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Episode 31

Cheers.

These things are raw.

How can I eat them?

Your Highness.

Ambassador Ye.

Today's dinner

is specially prepared by me for you.

This is one of the most distinctive dishes

in the Ming Dynasty.

No matter what taste

you want,

it can

offer you.

Is there really such a wonderful dish?

Your Highness, do you want to have a try?

What would you like to eat?

I prefer this one.

Wait a minute.

Your Highness.

It is tasty.

It is so tasty.

It tastes great.

Since I came to the Ming Dynasty,

this is the best dish that I have ever eaten.

Your Highness,

what do you like to eat?

I like this one.

OK.

Your Highness,

this fish ball

is made by fisherwomen

in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

You can't find it in your country.

How about smelling it? It smells good.

This is the most wonderful taste in the world.

Are you so happy after just eating just one fish ball?

Why not

eat yourselves to death?

You have seen nothing of life.

When I return to Cochin,

I must let my father tell the people that

the delicacies of the Ming Dynasty

are really the best in the world

and how happy the people are.

Your Highness, it is my honor

to please you.

Lord Guan,

I want to know

the name of this state dinner.

Well, it…

Your Highness,

this is called No. 1 Peace Pot.

No. 1 Peace Pot.

It means the common people are happy

and the world is peaceful.

What the common people care about should be the important thing of a state.

Minister Guan,

this name is great.

Do you agree?

Yes.

Yes.

Royal Uncle Li,

do you agree?

Yes.

It’s great.

It’s great.

Come on.

Ministers,

for the good of both countries

and to thank the Ming Dynasty’s

hospitality extended to us,

I would like to cheer up for you.

Great.

Bravo.

Come on.

I can’t.

Let me teach you.

Great.

No way.

Come on.

Not bad.

Good.

Your Highness, are you OK?

I’m fine.

I really can’t.

I can’t.

Like this.

Ning'er.

Let me go. It hurts. It hurts.

Why do you step on my foot?

You can step on his foot.

Don’t step on my foot.

Give me your hand.

What do you want to do?

What?

She is the princess of Cochin.

You’re just a niece of Minority Headman.

What’s more,

can you dance better than her?

I…

Sorry.

Ambassador Ye,

we were supposed to entertain foreign guests today.

How come a state banquet turned into

a hot pot banquet?

Shouldn't you explain

what's going on?

Your Excellency Minister Guan,

It’s hard for me

to express it clearly.

How about this?

Let me invite Secretary Zheng

to make it clear to you.

Secretary Zheng,

what on earth happened tonight?

Uncle Dong.

Help, help!

Help!

I will say all.

Your Excellency Minister Guan,

I know I was wrong.

Your son

told me to do that.

I was muddle-headed.

What are you talking about?

Guan Xiaokun?

Yes.

It was Guan Xiaokun

who told you to do that?

Yes.

It was he did.

I see.

This evil kid!

This evil kid!

Father,

are you looking for me?

Kneel down.

Father, I…

The prospects of our Guan family

were almost ruined by you.

Father. Father, I…

Give him a beating.

Break his legs

and send him back to the hometown.

He will never be allowed to enter Capital City again.

Yes.

Father…

Father.

Father.

Thank you for your hospitality.

Thank you.

I hope you will be

satisfied with your visit to the Ming Dynasty.

I am much honored to be here.

I'm also very happy

to get to know you.

Me?

I’m flattered.

In fact, I’m just

an ordinary person.

But ordinary persons can love who they want to love

while we who were born

in the imperial family

can't.

No.

In fact, everyone

has the right to pursue their own happiness.

Thank you for saving my life.

Maybe we will meet again

in the next cycle of lives.

I hope you are an ordinary person

and so m I

in that cycle of lives.

Why did you hit me?

That…

Well, Cochin people are warm and open.

Maybe that's the way they say goodbye.

Look how happy you are.

You danced, hugged

and kissed.

It is none of your business.

Why did you hit me?

I hit you for Yingying.

Here you go again?

Yingying has more than 100 brothers.

I am warning you.

I know you're loose-tongued

and can’t hide the truth.

But if you dare to

tell this matter to Yingying,

we will turn to be strangers.

Do you remember?

OK.

Secretary Zheng was ordered to resign from his official post.

Guan Xiaokun’s dad

broke his legs

and sent him back to the hometown.

Minister Guan was forced to do that.

Guan Xiaokun is his own son after all.

Big brother,

he will hate you a lot this time.

It doesn't matter to me.

But I always believe that there is

someone behind Guan Xiaokun’s back.

Moreover,

this person is supposed to be Li Xuancheng.

Royal Uncle Li?

Why would Li Xuancheng do that?

Is it because of Yingying?

I didn’t expect that

Li Xuancheng hates me so much.

Big brother, he hates you more than you imagine.

He is handsome

and has a high position.

He intended to get a beauty.

You courted the beauty on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

He not only hates you,

but also wants to kill you.

What are you talking about?

I didn’t take away his woman by force.

He likes my wife.

Why? Can’t I fight back?

After I fight back, he hates me, huh?

Are children of wealthy and influential families like you

all narrow-minded?

I…

It’s none of my business.

There isn’t such a man in my family.

How come

you just meet someone who is narrow-minded?

Your wife is a dangerous beauty

and even leaves such a trouble after leaving.

Sorry.

I have been

fond of dealing with trouble since I was born.

He wants to fix me?

Bring it on!

Let’s see who can win

between us.

Big brother,

he is a royal uncle.

How can you compete with him?

Let’s see.

Everyone has

his own way.

Sir,

you visit our shop again.

Our Luo’s Jade Store just opened.

You have become our regular customer.

Just have a look.

Tell me what you like and I'll give you a discount.

Fine.

You may do your own work.

Sir, help yourself.

Just call me if you need anything.

Please.

Royal Uncle Li looks like

a modest gentleman.

However, he is actually a beast in human face.

Why?

I heard that Royal Uncle Li is brutal.

As long as he is dissatisfied with some servants,

he will order others to beat them to death.

That’s savage and cruel.

What a bad conduct!

I even heard that

he has

a special hobby.

What special hobby?

He is fond of both women

and men.

He is not picky at all.

I heard that he often hangs out with

Guan Xiaokun, the son of Minister of Ministry of Rites

and does something shameful together.

lately Minister Guan learned of

this matter

and broke Lord Guan’s legs in a rage.

Now Lord Guan is driven

back to his hometown Chenzhou,

in order to get rid of

Royal Uncle Li’s entanglement.

How come he has such a special hobby?

It must be Ye Xiaotian who did that.

Young lord,

we told him

what you requested.

Where is Ye Xiaotian?

Ambassador Ye

is meeting guests inside.

Ye Xiaotian.

The ink is color.

The change in the shade of ink

is the gradation of color.

The ink is divided into five levels

which mean the colorful printing

can be replaced

by multiple layers of ink.

Shen Kuo's “Picture Song” in the Northern Song Dynasty says

Dong Yuan and Juran in south regions of the Yangtze River

used the painting method of light ink.

This is Chinese painting.

Ye Xiaotian.

Ye Xiaotian.

Ye Xiaotian.

Get out quickly.

Who is looking for Xiaotian?

Where is Ye Xiaotian?

Why do you

look for him?

Xiaotian?

Who are you?

Who am I?

Can’t you tell?

What are you doing?

Duoni.

Come out.

There's a guest.

Rascal.

Help.

What are you doing?

Rascal.

Ye Xiaotian.

you’re here.

How come you went out of Duoni’s bedroom?

Xiaotian,

this man assaulted me.

Shut up.

What a shameless woman!

Li Xuancheng,

what did you do?

I want to die.

Duoni.

I want to die.

Don’t do something silly.

I want to die.

Li Xuancheng,

what are you doing?

Master Yue,

why are you here?

As a relative of the emperor,

you do not want to serve your country.

Master Yue, listen to me.

Shut up.

It's appalling that

you went into the bedroom and humiliated a female

relying on your power.

Master Yue,

are you a dotard?

Did you see me humiliating a female?

I saw the evil deed you did

with my own eyes.

How dare you deny it!

You saw it with your own eyes?

Are you blind?

Are you silly?

You self-righteous old man!

Well…

How dare you speak to Master Yue that way?

That’s outraged.

Is there no law in the Ming Dynasty?

You trespassed into a female's bedroom

and humiliated her.

Then were caught by us red-handed.

You’re still so arrogant.

What's special about the relative of the emperor?

As intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty,

we are of integrity

and not afraid of anyone.

You’re great.

Fine.

Ye Xiaotian,

how dare you set me up?

I won’t let you off.

Wait for me.

That’s outraged.

I thought I was invited to give a lecture by you.

I didn’t expect to meet such a matter.

I will expose

Royal Uncle Li’s notorious conduct in the intellectual circle of Capital City

and won’t let him do evil in Capital City.

I’m going to impeach him

along with other censors.

Master Yue, calm down. Let me send you home.

Piss me off.

Xiaotian,

is my performance

good?

By the way, did he do anything to you?

I’m fine.

Just a piece of cake.

Duoni,

did he take advantage of you?

How could it be possible?

Big brother,

did we make things

too big?

Really?

If there had been a slip

in the reception of

the princess of Cochin,

what would have happened to us?

Offence is

the best defense.

I have to beat him up until he is afraid

and convinced.

In this case,

he will never dare to bully us again.

Duoni.

What are you doing?

How dare you take advantage of me!

Do you want to take advantage of me?

I will beat you to death.

Ye Xiaotian,

your time has come.

Hurry up. Take action.

I can’t.

Danger can never be overcome without taking risks.

You must make me bleed.

I…

Hurry up, or it will be too late.

A murder.

A murder.

My lord, how are you?

Someone wanted to kill me.

He said Royal Uncle Li wanted to kill me.

My lord. My lord. Help.

Get a doctor.

That’s a slander. It must be Ye Xiaotian

who slandered me.

Your Highness,

you’re of a noble status.

If you do anything to him,

the imperial court and the commonalty will attack you for sure.

Do I just

watch him

fooling with me

in any means?

Your Highness. Your Highness.

Your Highness, something happened.

A lot of students of Imperial College came to the door

and were speaking ill of you.

What did they say?

They said you should be

kicked out of Capital City.

What should I do?

What should I do?

I will fight with them.

Li Xuancheng is dissolute, lascivious, brutal and absurd.

Such a vicious man

should die to appease the wrath of the world.

Li Xuancheng assassinated an official of Imperial Court

in broad daylight.

Such an evil man

goes against the law of the state.

We students

strongly demand that Li Xuancheng be expelled from Capital City.

Xuancheng

is full of iniquities.

Xuancheng

is full of iniquities.

Royal Uncle Li

is incurable.

Royal Uncle Li

is incurable.

Xuancheng

is full of iniquities.

Royal Uncle Li

is incurable.

Xuancheng…

What’s going on here?

What’s going on?

…is incurable.

Head Constable Xing,

we meet again.

Mr. Zhang,

how have you been?

What's going on over there?

Just leave it alone.

Did you see it?

They are all students of Imperial College.

You can’t control

or beat them.

Mr. Zhang, you’re right.

We have other important things to do.

Let’s go to another place.

Goodbye. Goodbye, Mr. Zhang.

Let’s go.

Your Highness,

students of Imperial College are making trouble outside.

You'd better not go out.

They’re just useless students.

I’m not afraid of them.

Open the door.

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Royal Uncle Li

is incurable.

Xuancheng

is full of iniquities.

Royal Uncle Li

is incurable.

How dare you

to surround my mansion?

What do you want to do?

Do you want to rebel?

He is Li Xuancheng.

Li Xuancheng,

today we will show you, a superior royal uncle,

how terrible it is when the ordinary people are angry.

Beat him.

Beat him.

You…

Stop beating.

Get out of the way.

Your Highness,

you’re a relative of the emperor

and standing high above the masses.

I am

just a petty official.

In terms of the status of identity theory,

I can't compare with you,

but I'm not afraid of you.

I'm here today

to tell you that

Duoni is my sworn sister

and I won’t allow you to take advantage of her without punishment.

Listen up.

I am standing here.

Just

come on.

You’re talking nonsense.

Nonsense?

Surprised?

Your murderers couldn't kill me.

Let me tell you.

I’m not afraid of you.

Even if I am threatened,

I won’t bow to you.

What are you talking about?

Li Xuancheng,

are you still putting on an act?

You hired murderers to try to

kill Ambassador Ye.

Do you still deny it?

Li Xuancheng,

you’re mean and shameless.

What a nerve!

If we scholars

allow such a base person to be so rampant,

the world will be unfair and unjust.

Let’s drive this villain

out of Capital City.

I'll fight it out with you.

Your Highness,

stop fighting.

Ye Xiaotian,

I'll fight it out with you.

The masses are angry. You can’t make it clear.

You’d better avoid them, Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Don't pull me.

Don't pull me.

Let me go.

Don't let him get away.

Chase him.

Chase him.

Chase him.

Don't run away.

Go.

Go.

Don't pull me. Let me go.

Go, Your Highness.

Hurry up.

Hurry up.

Let me go. Let go.

Your Highness.

What are you pulling me for?

You'd better leave Capital City as soon as possible.

Let go.

What?

If I leave Capital City now,

it will be affirmed

that the charges they imposed on me.

Can you clear your name

if you don’t leave?

What do you mean?

Do you want me

to bear these abuses for a lifetime?

You’re overthinking it.

Nowadays, people in Capital City are in violent mood.

It's also right for you to avoid trouble for a while.

As for many of your crimes,

people will

naturally forget them over time.

But

it was Ye Xiaotian

who set me up.

Ye Xiaotian is just a petty official

in Foreign Guests' Hotel.

Why did he set you up?

People won’t believe it.

Your Highness,

you’d better leave Capital City

to stay away from trouble.

Why?

Why?

Why did I provoke

that damn Ye Xiaotian?

Miss. Xia didn’t

even look at me.

I never even held her hand,

but got into trouble instead.

Oh, my Gosh.

Why did you treat me like that?

Father,

this is the nourishing soup

that I cooked for you meticulously with dozens of precious Chinese herbs.

It has the effect of prolonging your life.

Enjoy it.

Why are you so clever today?

Did you get into trouble outside again?

Impossible.

Now I am behaving myself.

Our family tradition is strict.

Don’t flatter me.

I’m not a dotard.

If you act like the son of Minister Guan,

I will break your legs for sure.

I see.

I will keep your edification in my mind.

Father,

what about the thing I begged you before?

To transfer Ye Xiaotian back to Hu County, right?

Ministry of Personnel approved it.

It did?

Great.

Thank you, Dad.

No need to thank me.

It was because of Ye Xiaotian himself.

Six Ministries in Capital City

all felt he was a headache.

Even Royal Uncle Li

went back to his hometown despondently.

Now everyone wishes

he would leave early.

You grew up with

stirring up a lot of trouble,

but haven't done anything

like Ye Xiaotian did.

Dad,

what does it mean?

Even if you stir up trouble,

you should do something big

like Ye Xiaotian did.

I would be happier even if I have to help you

clear up a messy situation.

I see.

Let me serve you another bowl.

Cheers.

Xiaotian,

my dad really

appreciates you.

Not really.

Your dad must think I’m troublesome, huh?

You’re not troublesome.

You’re too troublesome.

I guess

the yamen (government office) in Capital City now is excited that

you will finally leave.

After I leave,

I wonder when

I can meet you two again.

Here’s to you.

Cheers.

Take care of yourself.

Take care.

Master Hua, Master Xu

and sinister Master Wang,

I’m coming back.

Let’s go.

Hu County

County Magistrate Assistant Xu had recruited civilian workers,

many of whom died when building the post road.

As a result, so many common people are surrounding the gate of yamen (government office).

I wonder when it will be an end.

Well, we can only walk down the street

but dare not to go back.

Which woman do you settle on?

You look distracted.

Have a look.

What a pretty woman!

Look at her face.

Look at…

Ye, Ye Xiaotian.

Let’s go back to report to County Magistrate Assistant.

Hurry up.

Go.

I want the justice. How can you treat people's lives with utter disregard?

I want the justice.

How can you treat people's lives with utter disregard?

Give my brother's life back.

Give my brother back.

Give my brother back.

Give my brother's life back.

Give my brother back.

So many people are welcoming you.

Are you illiterate?

Don't you see everyone holding banners?

I want the justice. How can you treat people's lives with utter disregard?

Give my brother back.

Go back.

Let me check out what’s going on.

Give my brother back.

Give my brother’s life back.

I want the justice.

Give my brother back.

Buddy, excuse me.

Your Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye.

It’s really His Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye.

Wasn’t His Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye escorted to Capital City

to behead?

Nonsense.

His Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye is a lucky man.

His Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye is back.

They can’t make a scene again.

It’s interesting.

How can you treat people's lives with utter disregard?

I want the justice.

Your Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye.

What happened to…

Your Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye,

you’re back.

Are you okay?

I’m okay.

You two,

what happened?

Your Excellency Judicial Clerk Ye,

there was a war in the south.

Large quantities of army provisions and supplies

were transported through the county post road,

which was seriously damaged

and needed to be maintained in time.

Family members of these people were recruited to build roads.

Did anyone die?

Yes.

There was a landslide two days ago

and several people were buried.

Conscripting labour is the duty of every common person.

It’s a pity that some died,

but the feudal government will comfort and compensate the bereaved families.

Officials and ordinary people just need to observe the law.

Why did this happen?

My lord,

surely I know

the common people should provide conscript labour,

but my husband had served for four times this year,

working for nearly two months.

As a rule,

we only need to serve twice a year,

15 days at a time.

Madam, I’m sorry about that.

Don't you know that

wartime is different from peacetime?

But why did our neighbor Niu Er

serve only once this year?

He should go there this time.

If you acted impartially,

my husband wouldn’t die.