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[The Master of Cheongsam]

[Episode 2]

Tell me,

are you gonna help me or not?

Hum.

Hum.

Hum, huh?

Hum, huh?

Give it to me,

give it to me.

It was left from my mother.

I don’t care,

I'll keep it as a token.

After you two help me get out of here,

you will get it back.

Lu Yuanzhi, remember,

if anything happens to this jade pendant,

I will let you be buried with it.

A man died, my lord, bad news!

What are you yelling about?

What are you yelling about?

My Lord, my Lord, it’s bad,

it’s bad,

Are you okay?

This is the sachet powder my madam bought.

It’s all wasted.

See? I’m gonna do this in a minute.

A rascal, he's totally a rascal.

Eunuch, the lid of this coffin has been opened.

Can we find something?

My Lord, we have been wronged.

My Lord, we have been wronged.

Lock the door. Shut it. Shut up.

My Lord,

we have been wronged.

I don’t know

how this guy got poisoned.

Your lord, may I ask your name?

This is Lord Tan, head of the Ministry of Penalty.

Lord Tan, may I have a word with you?

Rise, your lord.

Who is she?

Her name will freak you out.

See the visitor out.

Please.

Stop!

Go back.

I’m... we’re together.

I will do what I promised.

I will come tomorrow for your trial.

Blessings to you, Father.

Blessings to you, Father.

Greetings to you, Your Highness.

Wish you good health.

Forget about the manners.

Come and have a look at it.

I just got it.

Look at the glossy fur.

It’s voice is very clear.

Father, this hill myna must have cost you a lot of money.

I didn't buy it.

It’s a gift from Boss Wu of Yuanhui pawnshop.

Why would he give you this

for no reason?

Your Highness, you are so lucky

to have lived in the palace since you were a child.

But now that the Grand Empress Dowager is gone,

your father wants to

find you a good match, then someday...

Does Father think I’m freeloading at home?

Nonsense.

That’s all right. I don’t want to get married yet.

Your Highness, you're exalted,

but girls must marry,

and your mother was already married

when she was at your age.

I've had someone check your birth horoscopes,

it turns out that the boy matches you perfectly.

The Wu family’s business

in the Dengshikou area is the most prosperous.

If you marry him, you will live a happy life.

Father,

my mother is the sister of the late emperor,

and I am the princess conferred by the Grand Empress Dowager.

You wanted me to marry a pawnbroker,

do you think

my mother would agree if she were alive?

Your highness, please wait.

Hold court trial.

[The Ministry of Penalty]

[A Just Trial by an Honest Official]

Lu Yuanzhi,

someone accused you of killing Laner in the street.

Do you plead guilty?

Of course not.

I do had an argument with him,

and had a fight with him,

but I didn't kill him.

You're so stubborn.

Someone. Bring the witnesses.

Yes.

- Your excellency. - Your excellency.

Were you present

when Laner died?

- Yes. -Yes.

Now tell me

how did Laner died.

Your excellency,

my lord fought with Lu Yuanzhi

outside the Xihua Gate.

My lord was punched by Lu Yuanzhi,

seriously injured,

and died after we carried him home.

Your excellency,

they’re servants of Laner,

I can understand them defending him.

But, as you just heard,

I do punched him, and then he went home and died.

If I can prove that

he was not killed because of my punch,

but was strangled with someone's hands,

does that exonerate me?

Are you telling the truth?

Yes.

If you let the coroner examine it,

you'll know the truth.

The time is different.

We were

just decent in the past.

Wu pawnshop has the support of Prince Chun,

Wu family will help us in the future.

So you are going to sell me?

For all these years,

if it wasn’t for me who

carefully served the Grand Express Dowager,

this house would have be gone by now.

Your words are getting

worse and worse.

What I said was not

as terrible as what you did.

Your highness, how can you say that?

We’re doing what’s best for you.

Don’t be ungrateful.

Do you think Prince Chun

is easy to play up to?

Yeah,

aunt Min is an expert

at having it both ways.

My mother suffered from serious illness in those days,

unexpectedly there’s no one waiting on her.

The servant who was brought up from childhood

seduced her master’s husband.

No, you...

She seduced you to make her your concubine

before my mother died.

My lord.

I will never learn

this "good" skill.

My lord.

I tell you, I won’t marry

unless you take my corpse

to the Wu family.

You.

My lord.

Master.

Master.

Master.

My lord, don’t be mad.

Even is aunt Min wants to

make an engagement,

she should find someone from a suitable class.

I disappeared one day and one night,

I can’t believe no one knows about this

in this whole big house.

Even if I died one day,

I don't think anyone would care.

Master.

Panxia,

is this still a home?

Lord Tan,

what brings you to my humble home

so early in the morning?

Eunuch Zhang, sorry,

someone reported that the cause of Laner’s death is doubtful,

so I have to come over.

My son Laner was killed,

and the murderer is Lu Yuanzhi.

Nonsense.

Laner was clearly strangled to death.

Lord Tan,

it is the duty of the Ministry of Penalty to send a coroner to examine the body.

Are you not afraid of jeopardising your fine reputation

if you judge

only by one man’s word?

Since Eunuch Zhang

thinks your son died unjustly,

it would be better to find out the cause of death as soon as possible

and the case can be settled as soon as possible.

If Lu Yuanzhi

really killed your son,

I’ll certainly punish him according to the law,

how do you think?

All right, you've got something.

Autopsy, right?

No problem.

Luzi.

Yes.

Go.

Zhang Jinshan.

Last night, a thief broke in

and set fire to the hall.

It was too late when the servants found out.

Is that Laner’s corpse?

Zhang Jinshan,

in order not to let others find out,

it is you who strangled Laner,

you burned the corpse to destroy the evidence.

You’re so ruthless.

Dare you hit me again!

Lord Tan,

Lu Yuanzhi killed my son in the street,

people who saw it are all witnesses.

Please make a final decision.

You’re slandering me venomously.

Lord Tan,

he is a witness. You can ask him.

I heard him

here last night.

You can question him.

All right.

So you’re the one who

break into his house and set the corpse on fire.

The case is clear.

Does Lord Tan

know what to do?

Lord Tan,

Isn’t that obvious?

So big the yard is,

why only the place where the corpse was

be burned?

This is exactly what he planned.

Go ahead, take the prisoner into the jail

and await his penalty.

Yes. Go.

He knows it, you can ask him.

Go.

Lord Tan.

Restrain your grief, Eunuch.

Take care of yourself, Eunuch.

Pardon the bother.

Thank you, Lord Tan.

I must be going.

Bye.

Useless thing.

Su Jing'an bullies me,

and his son bullies you,

then why should you be alive?

Eunuch,

if this was heard by Su Jing’an,

he'll laugh at you.

He won’t have a chance

to laugh at me.

Forgive me, Father.

Forgive me, Father.

You brat.

Forgive me, Father.

You are just a dog of mine.

How dare you bite me?

Forgive me, Father.

Brat.

Eunuch,

Lu Yuanzhi killed your godson,

let’s see how Triple Cutting House will solve this.

[Ministry of Penalty]

I already believed you once,

and what happened?

Don't meddle here.

Tell the truth.

Your excellency, it is the truth.

Laner’s

buried corpse

can’t prove

if he was strangled or not,

and it also can’t prove

that he was killed by my punch, right?

You’re still talking nonsense here.

This man is dead,

and the cause of death hasn’t been determined yet,

so why jump to conclusions?

Is it possible that your lord is afraid of Zhang Jinshan?

How dare you!

you refuse to be convinced until you are faced with grim reality.

They have witnesses, I have witnesses,too.

At least your honor should wait for my witnesses to arrive,

hear the testimony,

and then judge, right?

What witnesses do you have?

Go and bring them.

They promised me. Soon they'll come.

I'm waiting, too.

Lord, are we really going to testify?

If we go to court

and get identified...

Don't worry.

We will leave as soon as

I've told the truth.

Lord Tan won’t make things difficult for me.

If we offended Zhang Jinshan...

We just do what we should do.

If his fate is not doomed,

we did a good thing.

If so,

it is no one’s fault.

Let’s go.

Your highness,

please stay at home these days.

It's none of your business. Go away.

Lord said,

as long as you agree to marry young master Wu,

you can go anywhere you want.

Our lord

just don’t have many thoughts,

it must be aunt Min’s bad idea.

Panxia, what are you saying?

We are all servants.

How dare you to criticize your madam?

You...

Panxia, let’s go.

They have gone too far.

There’s really no way out.

And no ideas, either.

Lu Yuanzhi,

are you teasing me?

It’s been almost an hour.

Where’s your witness?

Not a shadow of a soul.

My Lord, I’m not lying to you.

Just wait.

Just wait.

I think you’re just stalling.

Go ahead.

[A Just Trial by an Honest Official]

Yes.

The rod punishment served.

Do it.

No, no,

my Lord.

You’re trying to beat a confession out of me, my Lord.

My Lord, my Lord,

Can we wait a little longer?

My Lord,

my Lord,

my Lord...

My Lord,

junior lord is back.

All right.

Master, Yuanzhi

I already knew.

What will be will be.

In this case,

It's important to save him first.

We may have been able to save him,

but Yuanzhi’s outburst this morning

totally made Lord Tan angry.

And Lord Tan also knows that

I am the childhood friend of Yuanzhi,

so he doesn’t let me touch this case.

It seems that he is also afraid of Zhang Jinshan.

Well, isn’t this a bad time?

♫ Watching the mountain view from the castle ♫

♫Hearing chaos outside the city ♫

♫Flags ♫

Boss White,

Lu Yuanzhi’s got a lot of nerve,

thanks to you,

he didn’t get the case overturned this time.

Lu Yuanzhi is just a little punk who

can only play a few tricks.

Foolhardiness.

But Jiang Mosheng, another apprentices of Su Jing'an,

is different.

How come?

His father, Jiang Wangqiu,

was a famous tailor of Jiangning Imperial Silk Manufacturing Bureau

in those years.

He came from a distinguished family,

but then he got caught up and died in prison because of his involvement of a crime,

causing the decline of his family.

Otherwise he wouldn't

have chance to take this talent as his apprentice.

So is it Jiang Mosheng that

the most competent apprentice of Su Jing’an?

Yes.

If it’s just about skills,

Su Jing’an is not as good as me,

but it is a pity that I lost my wife at an early age

and had no children,

so I have no apprentice up to now.

It seems that

you really appreciate this talent.

Well,

I do,

but I'm not as lucky as Su Jing’an.

Father, Su Jing’an is here.

Speaking of him, here he comes.

Master, maybe we should go back.

Zhang Jinshan deliberately humiliates us,

if we do not let his anger off,

he will not let Yuanzhi go.

Come with me.

Brother.

I haven’t heard you call me that in 20 years.

Aren’t you embarrassed?

Since we learned after Master, you are certainly my brother.

Su Jing’an, you betrayed Master,

I am no longer your brother

since the day you forcibly took master’s lifelong unique skill-

-The Seamless Stitch.

Master has indeed passed on

The Seamless Stitch to me.

I have a clear conscience.

When Master was seriously ill,

you deliberately concealed the news,

so that I failed to see him before he died.

You were with Master before he died,

I only know what you said,

how can I believe what you said is the truth?

I can't help it if you don't believe me.

But this is between you and me,

not the younger generation.

I'm begging you

to do me a favor,

I'll do whatever you want.

What if I say I want the "seamless heavenly robe"?

You're reluctant to give it to me, huh?

Good. Then you can go back.

Brother,

you've been smart and talented

since you were a kid,

so Master was partial to you.

But do you know

why Master finally passed the "seamless heavenly robe" to me?

Because you are proud,

refuse to work hard,

and like to cut corners in everything.

Master always said that

if a person's virtue is higher than his talent, he can be called a gentleman.

Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

He's just a villain the other way round.

Shut up!

Shut up!

What right have you to lecture me?

I dare not

disobey Master's last teachings,

and I cannot give you the "seamless heavenly robe".

Good. Good.

Then keep it.

Hold it while sleeping.

Greetings to Eunuch Zhang.

Mr. Su.

A murderer must repay with his life just like a borrower with money.

It's a matter of course.

I'm not being difficult.

Sure.

I understand.

This is a thousand taels of silver,

a token of my family's esteem for you.

Please accept it and show some mercy to Yuanzhi.

Is Laner's life

just worth a thousand taels of silver?

Mr. Su, are you satirizing me?

As long as you are willing to forgive Yuanzhi,

I would like to give you the land deed of Triple Cutting House in exchange.

Master!

Mr. Su, what a good plan!

Everyone knows that

as long as

your reputable brand remains,

you can open up as many houses

as you want.

The point is Laner is dead now!

He can't come back from the dead,

what do you think we should do?

Who cares about your Triple Cutting House?

What I want is my son's life.

Eunuch Zhang,

even if you kill Yuanzhi,

Laner will not be able to come back to life.

How about meeting each other halfway?

Please feel free to put forward any condition,

as long as my family can do it.

I promise you.

You really talk big.

Well, if you say so,

I will show you a way.

Lu Yuanzhi killed my son,

so you pay me a son

and this matter will be settled. How about that?

What? You...

But don't worry,

I'm not interested in Lu Yuanzhi.

I want him.

But

you are not qualified to be my godson.

Now Mr. Bai's store is short of staff.

When you become his godson

and break off with the Su family,

this matter will be over.

How about that? Yes or no?

No, right?

Okay.

Then just wait to bury Lu Yuanzhi's body.

Which of the two apprentices will stay

is your decision to make.

Jiang Mosheng will just be a start.

I'll make everyone you want to take on

work for me.

I'm innocent!

I'm wronged, my lord.

Let us out.

My lord, I'm wronged, my lord.

I'm innocent, my lord.

This smells like Ding Feng House's Eight Treasures Chicken dish.

Lu Yuanzhi.

Shut up! All of you!

You have a visitor.

Shut up!

I knew it was you the moment I smelled that dish.

Did they torture you?

Just you wait.

I'm going to talk to Lord Tan about this.

That's enough. Don't make troubles.

Lu Yuanzhi, listen.

I promised your master

that you'll never get bullied.

Isn't that a slap in my face?

You have a face?

Where?

Well,

now you two can make jokes about me together,

it seems that the injury is not serious.

Well. You two talk first,

I'll go out and keep watch for you.

How's your injury, Yuanzhi?

Brother, why?

Why are you looking so sad?

I'm not dead yet.

Nonsense!

Do not say unlucky words.

Okay, no unlucky words.

I am the one who is hurt,

what are you doing with the sad face?

Like a player in the drama.

Here, have a seat.

Make yourself at home.

Look what I've brought you to eat.

Take your time.

Yuanzhi, let me ask you a question.

If... I mean if.

If I left the Su family,

would you still take me as your big brother?

What do you mean?

How is that possible?

- Doctor - Doctor.

Do you think the medicine will work?

My lady, a word?

Okay.

How is he, doc?

Mr. Su hurt his lungs

because of anger.

A few days of conditioning, and he will be fine.

But a man at this age

should take good care of himself,

and must not get so angry again.

Yes. Thank you.

Wuzi,

see him out.

Yes.

My lord.

Goodbye.

Thank you.

This way, please.

Absolutely not!

Our master has been contending with Bai Henian for most of his life

but to no avail.

He is trying to burn bridges of Triple Cutting House!

Absolutely not!

It's the only way

to keep you alive.

He wants a godson, huh?

I'll go.

It's me he wants.

Brother.

It is still undecided.

We have to insist until the end.

If you have to go,

I will confess today

and let them kill me tomorrow.

You...Say something!

I have something to say. That's enough.

Mosheng.

Is he feeling better?

The doctor prescribed medicine

and said that he'd better not be so angry again.

But the matter of Yuanzhi remains unresolved,

how can father not be angry.

Don't worry. Yuanzhi will be fine.

Look what I've brought you.

It's so beautiful!

Starflowers. Your favorite.

Thank you, Mosheng.

Yaoyao, let me ask you a question.

If only one of Yuanzhi and I

could stay in the Su family,

who would you like to choose?

Both!

If you leave, I'll cry my heart out.

If Yuanzhi leaves,

I'll go with him.

Neither of you can leave anyway.

Why are you asking me such a strange question?

Nothing.

Don't worry.

I won't let anything happen

to Yuanzhi.

My lord.

Uncle, I beg you to let Yuanzhi go.

I am willing to join the Bai family

and provide for you and carry out my funerary duties.

I'm honored.

As long as you can convince Zhang Jinshan to release Yuanzhi,

from now on,

I, Jiang Mosheng, am willing to do anything

for the Bai family.

Does Su Jing'an know that you came?

Rumor has it that you are very good.

But you are even better than I thought.

Do you know that

being my godson

means that you'll have nothing to do with the Su family in the future.

Yes, I know.

Is it worth it

just for that good-for-nothing Lu Yuanzhi?

I'm not doing it for Yuanzhi.

But for the Su family.

The Su family can do without me,

but not without Yuanzhi.

No regrets?

No regrets.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, please walk slowly.

I just want to get it done early.

You're doing it for that rascal?

I'm doing it for my mother's jade pendant,

which is all I have left from her.

Stop!

I am looking for Lord Tan.

I am a witness in the case of Lu Yuanzhi.

What for?

Lu Yuanzhi's case has already been tried.

Go away. Go away.

What? The trial is over?

My lord. My lord.

The young master is back.

Mosheng.

Master. Madam.

I come back to pack my things.

Mosheng... What a silly kid!

I'm fine, Madam.

Mosheng,

I know you are doing this for Yuan Zhi

and this family.

Master, don't worry.

If you hadn't gone to Jiangning

and brought me back,

I'd still be a family slave.

I've earned all these years of good life for nothing.

It's the right thing to do.

But I'm worried

that you can no longer keep yourself out of the affair

if you join the Bai family.

I understand.

Even though it's not as comfortable in the Bai's family

as it is here,

I can still protect myself.

But when Yuanzhi wakes up

and finds out that you have done this for him,

he will never agree.

When he wakes up, it is a foregone conclusion.

But...

People say that the sun sets in the end of the world,

but there is no home for me to go all over the world.

From now on,

I have no family in the Bai's house.

Once I leave here,

I don't know when I can reunite with you.

I hereby

kowtow to you both for your kindness of raising me,

and then I kowtow to you, Master, for your virtue of preaching and teaching.

Mosheng.

I kowtow for the third time.

I'm ashamed to be your son because I can't be loyal and filial at the same time.

Kid.

Rise. Rise.

Get up.

Kid.

My son.

The auspicious time has come.

[Bai's Mansion]

What a handsome and talented man!

You're right. Nice.

The Bai Family is blessed.

Yes.

He's really handsome!

I heard that he's also a good tailor.

Your Highness.

We just go to the Su's like this,

will the rascal give us the jade pendant?

Since he has been acquitted,

why would he still keep my jade pendant?

Of course he has to return it to me.

His acquittal is not because of us.

I was there anyway,

but it was of no use.

I did not go back on my word, so must he.

My mother's jade pendant must be taken back.

Speak of the devil.

Stop! Rascal!

Stop!

Give it back, my jade pendant!

What are you doing!

You give it back to me and I'll leave immediately.

If you don't let go of me,

I'll chop you to death, believe it or not!

Jiang Mosheng.

Eat the rice

and you will belong to the Bai family.

The past is all gone.

From now on,

in your eyes and your heart,

you shall take me, Bai Henian, as your only godfather.

If you betray the Bai family,

you will have retribution.

Brother.

- What are you doing! - What are you doing!

Put it down!

Get out of the way!

My lord.

Come on, stand back!

Bai Henian,

you don't have a son of your own,

so you steal my brother?

Bastard, I'll chop you to death!