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The Story of Ming Lan

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Episode 50

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What's the use of you standing there?

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Does it hurt?

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I'm saying nonsense.

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You...does it hurt?

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I was too muddled.

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I...also do know her personality,

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but I didn't even have her body searched.

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How is this your fault?

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That woman Manniang is good in everything, except that she is bearing evil intentions.

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She's like a crazy person when she does things.

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If she wants to do any evil, you can't guard against her.

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She said that Chang'er is dead.

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I heard.

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I don't believe it.

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I don't. That evil woman has never said any truth to me!

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I already said earlier

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that he can't come in the day after tomorrow.

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No matter how many days more, he also can't come.

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It's all because of a ruthless and dumb man like you.

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You drove me away.

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You kicked me out.

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Those few money I have

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would never last for long!

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First, he got sick.

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I invited so many doctors, but it didn't work.

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He died in my arms!

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It was all because of you!

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You cruel father!

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Servant! Bring the torture equipment!

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Yes!

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When you married this woman,

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when you became the marquis,

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when you were showing off your prestige...

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...here in Bianjing City,

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your son...

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...has already been buried.

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Rainwater and snow have already soaked him.

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Rats and bugs have gnawed on him.

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- Get me the torture equipment!

- They're getting it, Marquis!

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It's you! You are devoid of conscience!

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Gu Tingye, you are devoid of conscience! You kicked me out!

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It's all because you drove me out of the house!

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With her delicate appearance, a few floggings might kill her.

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You then won't be able to learn about the whereabouts of Chang'er.

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Look at her. She's like a crazy woman.

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Wrong, she's indeed crazy.

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If I don't use any torture, what can I get from her?

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I saw it.

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But she...isn't afraid of any torture or execution right now.

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She now feels that the whole world has wronged and framed her.

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Whatever she promises you now might be broken by her tomorrow. She's not trustworthy at all.

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You still think that torturing her can get anything?

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If I don't torture her, am I going to even provide for her?

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Before, you kept looking for her, but end up with nothing.

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Even when you posted an official missing person notice, you didn't find her.

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How come she suddenly charged in here this morning

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and that person from next door was even coincidentally here.

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She saw us take her into our manor.

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So what if she saw it?!

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You think I'm still afraid of them?

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But Manniang is an ordinary citizen.

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You bought her out of the slave status and burned her slave contract.

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Officially, she's now an ordinary citizen.

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This morning, a whole person entered our manor. If she's hurt,

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the adjacent house will surely come to visit

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and insist on enforcing justice.

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What justice does she still want?

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A third rank government high official like me

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was attempted to be assassinated by her. In court, I even am the one to be seeking justice.

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Even if she committed a crime, she had to be tried by the court.

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We can't take the law into our hands and do the torture here in our house.

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What's worse is His Majesty's throne is still not completely stable.

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Empress Dowager is peeking everywhere.

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If you make any more flaws

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and the other party grabs hold of it,

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this matter won't be just our private matter anymore.

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Assassinating a high official of the government

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is a crime that should be punished by immediate execution.

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Isn't she afraid at all?

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Don't. You must not. Executions must be documented.

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If it gets dug out by people with evil intentions in the future,

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this...what about the marriage of Rong'er?

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You mustn't destroy the future of Rong'er

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just by a moment of rashness.

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Looks like I can't do anything with that evil woman anymore.

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I can't just watch as Chang'er gets destroyed in her hands!

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Maybe, there's another way to ask her.

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If torturing can't get her to talk, what other way can I come up with?

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Since we can't ask her, let's change to ask another person.

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Husband, look, does this look like her?

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It does. It's as if she's standing right in front of you.

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I'll then draw 7 or 8 more based on this drawing.

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Why must you draw it by yourself?

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Call for the secretary or some more helper to draw it for you.

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Don't know how many spies there is in our manor.

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The lesser people knowing private matters like this, the better.

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If you pity me, just lose to me for two rounds in our touhu games.

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I'll lose to you forever.

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Boss, have you seen this person?

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I saw her a few days ago. She went to look for a man from Yangzhou who's selling incenses.

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- Who are you?!

- Let's go!

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Who are you people?!

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Help!

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Help! Help!

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When Manniang left, she got tracked by the Bai Family.

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She couldn't resist the good life being offered to her by the Bai Family.

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Hence, she colluded with them.

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They had her come to Bianjing,

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stay by my side, and find a chance to kill me.

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This way, with you having no son,

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Chang'er will become the only heir.

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By that time, they can control Chang'er like a puppet.

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They promised Manniang that they would only take 1 to 2 tenths of my assets.

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Manniang is greedy, hence, she agreed to kill me.

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You wrote a will before to delegate your heir.

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They don't know that it's blank.

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What's the use of killing you?

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That's why, they colluded from both inside and outside my house,

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and made a connection with that one in the adjacent house.

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The Bai Family wants to let that stepmother intervene

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once I die and invite our clan elders

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to void the legality of that blank will of mine.

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They then can fully support Chang'er as my only heir.

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As a condition,

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the Bai Family said that Chang'er is still young,

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hence, unable to serve the government.

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Therefore, it should be my third younger brother, Tingwei,

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who would inherit the marquis title.

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Just for a marquis title and assets, they've attempted to assassinate a high officials of the imperial court.

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This is...a major crime that is punishable by beheading.

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How could they have dared?

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But this matter

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isn't a bad thing. It's a good news.

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How is it good?

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At the very least, I know that

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Chang'er is part of their plan.

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It then means that he's still alive.

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Go!

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[ Bai ]

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Slowly. Slowly. Okay. Slow down.

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Get on the boat! Hurry!

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Move! Hurry!

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- What sound is that?

- Hurry!

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I'll go take a look.

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What are you people doing?!

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Move! Move!

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My ship is full of salt.

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Adding all up can get you 3,000 to 5,000 taels of silver.

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I'll give them all to you, okay?

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Hurry! Move!

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You are not here to steal the salt?

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Older Brother! Older Brother!

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That little bastard Gu Tingye...

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You are Gu Tingye's people?

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He wants his son!

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Oldest Brother! Oldest Brother!

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You...

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That shrew was the one keeping the child! We never saw him!

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- Second!

- We never saw him!

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- Save!

- Save my older brother!

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- Older Brother!

- Save me! Help!

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- You... Save him!

- Save me!

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Here. One more time.

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Stabilize your hand.

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Shoot.

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One more time.

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Marquis, news from Yangzhou.

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Rong'er, here.

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How did it go?

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How are things going?

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The Bai Family also don't have any news about Chang'er.

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I can't let Chang'er be like me,

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clearly having a father

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but living like he has none. I must find him.

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Is younger brother still not found?

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I surely will find him.

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Father, I'll go beg mother. She dotes on me the most.

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She surely will tell me where little brother is.

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She's now sick.

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You're still little. You mustn't get infected by her.

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Once she's better and your little brother is back.

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I'll take you to see her.

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Father, I know that mother isn't sick.

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It's late. Go to sleep.

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Be obedient and just sleep.

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Maybe, your mother will tell me

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Chang'er's whereabouts by tomorrow.

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When you wake up, you'll be able to see your little brother already.

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Okay?

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Come, quickly go to sleep.

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Be good and just sleep.

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I....will take you to watch the lanterns next time.

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Miss Rong, why did you come here?

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This place is wretched. Quickly go back.

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My father told me to come here and ask some questions.

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You're the one doing the interrogation?

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Quickly open the door.

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Mother.

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Mother.

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Leave! Why did you come here?

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Mother!

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Mother.

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Don't call me mother.

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While I was suffering outside,

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you had quite a luxurious life in this house.

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You now have a marquis father and a legitimate mother.

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With such enormous wealth and splendor,

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why will you still want me?!

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Mother, I'll leave with you.

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I'm fine even if it's to live in the mountains or in rural villages.

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I want to be with you and little brother.

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I'm not greedy for wealth and splendor.

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Mother!

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Why leave?

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Just be obedient and stay here!

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I want that bitch to see you.

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Whenever she sees you, she'll think of me!

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She'll then remember that you are not her daughter, but mine!

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She then won't be able to keep that virtuous noble lady act of hers.

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Mother, where is little brother? Let me see him.

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He's dead.

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When you were enjoying the wealth and splendor

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in this huge mansion,

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when you wear those gold and silver with you,

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when you were taking in delicious and exotic food and drinks,

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he died.

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Mother, I'm afraid.

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You want to see him, is that it?

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Go to hell to see him!

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I'll let you go to hell to see him!

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Just meet him in hell! You hear me?!

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Go to hell...

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...and meet him there!

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Go to hell!

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Let go of me! You go...

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Pull her away! Rong'er!

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Rong'er! Rong'er!

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You...

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Don't! Don't use force, husband!

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Quickly take the child back

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and let her rest.

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Do it slowly. She's traumatized.

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Tie her up! Send her to the official court tomorrow to be tried for her crimes!

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You kept saying that you're seeking revenge for Chang'er.

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Do you really love him

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or is just using him as a tool?!

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I'm the person who dotes on him the most in this world.

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What does a bitch like you know?!

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Marquis clearly loves the two children a lot.

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Even if Chang'er's status then wasn't legalized,

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he's still is considered an eldest illegitimate child.

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If not because you secretly took him away,

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he would have been like Rong'er right now,

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being raised in a luxurious manner inside the marquis manor.

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In the future, his studies, martial arts training, food and clothing,

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ranking in the civil examination would surely be among the top in this empire.

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But you took him away and treated him like a tool

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to achieve your goal. You even used him to threaten the marquis.

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Marquis has been searching for him for so many years.

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You hid him so tightly,

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that you didn't even invite any teacher for him.

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You even claimed that you love him?

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You think all the people in this world are blind?

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I'm the person who dotes on him the most in this world.

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What do you know?!

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He also loves me the most!

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That brute Gu Tingye!

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In my son's eyes, he's nothing!

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Tell me where Chang'er is.

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I'm swearing by my dead mother's soul that I will never treat him unfairly.

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You little bitch...

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When we were in the Yu Manor,

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you scolded me to the extreme.

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Now, you got married into the Gu Family,

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and living a happy life.

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You think when the Yu Family learns of this,

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will they hate you?

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When my Little Mother was still alive, she told me

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that if parents love their children,

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they must plan for their future.

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If you really love Chang'er,

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think about his life 10 years from now,

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20 years from now.

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Do you really want him to keep wandering with you?

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Or, it's better to let him settle down and be nurtured in the marquis manor?

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Go to hell to look for him then!

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The past affairs of life is like a river flowing away.

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In the end, everything will just be like a dream and disappear.

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I can only get drunk to get back to the flat roads of my homeland.

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Other than that, where else can I go?

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It's good for girls to learn more.

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But how come you had her learn that kind of poem?

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That kind of poem sounds ominous in the morning.

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Doesn't it become depressing when you hear it at night?

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Xian'er, recite something happier.

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Mother-in-law, if you didn't like it,

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let's change to a poem by Scholar Su then.

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Xian'er.

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You all just have fun together for a while.

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I'm a bit tired now and will go back first to rest.

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Mother, take care.

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A major event happened in that house.

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Earlier, don't know why Rong'er

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suddenly went into the room where that lowly woman was being detained.

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She almost got choked to death by her.

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What?

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Madam, don't panic.

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She didn't really die and was saved.

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I never saw a mother who's like that.

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How did Gu Tingye handle that mistress?

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Did he kill or beat her up?

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He didn't do anything at all.

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He didn't do anything at all?

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It doesn't fit his temper.

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That illegitimate daughter from the Sheng Family

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saw that Second Young Master's face has drastically changed. She immediately pulled Rong'er away

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and had him leave.

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That illegitimate daughter from a small and low status family

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have always been cautious all her life.

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With her around,

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I fear that Second will never commit any grave mistake.

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Then...that evil woman will be of no use then.

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A member of the Yu Family vomited blood out from anger because of her.

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She was also a woman that Second once slept with.

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Letting her stay for a day and she'll surely cause trouble for a day.

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Let's just watch

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how Second will clean this mess.

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Even if she's lying

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and indeed hid the child away and won't let anyone see him,

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tell me...

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Tell me, where can she hide the child?

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In her province?

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Right. A place where there are humans.

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It must be a place where there are humans.

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This child...

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...must eat and drink. Hence, someone must take care of him.

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He's not that free and unrestrained. Someone must take care of him.

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Danju. Tell me, if you have a child,

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who will you entrust to take care of him?

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Then, of course, it must be someone that I trust the most.

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Old Madam, or you.

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Must find a person that one trusts the most.

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Who then is the person that Manniang trusts the most?

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Parents, siblings?

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That's right!

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Brother. A man raising a child

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would be more eye-catching than a woman raising a child.

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Right. Shitou indeed told me that she has an older brother.

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Shitou tells you everything?

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He even bought me fried cherry from the Nanbei Store.

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Shitou. Tie Manniang up.

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Take her to the Kaifeng Precinct Office.

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Say that she colluded with outsiders to attempt to assassinate a current high official of the government.

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Yes.

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Husband.

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Husband.

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Darling Second.

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Husband, I thought about it all night.

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What's most important now is Chang'er's whereabouts.

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The Zhu Manniang now is so tight-lipped.

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We also can't torture here to threaten her,

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so the people in the adjacent house can't find any weakness to use

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and bring you trouble. You said to send her to the local court.

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Let's not talk about first if the local officials can get anything from her.

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Just caning her twice

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and she might already die.

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No one will know about the whereabouts of Chang'er then.

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In my opinion, why don't we just let her go?

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Nonsense! It's not easy for those Yangzhou people

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to send her to me.

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If I let her go, when can I catch her again?

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Zhu Manniang is now like a tofu with dust falling on it.

( being kept in one area for too long )

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You can't beat or hit her.

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It's also easy for trouble to happen if we keep her here.

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Anytime soon, those people in the adjacent house might come to see her.

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Just let her out.

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When you let a mother wolf out, she will eventually be worried about her pups.

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She would then try to check on them.

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You're right.

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As long as we monitor her tightly, follow the vines to the fruit,

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we might find him.

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If Manniang

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left her child to someone else to be raised,

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she surely won't just give it to any outsiders.

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At most, she left it with her older brother.

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That older brother of her raising a child

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would surely make all sort of excuses and not put his heart on it.

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Would Zhu Manniang be at ease? She surely will go check every so often.

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However, if she keeps staying here in Bianjing,

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what then?

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- You are really a good daughter of your mother!

- Hey, quickly put me down!

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You've read the "Strategies of the Warring States" or even military strategy books.

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Quickly put me down.

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Wife, let us walk into this

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thicket of thorny shrubs together hand in hand.

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What are you doing?

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Men, remove her jewelries,

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and search her body cleanly!

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Don't leave her with even a cent!

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What do you mean? Are you going to kill me?

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Help! Help! Wait a minute!

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Our Marquis gave orders that you can go wherever you want,

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except here in the capital. If you stay here,

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even if you become a beggar to seek alms, no one would spare you a cent.

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Quickly leave!

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What does this mean? What does he mean by this?!

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- He is unfaithful and fickle!

- Leave.

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He killed my child and just escaping like that?

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I'll let him pay with his life, do you know that?!

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- Leave! Leave! Stop cursing!

- He'll pay with his life!

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Gu Tingye! You dallied with me and just abandoned me!

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Gu Tingye, you're unfaithful and fickle!

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She drove her out of the house?

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- Yes.

- Was she hurt in anyway?

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No. The people who expelled her didn't hit her at all.

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My people by the side saw it very well. She didn't suffer even a scratch.

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She was also a woman not to be belittled with.

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She was able to foil the two marriage talks with the Yu family, but she's now out of methods?

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That woman said that she's going to report it to the officials.

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But Madam Sheng said that she can go file a case now.

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By that time, when young master removes his clothes and have them check his wound,

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let's see who'll get beheaded.

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I've spoiled him to the point that he isn't afraid of anything.

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This time, he actually was so careful.

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I couldn't find any mistakes at all.

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That woman strangled Miss Rong yesterday.

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The guard said that Second Young Master was so angry that his whole body was trembling.

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He also said that he'll send her to the local officials.

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But this morning, after eating breakfast with his Sheng wife,

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he suddenly changed his mind.

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He only said to expel the woman and that's the end of it.

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Did you send people to follow her?

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I've already had them follow her.

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Those two people...

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One is rash, the other very calm.

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One attacks, one defends.

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If we don't break them apart,

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how are we going to kill them thoroughly?

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Miss, you want one?

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You, you are...?

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I entered the capital to look for my relative, but my money got stolen.

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Uncle, can you be kind and give me one?

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You have no money?

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Go! Go! Leave!

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Uncle! Please pity me and just give me one piece.

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Miss, I'm doing business here.

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Leave! Leave!

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Say, Miss, you didn't pay!

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You can't eat!

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If you don't give me back the bun, Miss...

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This... Miss, you are...

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Release her! Give that to me!

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I begged for that! I begged for that!

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- Leave!

- I begged for that!

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- Leave the capital! Leave!

- Come here!

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- I begged for that!

- Get lost!

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What are you doing? What are you doing?!

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Lackey! So what if he's the marquis?

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Just because he's a marquis, he thinks he's amazing?!

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Lackeys! Bitches!

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You two have been driving me away for a day!

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They want to kill me! They want to kill me!

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Leave the capital! You can then go wherever you want!

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As long as you leave the capital, then no one will trouble you anymore! Leave!

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Leave! Leave!

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Just hold her back a little. Leave! All of you, disperse!

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Disperse! Leave! Leave!

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- Leave. Leave.

- I just ask to borrow your fire wood room for a place to stay for the night.

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I'll wash your bowls and wipe your tables. I just ask to have a place to stay for the night.

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Don't affect my business.

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Mister!

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Mister! I can even sing.

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Okay then. What song can you sing?

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♫ Brilliant purple... ♫

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Owner Zhou, he's a woman who has committed a crime.

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Our superior isn't allowing her to stay here in the capital. Please tell the other shops about it.

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Yes. Yes.

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Leave!

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- Get lost!

- Leave!

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Get lost!

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Let me tell you that you can go anywhere once you leave the capital.

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But if you stay in the capital for a day,

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I guarantee you that you won't get to eat even a grain of rice or sleep on any bed. Leave!

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Leave!

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- I won't leave!

- Leave! Leave!

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- You want to peacefully kick me out?!

- Leave!

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Let me tell you, no way!

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- Leave! Leave!

- Let me tell you, no way!

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Quickly leave!

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- Who do you think you are?!

- You...

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Quickly leave!

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A newly appointed official of the current government,

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Deputy Commander of the Dianqian (in front of the palace) Troop Gu Tingye...

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Gu Tingye...

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- Quickly leave!

- ...is unfaithful and fickle.

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- He dallied with me and abandoned me!

- Quickly leave!

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He caused the death of his own son!

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- Quickly leave...

- Get lost!

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- Leave.

- Gu Tingye!

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I'm talking about Gu Tingye!

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Get lost! The currently highly favored official, Gu Tingye,

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- dallied with me and abandoned me! He's unfaithful and fickle!

- Leave. Leave. Quickly leave.

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That woman is really a demonic star.

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She even could come up with a trick like that.

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She's selling her miseries to taint other people's reputation. Throwing a sprat to catch a herring.

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If that son of mine send people to drive her away now,

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it will look like he's guilty of something.

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If he asks someone to refute her,

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people would instead think that there is indeed such a thing.

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If he really confronts her in the local court,

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who would care about a woman in the streets like her?

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Everyone just want to watch and laugh at

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the embarrassing moment of this new highly favored marquis.

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However you look at it, this trick

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is highly beneficial to this woman

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without any harm done to her.

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But towards my son,

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it's highly harmful and not beneficial at all.

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She can really come up with a trick like that.

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Grand Madam, you've been living deep within the inner courtyard of your mansion.

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You surely wouldn't have heard of a lowly and despicable method like this.

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Don't let the patrol guards foil her plan.

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Don't your man still have his men outside?

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Go help her out.

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Yes.

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The flowers in this garden this year

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are really blooming so well.

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That's right.

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T/N In the following song, "Don't You Know, Don't You Know?", Lines 5 to the end are the poem by Li Qingzhao, a famous female poet of the Song Dynasty, the poem is titled "Spring Ends".

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♫One morning, a flower opened and approached a willow tree,

beautifully fragrant and mistaking him for her lord♫

536

♫Even if drinking in water in the morning, red clouds have half a day of sunshine,

the wind and rain do not affect them completely♫

537

♫In the palace, you are constantly brave and growing thin,

from on high, your cold tears of distress flow♫

538

♫Brocade letters delivered to me dismiss me, only suddenly to recall me,

not for many years can I see you other than stealthily♫

539

♫Last night, gusty winds and rain

during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫

540

♫When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up

and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.♫

541

♫Don't you know, don't you know,

there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫

542

♫Last night, gusty winds and rain

during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫

543

♫When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up

and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.♫

544

♫Don't you know, don't you know,

there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫

545

♫Don't you know, don't you know,

there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫