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Episode 43

Zhang Xiaocheng deserves to die.

Lord, are you afraid?

If I can't execute them,

it would be better to get some benefits for you

rather than let them at large!

This can assure you a good life.

I don't want that!

Do they think with money,

they can regard the poor as livestock.

If I accept their money

and stop appealing,

how will I be?

I'm a good girl.

He raped me

and destroyed my reputation.

Can they just pay me some money

and solve the problem?

I'm an ordinary citizen.

My life is unimportant.

But my reputation is

as precious as that of the girls

in rich family.

Maybe the imperial court will forgive them.

But I won't give in due to this reason.

Official of Lawsuits,

you're a good man.

But unfortunately, you can't help me.

Even the emperor can't help me.

I can't find justice in the world.

Just let me complain to the King of Hell.

Lady Luo

Daughter,

daughter,

my daughter,

my daughter.

What are you doing? Someone helps me!

Please save my daughter.

Someone helps me!

My daughter.

My daughter.

My dear daughter.

You are the same as them.

My daughter,

my daughter, my daughter.

Someone helps me.

My daughter.

Please save my daughter.

My dear.

What's wrong?

Someone comes here.

You are the same as them.

What are you doing?

Why are you depressed like frosted eggplant?

So what?

You can't bear more?

Do you really think Ye Xiaotian

can go against us?

If he puts us to death,

the file will be sent to the imperial court.

Only after the emperor makes the final decision can we be absolved.

It will last two or three months.

During this time,

should we stay in the prison?

Even, even if he can put

us into the prison,

So what?

Will we suffer any hardship?

I can only sleep on my own bed.

If I can't go home, I won't sleep well.

Do you know who the master of the prison is?

It belongs to our family.

I don't care.

Whoever wants to live here can still stay.

I will go home and have dinner later.

Prefectural Commissioner Tian,

we misunderstood you.

Please forgive us.

Yes, please forgive us, Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

We're so sorry.

It doesn't matter.

When Ye Xiaotian persuades the daughter of the Luos,

I will ask subordinates to save your sons.

My lord,

Mr. Li,

you're the No.1 lawyer in Guizhou.

Please tell me.

How can I

deal with

such kind of cases.

According to the convention,

they should be sentenced to the gallows.

No matter how noble they are.

I remember in the ninth year of Hongzhi Emperor's reign,

there appeared similar case.

The case exactly happened in the Capital City.

My lord, let me tell you about it.

In the ninth year of emperor Hongzhi's reign,

there was a young ruffian in the Capital City.

On day, he came across the daughter of a gentleman.

The girl was a dazzling beauty.

On that night,

he broke into the gentleman's house

and raped his daughter.

The case caused a sensation throughout the country.

The young ruffian was put into prison,

waiting for trial.

The Mas was an influential family.

His father tried many ways

and bribed the assistant commander of the Imperial Guard.

The assistant commander

discharged the young ruffian

secretly.

But the conspiracy was unmasked later on.

Emperor Hongzhi was out of rage.

How did it end?

Emperor Hongzhi decreed that

Ma Jiqiang, the young ruffian broke into private residence

and raped innocent woman.

Such an atrocious ruffian who was in defiance of the law

must be decapitated at once.

The Mas were banished to the borderland for the bribery.

And the assistant commander was deprived of government post

and put into prison.

My lord,

Things are not the same

for Minority Headman.

Yunfei.

Yes, sir.

Arrest the criminals.

My, my lord,

what, what do you want to do?

Learn from

Emperor Hongzhi.

You see,

I have told you.

It doesn't turn dark

and he comes to set us free.

Take away.

Yes.

Go.

What, what are you doing?

Go.

What, what are you doing?

Don't touch me.

Hurry, hurry up.

Lord Tian.

What's wrong?

Bad news.

The girl is too firm and unyielding.

She didn't accept the solution

and committed suicide.

My lord, you can't do this.

We must get the agreement of the imperial court before execution.

Without the final decision made by the emperor,

who dare to decapitate criminals?

Yes, my lord.

We can't offend these five.

Please think it again. Think it again.

People who can breathe is alive.

Stop breathing

and she will become a dead person.

People live for breath.

If there is any consequence,

I will take the responsibility.

Eh.

Go inside.

Be gentle.

Stop pushing.

My lord,

all criminals are here.

You bastard,

why do you bring us here?

Kneels down.

Zhang Xiaocheng,

Yu Chen,

Xiang Feiyu,

Wu Chenliang,

Zhang Hong,

You five

broke into private residence

and raped innocent woman.

What a grievous crime!

You treat laws with such contempt.

I

will follow the previous practice of emperor Hongzhi,

putting the five criminals

to death at once.

What?

It's impossible. Immediate decapitation.

Immediate decapitation.

How can you kill us?

It's impossible.

You can't kill us.

Eh.

What are you waiting for?

Do it.

My lord,

if you act arbitrarily,

you will ruin your future, my lord.

The post,

I can give up.

But the villains,

I must kill.

My lord,

if you kill the five people,

maybe, maybe you will lose your life.

So I will give up my life.

My lord,

without the final decision made by the emperor,

it's an ineffective order.

I, I

dare not follow your order.

OK.

You don't dare.

I will be the executioner myself.

Someone kills.

Dad.

Dad.

Liang'er,

Liang'er,

Liang'er.

Where is Zhang Hong?

Where is my son?

They

They

They all died.

Mr. Wen,

Tell me, am I also a criminal

who causes the girl's death?

Lord Tian.

Lord Tian.

Lord Tian.

Bad news.

Bad news again.

Why do you so panic?

Ye, Ye Xiaotian is crazy.

He, he, he is crazy now.

What's happened?

Ye Xiaotian,

he killed Zhang Xiaocheng and the other four.

Kill them all.

Heads of dead men rolled in the court.

Blood splashed in the court.

Kill them.

Kill.

Big brother, let's go.

My lord, go, go.

My lord,

My lord.

There is something wrong.

My lord,

Let's go.

My lord, go.

Go, my lord.

Go.

My lord.

Hide here. Hide here.

Shoot arrows.

Your, my lord,

they shoot arrows, my lord.

What should we do now?

What should we do, my lord?

Now,

we can only defend in the hall.

We know,

Tian Miaowen now acts on Prefectural Magistrate's behalf.

She can't leave others

pull down the hall without doing anything.

My lord,

Are you always taking advantage of Prefectural Commissioner Tian?

She will certainly come, right?

When I'm in a hurry,

how can I think too much about that?

I'll wait for my fate.

Someone hurts.

My lord,

Brother,

brother,

save me.

Mr. Li,

can you kill people with a bamboo stick?

My lord,

I'm too feeble to truss a chicken.

How can I kill people?

I keep this stick

to kill myself.

What else can you do?

OK.

You are loyal enough to me.

My lord,

there is nothing about loyalty.

I told you,

if they rush into the court,

we'll all at their disposal.

At that time, we'd better beg for a quick death.

That's much worse.

My lord,

do you want a stick

to avoid torture?

Go away, go away.

Damned Ye Xiaotian,

he dared to bully my family.

I promote him all the way.

This ungrateful man

dares to return kindness with ingratitude.

I will kill him.

Dad,

calm down.

I think it is

not necessarily a bad thing for us.

Bastard,

I just thought you become to act your age.

You talk nonsense again.

He killed your family member

and made your father lose face.

You still think this is a good thing.

He didn't only killed our family member,

but also people in Yus, Wus and Xiangs.

What do you mean?

Ye Xiaotian

is only a mobile official without any backup.

How can he be so daredevil

and kill members of our five families?

In my opinion,

maybe he is under Tian Miaowen's order.

If not,

we can make a false charge against her,

saying she is the one behind Ye Xiaotian.

Each family will

hate her to the core.

What I worry most about is that

the little bitch will bribe all the people who are loyal to us.

In such a situation,

at least, the Wus, the Yus and the Xiangs

will follow us whole heartedly.

Right.

Leave them make a noise.

You only need to wait and see.

Once we get the chance,

it's quite easy for us to win back.

What's going on?

They stop shooting.

Did you see?

Light the fire.

Who are you?

Zhang Yi.

You dare to set a fire on the court.

How bold you are!

Tian Miaowen,

finally you are here.

It turns to be you who ordered Ye Xiaotian.

What a malicious woman!

Now,

I act on behalf of Prefectural Magistrate.

You want to launch vehement attacks

in the government office.

And you even try to set fire on the court.

Do you still remember my post?

Listen,

Whoever dares to set fire today

will be decapitate without any excuse.

Tian Miaowen,

if you kill me,

we won't live under the same sky with you.

If you dare to set fire,

I will make you a hedgehog.

Are you OK?

Here comes Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

It's really her.

We're saved.

We're saved.

Prefectural Commissioner Tian comes.

We'll be saved.

My lord, let's go.

Wait.

Wait them to negotiate

and then we can go.

Or do you want to die?

Lord Tian,

I can respect you

and don't set fire on the court.

But Ye Xiaotian must die.

This is our largest concession.

Prefectural Commissioner Tian,

don't force us to fight desperately.

What do you want to do?

Prefectural Commissioner Tian,

Ye Xiaotian can't die.

At least he can't die now.

Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

What do you mean?

Do you want to cover up Ye Xiaotian?

He beheaded the criminals first and then made all known to the Emperor.

His behavior has violated the law.

Even if he was sent to the Capital City,

he can hardly avoid death.

But after all, he is an official,

you don't have the right to

kill him.

The imperial court has

taken care of us a lot.

But it doesn't mean

you can do anything as you wish.

If you annoy the imperial court

and the emperor,

how will things be?

Have you thought about it?

We don't care.

I care.

We don't have more to talk.

Light the fire.

You dare to try.

Come on.

Light the fire.

Please calm down.

Don't fight.

Don't fight.

Subordinate Zhang,

we understand how sorrow you are

for your losing your son.

I can fully understand.

But have you thought that

If you kill Ye Xiaotian here,

it won't do you any good.

Put Ye Xiaotian into custody

and leave him to the imperial court.

He will die sooner or later.

It makes no difference when he will die.

Don't you think it's a good idea?

Why do you insist on killing him now?

Right?

Subordinate,

Tian Miaowen is well prepared.

We have to make precautions.

OK.

Lord Tian,

what do you want to do?

Arrest Ye Xiaotian and his group.

And send them to the imperial court.

OK.

Ye Xiaotian is inside.

I will watch him being put into the prison with my own eyes.

Do you think the prison belong to you?

Who don't know

you want to put Ye Xiaotian into the prison.

It's your decision to make him live or die.

If you don't put him into the prison,

where can you put him?

Instead of the prison,

should we lock him in your house?

So my son died for no reason.

Yes.

In my opinion, you must be the inside man.

It must be your suggestion.

You actually give away the secret.

Give away the secret. Calm your anger.

Calm your anger.

Have we discussed smoothly?

Why do you quarrel now?

So

how about confining

Ye Xiaotian in the water dungeon of my home?

I will guard him on my own.

There won't be any problem.

Go away. Go away.

You bastard,

Who don't know you are

on the same boat with Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

Is there any difference between

confining Ye Xiaotian in your prison

and giving him to Prefectural Commissioner Tian?

In that case,

do you have any better suggestion?

Stop arguing.

Confine Ye Xiaotian in Great Mercy Temple

and we seven families send soldiers to guard him.

Is that OK?

Official of Lawsuits Ye,

Lord Tian has come.

The Zhangs has retreated

and they agree

not to find your faults any more.

Be at ease.

Please come out to talk with me.

My lord,

let

let me have a look first.

My lords,

what do you

what does Prefectural Commissioner Tian decide to do?

We think that

Official of Lawsuits Ye beheaded the criminals first and then made all known to the Emperor.

His behavior has violated the law.

He is supposed to be punished.

Those who follow his order

should also be locked up.

And about other people concerned,

Subordinate Zhang agrees not to call them to account.

This matter will be reported to the imperial court

And the emperor

will decide how to judge.

My lord,

what's your opinion?

By now,

this is the best result.

Open the door.

Let's go.

Go, go, go.

Hurry.

Hurry.

Big brother,

what should we do now?

Don't worry.

These

Minority Headmen has privileges.

They don't need to pay for a murder with their own life.

Do you think

the imperial court likes them very much?

I'm afraid the Zhangs will plot to murder them

before the imperial court makes the decision.

Big brother,

we shouldn't fall out with them

until Ge Duolao maintains his position

in Tongren.

We can wait.

But persecuted Lady Luo can't wait.

You are right.

I hope what I have done

will make her relieve.

Oh,

Li Qiuchi

has disappeared

since he left the court.

Stupid. Stupid. How can you be so stupid

to set yourself against the subordinate Minority Officials?

Are you seeking your doom?

Seek your doom.

Wise man as I am,

how can I believe he is a good official?

Why did I follow such a

stubborn man with no backup?

Just like you,

stubborn donkey.

Why don't you go?

What's wrong?

Did I say anything wrong?

Or is you stubborn donkey

not willing to listen to me?

Believe it or not,

I will make you into donkey burger

and give it to your brother.

You say

your brother wants to seek death.

Don't involve us in it.

Right.

You think I don't know what you want to do.

You want to return to save your brother.

I tell you,

it's impossible.

Why do you go back?

What for?

Go back. You want to save your brother, right?

Stop. Haven't you had enough

with following him?

Stop.

If there is someone to save him,

it should be my Li Qiuchi.

Official Ye,

here comes Qiuchi.

Master,

Ye Xiaotian has met some troubles.

I don't need to cause trouble for him now.

But

killing five sons of noble families.

He is really merciless.

Master,

it's the enmity of killing others' sons.

Even if you help him,

it's impossible to suppress it.

Why should I help him?

Others will solve

this matter.

Mademoiselle,

Li Qiuchi, the private adviser of Ye Xiaotian, requests an interview.

Only him?

Yes.

Take him in.

Yes.

The humble

Li Qiuchi

pays a formal visit to Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

Why do you come to see me?

My lord,

Zhang Xiaocheng and other four people

broke into private residence and raped innocent woman.

They have committed such serious crimes.

It's proper for my master to execute death sentence.

Although it's a little improper to

behead the criminals first and then made all known to the Emperor.

But we can use special methods

to solve special problems.

Have you finished?

If so, please go back.

My lord,

my master didn't give in to powerful parties

and execute the punishment compulsorily.

Even the emperor

may keep our master alive.

If

you can ask for

special amnesty for my master,

I think the emperor will praise you

a lot.

Tongren is different from the central plains.

Even if I get favor from the emperor,

it only adds a beautiful thing to a contrasting beautiful thing.

But Tongren is my hometown.

If the Minority Headmen

regard me as a freak,

how can I keep a foothold in Tongren.

I have done my best by humanity and duty

to make Ye Xiaotian not be killed.

Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

Please go back.

Mademoiselle,

Here comes Yang Yinglong.

Heavenly King,

why do you come?

I decide to go back to Bozhou.

But I heard there was something wrong with Ye Xiaotian.

How is he now?

You are extraordinarily

cared about Ye Xiaotian.

I'm very curious about that.

I have told you before

you must take good care of him.

Why did you let him involved in such trouble?

Medicine can only cure those who can be saved,

and Buddha can only expiate those who have luck.

There is someone who wants to seek death.

How can I save him?

Whatever you do,

you must save him.

Heavenly King,

you and me

are husband and wife.

What are you

hiding from me?

I have nothing to hide from you.

Nothing?

Heavenly King Yang is ambitious.

How can you act on impulse for nobody?

I tell you

if you don't tell me the truth,

I won't help him.

I

don't want to conceal it from you.

But his identity

is too sensitive.

So,

what is his identity?

He is the Sect Leader of Voodo Sect.

Ye Xiaotian is the Sect Leader of Voodo Sect.

You should have known

what Voodo Sect refer to.

And you must have known why

I want to take advantage of him.

Because I want to let him mess up Tongren.

It's better

to take the mountaineers out of the mountain.

Hence, these sophisticated elders

will weaken their control.

At that time, there will be a loophole that can be used.

I see.

I see.

Come here.

You have done a good job

in attacking Zhang Duo.

I hope you can save Ye Xiaotian.

You can make it.

If only you help me,

I won't

treat you unfairly.

OK.

Ye Xiaotian is actually the Sect Leader of Voodo Sect.

Master.

Master,

why do you come here?

My rebellious son.

He told me that he opened a so-called

Daheng grocery in Tongren.

Yes.

To tell you the truth,

the grocery actually

has a good turnover.

But from what I see, by comparison

our shop seems to have a difficult time.

Is there no guest?

Not exactly.

But in Tongren,

there is a big issue

that influences

all the businesses.

What's big issue?

Official of Lawsuits Ye

cut off evildoers.

He killed five ruffians.

All the five families are very

influential socially.

Brother Xiaotian was captured.

How about Yunfei?

They are all confined in Great Mercy Temple.

Let's go to see them at once.

Go, go.

Adviser Ye,

why do you come back?

Where is my big brother?

Say a word.

Foolish.

So foolish.

Your brother,

your brother hasn't died.

But he will die at last.

He is too bold.

He killed five sons of noble families in a succession

just for an unrelated girl.

Five families launch an attack together.

How can he live?

What should we do?

Even if Prefectural Magistrate Zhang can keep him alive,

the best is

to make him escape from death sentence.

But he has to suffer.

What a pity!

One of those he killed

is the nephew of Prefectural Magistrate Zhang.

Oh no.

Don't we have any other relief troop?

Of course.

Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

She can

act independently and defiantly

against Prefectural Magistrate Zhang.

I have come to ask for help.

But she didn't even look at me.

She doesn't want to help.

In my opinion,

even if we don't kill him,

when the case is sent to the imperial court,

the imperial court will

go with the flow

and kill Ye Xiaotian

so as to conciliate the five families.

Just imagine,

kill Ye Xiaotian

and the imperial court will conciliate the five families.

They will be much wiser than you.

So will Yunfei die?

Who?

Yunfei.

I tell you

if I didn't try to escape,

I will be killed too.

I give up.

I will go back Red Maple Lake,

taking my family here.

Where?

Go home.

The fierce dragon can't overwhelm the local snake.

My mademoiselle,

let alone,

distant water cannot quench present thirst.

Eh.

I can use poison.

Let's rush into Great Mercy Temple

and save them.

Use poison.

Five noble families

and Prefectural Commissioner Tian.

Altogether six families arrange soldiers to guard.

They set such tight

surveillance.

You, you, you

how many people should you poison?

Is there anything wrong with you?

This is not practical. That is not practical.

What should we do?

Just wait and see him die?

Calm down. Calm down.

Wait and see what I can do.

OK.

Let's go first.

Stop drinking.

Go.

I can't go.

I just ran away from the court.

I, I have to make up.

Why should you make up?

They will recognize me.

You go first. You go.

No, you.

Go, go, go.

Go.

Go, go.

I don't believe

Tian Miaowen didn't help

Ye Xiaotian secretly.

If there is no one helping Ye Xiaotian,

how can he be so bold?

At crucial point,

Tian Miaowen uses her private soldiers to save him.

It adds more evidence to their relationship.

I doubt

it's Tian Miaowen stalling tactics

to apply for judgement from the imperial court.

Otherwise,

let's go to Great Mercy Temple tonight

and kill Ye Xiaotian.