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The wine is here!

Try that dish!

Good!

Try another two dishes, I'll fill this for you.

What is wrong with that young master?

Probably drunk.

W-Who are you?!

Shut up!

If you yell, I'll kill you

A gentleman is open and generous,

while villains likes to make a big thing out of small things.

Where is the parasol?

There are oil paper parasol, and sun parasols.

Yellow and green...

I don't have time to play with you!

What are you doing?!

Miss Ran?

If you answer incorrectly she will lose her life!

Do not hurt her, will tell you everything I know!

Where is the parasol?

W-What parasol?

Zhuang Bifan's parasol.

Oh Zhuang Bifan!

I...left the parasol at the school.

Tell our men to head to the school.

Yes.

You released the messenger pigeon?

Yes.

Handle that woman and him.

Handle..

What do you mean?

Run!

Hurry, hurry!

Go to the corner, I'm around, do not be afraid.

Move back!

Or I’ll kill her!

Move back!

Move!

Kill them!

I-I'ts you!

Lord Xiao, what's going on?

Who told you to take my evidence?

I wrote a note to borrow it!

Let's go!

Do not look or listen to inappropriate things!

Pick up my clothes

and help me get dressed.

Someone! Help me!

Brother Bai!

Brother Zhu!

His Lordship is inside, hurry and go in!

M-My Lord, h-hurts!

My Lord where are you taking me?

Let's go!

Let me go!

My Lord, are you alright?

I'm fine.

T-This where are we going?

Take him to the school.

Why are we going to the school?

Scared me to death.

This...why has it disappeared?

I clearly placed the oil paper parasol here.

Why has it disappeared?

It seems....someone got here before us.

Who are these people?

Could they be the murderers of the chariot case?

They...do not seem to be the killer.

They should be related to the 8 victims of the chariot case.

Oh yes, I found the murder weapon.

It's a hand sickle.

Isn't the handle sickle used to rob a grave?

An ancient Han drum chariot, could the 8 people be related to a tomb robbery?

Sang Chen,

think carefully,

was there any different about that parasol?

Different?

Oh yes! The frame of the parasol was quite strange.

There were some strange chaotic imagery on the frame

and seemed unfinished!

Chaotic imagery?

Perhaps it is a lead your kidnappers tried to find.

It's a shame we do not have it now.

I remember it!

How could you remember?

I am someone who never forgets what they see. whatever I see is in here!

My Lord, please wait here.

My Lord!

It's this!

What does this mean?

We cannot see the image.

[Liang warehouse]

My Lord this...

Miss.

You're finally back.

If you don't get back, you will find my body

Miss...

What about the flour and rice I asked you to buy?

Tell me if 4 people have no contact normally,

yet they are acquainted.

How will they contact each other?

Pigeon messenger.

Miss, did you bring some pigeon for us to roast and eat?

Why are you keeping these rags?

we have no money now, so we can only wear our old clothes.

Miss....what did you buy for me?

Old clothes..

That's right, it's old clothes

Wan Lv, I like you so much

we’ve searched the warehouse, but discovered all the boxes are empty.

But from the traces at the scene, before we got here these boxes

there was something in the box and probably moved it out.

Go and ask Zhu Qi.

Have any merchants left the city recently?

Yes.

Yaose fabric shop?

Wait.

Does Hua Xuwen sell the children's birthing outfit* in this shop?

Her dressmaking skills are quite good so she is a supplier of ours.

And who would normally buy these clothes?

Wei Siniang would buy all of them.

Which midwife comes to give support during the births?

Your Excellency, it's Wei Siniang.

Did Wei Siniang ever give you a birthing outfit?

Because my wife had a difficult birth so my son had always had fragile health.

So Wei Siniang said my child must wear the birthing outfit for 3 days and after

the celebtration 3 days after his birth e may remove it

During that celebration, there will be a banquet and jewellry offered.

Which restaurant and goldsmith's did you employ for that?

Your Lordship, we employed the Xiangyun

that restaurant was the most famous and had the best name.

As for the goldsmiths, it was Goldsmiths Zhuang.

He is very skilled jeweler and his specialty is in making children's jewelry.

Bu Zixiao, Zhuang Bifan.

Hua Xuwan makes the children's birthing outfit,

Wei Siniang puts that outfit on the newborn babies.

And the families who had those births would hold a ceremony.

Zhuang Bifan made the gold jewelry.

Bu Zixiao is responsible for the banquet,

both of them can see the birthing outfit.

The answer is on the...

The birthing outfit.

The blue fabric represents a flowing river,

the yellow fabric represents a street.

White fabric means a house.

The green fabric means a forest.

The red fabric...

is the path to take.

Miss Ran?

where is she going with Lord Xiao?

Let's go hurry.

Why is there a door here?

This stone gate looks like the entrance of an ancient tomb.

The address Hua Xuwan gave was to an ancient grave?

The short handle sickle is a tool used in tomb raiding?

shall we go in and take a look?

Most ancient graves have traps laid within them, we cannot go in unprepared.

Let me go in and take a look.

Miss Ran.

You are investigating a case?

There's the entrance to a ancient grave.

I know about ancient graves.

Up there is an image of the 3 movements of the sun.*

This is a tomb of a Han.*

Only the gate is a little small.

I've read some myths on the subject

that introduces the structure of a tomb from the Han kingdom it said there were two stone blocks round the back

one is heavier than the other,

when the gate closes, the heavier one will fall

and the lighter one will be raised and block the gate.

are there other traps? Can we go in?

Someone has clearly raided it before so there must be no traps.

Excuse me,

I'm sensitive to the cold and damp and it is not suitable for me to enter such a place.

as soon as I go somewhere damp, I feel the need to defecate, so I'll be back when I relieve myself!

Sang Chen, why did you close the door?

It seems like something unexpected occurred outside we must rely on ourselves!

But Sang Chen is still outside!

Fox.

Although Sang Chen he is pedantic and naive,

but I am sure he is adaptive when he runs into something.

I hope so.

This place is dark and mysterious.

Let's hurry and leave.

What? You don't want to find the truth?

I just want to make it out alive right now!

She has suffered from Zhe torture

and then was axed to death with a sickle.

What kind of place does this remind you of?

Hell.

On the 15th level of hell, was where Zhe torture was performed.

Those who raid the graves of others will be sent to the hell of Zhe torture.

From the bruising and discoloration of the body

their time of death is less than 1 hour.

Which means...

they were not killed on that night.

Hua Xuwan is missing a portion of her little finger.

Hua Xuwan is

Could it be Hua Xuwan..

who personally killed her own cousin?

These four people

formed their acquaintances that their relative left to go to a fu

They used the same reason.

Which means they were trying to conceal the same thing!

That was why they killed their own relatives!

These four people are so ruthless.

But why did they do that?

The sickle..

Their joints were all extraordinarily large.

Zhuang Bifan's oil paper parasol.

The Liang warehouse...

Birthing outfit?

Zhe torture?

All eight of them were tomb raiders.

Because they spend so much time in a dark and damp place causing their joints to be swollen.

Normally it was Hua Xuwan,

who was responsible for finding the location of the ancient tombs.

And she would inform the address to the other four.

They would hide the grave goods within the Liang warehouse

and then sell it to a certain person.

However the eight of them got into conflict.

Hua Xuwan, Wei Siniang, Zhuang Bifan, Bu Zixiao, those four people

killed their "relatives".

The person who kidnapped Sang Chen

should be the killer.

Could the murderer be the buyer?

We do not know yet.

But...on that night,

the murderer probably committed the murder like this.

That night,

they used a box normally containing jewellry

and filled it with tools for the tomb raid

then headed to the location of their target.

They brought the weapon with them.

Someone rubbed some sleeping medication on the horse whip

that was why the person holding the whip would pass out after a while.

It was the same for all four of them.

The drum was made specially for this.

The sound of the wooden puppets striking the drum was exactl like a horse flute.

Normal people cannot hear it.

Only the horses with sensitive hearing can hear it.

The killer exchanged the clothes of the dead with the living,

then placed the decaying body inside.

He performed the Zhe torture onto the dead bodies before

he exchanged the clothes.

After changing their clothes,

he lifted Zhuang Bifan and the others onto the drum chariot

after he finished the exchange he returned Zhuang Bifan's carriage to it's original position,

and compacted all the grass in the center of the field

so there were no traces of wheel tracks.

Finally,

killer pushed the chariot containing Zhaung Bifan and the ot..

along the wheel tracks of Zhaung Bifan to leave.

It seems like that chariot is something that was from this tomb.

There seems to be a mark from a knife here.

And this knife seems quite sharp

and thick also.

A knife of an official.

It seems that when the killer committed the murder

accidentally lodged the knife onto the stone coffin.

That was why a small portion of that knife was cracked.

H-Hurts!

Where am I?

I remember now,

I was chased by someone and fell here.

Oh no! Miss Ran!

Miss Ran!

I'm done for!

What to do? What to do?

Get reinforcements.

Recently, although there have been quite a few people who have left the city,

but we did not see anyone transporting large amounts of goods.

Could they have...transported it out another way?

I will arrange for someone to investigate.

Thank you Brother Zhu.

I did not expect that Brother Zhu would dote on your wife so much.

You buy so much for her each time.

She has been with me for over 8 years.

She has suffered so much because of me.

Naturally I should treat her well!

Hurry!

Brother Bai?

am glad to see you, Miss Ran and Lord Xiao are trapped within the ancient tomb,

hurry and save them

Hurry hurry up!

-Let's go! -Go!

H-Hurry! Hurry up!

Hurry up!

Will we be like those four people

and die here

without anyone knowing?

I will not let you die.

This is the first time I've heard

you say something humane ever since I met you.

You cannot sleep fox.

Then tell me about that saber pendant on your neck.

When I was born

my family called an esteemed monk to look at my fate.

That person said I would follow either one of 2 fates.

One fate would be that I would have a good career, and my future smooth and bright.

The other destiny was...

I would bring misfortune to those around me and any wife I take will die.

So you're the legendary harbringer of misfortune.

I have been married twice,

but they both died mysteriously after they married me.

Then I should call you Widower Xiao?

The true purpose of this sabre pendant,

was not as a good luck charm.

I knew you were deceiving me.

When I was little,

I started to suffer from migraines.

My life was in danger.

family got all the famous physicians in Chang'an to examine

but they could not treat it.

Until one day,

my grandfather's pendant

accidentally fell onto my blanket,

and surprisingly lessened the pain of my migraine.

From that day onwards,

this sabre pendant had been by my side since.

But...it was no use right?

Don't you still get migraines?

Perhaps it was all in the mind.

I do not believe that someone is able to kill their wives with their fate.

Your destiny should be in your own hands.

How could you rely on a pendant?

Besides,

there must be a reason

why your two wives died.

I believe it is the work of man.

Hurry! Keep up!

Over here!

Miss Ran and Lord Xiao are locked in there.

My Lord!

-My Lord! -It's no use yelling!

I tried it but they cannot hear you!

Could there be a machination

that can open this gate?

No! Someone broke the machinery, you cannot open it at all!

It's impossible to open it!

Then what should we do?

Use a battering ram...use it to ram it open!

Fox...Fox...

Wake up! You cannot sleep

She must have fainted from the suffocation.

Hurry, hurry up!

-Hurry up!

It looks like it will not work.

How about this? I will find some gunpowder and explode it!

You two follow me!

Continue ramming!

Fox. Fox.

Wake up.

Mother!

Mother! Don't abandon me!

Mother!

Fox! Fox!

Mother...

Fox, it'll be fine.

I am here,

you'll be fine.

Go! Hurry up!

-Miss Ran! -Save His Lordship first!

Save Miss Ran first!

Xiao Song

It's broad daylight,

I see ghosts again.

Ran Yan, I am warning you,

Lord Xiao's name is not something someone like you who is an inferior examiner

who likes to lower herself beneath her position!

I don’t have time to speak nonsense with you.

Ran Yan!

You already have a fiance!

Can you stop getting involved witfl so many men?

It's so early in the morning, and you hear the chickens crowing

Wan Lv, fetch the broom,

I want to get rid of these beasts!

Ran Yan! Lord Xiao is mine!

Lord Xiao risked his life in order to save me.

I must repay this debt.

How can l repay him?

Why don't...

with my body!

You...You...

will go and find him!

You! You are so brazen! Knows no shame!

How is liking someone shameless and brazen?

Perhaps....Lord Xiao may like me too.

Oh yes I forgot you,

Lord Xiao feared I would be afraid

and hugged and consoled me.

I don't believe your lies!

There must be dead bodies in that ancient grave!

That's right!

Not only was there an ancient body,

and also 4 bodies that had underwent the Zhe torture!

That surrounding was so frightening!

Don't scare me!

Lord Xiao could not help himself when he saw me.

I couldn't do anything.

Lord Xiao is mine! He's mine!

I win every time,

Even I find it boring.

My Lord.

What is the time now?

It is 7am now.

Help me get dressed.

Yes.

He should be fine right?

Greetings Lord Xiao.

Fox!

As you came to see me,

surely it is a bit rude

to leave without a greeting.

I wanted to see if you've been shattered into

pieces of fish meat by the stones.

Perhaps for the sake we've worked together

I'll help clean your body and fry some fish.

But it's a shame,

you were so lucky,

you couldn't die.

I was just to see the show,

as there is nothing to see,

I will go first.

Come with me.

Let me go.

This inferior minister is fearful.

My Lord,

I wonder what crime I committed

for you to come and seal my residence.

Please inform me.

Capture the killer and find the murder weapon.

During my investigation in the ancient tomb,

I noticed that the killer used a knife belonging to the District Governor!

My Lord! This interior minister is fearful.

All the constables of my office had abided to the rules

and done their duty,

there have never been any criminals who have committed murder here!

Please investigate thoroughly,

and prove the innocence of the District Governor's office!

Whether you're innocent or not,

we will know with a test.

My Lord, how do you plan to do that?

My Lord.

Examiner Ran, are you alright?

District Governor Li.

Where is Zhu Qi?

Zhu Qi asked for a leave of absensce,

his wife seems to be ill again.

My Lord, Brother Zhu bought a lot of medicinal herbs for his wife.

Where was his knife?

When a constable is on leave, his knife remains in the office.

Right now it's within the constable resting room.

Bring it over.

Yes.

Hurry and bring it over!

A complete match.

You mean Zhu Qi was the killer?

Why does the entire house smell like medicinal broth?

My Lord.

Zhu Qi's wife has a lung condition and constantly coughs

so she takes medicine all year round.

My Lord, Zhu Qi and his wife are not here.