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-Where are you feeling unwell? -Are you a physician?

I...I feel as if my throat is contricted.

After coughing twice, and my two ribs hurt.

I feel as if something is squeezing my stomach!

That something sharp is stabbing me between every breath

It is so painful every time I take a breath!

This will not work...

And anything else?

Also...

I am short of breath, drumming in the ears, my legs are cramped....

Anyway..I feel pain from head to toe.

I feel so terrible!

Don't you feel pain all over?

I inserted a needle into you.

I promise you’ll recover right away!

This rascal is not ill.

I know.

Say, you rascal,

If you're not unwell, why are you pretending to be in order to give this girl money?

Girl,

surely he does not like you right?

So pointless.

It was you who stopped the bridal escort that day?

M-Miss Ran.

It was me.

How did those horses stop the escort?

Because of my flute...

As soon as I blow on the flute, they will obediently come to me

and...surround you.

Girl, I am sure now.

He likes you.

Uncle that is an incorrect use of words,

It is not because I like Miss Ran.

I only admire her beauty,

someone I desire to have.

I see.

[Goldsmiths]

My Lord.

It is clear that this pearl was not originally kept in this box.

My Lord has orders, no-one may enter.

Move it!

I do not care who died,

I paid the deposit, I have to collect my gold hairpin!

Before we investigate the case

the government will be taking care of everything here.

No-one can retrieve it without permission.

Who determined that?

That was me.

As Lord Xiao determined that,

then I can only follow it.

You were not like this before.

I fell so dizzy.

Are you not feeling well?

I think it must be because this Lord scared me just now.

So....

When did I scare you? It was clearly you who yelled at me!

It looks like I cannot return home myself.

So I must trouble Your Excellency to take me home.

Bai Yi...

I am here.

Take her

W-What are you doing?

As my younger sister who shares a Father with me,

do you not know I handle the bodies of the dead,

and diagnoses the sick who are alive?

My Lord, I am feeling unwell, hurry and take me home!

A closure of the meridian to the womb....

A blockage to the fertility system.

What do you mean?

You are light headed because your menses.

T-That is such an embarrassment!

My Lord, I have something else, so I will leave first.

Ran Yan, you just wait!

Bai Yi.

Present.

Deliver that pot of bronze coins back to the offices.

Yes.

Don't look at me in such a way.

If there was not a new lead on the case,

I wouldn't have come to find you.

Someone gave me a lead.

Who?

Pay me and you'll see them

You never change.

I am Sang Chen, greetings My Lord.

Him?

What's wrong?

Hurry and stop.

You can hear the sound?

Human ears cannot hear the sound that is produced from this kind of whistle.

Only those hundreds more sensitive...

Hurry and look!

This is a horse flute.

Sang Ghen brought this from a foreign merchant.

Only the ears of a horse can hear it's sound.

Which means...

the horses of those four people only gathered here

because they heard this flute.

That is likely.

Follow me, let me show you something.

No-one has seen this carriage before.

Nor does anyone know what it's purpose is.

A Jili drum chariot?

Recorded within the Book of Jin and Fu Zhi Li, is this phrase,

the Jili drum chariot, carries four,

structured like the south pointing chariot,*

and has a wooden puppet hitting the drum

which will strike the drum once for every 500m traveled.

As soon as the puppet hits the drum,

it will produce a very strange sound.

And very similar to the sound the horse flute produces.

As soon as I hear that sound, I get a splitting migraine.

Which means...

Your Lordship has very sensitive ears so you can hear sound normal people cannot.

And therefore suffering from this condition.

As expected fish, you are inhuman.

Now, I've found your weakness.

If you don't want a headache, give me money.

Otherwise...

Xiao fish, you tricked me!

My Lord, isn't that....

That is a gift from the Imperial clan made of imported jade from Persia.

His Majesty bestowed it to me.

I went to find...

It's not important who carved it.

What's important it carries my thoughts.

As soon as I saw this fox.

I thought of you.

My Lord...clearly it was me who...

You...cannot beat me.

Xiao fish!

How does this fish resemble me?!

It's eyes are so small, it's stomach so big,

it's figure so bad...

-And it's ears... -This Persian jade is priceless.

Imported from Persia?

Is it worth a lot of money?

If you dare to sell a gift from the Emperor that I gave you,

according to the laws of the Tang kingdom, you will be executed for it.

What is the use of it then? Give me money!

I told you before,

I will pay you as soon as we find the truth.

My Lord, this is writing from the Shang dynasty. (1046-1600 BC)

I did not think it would be engraved on this drum chariot.

You recognize this writing?

I can read part of it.

This is the character for sacrifice.

What about this one?

This is the character for time.

This paragraph seems to be a record of a kind of sacrificial ritual.

Sacrificial ritual?

It seems to describe the fear for deities

and a way to bring fortune and rid misfortune.

There is a mention of the deity of Taishan!*

Taishan is where the sun rises at dawn,

hence the diety of Taishan has the ability to control life and death.

But...

why is this sacred text engraved on this drum chariot?

Miss Ran, I do not know that.

do you know how this chariot works when stationary?

My Lord, allow me to try.

My Lord....

My Lord this...

He's recording the score of the drum beat.

Why is he enduring the pain to do that?

I understand now!

I..I still do not understand.

This Jili drum chariot is a password.

I am even more confused, please can you inform me.

He wishes to use an ancient drum score

through sqares, circles and halves, to represent the score of the drum beat,

and then use those shapes as a key to this text

and perhaps we can find the answer.

Password, score...

Miss Ran is so intelligent, you can link two things that have no relationship together.

It seems I study too little,

staring from now onward I will definitely study hard.

Further down.

That place.

On the next day...

time 19:00

Kill four....

The killing method...

Like removing the skin of the mulberry tree,,,,

Like removing the skin of the mulberry tree?

Remove the skin of the branches of the mulberry tree?

The Zhe torture?

Which means, kill the four of them tomorrow at 7pm.

If...we cannot find them right away,

they will be murdered through the Zhe torture method!

We must find the identity of those 4 decomposed bodies.

Did you find any leads?

When I infiltrated the home of Zhuang Bifan, I found a secret chamber.

There is an image of the Marquis of Sui there.

Why does Zhuang Bifan have that?

I do not know for now.

But after Xiao Song left, he took with him pot of bronze coins from Zhuang's home with him.

What is the use of the bronze coins?

Hurry and investigate.

Yes.

What is your relationship with Wei Siniang?

I am growing old, so cannot go to work.

So I sent her to go to the births.

Do you know her family condition?

Does she have any family?

She has a distant nephew living with her.

That nephew has an ill complexion.

His hand joints are very big.

Big hand joints?

Hua Xuwan told me that

her cousin was a lot taller than her even though she was older,

even half a head taller than you are!

We’ve been suspecting that they are not cousins.

Zhuang Bifan is a little eccentric.

He visits the Qingli brothel alone?

Although he has a younger male cousin but he never takes him to the Qingli brothel.

He always goes alone.

He is an aunt/ sister-in-law?

Take medicine all the time?

eed, our Manager Bu Zixiao's aunt has a constant stomach condit

as long as it occurs, she cannot eat.

They do not even want to eat because of this case,

they forget sleep and food for a case.

It seems I can only invite Miss Ran for a meal another day.

This excellency, may I borrow your brush and ink?

You may, come in and take it.

Thank you.

The male body who replaced Bu Zixiao,

has a crack on his right ulna. (long bone stretching from elbow to small finger)

It means it was pierced before.

Are you sure that Manager Zhuang's cousin,

has been pierced on the right lower forearm?

I am sure, I saw his cousin’s right arm had a

bandage there with blood seeping through.

the location of the wound matches with the wound the cousin of the

Manager of the Goldsmiths, Zhuang Bifan.

The female body who replaced Hua Xuwan,

is very long, much longer than a normal person.

It matches with the cousin of Hua Xuwan.

her cousin was a lot taller than her even though she was older,

even half a head taller than you are!

We been suspecting that they are not cousins.

The hand joints of all four bodies are extraordinarily large.

Especially the body that replaced Zhuang Bifan,

his bone structure is thin but his joints are big.

It matches very well with the description that the old woman gave of Wei Siniang's nephew.

That nephew has an ill complexion.

His hand joints are very big.

Had big hand joints

How did you know?

As long as someone passes before my eyes,

I will know his health condition.

The body that replaced Wei Siniang,

I've examined her stomach,

there are lot of polyps there.

it should be caused by a stomach condition.

Our manager Bu Zixiao's aunt has a relapsing stomach condition,

as long as it occurs, she cannot eat.

But my manager told me to not inquire about it,

every time it ends with her taking medicine, but they never see a physician.

These four bodies are not Bu Zixiao, Hua Xuwan,

Zhuang Bifan, Wei Siniang,

but their four relatives.

Come here.

Group leader Bai.

What's going on? Why did you place such an important piece of evidence out here?

there's a leak inside, we're trying to fix it.

Even if there's a leak, you cannot place the box here.

Move it into the autopsy room.

Yes, I will get someone right away.

Brother Zhu, where are you going?

Brother Bai, my wife is severely ill,

I must hurry and take care of her.

Please inform Lord Xiao for me.

I got it, hurry and go.

Stop!

Who are you looking for?

Ran Yan.

Who are you?

You are Examiner Ran’s husband Young Master Su right?

I know this person, let him in.

Yes.

Strange?

Coincidence?

The four of them left home 6 months ago.

Had they all told their neighbors that it was because there was a fun

of a relative they had to attend.

The four of them did not have any contact normally,

but it not seems

they are very close together,

and they all lost a relative,

yet they did not report it.

Perhaps they hid it on purpose.

Why did they intentionally conceal it?

What...brings you here?

I came to collect you.

My Lord.

Bai Yi...

Do you not find that back quite familiar?

seem to have seen it in the Qingli brothel.

Someone touched this bronze coin.

It seems someone is interested in Zhuang Bifan's bronze coins as well.

Perhaps the one who infiltrated this room was after the Marquis of Sui's pearl too.

Investigate Su Fu's background.

Find out who his Master/teacher is.

Apart from his identity as a son of the Su family,

see if he has another identity.

Your Lordship...suspects him?

He is a man of few words

and is unreadable

it's hard to know what he is thinking.

Someone as cold as he is,

how could he possibly visit a place like the Qingli brothel.

You are right, I will investigate it now.

What is your motive for...

for getting close to me?

Is it because of Xiao Song?

You're the assassin, he is searching for.

I am your future husband.

What...do you want?

Do you wish to marry me?

As soon as I was born, I was a Shu son.

Have a father but it was as if I didnt.

Have a home but it was as if I didn't.

Everyone treated me as if I was a thorn in their eye.

In order to live,

I can only learn martial arts.

In order to survive,

I can only kill people.

But the people I kill are the ones who have committed heinous crimes.

And the corrupt officials of this dynasty.

I am an assassin.

You should break off the marriage.

We are so alike!

Wait for me here.

You are all from the palace,

who ordered for you to kidnap Ran Yan?

That woman...what is your relationship with her?

Why are you always stopping from harming that woman?

I am the one asking questions!

You will never know the answer.

Even if you kill me it...

In this world,

I am the only one who can kill her.

How do you know that I like osmanthus cake?

I saw it in your family last time.

Is it good?

[Manor of the Governor of the Suzhou province]

I investigated Su Fu over the night,

He is the Shu son of the Apothecarist Su clan.

His Mother was once a dancer,

after Master Su took a liking to her he took her as his concubine.

His Mother passed away shortly after his birth.

Because of his Mother's identity, he is not favored within the Su family.

He met a traveling monk at aged four who taught him martial arts

and left 10 years ago.

Su Fu's background seems simple,

nothing is out of the ordinary.

His background is so clean....

My Lord...

why do you care about Su Fu so much?

Could it be..

because of Examiner Ran?

Look at these bronze coins, do you see any resemblance in them?

On these bronze coins,

have differing amount of scratches.

Every time Liu Can visits Suzhou,

he will visit several places.

Except the goldsmith’s is not somewhere people often visit.

You would only go if you wish to buy some gold.

But why did Liu Can visit Zhuang Bifan's shop every time?

And these coins with scratches,

Did Liu Can give it to Zhuang Bifan or someone else?

My Lord, this is complicated.

My Lord you have not slept the entire night

you should rest now.

Pour me a cup of tea.

Lord Xiao.

Manager Zhuang has a strange habit,

it's that whether there is wind or rain, he would carry a parasol with him at all time

The oil parasol?

Lord Xiao.

Do you have all the evidence from the chariot case here?

My Lord, they are all here.

I will help you get whatever you need.

No need, I will retrieve it.

Yes.

My Lord, then I will leave first.

[I borrowed the parasol as it was raining, will return it another day. Sang Chen]

Sang Chen....

As the cockerel has crowed, the day has begun.

A sickle?

I found the weapon! I found a weapon!

Miss, must we grow our own food?

We shall grow out own food with our hands

But it will be autumn before these crops are ready.

Wouldn't we starve?

If you are hungry, then eat my specimens.

Miss, where are you going dressed as a man?

I have to go to the Qingli brothel.

Miss, how can you not take me when you're going to find merriment?

I am dressed up as a man to examine the dancers of their ailments.

To earn some spending money.

Then remember to buy some flour and rice.

I am alone again.

I am always abandoned by Miss.

Is Miss Ran around?

She’s not here, she’s gone to the Qingli brothel.

That handsome man is so familiar,

I must have seen him somewhere.

Miss Wan Lv, may I ask if Miss Ran is around?

She is not around, she is in Qingli brothel.

Why is she going to the Qingli brothel?

To make a living that's why...

She plans to jump into that fire pit for money?!

No I must stop her! I must ensure her chastity is intact!

Fire pit? Chastity?

That person must be ill in the head.

9998....9999....I finally walked 10,000 steps today!

Ran Yan?

Disguising yourself as a man,

I want to see what you're up to.

Miss, who are you looking for?

Here, money for you.

Help me find a man's clothing.

Sure.

Mis...Mister Ran,

Qingdai is asleep, you sit here for a moment,

when she wakes up I will go and let you examine her.

Ran Yan..

You're already at your wit's end?

It's better to make your own living than to collect something other's do not want.

I don't like collecting what other's do not want!

No-one can take what I set my sights on!

I just came back from the Governor's manor.

What? You think you can return to the Ran family by being close with a high ranking official?

I am not getting close to a high rank official,

I am helping to examine a dead body.

Only people like you with lowly status

will be willing to do inferior work like that!

They are 4 decomposing bodies.

Disgusting.

What is most disgusting is...

I seem to have forgotten to wash my hands!

Ran Yan!

You! You!

Want to fight me?

You've never beaten me before.

She doesn't know her position.

Zhuang Bi fan will visit the Qingli brothel every month on the 18th.

What was his motive?