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The Legend of Xiao Chuo

Episode 39

I didn't send the poisoned wine.

You don't have to say much, Your Highness.

Si wouldn't have gone

if I hadn't insisted on going back to Shangjing that day.

Now,

Si has passed away,

just let her rest in peace.

That's what I thought.

So I came to you for that.

Qingge's whereabouts is still unknown.

So is the truth.

Nothing's been decided yet.

I know you're in a bad mood.

But there is no use running away.

If you don't get back on your feet,

who will find out the truth?

Don't you...

Don't you want to capture

the one who poisoned her?

The one?

The real murderer

who poisoned Li Si.

Since my return,

I've made many enemies.

Si has also been affected.

If someone hates me to the bone,

they can

just come at me.

Why they couldn't have let Si go?

It's my fault.

I shouldn't have asked you to go back here.

Si has suffered for years.

Before she died, Si advised me for many times

to stay out of trouble.

If it weren't for me,

she wouldn't have ended up here.

Whatever you think,

this is about my innocence

and the country.

I'll get to the bottom of this case.

He didn't believe me.

No, he wouldn't.

Mr. Han knows you best.

He must have been so heartbroken

that he didn't care about what to say.

Please don't take it personally, Your Highness.

We'll find Qingge as soon as possible

to prove Your Highness' innocence.

I do hope you would find her.

Let's go to see His Majesty.

To find out the truth,

We must search the mansions of royal members and courtiers in Shangjing

to find out Qingge.

To do so,

we must get His Majesty's permission.

Yes.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, I'm sorry to tell you

that His Majesty just took the medicine,

and is taking a walk in the imperial garden.

Shall I take Your Highness there?

You may not.

I'll wait for him here.

Get your things done first.

Please take a seat, Your Highness.

I'll serve the tea soon.

Why there is a woman's thing

on the bed of His Majesty?

Here, Your Highness.

Here is the tea, Your Highness.

It occurred to me that

I have some work to do.

I need to go now.

Take care, Your Highness.

Your Highness,

I went to Zhangmin Palace and checked the expenditure.

I found that His Majesty

bought a maid during the Hunting

the account book as his concubine.

Things spent by Yuxiao from Zhangmin Palace in this month.

materials that were brought out of the storehouse

Your Highness?

Your Highness!

Your Highness, are you all right?

Your Highness.

Your Highness,

here is Crown Princess.

Ask her to come in.

Yes.

Crown Princess, this way please.

What happened to Her Highness?

Summon up Diligu.

Yes.

Are you Okay?

You're a grown-up.

You should take care of yourself,

instead of pushing yourself so hard.

Your Highness, Crown Princess, may you good health.

How's Her Highness?

Your Highness has just finished her confinement

and should be nurseed with great care.

But Your Highness was so busy with the court

that her health declined.

The reason why this case is serious

is that Your Highness overexerted

and depressed herself.

If not taken care of in time,

the health of Your Highness will be severely damaged.

I'll make a prescription,

and Her Highness

should take medicine according to it,

have a peaceful mind and take a good rest.

Thank you,

you may go ahead.

I ask to leave now.

Just leave us alone.

Yes.

Yanyan,

what happened?

No matter what happens,

I'm always on your side.

Tell me.

I'm fine.

I'll take care of myself.

You drove yourself too much.

All right,

I'll not push you.

If you want to talk,

I'm always there, okay?

Now leave everything behind,

and have a good rest.

We'll talk about it tomorrow if you feel better.

Liangge.

Yes, Crown Princess.

Take care of Her Highness.

Yes.

Your Highness,

please don't worry too much.

Your health really matters.

I'm so tired.

Your Highness.

Yanyan is sick.

Why Liangge came quietly to Yanchang Palace for me

instead of going to Zhangmin Palace?

Something must have happened

between Yanyan and His Majesty.

If not, why such a healthy person

would have fallen ill?

Your Highness works too hard.

Now the affairs of the state and the court

are all undertaken by herself.

No one can give her a hand.

She used to depended most on

His Majesty and Mr. Han.

But now she earned their enmity.

She is Queen Regent.

She can't weep out her grief to anyone.

So she got sick.

Something went wrong here.

Li Si just died only a few days ago.

But rumors have spread

with vivid details in the capital.

It's said that Yanyan

poisoned her out of jealousy.

That's outrageous.

Such a load of codswallop.

Yanyan and Han Derang

have married to different families for years.

Should she be jealous,

she wouldn't wait for that long.

No sooner had Mrs. Han just died,

than the rumors spread out quickly.

It's so weird.

There must be

someone behind it.

The first thing is Hudujin's rumor.

Then the poisoned wine was served to Han Derang.

Later on, the rumors spread,

saying that Yanyan poisoned Mrs. Han

because of jealousy.

These three things

were done to stain Yanyan's reputation,

so that Han Derang will

leave the capital

and can never assist Yanyan.

His Majesty has been seriously ill.

If Yanyan lost

her capable assistants

and her reputation,

she would lose the courtiers' support

and could never act as Queen Regent.

Then the man behind this

will be the big winner.

I remembered in this morning,

Her Highness had just met Diligu.

Then she summoned up Xiuge

and Xiezhen to discuss in the study.

In the morning, Her Highness went to

the mansion of Privy Senator Han for commemoration,

but she seemed to

have argued with him.

Then Her Highness rushed back to her palace

and has been working up to now.

If Bro Han

believed this rumor,

Her Highness

couldn't be more angry.

But to my surprise,

there's something strange about the death of Li Si.

And the rumors spread too quickly.

How could they

not see the problem?

Your Majesty, would you like to see Her Highness?

That's not a good idea right now.

I know her temper

better than all of you.

If she decides to do something,

no one can stop her.

What's more,

given that Qingge is still missing,

she must be very restless.

So...

After she cool off,

I'll talk to her.

Your Majesty,

Her Highness has issued a decree

to search for Qingge.

All the mansions of royal families and courtiers

will be searched.

Ask Xiuge and Xiezhen

to find out the truth as soon as possible.

Yes.

Miss, look at this bracelet.

This came in a few days ago.

The latest style.

Have a try.

If you don't like this one,

we have other kinds of bracelets here.

-You guys... -Please have a look.

search the neighborhood thoroughly.

Yes, sir.

Hailan,

what are you doing here?

Well,

I can't believe we can meet here.

We must be brought together by fate.

Miss, would you like to try this one?

You see,

Shanging has not been in peace recently.

I think

it would be better if I escorted you.

Hailan,

why do you always ignore me?

Well.

What would you like to take?

I can buy anything for you.

Hailan.

Hailan.

Hailan.

Do you have time to...?

How's that?

Did you find out her?

Your Highness,

we didn't found her in the city.

Search another spot.

Yes.

Follow me outside the city to continue the search.

The body has been found.

In the haystack, outside the city.

It was discovered by a shepherd.

The coroner said

she probably has been dead for two days.

Two days?

The day when Li Si was killed?

Yes.

It must be someone

that took advantage of Qingge to hurt me.

I'll look into this case for myself

to avenge Qingge

and prove my innocence.

Xiuge just told me that

the body of Qingge

was found in the haystack

outside the city.

All the jewelry was left.

She wasn't raped before she died.

It's not robbery.

Even not rape or murder.

Qingge led a simple life.

Over the years,

she has been serving Her Highness in the imperial palace.

She should have no enemies.

Nor is this revenge.

And she was missing

after serving the poisoned wine.

I guess...

Her death

could be blamed on me.

Maybe Qingge was threatened

to serve the poisoned wine.

After things were done,

someone made her silent for good.

In my opinion,

that cup of poisoned wine

should have been for me.

Childe.

Childe.

Rumors were also aimed at me.

But after he killed my wife by mistake,

the killer spread the second rumor

to cover up the truth,

saying that Mrs. Han was killed by Her Highness.

Meanwhile,

he killed Qingge who served the poisoned wine.

So he could

alienate me from Her Highnees.

And the case couldn't be investigated.

Such a vicious scheme.

As for what I did in the mourning hall,

I did it on purpose.

I know what kind of person

Her Highness is.

Well,

someone from the palace

asked you to go with them.

They said there is something important to discuss.

It should be

the death of Qingge.

So you have the chance to see Her Highness

and discuss with her on what to do.

This is not the time.

Someone will take advantage of this.

Then you're not going to the palace?

Since he

wanted to drive a wedge between me and the queen,

well,

I'd do as what he expected.

Xinning,

send someone to keep an eye on King Zhao.

It must have something to do with him.

Hasn't he come yet?

He must still suspect that

I killed Li Si

and then silenced Qingge for good.

No.

Mr. Han is the one

who knows Your Highness best.

He would never guessed so.

He refused to see me today,

and did't care about Qingge's death.

I'm afraid that

we've already grown apart.

Pay my respect to you, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty,

you can't

let Her Highness do what she wants.

Xiuge and Xiezhen

would have turned Shangjing upside down.

How did it turn out?

Nothing was found.

The body of Qingge

was found outside the city

But Her Highness didn't stop searching.

This may offend

Royal members and courtiers of the North and South.

If that happened,

even the strongest Pishi troop

could never

defend their frenzied attack.

I know.

Hugu, you may go now.

I'll talk to Her Highness.

Your Majesty,

The King of Liang has grown up enough

to learn to govern the country.

Her Highness can guide him,

instead of

arrogating power to herself.

Royal members were abuzz over this.

What do you want?

Her Highness is a woman after all.

Empress Dowager Shulü was a woman, too.

I want to ask you something.

Since Her Highness was in power,

has she made any mistake?

There is no mistake.

But...

There is one thing

I hope you would understand.

Her Highness and I were like one.

It is I that make

her Queen Regent.

If anyone doubts it,

they can talk directly with me.

I still wish

you wouldn't discuss over this

in private any more.

I dare not.

You may go now.

Yes.

Po.

Your Majesty.

See?

These people started to lodge complaints.

Set out to Chongde Palace.

His Majesty arrived!

Pay my respect to you, Your Majesty.

Why did you give me such a grand courtesy?

You may rise.

Courtesy is courtesy.

What does Your Majesty

come here for?

Nothing.

It's just that Hugu came to see me.

He said those royal members knew

you were ransacking the city.

But they are a little

critical of this matter.

So I think...

Why not just forget about it?

If you offended the royal family and clans

because of a Southerner,

it would do harm to you and Wenshunu.

What do you think?

Please forgive me for not obeying.

The reason why I did this

is not for Li Si.

It is because her death.

is related to two rumors.

If I don't follow the vine

to get the melon,

the background of Hudujin

cannot be proved.

Neither can my innocence.

I believe that you are innocent.

But the world does not.

For the children,

I can't stop searching now.

I beg your pardon, Your Majesty.

Anyway,

we are husband and wife.

Whatever happened to you,

I will support you.

Will you?

You still have such feelings for me?

At any time,

for me,

you are my only Queen.

Your Majesty is still weak.

Don't strain yourself.

You'd better go back to rest.

I'll take care of it.

Your Majesty needn't worry.

After my investigation,

I found the rumors

came from the King of Zhao Palace first.

The King of Zhao Palace?

Both came from there?

As for the first rumor,

people at the palace

tried to spread it without being noticed.

Despite that,

I found the clue

after probing for a while.

As for the second one,

it has something to do with Zhao Princess.

She mentioned at many parties

that Mrs. Han was put to death

for she bore grudge against Her Highness

and spread rumors everywhere.

And many people firmly believed that

this is the real reason why Her Highness

gave the poisoned wine.

Fuhui.

Get a carriage.

I'm going to the King of Zhao Palace.

Yes.

What makes my dear sister

who never goes out

come to visit me in person?

Wuguli, do you know that

Yanyan fell ill?

Really?

What happened?

That's what I came for.

You involved her in so much trouble.

Could she not fall ill?

Hunian, what do you mean?

The two rumors

both came from your palace.

What did you want?

Did you think

she has too little trouble?

Would you please

give a little thought to sisterhood

and live a peaceful life with Xiyin?

Hunian,

you wronged me.

I have no idea

what you're saying.

You went around telling people

that Li Si deserved to be killed by Yanyan.

You slung mud at your sister like this

and encouraged the rumors.

Don't you know that?

No wonder when we were at Chongde Palace last time,

you talked that much.

You were the thief who shouted "Stop thief!"

What do you mean?

Yanyan has always been in love with Han Derang.

What's strange about her

killing Li Si on impulse?

I was then sorry for Yanyan.

Besides, Yanyan is Queen.

If she doesn't like a person,

she can do whatever she wants.

There is no need for her

to make such fuss.

Hunian,

if you come here to scold me,

please leave me alone.

Take care.

Nonsense.

You are driving Yanyan to corner.

Han Derang is just a courtier.

What can he do to her?

She has been the queen for over a decade.

But she still cares about Han Derang.

Does it exactly prove

what I have been telling?

Maybe...

Yanyan just couldn't stand that

Han Derang loved another woman.

You're being ridiculous.

Chongjiu,

show my sister the door.

Yes.

Princess,

you shouldn't have

talked back to Crown Princess.

I guess Crown Princess

must have found out something.

Did you see her attitude?

How should I talk to her?

Go to ask Salan to see me.

I'll check this out carefully

and prove it to Hunian that

the rumors were not spread from here.

Yes.

Salan told me that

you asked him to go through the palace today

and identify the person who spread the rumors?

Yes.

It really annoyed me.

Hunian ran to the palace for no reason

and scolded me.

She said the rumors

were spread from our palace

and that I shouldn't have told others

Li Si was killed by Yanyan.

What did you say?

I would deny anything that

I haven't done before.

Do you really think

Yanyan

killed Li Si

with the poisoned wine?

You mean,

Yanyan was jealous of Li Si

so that she poisoned her to death?

I don't think

Yanyan would be jealous of her.

But Li Si did spread rumors

that Hudujin was the son of Han Derang.

That is bound to annoy Yanyan and His Majesty.

If I were Yanyan,

I couldn't spare her either.

You know,

Yanyan and His Majesty

seem to live a happy marriage life,

but in fact,

Yanyan

valued Han Derang above all.

However,

should Yanyan want to kill Li Si,

she wouldn't have asked Qingge to do so.

If so, everyone would have known that

she had something to do with it.

Please forgive me, Princess.

What's wrong with you?

You seemed lost these days.

Well, I feel tired now.

You all may go now.

Yes.

Chongjiu, hold on.

Chongjiu,

why you go out so early?

Well,

Princess asked me to run an errand.

That's too bad.

His Highness just asked you to see him.

What about

going with me first?

Then you can still go out

when everything is done

-Let go of me -Go.

Let go of me.

Please let go of me.

Let go of me.

Please let go of me.

Please.

Let go of me.

Please.

Princess! Princess!

Princess,

please save Chongjiu.

What's wrong?

His Highness...

His Highness has her arrested.

Take it easy.

What's going on?

Princess, we're out of time.

Please come with me to see Manager Salan.

I'm afraid it will be too late

to save Chongjiu's life.

Get up and take me to him.

Chongjiu.

Chongjiu.

Chongjiu.

Chongjiu.

Chongjiu.

How dare you beat

my personal maid

to death?

Princess.

Look.

We just followed

His Highness's order.

Where is His Highness?

His Highness is in the study.

Xiyin,

explain it to me!

Why did you treat

Chongjiu so cruelly?

Do you know

she has served me for 20 years?

Take it easy.

Early this morning,

Salan caught Chongjiu...

Salan caught Chongjiu carrying the bundle

and sneaking out of the palace.

After she was brought to me,

I knew that she colluded with outsiders

to steal things from the palace.

There's no need to

keep an unfaithful maid alive.

So, I let Salan punish her for you.

No way.

She's long been with me.

If she had any difficulty, she would tell me.

She would never steal anything.

How could she sneak out of the palace.

You're lying. You're lying.

Why did you make up

such an excuse to kill Chongjiu?

Is...

Is what Hunian said true?

You let out

those rumors, didn't you?

Did Li's death have something to do with you?

Oh, dear,

why do you want to get to the bottom of it?

I won't hurt you.

But you promised

never to hurt my loved ones.

Did you keep your promise?

Please calm down.

I'll explain it to you.

I didn't break my promise.

Whether it is Yanyan or Hunian,

I hurt neither of them.

I just planned

against Han Derang.

But the death of Li Si was an accident.

Why would you do that?

Why?

Dear, you know why I did this.

I promised to carry out my father's will.

Decades later, I still got nowhere.

I can't stand it any more.

Han Derang is just a Sountherner

with a little power in hand.

He even doesn't take me seriously.

I had to kill him.

But why did you kill Chongjiu?

She knew something

dangerous for her.

And now she tried to escape from the palace.

If Yanyan and Hunian knew that,

what I've done

would all be exposed.

You said

I am the one in your life.

Would you mind

sacrificing a maid for me?

You should have told me.

Then I could have warned her.

Chongjiu is very loyal.

She'll listen to me.

When she knew the truth,

she just wanted to escape.

How can I trust her?

Only when I kill her

will I feel at ease.

There is no turning back.

Sacrifice is needed.

My dear,

You have to know that

I've sacrificed all to contend for power.

I did this for you, for Liulishou,

for our dreams,

and for our family.

Then promise me

you will never

hurt Hunian

and Yanyan.

I promise.

Guiyin,

I need you to arrange

a funeral for Chongjiu.

If her other family members like,

they can come to work here

as our compensation for her family.

Yes.

Chongjiu.

What did you actually hear about?

How did you end up like this?

Chongjiu.

Chongjiu.

Guiyin.

Fuhui?

I heard about what happened to Chongjiu.

So I came over to mourn for her.

Fuhui,

Chongjiu really died from injustice.

Qingge's twin sister?

Yes.

I remembered that

Lange seemed to be a farmhand.

We mistook her for Qingge when she came to the Palace.

However,

Qingge is honest, while Lange is slippery.

If we knew that, their difference would be easy to tell.

If not,

it would be hard to tell.

According to your words,

the person who served the wine to Mrs. Han that day

was not Qingge

but Lange.

Over there.

Go.

Go over there.

King Zhao, Princess,

please forgive our offense.

As you please, Tiyin Xiuge.

There is nothing to hide here.

This way.

Follow me.

Princess,

what's the matter?

You seem a little upset.

Go over there.

You run to search my palace

like a bandit.

Shall I feel good?

I'm sorry about that.

I'm just following orders.

Please forgive me.

Nothing was found here.

Check over there.

Come on.

Be quick.

Did you kill Lange?

You guys, come with me.

I haven't had time.

I sent someone to kill her.

But she ran away.

Go over there.

Later, the situation in Shangjing became tense.

So I put it off for a while.

Some of you come with me.

Yes, sir.

We can't keep her alive.

Nothing was found.

Yanyan took this very seriously.

If she knew you were involved,

she would never spare you.

Neither was here.

She's keeping an eye on me.

Let me do this.

Hurry up.

After all, she was my maid.

We must get ahead of Yanyan

and silence her.

Search carefully.

Crown Princess.

I've checked everywhere but found no one.

Check again.

She shouldn't have gone far.

Look.

Here is a bitten cake.

But I really can't find her.

Lange, it's me, Hunian.

I know you can hear me.

I came to you for Qingge.

Lange.

Qingge is dead.

She was killed by the man behind you.

And you'll be his next victim.

If you died,

you two would just die from injustice.

Lange.

Qingge is your sister.

Don't you want to avenge her death?

No matter what you've done,

I can keep you alive.

Get out of the way.

Zhao Princess, please stay back here.

Get out of the way.

Zhao Princess, please stay back here.

Get out of the way.

Stop.

Wuguli,

you did know the truth.

Why did you choose to help Xiyin

and react against your sister?

No.

Hunian,

I won't let him hurt you and Yanyan.

But I can't see Xiyin

getting into trouble.

Please.

Please spare him this time.

I promise this won't happen again.

You promise?

Can you control him?

When he set up

Yanyan and Wenshunu,

you at least knew to give Yanyan a hand.

But now, you're

cleaning up his messes?

You're...

You're crazy.

Hunian,

you can't ask me to betray my husband.

Lange must die.

She will do harm to Xiyin.

You know, if you continue to protect him regardless,

he's doomed to death.

You may go now.

I won't let you kill Lange.

I've already let her go.

If you doubt it,

just go to check for yourself.

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Hunian, please,

I beg you.

Please do something

to help us.

Stop it.

I really can't help you this time.

Anyway, Xiyin should be given a lesson.

I can only help you

save his life.

Guiyin.

Here.

Take Princess home.

Yes.

Princess,

let's go back home.

Let's go.

Crown Princess,

don't be too sad.

Before my mom died,

she told me to take good care of my two sisters.

But I didn't expect that the older they grow

the more complicated they minds are.

I really can't look after them.

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♪Like a bird over the waves♪

♪Still be the same as we meet again♪

♪Exchange our love and passion♪

♪Fill two hearts with happy ending♪

♪You and I, from now to the end of time♪

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♪All the joy of the universe at your blink♪

♪Like a bird across the clouds♪

♪World shimmers at me♪

♪Love without regret♪

♪Fear for no danger♪

♪What a brilliant life♪

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♪Exchange our love and passion♪

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