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The Story of Ming Lan

Episode 73 - FINAL EPISODE

Quickly, shot that side!

Quickly attack! Hurry!

The front gates can't be blocked any longer.

Hurry, Second Tu, take Madam to withdraw from the back gates! I'll take care of your rear! Hurry!

Madam, quickly leave!

Madam, quickly leave!

Why did you come so late?!

You... why did you come so late?!

I've let you suffer.

Why did you come so late?

Making such a huge scene...

Is it fun?

You...

Fun your ass!

Yes, I came late.

I've caused you to suffer.

Marquis Gu is back!

Marquis Gu isn't dead! Marquis Gu is back!

You... If you dare lie to me again,

I'll then... write you a divorce letter.

I dare not. I dare not.

I dare not lie to you even by a word again.

You even say that I'm a fox. You're the ancestor of the fox!

I am. I am indeed your ancestor.

Your ancestor!

Your fox ancestor can't stay here any longer.

I must go to the palace to save the emperor.

I'll wait for your return.

I'll wait for your return.

Jingli!

Guard the courtyard well! Ensure my wife's safety!

Yes, Marquis, don't worry.

Take good care of her.

Back!

Storm!

Back!

Empress Dowager isn't coming anymore?

Empress Dowager told me to relay this message as she said it.

She said that you can decide on your own.

An old widow like her will agree to any of it.

Okay. Okay. It means that Empress Dowager

is letting you handle the empire. This is a good thing.

We have a problem!

Sir!

- Sir! - What is it?

Gu... Gu Tingye is charging towards here!

Who?!

Gu Tingye has resurrected!

Charge!

Hurry.

Shitou!

Marquis is back!

- Marquis is back?! - Rong'er, come quickly!

Marquis is back!

- It's a reunion! Quickly go! Hurry! - It's a reunion!

Get out. Be careful. Nanny.

Your Majesty.

Royal Father.

Arrest him!

You...

You...

You all...

You are the trusted aide of the former emperor.

I initially hoped that you would treat me like how you served the former emperor.

You disappointed me.

You're not the former emperor.

The former emperor is so pitiful.

How come he didn't have any children of his own

- to inherit this empire? - What's going on?

Weren't you supposed to be dead within those pile of sand?!

You wish.

Empress Dowager... She said that...

- She said that— - Empress Dowager said

that I am immoral and incapable. I should be deposed and replaced.

The one replacing me is your son, Zhao Yong.

Yong'er... he is also your son.

Did Empress Dowager say even a word of those to you?

She said so!

She said that you broke faith and abandon the right! That you disobeyed the former emperor!

Since it was Empress Dowager who instigated you,

let's go ask her then.

If she didn't say it, my Noble Consort,

this is a crime worthy of clan execution.

Empress Dowager said it. She said it!

She indeed said it!

- She said it! I dare not lie! - Your Highness!

Empress Dowager indeed said so!

Your Highness!

I won't meddle in your family matters anymore.

- My courtyard suffered a lot of damages. I must go handle it now. - Your Highness, save me!

Go.

Get me my Drunk Immortal wine.

Quickly go.

Your Highness,

even if he holds a knife on your neck,

there's still a chance to survive.

Moreover, it still hasn't reached that last moment.

To have the power to rule the world,

you must have an army and money.

I don't have both.

I was stupid to think

that just by sending away the trusted aides and fighting generals of the emperor,

and then winning over some old supporters of the former emperor to my side,

and putting the brother-in-law of Noble Consort Liu

as leader of the Jin Imperial Army, I then can put my everything to fight them.

Now, I've fallen into their trap.

They all have set up everything beforehand.

How can I still have a chance to survive?

Your Highness.

Your Highness, as the empress dowager, you naturally have the power to depose and install a new emperor.

Emperor, he... dare not hurt you.

Did you not prepare the Drunk Immortal for me?

Your Highness has never predicted things wrongly.

Why would you need to use the Drunk Immortal?

I know that you care for me.

But without such a good poison,

I fear that I won't be able to preserve a whole corpse.

Your Highness Empress Dowager, you're wrong.

Your Highness, do you hate His Majesty that much,

that you must have him killed?

Yes.

He was adopted by the former emperor

for him to be qualified to inherit the throne.

But after ascending to the throne, he called his birth father as Royal Father.

Despicable and shameless.

Let me ask you, is there any son in this world who has two fathers?

In what position have you put the former emperor by doing that?!

The former emperor has a very benevolent and generous character.

He maintained the empire's peace for more than 30 years.

Upon ascending to the throne, you immediately disobeyed his will.

You recruited soldiers and horses. Intending to

provoke our borders.

I was married with the former emperor for more than 50 years!

The former emperor has just died in less than a year!

I had to watch as you

destroy the situation he established into broken bits.

Can't I hate him then?!

Hence,

Empress Dowager, you want to depose me?

Have I said those words?

I've never heard of it. But I did tell Noble Consort Liu

to be careful of what's under her feet.

Then it means, the one who wants to depose the emperor

is Noble Consort Liu.

I indeed is preparing to fight a war.

It's just that right now, there are now battle in our borders.

What?

What you saw is just part of a scheme.

Eunuch Li has stayed by my side

and would tell you everything that's happening.

You refused to withdraw from power.

You even controlled the jade seal.

I attended morning courts like a three year-old child, unable to entertain my grand ambitions.

From the start...

From the very start, Marquis Gu

pretended to be be overbearing.

You also pretended to doubt him.

Marquis Gu was in straitened circumstances, yet he was able to survive it, why is that?

Because he might look very rough and careless, but in reality, is the most meticulous person I know.

As for Prince Huan, for such an ambitious good child,

I am very satisfied with him.

You let Eunuch Li and Noble Consort Liu

exchange fake information in between.

Confusing my sight and hearing.

You made me falsely believe that you were doubting your eldest son and valiant general.

So, you also don't have a headache?

That is to make you and Noble Consort Liu think that I won't be living long.

That Prince Huan would soon be inheriting the throne, hence, you all must make a move quickly.

The government has so many problems right now.

I really don't have the time to continue this act for 7 to 8 more years.

The prey has already reached the side of the trap.

You just need to push it a little, and it will fall into your net.

Hence, there wasn't also any fighting happening in the borders.

I dispatched my elite forces

and had Marquis Gu and General Shen lead them to lie in wait outside the city.

Just to fool your eyes and ears,

Duke Ying of the State indeed went to the borders.

After setting up camp in the borders,

I waited after your spies sent out its last message,

and then captured all of them.

I've always thought that you're not qualified to be an emperor.

But today, you actually planned it in such meticulous manner.

You impressed me a lot.

I weaved a web.

But if you didn't bump into it,

this act would have been useless.

However, in the end, you still collided into it.

I...

I feel so sad about it.

Your Majesty had a resounding victory.

Why bother being pretentious.

Whether it's through poisoned wine,

or a white cloth for hanging,

just choose one.

Empress Dowager,

we became mother and son at such late age.

We surely wouldn't have the relationship of a real mother-and-child.

You couldn't be at ease with me, I also worry about you.

We are like mutually fumbling each other in the dark.

Doubting each other.

We both committed a mistake.

So it means,

I should be thanking you

and should be writing a confession decree then.

Your Majesty, just hopes that Your Highness

can move outside the palace to live.

You...

... are not executing me?

I wanted to unify my power,

not really to fight with you.

It's just that the children have long made calculations

for this undertaking of our ancestors, for the whole empire.

You... You entered my palace wearing an armor.

Did you come to kill me?

Grandmother, the government now is flourishing and we're receiving abundant revenues.

All of these the achievements of the former emperor's 30 years of doing every effort to make the country prosperous.

That's why, we're able to use a mutual trading market to control our borders.

But people can never have good days forever. A flower can never be red forever.

If the government show any decline, the people at our borders will immediately attack.

If at that time, the 16 regions of Yanyun are still in their hands,

our empire will then just be at their mercy.

Hence, I want to use this great opportunity to take back our lost cities.

Recreate the defense of our borders and give our empire a place to raise horses,

a place where we can guard our cities.

After seeing him,

I finally felt how old I really am.

It is indeed time to go out the city to retire.

Be careful.

- Have you added water in the jars above? - We did. We did.

How come the activities outside

is diminishing?

Maybe, Empress Dowager has stabilized the situation.

The activities then won't be as huge as earlier anymore.

That team who went to the adjacent courtyard

to capture the family of an official

is also not making anymore noises.

Then, it must be after capturing that concubine daughter,

they've already returned to the palace to report the completion of their mission.

They didn't really capture our people.

Why then would they give us any feedback?

Yes.

- Mother! Mother! - Right.

- Mother! - Third Young Master.

Second Brother isn't dead. He's not dead!

What?

I went out to help put out the fire earlier. I heard people saying that they saw him and State Uncle Shen

going into the palace to put out the fire and pacify the rebellion.

Big Madam.

There are no war in the borders.

They didn't go far.

- Right. - There really wasn't any revolt in the borders!

- Mo-mother. - Grand Madam.

Mother, you...

No, mother.

Big Madam.

You scoundrel!

You're not good in either literary or fighting skills.

I tried planning your entire future,

yet you're a person that can never be successful!

There House of Bai,

a lowly family like that,

was able to produce a son like Gu Tingye.

My House of Dongchuang, which was an illustrious and aristocratic family,

instead give birth to someone like you.

You're my son! My son!

I spent all my blood and sweat for your sake!

Son!

Grand Madam! Grand Madam!

Mother, mother, I also told you that Second Brother is a great man.

It wasn't me who told you to go against him.

Moreover, I didn't ask you to plan anything for me.

Third Young Master, talk less.

Servant!

Tie up this rotten mud

that won't stick on the wall! (inept person)

- Grand Madam. - Mother, you're really going to cane me?

Servant! Tie him up!

- Grand Madam, you mustn't do so! Grand Madam! - Mother!

I'll...

I'll throw him into this well!

Right! You go reflect.

Go reflect on how stupid you are!

- Grand Madam! - Mother!

Servants!

Tie him up!

- You mustn't! - Mother, are you crazy?

You... are going to push me down the well? Are you trying to kill me, mother?

- Throw him down! - You dare?!

Although that's a dried up well, it's quite deep.

Third Young Master might get gravely injured from the fall.

He's a person of the House of Gu.

Whether he gets badly injured from the fall has nothing to do with me.

Mother! Mother!

Nanny Xiang! Nanny Xiang!

- Big Madam! - His surname is Gu!

But... he's your real born, Grand Madam!

This mustn't be done! You mustn't do this! Third Young Master!

Third Young Master!

Luscious branches of the same roots.

Affection like that of real brothers.

Filial piety and fraternal duty. Be loyal and contribute achievements to the world and the palace.

Maintain the clan shade forever!

Here. It's originally a dried up well that we were just too lazy to seal.

I'm unable to move this rock.

- Shitou! - Yes.

Come.

Third Young Master!

Second Brother, save me and get me out of here!

Third Young Master! Third Young Master!

- Third Young Master! - Tingwei.

Second Brother, I thought I would never see you again.

Are you alright?

- Does it hurt? - It's so painful!

So useless.

Second Young Master.

That ancestral hall...

Shitou, weren't all the enemies already been cleared? How come there's still fire over there?

Grand Madam... She went towards the direction of the ancestral hall!

Mother...

Second Young Master.

Third Young Master.

- Slow down. Slow down. Third Young Master. - Mother!

Mother!

- Mother! Mother! - You...

Mother, come out here!

- Tingwei! - Shitou! Get back! Get back!

I told you to reflect on your actions! Why did you come out on your own?!

Gu Tingye!

You're still alive.

You're the one who should be going to the southern opera to perform!

This marquis manor is a blood sucking nest of devils!

My older sister was a very kind person!

Mother!

Second Brother has allowed me to inherit the marquis title tomorrow!

Just for self preservation,

they married a lady from the House of Bai!

Even bearing a child with him!

Just pushing her back to the back of his mind!

You destroyed the House of Bai, destroyed my older sister,

and now want to destroy me!

I'll inherit the marquis title tomorrow! Come out!

I acted all my life in this huge mansion.

I'm like a maggot in a sewer!

I didn't live like myself for just a day...

Mother-in-law! Mother-in-law, don't be narrow minded! Come out here!

- Come back here, Third Young Master! - Mother! Mother!

It would have been more satisfying to have just lived in a brothel!

Miss!

At this moment, I'm going to return to being me.

Miss!

[ Gu Family Ancestral Hall ]

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- Kill them! - Father!

Father! Father!

Kill him! Kill him! Kill them!

- Father! - Kill them!

Beat him to death!

Busy in harvesting grains,

and planting the seedlings.

After all, there are less years of good harvest, and more years of bad ones.

The hardships of a farmer is unavoidable.

Your Majesty.

You're here.

Extend your hands.

Look. Here.

Your Majesty, think about it. You're granting me such a little bit only

and already driving me away. Aren't you being too petty?

You macaque is being too mischievous.

This can feed everyone a full meal.

It's the world's greatest treasure.

Yes.

Come. Come. Let me taste it.

A treasure!

Little Yong'er, come.

Let us play with this. Come here.

Look at what this is.

Come to grandmother. Here, for you.

That... Don't touch that. Quickly come over here.

Your Highness, His Majesty sent you some newly harvested wheat.

It's already the season to harvest wheat?

Yes.

It's the season to harvest wheat.

Your Highness, His Majesty asked me

if your health has been good lately.

He asked if you're eating properly.

He heard that you want to eat some iced curdled milk,

so he especially had some sent here. I've already ordered the kitchen to prepare them.

He's really considerate.

Sweet.

The wheat this year is larger than last year.

It's also sweeter than last year.

It's getting better every year.

We should just follow the mandate of the heaven.

Your Highness, I wish you great health!

Yong'er, come! Come to my side! Come!

Come here to play!

Quickly throw him here.

Come.

You're very good.

I'm not.

I'm not good at all.

Since I was little,

my family has hoped that I'll achieve something.

My parents

doted me so much.

They exerted all efforts and exhausted all intellect for my sake.

Hence, even though I admire Second Brother a lot,

but...

I... can't really go all out like him,

even to the point of putting my family on the line.

If you don't want to talk, then let's not talk.

Thank you.

Thank you for trusting me. Trusting that I don't have any ill-intention.

I believe you are an honest man.

Just a few nonsensical words and deceived over.

And acting like nothing's happened.

That's not something you've ever done.

What's happened?

That day when I went to go rescue the fire, under the blaze,

I saw Second Uncle and Sixth Sister.

So loving and I suddenly understood.

Understand what?

I understood why Second Uncle said,

that I will have a different world.

And you are that world.

Let us live our lives well from now on.

What I owe you before.

I will amend them all.

But you're wrong.

You never owed me.

No matter the ups and downs of the capital.

Let us live well.

So you mean, you knew about this all along from the start?

How can they let me know it all? They fooled me from the start.

Just that later, when I fainted at the grievance drum,

the empress was worried that I really suffered too much heartache after giving birth,

so she escorted me into the palace to tell me the truth.

If you want your beloved husband to be promoted and conferred nobility title.

You must let him accompany His Majesty,

to finish this play.

Play?

Doesn't Gu Marquis often, be it at home or outside,

speak some wild words without restraint?

In the palace, we've heard each of those words.

My husband is an unabashed coarse man.

The words he spoke while going about on horse and shooting arrows.

They were all foolish and clumsy words.

May you never take them seriously.

Your husband nearly placed first on the imperial exam.

In battlefields, he is most thorough.

How is he foolish and clumsy?

Each word he spoke,

was already, in advance, with His Majesty,

agreed upon in the palace.

Younger Qin brought in and instigated Kang-Wang's killing of me.

And she urged Old Madam Wang to beg Empress Dowager.

Wanting to cut off His Majesty's right and left arms.

His Majesty took the opportunity to go along to lure the snake out of the hole.

So all those wild talks to you spoke on Imperial Road.

Such as exhausting the bird . . .

That was all acting?

If I am not sad and I'm not in pain,

and I don't let the entire Bianjing population to know that I've gone mad from my sorrow,

then Young Qin and Grand Highness wouldn't believe my marquis

is really hopeless.

Gu Marquis, that rascal, is really too outrageous.

Such a big matter and he didn't even tell his pillow mate.

He made you suffer this huge turmoil right after giving birth.

If you end up with some ailment later on,

it's all to blame on that scoundrel.

He apologized to me for a long time too.

But matters of the royal court are matters of the world.

He kept it from me but I can understand it.

Fine then.

In the future, we only have good days to come.

Don't worry, Father.

After passing this calamity,

our whole family can be safe and sound,

and we'll wait for Big Madam to be escorted back from the old home in Youyang.

And our family will be united again.

Do you want the little tiger?

I don't want it.

How about this? The little tiger?

No.

Raise that board higher.

Yes, higher.

Gu Clan Family Shrine

Fourth Miss!

Big Madam knew you came so she sent me to welcome you.

I didn't think your big madam would invite me too.

You are from her maiden home so of course you need to come.

Please come in.

Big Madam, Fourth Miss is here.

Almost time to eat.

Is it straight? - It's straight.

Look inside, is if it's tight.

Left side. It's sticking up a bit.

Dad. - Slower.

Big Madam.

Don't let it hit you. How is it?

Big Madam, Fourth Miss is here.

Fourth Sister is here. If you come late, the fried squid would be gone.

Yes. I can smell the fragrance of food.

Fourth Girl is here too?

Greetings to Grandmother.

Did you also hear

that I cooked personally today?

So you came to try my cooking too?

The banquet's set up in the flower hall.

Everyone, please come to the flower hall to dine.

Alright. - Master Tuan.

Grandmother, I'll escort you there.

Oh my, this little Tuan.

Little Tuan.

Slower.

Wife!

Slower. - You slower.

Let me tell you. Release Xiaotao so she can rest up.

Or this Shitou, everyday,

he's so careful like he's lost his soul.

This way. Slower, my Little Shitou.

Look! Look at him. He doesn't even know which door to go.

Don't let me rest anymore, Marquis. I've gone mad from boredom at home.

I just want to spend the days with Big Madam joking and talking.

Go eat.

Not everyone cares about your care.

As long as you care about my care.

The young duke. He's not even back yet.

But the report on Xinan tea tax is already here.

Prime Minister Han is looking around everywhere lately to ask about the details.

What do you think, Father?

Just rest for a day and nothing will happen to the royal court.

It's true. You haven't had enough of inquisition from Lord Han?

Not just that. Prime Minister Han asked me to come lately

and he asked me personally about raising horses.

Your brother didn't go to the ranch anymore?

Our sixth brother-in-law. He took out all His Majesty's badges forbidding miscellaneous personnel from entrance to palace.

His brother can still dare to go?

Such ruckus in the shrine.

Quite disrespectful.

It's true. This is life.

I just love this kind of easy quiet life.

It's best if nothing happens at all.

Don't worry, Wife.

I will stand guard outside holding a sword.

Even if the sky collapses, I will have you eat a meal safe and quietly.

Fine. Let's eat.

Wife.

Careful of the steps.

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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? ♫