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♫ Ask the sword, the knife, to cast away resentment ♫

♫ I fear that new and old grudges will add to my troubles ♫

♫ Ask each tactic, each trick, to test who is more skilled ♫

♫ The ups and downs of life are difficult to predict ♫

♫ Ask the road and journey across remote lands ♫

♫ Where is my soulmate? I’m so lonely ♫

♫ Ask the rain and clear skies about the troubles on my mind ♫

♫ Face the moon every day and night ♫

♫ Ask the flowers and leaves, their colors are perfect ♫

♫ Happiness and pain are fleeting, how many springs remain? ♫

♫ Ask autumn and winter, the snowstorm continues ♫

♫ The rainbow scatters easily but the days are hard to endure ♫

♫ No one knows why the flowers blossomed early ♫

♫ Heaven doesn’t laugh, for it has grown old ♫

♫ The pugilist world is small, but the rest of the world is vast ♫

♫ I’ve forgotten those who are gone ♫

♫ No one knows why the flowers withered early ♫

♫ Heaven feels no sorrow for it has grown old ♫

♫ The heroes have died and little time is left ♫

♫ I’ve forgotten those who are gone ♫

[Word of Honor]

[Episode 26]

Why are you bullying Zhen Yiguo?

This is your dog?

My senior brother left it to me.

Yiguo? (T/N: Means “One Pot”)

Nice name.

Wait till I cook it and see if it fills one pot.

Give it to me.

No!

No? Get him!

Now, you have nowhere to run, do you?

Don’t come here!

Give it here!

Hold him down!

Good dog, hurry and run!

Go run home to find your mom!

Zhen Yiguo?

Let me go!

Go back home.

Thank you.

My little friend,

is your surname Zhen?

That’s not my surname.

You have the wrong person.

Why did I dream such an odd dream

even with A’Xu’s Drunk Life Dream Death?

Stinking brat.

Uncle Wen,

you woke up so early?

What time is it now?

I’ve practiced Eight Trigram Palm fifty times.

It should be around six or seven in the morning by now.

Why did you get up so early?

I woke up at the first rooster call

and then I couldn’t fall asleep again no matter what,

so I might as well have gotten up to practice martial arts.

What are you trying so hard for?

I always dream and can’t fall asleep.

Whenever I think about how many evil things the Ghost Valley did

to destroy so many people’s families like mine,

I can’t eat or sleep.

I wish I could

obtain great martial arts skills like you and Master overnight

and destroy those bastards!

If Ghost Valley didn’t exist,

so many of those tragic events would not have occurred.

Don’t try to run before you can walk.

No matter how studious and hardworking you are,

martial arts isn’t something you can attain so quickly.

Your master has some sleep-aiding aromatics.

I’ll have him light some for you in the evening.

You’re currently at the body-growing stage.

You have to get enough sleep.

The way you exert power is wrong.

How would your arms have power?

The power from the Eight Trigrams Palm emphasizes the deadly strength of the hip and qi energy.

This is also the key for most fighting skills.

Stinking brat,

relax your shoulders, lower your elbow,

and strengthen your midsection.

Didn’t someone say he was an outsider

and wouldn’t teach my disciple?

Why do you care?

Master, I’ll go get the door.

Who are you?

I am from the Pingan Bank.

I was asked by Sir Ye

to deliver a message to Four Seasons Mountain Villa.

Scorpion King

that damned collection of ghosts portraits

has the likenesses of ghosts ranging from

the Ghost Valley Chief to all of the Top Ten Evil Ghosts!

Everything from familial relations, martial arts techniques,

and things we have done are all included!

How is this any different from stripping us naked out in public?

If these things are distributed among the pugilist world,

we will be unable to advance even a centimeter!

Wh-What ghost portraits?

Five Lakes Alliance has distributed the collection among every sect.

How did that come to be?

How are we supposed

to complete tasks for Alliance Leader Zhao with this happening?

I remember now.

Something like this indeed happened,

but so what?

Before you leave,

I can find you someone skilled in the art of disguise

and just change your faces. Wouldn’t things be solved then?

Who knows?

It might be easier on the eyes.

Happy!

Moveover,

as minglers,

isn’t your goal to end up notorious?

Foster-Father’s only helping you gain fame!

Is that not wonderful?

You—

When two strong sides make an alliance,

we work together if we are compatible.

If we are not, then we go our separate ways.

If Alliance Leader Zhao uses such despicable tactics

to cut off our means of retreat,

isn’t that too lowly?

Today, I’ve

certainly learned something.

You group of evil ghosts

still have the face to call others despicable and lowly?

It’s absolutely outrageous!

All right.

If it is like this,

we’ll just leave.

This place does not welcome us,

but there will naturally be others that do.

You dare?

Why can’t he dare?

I think he spoke very well.

We work together when we get along,

else we separate.

Since you no longer feel the same way as we do,

then

what’s the point in forcing you to stay?

Let’s go!

Send them on their way!

King,

what are you and Alliance Leader scheming again?

Speak with more respect.

Yes, yes, yes.

By the way, King,

Liu Qianqiao’s letter has already arrived.

It has to do with how to make Water of Oblivion.

Please take a look.

[Pingan Bank]

Young man,

your page boy said your bank has my letter?

Please wait a moment.

[Pingan Bank]

Greetings, Sect Leader Zhou.

Ping An, why have you come to Kunzhou?

Are you the one running this Peace Bank? (T/N: “Ping An” means “Peace”)

How could I have such abilities?

Sect Leader Zhou, please take a seat.

I only look after the fifty-six silver banks

in the Central Plains for Lord Seventh.

Nanjiang also has four or five more establishments that Ruyi is looking after.

Pingan Bank is all over the world.

I’d never expected that it would be your lord’s?

How could someone like him

do business related to money?

Perhaps you are unaware,

but while our bank does deal with some money and business,

we’re mostly collecting Central Plain information for Great Shaman.

The mechanical sparrows used to collect information are the ones you taught him how to make in the past.

And thank goodness we have this treasure.

That was how I was able to hear that Lord Seventh was coming to Kunzhou and also how I came to know that I should come first.

Lord Seventh is coming to Kunzhou?

Sect Leader Zhou,

were you not the one who asked Sir Ye to greet Great Shaman?

When Lord Seventh heard you were unwell,

he decided to head to Kunzhou with Great Shaman.

Nonsense!

How can he come to the Central Plains?

It’s all right, all right.

Sect Leader Zhou,

Lord Seventh has Great Shaman and a bunch of guards with him.

Besides,

Kunzhou is far from the emperor’s capital.

Prince Jin will not be able to reach this place.

What do you mean?

The person that Ye Baiyi went to invite...

A’Xu, you also know him?

Not simply know!

It’s a lifelong friendship!

Sect Leader Zhou, you’re really something.

It’s been so many years,

but you didn’t send our Lord any letters.

Now that something has come up,

why is there the need to ask an outsider to inform us?

Why don’t you go to Nanjiang yourself?

Our Lord has missed you greatly all these years.

Right.

This is Sir Ye’s letter.

[You bastard.]

What is Elder Ye upset about this time?

Why did he write a letter just to curse at you?

[We’ll meet on Winter Solstice.]

[I want to eat dumplings.]

[Cabbage and pork filling.]

This letter...

What’s the meaning of it?

Lord Seventh and Great Shaman were preparing some precious medical materials in the southern territory.

Sir Ye couldn’t wait any longer,

so he came back first.

Therefore, he sent the letter by dispatching through the southern branch.

Thank you for your hard work, Ping An.

Master,

who are Great Shaman and Lord Seventh?

So, Elder Ye invited those two to heal your injuries?

What do you mean, he invited them?

If I knew Elder Ye’s old friend was Great Shaman,

would I need him to invite them?

You still haven’t said

who these two people really are.

These two are old acquaintances of mine in Jinzhou.

We all worked for Prince Jin

but were completely let down by him later.

They left for Nanjiang

and never came back.

Then these two... can really heal your injuries?

Great Shaman is skilled in medicines

and knows a lot of southern territory’s secret witchcraft.

Lord Seventh usually only moves after devising a plan.

If they decide to come to the Central Plains,

I’m sure they have some confidence.

Then isn’t that good news?

Since you’re old acquaintances,

why didn’t we go searching for them earlier?

Earlier?

I didn’t want to live.

Master,

why did Elder Ye scold you in the letter?

Silly brat,

you still don’t understand?

That old monster

went far to the southern territory to find a doctor.

After meeting Great Shaman,

he found out that the strange person he wouldn’t have been able to invite by himself no matter what

actually owes your master a favor.

The great Changming Mountain Sword Immortal Elder

turned into a mail courier instead.

Given old monster’s personality,

it would be odd if he wasn’t angry enough to cough blood.

Calling him a bastard is already very light.

So what?

In the end, Elder Ye

was still able to invite this Great Shaman.

Doesn’t matter whose influence it was.

As long as he can cure Master’s injury, it is a huge blessing.

Right, Martial Uncle?

Madam,

do you have any other colors in your stall?

Here.

- Look at this one. This one is really nice. - I think this one...

- doesn’t really suit me. Do you have others? - A’Xu, it’s rare for us to come down the mountain.

- I have to go look around nearby and see if there’s a painter to do the repair work. - I’ll find you more.

- Why don’t you and Chengling go back first? - Thank you.

- Okay. Come back soon. - No problem. Take care.

Otherwise, there will be no one to cook dinner.

Bullshit.

Have I become a servant?

What? Aren’t you one?

Chengling,

let’s rest a little more, and then we’ll go.

Valley Chief is coming.

Valley Chief is coming.

I’ve found the Valley Chief.

Valley Chief is coming.

I’ve found the Valley Chief.

I’ve found the Valley Chief.

Valley Chief.

Valley Chief.

Valley Chief, I’ve finally found you.

Do you know how we spent these days recently?

We are like mice on the streets!

As soon as we show our faces, we get beat up.

Give me the Ghost Portrait Collection.

What?

[Ghost Portrait Collection]

Right now, any known sect

has a copy of this damned collection.

Damn it. The whole pugilist world has turned everything upside down.

They’ve upturned all the ghosts scattered in every corner.

It was luck that made me able to save these girls and guys.

We’ve been hiding in this desolate place the whole time,

while looking for your whereabouts, Valley Chief.

I’ve almost been fucking starved skinny!

If it hadn’t been for Miss Xiang, who took Yun Zai under her care,

and the fact that she’s still clean

and can still walk around outside,

I wouldn’t have been able to see you!

How many are left amongst the Top Ten Evil Ghosts?

What?

Valley Chief, you don’t know?

All these days I’ve been hearing about this sect killing that sect

and that sect killing this sect all because of Ghost Valley.

I-I thought you, Valley Chief,

led the Top Ten Evil Ghosts in doing that.

But it wasn’t you?

Is there any news on the Owner of the List of the Unfaithful?

N... No.

Ever since that whatever Heroes Conference in Yueyang or whatever,

and Tragicomic Ghost was kidnapped,

there has never been any more information about her or Beauty Ghost.

Right, Valley Chief.

I heard right now that those righteous dogs

are currently discussing the plan of holding another Heroes Conference or whatever.

Damn, when there isn’t a tiger in the mountain, even a bear will be king.

Luckily, you’ve appeared.

We must return to that Ghost Valley immediately and create defenses.

Let’s fight those fucking bastards!

- Kill them all! - Kill them all!

Martial Uncle!

What’s the matter?

Martial Uncle, you’ve finally come back.

I’m so hungry that my stomach is rumbling.

If I didn’t come back, you’d just wait?

You can’t randomly get a bowl of noodles to eat?

We can’t.

How did it go? Did you find a painter?

I didn’t find any at the foot of the mountain.

Qingshui Town has a painter that just returned from Chang’an.

I’ll bring the painting to him for observation in a few days.

A’Xu,

how about I teach you how to cook?

That day, I’m sure I won’t be able to cook in time.

I’m not learning.

A saint once said, “A nobleman should stay away from the kitchen.” (T/N: Mencius’ words)

Rest assured.

The two of us definitely won’t go hungry.

If we really get hungry,

I’ll take Chengling down the mountain to eat.

All right.

Call me when the food is ready.

Fine, Master Zhou.

You rest well.

Martial Uncle, is something wrong?

Nothing.

It’s about to get dark.

“The sunset is lovely,

but the dusk is near.” (Lit: From Li Shang Yin’s Ascending to Mount Leyo)

Chengling,

what do you want to eat tonight?

Uncle Wen will make it for you.

Greetings, Scorpion King.

Didn’t I order someone to tell you how to dispel the poison?

What are you doing back here?

I... changed my mind.

It is my honor if Scorpion King finds use in me.

I am willing to serve your orders.

As long as...

As long as you are willing to let my master, Tragicomic Ghost, go.

And—

And Yu Qiufeng?

Scorpion King, I beg you.

Enough.

I don’t like listening to useless words.

How dare you ask for favors without any achievements?

I can... promise to not kill these two people.

However, I can’t release them just because you asked.

Of course,

if you can prove that you are useful to me,

I won’t let down those who are loyal to me.

You may rise.

Thank you, King.

However,

if you didn’t give me that formula,

I would not have guessed that Water of Oblivion was made from daylilies. (T/N: The literal translation of “daylilies” is “forget worry grass”)

Scorpion King, you mean...

Have you ever heard of

something called Drunk Life Dream Death?

Kunzhou has a plant called daylilies.

Daylilies mixed with seven types of poisonous insects form Water of Oblivion,

which makes people forget what they care most about.

And mixed with seven flowers...

is Drunk Life Dream Death.

The two are like sides of a coin,

they reinforce yet counteract one another.

Using large amounts of Drunk Life Dream Death

can dispel the effects of Water of Oblivion

and reveal forgotten memories.

Scorpion King, you are going to...

Tragicomic Ghost lacks a complete mind right now.

To prevent damage to her brain from large doses of medicine,

I’ve used the aromatics method,

letting the medicine enter her body slowly

to reach the specific level.

You came just in time.

She’s already been in the medical room for seven days.

I suppose it’s time to wake up.

I will soon know the truth.

All those sayings out there are just rumors.

Foster-Father wouldn’t lie to me.

Yes.

After Tragicomic Ghost awakens and speaks the truth,

I will be able to return his innocence.

I’m doing this just

to prove my foster-father’s innocence.

Your Gentle Wind Sword Sect...

what kind of desolate place is it built on? (T/N: “Desolate place” lit. translation is “place where birds don’t poop”)

You people are so smart!

If I were a thief,

even if there was a gold mountain up ahead, I would be too lazy to check it out.

A’Xiang, don’t speak nonsense.

Who is the big-talker saying

our Gentle Wind Mountain is a place where birds don’t poop?

Little brat.

Martial Uncle!

Stinking brat.

Martial Uncle!

Martial Uncle, Senior Brother, you are here!

I’ve finally seen you!

I’ve missed you all so much!

You are finally back.

Good thing you are in time for the new year.

How is everything on the mountain?

How is Master’s health condition?

Has everyone missed me?

Let me ask you, and tell me the truth.

From where did you kidnap this young girl?

I...

My name is Gu Xiang. Hello.

A’Xiang!

Nice to meet you.

Hello, I am Mo Weixu,

Cao Weining’s senior brother.

This is our sect’s Fan Huaikong, Elder Fan.

You can follow Weining in calling him Martial Uncle Fan.

Martial Uncle Fan!

Hello, Martial Uncle Fan!

Senior Brother Mo, hello!

Hello to everyone!

Greetings, Miss A’Xiang.

I’m asking you!

Where did you kidnap this girl from?

She seems stupid.

I’m not stupid!

You are not stupid?

How could you get kidnapped by my stupid nephew if you aren’t stupid?

He’s saying you’re the stupid one!

-Me? -You’re the stupid one!

Senior Brother Cao,

Is this the wife you were referring to in your letter?

You sure are good! How capable!

I’m not!

Cao Weining, what did you tell them?

- I didn’t say anything— - Hey, hey, hey!

This little wife’s pretty fierce, isn’t she?

Weining,

you have quite a lot of suffering to look forward to.

All right, Martial Uncle. Stop joking with them.

They are too thin-skinned.

Miss Xiang, don’t worry about it.

We are used to joking around like this.

Girl,

I was joking with you earlier.

Weining praised you incredibly highly in his letters.

We knew since morning that you would arrive,

so we cleaned a little yard out for you to live in on the hillside.

Martial Uncle,

A’Xiang can’t live with me on the mountain?

Young Miss, our sect leader has just ordered for the mountain’s route to be sealed.

We don’t accept outsiders,

so we have come down specifically to meet you two.

Sealed?

Martial Uncle, is it because—

Young Miss, let’s go look at the little yard and see if you like it.

Let’s go.

- Let’s go. - Let’s go.

- Come. - Let’s go.

- Let’s go. - Let’s go.

This time, Eagle Claw Gang and Mount Hua Sect

will be left to you, Old Sha.

Got it!

If this time, the Water Transport Gang...

Leaders, let’s end it here today.

Thank you for your hard work.

We will take our leave.

[Great Ambitions]

How many times have I told you?

If you have no business, don’t come to the front hall!

What are you afraid of?

It’s not like those follower dogs aren’t aware of my existence.

Are you scared they’ll bark to others?

It’s better to have fewer things to worry about.

Foster-Father.

When your power was still unstable,

I understand that you did not want others to know about your relationship with the Venomous Scorpions.

Now, you possess great power already.

Why are you still unwilling to let me stand beside you?

Nothing is settled yet!

There are still uncertainties!

Then, when do things count as settled?

You can use these bullshit words

to trick those Ghost Valley idiots.

Using them to brush me off

is a disrespect.

Xie’er,

what’s with you today?

Did... you hear something?

Or did I do something wrong?

Xie’er,

I know.

In the past, I couldn’t do anything under the circumstances.

I could only have you support me in the dark.

I have wronged you.

But I never thought

my Xie’er was so capable.

You were unexpectedly able

to make the Venomous Scorpions an assassin organization on the same level as Window of Heaven.

I’m so happy.

So,

I feel more and more sorry towards you.

I have worked so hard

in my position, cautiously

planning our great undertaking.

I have no sons or daughters.

I only have you, the closest person to me.

Aside from you,

who else can I

entrust my achievements to?

In the future,

you can lose your temper or be wayward,

and I will bear it.

Please don’t ever coldly

say things that will make me sad.

Okay?

Foster-Father,

why did you lie to me?

How have I lied to you?

What is “If My Lord does not betray me,

I will not betray My Lord?”

[If My Lord does not betray me, I will not betray My Lord]

Where did... you get this?

Yu Qiufeng had someone send this to me.

Foster-Father,

is this your handwriting?

Yu Qiufeng...

he’s trying to force me into a corner.

Here, eat lots.

- Thank you, Senior Brother. - Thank you.

Here.

Thank you.

Eat some more, all right?

You must be exhausted coming all this way.

Don’t restrain yourself.

Treat this place as your home.

Right, don’t restrain yourself!

Girl,

you seem to have learned martial arts,

just like the girls and boys in our pugilist world.

From which clan or sect are you a noble disciple of?

I’m not a disciple.

I’m just someone’s maid.

It’s just that my master taught me some basic martial arts, that’s all.

A’Xiang, don’t be so modest.

- Martial Uncle, A’Xiang’s Master is— - Hey!

Eat some more!

Okay! I’ll eat.

I’m sorry, Martial Uncle.

My master is a reclusive elder master.

He has an odd temper

and does not want me to reveal his name.

Martial Uncle, all extraordinarily talented people in the martial arts world have their own uniqueness.

It’s quite common, right?

Right.

Do you have anyone else in your family?

Not anymore.

I’m an orphan.

I was picked up and raised by Master.

But,

he doesn’t want me anymore.

It’s all right. It’s all right.

You and our Weining both are both without parents

♪ It’s matters of the heart that torments me, don’t miss hate and love ♪

and are children with hard lives.

It’s all right. Before, you both did not have family,

♪ Only wish that you will not say goodbye ♪

but in the future,

you will be able to live devotedly to each other.

♪ The only thing on my mind is to spend the rest of my life ♪

It’s just that the timing is bad.

if the mountain hadn’t had to be sealed,

I could choose a lucky day for you two

after the New Year

♪ Embroiled in this mortal love ♪

and complete your marriage.

Martial Uncle, why did we seal the mountain?

Let’s eat first. Eat first.

A’Xiang, eat more.

Right, eat, eat.

I indeed had a history

with Tragicomic Ghost, Luo Fumeng.

At the time, she was the Young Princess of Neon Palace.

But I was the poor son of the Zhao family’s declining side branch.

Of course, her family refused to marry her down to me.

They locked her up.

This blood letter...

At that time, she sent someone to give it to me.

To express her attitude.

You two...

once loved each other?

Then, why did you betray her?

It was all because of that wench Li Yao.

Foster-Mother?

I have told you to not call her that!

She’s just a wench!

You don’t know what she’s done to me!

[Great Ambitions]

At the time, I held tender feelings for Li Yao since she was a proper, unmarried lady from a great family

who loved me with everything she had.

I am to blame for not ending her love for me in time

which led to

when Fumeng and I were about to break through all obstacles

and marry successfully,

she used the fact that I participated in stealing for the World’s Armory

to threaten me.

She forced me to follow and marry her, instead.

Xie’er,

if stealing for the World’s Armory were solely my own actions,

I would absolutely have fought against her at all costs,

but this was a very important matter.

I couldn’t drag down my other brothers.

Therefore, I endured this humiliation

and married into her family.

Did you know?

On the day of your marriage,

Luo Fumeng went crazy and massacred everyone in Neon Palace?

Do you know why

the pugilist world never had news about Luo Fumeng anymore?

It’s because I went through so much difficulty

and found the crazy woman she had become

and sent her to receive treatment secretly at Miracle Healer Valley.

But when I was trying to subdue her,

I was injured badly by her unique martial arts.

Since then my martial arts never improved.

I ruined her life.

If it weren’t for me,

she would not have

fallen to such a not completely human, not completely ghost state.

Xie’er...

This is the most painful thing in my life.

The greatest humiliation of my life.

I was going to take all this to the grave,

but since you wanted to know,

I’ll tell you.

There is another reason

I didn’t tell you before.

I’m also the one who killed Li Yao.

As I thought.

The timid Zhao Jing from the past who placed importance on friendship and justice has already died.

The one before you now is a Zhao Jing who can

personally kill his wife,

plot his brothers’ deaths,

bring calamity to the pugilist world,

and commit great evils.

When the world betrays me,

I must betray the world.

But only towards you,

my Xie’er...

Nine parts of my heart may be dead,

but even if there is one kind of thought left,

one bit of affection,

I’ll leave it all for you.

This is the last clean spot of my life.

Promise me.

Protect it well.

Don’t desert it.

Foster-Father!

I was wrong.

I should not have questioned you this way.

I won’t question you again.

Xie’er...

You must know that

I only have you.

And you only have me.

If My Lord does not betray me,

I will not betray My Lord.

If My Lord does not betray me,

I will not betray My Lord.

Master.

Stop calling me.

Don’t you have a new master now?

Well?

Did you get the answer you wanted?

He said

that his wife, Li Yao,

threatened him with the secret of the armory.

I never would have thought

that Zhao Jing’s ability to improvise

was still so astounding.

My father was clearly the one who forced him first.

Why would he blame it on Li Yao?

Because he killed Li Yao after that.

Li Yao was just a brainless idiot of a woman.

Although she and I fought over him,

I never hated her.

If I had really

married Zhao Jing instead,

the bones laying in the underworld today

would likely belong to me.

“First, you toyed with me,

then you tossed me away.” (Lit.: A saying from Yingying’s Biography)

I gave everything for Zhao Jing,

but I never thought

he would switch to Li Yao’s as a more lucrative target.

My father watched me weep for Zhao Jing every day,

and his heart ached uncontrollably for me.

So he used the secret of the armory to threaten him

and used the position of Neon Palace Master to entice him.

Only this way was Zhao Jing forced to marry me.

However, I never thought

that he would be so cruel

as to secretly collude with traitors in the palace.

Blood washed over Neon Palace

on that wedding day.

Master, it wasn’t you?

The past cannot be pursued.

Neither of you has proof of what you say.

If he truly is as cold-blooded as you say,

why would he let you live?

Moreover, why would he

keep your blood-written letter as a treasure?

You really...

You really have an overly shallow understanding of Zhao Jing.

Do you know that in Zhao Jing’s life,

what delights him the most is his ability to manipulate others

and devise schemes to gain power?

For every great plot of his,

he will save for himself a trophy.

Some examples

I can think of are his master’s thumb ring

and the poisoned sword that killed Rong Xuan.

If you don’t believe me,

you can look for yourself.

There should... also be a keepsake

of that idiotic woman Li Yao.

Most likely an item symbolizing their commitment to each other.

If my suspicions are correct,

Zhao Jing should also have given you

a very special memento

as a representation of his sincerity.

Isn’t that so?

Martial Uncle, it will be the Winter Solstice Festival tomorrow.

Elder Ye will be on time, right?

That’s right. It’s the Winter Solstice Festival tomorrow.

Then will we be making dumplings?

Didn’t Elder Ye say

he wanted ones stuffed with pork and cabbage?

Good for nothing, all you know is to eat.

That’s what Elder Ye said in his letter.

Besides,

I’m practicing hard every day,

and you won’t let me eat.

This little brat dares talk back to me?

You don’t learn good skills, you only learn this?

All right.

I’ll buy the ingredients tomorrow.

What would you like to eat besides dumplings?

What? You’re not going to mouth off at him this time?

That old monster has a bunch of years on him.

He’s running all over the place for us after all. It’s a difficult task.

It is only a simple food request,

I may as well satisfy him.

That is reasonable,

but given Elder Ye’s appetite,

our cooking talent had better prepare many times the amount.

The wine down the mountain isn’t adequate either.

How about this, Lao Wen?

Take a cart to Qingshui Town.

Buy some good wine and vegetables.

All right!

Uncle Wen, I’ll go with you!

Where do you think you’re going?

A trip there and back will take a whole day.

Where do you think you’re going?

Stay and practice!

Not true.

I never slack off.

You’re still talking back!

Go to bed!

Lao Wen,

get some rest now.

How about we chat a bit longer?

Have a drink?

Not for me.

There’s a big battle waiting for us in a few days.

This time, I’m going to have to conserve my energy.

Right.

Then go ahead and get some rest.

Let’s go, Chengling.

I’m off!

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♫ The sky is gray as I cross the cold river, my duties taken care of ♫

♫ Smiling at the absurdity of the moon’s reflection in my cup ♫

♫ Who allowed me to roam around the world on horseback? ♫

♫ Who is drunk in their dreams but can’t find the homeland when they wake? ♫

♫ The cold rain of autumn kisses my windows ♫

♫ I don’t mind hate and slander, but my melancholy persists ♫

♫ The spring breeze brings greenery along the river ♫

♫ But can’t warm the ice in my heart ♫

♫ Is that our light that appeared out of nowhere? ♫

♫ I resent being unable to meet you earlier, but it is not too late ♫

♫ Don’t let the flowers of the seasons down ♫

♫ Give up the adventures on horseback for a peaceful, quiet life by the stream ♫

♫ The lights of thousands of families light up thousands of hills ♫

♫ The past disappears like smoke waves in a sandstorm ♫

♫ I will clear away my cold past and happily spend the rest of my life making wine and tea with you ♫

♫ No matter the height of the mountains or distance of the sea, I will be with you ♫