Original subtitles

(Gen Z)

(Episode 15)

Don't negotiate terms with me.

It's just like

I can't negotiate terms with you on my studies.

Confucius says, "Having heard the way in the morning,

one may die content in the evening."

But it should be die immediately instead.

Make a call and apologize.

Make a call and apologize.

You're a grown-up! Be a sensible one!

You should be taught, you know.

Mom.

You have made progress

in your writing. Really.

It's true. Practice well.

If you work hard for another two years,

you can catch up with me.

I can never catch up with you

on this matter.

Hello, what happened?

Ling Lan.

We just had our dinner.

You know what?

At night, it's really cold here in the mountains.

The back of my neck feels cold.

So, I suddenly remembered...

Every time you wake up in the morning.

You've scared me.

I've put that scarf

in Tian Zhen's backpack.

Remember to get it from him.

Don't catch a cold.

Okay.

Thank you so much

for being so sweet

(and attentive every day.)

(Ask your parents)

to rest early.

Alright.

I'll stop here.

Okay, bye.

What's wrong? What happened?

Nothing.

He's asking about you.

Everything is fine? Really?

I think he should be fine.

But...

It's weird.

This is rare.

Previously, he never called me

when he went out.

What are you laughing at?

Men are late bloomers.

Do you still remember?

When you were one year old,

your father came back from Ningxia

and said to you...

Call me "uncle".

You remember this forever?

I will remember this forever.

That's why people say

a man

is just like the flat peach

in Jade Emperor's garden

that blooms in three thousand years

and bears fruit in three thousand years.

If you are impatient

and run away

before picking the fruits,

that's because you are not

blessed enough.

Mom.

Please analyze it for me.

Everyone says that

there must be something strange about things going wrong.

He is being abnormal

and started to care about me out of a sudden.

Could it be that

something has happened?

His age is catching up.

He is fine.

Why are you looking at me? Continue with your writing.

I...

I'm happy for you.

I've called her.

Mr. Ren. Happy Teacher's Day.

Keep it.

It's just a little token of my gratitude.

Take it.

Take it.

Say it again.

Happy Teacher's Day.

Thanks.

This is my first time eating wild vegetables. It's delicious.

Wild vegetables are delicious.

But it's all vegetables and I don't feel full.

I ate three steamed buns just now

and I'm not full either.

There's nothing to eat.

There were more vegetables than meat.

If we had beggar chicken,

that'd be better.

Slowly.

Beggar chicken?

You've eaten beggar chicken before?

I haven't tried it before. Is it tasty?

It's of course tasty.

In the Legend of the Condor Heroes,

Hong Qigong was willing

to teach Guo Jing martial arts

because of Huang Rong's beggar chicken.

Mix water and mud

and use it to wrap the chicken,

then roast it.

After a while, the mud becomes

fragrant and sweet.

When the mud becomes half dry and half wet,

peel off the dried mud.

The chicken feathers

will fall off with the mud.

Stop talking.

I'm hungry again.

I'm drooling.

Who is it?

The money...

No, no.

Professor Ren.

Listen to me.

You usually don't charge us for the medical treatment.

This...

They're different matters.

You must take this money.

Thank you so much.

You better keep her in check.

Thank you.

Don't let her run around in the village.

We've troubled you.

I'll not send you off.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Mr. Ren, I was wrong.

I know I was wrong. Really.

But I didn't mean to.

I was...

I was

curious.

It was out of curiosity.

It's written in the book

that the beggar chicken is very delicious.

I just wanted to taste it.

I wanted to pay for it,

but I didn't see anyone

or any payment code.

I was thinking that after eating,

I would...

I was wrong.

Actually, I thought about it for a long time.

It's such a tough job.

Why did my master and his wife

make it difficult for me.

It had gone away!

But now it comes back again.

I've figured it out now.

God is enlightening me.

To think of goodness, that's Buddha.

To think of evil, that's devil.

In fact, humans are

going back and forth between the Buddha and the devil.

And you are

going back and forth between the devil and the Buddha.

You...

I'm...

What?

You've frightened me.

Aren't you bold?

In the afternoon, you were carrying Lawyer Yang on your back

and went downhill to the hospital.

You were doing good deeds.

But you stole a chicken at night!

I've thought it through.

I can't be too strict about you.

How about this?

Can you

do ten good deeds

before doing bad things?

When you do bad things

every month, at least

there is a quota on it.

As long as you can do it,

I'll consider that

I've taught you.

Okay?

Mr. Ren, I know I was wrong.

About what?

I shouldn't steal someone else's chicken.

But what's written on the book is also wrong.

It says that the beggar chicken is tasty.

It's not tasty at all.

No, Mr. Ren. The...

It's true! The beggar chicken is not tasty at all!

What I did was in vain!

I'll beat you to death!

Your cooking is bad.

You shouldn't blame me.

Alright, students.

Dismiss. Go to bed early.

Let's dismiss.

Let's go, Meng Meng.

Mr. Ren!

Mr. Ren!

I don't want it anymore!

He... He's chasing me again!

He's chasing me again!

Speak for me!

She helped us clean the chicken coop.

It's very clean.

She did a tough task.

It's for you.

A reward!

We should accept the two chickens.

Come.

You've scared me.

You kept running.

You didn't make it clear.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

It has fallen asleep.

Mr. Ren.

Have a seat.

I just want to tell you that

I'll give you this piggy bank.

Manage the good and bad

separately.

There is a limit for doing bad things.

And you'll be rewarded if you do good deeds.

If you have improved in the future,

whenever you do a good deed,

I'll...

I'll insert a coin

into the piggy bank.

When the piggy bank is full,

that means your apprenticeship is over.

But today, your performance

is worth inserting a coin.

Well, Mr. Ren.

This piggy bank is a bit too small.

It'll be full

after I work for a few more days.

I'm not saying that

you'll get a coin if you work for a day.

The criteria for getting a coin

will be decided by me.

Okay.

You did a great deed today.

So, he gave you two chickens.

Thanks to you too

for sacrificing yourselves

to be our learning subject.

Mr. Ren, stop it.

Right now,

I can't eat the chickens anymore.

It's so fragrant!

It's really fragrant, Mr. Ren.

Why the one I ate last night

has a completely different taste?

That book didn't lie to me.

This beggar chicken...

This really is beggar chicken?

I didn't do it right yesterday.

It's tasty.

Tou Tou.

Have you ever thought about it?

Both are chickens.

Why the one you ate yesterday doesn't taste good,

but today's chicken is tasty?

Yes, I've thought about it.

Yesterday,

I didn't put the seasoning right.

That's why it was tasteless.

What else?

Well, yesterday, I was terrified.

So, you know, the chicken actually wasn't cooked.

It wasn't cooked.

That's why

those that are placed on the table

and are

tasty food

are all

through complicated process

and cooked for a long time.

Think about it.

This chicken was roasted for three hours.

It's obviously tastes better than

the chicken you cooked by skimping ingredients

and feeling scared.

You cooked like you're a thief, would that be tasty?

Mr. Ren.

This meat on the feet of the chicken...

Come.

This biggest drumstick is for you.

I don't really like that part.

I prefer this one.

The meat at the corners.

Mr. Qiu.

Tou Tou has become sensible.

She knows to be humble now.

Good.

Give this piece of meat

to Mr. Qiu.

Mr. Qiu, here you go.

Tou Tou.

You've worked hard today.

This piece of good meat,

you should eat it.

Enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Alright.

You eat it.

Eat it.

Don't you eat, okay?

You're so tall now.

I'll eat it.

I'm growing up, you know.

Tou Tou.

After eating the chicken,

then start to memorize the classic.

Why do I have to do that again?

You must remember this.

Studying is not about

following what other people say.

It's not about hearsay.

You should

concentrate and delve into studying.

As the saying goes, "if someone else gets it in one try,

I will try one hundred times."

"If someone else gets it in ten tries,

I will try one thousand times."

"If you can follow this way,

then even if you are stupid, you will become enlightened."

"Even if you are weak, you will become strong."

Read hundreds of times

and you will find the meaning.

Do you understand?

Mr. Ren.

Don't worry.

I will definitely learn from you.

I will study hard.

Can I not memorize the classics tonight?

Eat.

These glutinous rice balls

are fragrant and chewy.

They're full of nutty aroma.

I'm hungry.

Cook more.

This is not enough.

Okay.

Let me get a bowl.

Meng Meng, the glutinous rice balls are ready.

Here you go.

Your parents are going to take you home

for a reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

I bought you two boxes

lava custard mooncake.

Bring them home with you.

What's wrong?

You don't miss them?

Quan.

The medical center is closed on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Are you going home?

I won't go back for now.

Three days off,

but I'll be traveling on the road for one and a half days.

It's not worth it.

Coincidentally, Xing Xing

recommended me to a physiotherapy job.

I'm taking the opportunity to make some extra money.

Okay.

Go back and wait for me.

I'll give you two boxes of mooncakes.

Anyway, I bought a lot

to eat it on that day.

Thanks.

Cook more, please.

Everyone is very hungry.

Okay.

I'm getting another bowl.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is around the corner.

How are you going to celebrate it?

Go back home and look for mummy!

That's very clever of you.

Mr. Ren!

Hurry up, we're all waiting for you.

I'm ready.

You're not going to test me?

Studying

is your own business.

If you want to study,

you'll surely remember it.

If you don't want to study,

no matter how I test you,

you'll forget anyway.

Hurry up, get that.

Yes, we're waiting for you.

Thanks.

Be careful. It's hot.

It's hot.

I was wondering why

you were so happy just now.

So, you're eating glutinous rice balls.

Eat it while it's hot.

We were talking about the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.

Today,

we happened to have a meal together

before the festive season.

So, let me wish all of you

have a joyful holiday in advance.

Happy holidays.

Happy holidays.

Tomorrow,

all of us will go home.

When you're on your way home,

please take care of your safety.

The most important thing is

don't forget about your homework.

We'll remember that.

We'll remember that.

Mr. Ren, Mr. Qiu.

Happy holidays!

You've become sensible.

They've become sensible.

That's right.

Thank you!

Eat it while it's hot.

Why must we have holidays?

We're doing good. Why must we have holidays?

Isn't this nice?

If you go back home during the holiday,

where should I go?

How did you spend

your previous Mid-Autumn Festivals then?

Working.

Working.

I can earn one or two thousand a day during the festive season.

The salary is three times higher than usual at this period.

I'm definitely going to make money.

If...

If all of you are going back home,

where should I go?

Come to my house during the holiday.

Go to your house?

That's right.

Come to my house.

That's not good.

I'll give you some glutinous rice balls.

Here, Mr. Ren. Some glutinous rice balls for you.

(The autumnal equinox refers not only to the equal length of day and night,

but also the one splitting the Chinese solar terms of autumn.)

(The autumnal equinox was once a traditional feast of the moon.）

(The Mid-Autumn Festival evolved

from the "feast of the moon during autumn twilight".)

(Autumnal Equinox)

Dad! I'm going to school today.

I'm about to submit my PhD thesis.

I need to do some literature research.

Bring along Tou Tou.

I'm not going.

I'm on holiday.

And Meng Meng has gone back home.

I'm not going to the library.

Everyone else can have a holiday

but you.

Your foundation is too weak.

You must make up your weakness with hard work.

I'll drive the car here then.

I've arranged for you

to recite the classics every day.

You must stick around even when you're on holiday.

Every night at eight o'clock,

I'll be waiting for you in the study on time.

If that's the case,

what's the difference between having a holiday or not?

Holidays are arranged by humans.

In the eyes of God,

a holiday is about studying.

Studying is on holiday.

When I was young,

I only studied during the holidays.

I had to do farming on the usual days.

Go and get a change.

Let me watch for another five minutes.

I'll go after watching this episode.

Go now.

When we're out of the neighborhood,

your holiday will start.

Go wherever you want

and do whatever you want.

We'll fix a time and come home together.

What do you mean?

We're not going to the library?

I'm going.

You don't like to study, right?

You don't have to go.

I have to go.

Studying will make your dad happy.

When your dad is happy,

your family will be happy.

I have other things to do.

Go play by yourself.

Ren Tian Zhen.

You've changed.

You're dishonest now. You're lying.

You want to go out and have fun, don't you?

But you lie to your dad and say

you are going to the library.

Am I right?

Your dad said this.

"Sincerity is the way of Heaven."

"Making oneself sincere is the way of man."

You are lying to your family now.

Why have you become like this?

Tell me!

Who are you meeting?

I'm going to meet my classmate.

You don't know him. You want to go?

I'll go. Why shouldn't I?

I will know him when I go there.

Which classmate?

I can take you there.

But promise me.

You can't spill the bean

on today's matter.

Okay.

Besides that,

consider this another skateboarding class.

Okay?

Get in the car.

(Ren Tian Zhen's Secret Operations)

Ren Tian Zhen.

Do you really want to play this?

It's dangerous.

Dangerous?

There are more exciting

and dangerous ones.

There are more?

Let's go. Let's fly. Let's feel it.

It's okay. I don't play this.

Don't be so polite. Let's go.

No, I don't play this.

You are fearless.

You should feel this child's game.

Listen.

It's good that I could come with you.

You're too polite.

I'm not going!

Okay.

I'll fly now.

Don't be anxious.

Take a stroll on this mountain.

I hope to see you down the mountain tonight.

Goodbye.

You're really going to do that?

Ren Tian Zhen!

Ren Tian Zhen!

Where are we having dinner tonight?

(Ren Tian Zhen's Secret Operations)

You're tired already?

I thought you only play

games like skateboarding.

I didn't expect you to play

such exciting games too.

This is nothing.

I still have many difficult challenges

which I haven't completed yet.

What else?

Look. What is this?

Did you put your bank card's password on this?

You're cheesy.

Except for the bank card's password,

what else is worth taking with you?

Tell me.

Something unreachable

and hard to get.

Ren Tian Zhen.

Let me ask you a question.

Is it illegal

to speak human language in your house?

Just give a simple answer

when I ask a question.

Why must you say something

that I don't understand?

This here. Look at this blank space.

Is it a semi-finished product?

This is my list of challenges.

Every time I complete a challenge,

I'll carve the latitude and longitude of that place on it.

It's a kind of record and certification

of my self-challenge.

Look.

Skiing.

Skydiving.

Diving.

Okay, okay.

Rock climbing.

Okay, okay.

So, what do you have left to accomplish?

My next plan

is to do all those things in the country.

I'm going to do bungee jumping

at Shiyan.

In a sense,

jumping off in that way

is probably the closest you can get to ascending.

I envy you.

Well, this is how rich kids are.

It's such a deadly thing,

but you sounded like it's aspiring.

You envy me, and I envy you too.

Why do you envy me?

I'm the only child in my family.

Countless pairs of eyes in my family

keep staring at me

from the moment I was born.

They are afraid that something will happen to me

if I'm not being careful.

But I do feel for them.

And I understand them now.

The way you enjoy the games

might really cost your life.

That is why

having parents is good,

but not having parents is not as miserable as you say.

My life belongs to my family.

Your life belongs to you.

How nice it is.

Come, let's play for another two rounds.

You reminded me just now.

I was rootless before.

But I have it now.

I am the successor of the Jiang family's acupuncture sect.

If something happens to me,

the acupuncture sect will be over.

So, my life is very precious now.

I want to cherish it.

I can't care much about your sect.

But I want to protect my sect.

Just you go.

Okay.

Successor, you must protect yourself.

Take it easy!

Don't worry.

This is not the way to go back home.

The most important trip hasn't started yet.

We're not going back yet?

We have to go back now.

I still haven't do the calligraphy exercise.

If your dad checks my homework tonight,

I'm sure I'll be dead.

There's enough time to do it.

There's not enough time to do it!

What are you going to buy at this place?

You'll find out later.

Mr. Ren.

I haven't seen you for a long time.

What good things did you bring today?

Take a look.

You know if this thing I wore is real or fake.

And you know the price of the good agarwood now.

I can say there is no price for this piece.

It's a good stuff.

But it has your birth date on it.

You also know

those who wear agarwood pendants are for own or family protection.

Not very good to offer.

Quote a price.

How about this?

One time offer.

One hundred thousand.

One hundred...

One hundred thousand?

What is this

that costs one hundred thousand?

I didn't know you were wearing

such an expensive thing.

Deal.

Okay.

How much is your watch?

Let me see.

The watch...

Watch...

What are you doing?

I'm checking what other valuable things you have.

Don't touch me.

Take it out.

Let's keep a distance.

Man and woman shouldn't touch each other.

Take it out.

You lost it?

You lost it?

Is it something that can be lost?

Think about it.

Did you leave it in the library?

That's right.

I'll call Head Librarian Wang

and ask him to find it.

Mom, no need for that.

It's the festive season.

He is celebrating with his family too.

Let's call him after the festive season, okay?

That's not okay.

It's such an important stuff.

I'll call him.

Mom, don't bother about this.

Don't need to call him.

Go and find it at the library.

Don't make your grandma worry.

Maybe it's not in the library.

Moreover, you gave me this.

It's not that I want to wear it.

Why blame me when I lost it?

Moreover, the string doesn't know that the pendant is expensive.

I couldn't help it either

since the string broke.

This isn't the first time though.

The string has broken?

That's true.

I changed twice before.

It's all my fault.

I haven't changed it for a long time.

Mom, how can we blame you?

Hundreds of thousands are gone.

Hundreds of thousands?

It's been so long.

The pendant should be valuable now.

Head Librarian Wang.

Yes, yes. It's me.

I'd like to ask you something.

What a guy.

It's so expensive.

If I had known about it, I would have brought it back.

What did you say?

You would have brought it back?

No.

I mean,

I should have

searched properly in the library

since it's expensive stuff.

What are you doing?

I'm making one for Tian Zhen.

Our grandchildren will have his own blessings.

He doesn't take that thing seriously,

so don't bother yourself with this.

Never mind.

That can't be.

He is the only child in our family.

We have to protect him.

I've lost count of it.

Since he was young,

I wonder why

those things that I gave him

all didn't last long.

Either he lost it

or someone stole it.

If this continues,

what should we do?

We'll do what we should do.

Since he was young,

he lost a lot of the amulets.

Yet he grew up safely.

We are old now.

We'll just keep these things with us.

Don't do it for him.

I know.

The pendant that he lost this time,

we must get it back.

But

my mom told me before.

The son of a prestigious family has a short life.

He'll need something to suppress it.

It's getting more expensive.

Why are you here?

Sun Tou Tou.

I'm...

I'm sitting here for a while.

You two have made a deal, right?

Professor Song.

I'm sorry I'm late.

How much did you pay for my son's stuff?

One hundred thousand.

One...

You know about it?

What does this mean?

You've sold it?

We have always been doing this.

He comes to sell stuff and I come to redeem it.

Why did you sell it?

Yesterday, I went out for a drink.

I left the store to my staff.

He accidentally...

He...

I think you don't want to do our business anymore.

Do you know this is called embezzlement of assets?

It's hard for me too.

I've scolded him all morning.

I...

Who did he sell it to?

Go and find that person.

The thing is

I don't know who he sold to.

He is not a regular customer.

What about your surveillance camera?

It's already broken.

It's just decoration.

(The prescriptions and remedies used in this drama)

(are referenced from relevant traditional Chinese medicine books)

(Do not use without medical advice) (End of Episode 15 )