stay for a day and she'll surely cause trouble for a day.

Let's just watch

how Second will clean this mess.

Even if she's lying

and indeed hid the child away and won't let anyone see him,

tell me...

Tell me, where can she hide the child?

In her province?

Right. A place where there are humans.

It must be a place where there are humans.

This child...

... must eat and drink. Hence, someone must take care of him.

He's not that free and unrestrained. Someone must take care of him.

Danju. Tell me, if you have a child,

who will you entrust to take care of him?

Then, of course, it must be someone that I trust the most.

Old Madam, or you.

Must find a person that one trusts the most.

Who then is the person that Manniang trusts the most?

Parents, siblings?

That's right!

Brother. A man raising a child

would be more eye-catching than a woman raising a child.

Right. Shitou indeed told me that she has an older brother.

Shitou tells you everything?

He even bought me fried cherry from the Nanbei Store.

Shitou. Tie Manniang up.

Take her to the Kaifeng Precinct Office.

Say that she colluded with outsiders to attempt to assassinate a current high official of the government.

Yes.

Husband.

Husband.

Darling Second.

Husband, I thought about it all night.

What's most important now is Chang'er's whereabouts.

The Zhu Manniang now is so tight-lipped.

We also can't torture here to threaten her,

so the people in the adjacent house can't find any weakness to use

and bring you trouble. You said to send her to the local court.

Let's not talk about first if the local officials can get anything from her.

Just caning her twice

and she might already die.

No one will know about the whereabouts of Chang'er then.

In my opinion, why don't we just let her go?

Nonsense! It's not easy for those Yangzhou people

to send her to me.

If I let her go, when can I catch her again?

Zhu Manniang is now like a tofu with dust falling on it. ( being kept in one area for too long )

You can't beat or hit her.

It's also easy for trouble to happen if we keep her here.

Anytime soon, those people in the adjacent house might come to see her.

Just let her out.

When you let a mother wolf out, she will eventually be worried about her pups.

She would then try to check on them.

You're right.

As long as we monitor her tightly, follow the vines to the fruit,

we might find him.

If Manniang

left her child to someone else to be raised,

she surely won't just give it to any outsiders.

At most, she left it with her older brother.

That older brother of her raising a child

would surely make all sort of excuses and not put his heart on it.

Would Zhu Manniang be at ease? She surely will go check every so often.

However, if she keeps staying here in Bianjing,

what then?

- You are really a good daughter of your mother! - Hey, quickly put me down!

You've read the "Strategies of the Warring States" or even military strategy books.

Quickly put me down.

Wife, let us walk into this

thicket of thorny shrubs together hand in hand.

What are you doing?

Men, remove her jewelries,

and search her body cleanly!

Don't leave her with even a cent!

What do you mean? Are you going to kill me?

Help! Help! Wait a minute!

Our Marquis gave orders that you can go wherever you want,

except here in the capital. If you stay here,

even if you become a beggar to seek alms, no one would spare you a cent.

Quickly leave!

What does this mean? What does he mean by this?!

- He is unfaithful and fickle! - Leave.

He killed my child and just escaping like that?

I'll let him pay with his life, do you know that?!

- Leave! Leave! Stop cursing! - He'll pay with his life!

Gu Tingye! You dallied with me and just abandoned me!

Gu Tingye, you're unfaithful and fickle!

She drove her out of the house?

- Yes. - Was she hurt in anyway?

No. The people who expelled her didn't hit her at all.

My people by the side saw it very well. She didn't suffer even a scratch.

She was also a woman not to be belittled with.

She was able to foil the two marriage talks with the Yu family, but she's now out of methods?

That woman said that she's going to report it to the officials.

But Madam Sheng said that she can go file a case now.

By that time, when young master removes his clothes and have them check his wound,

let's see who'll get beheaded.

I've spoiled him to the point that he isn't afraid of anything.

This time, he actually was so careful.

I couldn't find any mistakes at all.

That woman strangled Miss Rong yesterday.

The guard said that Second Young Master was so angry that his whole body was trembling.

He also said that he'll send her to the local officials.

But this morning, after eating breakfast with his Sheng wife,

he suddenly changed his mind.

He only said to expel the woman and that's the end of it.

Did you send people to follow her?

I've already had them follow her.

Those two people...

One is rash, the other very calm.

One attacks, one defends.

If we don't break them apart,

how are we going to kill them thoroughly?

Miss, you want one?

You, you are... ?

I entered the capital to look for my relative, but my money got stolen.

Uncle, can you be kind and give me one?

You have no money?

Go! Go! Leave!

Uncle! Please pity me and just give me one piece.

Miss, I'm doing business here.

Leave! Leave!

Say, Miss, you didn't pay!

You can't eat!

If you don't give me back the bun, Miss...

This... Miss, you are...

Release her! Give that to me!

I begged for that! I begged for that!

- Leave! - I begged for that!

- Leave the capital! Leave! - Come here!

- I begged for that! - Get lost!

What are you doing? What are you doing?!

Lackey! So what if he's the marquis?

Just because he's a marquis, he thinks he's amazing?!

Lackeys! Bitches!

You two have been driving me away for a day!

They want to kill me! They want to kill me!

Leave the capital! You can then go wherever you want!

As long as you leave the capital, then no one will trouble you anymore! Leave!

Leave! Leave!

Just hold her back a little. Leave! All of you, disperse!

Disperse! Leave! Leave!

- Leave. Leave. - I just ask to borrow your fire wood room for a place to stay for the night.

I'll wash your bowls and wipe your tables. I just ask to have a place to stay for the night.

Don't affect my business.

Mister!

Mister! I can even sing.

Okay then. What song can you sing?

♫ Brilliant purple... ♫

Owner Zhou, he's a woman who has committed a crime.

Our superior isn't allowing her to stay here in the capital. Please tell the other shops about it.

Yes. Yes.

Leave!

- Get lost! - Leave!

Get lost!

Let me tell you that you can go anywhere once you leave the capital.

But if you stay in the capital for a day,

I guarantee you that you won't get to eat even a grain of rice or sleep on any bed. Leave!

Leave!

- I won't leave! - Leave! Leave!

- You want to peacefully kick me out?! - Leave!

Let me tell you, no way!

- Leave! Leave! - Let me tell you, no way!

Quickly leave!

- Who do you think you are?! - You...

Quickly leave!

A newly appointed official of the current government,

Deputy Commander of the Dianqian (in front of the palace) Troop Gu Tingye...

Gu Tingye...

- Quickly leave! - ... is unfaithful and fickle.

- He dallied with me and abandoned me! - Quickly leave!

He caused the death of his own son!

- Quickly leave... - Get lost!

- Leave. - Gu Tingye!

I'm talking about Gu Tingye!

Get lost! The currently highly favored official, Gu Tingye,

- dallied with me and abandoned me! He's unfaithful and fickle! - Leave. Leave. Quickly leave.

That woman is really a demonic star.

She even could come up with a trick like that.

She's selling her miseries to taint other people's reputation. Throwing a sprat to catch a herring.

If that son of mine send people to drive her away now,

it will look like he's guilty of something.

If he asks someone to refute her,

people would instead think that there is indeed such a thing.

If he really confronts her in the local court,

who would care about a woman in the streets like her?

Everyone just want to watch and laugh at

the embarrassing moment of this new highly favored marquis.

However you look at it, this trick

is highly beneficial to this woman

without any harm done to her.

But towards my son,

it's highly harmful and not beneficial at all.

She can really come up with a trick like that.

Grand Madam, you've been living deep within the inner courtyard of your mansion.

You surely wouldn't have heard of a lowly and despicable method like this.

Don't let the patrol guards foil her plan.

Don't your man still have his men outside?

Go help her out.

Yes.

The flowers in this garden this year

are really blooming so well.

That's right.

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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? ♫