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My Lord.

Ran Yun Sheng and Ran Yan were sat here eating.

Afterwards Ran Yan went to talk to Merchant Jia

and when she came back, she found Ran Yun Sheng had disappeared.

Apparently Ran Yan found an red origami dragonfly in the room.

Tell Merchant Jia to come in.

Yes.

My Lord.

This civilian greets Lord Xiao.

When Ran Yun Sheng disappeared,

did anyone see him leave the room?

Your Lordship,

I've asked around,

there was no-one who saw him leave this room at the time.

Was this window open at the time?

When Ran Yun Sheng disappeared,

I came in to take a look,

the window was locked up from the inside.

Locked up from the inside?

Did anyone enter this room after the incident?

Only Lord Sun from the Court of Judicial Review came in.

But Lord Sun does not know why Ran Yun Sheng disappeared.

That swill cart does it belong to the Yunshao restaurant?

Yes.

When does it arrive every day?

It normally arrives at 5am and

we deliver it back at noon.

When Ran Yun Sheng disappeared

was that swill cart there throughout that time?

That is not true.

When Ran Yun Sheng disappeared,

I was arranging for my employee Ma Xu to empty out our waste into it.

but I do not know why it disappeared.

After 3 hours it came back.

I was thinking could someone have taken it by mistake?

It is paint.

Bai Yi.

go up and take a look

to see if there are any leads.

Yes.

My Lord there are footprints on the tiles by the window.

Length about the length of one palm and width about one palm.

My Lord I found this.

It turns out that Ran Yun Sheng opened the window himself.

[Hongwen academy]

Greetings Master Sang.

H-How did you get in?

Master Sang enjoy.

Why did you give this to me?

These foods are delicious

fragrant and appeasing in looks.

Who would be so kind?

It must be Miss Ran, she knew I kept her company when she was abandoned,

so she delivered some good food to reward me!

How can you not have someone to share food with?

A gentleman must show solemnness or they will not be able to learn well.

One must be honorable & trustworthy, do not be friends with those who are not.

If one makes mistakes, do not be afraid to repair it.

I am a gentleman,

I will not walk with villains like you.

You only do not get along with my Lord.

why are giving me this kind of treatment?

Now I think about it although I am eating,

but my Fei Yang has not eaten yet.

Why don't I call Fei Yang over and we eat together?

No need.

First you try to bribe me with delicious food,

and now use Fei Yang to frighten me,

you must need a favor from me.

I have a favor for you.

What do you want?

Xiao fish?

It is me,

You must be disappointed.

You've fallen in love with him?

Su Fu..

I made myself clear,

I discovered that Chi Hai and Muhammad,

disappeared out of their own will.

Chi Hai left the hunting grounds out of his own will.

Muhammad,

hid himself in the roof of the carriage

and escaped when the security lifted.

Why did they do that?

I do not know yet.

But I am sure that

before they disappeared

they were killed by the murderer.

As for the method the killer used to carry out the murder and his motive,

we do not know yet.

Then do these two people know the killer?

Perhaps.

What about my cousin?

He knows the killer too?

He left willingly too?

No.

Rabbit, you said no, what do you mean?

Miss Ran this was why your brother disappeared.

Your brother heard a sound outside,

So he opened the window himself.

But he was pushed out of the window by the killer hiding in the room.

Afterwards the killer locked the window from the inside

then left a footprint on the tiles on the roof

then the killer stuffed Ran Yun Sheng within the swill cart

but accidentally rubbed some of the paint on his clothes on the cart.

After 3 hours, the killer pushed the cart back.

No-one saw the entire process.

You analyzed this?

My Lord asked me to inform you of this.

You must say that you asked Merchant Jia yourself

and analyzed it after going to the scene yourself.

If you dare to betray me or my lord,

I will tell Fei Yang to find you every day.

l-lt was me.

When did you learn to analyze a case?

As I have spent so much time with Miss Ran, of course I learned how to.

Besides I have spent so much time studying scrolls related to the subject whilst I was at Hongwen academy.

Just like reciting from a book

or copying your actions

some of it has rubbed onto me over time.

Paint? Could he be a painter?

There are many painters within Chang'an city.

It is hard to find the culprit right now.

Miss do you wish to buy some calligraphy or a painting?

It may be that scholar.

You know who it is?

When my brother disappeared, he was nearby painting.

Such a coincidence?

Not right, if it was he,

why was he in the stall in front of the Yun Shao entertainment venue?

Perhaps the killer was trying to prove that he was not present at the time of the murder.

The area around Yunshao is so chaotic,

it is easy to hide a swill cart there.

Even if the authorities see they will not touch it.

They are afraid it is dirty.

We have no evidence right now, we cannot arrest him.

I have a solution.

What are you doing?

This...

Look our fingerprints are different.

We each have different fingerprints.

As long as we find someone with the same fingerprints as the one on this resin,

we can confirm the killer.

I just removed this from the statute.

It contains the killer's fingerprints.

Looking at the size of the fingerprints and the direction,

it should be the fingerprint on the right index.

As long as we can find that scholar's right index fingerprint,

and compare it,

we can confirm if he is the killer.

How can we find it?

One of us has to pretend to be his customer,

and buy something from him.

And then use this chance to get his fingerprint.

When Ran Yan's cousin disappeared,

Ran Yan went to talk to that scholar.

Lord Su is responsible for the case,

that scholar must have observed you

so that scholar must know both of you

I fear you cannot go.

Sir.

Young Master are you here to buy a painting or calligraphy?

Buy...I wish to buy all of it.

This is my take on Wang Xi's 17th letter.

Do you like it?

I do.

This one..

this is my take on the Sui painter Zhan Zi Qian's strolling about in spring.

The overlapping mountains,

and those grand bodies of water,

women rowing boats...

Although it is a replicate, but it's so realistic.

It is a good painting.

Thank you for your appreciation.

I am very grateful.

Young Master Meng do you have any more paintings like this?

I am not very talented, I have not been able to sell much of my paintings.

So most of them are at home.

Then can I take a look with you at home?

My surname is Mu, my name is Chen.

I am a merchant who collects paintings.

I noticed how beautiful your art is, so I could not help myself.

I have other replicates.

Tian Seng Liang,

Yang Qi Dan,

Dong Bo Ren.

the art of the 3 incomparable painters in history.

Are you joking with me?

Dong Bo Ren and Zhan Zi Qian who painted Strolling around in Spring,

are most skilled at painting people and buildings.

Tian Seng Liang and Yang Qi Dan are most skilled in temple works

and with Monk Zheng are called the 3 incomparable painters in history.

Brother Mu truly knows a lot about art.

Then please come with me.

The Brother Meng lead the way.

Sure let me tidy up.

There is no rush.

Brother Mu please come here.

Here we've arrived.

Come Brother Mu be careful

Be careful.

Brother Meng you like sculpturing too?

I like to play with it when I have time.

Come please come inside.

Alright.

Please come in Brother Mu.

My home is a little messy, it is a little embarrassing.

No need to be so courteous.

Come, sit Brother Mu.

Thank you.

Nice paintings.

This painting is so lifelike,

Like flowing water.

Solemn, with much strength behind it.

Good writing.

And this painting!

It's so vivid in life and authentic.

Brother Meng.

These paintings are like ones painted by a master.

It is a waste of your talent to

sell your work in a stall.

It is rare to find someone who appreciates you, yet I found someone who truly understands me.

These paintings...

I want them all.

Is 1000 coins enough?

Sure, sure.

Thank you Brother Mu.

Let's sign the contract now, please sit.

Brother Meng.

I even brought the contract.

Brother Meng, please.

Sure.

Brother Meng.

I used my right index, you use that as well,

so that it can be the same.

As Brother Mu appreciates my work,

I decided to sell you even better works.

Please wait here.

Alright, alright.

What's wrong Brother Meng?

When I was searching through my work,

and accidentally cut myself.

Why did he coincidentally cut his right index finger?

Brother Mu why did you say coincidentally?

Nothing much.

Why is it such a coincidence, luckily you have other fingers

that you can use.

Come, come sit. Come Brother Meng.

indeed.

My home is too chaotic.

When I have the time I-will tidy up my work

and show them to you then.

Sure.

This clay has all of his fingerprints on it.

Brother Meng I will place this 1000 coins here.

After you tidy up,

I will come and see you again.

And take these paintings with me.

I bid my leave.

Sure.

Do not see me off.

How is it? Did you get it?

I wonder if this works?

Complete match.

He is the killer.

When the wind rises,

someone else will die.

Meng Ji.

You are under suspicion of being related to two serial murders.

Arrest him!

Yes!

Go! Go!

Why are these lotus leaves bug bitten?

it's like that..

because his heart is filled with pain.

Personal guard Chi Hai,

Muhammad the diplomat from the Arab caliphate,

did you kill them?

I am innocent!

I have not even heard of their names before, how could I have killed them?

But your right index fingerprint is on the sculpture.

This room is so strange.

His tea bowl is a water scoop.

The vase is a gourd.

Everything can be smashed easily.

He is afraid.

I sell my paintings outside every day.

My fingerprints are everywhere!

The killer got their hands on it engraved it on the sculpture to frame

I am innocent!

Besides in this world no-one has ever been sentenced because of their fingerprints!

I will give you a chance to confess.

As long as you confess, and tell us where Ran Yun Sheng is,

we will give you a lighter sentence.

I am framed!

Who is Ran Yun Sheng? I do not know him!

My Lord!

Who testified that I was the killer?!

Did anyone see me kill anyone?!

You!

Each painting...

has some kind of deformity in it.

That shows that he feels immense fear.

He used things that have a soft texture as containers

means he is afraid of bowls and cups.

There is not a single ornament in this room,

which means when he was a child,

he was beaten or hurt deeply.

Perhaps because of that reason,

he is mentally ill.

You cannot find any scapegoat because you want to close this case!

I am innocent!

There was a dragonfly painting present at the scene of Chi Hai's disappearance.

When the diplomat of the Arab caliphate disappeared,

there was a red dragonfly

In the room my brother disappeared,

there was a green dragonfly.

Why is everything related to the dragonfly?

This alleyway seems so familiar.

This is Alley Zhuhe.

I discovered some mould within Muhammad's sculpture.

And this pointing also suggested there was mould there too.

Lord Sun.

I wish to search Zhu He alley.

Zhu He alley?

Search,

Yes.

Move these things away.

Guards move this trash away.

Stop!

The fan used in the palace is discarded in a basket,

Once praised for dancing but how can it surpass the sorrow I feel now?*

It completes the poetic line found within Muhammad's carriage and his sculpture

it's still the poem by Jiang Zong from the Sui dynasty.

The first poem is eternal longing.

The 2nd is the poem for resentment.

Both poems are love poems.

Could this Meng Ji has a lover?

Not right.

If he has a lover why kill Chi Hai and that diplomat?

Blood again.

There are so many pieces of flesh here?

Could it belong to Ran Yun Sheng?

This is from the Arab Caliphate.

These pieces of flesh belong to the diplomat?

Are you alright?

Hurry and bring the body back!

Hurry and bring this body back.

Lord Sun, Lord Su is missing.

Su Fu,

Have you seen these two people?

No, no.

Excuse me, have you seen this person?

No.

First we lose the one who gives us money,

now we lose the one who protects us.

My I ask...

Have you seen this person?

I haven't.

What kind of statue would the two of them appear in front of us?

Excuse me have you...seen this person?

No.

Slap your mouth!*

Lord Xiao.

Dragonfly?

Could the dragonfly...represent a woman?

Could the dragonfly...represent a woman

Another red dragonfly?

And those poems.

What do they represent?

It turns out this kite string is specially made!

Miss have you seen these two people?

No.

Have you seen these two people?

No.

Please take a look closely.

Have you seen these two people?

No, no.

Aunt, have you seen...

This...

What are you up to now?

I will give you another good chance to achieve some merit.

What chance?

My girl has been so weary for the past two days.

My heart aches for her.

Miss Ran! Miss Ran!

Miss Ran! I know what the weapon is now!

Commandant Su has disappeared, I suspect that he has accomplices.

But this Meng Ji even under torture

insisted that he was accused unjustly!

Look, do you have any idea how we can make him confess?

Well...Well...

His Majesty has ordered for us to solve the Arab Diplomat case

My Lord, from our investigation,

this Meng Ji was the child of a acrobatic couple.

After that couple died in an accidental fire,

And this Meng Ji became an orphan.

And then lived in the streets.

Someone like that has a complicated background.

It is hard to find his accomplice.

As he refuses to confess his crimes,

and we have little evidence,

and Lord Su who is responsible for the case has disappeared.

Why don't,

we ask His Majesty to get Lord Xiao from the Ministry of Justice to assist us?

Absurd!

Is there no-one in the Court? Do we need help from the Ministry of Justice?

My Lord I know I was wrong.

I just felt that it is an important case, so...that was why I did that.

Let me tell you,

I forbid you from allowing Xiao Song to involve himself!

My Lord. Examiner Ran requests an audience!

Do you not see I am busy?

No time for her!

I have a way to make Meng Ji confess!

Isn't that Meng Ji?

-It is. -It is.

It truly is Meng Ji.

Greetings Lord Sun.

My Lords.

I have brought Criminal Meng Ji here.

Bring him here.

Yes.

Take Criminal Meng Ji out.

The criminal is here.

Where is Examiner Ran?

My Lord.

I do not know where she is either.

Chase her! Chase her!

My Lord.

This head is a fake.

It's made from wood.

But...how were they able to cut this wood?

The answer is here.

The string of a kite?

How can the string of a kite, can remove the wooden head from the body?

This string can not only chop apart a piece of wood,

it can decapitate a human.

You saw just now.

I specially picked a good horse.

When the horse gallops at full speed, it can run 10 miles within 10 minutes.

I just made the horse run the fastest it can.

I tied the wooden dummy onto the horse and made it gallop towards the kite.

And then the head came cleanly off.

However kite string is made of hemp.

No matter how fast that horse gallops at,

it cannot slice the head off a human.

My Lord please take a look.

This is...

It is silk...

Silk can be made to be sharp.

It is usually used to make the string of a Guqin.

The killer used the toughness and sharpness of silk

turned it into string,

hid it within the string of the kite

turning it into a murder weapon.

That is why Chi Hai and the diplomat was killed when there was a strong wind.

Where did you find this kite string from?

It was..

in Meng Ji's home.

Both victims were beheaded completely.

which means that their head was cut off whilst they were sitting on a horse.

Then the killer secretly made a sculpture out of red pine sap

before sticking the head onto the sculpture.

I am merely a civilian.

How could I know them?

And it's impossible for me to kidnap them

You did not kidnap them.

They set up their disappearance themselves.

Why did they do that?

I do not know yet.

However Scholar Sang from the Hongwen academy

discovered paint on the swill cart

which means he used a swill cart

to kidnap my cousin!

Lord Sun

That woman is framing me!

I only added silk to my kite string

to secure it, not to murder anyone!

You are slandering me!

My Lord!

You must speak up for me!

I am innocent!

When Chi Hai's sculpture appeared,

you were at the scene.

When my cousin disappeared,

you were closeby.

Meng Ji hurry and confess!

My Lord, if you must make me confess,

I can only say

I should not have used silk in my kite string.

However...

no-one saw me murder anyone!

Also,

when Lord Su disappeared, I was in prison.

That proves I am innocent!

That proves you have an accomplice!

Where is my accomplice?!

You found one?

Examiner Ran.

Let her go.

As she said she wishes to make Meng Ji confess,

I want to see what techniques she wishes to use.

Why are there so many dragonflies?

What does it mean?

Is it a woman?

Why is there Eternal longing here?

And poem of resentment and Valentine?

Is it because this womap like it?

Are you not afraid?

Why would I be afraid?

I saw it.

What are you talking about?

The holes in this painting,

are like a pair of frightened eyes.

He is afraid.

These eyes are like yours.

Just like when you were little,

Why are there so many vases here?

And tea bowls..

And'wine flasks and wine cups?

Don't!

Don't! Don't!

Don't beat me!

Don't beat me! Don't beat me!

I know I am wrong!

If you know then repair your mistake!

Where is Su Fu and Ran Yun Sheng?

They are...

They are in the east warehouse on the Guangde street.

Take your men to the east warehouse.

Yes My Lord.

You two follow me.

Where is my cousin and Su Fu?

My Lord we cannot find Lord Su or Ran Yun Sheng in the warehouse.

I am innocent!

The Court of Judicial Review cannot find the killer of the diplomat

so arrested me to be the scapegoat!

I am innocent!

The court is trampling on lives like grass!

I am innocent!

I am innocent!

They put me on torture

get a confession from me!

I am innocent!

I am innocent!

Move them back!

I am innocent!

Move back! Move back!

Save me!

Save me! Save me!

Pull them away!

Save me

Save me

You cannot enter!

I wish to see His Lordship!

You cannot enter!

Let her in.

Lord Sun, why did you let Meng Ji go?

You ask me why I let him go?

I want to ask you why you wish to harm me?

I did not!

It was you who suggested for us to take Meng Ji to his home.

And you promised he will confess!

What happens?

You caused the Court of Judicial review to become a laughingstock!

And His Majesty told me to solve the case in 5 days!

I am in big trouble because of you!

I was deceived by Meng Ji!

But' I am sure he is the killer!

You are sure?

Let me tell you,

even if he is the killer I have to let him go.

Why would you do that?

Your cousin has been missing for 20 off hours right?

If the breeze picks up

he will become a sculpture.

Perhaps I will find a new lead.

And perhaps...

I can save Lord Su.

So you are going to endanger the lives of the civilians?

I still have 5 days.

I am in no rush.