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0:01My head is spinning
0:03Where am I?
0:06These aren't my hands
0:09I've written this kind of time-travel opening 800 times
0:12Never thought I'd become the main character myself one day
0:15Did the whole family poison themselves?
0:16Or was it food poisoning?
0:21Never mind. Let's find a doctor first
0:25Gao si nao ai
0:28That's our hometown dialect
0:31No way. Did we both transmigrate?
0:36Mom
0:38Ni na na
0:39Ah!
0:41Wucuo
0:42Mm, don't rush to ask questions
0:44You've seen those short videos about time travel, right?
0:46Like becoming the legitimate daughter of a general's estate
0:47Given this situation
0:48feel it out now
0:49Where does your body hurt?
0:52My stomach hurts
0:53Both of us transmigrating is fine
0:55At least we don't have to pretend to be the original owners
0:57I don't have a single memory of this ancient little girl
0:59not one
1:00All I know is that her name is Xia Dayia
1:04Help! We've been poisoned!
1:06Quick, get a doctor!
1:10Faint naturally. Don't give yourself away
1:12Hurry, save them! The Xia family!
1:14Carry Xia Dayia inside first
1:16When I realized my mom had transmigrated too
1:18I really did feel relieved
1:20Even if that family suffocated me
1:22at least I wasn't alone
1:26Poisonous mushrooms were mixed into the food
1:28The eldest daughter ate less
1:30and threw it all up
1:31Just drink plenty of boiled water
1:33The two adults need to throw everything up
1:35then take medicine for two days
1:36The little boy barely escaped with his life
1:38He'll need medicine for five days
1:39All right, I understand. Doctor, that medicine...
1:42comes to one tael and 230 cash
1:44Th-this doctor...
1:45I don't have any money
1:46If we don't take medicine, can we just drink more water?
1:48One tael and 230 cash...
1:50Even if we turned this house upside down, we couldn't scrape that together
1:55Wucuo, are you awake?
1:56You're running around like a headless fly
1:59Search that man
2:00Then look around the house for money
2:05At one cash per coin, there's 200 cash
2:08That's still not enough
2:09It's enough for one dose. Why don't you take it yourself?
2:13Those two men aren't your husband or son
2:15Why care about them?
2:17Hey
2:19Even the car got buried
2:21Who knows how your dad and brother are doing
2:23That time travel thing...
2:24means dying and becoming someone else
2:26I know
2:28Then we must have died
2:31During Lunar New Year, no less
2:32How did something like this happen?
2:34I shouldn't have told you to come back
2:38What's the point of saying that now?
2:40It's not like we can go back
2:41What you need to do now is take the money and buy medicine
2:45If they ask, say this is all the money we have
2:47Whether they live or die is up to fate
2:50Bring it back, decoct it, and drink it yourself
2:52Then find us something to eat so we can tide ourselves over
2:55Don't let us starve to death on our second day here
2:57We're just going to watch these two living people die?
3:00You didn't gain any extra memories, did you?
3:03If you didn't
3:04and they notice something is off
3:06we'll be the ones in danger
3:08As ancient little girls
3:10the men in this household are the greatest threat
3:12If they have no money, selling me would be perfectly legal
3:16What if this father and brother are good people?
3:20We'll know by who wakes up first
3:25What a miserable fate. They're poor through and through
3:27They don't even know where their next meal is coming from
3:31Only under the bedboards hasn't been searched
3:33Give us a way to live
3:35Liang Xin, Liang Xin
3:40Her dad transmigrated too
3:42Then the other one didn't escape it either
3:44Well, that's no fun
3:45How pathetic
3:47When I thought only she and I had transmigrated
3:49I still instinctively counted her in
3:52The entanglement of East Asian mothers and daughters:
3:53the resentment never runs deep enough
3:54and the love is never pure
3:55Those who know, know
3:57Five years ago, she left home after making such an ugly scene
3:59Her dad cheated
4:00He brought the woman home, locked the door, and slept with her
4:02Her younger brother listened outside the door
4:03Half a month before the college entrance exam, her mom
4:04called me crying, then we ended up fighting with knives
4:06And in the end, she still didn't divorce him
4:08Her dad doesn't matter
4:10My only tie to that family is her mom
4:12But her mom still wanted to drag the only daughter who had seen
4:14her suffering down into the mud
4:26The whole family transmigrated
4:28Why couldn't some loving family transmigrate together instead?
4:29Why throw my family together like this?
4:33Who is it? What do you want?
4:35Where did you bring me? Who did this?
4:37Why leave? Explain what's going on first
4:39My spirit is precious
4:40It's not worth wasting on those people
4:42What I should be thinking about now is that I'm hungry
4:44No, I should be thinking about how to survive after transmigrating
4:46If I had transmigrated alone
4:47I could set up a stall and make my fortune
4:49But the whole family came together
4:50If I work myself to the bone so they can live well
4:52that would be betraying myself
4:54But just to keep them from benefiting
4:56I can't make myself suffer either
4:58I need food and necessities in hand
5:01First, I need to find out whether we've traveled into real history
5:03or a fictional world
5:03But the most urgent thing right now is that I'm hungry
5:06There's nothing to eat
5:07I'll have to go to sleep hungry
5:10Sleeping hungry is fine too
5:12I'll just call it a cleanse
5:15Girls this age in the village
5:16should have been sent out to work long ago
5:18Any child who can still play here
5:20must come from a fairly well-off family
5:22I've chosen you, little one
5:26Sister Dayia, you didn't go to work?
5:28Where's my big sister?
5:31Oh, Goudan, Maotou
5:32not your family's Dayia
5:33Xia family's Dayia
5:35The name Dayia is extremely common in this village
5:37Have you ever seen a monkey in the mountains as big as a person
5:40that can run, jump, and talk
5:43and even wears clothes?
5:44Really? Monkeys can talk?
5:46Ordinary monkeys, of course, can't talk
5:48This monkey was so different
5:50because it sprang from a stone
5:52When it leaped out
5:53two beams of golden light shot from its eyes
5:54straight into the sky
5:55alarming the immortals in heaven
5:57The greatest of those immortals was called the Jade Emperor
5:59So he sent two immortals whose job was gathering intelligence
6:00to see what that commotion was about
6:02Those two immortals had divine powers
6:03One had extraordinarily sharp ears
6:05He could hear someone speaking even in the wind
6:06The other had extraordinarily sharp eyes
6:07Looking down from the heavens
6:08he could see even the legs of a fly on the ground
6:10Wow, then he definitely wasn't an ordinary monkey!
6:12And that monkey
6:13the place where he lived
6:14was a mountain in the middle of the sea
6:15called Flower-Fruit Mountain
6:16You can tell from the name that it had lots of flowers and fruit
6:19The peaches there were bigger than your head
6:21Take one bite
6:22and the juice would flow into your mouth like honeyed nectar
6:23A few bites of one peach would fill you up
6:25And there were grapes, too
6:26purple, green, and red
6:27hanging in clusters so heavy they bent the branches
6:29Eat just one
6:30and your mouth would stay sweet all day
6:33After thinking through
6:33all the fruit I love
6:35I only made myself hungrier
6:36And then? What happened next, Monkey King?
6:37Sister Dayia, don't stop. Hurry and keep going!
6:39Did he become an immortal later?
6:41Hurry, tell us!
6:43That's about all for now
6:44I'm hungry and have no strength
6:45I can't go on
6:47Sister Dayia, wait here. Don't leave
6:49I'll go get you something to eat
6:51Kids in ancient times
6:52had never heard any high-quality stories
6:54This is enough to hook them
6:58These are eggs my chicken just laid
7:00My grandma doesn't know about them
7:00Sister Daya, hurry and eat
7:02Well, thank you
7:03I'll take this raw one home and cook it
7:05What was your name again?
7:06He's Song Baobao, the village chief's son
7:07Eat your fill and grow plump and fair
7:08Do you know how many Dayas there are in the village?
7:11Uncle's daughter, Sister Daya
7:13The Lin family's Sister Daya
7:15Aunt Cui's Sister Daya
7:16That many?
7:17When you call out "Sister Daya
7:18I don't even know who you're calling
7:19How about this? I'll think of a new name
7:21Then we'll know who we're calling
7:22Let's call her Xia Wucuo
7:24What does that mean?
7:25No mistakes means right
7:26It means everything I do is right
7:28Then I'll be called Hao Duoqian
7:29My name is Song Bu Aida
7:30Oh, stop arguing, Sister Dui
7:31Hurry up and keep telling the story
7:32The story of the Monkey King seeking immortality
7:34So stingy
7:35Still enough to tide us over for a meal or two. Fine
7:38Then the monkey left Flower-Fruit Mountain
7:40He crossed the seas and traveled for seven or eight years
7:41before reaching the land of Western Cattle Continent
7:42He learned of a mountain called Spirit Platform, Square-Inch Mountain
7:44In the mountain was the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars
7:46An old immortal lived in that cave
7:47He was called Patriarch Bodhi
7:48The monkey knelt outside the cave
7:49and kowtowed countless times
7:50Only then did the Patriarch accept him as a disciple
7:51He gave him the name Sun Wukong
7:55And then? And then?
7:56That's all. That's all I dreamed last night
7:58I'll only know what happens next after I dream tonight
8:00Scammed them out of food and drinks. Job done
8:06Song Goudan says you ate it all yourself
8:08or took it out and squandered it
8:09Grandma, don't call me Song Goudan
8:10I gave myself a name: Song Bu Aida
8:12From now on, call me that
8:13Song Bu Aida, my foot
8:14I think you're about to get a beating today
8:16Tell me honestly, where are the steamed corn buns?
8:17Ah, I'll tell you, I'll tell you
8:19I took them to listen to Sister Dui tell stories
8:21I want peaches bigger than my head too
8:23Grandma, I want peaches
8:24Peaches again?
8:25Do I look like a peach to you?
8:28Why didn't they lay eggs today?
8:29It's not like I starved them
8:30Baobao, slow down—don't fall. Are you hungry?
8:32Come to the kitchen with Grandma
8:33I'll steam you a bowl of eggs first
8:34to fill your belly
8:35Grandma, can you make me flatbread tomorrow?
8:37I want to take some with me when I go out to play
8:39Did playing today make you hungry?
8:40Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm
8:42All right
8:42Grandma, there are three pieces of white sugar cake left in the cupboard
8:45Take two with you tomorrow in case you get hungry
8:46Remember, don't give any away if someone asks
8:48Save it for yourself, understand?
8:49Mm-hmm
8:50If Sister Wucuo is hungry, she won't keep telling stories
8:52Baobao knows that if you want someone
8:53to do work, you have to feed them first
8:55Once she finishes telling the Monkey King seeking immortality story
8:56I'll eat the rest all by myself
8:58Boil the eggs and beans tomorrow
9:00Save the rest for dinner
9:01If it weren't for having nowhere else to sleep
9:02I really wouldn't want to stay in the same room with them
9:06Where did you run off to?
9:08Our whole family has ended up in this godforsaken place
9:09And you're still putting on airs?
9:11Is this house mine alone?
9:12Fine. Whatever
9:13We might as well die
9:14You're so damn noisy
9:16You're the noisiest one
9:17What's the use of just yelling?
9:20Who asked you to speak?
9:21You'd better be this tough when someone comes to beat down our door tomorrow
9:23Be this tough when they come, too
9:25And be this tough when you starve to death the day after tomorrow
9:27Only tough at home
9:28That's hilarious
9:29Nobody even wants to be his child
9:30Enough, you two. Stop fighting
9:32Things are different now
9:34Since our family is together
9:35we have to pull together and get through this hardship
9:37Let bygones be bygones, all right?
9:42This miserable place
9:43I always feel like bugs are crawling into my ears
9:47Scraped clean
9:49This family really has no food left
9:50Wucuo, get up and have a bite to eat
9:52I already ate
9:55That sounds like pigs at the trough
9:58Liang Xin once said
9:59she ate this when she was little:
10:01sweet potato soup with sweet potato vines
10:03When there wasn't enough, they added bran
10:04Liang Xin was talking about the 1970s and 1980s
10:07This is ancient times
10:08They may not even have sweet potatoes
10:10I need to figure out quickly
10:12the history and environment of this time and place
10:14and winter, too
10:16When was the last winter?
10:18That directly determines whether this
10:19time-travel experience is hard mode
10:21or hell mode
10:22Sigh
10:24There are four people in the family
10:25Three of us crossed over
10:26The remaining one is my little brother
10:28The odds are pretty high
10:29Looks like my body accepted fate before my mind did
10:36Damn it, I lived alone for five years
10:38I haven't been woken up by this much noise in five years
10:41Sigh
10:42Day two after time travel
10:43What's the point of getting up this early?
10:45He didn't sleep all night
10:46Every so often, he would feel
10:47the boy's breathing
10:49Son, son
10:51Wuyou, wake up soon
10:53She clearly remembered the doctor saying the child
10:54needed five days of medicine to recover
10:56But she had only bought two doses
10:58She was afraid that if her son had crossed over too
11:00but had been poisoned to death
11:01what if he never woke up?
11:05Why not take the chance to put the eggs and beans
11:06on the stove to boil?
11:08Then I won't have to start a fire myself later
11:10That thing looks hard to use
11:15Bad news: the strongest bowl of medicine was wasted
11:18Good news: he finally opened his eyes
11:20Did someone feed me shit?
11:22It's bitter, sour, and astringent
11:24The power of ancient Chinese medicine is plain to see
11:26Come to think of it, some Chinese medicine really does contain shit
11:30Is that Wuyou, my son?
11:32Where am I?
11:33My head's a little muddled
11:34It feels like there are a lot of things I don't remember
11:36Are you my mother?
11:37No need to doubt it
11:39Xia Wuyou simply didn't recognize
11:40this strange woman from ancient times as his birth mother
11:43That's how it goes in novels
11:44We were riding in your sister's car
11:46planning to visit your grandmother
11:48when we got buried
11:49Don't you remember?
11:51Oh, my birth mother
11:52You crossed over too?
11:53You scared me to death
11:55Your dad is here too
11:57The center is still a little hard
11:58Forget it. As long as it's edible
12:01Have you figured out where
12:02we've crossed over to?
12:03This is ancient times, right?
12:04What's our family's situation here?
12:06Mom, Dad, do either of you have
12:08any extra memories?
12:09I mean, memories about
12:10the life of the bodies we're in now
12:13What about you, Sis?
12:15No? Then none of us do
12:18Then we're done for
12:19Not one of us has any memories
12:20How are we supposed to survive here?
12:23By the way, Mom
12:24didn't you just say the original
12:25family ate poisonous mushrooms?
12:27Then we can say
12:28Eating poisonous mushrooms must've messed up your brain
12:32Can this trick really fool everyone else?
12:40Now that the whole family is here
12:42let's talk about
12:43what we should do next
12:45Our family should have some land, right?
12:47I'll go dig up some wild vegetables to eat first
12:49And ask about the fields while I'm at it
12:50You go fetch water
12:51Fill the jar up
12:52Even if we have fields to plant and harvest from
12:54that won't happen right away
12:55We can't eat wild vegetables every day
12:57There must be relatives and friends in the village
12:59Let's borrow some from them first
13:00We're all neighbors here
13:01They can't just stand by and watch us starve to death
13:03The whole family was poisoned yesterday
13:05but aside from the neighbors and the doctor
13:06not a single relative came by
13:07As if we'd be able to borrow any grain
13:15Sis, where did you get food?
13:19I swindled it
13:20If you want some, get it yourself
13:26Sixty-three households, at five and a half people per household
13:29that's at least three hundred and ten or twenty people
13:31Why is the Xia family the only one out of food?
13:32Everyone else has extra grain. It doesn't make sense
13:37Found the village gossip hub
13:38Why does that Xia girl seem so strange?
13:41You don't know, do you?
13:42I heard their whole family was poisoned yesterday
13:44She ran out by herself to beg for help
13:46I think it was the Xia family's
13:47youngest son who was in pretty bad shape
13:49Huh?
13:50No wonder. How did they get poisoned?
13:52How can anyone pick the wrong mushrooms?
13:54That's terrifying
14:00My childhood is back
14:04Carefully now
14:05Catch the males and fry them
14:10Found it. It's here
14:15It's so early. It's not even afternoon yet
14:18That's not important
14:19Keep telling us about the Monkey King
14:20I brought lots of tasty treats today
14:24Do you want to know what the Monkey King looks like?
14:26We do. What do you need us to help with?
14:28Help me find a wooden bucket
14:29It doesn't need to be too big
14:29Everyone else, go pick some mugwort
14:31Wash it clean in the water
14:31then spread it out on a big rock to dry
14:33My family has a damaged wooden bucket
14:34It won't leak if it's only half full of water
14:36I'll go get it
14:38Okay, hurry up
14:41Right, Sis, we'll help you catch crabs
14:43No need. Don't come down here
14:46Right, Sis, look! I caught one
14:48Such a big crab!
14:55Wow!
14:55So this is what the Monkey King looks like
14:57Why is there no fur in the middle of his face?
14:59He looks so much like a person
15:01Yesterday, we had just gotten to the part where the monkey became a disciple
15:03So this isn't the Great Sage Equal to Heaven
15:04It's the grass-skirted Monkey King
15:06We'll talk about his classic look later
15:08Right, Sis, you have to come this afternoon
15:10and tell us the rest of the story
15:12Don't worry. If you want to hear more, come back this afternoon
15:16Sis, did you get us something to eat?
15:19Whoa, crabs! Crabs!
15:22Take them and wash them
15:23Wash them really clean
15:24You got it
15:35Sis, do you think Dad can really borrow food?
15:39Supplies were scarce in ancient times
15:41Farmers could barely make ends meet themselves
15:43How could they have extra grain to lend us?
15:45We have to assess the situation case by case
15:48Do you remember those things
15:49that people always make after transmigrating?
15:51I know
15:54Then we can use those to make money
15:55Like this
15:58That one wasn't washed clean
15:59Pick it up and wash it again
16:01Ah, I didn't see a steamer
16:03How do we use this?
16:06Secure the steamer rack first
16:08then find a big bowl, put the crabs in it, and set it on top
16:15Sis, seriously
16:17we need to find a way to make some money
16:20There isn't a bit of stored grain for this family of four
16:23I think we'd better...
16:26You call her "Sis" every other word
16:27You're sure acting close
16:29Sis, are they cooked yet?
16:32They're cooked when they turn red
16:40Eat up
16:43Hey
16:46You two already started eating
16:51Did you borrow any grain?
16:52I did
16:54What could you possibly borrow in this godforsaken place?
16:59How much?
17:00Less than half a sack, about five jin
17:03What about your parents?
17:04What about my mother's family?
17:05Did you not ask around carefully at all?
17:07Did you just brush it off?
17:08What's wrong with you?
17:09I found out, and now you don't believe me
17:11Is this even about whether we believe you?
17:13How could there be no relatives?
17:14It's only been half a day
17:16What am I, some kind of god?
17:18Are you two done yet?
17:19Is now the time to argue?
17:21Sis, say something
17:23Finding out about our relatives is one thing
17:25but what do we do after these five jin of grain are gone?
17:28So we still need to find a way to make money
17:30There are many things ancient times don't have
17:31We can definitely make money
17:32What about startup capital? Every business needs capital, right?
17:35We'll find a way somehow
17:36Borrow some, or bring in partners
17:39It's nothing. You two carry on
17:40Sis, do you think selling the recipe
17:43for fried chicken to a tavern or butcher shop would work?
17:45It could work
17:48But don't expect
17:49them to offer a very high price
17:50There's an eighty-percent chance they'll want to buy it outright
17:51You decide for yourselves
17:52No, let's save that and make it ourselves later
17:55When I was picking wild vegetables
17:56I saw medicinal herbs on the mountain
17:58That's right, we know all those herbs
18:00They don't cost anything, either
18:01We can pick medicinal herbs and sell them
18:03Honeysuckle and dandelion
18:05Hedyotis diffusa and isatis root
18:06There must be some around here
18:07Let's go take a look this afternoon
18:09Then we'll go this afternoon
18:10while it's still early
18:11At last, we've found a way that doesn't require any capital
18:13You're not completely hopeless after all
18:18Then the Buddha pressed down with his hand
18:19and his five fingers became
18:20five linked mountains of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth
18:22pinning the Great Sage Equal to Heaven firmly beneath them
18:24It can't end like this!
18:26Don't trap the Monkey King under the mountain!
18:28There's nothing I can do
18:29I don't have such great powers, either
18:31Ah
18:33We picked quite a lot today
18:34Spread them out to dry in the shade before the sun sets
18:37Dad, your family fled here fifteen years ago
18:39and everyone else in the family died
18:41Five households fled here together back then
18:43This village was probably
18:44a refuge intake point
18:46Mom's group arrived five years before Dad's
18:47and settled down in this village
18:48There was originally an older sister who married into a neighboring village
18:50but she was beaten to death by her husband
18:51She left behind two little ones
18:52I heard they're still being beaten in that household
18:53They have a stepmother
18:54The two little ones are still being abused by their stepmother
18:56This matter may not be over yet
19:00Those old men and women at the village entrance
19:02spilled every detail about our family
19:03Where did you find all that out?
19:05I pretended to be an idiot and walked past the tree
19:08then hid behind it and listened to them gossip
19:10Someone mentioned that poisonous mushrooms had turned me stupid
19:13They sighed and pitied me
19:14then started talking about our family history going back generations
19:16No wonder the family lacks everything
19:18So they came here as refugees
19:20No wonder they have no extra grain
19:22What kind of harvest can wasteland produce?
19:25That's pretty stupid
19:26They haven't even figured out what era this is
19:28yet they're already making plans
19:31So, do you have any ideas?
19:40I know you've always blamed me
19:41but now that our whole family has come to ancient times
19:44can we let the past die with us?
19:46Yeah, see? Your dad still cares about you
19:49Oh, I'm so touched
19:51Arrogant at first, then respectful later—
19:53How laughable
19:54It's not that you realized you were wrong
19:55You know I'm the best earner in this family
19:57You know I even managed to get us food a few days ago
19:59Do you think I can't get any myself?
20:01Do you take me for a fool like my mother?
20:02Since you're so capable
20:04why eat the grain I borrowed?
20:12You deserve all of this
20:14I had already left my family of origin
20:16and was living a good life
20:18Then this time-travel nonsense had to bring us together
20:20So don't blame me for being a demon child descended upon the world
20:23How did you give birth to a daughter like this?
20:25There was no trouble to begin with
20:26Didn't you cause all of it?
20:28She used to be so well-behaved
20:30You insisted on swindling money from her
20:33Sis, where are you going?
20:35To take a dump
20:43Something's off. Why has she been gone so long?
20:46Don't tell me she fell into the latrine pit
20:49Old Madam Fang's house
20:51Her son studies in the county seat
20:52There's only an old woman at home
20:55Even if I'm discovered
20:56that old woman can't catch me
20:58Heaven, earth, and man are all on my side
21:09So cautious
21:10A wooden bolt
21:11Piece of cake
21:16It's my first time doing this kind of petty theft
21:18I'm a little nervous
21:21No, wait. Something a scholar does—
21:22how can that be called stealing?
21:23I'm only borrowing a book to have a look
21:25It's not like I won't return it
21:31Could mice have gotten into Ping'er's study?
21:33No, I need to take a look
21:41History from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Tang
21:43I know this stuff well
21:46Mawei Post Station
21:47This part is wrong
21:48Li Longji died too
21:50This isn't the history I know
21:52The Yu Dynasty, the Heng Dynasty...
21:53I've never even heard of them
21:55This is a parallel world
21:57The annals of this dynasty only cover nine years
21:59It's as if they were just printed
22:01The founding emperor's surname was Zhong
22:02He was from Xuchang, Henan
22:04He ruled for eight months
22:04then died
22:05The second emperor was Taizong
22:07the founding emperor's third son
22:08He reigned for five years
22:09and died at thirty-five
22:10Then the third emperor died as well
22:12In the third year of his reign
22:13Taizong's eldest grandson ascended the throne
22:15He was fourteen then and is seven now
22:16Three emperors in nine years
22:18This dynasty has a serious short-lived streak
22:19The founding empress, Empress Wei, is still alive
22:21She's the sort of formidable empress like Lü Zhi or Empress Ma
22:23She can keep the founding ministers in check
22:24At fifty-six, with a young ruler and powerful ministers
22:26she alone maintains the delicate balance
22:28If she lives until the third generation takes power in person, the transition may be smooth
22:30The Heng Dynasty has a young ruler and powerful ministers
22:32Empress Wei's situation is getting interesting
22:41You're a girl from the Xia family
22:43Why are you here so early?
22:45I heard Uncle is one of the few generous people in the village
22:47My family is at the end of its rope
22:49They sent me to borrow grain from you, Uncle
22:51No
22:52No, my family has no grain either
22:54The words "borrow grain
22:55work better than any explanation
22:58Sis, did you take a dump outside all night?
23:00I thought you'd fallen into the outhouse pit
23:01Don't worry about where I went
23:03Have you decided what to do?
23:04Wuyou says we can make egg tarts
23:06With eggs, milk, flour, sugar, and oil, we can make them
23:09Not bad. That could work
23:11Compared with those ideas
23:13you came up with yesterday, this is more reliable
23:14Once we make some money, we'll have a charcoal stove made
23:16Then we'll put an iron griddle over it
23:18When the time comes, we'll wheel it out to sell
23:19Put the egg tarts on the griddle
23:20then cover them with a semicircular lid
23:22Once they're baked, lift the lid right on the street
23:24and the fragrance will fill the whole street
23:25I refuse to believe no one will buy them
23:26Once we make some money selling the original flavor
23:28we'll make upgraded versions
23:29Put cooked
23:30red beans, fruit, and things like that on top
23:31I think I've had an egg-tart crust before
23:33with glutinous rice cake or mochi inside
23:35It was really chewy
23:36That was delicious
23:37I've never had it
23:38It sounds delicious
23:39We'll try it later
23:40Didn't I say we should try burgers first?
23:42Meat, vegetables, and sauce between two buns—how simple is that?
23:45Really chewy
23:55Tomorrow or the day after, let's go into town
23:58The market town or the county seat—either works
24:00Most importantly, we'll see what this dynasty
24:01does and doesn't have
24:02First, we need to find something we can sell for money
24:05Sis, honestly
24:07what did you do last night?
24:09I went to find out what era we've traveled to
24:12So, did you find out?
24:14Genghis Khan is about to invade
24:16We're about to become fourth-class people under the Yuan
24:18No way. Seriously?
24:21No. Actually, it's the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
24:23Stop messing with us. Which one is real?
24:27I found out through my own abilities
24:29Why should I tell you for free?
24:31You're so cold
24:32Those two have a grudge against you
24:34But I don't have any grudge against you
24:35Aren't we pretty close?
24:37Close?
24:38Since when were we close?
24:41Why do you think we're close?
24:43You can go find
24:44some useful information to trade for it
24:45What you found out yesterday isn't very useful to me
24:48All I can tell you is
24:50this dynasty has had three emperors in nine years
24:53So many things I'd never eaten before
24:55you were the first to bring me to try
24:58I improved your meals, didn't I?
25:01Whenever Mom sees me playing on my phone, she scolds me
25:02But you never criticize me
25:04So I think you're pretty nice
25:07What? Did I say something wrong?
25:11Don't follow me
25:12Go find something to do yourself
25:16Anything that needs capital
25:17we can't do. Anything that needs manpower
25:20the only people I can talk into helping me
25:21are those children
25:22Dayaa, where have you been these past few days?
25:24Why haven't you come dig wild vegetables with me?
25:27Can you lend me some money first?
25:30Then I'll take it
25:31You hold on to it first
25:32That cluster of wild fruit we didn't finish picking last time—
25:34let's go pick it
25:35We'll eat it in the mountains
25:36I won't bring any home
25:37You shouldn't bring any home either
25:40Good girl, you're right
25:41When you can barely keep yourself alive
25:42you don't need to care whether your family lives or dies
25:44By the way, do you have a formal name?
25:46My formal name is Liu Zhu
25:47Dayaa is just my childhood name
25:49My formal name is Xia Wucuo
25:51Right, right, Sis
25:52Do you have another story again?
25:54Quiet down first
25:55Listen to me
25:56There isn't a story today
25:58But I have an idea
25:59that can help you earn some pocket money
26:02Do you want to make some?
26:03Do you want to earn a little pocket money?
26:05Right, right, Sis. How do we earn it?
26:06How much can we make?
26:08Have you ever caught cicada nymphs?
26:11They come out around this time every year
26:12Traveling peddlers go from village to village buying them
26:13They haven't come this year yet
26:15Are you going to sell those?
26:16How much did the peddlers pay before?
26:19Ten cash per jin
26:21The peddlers definitely lowball people
26:23I'll sell them when I go into town
26:25We can earn five, six, or seven more cash per jin
26:27That way, for every hundred cicada nymphs we catch—
26:30I'll give you each 10 wen
26:31While you're catching them, gather some cicada shells, too
26:34I'll check the price of the cicada shells when I get to town, then we'll settle up
26:36Really? Don't tell my mom
26:38Ten copper coins for spending money!
26:40Liu Zhu, do you want to earn some pocket money?
26:43I have to finish the chores at home first
26:46Just get them done during the day
26:47Then come catch cicada nymphs at dusk
26:49All right
26:50Gather some cicada shells during the day
26:52At dusk, bring a bamboo basket or grass cage from home if you have one
26:54Meet here first
26:55Yes, Sister Wucuo
26:56Could you speak to my mother for me?
26:57My mother won't let me go out after dark
26:59Then join us for the daytime work next time
27:01Your mother is worried about you, too
27:02But I want to earn money with everyone
27:05So my mother won't have to work so hard
27:08Oh, I'll have a word with Aunt Meixue
27:10You come catch cicada nymphs with us
27:11What's there to worry about?
27:13Thank you, Bao Bao
27:15I'll go along, too
27:18Thank you, Sister Wucuo
27:24Shui'an, how many people are in your family?
27:26Just my mother and me
27:27When her father was repairing the dike
27:29he was swept away by the flood
27:30So her mother gave her
27:31the name Shui'an
27:33Where are we catching them?
27:34Will it be near the mountain?
27:35Do the adults in your homes know?
27:37Just in the woods by the village
27:38Nowhere near the mountain
27:39There are lots of us
27:40And all the adults know
27:41Aunt Meixue
27:42Shui'an is coming with us
27:43I promise not to let her wander off
27:45We'll go home after one shichen
27:47Don't stay in the woods too long
27:49I understand, Mom
27:53All of you, be careful
27:55Auntie, do you have an old machete you don't use?
27:56Could I borrow it?
27:59Here, take it
28:01The child labor crew is assembled
28:03Next, let's borrow a bamboo basket from the carpenter's kid
28:07This is a good spot
28:08We can see our homes
28:09And no one will come bother us
28:13This locust tree has decomposed enough to make a bed, hasn't it?
28:17It's rotten. It can't be made into furniture
28:19Wait, the locust tree is rotten
28:23Doumi worms, the larvae of the Chinese tiger moth
28:25The Compendium of Materia Medica
28:26and the Divine Farmer's Classic of Materia Medica both record them
28:28People say one worm is worth a dou of rice
28:29A dou of rice weighs more than ten jin
28:32Such a big tree
28:33and there are only 13 locust worms
28:35They should fetch a good price, right?
28:36If they're not worth much, I'll keep them to eat
28:37Pan-fry them in oil with a little salt
28:40Right, right. Sis, you play with bugs, too?
28:42You mustn't play with them
28:42My grandma says they'll rot your hands
28:45These are good bugs
28:45I have a use for them
28:46Hey
28:47I brought an extra little grass cage. You can use it
28:51Even all together, they feel light as air
28:53They may not even weigh a jin
28:55The noon sun is strong
28:56A few hours in it will dry them through
28:58We'll go to town early tomorrow morning
28:59The cicada shells take up so much space. How will we carry them tomorrow?
29:02Along with the cicada nymphs we catch tonight, into town?
29:04Can we press them down?
29:07Will they still fetch a good price if they're crushed?
29:12Don't touch what I brought back
29:14You all know
29:15that whoever makes me unhappy
29:16will make everyone unhappy
29:19Got it. Why would I take your things?
29:21It had better be that way
29:23Sis, count me in
29:24Can this make money?
29:26Didn't your father say so?
29:27It's something anyone with hands can get
29:29I'm not stopping you
29:32Auntie, where do we sell these cicada nymphs after catching them?
29:35Sell them directly to Wu Da from the neighboring village
29:37He usually carries them to town to sell early the next morning
29:40Auntie
29:40how can these cicada nymphs last until morning
29:42without molting?
29:43Use a fine-mesh bamboo basket
29:45Line it with wood ash and a thin layer of soil
29:47so they think they're still underground
29:49Bury them layer by layer
29:50One bamboo basket can hold four or five hundred
29:53All right
29:56I only caught 70 in one night
29:58How embarrassing
30:00Even eight-year-old Shui'an caught over 100
30:02Liu Zhu caught more than 170
30:08All right
30:09Remember how many each of you caught
30:10I'll split the money when I return tomorrow
30:17The village's first ox cart
30:18leaves one quarter-hour after
30:19the first rooster crows
30:21It still takes three shichen and doesn't go straight there
30:23This won't be an easy trade
30:30Hey, Xia girl
30:32you're going to town?
30:33To sell cicada nymphs?
30:35Mm-hmm
30:36All that trouble
30:37and they only sell for 13 wen a jin in town
30:38They may not even buy them
30:39Auntie
30:40do you know how much they sell for
30:41per jin in the county seat?
30:42I've never heard
30:44They should cost more there, I suppose
30:45But you have to pay an entry fee to enter the county seat
30:47All right
30:48First, we'll sell some cicada shells at the town pharmacy for travel money
30:50Then we'll head for the county seat
30:52Xia
30:53I'm numb, utterly numb
30:54My feet don't feel like mine anymore
30:59Shopkeeper, do you buy crushed cicada shells?
31:01Twelve wen per tael
31:04Crushed goods are 12 wen per tael
31:05That's two wen more than the last shop
31:07The county seat should pay even more
31:09The county seat truly is different
31:11It's much brighter
31:14Shopkeeper, how do you buy cicada shells?
31:16Three wen for each intact string
31:18Crushed goods are 18 wen per tael
31:20Shopkeeper, do you buy doumi worms?
31:23You have doumi worms?
31:24But they're alive
31:27Fine, fresh, and intact
31:29I can give you 35 wen for each one
31:31Shopkeeper
31:31if I find more doumi worms next time
31:33I'll sell them to your shop again
31:33Could you raise the price a little?
31:35You're quite the businesswoman, little girl
31:36Then I'll add one wen for each one
31:39When you find doumi worms next time
31:40remember to sell them to my shop
31:42Certainly
31:43You're generous, Shopkeeper
31:44By the way, I have some cicada nymphs to sell, too
31:47We do buy them
31:48Twelve wen per jin
31:49But if they're fresh
31:50intact, and large cicada nymphs
31:52you could ask at an inn
31:54Thank you, Shopkeeper
31:56Just how much can an inn pay for cicada nymphs?
32:01I'll give you 22 jin, bamboo basket included
32:03so I won't have to carry it again
32:05Sixteen wen per jin
32:06I'll take the bamboo basket, too
32:07That's 361 wen altogether
32:10What kind of cloth would you like, miss?
32:12One zhang of coarse hemp cloth will do
32:13And I need some needles and thread
32:17Here, 40 wen. Keep the change
32:21Fifteen wen can buy a bundle of coarse paper
32:23Papermaking has already advanced greatly
32:25The cheapest ink, plus a quires' worth of paper
32:32After paying everyone
32:33I have four qian in broken silver and 50 copper coins left
32:36Oh, and I still need to repay Liu Zhu two wen
32:40Sister Wucuo, you're back!
32:42Of course. Come with me
32:43I'm giving out your shares
32:45Come up and collect it when I call your name
32:47I caught 100
32:49Here are 14 wen
32:51Where did the other four wen come from?
32:53There was too much money from the cicada shells to count exactly
32:56so I'll divide it equally by head
32:59Next
33:00Jiang Shui'an, I recall you caught 112
33:03We'll count it as 110. Here are 15 wen
33:07Xi'er, 130: 17 wen
33:11This is yours
33:12You didn't gather cicadas during the day
33:13so that makes 17 cash in all
33:15This is what I borrowed from you
33:20We can make this much in just one day
33:21Should we keep going tomorrow?
33:23No
33:24If we catch them every day
33:24there won't be enough nymphs for us to catch
33:26I'll let you know about the rest
33:28Sister Duidui
33:28You're amazing
33:30I'll follow you forever
33:31Heh heh
33:32I used the money left from selling cicada shells
33:33to buy some pork fat
33:35Nobody go home just yet
33:37Don't let the cicada nymphs you caught today go to waste
33:39Let's fry them all and eat together
33:40We'll share the cracklings, too
33:41All right, come to my house
33:45I need to use the stove
33:50Xia Wuyou, go wash the pot
33:52Song Baobao, wash the pork fat
33:54Jiang Shui'an, rinse the cicada nymphs clean
33:56Shake off the excess water
33:57I just hauled this water
33:59What are you using the stove for?
34:01You can't just sit around, either
34:02Go fetch some water
34:06Cooking is actually pretty fun
34:09If I'd known I'd end up in another era
34:10I would've learned to cook
34:12Xia Wuyou, you handle it
34:15Why don't I do it?
34:16Okay
34:17One person can't turn them all over
34:18You two do it together
34:19Wuyou, they're fried
34:22Did you add salt?
34:23Just a little
34:24It's flavorful when you add it all
34:26Mm
34:31Finally, I've gotten to the bottom of what happened with Xia Laosan
34:33A few days ago, some steamed buns went missing from my house
34:35It was your child
34:36who tricked mine into taking them
34:37What are you talking about?
34:38You owe us an explanation today
34:39All right. Mm-hmm
34:41Mother, what are you doing here?
34:43I'll explain
34:45It's all right, it's all right
34:46Your child is a good kid
34:48I just wanted to say
34:49come to Auntie's for dinner tomorrow
34:51All right, Auntie
34:53It's so late
34:54We came to take the children home
34:57Oh, Mother
34:57Let me have a few more
34:59Take a handful with you
35:00Mm
35:03I think I'm going to get the runs
35:06I haven't had anything greasy in ages
35:07and then I ate too much fat all at once
35:09I'll go with you to the outhouse
35:11Mm
35:13You don't have to, Mom
35:15You don't need to come with me to the outhouse
35:16It's a long way from here
35:18If you fall in and scream your lungs out
35:19no one at home will hear you
35:22Then I guess you'd better come along
35:31Your dad and I plan to go tomorrow morning
35:33to sell the herbs and cicada nymphs
35:36I'll cook extra rice in the pot tomorrow morning
35:39Eat it for lunch
35:40I want to go, too
35:42The cart costs money
35:43It's a two- or three-hour walk
35:44Can you handle that?
35:46Just stay home and behave
35:48I want to see what you two are up to
35:49Wake me up tomorrow, okay?
35:51Go ahead, if you want to
35:52But let me make this clear:
35:54don't complain halfway there that you can't walk anymore
35:56No one's going to stop and wait for you
35:59Mm. What should I do today?
36:02Mending a shoulder bag means I don't have to go out
36:03And no socializing
36:04This'll do
36:04This'll do
36:10Take apart the rivet in the middle of these double-bladed scissors
36:12Then I've got two single-handed daggers
36:15Perfect for self-defense
36:19I'll sharpen them. Easier to hide than a hatchet
36:28Sister Duidui
36:28What are you trying to catch?
36:29I'll help you
36:31What do you need?
36:32M-my money was taken away
36:34Sister Duidui
36:35Could you help me earn some spending money again?
36:38Who else did you give up?
36:39Song Baobao, and...
36:42No. You only get one chance
36:45I don't help fools make money
36:49Natural, uncarved. This'll do
36:56A goose-feather quill. It came right to me
37:03Sister Duidui
37:06Is this your goose?
37:07I'd like a few goose feathers
37:09The longest, stiffest ones on the outer wings
37:11I'll give you two cash for yourself
37:14Could you pull out a couple for me?
37:15How could I take your money?
37:17I'll just pick a couple up for you
37:19Sister Duidui, could you help me earn some more?
37:22I've got the brush
37:23I've got the inkstone. I just need this board
37:27You're the eldest Xia daughter, aren't you?
37:28You can have this board for six cash
37:32That's everything
37:34The ancient world's biggest stars
37:35I'll take a wild guess: Guan Yu
37:37One civil, one martial. The biggest stars of all
37:39Let's get these two sorted out first
37:42It's this late
37:43and no one's come back yet
37:45I should've gathered more goldthread
37:47Instead, you picked all that useless stuff:
37:48dandelions and plantain
37:49You're one to talk
37:50Didn't you know you can't wash goldthread?
37:51What a loss
37:52And you blame me?
37:53You dumped all those herbs in the water together
37:54How was I supposed to pick the goldthread out?
37:57You've been at it the whole way here
37:59Can you two give it a rest?
38:01The ride cost 30 cash
38:02In the end, we had only nine cash left
38:05The blacksmith said
38:06a larger charcoal brazier would cost 200 cash
38:08The iron griddle, half-round wok, lid, and spatula...
38:10The iron griddle, half-round wok, lid, and spatula...
38:11Goldthread sells for 80 cash a pound
38:12but since it was washed, they cut the price to 55
38:15After working all day
38:16we made 233 cash
38:18Then we bought 35 cash' worth of brown rice
38:1935 cash' worth of fine white flour
38:21eggs for 20, sugar for 50
38:23and pork fat for 54 cash
38:25The molds alone will cost 320 cash
38:29And we'd need bags to package everything
38:32I don't think we can do it for less than 100 cash
38:33We can't get this business off the ground otherwise
38:37This trip to the county seat
38:38has to count. We need to see everything we need to
38:44I overslept
38:45I didn't even hear the rooster
38:47We missed the 4 a.m. ride
38:48The next one isn't until after eight
38:49We wouldn't reach the county seat until afternoon
38:53Let's walk
38:54Two hours, over ten thousand steps
38:56Even a day of shopping would be a longer walk than this
38:59County seat, here I come!
39:02You again. What have you brought this time?
39:05Twenty-three bamboo worms
39:06No need to haggle, right?
39:08Mm. Eight hundred and five cash. Here you go
39:12I saved two to take along
39:13Let's ask the restaurant what they'll pay
39:16Sir, does your restaurant buy bamboo worms?
39:20Bamboo worms?
39:21The worms found inside bamboo
39:22Fried, they taste a lot like bean grubs
39:24You mean bamboo grubs?
39:26We don't have a custom of eating those here
39:28We eat cicada nymphs, silkworm pupae, and bean grubs
39:30Why not bamboo worms?
39:31Bamboo is the emblem of the gentleman
39:33These worms are born in bamboo
39:34and grow within it
39:35They feed and dwell only in fresh, healthy bamboo
39:38They've absorbed the very essence of the bamboo
39:39Bamboo grub sounds so crude
39:41We should call them gentleman worms
39:43Who taught you to say that?
39:45Did you bring any?
39:46I need to take a look first
39:48That's not important, is it?
39:50What matters is...
39:51Innkeeper, do you think these can be sold now?
39:56Take them to the kitchen and fry them
39:57Season them with Sichuan pepper and salt, like rice grubs
39:59Oh
40:04On closer taste
40:05they truly have the fresh scent of bamboo
40:07By your reasoning
40:08they might even tempt scholars and gentlemen to try something new
40:11So, these fresh bamboo worms...
40:12how do you plan to sell them?
40:14Sixteen cash a pound for the plump ones
40:15Thirteen cash a pound for the slender ones
40:17I can't offer more
40:19We've struck a deal for the bamboo worms
40:20But I still haven't shown them what I really came to sell
40:25We've settled the sale of the worms
40:28When it comes to making money
40:29it seems you must first make people believe
40:31it's worth something
40:34Boss, half a duck, please
40:35Please wait a moment, miss
40:36I have to deliver five to the girls' academy first
40:38They ordered them yesterday
40:39I've seen the duck
40:40How could I pass up a taste?
40:44Cut half for me first
40:45Slice it and roll it up
40:48Mm
40:50Boss, where are the five roast ducks we ordered yesterday?
40:53Ah!
40:54They're all ready
40:55I meant to cheer Nian-ci up with them
40:57After what happened
40:58she probably can't eat a thing
41:00Sun Yao has gone too far
41:01Is there really nothing we can do about him?
41:03Sigh
41:03The Xue family already went to confront the Sun family
41:05But the Sun family said that since things had come to this
41:07the two families might as well join in marriage
41:09Shameless
41:11Sounds like there's a story here
41:17How did you get in?
41:19I was eating duck nearby just now
41:21I heard you have a difficult man to deal with
41:24This is a girls' academy
41:25Outsiders aren't allowed to wander in
41:26I know. I didn't come to wander around
41:30Weren't you just worrying about
41:32how to deal with that man named Sun?
41:33I'm rather good at
41:34handling people with no sense of honor
41:37You...
41:39Reason with those who are reasonable
41:41As for those who aren't
41:45don't rush to reason with them
41:48Why not hear her out?
41:50We have no other options right now anyway
41:52Then stay close to us and don't wander off
41:57This is the girls' academy
41:59It doesn't look very crowded
42:00They don't get many students to begin with
42:02There's no tuition here
42:04They even give each student a bushel of rice every month
42:05and half a bolt of cloth
42:06You study for free
42:07and they give you supplies, too
42:09Those who excel
42:10can go on to the capital's girls' academy
42:11If they truly have talent
42:12one day they might even serve
42:14as a lady official to Empress Dowager Wei
42:15With such good terms
42:16why are there so few students?
42:20Rural families can't bear to let
42:22their teenage daughters come study
42:24At that age
42:26they can already do plenty of work
42:30Nian-ci
42:31Look what we brought you!
42:32You two eat
42:33I can't eat
42:36Stop imagining the worst
42:38What else can I do?
42:40If Sun Yao really spreads those rumors
42:42how can I ever face anyone again?
42:44But it's all lies
42:45Does it matter if it's true?
42:47People will only say
42:48Look
42:49the Xue family's daughter was painted like this
42:52I will never marry him
42:54If it comes to that
42:55I'd rather die
42:57Ah!
42:58Nian-ci!
43:00Wouldn't that be a terrible waste?
43:04Sun Yao is the one who did wrong
43:05Sun Yao is the one spreading lies
43:06Sun Yao is the one forcing you
43:08Why should you be the one to die?
43:10If you truly don't care about your own life
43:12what do you have to fear from him?
43:14Don't cry yet
43:15Tell me everything from the beginning
43:17Let's see if there's a way
43:19A few days ago, during our day off, I went up the mountain with my family to escape the heat
43:22We ran into Sun Yao there
43:23I didn't even speak to him
43:25But just a few days after we returned to the city
43:27he came to my home to ask for my hand
43:28Love at first sight, he said
43:29It was plainly lust at first sight
43:30Of course, my family refused
43:32Sun Yao said right then
43:34that if I wouldn't marry him as his wife
43:35I'd have to enter the Sun household as a concubine
43:37And then?
43:38We had no grounds to challenge him
43:40Later, he had someone send this
43:43He sent word that
43:45if I still refused
43:46he'd have these pictures printed
43:48so the whole city of Jiangji would know
43:49what kind of woman I am
43:50The Xue family went to the Sun family to demand an explanation
43:53The Sun family actually said that since things had come this far
43:55the two families might as well truly become kin
43:56They're plainly using their power to bully us
44:01This face could belong to anyone
44:03If your name weren't written beside it
44:05I wouldn't know it was you
44:07Since Sun Yao is so fond of showing pictures around
44:09let everyone see one of him
44:13What are you going to draw?
44:15Sun Yao
44:16Have you seen him?
44:17Not yet
44:18I can draw the body first
44:20I'll take a look at his face later and add it
44:24Well...
44:25What is it?
44:26Nothing
44:27I was just thinking...
44:28if you really draw Sun Yao's face on it
44:31the whole city will probably hear
44:32that he's been keeping company with a group of men
44:34Exactly
44:35You mean...
44:37He used a fake picture to ruin your reputation
44:39So we'll turn everyone's attention
44:40back to the one spreading the rumors
44:42You can explain a hundred times
44:43That isn't me
44:43but people will still look at that picture
44:45But if a more outrageous picture suddenly appears
44:47one that's easier to recognize and more enticing to gossip about
44:49who'll have time to stare at yours?
44:51That's downright wicked
44:53Thank you for the compliment
44:56Send this picture to Sun Yao
44:57Yes. Let him see it himself first
45:00And tell him
45:02if he wants this to end here
45:03he needs to pay fifty taels
45:05Fifty taels?
45:08Whoever caused the trouble should pay for it
45:12Besides, the fifty taels
45:13are only meant to teach him one thing:
45:15If he can make others a laughingstock
45:17others can make him one, too
45:19What happens after he pays?
45:20The pictures you have
45:22must all be destroyed
45:24If he ever dares threaten you with something like this again
45:28we'll make sure this picture
45:29appears outside the busiest teahouse in town
45:32Now, let's divide up the tasks
45:33Didn't you say
45:34Sun Yao's whereabouts are easy enough to learn?
45:36Mm
45:37I'll take a distant look at him
45:39and get his face just right
45:41Leave it to me
45:43My family runs an inn in town
45:45I'll reserve the quietest upper room for you
45:47Mm-hmm
45:48I need to paint several pieces overnight
45:50I'll take care of the paper, ink, pigments, and engraving afterward
45:52I'll handle it
45:54Then I'll find out what's going on with Sun Yao
45:56How he'll react after he gets the paintings
45:58I'll find a way to learn
45:59All right
46:02Miss Xia
46:04thank you
46:06Don't thank me yet
46:08Thank me after he sees himself
46:11This is called...
46:12using the barbarians' techniques to subdue the barbarians
46:15The one in blue is Sun Yao
46:19Got a good look at him?
46:21That's enough
46:22It's not like you're meeting a prospective husband
46:23As long as you can make out his features
46:27What else can I do for you, miss?
46:29Bring me two more candles
46:30Right away
46:33What he cares about most isn't right or wrong—it's his pride
46:37Then we'll strike at his pride
46:41Who?
46:42Us
46:45Fifty taels
46:47That fast?
46:49At first, Sun Yao
46:50threw a huge tantrum
46:51But after his mother saw the paintings
46:53she had someone deliver the silver at once
46:56The portraits they used to threaten Nian Ci
46:58they also agreed to destroy
47:00I dug up bugs for days and only made a little over one tael
47:04Knowledge really is power
47:07What kind of knowledge is that?
47:09The knowledge of an art student
47:13Jiangji City
47:14Are there any others as annoying as Sun Yao?
47:16Just kidding
47:19Oh, I have another serious matter
47:21Go ahead
47:22Later, I'd like to commission a batch of pottery
47:24It may be a sizable order
47:26Do you know anyone
47:27with connections to a kiln?
47:29I can ask around for you
47:31I'll come into town again in five days
47:33Let's meet at the small gate of the girls' academy again then
47:35All right
47:36We'll save any news for you
47:40Fifty taels and a little more
47:43I'm suddenly so rich
47:44that I hardly know how to spend it
47:47Oh, right—a house
47:50Would you like to rent a house or buy one, miss?
47:52Buy. What kind would you like to see?
47:57An ordinary three-room brick house on a side street
47:59Preferably with a courtyard
48:00Those aren't expensive
48:01You can get one for around six taels
48:04Six taels?
48:04Yes
48:05If you'd like something roomier
48:07a small single-courtyard home costs about ten taels
48:10What about one with a garden?
48:12As it happens
48:13we have a three-courtyard residence available
48:16Nineteen rooms
48:17Nineteen rooms?
48:17It also has stables and a flower-viewing pavilion
48:19How much? A hundred taels?
48:22There's also an estate outside the city
48:23Seventy taels
48:24The residence
48:25and the estate together
48:26the owner is willing to let them go for 150 taels
48:29If it even had a hot spring
48:31it would be my dream home
48:34Do you really think I can afford 150 taels?
48:38It doesn't cost anything to look, does it?
48:40Fine, let's put the 150-tael one aside for now
48:45Take me to see the six-tael one
48:46Right away
48:52Six taels—I can actually afford that
48:58I'll buy this courtyard
49:00I can pay right now
49:03If you truly wish to buy it, miss
49:04you'll need to bring an elder from your family
49:05You'll have to go with us to the magistrate's office to sign the red deed
49:07Are you twenty yet, miss?
49:09Did you bring your household register or a copy of the Yellow Register?
49:10But you're still
49:11an unmarried woman
49:13If you're unmarried
49:14even if you're over twenty, you can't sign a red deed on your own
49:17Your parents must sign on your behalf
49:18And a broker and the village head must be present for the white deed
49:20to guarantee it on the spot
49:23No one must know about this
49:24Let's put it off for now
49:26I'm not buying it
49:30There are some houses that don't require those procedures
49:32Can you take me to see one?
49:34No, there aren't
49:35Oh, right
49:36I want to buy a donkey
49:37I can buy one, can't I?
49:40This is an ordinary farm donkey
49:41Two taels of silver. It's just over a year and a half old
49:43It can turn a millstone and carry loads
49:45This one's a sturdy, fully grown four-year-old donkey
49:47It can handle heavy work
49:48It's even-tempered and understands commands
49:50It can also travel long distances
49:51Three taels
49:52I'll take this one
49:53And help me pick out a cart, too
49:55I want the finest iron-rimmed wooden-wheeled cart
49:59Xia Wucuo!
50:01Who? Who's calling me?
50:06Why are you in such a hurry?
50:07And you ask why?
50:09You didn't come home at all last night
50:11Do you know how worried I was?
50:13You didn't even send word that you weren't coming back
50:14I was afraid something had happened to you
50:16What if you'd run into kidnappers, huh?
50:17What could possibly happen to me?
50:19Something just held me up
50:20So I stayed in town for the night
50:22Get in first
50:23I was just about to head back
50:24When did you go into town?
50:27Did you buy this donkey?
50:29I found it
50:31Then what about all this stuff?
50:41Oh
50:42I earned this donkey cart
50:43Well, you see...
50:44he compensated me with a donkey cart
50:50He's even taller than our donkey!
50:52Can I ride on it?
50:53Sister Wucuo
50:53you know how to drive a donkey cart?
50:55I want to ride too
50:56Once I unload everything from the cart
50:58I'll take you all for a ride
51:01Mom! Dad! Look, I'm riding in a cart!
51:03Yay!
51:04Sister Wucuo
51:05your donkey is so black
51:07Is his name Blackie too?
51:09Call him Somersault Cloud
51:10Hooray!
51:11Somersault Cloud! Somersault Cloud!
51:12One somersault, a hundred and eight thousand li!
51:15Hehe, we're home!
51:18All right, it's getting dark
51:20Hurry home
51:21I happen to have something to discuss with the village head
51:22Baobao, help me tell your grandpa
51:24Okay
51:28Xia family's girl
51:29what do you need me for?
51:30Village Head, on behalf of our village
51:32I've made a deal with a restaurant in town
51:34What did you say?
51:36You made a business deal for the village?
51:40Our village has plenty of bamboo groves
51:41and plenty of bamboo grubs too
51:42I've reached an agreement with the restaurant
51:44The fat ones fetch sixteen cash per jin
51:44The fat ones fetch sixteen cash per jin
51:45The smaller ones fetch thirteen cash per jin
51:46We'll start delivering the day after tomorrow
51:47We'll start delivering the day after tomorrow
51:48You're quite thoughtful, child, putting the village first
51:50But ten jin of bamboo grubs a day
51:52would be easy enough for your own family to supply
51:54Why not keep the profits for yourselves?
51:56The bamboo belongs to the whole village
51:57To catch over a hundred jin of bamboo grubs a day
51:59we'd have to cut quite a lot of bamboo
52:00I'm afraid the villagers might object
52:02Wait. Where would over a hundred jin come from?
52:06Hmm? Didn't I say?
52:07At present
52:08I've only signed a supply contract with one restaurant
52:10We can still visit others and sign more
52:12If this really works out
52:13then it won't be just a matter of 150 cash
52:17Don't get ahead of yourself
52:18This matter...
52:18I need to discuss it with everyone
52:20We need to work out a proper arrangement
52:22Mm-hmm
52:22Since you've been entrusted with it
52:23naturally, you should make the arrangements
52:26By the way, Village Chief
52:27on the fourth day of the trial period
52:28I'll sign contracts with more restaurants and taverns
52:31You really do think far ahead, girl
52:34Business is business
52:35It'll be too late if we wait for others to snatch it up
52:38If I can't buy a house in town
52:40then getting one in the village should be fine, right?
52:42Three earthen-and-wood rooms with a courtyard
52:44Make it like the one I failed to buy
52:48I've had someone calculate it
52:49To build a place like that in the countryside
52:51the materials would only cost three taels and five mace
52:53I'm bringing the village
52:53a business worth at least a hundred taels
52:55It's not too much to ask for a house like that in return, is it?
52:58Sis
52:59Sis, what are you thinking about? We're home
53:03Did you touch my things?
53:05See for yourself. We didn't touch anything
53:07Oh
53:08Keep it that way
53:11Hey, where are my chicks?
53:13I moved the chicks out for you first
53:15And gave them something to eat
53:16You bought so many chickens, but no one has time to raise them
53:18Your father and I are busy gathering herbs to earn money
53:20Once we start setting up our stall, no one will have time to look after them
53:25Let him feed the chickens and the donkey
53:27It's not like the sky is falling, is it?
53:32Fine, I'll feed them
53:33But first, tell me what chickens eat
53:36And what does the donkey eat?
53:37Tomorrow, some people from the village are going to the bamboo grove to gather bamboo grubs
53:39Go with them
53:40Bring back the leftover small or damaged ones to feed the chickens
53:44The donkey can eat grass. Coarser grass is fine
53:46Chop the chickens' feed into smaller pieces, and pick tender grass
53:48Oh
53:52Wucuo
53:53Didn't they say yesterday
53:54that you were hit by someone's carriage?
53:55You weren't hurt, were you?
53:59Besides compensating you with this donkey cart
54:01how much did that person pay for your medical expenses?
54:04Enough. Save up for a few more days, and we'll have money
54:07Why are you always eyeing Wucuo's money?
54:09I'm not coveting her money
54:11I only want to borrow a little
54:12Say no more
54:14I said borrow
54:15Once we get the business going
54:17and make money, we'll pay her back right away. Isn't that enough?
54:20Hey, let's go
54:22It's not like I won't pay it back
54:25He wants to borrow your money again
54:26Mm-hmm, so remember this:
54:29if you haven't asked me first
54:31don't touch my things. I understand
54:34All right
54:34Let's keep them alive first
54:39Get up and feed the chickens
54:43How much for a wooden bed?
54:45Xia Daya!
54:46Come on, I happen to have a piece of pinewood
54:48Tell me what kind of bed you want
54:50Just call me Wucuo
54:51Nothing fancy. Simple is fine
54:53A double bed will do
54:54All right, Wucuo
54:55Seven hundred cash. It'll be ready in three days
54:57I'll deliver it to your home then
54:59I also need to build a donkey shelter
55:00As soon as possible. Yes, yes
55:01It has to be soon. The donkey can't wait two days, can it?
55:04I'll finish it for you in two days
55:05All right, thank you
55:06A fifty-percent deposit, right?
55:08Here you go
55:10How much is this?
55:15This barren slope is perfect for raising chickens in separate sections
55:19None of the six major villages has such a ready-made piece of good land
55:21Heh heh heh
55:24Little sister
55:25I'm from Liuda Village next door
55:26I'd like to ask whether your village has chicks for sale
55:29Sister, are you buying some?
55:30How many do you want?
55:31I know whose family has chicks
55:34About three thousand
55:37Sister, what do you need so many chicks for?
55:39To raise them
55:40Once they're grown
55:41they'll lay lots and lots of eggs every day
55:43Every child in the village
55:44can eat two eggs a day
55:46They couldn't finish them even if they ate until they were sick of them
55:47Everyone would be crying that they don't want eggs anymore
55:49They wouldn't be able to eat another bite
55:50Then we'd have no choice but to take the eggs
55:52we can't finish and sell them elsewhere
55:54Oh, right
55:55My name is Song Baobao
55:56My grandfather is the village chief
55:59Your workmanship is decent
55:59Can I place an order?
56:01I need a new stone mill
56:03I'll pick it up myself
56:04Also
56:04I want a stone trough custom-made for feeding the donkey
56:06I don't like feeding dry and wet feed mixed together
56:08Its mouth gets dirty. Do you have a two-compartment trough?
56:10I can make one, but it'll cost an extra fifty cash
56:12If you order both, it'll take nine days
56:14You need to pay a thirty-percent deposit
56:16I'm ordering two items from you at once
56:18That saves you the trouble of gathering materials twice, doesn't it?
56:19Give me a better price
56:21Since you're ordering two items
56:22I'll knock fifty cash off for you
56:23I can't lower it any more
56:24This is all hard, labor-intensive work
56:26Hey
56:27Hey, four hundred and twenty cash
56:29That's my break-even price
56:30Any lower, and you can ask someone else
56:32Whether you want me to make it is up to you
56:33All right, this will do
56:34I'll come again next time
56:36By the way, for raising chickens
56:38how much are your water troughs and feed troughs?
56:40If I order enough water troughs and feed troughs
56:42for more than three thousand chickens at once
56:43how long will it take?
56:45Th-three thousand? Let me calculate it
56:47Are several families ordering together?
56:49It's not by household
56:50The whole village is fencing off a plot to raise them together
56:52How about this? I'll go back and ask exactly how many we need first
56:55I'll come back next time
56:57Dad, someone from the next village came to buy chicks
56:59Should we sell them some of ours?
57:03He said he's from Village Chief Song's family in the next village
57:05It sounds like he wants three thousand
57:08What? Why would he raise that many chickens?
57:11Chickie, tell me everything carefully
57:15That has to be nonsense, right?
57:16So many chickens...
57:17How could they possibly raise them all?
57:18Just feeding them grain would cost several hundred cash a day, wouldn't it?
57:20The more I think about it, the more uneasy I feel
57:21No, I need to go find the village chief
57:26Chickie's father
57:28you really do believe every rumor you hear
57:30You need to change that habit
57:32Village Chief
57:33think about it. Who in our village doesn't keep a few chickens?
57:35How many people rely on selling eggs for pocket money?
57:38All right, all right. Tomorrow I'll have someone look into it
57:40We'll find out what Old Song is really up to, all right?
57:47Shitou, what brings you here?
57:50Uncle Wangcai, people from the next village say they want
57:52the whole village to fence off land and raise chickens together
57:54They want to order troughs for more than three thousand chickens
57:56When the time comes, they want the village to arrange
57:58a few strong young men to help me haul stone
58:02Old Song, you're really doing this?
58:05That old fox is cunning indeed
58:09The village chief sent you?
58:11Yes
58:11The village chief says ten jin of bamboo grubs will be ready tomorrow
58:13He wants you to lead the way tomorrow morning
58:15to hand them over to the restaurant
58:17All right
58:18I'll go tomorrow morning
58:19Right, Sis
58:20The restaurant owner wants to increase the order
58:23Increase it by how much?
58:24Raise it to twenty-five jin on the third day
58:25On the fourth day, raise it straight to forty jin
58:29Junzichong's marketing worked
58:32It worked
58:34That's right, sis
58:34You're amazing
58:41What are they looking at?
58:43Uh...
58:43I don't know, sir
58:45Heh heh
58:47Hahaha!
58:54What's wrong?
58:54Why is everyone acting like they've seen a ghost?
58:56Uh...
58:57It's nothing
59:01It really does look like you
59:02Look like what?
59:05So juicy indeed
59:06Hahaha!
59:09What do you mean by that?
59:11Hahaha!
59:12It really is Young Master Sun
59:14The one in blue
59:20What on earth happened?
59:23What exactly are you all laughing at?
59:25What's juicy?
59:26Hahaha, Brother Sun
59:28You really don't know anything, do you?
59:33Starting a couple of days ago
59:34the brothels and taverns in town
59:36suddenly began circulating a set of your portraits
59:38They look exactly like you
59:41Exactly like me? What portraits?
59:43There's more than one
59:44It's a whole set
59:45Bring them here
59:46Don't get worked up
59:47Bring them for me to see
59:51They're fake
59:53They're all fake
59:57How many people have seen them?
59:59Will everyone think of those whenever they see me?
1:00:02Young Master, hurry and leave
1:00:06Mother, what's wrong with you?
1:00:09They're all fake
1:00:10They're all staring
1:00:13Yao'er
1:00:14Are these really all fake?
1:00:16Mother, you believe them too?
1:00:18Madam, Young Master
1:00:19the master wants Young Master to go to the main hall at once
1:00:23I don't have a son as disgraceful as you
1:00:25Father, those were just drawings made up by others
1:00:28Does it matter whether they made them up?
1:00:31The whole of Jiangji City is talking about you now
1:00:33You've even dragged our family's business into this mess
1:00:37The business?
1:00:37Today, one of our competitors
1:00:39said in front of an entire table of people
1:00:40The Sun family is in such a state
1:00:43Who knows what they've put in their wine?
1:00:45How can they say something so vile?
1:00:47That's slander. None of it is true
1:00:51Now you know what it feels like
1:00:53to be slandered
1:00:56When you forced Miss Xue
1:00:58why didn't you think of this day?
1:00:59Father, it was all the Xue family—
1:01:01Help me destroy all those portraits
1:01:03Then deal with the Xue family
1:01:04Enough!
1:01:04Do you think the Sun family can control all of Jiangji County?
1:01:07The Xue family has deep roots too
1:01:09Because of you
1:01:10am I supposed to fight the Xue family to the bitter end?
1:01:13Tomorrow, I'll send you to the country estate
1:01:15What?
1:01:17We'll see when this blows over
1:01:18Then we'll talk
1:01:21Father, the estate is too far away
1:01:23No one will be there to look after him
1:01:25Let him stay at home
1:01:26I'll keep a close eye on him
1:01:27I won't go out. I'll stay home
1:01:29I'll never go out again. Isn't that enough?
1:01:30You're confined to the house. Without my permission, you are not to set foot outside
1:01:34Do you hear me?
1:01:35I hear you
1:01:38It's me
1:01:42You asked me to come here. What exactly are we waiting for?
1:01:44They're here! I brought them!
1:01:47Miss Xia
1:01:47You're here
1:01:49Who is this?
1:01:50Classmate Deng
1:01:51She's a benefactor of mine
1:01:53She needs to find a kiln for something
1:01:54You're the only person I could think of
1:01:56I sincerely hope you can help her
1:01:58My Xue family will cover all the costs
1:02:00Please wait a moment
1:02:01Which kiln does her family own?
1:02:03The Ji Kiln
1:02:04It used to be known as the finest kiln in the area
1:02:07May I ask
1:02:08why isn't it the finest anymore?
1:02:11Tongshun Kiln had the advantage of being near the docks
1:02:13With a lower bid
1:02:14it won the contract for city bricks
1:02:15Then it used that contract to expand its scale
1:02:18Then Xue Nianci was wrong
1:02:20What?
1:02:21It's not that you're helping me
1:02:22It's that I may be able to help you
1:02:28Is that all?
1:02:30Can you make the decision?
1:02:31If not
1:02:32I need to meet someone who can
1:02:34before I show you the rest
1:02:36Making ceramic figurines solely for burial goods
1:02:37is far too narrow-minded
1:02:39You should discuss that properly with my mother
1:02:40That is precisely my intention
1:02:41Please introduce me
1:02:43Deng Yunhe takes her mother's surname
1:02:45The Ji Kiln is part of her mother's family estate
1:02:46Her father married into the Deng family
1:02:51This young lady wants to discuss a business deal with our family
1:02:54What business do you want to discuss?
1:02:56First, I'd like to see your kiln
1:02:57I need to see how skilled you are at making painted ceramic figurines
1:02:59before deciding whether to discuss this business
1:03:02All right, Yunhe
1:03:03Bring out the set of miniature Eight Immortals figurines
1:03:05from your room for this young lady to see
1:03:09The pigments and glaze are both exquisite
1:03:11They're even more striking than
1:03:12the weathered figurines in a museum
1:03:15Turn my paintings of Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang
1:03:17Zhao Yun, and the others into miniature ceramic figurines
1:03:19Sell them in teahouses where Three Kingdoms storytellers perform
1:03:21What do you think, Madam Deng?
1:03:22Would anyone want to buy them?
1:03:26This is Guan Yu?
1:03:28How amazing. When I was little, I imagined
1:03:30Guan Yu didn't look like this
1:03:32But after seeing your painting
1:03:33Guan Yu seems as though he should look exactly like this
1:03:35Did you draw this yourself?
1:03:37Which master did you study under?
1:03:38I didn't study under anyone
1:03:39I was born knowing how
1:03:40Heaven gave me this gift
1:03:42You truly are exceptionally gifted
1:03:43If you made several figurines like these
1:03:44and I saw them
1:03:45I'd definitely want to buy them
1:03:46For a figurine like this
1:03:48how many wen would you charge?
1:03:52For a finely crafted, larger version
1:03:53it should be priced at 500 wen
1:03:55But people who want one may not be willing to spend that much
1:03:57Price it at 150 wen
1:03:59We'd lose money that way
1:04:00If we sell them for only 150 wen
1:04:01we can't make them too elaborate
1:04:03We'll order a batch
1:04:04of identical wooden boxes
1:04:06I call these wooden boxes blind boxes
1:04:08Before opening one, you
1:04:09have no idea what's inside
1:04:11Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang
1:04:12and these famous historical figures
1:04:14take longer to make and require finer craftsmanship
1:04:16They're worth 300 to 500 wen
1:04:17and will be rare figurines
1:04:19Put twenty of them in every hundred wooden boxes
1:04:21Put terracotta soldiers in the rest
1:04:23They're worth 80 to 100 wen
1:04:24If you're lucky
1:04:26you can get something worth 500 wen for 150 wen
1:04:28You might even get a rare ceramic figurine worth a tael of silver
1:04:31Even if you're unlucky, you won't lose too much
1:04:32At least you'll still get a terracotta soldier
1:04:34Do you think people would
1:04:35want to buy one and try their luck?
1:04:37This business
1:04:38will Madam Deng do it?
1:04:39If not
1:04:40I'll go discuss it with Tongshun Kiln
1:04:42There can also be horses and weapons
1:04:43They can be made into separate blind boxes as well
1:04:45Sixty or seventy cash cheaper
1:04:47Anyone who pulls a rare character
1:04:49will want to get that rare
1:04:50character an exclusive horse and weapon
1:04:52If they can't pull
1:04:53their Guan Yu
1:04:54they can only ride an ordinary general's horse
1:04:55and use an ordinary general's weapon
1:04:57When facing someone wielding the Green Dragon Crescent Blade
1:04:59and riding Red Hare as Guan Yu
1:05:01wouldn't they feel a little inferior?
1:05:02Wouldn't they feel they had wronged their own Guan Yu?
1:05:04Wouldn't they work hard to draw one?
1:05:07Make them, box them up, and mix them together
1:05:09What if someone bought a hundred wooden boxes
1:05:11and every one had Terracotta Warriors inside?
1:05:16Make them
1:05:17I'll call all the master craftsmen back
1:05:18We'll start making the molds
1:05:20Fine molds take eighteen days to make
1:05:22We can have the first batch ready for Mid-Autumn Festival in two months
1:05:24Five hundred figurines? "Terracotta warriors" will only make people think of burial objects
1:05:27We can rename them Three Kingdoms clay figures or clay dolls
1:05:30And though Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang
1:05:31are rare characters, one in ten
1:05:33when we actually make them
1:05:34we can make fewer of them
1:05:36For the lord figurines
1:05:36make it one in a hundred
1:05:39I understand, I understand
1:05:42A design usually costs three taels
1:05:44Miss, these designs are excellent
1:05:45Whether this business works out or not
1:05:46I'll pay you six taels for each character design
1:05:49The soldier dolls are still three taels each
1:05:52Shopkeeper, you aren't sincere
1:05:53You only discuss the designs, not the idea
1:05:55My blind-box idea—
1:05:56do you think I'm giving it to you for free?
1:05:59Ten taels is fine
1:06:00But at that price
1:06:01I can't sell these designs only to your shop
1:06:03If I sell them to more shops, I can earn more
1:06:05After all, everyone wants to earn more
1:06:07Hey
1:06:08Miss, don't rush. Let's keep talking
1:06:09Then tell me—what price do you have in mind?
1:06:12You and I both know
1:06:13this is a long-term business
1:06:15Whether blind boxes succeed or not
1:06:17the key lies in the character designs
1:06:18What I want is a share of the profits
1:06:19Thirty percent
1:06:20Not a fixed price
1:06:23Miss, think it over first
1:06:25If you only sell the designs, plus those ten drawings in ten days
1:06:27you'll receive 120 taels of silver
1:06:29And you won't need to worry about whether the blind boxes sell well
1:06:31But if we're talking profit-sharing
1:06:33I truly can't give you thirty percent
1:06:34From the town onward, finding people to sell them
1:06:36will all be our responsibility
1:06:37The absolute most I can give you is twenty percent of the profit
1:06:41Hey
1:06:41Besides, there aren't many people in Jiangyi County who can afford this
1:06:44We might not even sell 3,000
1:06:46Who says we can only sell in Jiangyi County?
1:06:50Ever since my mother took over the kiln workshop
1:06:52she hasn't gotten any business from outside the area
1:06:54For a moment, I didn't think beyond that
1:06:56She truly wants to do this business with you
1:06:59Miss, don't be angry
1:07:00My fault, my fault
1:07:01I was narrow-minded
1:07:02How about this: I'll give you a twenty-percent share from every batch
1:07:05plus a guaranteed 500 cash, regardless of profit or loss
1:07:08Deal?
1:07:10Let's sign an agreement
1:07:12I'm not yet twenty
1:07:13It won't be recognized by the authorities
1:07:15We can only sign a private contract for now
1:07:16Mm
1:07:17Then let's draw up a private contract first
1:07:18We'll ask Li Zheng to stand surety
1:07:19We can supplement it with an official contract later
1:07:24All right, everyone, quiet down
1:07:26Listen—I have good news
1:07:27Our village is about to gain a major new source of income
1:07:31Uncle, stop keeping us in suspense
1:07:32Just tell us what it is
1:07:33Exactly, we take it seriously. Hurry up and tell us
1:07:36Ahem
1:07:38See that bamboo grove behind our village?
1:07:40Those bugs inside the bamboo—
1:07:42we never thought much of them before
1:07:44But the eldest Xia girl came up with an idea:
1:07:46sell them to the restaurants and taverns in the county seat
1:07:49And guess what?
1:07:50The town
1:07:51now wants us to deliver 120 jin every day
1:07:53The large ones fetch sixteen cash per jin
1:07:55and the smaller ones, thirteen
1:07:56We can earn at least one and a half taels a day
1:07:58This business can last through early August
1:08:01Work out for yourselves how much we'll make
1:08:03Seventy or eighty... Then wouldn't every household
1:08:05get more than a tael of silver?
1:08:07Yes, yes, yes
1:08:08Hard to say
1:08:09The first place to order bamboo grubs
1:08:11only ordered ten jin a day at first
1:08:13In just three or four days, they raised it to forty jin
1:08:17Mm
1:08:18Even the fortune-teller said he was blessed with wealth
1:08:20Why didn't you let even a word slip to us?
1:08:22If you'd let even a little slip
1:08:23we'd have earned several taels by now
1:08:26So how exactly will this money be earned and divided?
1:08:29Quiet down
1:08:31The village elders and I have discussed it
1:08:33We must run this business properly
1:08:34but we can't neglect the work in the fields
1:08:36Each household will send one person every day
1:08:37Who goes is for each family to decide
1:08:39Even older children twelve and above can do the work
1:08:41But my family has many people
1:08:42Can we send a few more instead of just one?
1:08:44The others have nothing to do at home anyway
1:08:45That won't do
1:08:46This is work for the whole village
1:08:48It's best if everyone gets to earn something
1:08:49Sending so many from your family—are you trying to grab all the money?
1:08:51Right
1:08:51You—
1:08:52one person means one person
1:08:54If demand grows, we'll talk then
1:08:55We're not the only village with bamboo groves
1:08:58What's most important now
1:08:59is to get the money
1:09:01before others find out
1:09:02Understand?
1:09:05Village Chief
1:09:06Mm?
1:09:06My family won't send anyone
1:09:07and we won't take part in the final distribution either
1:09:09What's wrong? Did your parents say
1:09:11they're unhappy that each household can only send one person?
1:09:13That's not the issue
1:09:15When I sold the bamboo grubs
1:09:16I never intended to profit from it
1:09:19But you negotiated this whole deal
1:09:20If you don't take a share
1:09:21won't you get nothing at all?
1:09:24Here's the thing
1:09:25I want to build a few rooms
1:09:27but I don't know much about it
1:09:28Village Chief, what do you think?
1:09:30All right. Once we've made deliveries for this month
1:09:32and everyone has seen the money
1:09:32I'll help arrange it for you
1:09:34Then when you make the schedule
1:09:35don't put my family on it
1:09:36If my parents or younger brother ask
1:09:38why my family isn't included
1:09:39just say it was my decision
1:09:40They'll understand
1:09:42Then you can keep digging coptis as usual
1:09:44and I'll catch bamboo grubs with the village
1:09:46That way, neither task is delayed
1:09:47Fine. Bamboo grubs are much easier to find than coptis
1:09:50And they don't need drying
1:09:51or a trip to the county seat by ox cart to sell them
1:09:53You've got it all planned out nicely
1:09:55Just wait until the order comes out
1:09:56Then you'll learn what it means to celebrate too soon
1:10:03You've already drawn Lü Bu
1:10:04If you don't draw Diao Chan's backward glance and smile
1:10:06don't expect to sleep tonight
1:10:07I think I know what you're planning
1:10:10Are you trying to
1:10:10make money drawing a Romance of the Three Kingdoms comic?
1:10:13What, you want to add a few strokes too?
1:10:15Uh, haha
1:10:16I could draw a few with Shangguan Wan'er
1:10:18Play Lu Bu in the clash lane once more
1:10:20Come to think of it
1:10:21King's Glory seems to be my only skill
1:10:23Why didn't I master a lucrative craft?
1:10:27Da
1:10:27Wucuo
1:10:28Is it just the two of you at home?
1:10:31What brings you here?
1:10:31Shui'an and I picked some wild raspberries
1:10:33We happened to pass by your house
1:10:35and Shui'an wanted to share some with you
1:10:37Sister Duidui, this is for you
1:10:38I picked plenty
1:10:39They are sweet and delicious
1:10:42Go slice a watermelon
1:10:44Come in and sit for a while
1:10:46Truth be told
1:10:47as a widowed mother and child
1:10:48we have meager earnings
1:10:49With the income from bamboo grubs
1:10:51this winter will be far easier
1:10:52We have little of worth to offer in thanks
1:10:54I pray you do not look down upon it
1:10:56We haven't even made the money yet
1:10:58Why haste to offer thanks?
1:11:00We did earn some before
1:11:01You helped Shui'an make sixteen copper coins
1:11:03That is why we put our faith in you
1:11:05So sweet, crisp, and refreshing
1:11:07Mother, have a taste
1:11:09Eat up
1:11:10Oh, your clothes are stained
1:11:13Hold it away while eating
1:11:14Did Aunt Meixue
1:11:15tailor Shui'an's clothes herself?
1:11:17I have a bolt of cloth
1:11:18and wish to have two sets of garments made
1:11:20I happened to lack a tailor
1:11:21Do you have some spare time?
1:11:22I can pay wages or offer cloth as compensation
1:11:25If you are too occupied
1:11:26I shall seek another
1:11:32Well, Wucuo, regarding the robe you wear—
1:11:34should you discard it when changing
1:11:35could you bestow it upon me?
1:11:38Village Head, all of Liuda Village is gathering bugs
1:11:40They head to the bamboo grove every day like clockwork
1:11:41gathering over a hundred catties in total
1:11:43This defies reason
1:11:46Chickens must feed on bugs
1:11:48to thrive and lay abundant eggs
1:11:50Yet gathering so many in a single day—
1:11:52how could a mere few households afford that feed?
1:11:54If Song Duoliang expands his enterprise
1:11:56he will look down his nose at us during gatherings
1:11:59We are neighboring villages
1:12:01Why should Liuda Village prosper
1:12:03while our Pinghua Village cannot?
1:12:05We cannot allow them sole dominance
1:12:07Our village must undertake this as well
1:12:08Convene a meeting at once
1:12:10I second this wholeheartedly
1:12:12Though if everyone raises chickens
1:12:13my family loses its advantage
1:12:14we still cannot let the neighbor monopolize it
1:12:16Here is my thought:
1:12:17Let the village treasury advance the funds
1:12:19Use the ancestral land funds to purchase chicks
1:12:20and raise them collectively for now
1:12:22The ancestral land shall also provide the feed
1:12:23After counting the first year's broods
1:12:25the newly hatched chicks
1:12:26shall be allotted based on each household's capacity
1:12:28However many you take
1:12:29the same number must later be returned
1:12:31Who bears the loss if a plague strikes?
1:12:33I object
1:12:34The ancestral funds are reserved for worship rites
1:12:36they cannot be squandered lightly
1:12:38How did Liuda Village manage
1:12:39to raise chickens across their entire village?
1:12:41How did they overcome such troubles?
1:12:45Once the hens begin laying
1:12:46use the profits from the early eggs
1:12:48to replenish the funds
1:12:49That will silence concerns regarding ancestral rites
1:12:51The rest can wait until the flock is raised
1:12:54Pinghua Village's poultry enterprise
1:12:55shall thus be established
1:12:56Raising so many chickens all of a sudden
1:12:59requires the entire Pinghua Village's support
1:13:01Could they know Liuda Village sells bamboo grubs
1:13:04and intend to rival us?
1:13:06Though bamboo grubs bring easy silver
1:13:08it remains a seasonal trade
1:13:10After these six weeks, we must wait until next year
1:13:13Yet poultry farming endures
1:13:15Eggs can be sold year-round
1:13:17and chicken meat fetches a meat's price
1:13:19Sixty copper coins a bird
1:13:20Could it be that those of Pinghua Village
1:13:22discovered our grub trade
1:13:23and devised chicken farming as a pretext?
1:13:25Then they can openly compete for bamboo grubs
1:13:28claiming they are feed for poultry
1:13:30After all, our bamboo grove borders another village
1:13:33Grandfather, why the sudden ire?
1:13:35Fret not, I am not vexed with you
1:13:37Neighboring Pinghua Village plans to raise a vast flock
1:13:39likely to seize bamboo grubs for feed
1:13:41With more chickens in their coops
1:13:42more eggs will flood the market
1:13:43When your grandmother sells our spare eggs
1:13:46they might not even fetch two coppers apiece
1:13:49Then we shall raise them too
1:13:50better than they do
1:13:51and yield far more eggs. Wouldn't that suffice?
1:13:53Sigh, it is hardly that simple
1:13:56Sister Duidui mentioned when returning by cart:
1:13:58To raise chickens, one must keep at least three thousand
1:14:01Three thousand?
1:14:02Did that girl, Xia Wucuo, truly say so?
1:14:05Sister Duidui said
1:14:06bamboo shelters must be built for the chicks
1:14:08wrapped inside and out with thick straw
1:14:10In cold weather, light charcoal braziers
1:14:11to keep the shed warm
1:14:12as cozy as under a hen's breast
1:14:14Feed must be ground into fine flour
1:14:16grain alone will not suffice
1:14:17Insects are essential
1:14:18for them to grow robust
1:14:20Their quarters must be kept pristine
1:14:22burning mugwort every seven days
1:14:23dusting with wood ash and quicklime
1:14:25Manure must be composted in distant pits
1:14:27which will also breed bugs to feed the flock
1:14:30Xia Wucuo...
1:14:31Securing the bamboo grub trade for the village
1:14:33proved her remarkable capability
1:14:35Yet where did such well-reasoned lore come from?
1:14:37How could a maiden of barely sixteen master this?
1:14:41Of pressing concern:
1:14:42whether this method holds true or false
1:14:44we must consult the Xia family
1:14:47Wuyou
1:14:47where are your parents and your sister?
1:14:48My parents went up the mountain
1:14:50As for my sister
1:14:50she seems to have gone
1:14:51to the neighboring village for a millstone and stone trough
1:14:53Gone to the neighboring village?
1:14:54Then I must proceed with the original plan
1:14:56and consult the elder village heads first
1:14:59Whoa!
1:15:00Does your family keep chickens too?
1:15:01When last I came
1:15:02it seemed your village
1:15:03didn't have so many poultry keepers
1:15:05Which village are you from?
1:15:06What business brings you to ours?
1:15:07Just neighboring Liuda Village
1:15:09I came to fetch wares from the stonemason
1:15:11Liuda Village...
1:15:12They initiated communal poultry farming
1:15:14and our village merely followed suit
1:15:15Confronted face-to-face
1:15:17it feels like being caught poaching their trade
1:15:19If you have no business
1:15:19be on your way
1:15:21Yet does your village simply raise them like this—
1:15:22a scattered few per household?
1:15:24Fair enough
1:15:25Your village, unlike ours
1:15:26never purchased from Yunpu County's hatchery
1:15:28the secret art of raising thousands of fowls
1:15:29It would be a miracle if your flock flourished
1:15:31Our village head truly possesses foresight
1:15:33Secret hatchery lore?
1:15:36From her words, our current way
1:15:37of separate household rearing is flawed
1:15:39unfit to raise a thriving flock
1:15:43What?
1:15:44Old Song's granddaughter came by again?
1:15:46What did she say?
1:15:47Liuda Village...
1:15:47They bought a secret chicken-raising method from the chicken farm in Yunpu County
1:15:50I kind of believe that
1:15:52What kind of secret method is it, exactly?
1:15:55No, I can't show my face myself
1:15:57Go find children from the other families
1:15:59Bring them some extra treats
1:15:59Have them go together and fish for information
1:16:03Big sis, how do you raise chickens in your village?
1:16:06Here to pry again, are you?
1:16:08Fine. I was just worried no one would pass the word along
1:16:10Silly. Every household raises them
1:16:11Then every household has to send someone
1:16:12to prepare feed, water them, and clean the coops
1:16:14What a waste of manpower
1:16:15All the village's chickens are raised together
1:16:17And they're carefully tended, too
1:16:19Speaking of feed
1:16:20we have to mention the chicken farm's secret method
1:16:21I'll tell you a secret
1:16:22But don't tell anyone else
1:16:24The secret method says
1:16:25this is the mix for every thirty chickens:
1:16:27six bowls of millet
1:16:28two bowls of soybean meal
1:16:29one and a half bowls of insects
1:16:30and half a bowl of crushed shells and snail shells
1:16:36How much they can remember
1:16:37and how much their village chief believes
1:16:39is up to them
1:16:41Let's go
1:16:44Grandpa Wangcai
1:16:45That big sister said chickens should be raised together
1:16:47She also said thirty chickens need six bowls of millet
1:16:50two bowls of soybean meal
1:16:50one and a half bowls of insects
1:16:52and half a bowl of crushed shells and snail shells
1:16:54It sounds very well thought out
1:16:56It really does sound like the chicken farm's secret recipe
1:17:00Village Chief
1:17:01I asked around about Pinghua Village's secret method for raising chickens
1:17:04The more I heard, the more familiar it sounded
1:17:05Those methods your granddaughter mentioned...
1:17:07But the women who married here from Pinghua Village said
1:17:09the people of Pinghua Village learned this from our
1:17:10six villages
1:17:14Oh, right. Some people said it was your little
1:17:16granddaughter who, when she went to Pinghua Village
1:17:17told it to the village children
1:17:19How could Baobao have done that?
1:17:21Baobao has never left the village alone
1:17:23That's right
1:17:26Don't you have a donkey cart at home?
1:17:27You haven't been going into town lately
1:17:28Lend it to us for now
1:17:31Heh, they brought this right to my doorstep
1:17:34What will it take
1:17:35for you to lend me your donkey cart?
1:17:37It won't be for long
1:17:38Once we've made money for a few days
1:17:39we'll buy our own donkey cart
1:17:40Then we won't need yours anymore, all right?
1:17:42How about we rent it? We'll need one anyway
1:17:44Why not let you earn this money?
1:17:47I want one-third of your daily profit
1:17:50That's too much, isn't it?
1:17:52You're right. You reminded me
1:17:53that there's another way I can make money
1:17:55I can sell the recipe for egg tarts
1:17:57to restaurants, taverns, and street vendors
1:17:59That should bring in some money, too
1:18:00Hmm, how much should I sell it for?
1:18:02I'll think about it. Let's go into town tomorrow and ask around
1:18:05That girl really has us by the throat now
1:18:10Other people's donkey carts haul goods
1:18:12and charge sixty or seventy coppers for a round trip of over thirty li
1:18:15Whether you can even make that much
1:18:16isn't certain yet
1:18:18If it's too much, rent one from someone else
1:18:20Fine, I'll rent it
1:18:22One-third
1:18:23That girl opens her mouth and takes thirty percent
1:18:26It hurts worse than being carved up
1:18:28If we don't rent it
1:18:29she really might sell the recipe
1:18:31There's nothing that girl wouldn't do
1:18:33Wuyou, bring over that last stack
1:18:35Dawn is almost here
1:18:39Hyah!
1:18:41Sis
1:18:42Let me give it a try
1:18:43I'll drive for you just for today
1:18:45Tomorrow, you can try going into town yourselves
1:18:48Today
1:18:49we're just seeing how much egg tarts can sell for
1:18:51so we have an idea
1:18:52Who wants to accompany them into town to run a stall every day?
1:18:56Oh
1:18:58Whichever has fewer, pour in a little less
1:19:00I provide the recipe and the cart
1:19:02and you still expect me to do the work?
1:19:03Dream on
1:19:07Come take a look! Come have a look!
1:19:08Fresh-baked flaky egg tarts!
1:19:10Crisp crust, soft filling
1:19:11one bite and it's full of rich, toasty flavor!
1:19:13Don't miss out as you pass by!
1:19:17What is this of yours?
1:19:18How much does it cost?
1:19:19Madam, you have an excellent eye
1:19:20This is
1:19:21a new treat our family came up with
1:19:22You can't buy it anywhere else yet
1:19:24Just five coppers each
1:19:25Hiss
1:19:26Such a tiny little thing
1:19:27and you're charging five coppers?
1:19:28Don't let its size fool you
1:19:29The ingredients are expensive
1:19:30It uses only the finest eggs, milk, sugar, and oil
1:19:32If you don't believe me, buy one and have a taste
1:19:36How are five coppers expensive?
1:19:37Even a bowl of plain noodles costs three coppers
1:19:39With all those eggs, milk, lard, and
1:19:41sugar, isn't it worth five coppers?
1:19:43Don't treat everyone like fools
1:19:44People care about value for money, too
1:19:46This egg tart is only a little bigger than an egg
1:19:49It won't even fill your stomach
1:19:51How about four coppers instead?
1:19:53Let's keep selling and see
1:19:54We only make one copper on each one
1:19:55How long will it take to earn back our costs?
1:19:59If we stubbornly hold at five coppers
1:20:00this stall won't last through today
1:20:02Then our egg tarts
1:20:04should sell for four coppers each
1:20:07Flaky egg tarts for sale!
1:20:08An exclusive secret recipe!
1:20:09Four coppers each!
1:20:11Special opening-day prices!
1:20:13One egg tart for four coppers
1:20:15four egg tarts for fifteen coppers!
1:20:16We're selling at a loss!
1:20:17Give me one to try
1:20:19I'll take four, wrapped up
1:20:22This is all we can produce in a day
1:20:27The designs and molds have already been made
1:20:29We've fired a batch, too
1:20:31Firing them is quick
1:20:32but those plain unfired pieces are still far from being ready to sell
1:20:34It looks fast, doesn't it?
1:20:35But coloring is actually the most costly and time-consuming part
1:20:38The terracotta warriors are rougher
1:20:39and use a low-temperature glaze when fired
1:20:41similar to the sancai technique
1:20:42For fine, rare figurines
1:20:44masters have to paint and color them one by one
1:20:45It costs both money and time
1:20:47Coloring is the biggest cost
1:20:49We need to redo the calculations
1:20:52A pot of coarse tea, two coppers!
1:20:53Walnuts, ten coppers!
1:20:55Ahem, ladies and gentlemen
1:20:56today's tale is "Cao Cao's Gifted Box
1:20:58and "Xun Yu Drinks Poison
1:20:59Xiahou Dun asked Cao Cao
1:21:00Everyone knows the Han dynasty's fate is spent
1:21:02What is there left to hesitate about?
1:21:03Cao Cao said, "If Heaven's mandate rests with me
1:21:05I shall be King Wen of Zhou
1:21:07He never proclaimed himself emperor
1:21:07Perhaps he did not want to bear the infamy of a traitor to the Han
1:21:10In the end, they have all returned to dust
1:21:11It is all later generations' speculation
1:21:13I think that, throughout Cao Cao's life
1:21:14his not becoming emperor in the end
1:21:16may have had another reason
1:21:17He could not forget Xun Yu
1:21:19and those melancholy eyes
1:21:22Sir
1:21:24please share your understanding with us
1:21:25There is a saying: "orchid beginnings, catkin endings
1:21:28At first, two souls are bound like orchids in bloom
1:21:30but in the end, they scatter like drifting catkins
1:21:32When Xun Yu joined Cao Cao
1:21:34Cao Cao was still merely
1:21:34the vulnerable governor of Dong Commandery
1:21:36Others only gild the lily
1:21:38He brought warmth in the snow
1:21:39Cao Cao could campaign with peace of mind
1:21:41while Xun Yu held down the home front
1:21:42His contribution was vital
1:21:43But at first, they were both servants of the Han
1:21:44Both vowed to quell the rebellion and restore the Han
1:21:46As they went on
1:21:46one remained loyal to the Han
1:21:48while the other strayed farther and farther
1:21:49So what truly saddens us
1:21:51isn't that they later became enemies
1:21:52but that, looking back more than twenty years later, they realized
1:21:55that
1:21:55the person he most wanted to walk with to the end
1:21:57had long since taken another path
1:21:59Before Xun Yu died
1:22:00did he ever think of Lord Cao?
1:22:03Do you remember
1:22:03why we first set out?
1:22:05All right
1:22:06A few more lines
1:22:09Oh no, now we're stuck here
1:22:12Miss
1:22:13you tell it so well!
1:22:14Tell us a few more stories
1:22:15The stage is yours today
1:22:18Yeah, give us more!
1:22:19Old Wen, you ought to learn from her
1:22:20Don't just tell stories from now on
1:22:21Tell us what was in those people's hearts, too
1:22:24Come, girl
1:22:25Here's ten cash in tips, just for you
1:22:27All right
1:22:27I'll tell a few more, then
1:22:30The more passionate a person is, the more suspicious they become
1:22:31Thus, a heaven of love is often also a sea of hate
1:22:34One who predicts events like a god
1:22:35is really one who reads people like a book
1:22:38Take Yuan Shao
1:22:39The more an opinion benefits him
1:22:41the less likely he is to heed it
1:22:43I can say all this
1:22:44because I know someone
1:22:46who loves the Three Kingdoms to the point of obsession
1:22:48At his home
1:22:49he's collected over a hundred figures of Three Kingdoms heroes
1:22:51each about the size of a forearm
1:22:52Every whisker and hair is rendered in the finest detail
1:22:54so lifelike
1:22:55Each has the proper weapons and mount
1:22:57enough to set up a full battle formation at home
1:22:59and recreate the Battles of Red Cliffs and Guandu
1:23:03I can't go on
1:23:04You take over and tell your stories
1:23:06Hey
1:23:07the tips came to 316 cash
1:23:10Someone also tossed in a little silver
1:23:11It's 616 cash altogether
1:23:15Miss, you're leaving?
1:23:16Here, take this for a snack
1:23:17Come back to our teahouse next time
1:23:20Of course, of course
1:23:23762 cash
1:23:25That's a lot!
1:23:27Don't celebrate just yet
1:23:29The ingredients cost over 600 cash
1:23:31We only made about 160 in profit
1:23:33That's quite a gap
1:23:34Why were the costs so high?
1:23:36Milk and sugar are pricey, and so are eggs
1:23:38Sixty eggs cost 120 cash
1:23:40Seven pounds of milk cost 140 cash
1:23:42Over seven pounds of lard came to 130 cash
1:23:45We even gave a discount today
1:23:46We wouldn't have sold any without it
1:23:48Business is never easy
1:23:50Making 160 is good enough
1:23:52Work hard for a month, and we can earn five taels
1:23:54We sell herbs and cicada nymphs
1:23:56We worked over twenty days just to save one tael
1:23:59You're celebrating too soon
1:24:00You forgot you still owe me a third
1:24:03Hand over 53 cash
1:24:08We only made that on the first day
1:24:09Let's settle up at the end of the month
1:24:11We still have to buy plenty of ingredients in town
1:24:13This money might not even be enough
1:24:14There's over 700 cash left
1:24:15That's enough for your ingredients
1:24:17I want to be paid daily
1:24:18Otherwise, you'll drag it out until you stiff me
1:24:20Money's all you care about
1:24:22How much have I spent on you all these years?
1:24:24Have I ever asked you to pay me back?
1:24:26With your word
1:24:27no wonder you've never kept a business going
1:24:29You promise in the morning
1:24:30then take it back by the afternoon
1:24:32You raised me this way
1:24:33You ought to suffer for it a little, don't you?
1:24:35How did we raise you
1:24:36to be such an unfilial brat?
1:24:38Are you such dutiful children yourselves?
1:24:40You gave birth to me
1:24:41You raised me
1:24:42What else could I turn out to be?
1:24:45Either give me the money
1:24:46or get off my cart right now
1:24:50All right, let's head home first
1:24:52Why are you pretending to be the good guy?
1:24:53You said nothing just now
1:24:54You thought he was right, too, didn't you?
1:24:56Sis, there's a cart coming behind us
1:24:58Hmph
1:24:59Giddyap!
1:25:01Please make way
1:25:02My master is in a hurry
1:25:04That woman is truly unfilial
1:25:06To speak such rebellious, outrageous words...
1:25:09Young master
1:25:10how can there be people like that in this world?
1:25:15The people in that cart probably
1:25:16heard what I just said
1:25:18What a performance
1:25:20My master is in a hurry," indeed
1:25:21Once the new house is built
1:25:23and we get our share from the kiln
1:25:24I'll get a cart of my own
1:25:29Hurry, we need to buy tomorrow's supplies
1:25:30Slow down
1:25:31Or he'll toss you off right here
1:25:33and make you walk home
1:25:36Hey
1:25:36You from the Xia family?
1:25:37Heading back to the village?
1:25:38Got room on the cart?
1:25:39Mind giving me a ride?
1:25:40Climb aboard
1:25:43Has your family gone into business?
1:25:45Just a little venture
1:25:46You see
1:25:47if we don't find a way to make money
1:25:48the whole family will starve
1:25:50Still, that bout of poisoning wasn't all bad
1:25:53After your eldest girl fainted
1:25:55she became like a different person
1:25:56So quick-witted!
1:25:58You and your wife have become hardworking, too
1:25:59Your younger boy can even feed the chickens now
1:26:01That's the way to live, isn't it?
1:26:03But what about your family?
1:26:04Have you given up on the fields entirely?
1:26:06I never see you watering or weeding
1:26:09Come now, that's not fair
1:26:10Crops in the field can't
1:26:11grow ready to eat overnight
1:26:13First, we have to
1:26:14fill our bellies. We can't worry about the rest
1:26:16That's true
1:26:20Young master, we've arrived
1:26:21Amitabha
1:26:23Greetings, Young Master Chen
1:26:24Your meditation room is ready
1:26:25Please follow me
1:26:26Thank you
1:26:27Young master
1:26:28won't you see your wife first?
1:26:30Come in
1:26:33I hear your father recently took on a student
1:26:35Yes
1:26:36He's the county magistrate's eldest son
1:26:37He's studied under my father for half a month
1:26:39Your father's students
1:26:40needn't all be close friends
1:26:42When you deal with him
1:26:43keep things polite but measured
1:26:44Zeqing, remember this:
1:26:46the Chen family of Yingchuan is a distinguished, honorable clan
1:26:47We don't meddle in factional strife
1:26:48What sort of family is the Hu clan?
1:26:49Don't stain the good name of our ancestors
1:26:50Yes
1:26:51All right, go
1:26:53Copy the Classic of Filial Piety twice
1:26:53and show it to me tomorrow
1:26:57Young master won't sleep tonight
1:26:58He finally gets to visit his wife, and...
1:27:00Mind your tongue
1:27:01Go get some rest
1:27:03My thoughts shouldn't be wandering
1:27:04But those words—
1:27:05That woman is terribly unfilial
1:27:07keep circling in my mind
1:27:09Ah
1:27:10What's wrong, Young Master?
1:27:12Nothing
1:27:13I accidentally knocked over the inkstone
1:27:19The drawings have been delivered
1:27:20and I have enough money to get by
1:27:22I've got absolutely nothing to do today
1:27:24Let's catch loaches in the creek
1:27:26then braise them in soy sauce
1:27:27Sister Duìduì, you finally came out!
1:27:29Grandpa said he needs your help
1:27:32With what?
1:27:33Grandpa had my father
1:27:34buy a whole bunch of chicks
1:27:35He made them a place to stay by the bamboo grove
1:27:38Grandpa said he needs you to take a look
1:27:41Didn't I already tell you all?
1:27:44Don't you raise chickens at home too?
1:27:46When the time comes, you can raise your chickens here
1:27:48They'll still be yours
1:27:49As for the hens
1:27:50every month
1:27:50I'll give you a few of the eggs they lay. How's that?
1:27:53The chickens everyone raises here—
1:27:54any new chicks they hatch will belong to the village
1:27:57Your chickens
1:27:57and any chicks they hatch later, will still be yours
1:27:59What do you think?
1:28:01Free labor
1:28:04Now that's rather interesting
1:28:06Has the village chief realized
1:28:08that I helped push Pinghua Village into raising chickens?
1:28:10Or has he realized that the chicken-raising methods
1:28:11passed down in both villages are the same?
1:28:14Then let's take a look
1:28:16What does the village chief want me to look at?
1:28:18This is what I found out—
1:28:19Pinghua Village's secret method for raising chickens
1:28:21See if you think it's credible
1:28:23And whether anything else should be added
1:28:25Village Chief, do you think I can read?
1:28:28Uh... then I'll read it aloud
1:28:31Listen carefully
1:28:33You can clear out
1:28:35a ring of vegetable plots or grassland near the chicken coop
1:28:36Then build several chicken coops
1:28:38with tunnel passages leading to the garden
1:28:39You can make them from bamboo
1:28:41Drive the flock out to forage in the garden every day
1:28:43and let them peck at the leaves and bugs themselves
1:28:45Plant purslane or pumpkin leaves
1:28:47Best of all, find someone literate to keep records
1:28:49and number every chicken
1:28:51Keep track of which chickens grow quickly
1:28:53which lay the most and best eggs
1:28:55and which lay double-yolk eggs
1:28:56Then divide them into separate groups
1:28:58Just like at an academy
1:28:58where students are grouped by how well they study
1:29:02into A, B, and C classes
1:29:03Letting the good students
1:29:04stay with other good students helps them do even better
1:29:06As for the poor-quality chickens, there's no need to let
1:29:07them breed with the others
1:29:09Just raise them for meat
1:29:11She's a girl who's never been to school
1:29:14How could she say
1:29:15something like an academy having A, B, and C classes?
1:29:18For the first seven days after the chicks hatch
1:29:19mix some ground snail shells into their feed
1:29:21along with some chopped tender grass
1:29:23That will lay a good foundation for egg-laying
1:29:26Slow down, slow down, Dayā!
1:29:27You're saying one thing after another
1:29:29I can't write it all down
1:29:31Dayā
1:29:33where did you hear all this?
1:29:36Village Chief
1:29:36have you ever heard of talent?
1:29:38Do you know what it means when Heaven grants someone a gift?
1:29:41Some people study
1:29:42and become the top imperial scholar in their teens or twenties
1:29:44Others are still taking the county examination at seventy or eighty
1:29:47That's talent
1:29:48Village Chief
1:29:48a person must observe more
1:29:50and think more, too
1:29:51What's the point of having a brain if you never use it?
1:29:54Anything else?
1:29:55If not, I'm going off to play
1:29:56Go on
1:29:57Go ahead
1:30:01Youtian
1:30:04when you go into town tomorrow
1:30:05stop by your eldest brother's place
1:30:07Aren't there several young men from the village
1:30:08serving as nominal apprentices under him?
1:30:10Ask if any of them still have no prospects
1:30:12Bring them back to keep records at the chicken coops
1:30:14Can't I do that myself?
1:30:17Can you, all by yourself
1:30:18keep records of bamboo worm deliveries
1:30:19record the chickens laying eggs
1:30:20and run errands for me?
1:30:21Before long, you'll be taking chickens and eggs into town to sell, too
1:30:23No way I can
1:30:27That girl...
1:30:28just who is she, really?
1:30:31All right
1:30:32Fry them up as a snack
1:30:33Catch some more and dry them to make dried shrimp
1:30:35I caught a loach!
1:30:37Quick, the jar!
1:30:39Hey!
1:30:39It got away again
1:30:42You all go ahead and play
1:30:43I'll head upstream a bit
1:30:44The water is just the right temperature
1:30:48This is still the most relaxing way to play
1:30:50Nice and cool
1:30:51What's so fun about lying here?
1:30:53Sister Duìduì
1:30:54your clothes are all wet
1:30:56So what if they're wet?
1:30:57It's no big deal
1:30:58I want to lie down
1:30:59but if I really did
1:31:01my father would whip me until I spun like a top
1:31:07My clothes are already wet anyway
1:31:09A little wetter won't hurt, right?
1:31:12That makes sense
1:31:13Lin Xiaoyang!
1:31:15Sis, why are you here?
1:31:17Didn't Father and Mother tell you
1:31:18not to play in deep water?
1:31:20There are so many people here
1:31:21and Sister Duìduì is here too
1:31:23Nothing will happen
1:31:25Come home with me first
1:31:26and change your clothes
1:31:27Are you asking to be dosed with medicine?
1:31:30The sun is blazing
1:31:31There's no need to go home just to change clothes
1:31:33In the heat of high summer, move around a little
1:31:35and the sun
1:31:36will steam your hair and clothes dry
1:31:39What are you looking at me for?
1:31:41Fresh wild greens have sprouted on the shady slope
1:31:44Xia Dayā, want to pick some too?
1:31:46Wild greens and dried shrimp are a perfect match
1:31:48We can't lose with this
1:31:50Fine, I'll leave it to you two
1:31:51I'll leave the net and bucket here so you can keep playing
1:31:53When you're done, bring them to my house
1:31:55Catch me some more little river shrimp, okay?
1:31:56I'll give you some candy later
1:31:58Yay!
1:31:59What are you standing around for?
1:32:00You go pick me a couple handfuls too
1:32:02Oh
1:32:03So obedient
1:32:05Then why not come to my house and cook me a couple dishes, too?
1:32:07Me?
1:32:08Huh, you really were going to cook for me?
1:32:11You've got quite a good temper
1:32:12You didn't even get mad
1:32:15Is there a snake, Xia Dayā?
1:32:16Be careful. Come closer this way
1:32:18Don't get bitten
1:32:21Oh! It's a weasel
1:32:23We must have raised so many chicks in the village
1:32:25that it caught their scent and came over
1:32:26It must be planning to steal chickens
1:32:27Ugh, do I smell that bad?
1:32:31Sister Duìduì, aren't you picking wild greens anymore?
1:32:34This is enough
1:32:34Go home and tell your grandfather
1:32:36that a weasel has appeared
1:32:37Tell him to
1:32:38strengthen the chicken enclosure's defenses against wild animals
1:32:40The weasel came because it smelled the chickens
1:32:42This one got away
1:32:43Who knows whether it will come back?
1:32:49Why are you back?
1:32:50Don't even ask
1:32:51The family that sells milk today
1:32:52said their cow didn't give any milk today
1:32:54They might have some tomorrow
1:32:54But someone reserved it ahead of time
1:32:56We'll have to buy the donkey cart later
1:32:57We need to save up for a dairy cow first
1:32:59Then how are we supposed to store all these tart shells?
1:33:01They're all made with fine white flour and lard
1:33:03Just leave them
1:33:04When they stink, we'll sell them
1:33:06Three brains
1:33:07and not one can come up with a workaround
1:33:08The milk supply is short
1:33:09and they never even considered it
1:33:13Have you really never thought
1:33:15of simply folding the tart shells together
1:33:17brushing the surface with egg wash
1:33:18and sprinkling them with sesame seeds
1:33:19to bake and sell as flaky pastries?
1:33:20Huh?
1:33:22And you never considered buying uncooked tangyuan
1:33:24filling them with apple, brown sugar, red bean paste, or whatever
1:33:26or simply making croissants to sell
1:33:28or making scallion pancakes?
1:33:32You're always saying I can't adapt
1:33:33You're the ones who can't adapt
1:33:35No milk?
1:33:36Why not go find some goat's milk?
1:33:37As if you had to tell me
1:33:38I thought of that ages ago
1:33:40Do you think goat's milk can just be found that easily?
1:33:42It's embarrassing to see him as a father figure
1:33:44If you don't see him as a father figure
1:33:46he's completely ridiculous
1:33:49Xia Nanfang and Xia Wuyou, first
1:33:50take the tart shells into town and make them into flaky pastries to sell
1:33:53Two cash apiece is fine
1:33:53or three cash apiece
1:33:54As long as we sell them, we won't lose money
1:33:57Liang Xin, you're in charge of asking around the village and nearby
1:33:59villages for households with cow's milk or goat's milk
1:34:01Mm
1:34:03There are six cows in the village altogether
1:34:05Two belong to the village chief and an elder of the clan
1:34:08One belongs to that old man who drives the ox cart
1:34:10The other three are jointly raised by several households
1:34:13Those five cows are all used for plowing fields
1:34:15Not one of them is lactating
1:34:20Second Sister Ge is busy
1:34:21I brought you some eggs
1:34:24Oh, goodness
1:34:25Sister Liang
1:34:26It's enough that you came
1:34:27Why bring eggs?
1:34:28Around this time a few days ago
1:34:29weren't you all out?
1:34:30Why are you still home today?
1:34:32Something came up
1:34:33I wanted to ask you something
1:34:35Does anyone in the village have a ewe that just gave birth?
1:34:38Your family wants to raise sheep?
1:34:40Well, that's perfect
1:34:41My younger brother from my maiden family keeps a few sheep
1:34:43They just lambed a few days ago
1:34:45Your younger brother is from
1:34:47Daxi Village?
1:34:48It's only ten li away
1:34:49I can ask him to deliver it to you
1:34:51If Second Sister Ge's younger brother
1:34:53is willing to sell me some goat's milk
1:34:54that would be best, of course
1:34:55We pass through Daxi Village on the road
1:34:57so we can pick it up on the way every morning
1:34:59But we need a lot of goat's milk
1:35:01One household definitely won't be enough
1:35:03Who else in our village has some?
1:35:04Do you know?
1:35:05I do, I do
1:35:06You've come to the right person
1:35:08I know all those families well
1:35:11Look at him when he's with Xia Nanfang
1:35:14He always seems foolish, indecisive, and hysterical
1:35:17But when he goes off to do things on his own
1:35:20he actually handles many things with ease
1:35:22Building ties with people who can make decisions
1:35:25sounding out prices
1:35:26he's good at all of it
1:35:27The next household is Old Madam Fang's
1:35:30Old Madam Fang's?
1:35:32That old lady isn't easy to talk to
1:35:33Make way for the Xia girl
1:35:35Quick, make way
1:35:36A very classic scholar's outfit
1:35:38That must be Old Madam Fang's scholar
1:35:41Maocai, we're here. Get down
1:35:45Mother
1:35:46My son, you're back
1:35:47It's only been a month
1:35:49how have you gotten thinner again?
1:35:50Were you tired from the journey?
1:35:51I stewed a chicken for you
1:35:52It's still hot
1:35:53Sit down. I'll serve you some
1:35:55Mother, we have company. This is...
1:35:57She's from the Xia family
1:35:58It's fine. Go ahead and eat
1:35:59My family doesn't have much goat's milk to spare
1:36:01Even if we don't sell any
1:36:02this attitude is way too strange
1:36:04The earlier families were all perfectly nice
1:36:06Why is it that when I get to his house
1:36:07he acts like he's terrified I'll latch onto him?
1:36:11Mother, did you have a conflict with that person just now?
1:36:15No
1:36:16Then why?
1:36:17Our goat's milk goes unused
1:36:18If someone else urgently needs it
1:36:20there's no harm in selling them some
1:36:21Hmph, as if I don't know their kind
1:36:23The goat's milk is just an excuse
1:36:25Otherwise, why did he come home today
1:36:26and she just happened to come buy goat's milk?
1:36:28She must be trying to marry her daughter into our family
1:36:29In her dreams
1:36:32My son
1:36:33you must listen to me
1:36:35Don't get involved with any of those wild village girls
1:36:37You're going to pass the imperial examinations and become a high official
1:36:40One day you'll be a respected provincial graduate
1:36:42If you marry
1:36:43you can only marry a young lady from an official family
1:36:46If some discerning wealthy patron sponsors you
1:36:48then we could consider
1:36:49marrying a rich family's daughter
1:36:51But a country girl is absolutely out of the question
1:36:54A respected provincial graduate?
1:36:56Pass the county-level exam first
1:36:58Don't set your sights on the village
1:37:00Like that girl Liu Zhu
1:37:02her family
1:37:02rents land from us, and she's already got her eye on you
1:37:04She should look in the mirror and see if she's worthy
1:37:06Pah!
1:37:08He's failed the county-level exam three times
1:37:10and he's still only a novice scholar
1:37:12Where does he get the nerve to be so picky?
1:37:16Eat more. Studying takes brainpower
1:37:19Mother
1:37:20A great Confucian scholar has come to Jiangji County
1:37:21Did you know?
1:37:22I think I heard someone mention it
1:37:24He's from the capital
1:37:25When I brought you things at the academy before
1:37:27someone said that the great scholar had taken
1:37:29the county magistrate's eldest son as a student
1:37:31That's right
1:37:32Although Scholar Chen has stayed away from officialdom
1:37:34many people at court are his former students or protégés
1:37:36He comes from the Chen clan of Yingchuan
1:37:37and he's from its direct line, at that
1:37:40I was thinking
1:37:41if I could become Scholar Chen's disciple...
1:37:42How do you become his disciple?
1:37:43How much would it cost?
1:37:47Twenty taels, at least, for now
1:37:48How much? That could buy so much land
1:37:51You've studied for over ten years, and it hasn't cost that much
1:37:53Even if we emptied the whole household, we couldn't manage it
1:37:55And that's only the price of admission to meet Scholar Chen
1:37:57You'd have to give gifts to the Chen estate's steward
1:37:59just to get a chance to show your face
1:38:00and have my essays presented to Scholar Chen
1:38:03Even if it cost me my life, I couldn't come up with that kind of money
1:38:05My son, it's your mother who is useless
1:38:07Forget it
1:38:07Pretend I never said anything
1:38:09There isn't much cash at home
1:38:11This is all I have on hand
1:38:12Take it and use it first
1:38:13I can't
1:38:14You need to keep some for your own expenses
1:38:15It's all right
1:38:16In a few days, the money the whole village earns together
1:38:17will be distributed
1:38:19The money the whole village earns together?
1:38:22That's from everyone in the village catching
1:38:23bamboo grubs and selling them to the county's restaurants
1:38:25It's easy work
1:38:26I can do it too
1:38:27Gentleman grubs
1:38:29Anyway, they need quite a lot every day
1:38:31They even said the Xia family's girl negotiated the business deal
1:38:33I don't think her family caught any bugs
1:38:35And they didn't get any money either
1:38:35I reckon something fishy is going on
1:38:37How could a little girl possibly...
1:38:38...negotiate a business deal with a restaurant in town? Who'd believe that?
1:38:40But she did get a donkey cart
1:38:42That must've cost quite a bit
1:38:43And she keeps going into town
1:38:44Every time, she comes back with a bunch of stuff. Good grief
1:38:48Nothing but useless things
1:38:50What a spendthrift
1:38:57Who are you going to see?
1:39:00Right, right. I'm taking this to Xi'er
1:39:03What is it? How old is it?
1:39:07A little over two months
1:39:10Sister Liuzhu, you finally made it
1:39:12Don't worry, don't worry. I brought it
1:39:13It's that yellow dog you all liked before
1:39:15Oh my, it ran out!
1:39:17It even knows how to act cute
1:39:19Pet it, pet it
1:39:20Oh, it's so sweet
1:39:21Has it gotten a little chubbier since last time?
1:39:24All its sisters have gone to other homes
1:39:26It's been all alone these past few days
1:39:27Hogging all its mother's milk
1:39:28Of course it's putting on weight. Oh, right
1:39:30Didn't your parents...
1:39:31...used to forbid you from keeping one?
1:39:33Why did they suddenly allow it?
1:39:34Hmph, I begged them for ages
1:39:37Maybe they got tired of hearing me go on
1:39:38So they finally agreed
1:39:40Right, right, sis, you're here too
1:39:42You came with your puppy
1:39:44You finally noticed me
1:39:46Sister Duoduo
1:39:46Do you want to pet Little Yellow too? Go ahead
1:39:49No, no
1:39:50It doesn't bite
1:39:51You'll see once you look at it
1:39:53Its teeth are still tiny
1:39:54Even if it bites your hand, it's just playing
1:39:55It's only fooling around with you
1:39:57No, thanks. I don't like puppies
1:40:01Uncle, Auntie
1:40:03You're so good to me
1:40:04You're my nephew
1:40:05Of course we're good to you
1:40:07Xi'er, serve your cousin some food
1:40:09Mom and Dad never said Cousin was coming
1:40:11There isn't enough food today
1:40:12Then you and your sister...
1:40:14...can give him a little more of yours
1:40:15You two don't go out to work anyway
1:40:16Why do you need so much food?
1:40:18Classic: daughters stay home to work and cook
1:40:21If there's not enough food, take it from the daughters
1:40:23But the nephew gets to eat first
1:40:25Mm
1:40:27I'm hungry, so I'll have a meal at your house
1:40:29If you're hungry, go home
1:40:31Why eat at my house?
1:40:33Last time...
1:40:34...you said I could come eat at your house whenever I was free
1:40:36I happen to be free now
1:40:37Last time?
1:40:38What last time?
1:40:39Ahem. Serve the food, serve the food
1:40:43There's no meat at all
1:40:44Uncle, didn't you say...
1:40:45...you were bringing me back for something tasty?
1:40:46You lied to me
1:40:47Tonight, I'll eat at Second Uncle's house
1:40:49There is, there is
1:40:50This afternoon, your aunt went into town to buy meat
1:40:51When has Uncle ever lied to our little treasure?
1:40:53Mm, that's more like it
1:40:57Is this child your nephew?
1:40:58I don't think I've seen him in the village
1:41:01He's Third Brother's son
1:41:03He usually lives in town with his parents
1:41:05Today, he came with...
1:41:05...my parents-in-law to stay in the village for a few days
1:41:07Girl from the Xia family
1:41:08Take good care of Jiabao and play with him
1:41:09Xi'er, you two need to look after your cousin too
1:41:11That table manners are pretty far from human
1:41:13But very close to a pig's
1:41:15His name is Wei Jiabao
1:41:18Are you calling me a pig?
1:41:19You do look like one
1:41:20Exactly like one
1:41:21Go look in the pigsty yourselves and see if you don't
1:41:24Doesn't anyone teach your nephew any manners?
1:41:27I could let it slide if I saw it here
1:41:28But if others see him eating like that outside...
1:41:30...they'll say he has no upbringing
1:41:32I'm only saying this for your own good
1:41:34Why are you getting mad?
1:41:35It's not like what I said was harsh
1:41:39What are you standing around for? Eat
1:41:41Wei Xi'er, Wei Pan'er
1:41:43Does your father think of his nephew as his son?
1:41:46Ever since Pan'er was born...
1:41:48...your parents have often sent things to Wei Jiabao's family
1:41:50And they always let...
1:41:51...Grandpa and Grandma bring Wei Jiabao back to the village
1:41:53Huh
1:41:54This really is a bit...
1:41:56...beyond my understanding
1:41:58He sees himself as the eldest son of the Wei family
1:42:00He thinks the whole business of carrying on the Wei family line...
1:42:02...should have fallen to him
1:42:04So he's pinned all his hopes on his nephew
1:42:05He's convinced his nephew will support him in old age
1:42:07Then he won't die without an heir
1:42:08He blames everything on not having a son
1:42:10He's both foolish and pitiful
1:42:13My parents agreed to let me keep a puppy
1:42:16Don't you find that strange?
1:42:18They originally wouldn't let you keep one
1:42:19Then they suddenly agreed
1:42:20When your cousin came...
1:42:22...he even specifically looked at the puppy
1:42:23He said, "Uncle, Auntie...
1:42:25You're so good to me
1:42:26As if the dog had been raised just for him
1:42:28No way. His family has a dog too
1:42:31Oh
1:42:32Anyway, I think it's pretty strange
1:42:34You should keep watching
1:42:36Compared with outsiders...
1:42:38...they'd rather not suspect their own parents
1:42:40Forget it. Let's not talk about it
1:42:44My emotions are about to overflow
1:42:46Then let's start writing
1:42:49A blizzard seals off the village
1:42:50The first night: all is peaceful
1:42:51The second night: people start dying
1:42:53Someone wears a bear pelt and pretends to be a bear to kill people
1:42:55In the end, a real bear appears
1:42:56The killer doesn't survive either
1:42:57No One Survives
1:42:59My mind has already plotted out the ending
1:43:00But I've only written the beginning
1:43:02My hands can't keep up with my brain
1:43:06This body...
1:43:06...has never written this many words at once
1:43:08My fingers are killing me, but it feels so good
1:43:11Xia Wucuo, your mom's calling you home for dinner!
1:43:16So early today?
1:43:17Just pinch the tart crusts together any old way
1:43:19Brush them with egg wash
1:43:20Don't put any filling in them
1:43:21Sell them as flaky pastries
1:43:22Three coppers each
1:43:23Five coppers for two
1:43:24They're selling pretty fast
1:43:25Then there isn't much profit, right?
1:43:27Only around forty coppers in profit
1:43:29It's good enough that none of today's tart crusts went to waste
1:43:33We're having egg tarts tonight
1:43:34Yeah, let's try goat's milk
1:43:38Goat's milk has a stronger gamey smell than cow's milk. I like it
1:43:43The flavor is pretty rich
1:43:46Did anyone ask about egg tarts today?
1:43:48Yes
1:43:48A few people have come to buy them for three days straight
1:43:51They couldn't get any today
1:43:52So they asked about them
1:43:53These two are really putting on an act like a poor but loving couple
1:43:56Today's money...
1:43:58We really didn't make any money today
1:43:59We didn't even make back our costs
1:44:00We barely broke even
1:44:01Just pay them what they're owed
1:44:03Got it, got it
1:44:07Pick it up
1:44:08I've given you enough face already
1:44:11Testing me again
1:44:12Trying to scare me into backing down
1:44:14Reminding me that he still has violence in his grasp
1:44:16A powerless rage
1:44:17Do you dare lay a hand on me?
1:44:20What are you doing?
1:44:21Just pick up whatever fell
1:44:23Hurry up and clean it up
1:44:24We still have to go into town tomorrow to sell egg tarts
1:44:26You two should get some sleep too
1:44:27Go to bed
1:44:30You keep the money from now on
1:44:31Give me what you're supposed to give me
1:44:33Every time I ask him for money, he pulls this stunt
1:44:35It's really annoying
1:44:37Got it
1:44:37Don't be so... you, either
1:44:40So what?
1:44:45Sleeping soundly, aren't you?
1:44:54The door bolt—someone's tampering with it
1:45:00The two of us are in trouble
1:45:03Places in this house where money could be hidden—
1:45:05I know better than you do
1:45:08With that hatchet, this could turn from theft into robbery at any moment
1:45:11And from robbery into murder
1:45:16Why is it all copper coins?
1:45:17Didn't you say this family had struck it rich lately?
1:45:19Maybe the larger bills are hidden somewhere else
1:45:21This is just their everyday spending money
1:45:23If you dare lie to me
1:45:25you're dead
1:45:32Don't kill me! Don't kill me!
1:45:33I'm not with him
1:45:35I was forced into this!
1:45:37Murder! Murder! Help!
1:45:40Ah!
1:45:41What did you do?
1:45:44Don't be fooled by how scared he looks
1:45:46Who knows whether he's got anything hidden on him?
1:45:48We can't let this go wrong
1:45:52I acted in self-defense
1:45:56The Xia family!
1:45:56What happened?
1:45:57Who died in your family?
1:45:59The dead man isn't from my family
1:46:02Help!
1:46:02His daughter killed—
1:46:03Murder!
1:46:04She's the one who killed him
1:46:07Send for the village head
1:46:08Then report it to the authorities
1:46:09These two bandits broke into my home at night with knives
1:46:11I'm afraid they may have accomplices
1:46:13I don't know whose home in the village they may have gone to
1:46:14Has anyone else's family been attacked?
1:46:16What?
1:46:16He has accomplices?
1:46:18Quick!
1:46:18Go tell the village head
1:46:20No one else
1:46:21It was just Ma Laowu and me
1:46:23Quick!
1:46:23Go get help
1:46:28Wait
1:46:28Isn't this Baldy?
1:46:32You little bastard, you colluded with outsiders to rob people from your own village
1:46:34Did a donkey kick you in the head or what?
1:46:37Bring his parents here too
1:46:41I'm hungry
1:46:42Make me a bowl of egg tea
1:46:43Have some pork cracklings with it
1:46:45Wu Cuo
1:46:46Are you all right?
1:46:48I can eat and drink
1:46:49So I guess I'm fine
1:46:50Sis
1:46:51Are you really my sister?
1:46:52Pfft
1:46:54How can you still eat?
1:46:55Oh, that was terrifying
1:46:57I'm okay
1:46:59Wu Cuo, my girl
1:47:00Is everyone in your family all right?
1:47:02Everyone's fine
1:47:03But this man's death is a bit troublesome
1:47:06Anyone who enters another's home at night without cause shall receive eighty strokes
1:47:08If the homeowner discovers him
1:47:09and kills him on the spot, there is no crime
1:47:11But if the thief has already been subdued or restrained
1:47:12and the homeowner then kills or injures him without cause
1:47:13the penalty is reduced by two degrees from that for fighting and causing injury
1:47:14If death results, it is one hundred strokes and three years' penal servitude
1:47:17Those two entered my home at night with knives
1:47:18They had it coming
1:47:19Even if we report this to the authorities, I'm innocent
1:47:21What's troublesome about it?
1:47:22Village Head
1:47:23Uncle Duoliang
1:47:23We can't report this to the authorities!
1:47:25Ma Laowu forced me into it!
1:47:27Ma Laowu is dead
1:47:28The county yamen will come after me
1:47:30Anyway, anyway, he's already dead
1:47:33Let's bury him
1:47:34Please, don't report it to the authorities
1:47:35You—hey, let go!
1:47:37Hey!
1:47:38Uncle Duoliang, my parents are so old
1:47:41Please, for their sake
1:47:42don't report it to the authorities, all right?
1:47:44I'm begging you
1:47:46I'll kowtow to you
1:47:48Let's settle this within the village
1:47:50It won't look good if this reaches the county
1:47:52Exactly. If the other villages find out
1:47:54how will our village ever hold its head up again?
1:47:56I think we should punish him under clan law instead
1:48:00When there is a death, robbery, or theft in a locality
1:48:02the village head must promptly report it to the authorities
1:48:05Anyone who knows and fails to report it
1:48:06faces flogging at the least
1:48:07or, at worst, punishment for harboring criminals and conspiring to conceal them
1:48:10It could even implicate others
1:48:11Do you expect the village head to risk his own
1:48:13life and property to hide a bandit with you?
1:48:16Village Head, look
1:48:17They don't care whether you live or die
1:48:19It chills my heart on your behalf
1:48:22Fine. If anyone asks later
1:48:25I'll help spread the word
1:48:26about how rich your family is
1:48:27Let's see if it attracts any bandits
1:48:32All right. Not even his parents or children came to plead for him
1:48:35Clearly, they've abandoned him
1:48:37Yet every one of you is pleading for him so eagerly
1:48:40Do you think he'll start calling you his parents and children?
1:48:42No way
1:48:43Enough. Do what must be done
1:48:45At dawn, You Tian will take bamboo grubs into town
1:48:47and report it to the authorities on the way
1:48:49Yes
1:48:53No one can sleep now
1:48:58Oh?
1:48:58Liang Xin even gave him a sponge bath and changed his clothes
1:49:01She's caring for him exactly like a newborn
1:49:03All that's missing is nursing him
1:49:14This is the house
1:49:18There are no signs of a struggle inside
1:49:19The bloodstains have been cleaned up
1:49:20There are footprints along the left courtyard wall
1:49:22He likely climbed over the wall here
1:49:23The door bolt shows signs of being pried
1:49:26There is only one fatal wound to the neck
1:49:28The wound matches the weapon
1:49:31You don't need to tell me—I can see that
1:49:33The weapon is still stuck in his neck. It hasn't even been pulled out
1:49:36The weapon is still in his neck?
1:49:39I can't believe I forgot to pull it out last night
1:49:42Judging by the direction of the wound
1:49:43it was stabbed from behind, from a slightly lower position
1:49:45The force was rather weak
1:49:46One strike severed the major neck vessel
1:49:47Blood spurted everywhere
1:49:48He died instantly
1:49:49There are drag marks on his back
1:49:51He was dragged out from inside
1:49:52Yes, yes. We run a small business at home
1:49:54We have to go into town every morning to set up our stall
1:49:56He wouldn't sleep
1:49:57but we had to
1:49:58It felt creepy staying in the same room as a corpse
1:50:00So we moved him outside
1:50:02Who killed this man?
1:50:04I did
1:50:06How did you discover someone had broken in?
1:50:08When the thieves came in
1:50:09you were the only one awake
1:50:10Mosquitoes kept me from sleeping
1:50:12I heard someone tampering with the door bolt
1:50:13I was the only one awake
1:50:14Did you know him?
1:50:16The deceased was killed with a single blow
1:50:17How did you do it?
1:50:18These two came to my house
1:50:19I don't know where they heard my family had money
1:50:22But we don't actually have much money
1:50:23After they came in
1:50:24I pretended to be asleep at first
1:50:26Then I saw this man had a hatchet tucked behind his waist
1:50:28I was afraid that if they couldn't find any money
1:50:29they'd kill us in anger to vent their frustration
1:50:31To save my life, I struck first
1:50:33That knife stuck in his neck
1:50:35was a pair of scissors taken apart
1:50:37I was mending clothes before bed
1:50:39I set the scissors beside my pillow without thinking
1:50:41The scissors were very sharp. I'd sharpened them
1:50:43You have to keep the shears sharp when cutting cloth
1:50:45Otherwise, you'll mangle the fabric
1:50:47Good thing I sharpened them
1:50:49Otherwise, the county office would've gotten a report...
1:50:50that an entire family in Liuda Village had been slaughtered
1:50:53With bandits roaming the county
1:50:54they'd have launched a countywide manhunt
1:50:57What ordinary farm girl would kill someone and then...
1:51:00joke around with the county officers?
1:51:03It was Ma Laowu
1:51:04Ma Laowu made me do it
1:51:06If I hadn't led him there
1:51:07he would've killed me
1:51:08He's killed people before
1:51:10I-I-I don't know
1:51:12Was that hatchet his?
1:51:14Y-yes, it was his
1:51:16Tell us...
1:51:17how Ma Laowu died
1:51:19Ma Laowu had just said something to me
1:51:21He was standing right beside me
1:51:23I don't know why, but he turned around
1:51:25I was still bent over, looking for valuables
1:51:27A few drops of warm liquid
1:51:29splashed onto the back of my neck
1:51:30Then Ma Laowu fell onto the bed with a thud
1:51:33He pulled Ma Laowu's
1:51:34hatchet and came toward me
1:51:36I didn't have a weapon
1:51:38Mm. That's right
1:51:40Because he was unarmed
1:51:42I didn't kill him
1:51:44Sir, these look like government-issue socks
1:51:48They were part of the shipment headed to
1:51:50Jialing Pass, robbed in Kangning's second year
1:51:51Gather everything up. Take the men and the bodies
1:51:53Hey!
1:51:55I just stumbled into
1:51:56helping the county office make a big arrest
1:51:58And they don't even give me a Good Citizen banner
1:52:01Now I have to buy another pair
1:52:05Once the county officers left
1:52:06even the air in the village felt different
1:52:08Hey, hey
1:52:11I helped them start that bamboo-worm business
1:52:12and develop a chicken-farming industry
1:52:14Nobody was this polite then
1:52:17Now I just killed a bandit
1:52:18and everyone's avoiding me
1:52:21People fear force, but don't value virtue
1:52:26At this time of day
1:52:27the kids should've spawned by now
1:52:29Not a single one spawned today
1:52:32I can guess why
1:52:33The adults have kept the kids at home
1:52:35They won't let them play with me
1:52:38Maybe they've even made me out to be a monster
1:52:40If you don't behave
1:52:41Xia Wucuo will come snatch you away
1:52:43Xia Wucuo loves eating naughty children
1:52:46Fine, then
1:52:46Some peace and quiet
1:52:47Just right
1:52:49Ah!
1:52:50Auntie
1:52:50Auntie
1:52:51Do you have coarse hemp cloth, old sheets, or hemp rope?
1:52:53I'll pay for them
1:52:55Fifty copper coins
1:52:56Two four-foot lengths of coarse hemp cloth, plus rope, should do, right?
1:52:59Hey
1:53:05Wucuo
1:53:07Oh, it's you
1:53:08What is it?
1:53:09Ah...
1:53:09I heard something happened at your place last night
1:53:11You...
1:53:12fought the criminals to the death to save your whole family
1:53:14Are you okay?
1:53:15Were you hurt?
1:53:16I wouldn't say we fought to the death
1:53:18And it wasn't to save my whole family
1:53:19I was just protecting myself
1:53:20Who turned it into that story?
1:53:22That's what everyone in the village says
1:53:24Are you okay?
1:53:25I made it through without a scratch
1:53:26Just a little dirt on my hem
1:53:29I heard the villagers say
1:53:30they all thought it was terrifying
1:53:31Weren't you scared?
1:53:32How did you dare charge in with scissors?
1:53:35Thieves like that
1:53:36will leave on their own if they find nothing
1:53:38They rarely come intending to kill
1:53:39Why risk your life fighting them?
1:53:42I'm not brave at all
1:53:43I'm a real coward
1:53:45I only dare trust my life to myself
1:53:47You're the ones who are truly brave
1:53:49You dare put your lives in someone else's hands
1:53:51and bet they'll spare you
1:53:53Is that really how it is?
1:53:54Besides, if he can just walk away
1:53:57anyone could target my family
1:53:59Anyone could break in and steal from us at night
1:54:02Only this will deter them
1:54:05It's like the saying goes:
1:54:06Strike once to hold the line
1:54:07and keep a hundred blows at bay
1:54:14You're so different from before
1:54:16I just feel more at ease living this way
1:54:19You feel more at ease this way?
1:54:21She probably doesn't even realize it, but
1:54:23her eyes are full of envy
1:54:26What are you thinking about?
1:54:28Lately, I can't help thinking...
1:54:30You do whatever you want
1:54:32and even make work seem like fun
1:54:34To be precise
1:54:35you're envious of how capable I am
1:54:37How I get big things done with little effort
1:54:39Right?
1:54:41What you see
1:54:42is me getting things done with ease
1:54:43and making money, right?
1:54:45That takes something in your head to back it up
1:54:47An empty head can't do that
1:54:49Yes, that's exactly it
1:54:51I couldn't put it into words, no matter how hard I tried
1:54:53That's exactly what you mean
1:54:55You've finally got it
1:54:56So what you truly admire and aspire to
1:54:58is intelligence
1:54:59Knowledge is what supports intelligence
1:55:01It isn't something you're born with
1:55:03The only way to get smarter is to read and study
1:55:06Liu Zhu, do you want to learn to read?
1:55:09This girl...
1:55:10is more interesting than she thinks
1:55:13No, no
1:55:14How did we end up talking about studying?
1:55:15That's not what I meant
1:55:17Besides, why would I want to study?
1:55:19Reading's no use to me
1:55:20Oof!
1:55:24Are you okay?
1:55:26I'm fine. Before trying the overhead bar
1:55:28I'd already assessed the risks
1:55:30Good thing a teenage body can take a beating
1:55:33In the modern world, I'd be sore for days
1:55:37I've got a lot of damp dirt on my back
1:55:39I can't get it clean
1:55:40It's fine. I'll wash it off in the creek
1:55:44Well, this is strange. You're usually so busy
1:55:47but today you're not rushing off to work
1:55:51You came all the way here to do laundry
1:55:54It's Lin Daya
1:55:57The reeds are lush and green
1:55:58white dew has turned to frost
1:56:00The one I long for
1:56:01is across the water
1:56:03What are you mumbling?
1:56:04I can't understand a word. I'll just keep washing
1:56:06Hmph
1:56:07Didn't you say you'd only marry an official's daughter?
1:56:10So why are you flirting with a village girl?
1:56:12Ospreys call in pairs
1:56:13on a river isle
1:56:14A fair and gentle maiden
1:56:15is a gentleman's dream
1:56:16A gentleman's dream
1:56:17The one I long for
1:56:18is across the water
1:56:20He likes Lin Daya
1:56:21Are you trying a breath-holding challenge?
1:56:23You can stop now
1:56:23He's already gone
1:56:25When did he leave?
1:56:26She never gave him a response
1:56:28so he couldn't keep reciting
1:56:29He's too proud
1:56:30to say what he really means
1:56:32He won't even swallow his pride and try to charm her
1:56:34Or help her with a little work
1:56:35What is that scholar so proud of, anyway?
1:56:38Xia Wucuo, Liu Zhu
1:56:40You two were here just now, too?
1:56:41They all heard it
1:56:42Ospreys cry, "guan guan
1:56:43on the islet in the river
1:56:45A graceful, virtuous maiden
1:56:46is a fine match for a gentleman
1:56:49What was he doing just now?
1:56:51That was strange
1:56:53Can't he see I'm washing clothes here?
1:56:55Why does he have to stand there reading like he's so carefree?
1:56:57Watching me wash the whole family's clothes
1:56:59Just looking at him annoys me
1:57:00Can't you tell?
1:57:01He's trying to win you over
1:57:02Huh?
1:57:03Me?
1:57:04Don't you like him?
1:57:05What is there to like about him?
1:57:07He can't even farm his own land
1:57:08He has to rent it out to your family to farm
1:57:09He doesn't earn a thing, only spends money
1:57:10Every year, what he spends on studying...
1:57:11who knows how much silver it costs
1:57:12He hasn't even passed the xiucai exam
1:57:14Who knows how much longer he'll keep studying?
1:57:16And haven't you met his mother?
1:57:18Any unmarried girl or young wife...
1:57:20who runs into her on the road...
1:57:21gets picked apart by her as if she were a prospective daughter-in-law
1:57:23She's the hardest person in the village to get along with
1:57:30Oh
1:57:30I see
1:57:31So what do you like about him?
1:57:33What?
1:57:34You like Song Maocai
1:57:35Shh, keep it down
1:57:37Keep your voice down. Is that something to be proud of?
1:57:39If I say it out loud...
1:57:41and word gets out...
1:57:42my life will be over
1:57:44But I just...
1:57:46really want to say it
1:57:47I...
1:57:48like Song Maocai
1:57:50I know that sometimes when he's nice to me...
1:57:52it's because he wants me to help him work
1:57:54But I still...
1:57:56If this gets out...
1:57:58I'll really have a hard time getting married
1:57:59Can you keep it a secret for me?
1:58:01Mm-hmm
1:58:02This secret now...
1:58:04is known by more than just him
1:58:06I admire his learning
1:58:09He's the only one in the village...
1:58:11who studies for the imperial examinations
1:58:12Everyone else studies only long enough to recognize words
1:58:15What he studies is different
1:58:17But you can't eat or drink learning
1:58:19There's no future in it, either
1:58:20He's stuck in between
1:58:22Another stubborn fool in love
1:58:24You don't understand
1:58:25If I marry him...
1:58:27I'll get to hear him read all the time
1:58:29Maybe I can learn to recognize a few characters, too
1:58:31I can read his books
1:58:32If he passes the exam someday...
1:58:34I'll be a scholar's wife
1:58:35And even if he doesn't, that's all right
1:58:37I know he may fail three times...
1:58:39and may never amount to much
1:58:40I know marrying him means hardship and toil
1:58:42But I just want to learn to read
1:58:45He's the one who taught me...
1:58:46how to write my own name
1:58:47How is that being love-crazy?
1:58:49It's a longing...
1:58:50for knowledge
1:58:51More real than any love or romance
1:58:53Then tell me...
1:58:54who's smarter, Song Maocai or me?
1:58:58You are. But why?
1:59:01You never went to school either, just like me
1:59:03You can't even read
1:59:05Let me give you a line of poetry, too
1:59:07Those who understand me know the sorrow in my heart
1:59:08those who do not ask what it is I seek
1:59:10That verse is from "Millet Gone" in the Airs of the Kings, part of the Book of Songs
1:59:13Those who understand me know the sorrow in my heart
1:59:15Those who don't understand only ask...
1:59:17what it is I'm seeking
1:59:19Where did you learn that?
1:59:20Don't you know?
1:59:22Jiangji City has a government girls' school
1:59:23It was established by the founding empress...
1:59:24as an official school for girls
1:59:26Any girl from this county can attend
1:59:28There is no tuition
1:59:29And every month, they receive one dou of rice and half a bolt of cloth as a stipend
1:59:32Huh?
1:59:33Did you think that whenever I went...
1:59:34to the county seat, I was just going there to have fun?
1:59:36I've gotten to know several people from the government girls' school
1:59:38When I have free time, I go sit in on their classes
1:59:39I've learned a lot of characters
1:59:41Once you can read, you can read books on your own
1:59:43That law I mentioned last night...
1:59:44I saw it in a law book
1:59:48The county seat is too far away
1:59:49My parents would never let me go
1:59:51Besides, I'm already of marriageable age
1:59:55That unwilling look—I know it all too well
1:59:58I have a way. Just wait
2:00:00No matter how poor we are, we can't skimp on education
2:00:02Strengthening our kind strengthens ourselves
2:00:04Okay, I'll wait
2:00:06If there's anything I can do...
2:00:07just tell me
2:00:09What about me? Can I come, too?
2:00:11Just wait, all of you
2:00:13Hey, I have an idea
2:00:15It's shady, but not illegal
2:00:17Ji Yangying's family runs a cloth shop
2:00:19We persuade the cloth shop to recruit workers from the village
2:00:21Then take all the girls who want to study into town
2:00:24Once they're in town, send them straight to the government girls' school
2:00:27If we send so many girls there...
2:00:29won't the school meet its enrollment quota?
2:00:31There must be some benefit to getting promoted, right?
2:00:33The trouble is that the parents will only agree...
2:00:36if they regularly see wages coming in
2:00:38Where will those wages come from?
2:00:41You've been following us the whole way
2:00:43No need to hide
2:00:45We saw you
2:00:46Come out by the count of three
2:00:48No, no! Sister Duidui!
2:00:50My parents won't let me play with you anymore
2:00:52If they see me, I'll get beaten
2:00:54Me too, me too
2:00:56Then what are you doing here?
2:00:58Right now, we're just walking along the same road
2:01:00You play your way
2:01:00We'll play ours
2:01:01We're not playing together
2:01:03Oh
2:01:03Then that's fun
2:01:06Come here
2:01:08Sister Duidui, you're calling me?
2:01:11Jiang Shui'an
2:01:12Weren't you told not to play together?
2:01:14Why are you going over there?
2:01:15My mom never told me I couldn't play with Sister Duidui
2:01:18I thought you were about to...
2:01:20play hide-and-seek with Sister Duidui
2:01:22So it's Xia Wucuo you're not allowed to play with
2:01:24Why can you, then?
2:01:26Because Jiang Shui'an's mother is a reasonable person
2:01:29Didn't your parents...
2:01:30tell you why they won't let you play with me?
2:01:33Because last night...
2:01:35a thief snuck into my house to steal things
2:01:38Shui'an's mother didn't stop him from playing with me...
2:01:40because I didn't do anything bad
2:01:41If you don't do bad things, you don't have to fear me
2:01:44Your parents are so afraid of me...
2:01:46could it be because they secretly did something bad...
2:01:47and are afraid people will find out?
2:01:49I'll report them to the authorities and have them arrested
2:01:50Don't!
2:01:51Don't report my parents to the authorities
2:01:53Sister Duidui...
2:01:54please let them off this time
2:01:56I'll go home and keep an eye on them
2:01:57I won't let them do bad things
2:02:00Teasing children is so much fun
2:02:01These little ones are so easy to fool
2:02:03All right, go home
2:02:05Hide their evidence of wrongdoing
2:02:06I can let them off this time
2:02:08But others might not
2:02:10Be careful someone doesn't see it and report them to the authorities
2:02:13My mom is a good person
2:02:15Mm-hmm. Let's go
2:02:16I'll take you out to play
2:02:17Mei Xue and Jiang Shui'an's family...
2:02:19have left a pretty good impression
2:02:22Come here, Tun
2:02:24Come here, Tun
2:02:25Mm-hmm
2:02:26Do you want to go into town for fun?
2:02:27If you do, tell your mother
2:02:29Next time, I'll take you into town
2:02:30Sister Duidui
2:02:30Could you switch me out for my mother?
2:02:33Could you take my mother into town first, so she can have a look?
2:02:36Sure enough, only a household with just a mother and daughter...
2:02:39can have the ideal mother-daughter relationship
2:02:42Sure
2:02:42As long as your mother agrees
2:02:48Wei Jiabao—and this dog...
2:02:51it's the dog Liu Zhu gave Xi'er
2:02:52Bad thing! Don't bully the puppy
2:02:57There is no obvious indentation or deformity in its spine
2:02:59Its hind legs are fine, too
2:03:00Its front leg is injured
2:03:02It's conscious and can raise its head
2:03:03There's no heavy bleeding
2:03:04Its breathing is steady
2:03:05It can be moved
2:03:14Cry louder
2:03:15Didn't eat enough?
2:03:16Even if your eldest uncle came, he wouldn't dare mess with me
2:03:18Where are you going, Sister Duidui?
2:03:20Save the dog first
2:03:21As for Wei Jiabao wanting to tattle, I'll be waiting

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