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Story of Ming Lan
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Episode 7
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Take it there.
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Hurry. Move your hands faster!
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What are you cleaning for?
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Replying to Your Excellency, Second Young Master said he's already sent a letter
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to have Momo Chang who was from Bai family to come to the capital.
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She's arriving today, so he said to clean a room for her.
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That Momo Chang is just a wet nurse.
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We haven't seen her in over a decade. Why is she coming?
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Momo Chang hasn't seen me in a long time and misses me dearly.
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I grew up drinking her milk.
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I can't be an ingrate.
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If you truly want to repay her, that is a good deed.
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Just give her some silver then,
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don't trouble her to make the trip.
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An elder leaving her hometown will find it hard to adjust.
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What's there to adjust to?
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When my mother was alive, this courtyard is where Momo Chang served her.
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I think having her come and be a chief maidservant is quite suitable.
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She's just a wet nurse. She wasn't even your mother's close maidservant at marriage.
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What does she know?
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How can she be a maidservant?
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I think you should report it to Big Madam,
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and have her arrange personnel for your room.
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Momo Chang's matter, I've already told Mother.
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I bet you didn't tell her,
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that you want her to be a chief maidservant?
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Your conduct is improper lately and if she comes,
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she'll assist you to let you indulge in wine and women more.
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Father, why do you fret so much over a wet nurse?
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You try all measures to keep her from coming into the manor.
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Quite peculiar it is.
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My Eldest Brother and Third Brother,
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their courtyards' chief maidservants are both wet nurses.
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How is it they can, but I can't?
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Can't be that it's because my mother's birth
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and even my wet nurse is more lowly than others?
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How is it that every time I mention your mistakes,
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you bring up these old matters to sing your own lament?
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If you were a success and learned to be good,
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wouldn't I feel confident in whoever you choose?
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I sing my own lament?
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In this manor, other than my mother and Third Brother,
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who doesn't scoff at me due to my own mother's birth?
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Now I haven't learned to be good,
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and you even blame the wet nurse you haven't seen in years!
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Fine. Whatever Father says it what it is.
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Since I was little,
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no matter what I say or do, it's all wrong anyway.
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Then let me be wrong all the way!
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You all stop!
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You! Seal all the side rooms of this courtyard.
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No one is allowed to live in it!
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Seal each and every one!
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Just leave the room for that vile thing to live. I will see where he can put her then!
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Father. Why such anger?
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Sealing the doors is a very ominous act. May you reconsider, Father.
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Ask your brother.
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Ask him what great deeds he's committed.
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My dear Second Brother?
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He just set up a house for a woman.
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It's not such a big deal.
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Many noble young masters set up houses for their mistresses and it's not just ours.
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I hope it's not the reason to harm the relationship of father and son.
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A mistress outside? When did he start to keep one?
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Don't be angry with my dear Second Brother over this, Father.
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My dear Second Brother is young and confused.
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Enticed by a singer is a common happening.
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Singer?
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So you are keeping a commoner too?
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You just couldn't contain yourself and had to make the kill?
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Speak! Did you or not?
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I have.
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I do have a mistress outside and it's been many years too.
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Father. Do you want to seal my room too?
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You're not married yet but you set up house with a mistress first.
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What noble daughter would marry you now?
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My reputation now, even if I don't keep a mistress outside,
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no noble daughter will marry me anyway.
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Kick her out of Bianjing!
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You are not to see her ever again.
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Or else?
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Or else I will beat you to death.
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Then beat me. Come on!
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Beat me to death, and Gu House will be more serene!
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"Dear Second Brother"? You!
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"Dear Second Brother"?
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Your health is like this, but you only just recovered from your illness a couple of days ago.
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Why do you insist on coming?
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What if your illness comes back?
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I've been taking medicine since I was born.
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Dragging onto today, I'm only just subsisting.
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I only hope my dear Second Brother can be a success.
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So he can inherit the family business and lessen your worries.
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Don't mention that vile thing.
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At this rate, I'll never hand the family business to him.
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If he won't say where that whore is kept today,
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I will just beat him to death.
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You can never.
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Father. My dear Second Brother is a Gu offspring no matter what.
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If you keep up the beating, he will die!
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Stop!
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Dear Second Brother, concede now.
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Admit your mistake to Father already.
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With an older brother like you,
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I have many mistakes to commit.
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What?
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You pretended to stop the discord,
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but in reality you wanted to expose to Father that I keep a woman outside.
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You colluded with those from Fourth and Fifth houses,
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all to find out where I've installed the mistress.
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You didn't achieve it after many tries so you thought of this,
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to have Father force me.
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Stop. Oh no. Stop.
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My dear Second Brother is spouting nonsense from the pain. Stop!
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I will tell you. You don't need to bring the Third and Fourth in.
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Even if your elder brother said it on purpose,
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that's because you're lacking, and he wants you to repent.
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But you frame him with your eyes open.
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You are truly hopeless!
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Father.
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If I won't tell you even if I die today,
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will you really beat me to death?
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If it's not on the account that you have the Imperial exam pending,
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I would beat you to death today!
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After the exam...
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after the exam, I will ask you the whereabouts of that whore!
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First Brother.
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Long time no see and your measures are getting more skilled.
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Forcing me to confess didn't work.
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So you wanted to agitate Father to beat me to death instead?
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What great grudge do you have against me?
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What wild words do you speak here?
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You and I are not enemies.
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Whether we are enemies or not, you are aware in your heart.
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Just that, you didn't get what you wanted today.
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I'm quite sorry about that.
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The days are many to come, so you can play your tricks on me all you want.
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I am thick-skinned and thick-fleshed. Even if I get twenty strokes of beating a day,
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I will still live longer than you!
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You!
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Nonsense!
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Don't worry. Father can't bear to beat me to death.
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Stop your dreaming.
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Young Master, Young Master.
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You're so soft-boned. (T/N no backbone, to stand up for herself)
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I had to argue alone with Father.
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You said nothing.
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Back when you fought to bring back Big Sister's betrothal goose, you were mighty and fierce with touhu!
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So resolute! What happened to it?
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You were raised by Grandmother for a few years and you're a soft-boned one like this now?
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Fifth Sister, you said so many things, but did Father believe a word of it?
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I testified for you, and did Father believe a word of that either?
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Fifth Sister, you're used to smooth days.
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But since little, I knew circumstance is stronger than people.
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No matter what we say, Father would believe her.
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What's the use of saying a lot?
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You're just soft-boned.
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Molan will ride over you forever with the way you are.
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We were just having to kneel a bit.
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You spouted a few more words, and we have to kneel for three days now.
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Why then?
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You want me to swallow my pride and endure? No way!
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Molan, that little whore. Flipping the truth with lies.
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We cannot coexist. I will never give up!
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Fifth Sister, listen. How loud is the wind outside?
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We need to kneel here for three days!
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And you're concerned about the loudness of wind outside?
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Silly Sister. If the wind is big, it will be cold.
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Nanny Liu.
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Is it the middle of the Hour of the Rabbit yet?
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Not yet. Still an hour left.
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Has the minister released Ru'er and her?
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Master went to court.
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He's not back yet.
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I won't sleep anymore. I'm going to go see Ru'er and the other!
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Even if you don't sleep, Fifth Miss still needs to sleep.
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How can she sleep kneeling?
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Hurry. Hurry.
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Take it.
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Hurry though. Have Big Madam hurry.
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So many eyes are watching.
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Nanny Zhi. This house stil belongs to Sheng.
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The name isn't "Lin".
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You misunderstand, Sister. I mean, Big Madam is watching.
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The Old Madam is so cold-hearted.
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See how she dotes on that Ming girl normally?
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She got whipped twice and has been kneeling for fourteen to sixteen hours!
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But the Old Madam doesn't even come look?
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Yes.
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You didn't sleep soundly at all last night.
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But then again, the Old Madam isn't the Minister's real mother.
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So naturally she's not the Sixth Daughter's real grandmother either.
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How much can she really dote on her? Just putting on the appearance of it.
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What a relief that the Old Madam didn't ask me for Ru'er back then,
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or my heart will be fried now!
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MThe Fifth Miss is the legitimate daughter of Sheng House, so the Old Madam wouldn't treat her the same.
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What's the difference? Even her own father doesn't dote on her.
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Would her father's main mother dote on her instead?
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Greetings, Mother.
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How leisurely for you.
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It's middle of the Rabbit Hour and I don't dare to be lazy.
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I am on my way to the study hall to study.
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Where is Fifth Sister?
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Why don't I see her?
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Oh, I forgot!
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Sister is serving the ancestors at the family shrine.
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That's good too. Let my sister learn,
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so later on when she's at the marriageable age,
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she won't have a private meeting with a male from the outside and shame our family.
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Shut up!
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You little whore!
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Look at how you can't endure anger, Mother.
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You'll have lots of anger to endure in the future from Fifth Sister.
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Yunzai.
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Let's not be tardy to Scholar Zhuang's lesson.
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Yes.
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Speak.
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Master has returned from court.
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Did he say anything?
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H-He went to Linqi Pavilion.
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You're too harsh too.
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Fifth Miss is so tender, and Sixth Miss too.
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She is the Old Madam's pearl in her hand too. (T/N Treasured girl)
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If she kneels to injury, the Old Madam won't forgive you easily.
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It's just a matter of a maiden stealing a look of a young man.
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You can do that at the Dragon Boat Festival and you can do that at the Lantern Festival.
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It's not so bad.
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Even Mencius said, "A child's desire is toward his parents.
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But when he's conscious of the attractions of beauty, his desire is toward the young beauties."
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Let it go.
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Let it go?
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If you don't teach and train her well now to have her temper fixed,
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what will she become in the future?
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Mother is most reasonable and understands training, so she will surely not blame me.
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It's just that Minglan girl. She's quite docile,
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so this is a bit unfair to her.
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But that Rulan. Clearly she did wrong, but she won't acknowledge it!
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She insists in framing Mo'er instead!
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So let her keep kneeling.
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But Fifth Miss is still young.
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You should dote on her more.
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Big Madam has sent someone here,
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saying she invites the Master for a chat.
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Quickly invite her in, and tel her he will be right over.
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You are the boss of me now?
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I wouldn't dare. (T/N "Your servant")
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Tell her to wait.
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I'm eating, and I have matters left to attend to.
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You are just
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too generous and merciful.
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Merciful mothers ruin sons.
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Your leniency is placed mistakenly!
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When it comes to treating the children well or not, it takes great consideration.
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If there's a merit, you reward. If there's a mistake, you punish.
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Or else, it's no different than ruining her.
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You've taught your Mo'er well.
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But we need the main wife to teach her Ru'er well too.
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What you said makes sense.
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[ Weiruixuan (Lush Balcony) ]
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His Lordship says he has matters to attend to after eating.
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He wants you to wait, and he'll come when he's done.
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In that whore's room?
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Of course he's in that whore's room.
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Where else could he be?
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Madam, don't be mad.
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She's just a seductress.
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The house management rights are still in your grasp.
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His Lordship is very angry, and after his anger's dissipated,
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it will be easier to beg leniency when he comes then.
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I never thought...
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This family of prestige, of generations of nobility,
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would come to this pampering of the concubine to the slight of the main wife like this.
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If I had known, Mother really shouldn't have agreed to this marriage!
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I wouldn't have married here!
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I already found out from the maids.
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Sixth Miss is kneeling at the shrine as punishment by Minister Sheng.
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Madam.
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Big Madam sent someone to Linqi Pavilion to ask to talk.
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But His Lordship was still angry and wouldn't go.
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I saw the tonic Big Madam got for Sixth Miss,
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indeed it's pretty good, and Sixth Miss will suffer less.
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Big Madam put some thought into it.
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Our kitchen said at lunch time, they will send over the braised white jade fish Sixth Miss loves along with jasper rice.
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What she eats isn't what's important right now.
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Send over a couple good pads.
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She's just being punished alongside the other, so she doesn't need to do this so seriously.
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That child is just so honest.
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The other one's already laying down, and she's still kneeling.
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Tell her not to be such a hardhead.
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Earlier you said to just let her kneel, but now you ache for her?
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Go, go on!
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Master is here.
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It's already lunch time.
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You are indeed such a nobleman with so many affairs.
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So many delicious dishes.
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Salted meat and tofu with lotus seed stew?
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Great dish. Add a bowl for me.
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I'll do it.
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These things are from Jinhua. (T/N city in Zhejiang Province)
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In this weather, perfect for making it a stew.
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Come, Minister.
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Minister, try these dried bamboo shoots that are new.
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Caihuan came to me earlier saying you wanted to speak to me.
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The Minister must be exhausted from work and it's cold outside.
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Have some hot soup and food with tea.
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We can talk after you eat. There's no rush.
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If it's about Rulan,
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you needn't bring it up.
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Rulan should get some teaching too.
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What does Rulan need to learn?
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You are just pampering her too much, and she's so spoiled and lawless.
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I ask her one question and she pushes me back with ten.
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Not even half a sign of a noble lady's poise.
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Minister, you are her father.
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She respects and loves you.
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She was wronged and of course she would cry to you.
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She's a tender little maiden, and she's been kneeling for over twenty hours!
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Her knees are black and purple!
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Minister, spare her this time.
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I only wanted to have her kneel for six or eight hours at first.
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But she's scared of punishment and kept saying it was Mo'er's fault, but look now!
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She can lie with her eyes open. How outrageous is that?
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Have her keep kneeling!
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She kneels for two or three days, naturally she'll concede to her mistake.
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Rulan is unruly and wild, you say.
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But Hua'er is law-abiding?
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Hua'er is law-abiding, of course.
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Why are you mentioning Hua'er though?
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Who doesn't envy that I have this great daughter Hua'er?
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Back then, you described Count Zhongqin's house as so good,
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and when they dismissed us at the betrothal, you said to endure.
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Hua'er married in there and she's harassed all the time by that mother-in-law who's biased against her!
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Now she's already got four or five concubines crammed into her manor!
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This is the great marriage you sought for Hua'er!
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Hua'er is Hua'er, and Ru'er is Ru'er!
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How do you mean I'm not good to Hua'er?
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Yuan family is great in every way. It's only that Big Madam Yuan,
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she has bias for that eldest and disregards our Count!
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That's what the problem is!
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That elder Count of the Yuan House is still sensible!
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If you're talking about Ru'er, then stick with Ru'er.
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Don't bring the other idle talk into it.
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Hua'er is so considerate and she knows how to run a house.
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She is well known for it among the Bianjing ladies.
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Changbai is so young, but already passed the provincial exam.
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All your colleagues praise him.
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Did those two children spring out of a rock then?
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They were raised by me, one bit of poop and urine at a time.
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You did indeed go through three letters and six courtesies, (T/N formal matchmaking and proposal)
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with the gate open and welcomed me in as your main wife.
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Minister. Minister...
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Alright, then rise.
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I dote on our Hua'er the most.
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I toiled and fretted to find a good marriage for her back then.
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How could I have known the Yuans had that fierce and biased mother-in-law?
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Tell me, when they got married, she put on such a good act.
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We couldn't tell at all.
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Don't worry.
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Alright. Sit, sit.
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Think about it.
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Our son-in-law.
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How great is he? Patient and reasonable.
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He's got himself a new post too. A promotion!
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Later on when they move out, Hua'er will have her share of wealth and honor.
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Right?
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Minister.
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Minister. You dote on Hua'er.
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Dote on Ru'er too.
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How do I not dote on Ru'er?
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You! You, how..!
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How is it that you just don't understand?
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The Big Madam of Count Yongchang loves to talk about marital matches.
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Rulan and Minglan showed such discourtesy before her.
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Now you just want to let her go without punishment?
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When the word gets out later on, what good family will come to seek marriage?
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Don't you understand this reasoning?
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My God.
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These matters are supposed to be your lot to toil over.
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But now I'm having to put in the thought for you!
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I really don't know what you're doing!
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This coquetry act, it turns out,
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needs natural talent too.
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I, for one, can't do it.
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I'm going to the Old Madam!
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Big Madam is here to inquire about Old Madam's well-being.
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Oh my, it's so cold out, so why bother coming?
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And we don't need to abide by such common courtesy.
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Mother.
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What's wrong? Come, sit and tell me.
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Mother. May you talk to the Minister.
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Spare them.
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Pitiful two maidens.
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They were raised so preciously like jewels by us.
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They never had any of their skin rubbed raw.
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Now they've been kneeling for over twenty hours and their knees are black and purple.
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The shrine is cold, Mother.
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They are so tender. How can they withstand the northern wind?
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Minglan is shaking from the cold already.
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May Mother please beg the Minister.
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What you said, how do I not know already?
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But I am still not the Minister's real mother after all.
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I'm his legitimate mother, and he's the head of the house.
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It is not appropriate for me to be wordy.
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Let's not talk about legitimate or concubine.
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Even if the Minister's real mother, Mistress Chun, were still alive,
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you are still the legitimate mother and the Minister would never go against whatever you say.
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This is ash made by mixing lychee shells in the incense.
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Then you add the soaked wood.
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And I think the aroma will be great indeed.
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Whatever fragrance you make must be good.
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Mother, everything else is fine.
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But Minglan, that girl is weak-boned.
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How can she withstand this northern wind?
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Minglan, if she had been practicing her writing nice and well in her own room,
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then nothing would have happened.
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But she just had to go out and mix with trouble. Her father did right.
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Mother. Hua'er isn't living well at Yuan House.
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Ru'er suffers here.
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My heart is like... like it's fried by oil!
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Hua'er's matters are on my mind.
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Really?
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Madam Wu of Count Yongchang's House.
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She doesn't come later and she doesn't come sooner.
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Do you think she really came to see me?
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She must have heard that Old Madam Zhuang of He House of Baishitan is coming to the capital.
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So she came to check especially.
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House of He? Imperial Physician's manor?
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Indeed. That Old Madam is my bosom friend from my boudoir days.
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Then, how is she linked to this?
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Her husband's family is the head of the Imperial Physician's Court.
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Her maiden home is surnamed Zhuang, specializing in women's medical care.
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Then that Old Madam knows about women and pregnancy?
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If she didn't, why would I urge her to come?
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Usually, Hua'er is considerate of reputation.
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And she is not at ease to invite a physician with fanfare.
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Once the Old Madam Zhuang of He House comes,
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we'll say I'm sick and have Hua'er come home,
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and we'll have it nice and tightly hidden to get her pulse checked.
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If the Count's Manor comes and speaks of trouble again,
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we'll show them our daughters aren't so easily bullied.
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Thank the heavens and earth, thanks to Buddha and the enlightened ones!
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As long as they are well-cared of, I concede anything.
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It's fortunate that we're all in the capital now.
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Hualan has a maiden home that can hold her up.
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With your care,
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her days will flow as smooth as wind and water now!
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Hua'er, of course I will watch over her.
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Hua'er is prudent and considerate.
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She's so good, yet she suffers at the mother-in-law's.
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What about our Ru'er then? Her temperament is coarse.
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She can't withstand provocation or any compromise.
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And she lacks the consideration that Hualan has.
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You ought to let her suffer some bitterness at home,
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so she's tamed and trained,
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and so she can cultivate herself.
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Ru'er is still young and she's still got the temper of a child.
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Hua'er's mother-in-law is prickly, and that's that.
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But Hua'er still comes up short compared to the knowledge of the noble manor.
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When it comes to floral arrangements and tea-tasting and lighting incense acts,
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her handiwork isn't proper.
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That strict sister-in-law of hers laugh at her mostly in these areas.
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Their family is a line of military officers.
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What elegance do they know? They're just picking trouble.
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If you say that, that's wrong.
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These petty actions. Though they are not of any grand use,
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when it's in an aristocratic family, it's a different story.
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It's already hard for Hua'er. Just think how Ru'er can be spared.
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If it's really for the child's sake you have in mind,
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you ought to grind that temper of hers down.
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Mother, you mean . . .
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When I used to reside in the palace,
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there was a junior palace maid by the surname Kong.
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Momo Kong of the palace?
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Yes.
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If you can bear with it for Rulan, I will invite her to the house,
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and have her give the two girls some lessons.
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If there's anything wrong they do, we'll have Momo Kong
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beat them with sticks all she wants!
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First, to grind her temper.
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And secondly, we can regard it as a punishment.
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Then that Minister of yours can't say a word anymore.
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This is that tactic called, "besiege Wei to rescue Zhao". (T/N Second of the 36 Stratagems, The Art of War)
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Mother, you shouldn't be a lady in the boudoir.
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You should lead the soldiers for battle! If you were a general,
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then the Gaoliang River wouldn't be in the hands of others! (T/N battle of 979 CE, vs Liao, now in Beijing)
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Your mouth knows how to flatter too?
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Drink some tea.
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Class again?
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I don't have to go to the Academy Master's class, but here comes a court momo?
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I . . . Nanny Liu!
495
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,400
How is my fate so bitter?
496
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,200
Nonsense.
497
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,200
This court momo is someone who served many consorts and noble ladies in the Imperial palace.
498
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,000
Her knowledge is much higher than many aristocratic madams.
499
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,400
A bird can fly higher with the phoenix. (T/N good company yields better improvement)
500
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,400
So go learn some palace rules and practices from her.
501
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:34,800
Once you're married later on,
502
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,200
your husband and mother-in-law will respect you more.
503
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,800
Does that really require a court momo to come?
504
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,200
Grandmother was raised in the palace for a while too.
505
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,800
Those rules, she knows them too.
506
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,900
Do you really want your grandmother to come teach you?
507
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,500
No.
508
00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,600
Hurry and put away that lamenting face and mouth of yours.
509
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,400
After putting on the medicine, go and bow to admit your misdeeds to your father.
510
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,600
You're not allowed to cry and whine.
511
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,700
Whatever your father says, you'll listen quietly.
512
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,400
I don't know, but to this Court Momo Kong's lessons,
513
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,600
Fourth Miss isn't actually going.
514
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,100
Our Miss and Fifth Miss were framed by her.
515
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,600
But she got herself called out as being good.
516
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,000
She doesn't need to suffer any punishment.
517
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,200
And she can go to the academy every day and see . . .
518
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,400
You don't know if Fourth Sister will still go to the academy.
519
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,200
Miss, what do you mean?
520
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,000
Xiaotao, lighter.
521
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,500
Here, let me do it. Your hand's too hard. Let me.
522
00:37:57,390 --> 00:38:02,790
Miss. You need to think for yourself more.
523
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,300
Academy Master!
524
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,800
Academy Master, I've got a relative coming from Yangzhou.
525
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,200
These days, I'll need to go meet her at the dock and settle her residence.
526
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,400
So I'll need to pardon myself from you for three days.
527
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,500
Don't worry. Whatever lessons I miss, I will catch up as fast as I can.
528
00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:38,400
By talent, you are already outstanding.
529
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,600
You've passed five or six years of studying all in one go.
530
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,600
But because you have this talent, you ought to work harder.
531
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,100
However you miss classes for many days.
532
00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,800
You've already been absent five or six times.
533
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,200
If you languish in studying because you're talented,
534
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,900
when it comes to the Imperial exam, you will lose out.
535
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,800
The Academy Master is right.
536
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,600
But I am laboring with family business and I have no choice.
537
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,900
The Imperial exam is a grand matter in one's life.
538
00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:10,600
No matter how busy the family affairs are, you cannot stop putting your ink on paper!
539
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,150
You're a smart man.
540
00:39:12,150 --> 00:39:15,000
Don't let yourself get so distracted by outside matters.
541
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Or it will be too late to regret later on.
542
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,830
Reconsider.
543
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,400
The Academy Master's words are like gold.
544
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,000
Your pupil will remember to heart.
545
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,700
Alright, go.
546
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,000
Every family has issues.
547
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,000
At this rate, how many from this hall can place with top grades?
548
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,400
Zhonghuai, don't worry.
549
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:57,000
I will note in detail everything Scholar Zhuang teaches us these few days.
550
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,600
I will send a manservant to deliver the notes to you.
551
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,400
No need. I will have Shitou come fetch it at your home.
552
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,400
I don't know who's going to be at home.
553
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,600
What if your item falls into the hands of someone,
554
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,000
and it's either burned or trashed? It's better I find one I trust to go get it,
555
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
so I can be at ease.
556
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,200
Is your home a tiger-wolf den?
557
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,200
Your parents and siblings all with schemes of their own?
558
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,000
How ridiculous.
559
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
I come from the tiger-wolf den, so I'm a tiger-wolf too.
560
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,100
I am no longer the gullible child from before. If one wants to take advantage of me?
561
00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:30,800
Not a chance!
562
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,100
Then, you just be careful with all things.
563
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,200
You got beaten again?
564
00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:46,440
Young Lord!
565
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,800
What are you doing with your head strained to the side?
566
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,600
I'm afraid your neck can't come back around.
567
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,000
How is it that the three maidens did not show themselves today?
568
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Could it be that the three are all ill together?
569
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,800
Not that.
570
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,800
Our family invited a court momo to hold lessons at home.
571
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,400
A momo from the palace?
572
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:14,200
Yes. A few days ago, the girls fell down in the front hall, right?
573
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:15,800
So my father thought,
574
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,200
it's better to invite someone to the home to teach them.
575
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,400
I was present then.
576
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,600
It's not such a big deal. You all didn't beg leniency for them?
577
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,400
What's there to beg leniency for?
578
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,500
It's better to have them hold lessons at home instead of the trouble of coming to the academy hall.
579
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
Then they won't learn books anymore?
580
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,800
The daughters of officials in the capital do not practice that.
581
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,000
If you get to the bottom of it,
582
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,100
it's my father that rules at home.
583
00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:03,800
Eldest Master's servant is following us,
584
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,800
evading and hiding. What is he trying to do?
585
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:10,000
I'll dismiss him, so he is out of commission for some eight or ten days!
586
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,600
He's just carrying out an order so you needn't do so.
587
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,800
If we injure him, it'll come to haunt us later.
588
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,700
That room can then make a novel out of it. (T/N elder brother's household)
589
00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:21,500
What do we do then?
590
00:42:53,400 --> 00:43:03,000
Translation and Timing carefully crafted by the Mei Daxia Team at Viki
591
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:27,170
♫ One morning, a flower opened and approached a willow tree,
beautifully fragrant and mistaking him for her lord ♫
592
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:36,000
♫ 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 ♫
593
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:45,800
♫ In the palace, you are constantly brave and growing thin,
from on high, your cold tears of distress flow ♫
594
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:55,700
♫ Brocade letters delivered to me dismiss me, only suddenly to recall me,
not for many years can I see you other than stealthily♫
595
00:43:55,700 --> 00:44:00,200
♫ Last night, gusty winds and rain
during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect ♫
596
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,200
♫ When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up
and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before. ♫
597
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:14,100
♫ Don't you know, don't you know,
there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers? ♫
598
00:44:14,100 --> 00:44:18,600
♫ Last night, gusty winds and rain
during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫
599
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,700
♫ When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up
and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before. ♫
600
00:44:22,700 --> 00:44:32,900
♫ Don't you know, don't you know,
there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers? ♫
601
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:47,700
♫ Don't you know, don't you know,
there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers? ♫