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The Apothecary Diaries
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This story is a work of fiction. The names of all of the characters, organizations, and so on
are imaginary. It also bears no connection to any specific real-life events.
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Excuse me.
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Master Jinshi.
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I heard Concubine Gyokuyou
has gone into labor.
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Episode 42: Lantern Plant
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Yes, as of this morning.
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We expect the actual birth to be a little
later, but we're getting ready anyway.
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This way.
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How is she?
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She's stable.
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Her contractions have subsided,
and she doesn't seem to be fatigued.
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I see.
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It's still unclear when
the actual birth will take place.
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How is the baby doing?
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If you're talking about the breech birth,
that is no longer a concern.
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It seems like Maomao's treatments worked.
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Maomao...
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It's already been ten days
since she went missing.
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Is she alright?
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L-Luomen, what can I do to help?
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Doctor, out of the way!
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Don't stand in the doorway, please!
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Just look after the cat.
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Yes!
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It's a bit reassuring to have someone else
more panicked than me around.
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I'll depart for now. Please let me
know if something happens.
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Master Jinshi!
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What is it?
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It's about the missing eunuch.
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So, what did you find?
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The eunuch is named Tian.
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He was supposed to be
a slave from a foreign nation,
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but none of the others who arrived
with him were acquainted with him.
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He must have snuck in somewhere.
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In order to infiltrate the rear palace.
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He probably kept his distance from
the others to maintain that secret.
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Because of that, we barely
have any information on him.
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Anything else?
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He was seen praying at a shrine.
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That's not strange.
Maybe he was just religious.
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Well...
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The graveyard on the north side?
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Yes.
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The graves of those who were deflowered by
the late emperor, who died in the rear palace.
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Tian was seen paying his respects
to one of the graves there.
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Those who were deflowered
by the late emperor at a young age
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were never allowed to leave
the rear palace, even after death.
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They vanished in this garden, without
even a record of their names kept.
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Is that a worker from the clinic?
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E-Excuse me.
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This smell...
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Where did Maomao go?!
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Calm down! I'm "Jinshi the Eunuch" right now.
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I have to be my usual self...
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I'm looking for the freckled lady-in-waiting,
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the one working for the Jade Pavilion.
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Do you know who I'm talking about?
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You know something.
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I have recalled... an old memory.
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He called my name with such a gentle voice.
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He gave me sweets from a foreign land.
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What are you talking about?
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I guess nobody knows what he
looked like when he was young.
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I did hear he was completely
different during his final years.
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He never came to see me after I grew up,
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so all I know about him is through rumors.
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Who do you mean?
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You look just like him.
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What are you talking about?!
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He too had a voice as sweet as honey,
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and a face like a beautiful goddess.
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Why is someone of your status
pretending to be a eunuch?
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Arrest her!
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Let me go!
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Stop resisting!
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Master Jinshi, what should we do?
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Master Jinshi?!
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What was that?! Poison?!
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Bring water!
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Yes!
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Master Jinshi, your instructions!
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Master Jinshi!
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Take this woman to the doctor's office.
Make sure she doesn't do that again!
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Yes, sir!
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Please snap out of it!
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Don't let some servant's
casual insult shake you!
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Casual?
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She drank poison.
It seems more serious than that.
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She went pale when she saw me smile at her.
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He too...
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Gaoshun, do I look like him?
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Enough to make someone
drink poison out of fear?
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In my memory, he was
already a withered old man.
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I didn't look like my mother or my brother.
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So...
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So, I believed.
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I wonder where he got his looks from?
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Given the emperor's tastes, it couldn't
be the empress, not at her age.
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That's why everyone's saying
he's an illegitimate child.
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I believed the rumors that said
I had no connection to him.
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I tried to escape the position of crown prince.
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I begged my brother, the emperor,
to let me take on a eunuch's identity,
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and plant myself in the garden
of women. All for what?
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How ridiculous.
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But I can only do...
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...what I can do.
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Right.
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I can laugh at myself later.
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For now, I have things to do.
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That woman was paying her
respects to this grave, correct?
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Yes.
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Lantern plant? This isn't in season.
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Taihou...
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The name of a court lady
who passed away last year.
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Yes. She used to gather women
around to tell ghost stories.
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She was the lady-in-waiting
to one of the concubines.
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Her relatives were...
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Only one person is related to Taihou by blood.
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During the late emperor's reign,
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she gave birth to a daughter
after an affair with a doctor.
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If that daughter is still alive...
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Where are you going?
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The Garnet Pavilion.
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The concubine that Taihou served
was later given to Shishou.
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She gave birth to a daughter.
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That daughter is Concubine Loulan.
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As for the daughter of Taihou and the doctor,
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there's no record of what happened
to either her or the doctor,
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who was ousted from the rear palace.
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Perhaps Concubine Loulan knows where
the doctor and the daughter went.
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It's just a hunch. There's no way
to know if there's even a connection.
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But, still...
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Please.
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I will do everything I can.
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My apologies for the sudden visit.
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She says she doesn't mind.
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Thank you.
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How strange, as always.
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Flashy outfits and matching makeup with
sharp points at the corners of their eyes...
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It makes them look like foxes.
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I had a question for you—
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Master Jinshi?
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What are you doing?!
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You used to have seven ladies-in-waiting.
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Where did the last one go?
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I keep track of the faces and names of all
of the ladies-in-waiting working here.
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Your group changes outfits
and makeup almost every day,
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so I made note of features
that were easy to track.
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For example, the shapes of your lips or eyes,
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and also...
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The positions of your moles.
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Sourin... no, Renpu, was it?
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That's your name.
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This was planned all along, wasn't it?
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Bringing in a huge number of servants,
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selecting similar-looking women to serve her...
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The strange outfits and makeup.
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All for this.
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M-Master Jinshi—
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Speak!
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Where is she?
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Where did she go?
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Where did Concubine Loulan go?!
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Please forgive her!
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Renpu really doesn't know anything.
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Please, forgive her...
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Damn it. Calm down.
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So, she didn't tell you where she was going?
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No. Only that she wouldn't be returning.
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A high-ranking concubine left
the rear palace of her own free will.
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There's no value in
continuing to question them.
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We have every available person on the search,
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but are unable to locate Concubine Loulan.
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There's no need to call her
"Concubine" anymore.
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Leaving the rear palace
is a serious crime.
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Especially for a high-ranking concubine.
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She must have planned this knowing that.
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Yes...
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Bringing the daughter of a high-ranking
official into the rear palace
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is a deal that benefits the emperor, as well.
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He can trap them in the birdcage
that is the rear palace as a hostage.
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Shishou seemed to care for his daughter a lot.
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But who knows how he really felt?
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I wonder how it was for Maomao.
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She said one time that it's like
a courtesan trying to quit.
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Did she go with them willingly?
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No, if she had, she wouldn't
have left a note like that.
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Where did she go, and why?
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What?
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Maomao is...
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missing...?
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Wait for me, Maomao!
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Papa's coming to rescue you!
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Master Lakan!
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How did he find out?
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It seems to have leaked out somehow.
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Also, Shishou is currently missing.
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Was he colluding with Loulan?
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I don't know. But he is the father
of an escaped concubine.
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He will be charged with
crimes against the emperor.
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I understand.
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Oh, and, regarding the court lady
from yesterday... Shenlü.
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She's no longer in mortal danger.
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Is she awake?
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No, not yet.
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However, we've confirmed that
she had connections to Taihou.
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That's probably why she
participated in this rebellion.
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Is everyone in the clinic part of this?
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No,
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none of the others knew about it.
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Yet they helped her, probably because
they all shared the resentment Shenlü held.
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With the late emperor gone,
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their anger is directed
toward the rear palace itself.
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I must find Loulan immediately,
but there's just not enough information.
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Should I go after Shishou first?
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No, someone else is doing that already.
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Who could that be?
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Enter.
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Excuse me.
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An abacus?
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What do you want?
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It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
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My name is Kan Lahan.
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There are only two people with the "La"
name in the outer court: Lakan and Lahan.
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It's a courtesy name, historically
given by the imperial family.
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A member of the La family.
You must be the strategist's adopted son.
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What do you want?
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I wanted to show you this.
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This is...
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What do you think?
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A receipt journal for
the national treasury.
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Yes. My father told me to look into it.
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It didn't sit well with him that we
can't find where the feifa came from.
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How did that lead to the national treasury?
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It was natural, after investigating the
situations of recently punished officials.
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I wanted you to see the original
documents, but they got a bit lengthy.
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So I made an excerpt based
on the most obvious ones.
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The price of grain has gone up
visibly over the past few years.
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Interesting, isn't it?
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We've had no droughts
nor insect plagues, nothing like that.
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And one more thing: for some reason,
the price of iron has increased, as well.
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As have the prices of all metals nationwide.
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Is our government building
some huge structure somewhere?
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I couldn't find any plans for such a
project anywhere that I looked.
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He's just like his adopted father
in that cunning, shrewd way.
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I understand what you're trying to say.
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The price of grain
isn't extraordinary by itself,
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but given the volume of trade, that small
price hike results in a huge difference.
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Someone is pocketing that difference.
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Also, the price of metals means
someone is buying a lot of them.
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That's what you're implying, right?
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Yes. From what I'm thinking,
these both lead to the same thing.
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And there aren't very many people
who can pull off something like this.
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I could look into it in more detail.
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Wouldn't it interest you to know
where all this is flowing?
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And what do you want in return?
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You couldn't have brought this to me
without asking for something in return.
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Master Jinshi!
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Could you give us just
a small discount on this bill?
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What's that for?
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It's the cost of repairs for the gate into
the rear palace that my father destroyed.
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He should reap what he sows...
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Fine.
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Are you sure?!
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In exchange, I expect you to be thorough.
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Find out what's going on at the destination
of this trail of money and metal.
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As you wish.
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I'll use whatever I can.
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Next Time
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Next time: "Festival."
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Episode 43: Festival
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