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[White Cat Legend]

[Episode 11]

[Integrity; Prudence; Diligence]

Why are you all looking at me?

Did you find something

when I wasn't around?

Mr. Li.

This was left by the murderer

who killed the mason.

Where did you find it?

This was what happened.

Then...

do we really have to do it like that?

[Impartial Law Enforcement]

Sun,

moon,

wood,

behind...

This is probably what it means.

I just don't know

what the "cat" means.

Unfortunately, that paper was burned.

There might be other

unfinished characters behind.

What a missed opportunity.

What a missed opportunity.

Alibaba!

Give me a hand.

[Mingjing Hall]

With the four of us,

we'd only reach halfway up, right?

Are you four stupid?

Use a ladder.

You are stupid.

Do you want to go back to the Court of Judicial Review?

You don't want to see Mr. Li anymore?

Don't you want to prove yourself?

You are what Mingjing Hall is missing

to go up the other half.

Come on.

Let's help Sun Bao.

Come on.

Come on.

One, two, three.

So you've already...

Mr. Li.

I didn't look at it.

We definitely didn't look at it.

Vice Minister.

Chen Shi said it belongs to you.

It contains your secret.

The criminal stole it

and put it behind the roof.

The Court of Judicial Review has strict laws and regulations.

If it's your personal belongings,

we shouldn't look at it secretly.

Since I met you,

you've been handling

major cases.

There are many things

we weren't able to help you with.

But we

will never undermine you.

They asked me here today

just because they were missing

one person's help.

I

just helped out.

We are your subordinates.

Your secret

is our secret.

Our secret

is still our secret.

Since you

entered Mingjing Hall,

you've been involved in many cases.

We know

that you

are in a difficult position

and can't tell us some things.

But...

if you have any orders,

please feel free to let us know.

Vice Minister.

Who did you fight with?

Let's treat your injuries first.

The criminal.

The criminal has been arrested.

But he was killed by Qiu Qingzhi.

This case is not over yet.

It’s a case of Mingjing Hall.

If there's a chance, I'll tell you about it later.

[Integrity; Prudence; Diligence]

Vice Minister.

I...

[Integrity; Prudence; Diligence]

Mr. Li.

This is...

This is my diary.

Di...

Diary?

I was seriously ill at that time.

Everything I saw

and thought

are written in here.

When I left Shendu,

this was on me.

I didn't expect it

to fall into his hands.

Who is he?

Yi... Yi Zhi Hua?

He's already dead.

Dead men tell no tales.

But how did he know

my secret?

We need to find a chance

to investigate it.

What do you think

about those people in Mingjing Hall?

They are all nice,

including Mr. Wang.

If one day,

I can't continue investigating,

maybe the people in Mingjing Hall

will continue investigating for me.

[Family head: Li Ji] [Biological son: Li Bing] [Guarantor: Zhao Wenqing]

[Jinwu Guards]

General.

Come in.

General.

Li Bing, the vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review, wants to see you.

Vice Minister Li.

What business brings you here at this late hour?

Unfortunately, it's a personal matter.

This is the document of your exemption of slave registration.

Three years ago, my father

used the official seal

on this document for the last time.

I had no chance to give it to you.

Since you came back from the military camp,

you've been avoiding my father and I

like the plague.

Anything else?

The Court of Judicial Review

has always been upright.

Since you've gotten rid of your worries,

I hope

the Jinwu Guards and the Court of Judicial Review

won't interfere with each other from now on.

I hope you won't try to

extend your influence too far out.

That's not up to you.

Let's get to the point.

That's great.

For the Holy Birthday Festival,

Her Majesty will hold a banquet in the palace.

The Jinwu Guards will be standing guard

and occupied.

Before the banquet,

I doubt you and I

will cross paths again.

The game

has just begun.

You're really something.

Li Bing, you're really something.

You won't let me go back to Mingjing Hall?

Fine.

Fine.

I'm going back to my hometown in Yangzhou now.

I'll inherit the family business.

I'll become so strong

[Invincible]

and rich.

I'll recruit troops and horses

and surround the Court of Judicial Review.

I will buy the Court of Judicial Review!

Let's see who will dare

to stop me from going back to Mingjing Hall then.

That's not right.

If I'd bought

the Court of Judicial Review,

who'd stop me from going back to Mingjing Hall?

Wouldn't I be the vice minister then?

Li Bing.

Little Bing.

I'm demoting you

to scribe.

Shangguan Qin.

Little Qin.

Go and steam buns for me.

Buns with mutton stuffing.

I am Shangguan.

I am the vice minister.

Wait.

I have to tell my parents

about this.

Why am I on my knees?

Dear parents.

I've been

in Shendu for two or three years.

Now,

I've rose up the ranks

and am already

the Court of Judicial Review's

vice minister.

Nice.

I have to...

I have to send it quickly.

I need to send it quickly.

The wine is making me

a little hot.

What wine is this?

It looks like nourishing wine.

I took the wrong one.

T-This is for my father

to drink.

Yes, give it to my father.

[Court of Judicial Review]

[Calm and determined]

[Leaving the city; snow; without old friends]

[Leaving the city; snow; without old friends]

[Just do good deeds and do not worry about the future]

Go cook the chicken Chen Shi has been raising

for me!

Vice Minister.

What do you want?

These are the official documents in Mingjing Hall

that have to be handled before the Holy Birthday Festival.

Please have a look

and consider using the seal.

Vice Minister.

You don't look well.

What's wrong?

Why are you so jumpy this morning?

Vice Minister.

Please take care of yourself

and prolong your life.

That's none of your business.

Vice Minister.

What now?

Do you have any documents

you want Vice Minister Li to look over?

I can bring it to him.

Hu Si will handle it for me.

Yes.

I will send it

to Vice Minister Li.

Vice Minister.

Vice Minister!

You need to be in high spirits!

Give it to the vice minister for me.

Get lost!

[Court of Judicial Review]

Wait for me!

Hurry!

Lanterns! Lanterns!

Look at this.

It's very beautiful.

Take it.

Which one do you like?

Pick one.

[Court of Judicial Review]

May I ask who is inside?

[Court of Judicial Review]

Young man.

Are you an official of the Court of Judicial Review?

Not really.

However,

I do work for the Court of Judicial Review.

Madam.

What's the matter?

Great.

I'm speaking to the right person.

I am

your vice minister's mother.

I came from Yangzhou.

Try our specialty food.

Hold it. And this.

Vice Minister's mother?

I brought you local specialties.

[Court of Judicial Review]

Take it for me. There's more.

Vice Minister even has a mother?

It's so fresh.

If your vice minister doesn't have a mother,

then was he born out

of a stone?

Take it.

Madam.

I didn't mean that.

I meant that Vice Minister...

I know!

Are you Vice Minister Shangguan’s mother?

What are you talking about?

I am the mother of Vice Minister Wang Qi.

[Wang Qi's mother]

Madam Wang.

[Court of Judicial Review]

I was appointed by Vice Minister Wang

to pick you up.

Please come with me

to the vice minister's mansion.

Come with me.

Wang Qi even has a mansion?

Yes, yes, yes.

C-Come with me.

H-H-Here.

Enjoy the food.

Let's go.

[Court of Judicial Review]

Let's go.

Here.

This way, please.

Chen Shi.

Mr-Mr. Li.

Today is Her Majesty's birthday.

I'm going to the palace to see Her Majesty.

Logically,

I should come back after dinner.

You don't have to follow me.

Okay.

You seemed to be in a trance just now.

Are you too tired recently?

Take three days off.

Make your own arrangements.

Don't just stay in the Court of Judicial Review.

I stay in the Court of Judicial Review

because other than looking for my brother,

I have nowhere else to go.

Don't worry, Mr. Li.

Although it's my off days,

it doesn't hinder me from reading.

Forget it.

Be careful when I'm not around.

Don't get involved in trouble.

Got it, Mr. Li.

Mr. Li, take care.

What should I do?

Baba?

Chen Shi.

Stop feeding your chicken.

Vice Minister Shangguan has been tossing and turning in bed

because of this chicken.

Wait.

The chicken is crowing

because it's hungry.

Well...

If I don't feed it,

it will crow even more.

How about this?

I'll move it to another place.

Wait.

Didn't Vice Minister Shangguan and Mr. Li

go to the palace together?

Only one vice minister from the Court of Judicial Review

has to attend.

Besides, Vice Minister Shangguan

doesn’t like such events.

Maybe

she's afraid she might run into her father.

You know Vice Minister Shangguan

so well.

Don't use grandiose words

and say yes when you mean no!

W-What?

I...

Don't worry.

I never gossip about others.

I'm leaving.

I'm going to feed the chicken.

[Impartial Law Enforcement]

[Impartial Law Enforcement]

[Mingjing Hall]

[Impartial Law Enforcement]

When you survive a catastrophe,

there will be trouble later.

Alibaba.

What should we do

about Mr. Wang?

There will be a solution.

Have you never spent

the Holy Birthday Festival in Shendu?

The first time I saw it,

it was really eye-opening

and awe-inspiring.

Take a look.

This looks nice.

I'll buy your stall.

You can leave.

Thank you.

Dad, Mom, I got it this year!

This...

Why did you

buy so many?

You can deliver them to my house.

I write idioms

on the lanterns

to encourage myself to prepare for the Mandarin Level 8 Exam.

Wait.

You always talk about the Mandarin Level 8 Exam.

What is that?

The Mandarin Level 8 Exam

is the most important affirmation

for foreigners trying to

learn Mandarin.

It's the certificate for me

to officially join the Court of Judicial Review.

[Court of Judicial Review]

It's also the hardest obstacle in my life.

In the first year,

I didn't pass the exam

because I filled in the form wrongly.

I wanted to take the Mandarin Level 8 Exam

[Mandarin Level 4 Exam]

but I filled it in as Level 4.

[Shocked]

[Admission ticket: Alibaba]

Mandarin Level 4 Exam?

In the second year,

I missed a line when filling in the answers.

I filled them in wrongly!

[Screaming]

In the third year,

I was determined and stayed alert the whole night.

But on the day of the exam,

[Snoring]

due to exhaustion,

I fell asleep.

This year,

I drew the best divination lot

in the most accurate temple.

In order not to miss a line while filling in my answers,

I trained my eyes every day.

[Puff]

To prevent from falling asleep during the exam,

[Whack]

I maintained a strict

work and rest routine every day.

In the end...

So next year,

I must pass the Mandarin Level 8 Exam.

Repeat once, twice, thrice, and then four times.

No more than that.

Alibaba.

Isn't there a saying

about the three strikes rule?

You already...

How about this?

Teach me how to read.

I'll accompany you

to study for the Mandarin Level 8 Exam.

If we do it together,

you'll pass it.

Chen Shi.

I have something

that I couldn't bear to tell you.

Go ahead.

Your accent is really weird.

You are the one with the weird accent.

Tell me.

If Mr. Wang passes the Mandarin Level 8 Exam,

then...

Wang Qi is not a foreigner.

Why would he take the Mandarin Level 8 Exam?

You're right.

Here.

How strange.

You're a foreigner, right?

Why are you talking so strangely?

Who are you?

What's strange?

Who am I?

I am the father

of the vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review.

Vice minister?

Which vice minister?

Who else?

Wang Qi.

Vice Minister Wang.

[Wang Qi's father]

Take the stuff.

Wang Qi's father, this way please.

Wang Qi is there.

Not here?

He's in the private house. Be careful.

This way.

Okay, okay.

I'm coming!

I'm here to see Qi.

You insisted on coming even though I told you not to.

I'm worried.

You're worried, huh?

Yes.

During the Holy Birthday Festival,

a family

should be together.

This doesn't make sense.

Normally, when one

stays with Cui Bei for a long time,

something would happen to them.

How come your parents

are fine

and even getting more and more energetic?

My parents are like me.

They have resilient fates.

Cui Bei has no effect on them.

Mr. Wang.

When your parents

came to the Court of Judicial Review and said

they are the parents of Vice Minister Wang,

I thought they were being hysteric.

Your parents are the ones that have hysteria.

I'm the one with hysteria.

Satisfied?

Then why don't you just spit it out?

You're really going all out to defeat me.

Here's the thing.

When Vice Minister was

indifferent to me that day,

I was especially sad.

I wanted to drink some wine to boost my courage,

so as to write to my parents

to tell them I was expelled from the Court of Judicial Review.

Then I drank more and more,

and more and more.

In the end, I got drunk.

I was so drunk...

You got carried away?

Yes.

I was so drunk that I got carried away.

I wrote to my parents saying that

I'm...

I'm the vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review.

What were you thinking?

I regret it.

[Posthouse]

Officer! Officer!

Officer! Officer!

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Have you seen

the letter that was slipped into the door

last night?

Tell me about it.

There was a drunkard last night.

Guards!

The vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review wants to send a letter!

Guards!

Did you send it?

Did you send it?

Where is it?

This way.

This way.

When we got dressed and came out,

he was gone.

Yes, yes, yes.

It's that letter.

Did you send it?

You didn't send it, right?

Here's the thing.

Last night,

that pathetic buddy of mine at my house

drank too much.

He got and sent the wrong letter.

Give me the letter.

You can

burn it instead too.

As long as you don't send it out,

you can do whatever you want with it.

I'm afraid not.

When we saw him being so anxious

and that he was sending it to family,

we didn't want to delay something urgent.

So we rushed to send it over

this morning.

You rushed to send it over

this morning?

I didn't pay you.

Why did you send it out?

We all recognized the paper that the letter was written on

last night.

It's the paper that Alibaba,

the judge from the Court of Judicial Review,

uses.

He often writes letters

to his foreign relatives here.

He also tips us a lot

for our hard work.

It's our pleasure to help

with this.

You guys are so kind.

What's wrong?

Great.

Mr. Sun,

that's why you brought

his mother in?

I was once a scout in the army

who had to think on my feet.

I had to go along with what was being said.

Judging from the situation,

I took your mother away.

I didn't expect your father to come too.

I wanted to delay it

and explain to my parents

after the Holy Birthday Festival.

Unexpectedly,

once my parents heard that

I became the vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review,

they came here to celebrate the festival.

At this point,

you should just repent

and be absolved of your crimes.

You have no idea

that I'm the youngest son in my family.

And my father is

very strict with me.

Did you burn yourself?

Well, no...

Don't talk while watching a chess game.

You don't say anything when you should.

I'm now surrounded with no way out!

Look at my father.

He is only submissive to my mother

because my mother

was old and weak when she gave birth

to me.

So my father always gives in to her.

He is not

like this to me.

I wanted to learn martial arts since I was young.

But the master he got for me

attacked me

without warning.

Screw you!

[Whack]

[Ah]

He was over-anxious for me to make progress

without caring for me.

There was something even more ridiculous.

What are you doing?

How dare you run away!

How dare you!

How dare you!

[Whack]

[Whack]

Besides,

every time I made a little progress,

my father would forbid me from doing it.

He said I'm not suitable for martial arts.

Be it studying, writing,

or even doing business,

he never supported me once.

When I took the exam to join the Court of Judicial Review,

he said I'd never pass it.

Now, if I tell him

I was expelled from the Court of Judicial Review

and that

me being a vice minister was just drunken talk,

he...

he would beat me to death.

But if you don't tell the truth now,

you'd be making more mistakes

and making the best of a mistake without correcting it.

Making more mistakes

and making the best of a mistake without correcting it.

Easier said than done...

Make the best of a mistake without correcting it?

Today is the Holy Birthday Festival.

The Court of Judicial Review

is resting for three days.

Where did our vice minister go?

Mr. Li went to the palace.

When will he come back?

He said

it should be after dinner.

After dinner?

[Shangguan Lian]

Vice Minister Li.

Assistant Minister Feng.

Her Majesty sent a message.

Don't stand on ceremony.

We've prepared a banquet here.

It's better to drink to your heart's content.

Thank you for Her Majesty's grace.

Everyone.

I usually

treat you three well, right?

You, Alibaba,

when you took the Mandarin Level 8 Exam.

Sun Bao,

when you were praying to God for divinations

and visited your former military comrades.

I was always the one

who helped you take care of your workload.

Chen Shi.

Although

we haven't known each other for long,

I can tell

you're kind.

If you need my help

in the future,

I'll be at your disposal.

What do you want?

Please help me

get through this.

This one.

Is this okay?

You won.

I won?

Really?

Of course.

I won?

I can win too.

That's great.

My skills have improved.

Vice Minister Li.

Are you also interested in Nuo opera?

I was just looking at these masks

and thought they were exquisite.

When the performer dances in a mask,

they look like a ghost,

but it's actually thanking the gods for their blessings.

Who knows who is

behind this mask?

This is the Minister of Defense,

Shangguan Lian.

Speaking of which, he has some connections

with your Court of Judicial Review.

He is the father

of Vice Minister Shangguan of the Court of Judicial Review.

Qi.

Mother.

Father.

I want to visit the Court of Judicial Review.

I'll take you two there.

Please.

T-Take...

Take...

Let's go.

Let's go.

Where are they going?

Get lost!

What do you mean?

You have something to tell me?

But without talking

and just using body language.

It's a game!

A riddle?

Interesting.

Go ahead.

[Court of Judicial Review]