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Chef Fang

Episode 16

Good day, Mr. and Mrs. Shen.

Dear?

Dear?

Is it too much fragrance there

that makes you dizzy?

She…looks pretty.

Who?

Fang Yao.

You guessed it as well?

She is not as pretty as you.

My wife is the most beautiful one.

Really?

Of course.

You’re the best.

Dear, why did her servant

pretend to redress the injustice that day?

Isn’t it obvious?

How should I say…

If you were her, would you marry me?

I don’t know. I’m not her.

In fact, with my reputation at that time,

I am afraid that no girl dared to marry me.

So?

So, Fang Yao knew that I’m different now.

She wanted to find out

which one of me

is the real one.

But, so what? Everything has changed.

That’s why I said

only rich girls with nothing else to do

could do this.

Dear, if you knew I’m Fang Yishao,

would you still marry me?

I don’t know.

Because I’m not the one I was before.

But in my heart,

my love

will only be you.

Dear?

You’re burning up!

I’m fine. Maybe I’m just tired.

Fortune-telling Master Fortune-telling

Please stop torturing me.

You know

I have told you your destiny of even next life.

What else don’t you understand?

Sir, I lost a gold hairpin.

It must be stolen by my sister-in-law.

So I…

Ma’am, this is too trivial a matter.

But I have paid!

Let me explain.

He can give you advice about

your fortune.

As for trifles like this, his disciple can help you.

And he’s better at it.

Madam, how about you change another place?

Come here.

Where can I find his disciple?

Turn right at the end, and turn right again.

Then close your eyes and take a hundred steps.

No matter who you meet,

tell him that Mr. Shen sent you here.

He can help you find anything you lost.

Alright.

Please.

Do I need to pay again?

No, no. Just go.

If he is in a good mood,

he will give you presents.

Will I get back what I lost?

Yes, don’t worry.

Remember, close your eyes. Be sincere.

Close your eyes.

You brat, you told lies again!

No!

Then where did you send her?

88, 89, 90,

91, 92, 93,

94, 95, 96,

97, 98, 99, 100.

Municipal Government of Dongxiang

Come on, old man, hurry up!

I’m your master!

Master, come on.

Hurry.

How is that? Is she OK?

She just caught a cold.

Where did you go?

It’s my fault. I was busy investigating

the child trafficking case.

She stayed in the forest with me all night.

That’s the reason.

I prescribe her some medicine.

Master? Master?

Finally, you know I’m your master.

I don’t want to read books today.

Why?

My wife is ill.

You can’t give up your future because of her.

The future can wait, but I have only one wife.

Nonsense.

If you were the emperor,

you’d put women before power.

So what? As a man,

you should love and shelter the woman you love.

If you can’t even do that,

how can you be an emperor? You’d rather be a eunuch.

Brat! What are you talking about?

Are you looking for death?

Anyway, I have to take care of my wife.

If you don’t let me,

I will go out and shout out what I said just now

and say you taught me to say that.

You…

Go, go. Just go.

Wait! The prescription!

Yes, right.

Will you come back?

After she gets better.

Then…

What about tomorrow?

Little Stammer!

Young Master, what happened?

She is ill.

I’m sorry.

Take the prescription

go buy the medicine and boil it.

Take my money. Hurry up.

Lian! Shitou! Lian!

-What’s wrong? -Go get some hot water.

Dear, do you want some water?

Or some food?

Then have some rest.

I’ll go check the medicine.

Master! Bad news!

What’s wrong?

Mrs. Shen is ill. Young Master held her back.

He is so worried.

Held her back?

How did she get so sick?

Let’s go back home to see her.

My Lady! My Lady!

What’s wrong?

Mrs. Shen is ill!

What?

Young Master held her back.

She’s too sick to speak.

What happened? She was fine before they left.

Why can’t she speak?

I don’t know.

Yishao! My dear!

Mother, why are you here?

Yong, how is Yishao now?

Is it serious? Did you call a physician?

Yong!

-Dear! -Father? Why are you here as well?

How is Yishao now?

Should we tell Mr. Fang?

Dear, what should we do now?

How can a healthy girl

suddenly get such a serious illness?

What? Serious? Who?

Shitou said

Yishao is ill and can’t even speak.

Yishao! My darling!

Dear, calm down. Don’t worry.

I’ll go find the best physician.

Wait, father, mother,

don’t panic.

Yishao is just tired.

She caught a cold and needs some rest.

Really?

Yes.

Yong, is that true?

Why would I lie?

Goodness! I was so scared!

Shitou didn’t tell me the details.

That really scared me a lot.

Alright, dear, everything is fine.

You don’t need to worry too much.

I still got work to do.

You take good care of Yishao!

I’ll go now.

OK.

Yong, take me to see her now.

Just lie down. Don’t get up.

Young Master, the medicine is ready.

Mother, let me.

I can handle this.

OK.

Dear, have some medicine.

Have some sleep.

Young Master!

What’s wrong?

Come here.

What are you doing?

Just speak.

Young Master, is this the best you can do?

What do you mean?

Think about it,

it’s always Mrs. Shen who cooks for you.

Now she is ill,

if you can cook her food yourself,

she will be happy when she wakes up.

That’s a good idea. But I don’t know how.

That makes it more precious.

How about we go buy some

and say you make them yourself?

That’s also a token of your love.

Since it’s love, I shouldn’t lie.

We should buy some first.

Cloud House

Young Master, it’s here.

There are so many restaurants.

Why should we come to Cloud House?

Young Master, Cloud House

is the most famous here.

Come on.

Thank you.

Take care.

Mr. Shen? What brings you here?

Please come in.

Mr. Shen, I was wrong before.

I’m ashamed of that.

Please forgive me

if I offended you.

I need to apologize.

Sir, we have a question.

What food is good for curing cold?

Stewed pigeon with pears can dispel cold.

That’s it. Pack up one for me.

OK.

Mr. Jia, well…

How is the pigeon cooked?

You…

My wife is ill. I want to cook her some food.

But I don’t know how.

OK, I see,

I’ll ask our chef to teach you.

Mr. Shen, please.

Mr. Shen.

Young Master, we can just buy some.

Enough. Go buy two pigeons,

some pears and jars.

OK.

Mr. Shen, this is Chef Deng.

This is Mr. Shen. I’ll leave you two alone.

Mr. Shen, what’s the matter?

Chef Deng, I want to learn to cook from you.

Mr. Shen, are you kidding?

You have so many servants and chefs.

Do you need to cook yourself?

Besides,

we all know your wife is a great cook.

Mr. Deng, to be honest,

my wife is ill now.

So I want to cook a dish for her.

Mr. Jia said you can cook pigeon with pears…

I got it. I’ll teach you.

OK. Thank you a lot.

The key to cook a pigeon is to remove its feathers

before bleeding it.

And then clean its internal organs.

You have to wash all the blood away.

Then chop it up into pieces

and stew them with pears

for four hours.

Put some ginger, a little wine,

and salt in the end. It will taste better.

And it’s most effective to cure

your wife’s cold.

Young Master, there is a fight outside.

It’s really interesting!

What’s going on?

Wife beating her husband.

Do you know the reason?

Her husband wants to marry a harlot.

So the wife is angry and making a scene.

You jerk! You unfaithful jerk!

Madam, please! Please stop this.

I can be your servant to repay you.

You slut, what else can you do

except seducing men?

I should beat you two up together!

You tramp!

She has nothing to do with it.

Come here!

Stop that!

What are you looking at?

Stop watching.

Let’s go home.

Come on, I should go back to cook.

I want to watch for a while.

Young Master!

That woman is a shrew.

It’s normal for a man to have concubines.

Why is she doing this?

Let’s go.

Dragon Bridge

Young Master, when you marry concubines,

will Mrs. Shen acts the same?

I’ll never marry other women.

We have rules in our family.

We can only have one wife for our whole life.

Violators can’t enter the family grave.

Who made such an unreasonable rule?

There’s not a certain thing.

You don’t understand.

I don’t like to listen to my father.

But one thing he said is really right.

What is it?

If you have one heart, you marry one;

if you have two hearts, you marry two.

Your wife only has one heart and she gives it to you.

How could you spare half of yours for others?

If you can marry others, so can your wife.

Otherwise, you can’t have one.

That sounds ridiculous.

Really? Then think about it.

If one day your wife remarries,

she will give half of her time to others

and half to you.

How will you feel then?

How you feel

will be how your wife feels when you marry others.

I’m poor. So I only need one wife.

Young Master, Shitou…

What? You like her?

You can marry her.

But a man has to have his own career.

You’re only a servant now.

Even if I agreed,

my wife wouldn’t agree to marry her to you.

Why are you talking like Master?

Am I?

Actually, look at me.

I’m idle and not promising.

My wife doesn’t even want to sleep with me.

Why?

Why?

Women all like capable men.

Both you and Shitou are young.

Work hard, and then you can give her happiness.

Young Master, the pigeons are ready.

What are you looking at?

I can cook now, but I can’t make a fire.

That’s easy. Let me help you.

OK.

The fire is up.

OK.

Young Master, are you serious?

What? Haven’t you seen this before?

I haven’t.

Get out. Don’t distract me.

Look at mine.

It’s pretty.

Mine is pretty.

How about mine?

It’s not bad.

Little Stammer, what are you doing here?

Mrs. Shen is too sick to cook today.

Young Master is cooking inside.

Am I dreaming?

Young Master knows how to cook?

Will Mrs. Shen be happy

when she eats the soup he made?

That’s so great of Young Master.

I never expected that.

I should find a husband like this as well.

Look at you.

Tell me what kind of man you like.

I can find one for you.

I like scholars.

I like the ones who are knowledgeable,

preferably those who top the exam.

What about you, Shitou?

I…I like someone who can make money.

He should be able to support Uncle Zhou

and build a temple for Changle Nunnery.

A temple? That will cost a lot.

Little Stammer, what kind of wife do you like?

It must be someone like Mrs. Shen.

She is the best.

But she is able to do so much.

Isn’t that good?

It’s both good and bad.

Anyway, I like the girls who can do nothing.

Then I can take care of her.

And she can’t live without me.

It’s just a temple. I’ll build it.

Little Stammer said

Young Master went to the restaurant to learn.

It’s really something.

Young Master.

Let me.

Mrs. Shen.

Give me that.

Then I’ll leave now.

Here.

It tastes bad?

I knew it. How could it be good?

No! The thing you cook is the best.

Really?

Let me have a try.

You go get another bowl. I touched this.

It will infect you.

It’s OK, just one sip.

It’s not bad.

But it’s a far cry from your cooking.

No. This is the best soup I have ever had.

Dear, I want to have another bowl.

Do you know how I made it?

I heard from Lian.

You went to the restaurant to learn.

Cloud House.

I thought you dislike that Jia Dahua.

Why did you go to him?

He used to be a mean and annoying person,

but after I talked to him today,

I found him not so annoying.

Dear,

don’t you need to go to Mr. Mo’s place today?

I won’t go now.

I asked Little Stammer to tell him that

I would go there when you recover.

No! You can’t.

I feel better now.

I’ll decide if you have recovered.

But I don’t want to delay your study.

It’s OK.

I’m not going to be lazy.

I’ll go practice in the yard later.

Is that OK?

OK.

Take it easy.

Then you can go now.

Have some rest. I’m leaving now.

Young Master!

Hush! Can’t you just be quiet?

She just fell asleep. If you wake her up, I’ll…

Speak.

Another person died.

Again?

What should we do now?

Why are there so many deaths recently?

What’s going on? So many people died recently.

Yes, who knows?

What does it have to do with you?

Why are you so worried?

Do you know the victim?

You won’t believe this! Do you know who died?

How would I know?

Come on, just say it.

That scholar’s mother we saw this afternoon died.

It’s said that she was over 50 years old.

Her son and daughter-in-law fought in the street,

so she went to stop them.

Then she died there.

How could this happen?

Yes, it’s a huge mess.

Many said that the daughter-in-law had caused

too much trouble and driven her to death;

some said that scholar made her too angry;

others said that harlot cursed her.

How is it now?

They’re in serious trouble.

When I came back, the three of them

were taken to the local authority.

What happened? What’s going on inside?

She died.

Who would know that a person

lost her life all of a sudden!

Poor woman!

It’s better to have no son than to have that one.

But that woman was always healthy and strong.

Mother!

Mother! It’s all my fault.

I didn’t take good care of this family.

Silence Keep a distance

This conscienceless jerk and this slut

are to blame!

She was mad at her son and just collapsed.

Mother! Mother!

What happened to this family?

I asked some neighbors at scene.

They said this scholar was filial and kind.

But ever since he visited Blue Mist House,

he’s been obsessed with that harlot.

Here.

Come on.

No, no, I won’t go in.

Come on.

Girls here are really great.

It’s OK. Let’s drink.

Come on, drink some wine.

Come on.

You should hold it like this.

What are you looking for?

Stop there!

Why are you taking the title deed?

None of your business!

Do you think that I don’t know?

You’re going to see that whore!

You can’t insult her!

I worked so hard to pay for your study,

but now you fell in love with that slag!

What’s going on?

Yu, what are you doing?

Mother.

You slut! Without you,

he wouldn’t have done this!

I’ll kill you today!

If you hurt her again,

I won’t be easy on you!

Stop! Stop fighting!

Mother! Mother!

The knowledge he got were all wasted.

It’s not right to go to the brothel when you

already have wife.

He can fall in love with girls there,

but he shouldn’t have sold the land

without consulting his family.

The sentence is tricky.

Outsiders can’t judge family affairs.

Parents can’t interfere with their kids’ marriage.

I would rather face a dozen vicious gangsters

than watch this poor family.

But I have to solve it. Let’s go.

Mother, it’s my bad!

Mother, please wake up!

Silence.

Mother! Mother!

Silence!

Attention!

How old was this old lady?

My mother was 46 years old.

Did your mother have any illnesses?

My mother was always healthy.

It’s all my fault.

Shen Jie, conduct an autopsy.

Yes.

You’ll be put into custody for now.

Sir, my child…

Don’t worry.

A babysitter will take care of your child.

You all should reflect on yourselves in prison.

We will decide it after we get the autopsy result

and the cause of death.

Adjourned!