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[Episode 6]

Well, people

can't always rely

on others to lend a hand

It's better to do it yourself

when you can

The servants of Yan

Miss Yan

The master asked me to remind you

Three days have already passed

As for the return day

You said you would be back tomorrow

This time you can't change your mind

Alright

I know

Yan Xing

The entire Xiang'an City is talking

about the close relationship between you two

It's shining on my face

Beautiful

Really beautiful

Delicious

Beautiful

Really beautiful

Yan Xing

You finally came back

It's been such a long time

Why are you back alone?

Where's your husband?

He...

Something urgent at the Internal Affairs

A critical case

Can the case

be more important than your matters?

How could a married woman

return home by herself?

He'll come after he's done

Right?

Fourth Sister

Why are you back today?

Are you here to see me?

My husband ordered a bracelet for me

It just arrived

I passed by to see you

Look at this bracelet

How beautiful it is

I fell in love with it at first sight

No matter what she'll say

Just ignore them

What's so good about it?

Just showing off

Why hasn't he come?

Well...

Your sister-in-law brought

many pastries and fruits

Let's all taste them

Come on, husband

Lord

Yan Xing is so suffered

Others marry well and live well

Yan Xing

has to find a way for others to survive

You...

What are you talking about?

So it's because me, as her mother

I'm not good enough

Look at me

I can't do anything else

other than dressing up

I don't do any work on normal days

Yet my husband always praises me as a lucky star

I originally wanted a daughter

So sweet

Who knew

I gave birth to twin boys

You wouldn't know

how naughty they are

Yan Xing

You should stick closer to your Fourth Sister

To get more good luck

Don't just focus on duties all day

You shouldn't be running around everywhere

Exactly

Sixth Sister

You should stop running errands

at the Ministry of Justice

Let me tell you

What is the way

for a woman to change her life?

Manage the Shen's residence well

Fifth Brother

I heard from my colleagues that

the last time

you were patrolling at Yanhua Street,

I saw you drinking with some girls

and running all over the room

with girls

Nonsense

How dare you accuse me

You're the most most unreliable person

in the family

Look at you, being so sarcastic

Tell me

Where's your femininity?

Am I being sarcastic?

If I were your husband,

I wouldn't wanna see you

even if I'd go out to play

What are you talking about?

Enough

Father-in-law

Listening to Yan Xing

you usually enjoy tea

This is a porcelain cup

It's from the Yue Kiln

This is the imperial gift of Purple Bamboo Tea

It's too precious

Too precious

It's a fortunate to have Yan Xing

Even the Prince Ying said,

I married a good wife

Prince Ying

Pan Yanzhi

Haven't his calligraphy and paintings

already disappeared?

It's a copy version

A few years ago,

I happened to get a piece of Pan Yanzhi's work

So I studied it for a while out of interest

Even you find it unbelievable,

but it truly is lifelike

It seems you learned this skill of imitating handwriting

from Father-in-law

I'm just

scratching the surface

But

under the whole world,

there's no one whose handwriting

my father couldn't copy

Just for practicing

Not worth mentioning

Son-in-law, come here quickly

Let's have a meal together

Come here

Let's eat

Father

There are still some matters to attend

when going back

Since my father-in-law asked

naturally, we'll stay for the meal

It's just that later

we have to go back early

There are still matters to attend to

Got it

We got it

Yan Xing

Father sees that you're doing well now

I'm really delighted

It's just that

Has PM Zhang come to see you?

PM Zhang has hinted several times

His intentions are clear

The quota for the assignment to Xichen

has not been finalized yet

If he fails to handle this well

Then...

On PM Zhang's side

I'll give him an explanation

The feathers of the pigeon are soft

There are many fallen feathers in the cage

This...

Yaya, keep quiet

Grand Minister

Grand Minister

Report to Grand Minister

Someone has gone to the pigeon cage

Who's that?

It's...

Madam

She has made a choice

Young Master

The curtains you asked me

to prepare some days ago

are ready

This is a specially made fabric

in Xichen

It can effectively block out light

The Young Master

specially asked me to...

For knife practice

Just right

Wasteful

You should really change

your bad temper

Or, who'll be willing to serve you?

When in Yan's Mansion

who swore solemnly

to serve me well

You avoid me like this

How can you serve me well?

Do you really want me to serve you?

We're already married

Even if something happens

No one will gossip about it

Am I afraid of gossip?

It's only natural

for a wife to serve her husband

It's okay to serve

I'm not even afraid of it

You smell so good

Do you wanna smell too?

See if I smell good

You wanna compete with me?

Someone

Light up the lights

over there near Madam

Grand Minister

There's trouble at Ximing Temple

The staff at the Internal Affairs are enough

Grand Minister

Go back to the Ministry of Justice

I...

Do I really have to follow you guys?

If you're that capable,

don't come back and ask me to investigate

Neat handwriting

Exceptional penmanship

These blood characters

appear out of thin air on the wall

Not the real blood

It's a special kind of stone material

made with cinnabar ink

It doesn't show color on the wall initially

It'll reveal a blood color

after being washed by rainwater

The killer had already written it

Just waiting for the rain last night

There is blood

on the statue in the main hall

Why did the killer do this?

He is challenging us

The gods are angry

Hence, the blood sheds

I heard that

when the gods shed tears of blood

it is a sign of the gods' sorrow for this world

It is a wake-up call for us

I'm sorry

I didn't notice it

I didn't see

Yan Xing

Our Ministry of Justice

can't do without you

You have no idea

The ground at our Ministry of Justice

is no longer as bright as before

My lord

Morning, lord

Isn't this Lady Grand Minister?

Why is she cleaning the floor?

Exactly

I can't afford it

It's not very clean here

Wash the cloth

Wash it and then wipe it

My lord, your belt please

Belt fell off

The belt

Are you two arguing?

No

No

If not, then why did you

suddenly come back?

Tell me

What have you done again?

You've gained weight again

I need to practice more

I became a spy

You are risking your life

You are risking your life

I heard that

someone sneaked into the Shen's Resident

because they became a spy

Overnight

not only were there no remains

but the entire family...

The whole family was gone

Moreover

In the middle of the night

people saw

them being taken by the ghostly officials

into the Yama Palace

That's a complete annihilation

You've got some guts

This's...

This's very complicated

Right

I asked you to find Brother Xu

How's it going?

Don't worry

Lord Xu has arranged someone

to investigate

My lord

I'll go over

It's okay

Yan Xing

I forgot to tell you something

Someone saw your master

He returned from his travels

But as soon as he entered the city gate,

he was taken away

by the Internal Affairs

What?

Ask the Grand Minister to come out

Shen Du

Shen Du

Shen Du

The Grand Minister is busy

You can't see him now

I am the wife of Grand Minister

How dare you stop me?

Shen Du

Come out

Get out

Shen Du

Just bring it on

Why did you arrest my master?

Don't think too highly of yourself

You overestimate yourself

Release my master

Shen Du

Let my master go

-Release my master -Yan Xing

Master

Look at you

You're already married,

yet you're still so impulsive

Master

Drink less in the future

Especially do not drink randomly

given by others

My disciple

has a straightforward character

Please forgive her, Grand Minister

I know

What do you know?

I...

Stop playing

Tell me

What do you wanna ask me?

I heard Master Chen developed

a unique cinnabar

that is invisible when used,

but appears when in contact with water

That's correct

It was originally developed

to prevent the decay of corpses

I wonder if this special cinnabar

belongs exclusively to Master Chen

Before I retired,

I gave this formula

to a few friends' servants

to use as insect repellent

It worked very well

Please tell me who they were

I know

Why is there such a difference

between the time the deceased went missing

and the time of death during the autopsy?

To delay decay

and repel insects

That's right, it's cinnabar

The body is surrounded by herbs

I originally thought

to be used to mask the smell of the corpse

Actually, it was mixed with

a special preservative cinnabar

So the process

of determining the time of death

was inaccurate

Master

I wonder if Master Chen

can deduce

the actual time of death

Look at you

You're indeed relying on me

Master

The case of injustice needs to be solved

Could you please assist

and show your skill?

In this round

My master wins

We win

We win

Then let's go

-Take me to the morgue -Let's go

-Morgue -Please slow down

My master estimated

the true time of the deceased

through the degree of preservation

Early spring of the fourth year of Shengli

Midsummer of the fourth year of Shengli

March of the fifth year of Shengli

June of the sixth year of Shengli

Middle of August of the sixth year of Shengli

Can't the range be narrowed further?

It seems

there's no need for that now

In the stomach of the male deceased

Based on the decomposition of the body seen before

Even if

the deceased ate before being killed

what was in the stomach

should have decayed along

with the body

I was too hasty

Forensics should not be preconceived

The more bizarre and horrifying the scene

the more we need to proceed step by step

Key evidence

often lies in some

seemingly insignificant details

Sunflower seeds

Exactly

Sunflower seeds only

digest and excrete

through intestinal peristalsis

when people are alive

And it won't take a day

for them to pass through

These deceased all have sunflower seeds in their stomachs

indicating they were killed

shortly after eating sunflower seeds

What seems logical

isn't necessarily true

Sometimes even what you witness firsthand

may not be the truth

It's very likely someone used tricks

to make you think that's the truth

I've learned

What a coincidence

These male deceased individuals

all ate sunflower seeds before dying

When too many coincidences align

it's no longer just a coincidence

These sunflower seeds

are not from ordinary sunflowers

They're from Xichen's cucumber

The tribute Xichen's cucumber

That's something only found in the palace

No

There's another occasion

These noble young men

had the chance to eat Xichen's cucumbers

Kaiyang Day

The date of the annual Kaiyang Day

is determined by the Astronomical Bureau

observing the stars at night

funded by the government

The Empress Dowager

will also reward treasures in the palace

But the date changes every year

The next Kaiyang Day is...

Three days later

Grand Minister

The Empress Dowager is still in a meeting

Please wait patiently

The Buddha statue sheds tears of blood

Rumors abound

The Empress Dowager is suffering from a headache

Even Prince Ying

has been implicated and confined

Decree of the Empress Dowager

The situation is critical now

Within five days

if the case remains unsolved

hand over to the Imperial Court of Justice

Thanks for the imperial decree

Prime Minister doesn't need to

be so polite

every time you asked me

I've heard there are strange occurrences at Ximing Temple

It's man-made

This nursery rhyme is just the beginning

The situation is escalating

Prince Xian's situation is worrying

I heard Prince Ying has also been confined

The Empress Dowager

has reprimanded all her children

I dare ask

whether the blood tears of the Buddha statue

are related to you, Prime Minister

How dare you

This's too abrupt

I just wanna uncover

the truth sooner

to share worries for Prime Minister

This has nothing to do with me

But...

How is the investigation

I assigned you going?

Not yet complete

You dare mock me

Aren't you afraid

that I'd end your family's career?

Please allow me to explain

I was instructed to check the pigeon cage

to determine

the Empress Dowager's attitude

towards Prince Xian

But through my investigation,

you're overly concerned

How can you be sure?

Aside from the pigeon cage

the increased communication routes

of the Internal Affairs suddenly

with many false

returns along the way

to conceal the true path

Furthermore,

number of troops from the Internal Affairs

have been sent out of the city

It's likely to ensure

Prince Xian's safety along the way

If they intended harm,

why bother doing all these?

It seems right

It's simply

your personal judgment

Isn't it your personal judgement

for Prince Xian's risk?

For now, I'll trust you

However, this matter

will soon have a conclusion

Please rest assured

I'll soon find out

the true mastermind behind all this

That's good

The transfer order to the frontier desert

will be issued soon

Time left for you and Dr. Yan

is limited

Empress Dowager

If you don't make a move,

I'll win this match

Alright

In that case,

I'll ask for your reward

Sure, what do you want?

The Kaiyang grand event

is under the care of the Empress Dowager

Bao Huan will be in charge

So, can Bao Huan decide

who to invite?

In past grand events,

guests would recite poems, sing songs,

perform music

This time,

can we invite some

true talents and beauties?

Invite whoever you want

Is that so?

Have you set your eyes on someone?

Thank you

Empress Dowager

Minister Xu

This is the list you gave me

I have included all

the invited guests

Thank you, Lord Zhang, for your help

You're welcome

I'll need your assistance in the future

With this,

those who know the cinnabar formula

have already been included

in the Kaiyang grand event's guest list

The murderer is among them

It's not easy

to find the killer among these people

Rather than that,

let the killer come to us willingly

That way, we save ourselves

a lot of trouble

The murdered women

were all dressed similarly

And they were skilled

pipa players

If I dress like them

to attract the killer's attention,

the killer will come after me

Then,

you can capture them on the spot

No way

It's too risky

You can't go

I...

Go to Tongming Hall to find one

And make her same as the target

Yes

No way

The musicians at Tongming Hall

are commoners

How can we risk

their lives?

Besides,

the killer's methods

are cruel

If anything goes wrong,

how can you explain to their families?

Now that you know the danger

If you encounter danger

How should I explain to the Empress Dowager

PM Zhang and Dr. Yan?

I have been insisting on

investigating this case thoroughly

If I hadn't intervened

It would have been closed long ago

Now we're just one step away

I should see it through to the end

In official investigation

Naturally, it is for me to take risks

Let me use the lives of ordinary people,

to take risks

I cannot do it

Even if you wanna do it,

see if you are qualified

You need to play the pipa skillfully

Can you?

Madam, I didn't expect you

to be so talented

How about it?

Does it count as skilled?

It's truly exquisite

Continue playing

I'm tired

Let's call it a day today

You're tired or you can't even play?

By that time,

you'll perform at the Kaiyang festival

Are you only planning

to play these few pieces?

I didn't prepare well

Just talking as you go

Let me tell you

about a few key points

First, when you play,

this outfit is not suitable

You should wear

something lighter

It doesn't have to be like this

The focus is not on

how good your melody and rhythm are

But on creating the right atmosphere

Pay attention

You know the posture

The initial one

Leg extension

Interweaving

Yes

Take it slow

Rotate

Start turning

Flutter

Look, the skirt is flying

The skirt is flying

Elegant

Mom

Can you play sitting down?

You keep moving

I can't see your hand movements clearly

Hand movements are not important

What comes next is important

Pay attention

Raise your hand above your head

Come down from behind the head

Your posture should be enchanting

Show your face

Eyes

The allure of a woman

The key is the eyes

Look at my eyes

Right

Pay attention to this part

Rotate again

Shake your whole body

Normally

It should have

fallen to the ground by now

Mom...

You can dance later

You should sit down first

I just wanna seriously learn this piece

It's not about the number of pieces

It's about the quality

I only know one piece

A true master

doesn't need a second piece

And your father

He never even made it

to the second piece

No, mom

What are you talking about?

Just now, what I taught you

That...

After finishing the pipa piece

man couldn't control himself at all

Mom

I just wanna

learn a pipa piece seriously

It's for my investigation

What did you think it was?

I thought

you wanted mother to teach you

about the joys of the boudoir,

and the pipa's soothing effect

No

Uncle

What is my mother

thinking about every day?

Is it because I'm married

that everything I think and do

has to revolve around

how to please my husband?

Your mother was sent to the theater

when she was young

At that time, the theater leader

taught us

to exercise extreme patience,

to suppress oneself,

to entertain with voice and appearance

It was your father

finally gave her a place to settle

So in your mother's eyes,

the best outcome

for her daughter

is to find a good man to be with

According to her standards,

I'm definitely not

someone with a good future

I married to someone unworthy

Your mom has conveyed to me multiple times

to be careful in the palace,

to ensure your well-being,

Never let that...

your husband,

endanger your life

But now that you are safe,

she can rest assured

Yet she constantly thinks

how to secure your position

She worries needlessly

The position as the lady

Whoever wants it can have it

I don't need protection from men

I just hope

I can be a strong woman

who can protect myself

and my family

Me, Yan Xing

was born in a country

that even female can be officials

I don't need to serve with my look?

But now

I really need a

performance on the pipa

that can captivate all the audience

You just said

for investigation

I need to

perform a pipa piece

on the stage of the Liushang Tavern

to lure the snake out of its hole