1 - The Respond - Part 1
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So hungry.
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Does this road really lead to the capital?
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We're not lost, are we?
[00:23] ---
Who's lost?
[00:25] ---
As long as we keep walking north,
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we'll get there.
[00:32] ---
You're pointing to the south.
[00:36] ---
Really?
[00:37] ---
Why didn't you tell me earlier?
[00:39] ---
Hmph.
[00:40] ---
Didn't you say the path of
Buddhism relies on fate,
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and where we end up is Buddha's plan?
[00:45] ---
Ugh.
[00:47] ---
If not for you obstructing my
plans the farther you walk,
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I wouldn't interfere with this fate of yours.
[00:57] ---
And you!
[00:58] ---
You can't even tell directions at your age.
[01:02] ---
I said it was the wrong direction,
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but you completely ignored me!
[01:14] ---
Alright.
[01:16] ---
I'm lost.
[01:17] ---
Admitting defeat so quickly?
[01:19] ---
That's rare.
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Shall we go back the way we came?
[01:23] ---
What's that?
[01:32] ---
I'm sorry!
[01:35] ---
There's usually no one
out in this wilderness,
[01:37] ---
so I was hunting freely.
[01:39] ---
But running into you, miss,
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is entirely my fault.
[01:42] ---
Please forgive me.
[01:46] ---
Hmph.
[01:47] ---
Enough.
[01:48] ---
Tell me.
[01:48] ---
How'll you pay?
[01:49] ---
Ah, um…
[01:51] ---
I'll take you to the doctor.
[01:53] ---
No.
[01:53] ---
The injury to my stomach far
exceeds the one on my flesh.
[01:58] ---
Buddy,
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she's saying she's hungry.
[02:01] ---
What's your name?
[02:01] ---
Do you live nearby?
[02:03] ---
M-My name is He Shan.
[02:05] ---
The Crow's Head Village is nearby.
[02:07] ---
That's where I live.
[02:08] ---
So your name is He Shan.
[02:10] ---
Don't worry.
[02:11] ---
This girl has thick skin.
[02:12] ---
She won't die.
[02:15] ---
But since you did hit her,
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would it be alright for us
to have a meal at your house?
[02:24] ---
My home is simple and not
suitable for receiving guests.
[02:30] ---
Why don't I
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treat you to a meal in the village?
[02:39] ---
Hey.
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How much longer until we're there?
[02:42] ---
We're close.
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It's past the river
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that's up ahead.
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Fair warning!
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Don't think a few bowls of noodles
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or a roast chicken
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is enough!
[02:55] ---
My damages are very high!
[02:58] ---
Of course.
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But my household isn't very rich,
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so please have mercy on me, miss.
[03:03] ---
He Shan,
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what do you do for a living?
[03:06] ---
I work at an ironshop
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and sometimes hunt animals.
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But spring is a season of new beginnings.
[03:13] ---
If you kill this bird,
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the nestlings won't be able to survive.
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I don't want to take lives,
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but a loved one is sick.
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The medicine is costly.
[03:24] ---
What illness?
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We might be able to…
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You talk too much.
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It's not life-threatening.
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She just needs
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to stay indoors.
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That's all.
[03:35] ---
Oh no!
[03:36] ---
Someone's in the water!
[03:43] ---
Oh gosh, he went in.
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Be careful.
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Hey.
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Move aside!
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Who is this?
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A girl? What a shame.
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Whose family is she from?
[03:57] ---
Anyone know her?
[03:58] ---
I don't.
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Excuse me.
[04:02] ---
Lady Ma!
[04:03] ---
Lady Ma!
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Kid, you know her?
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She's Lord Ma's wife, from our village.
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Let me thank you on behalf of the Ma family.
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It's fine.
[04:19] ---
It's good that she's safe.
[04:20] ---
Let's go.
[04:23] ---
Lady Ma.
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It's me, He Shan!
[04:26] ---
What's wrong?
[04:36] ---
Hey! You still owe us a meal!
[04:39] ---
I'm a useless person.
[04:41] ---
Let me die.
[04:44] ---
What happened?
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If the water drowns me,
and the fish eat me…
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I'll be cleaner when I'm dead.
[04:51] ---
So it was suicide.
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He Shan,
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who is this lady to you?
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She…
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When I was feeling down,
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she made me a meal out of kindness.
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And now,
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I can't leave her like this.
[05:46] ---
Then what about our bird-related grudge?
[05:49] ---
After she's settled,
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I'll rush back.
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Save it.
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If she really wants to die,
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you might not be able to save her next time.
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I'm a useless person.
[05:59] ---
I'll be cleaner when I'm dead.
[06:01] ---
But…
[06:02] ---
Lady Ma doesn't
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seem like someone who'd kill herself.
[06:05] ---
Shh. Listen carefully.
[06:12] ---
Let the fish eat you.
[06:14] ---
The fish ate me.
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The water drowned you, drowned me.
[06:22] ---
What is this?
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Who's speaking?
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Not humans.
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Something parasitic is in her belly,
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constantly repeating
words that hurt her most.
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Gradually,
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it'll turn into a curse for the heart,
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and destroy her mind.
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Right now, we can only
use a potion to calm her,
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and chant sutras.
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Moya, the sutras.
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Ah? Oh!
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Namo Amitabha…
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Miss, are you…?
[07:01] ---
I'm just a normal doctor.
[07:07] ---
Hm?
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Then Lady Ma's illness...
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Of course I can cure it.
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But my services
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can't be paid for with a meal.
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Don't worry. I know to return gratitude.
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Please save her, no matter the cost.
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Okay.
[07:22] ---
This illness is strange.
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If it breaks out, it'll affect others.
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Are there similar patients nearby?
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I don't know.
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I see.
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Then we can only send her back first,
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ask around,
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see if she's eaten anything special recently,
[07:39] ---
and see where she's been.
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Only after we know these two things
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will I be able to find a cure.
[07:45] ---
Okay. I understand.
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Tao Yao,
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I thought you didn't treat humans.
[08:03] ---
She's been unprincipled for a while now.
[08:05] ---
This time,
[08:06] ---
she probably has her eye on
the thing in the lady's belly.
[08:08] ---
Hey, not bad.
[08:10] ---
You've finally improved
[08:11] ---
after being with me for so long.
[08:15] ---
Hmph.
[08:16] ---
What improvement?
[08:17] ---
It's obviously because your
nature doesn't change.
[08:21] ---
What'd you say?
[08:23] ---
If you didn't happen upon rare things,
[08:25] ---
would you be so kindhearted?
[08:29] ---
You dropped it!
[08:30] ---
It's all your fault!
[08:32] ---
So what exactly is in Lady Ma's belly?
[08:38] ---
Doctor Tao, I'm back!
[08:42] ---
You sent her back?
[08:43] ---
Ah, I didn't.
[08:44] ---
I just found out
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that she's divorced.
[08:47] ---
What?
[08:50] ---
Lord Ma said she cut all ties with him.
[08:53] ---
And that he doesn't care if she dies.
[08:54] ---
Hmph.
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Spouses yesterday,
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strangers today.
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Humans are so cold.
[09:01] ---
Aren't they?
[09:02] ---
Lady Ma is so gentle
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and not lacking in virtue,
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but she still ended up like this.
[09:07] ---
What's the use in being gentle?
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A woman must marry
[09:10] ---
someone of matching status.
[09:11] ---
They were fine when they were betrothed,
[09:13] ---
but after they married,
[09:14] ---
her family declined.
[09:16] ---
Lord Ma changed his mind
[09:18] ---
faster than I can turn a page.
[09:20] ---
Hmph.
[09:21] ---
Not only that.
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A couple years ago,
[09:23] ---
Lord Ma brought a concubine home.
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She died of sickness shortly after.
[09:26] ---
He took out all his anger on Lady Ma,
[09:29] ---
and kept blaming her stars,
[09:30] ---
saying they clashed.
[09:31] ---
Yeah. He also thought she was
ugly, and he yelled at her
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for not bearing kids.
[09:35] ---
Every day, he'd call her useless.
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I'd want to die, too.
[09:39] ---
Waiter, our dishes.
[09:40] ---
Slacking off?
[09:41] ---
Coming, coming!
[09:45] ---
She suffered so much.
[10:09] ---
I should have helped her sooner.
[10:12] ---
How could you help?
[10:13] ---
She chose to bear it herself.
[10:14] ---
Others can't be blamed.
[10:16] ---
What about the things I had you ask about?
[10:18] ---
Oh,
[10:19] ---
afterwards, a nostalgic maid
[10:20] ---
took in Lady Ma.
[10:22] ---
I took the chance to ask her.
[10:24] ---
There was nothing special about what she ate,
[10:26] ---
and the places she frequented
[10:27] ---
were to pray for blessings
[10:29] ---
and make the lord happy.
[10:30] ---
Burning incense or divining
sticks, worshipping Guanyin,
[10:33] ---
wishing at the well,
[10:34] ---
worshipping ancestors,
[10:36] ---
buying clay dolls,
[10:37] ---
picking orchids,
[10:38] ---
going to the pharmacy,
[10:39] ---
buying joyful incense,
[10:40] ---
knotting red strings…
[10:42] ---
Buying limited dishes,
[10:43] ---
or confronting the Silk Village…
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Wait.
[10:46] ---
Why does it feel like she was full of energy?
[10:48] ---
Was she actually abandoned?
[10:51] ---
It was desperation, caused by crisis.
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Any rumor she heard,
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she was willing to try.
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This is troublesome.
[11:00] ---
Are there really
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no similar patients around here?
[11:04] ---
W-What's wrong?
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Lady Ma went to too many places.
[11:07] ---
When we're done looking,
[11:08] ---
she'll already be dead.
[11:10] ---
Remember the echoes in her belly?
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With this illness,
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the thing in her belly will grow larger,
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and she'll either die from being tortured,
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or the curse will come true.
[11:25] ---
If there are other patients,
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we can find where they all went,
[11:29] ---
and narrow down the search.
[11:31] ---
What a shame.
[11:36] ---
If there aren't any,
[11:37] ---
I'm powerless.
[11:38] ---
My apologies.
[11:44] ---
Wait!
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I know
[11:48] ---
one more patient.
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It's okay.
[12:10] ---
It's okay.
[12:10] ---
They're doctors I invited.
[12:27] ---
Sorry about that.
[12:29] ---
She's my sister.
[12:31] ---
So the sick loved one you mentioned
[12:33] ---
was her?
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Speak. What happened?
[12:41] ---
My sister was always chubby,
[12:43] ---
and people would laugh at her.
[12:44] ---
But she's sincere
[12:46] ---
and never fights them.
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Even when they mocked her,
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she just laughed along.
[12:50] ---
I asked her why she didn't get mad,
[12:52] ---
and she said she was afraid
of not having friends.
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Then can friends be kept by being servile?
[13:00] ---
Half a month ago, it was her 15th birthday.
[13:03] ---
She made herself pretty in the morning,
[13:05] ---
but returned shortly, looking untidy.
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Her face was bruised and
her hairpin was broken.
[13:10] ---
She said they'd called her a pig.
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I'd never seen her cry like that before.
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And then?
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And then…
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she had a high fever at night.
[13:22] ---
After the fever left,
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there was an echo in her belly.
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Afterwards,
[13:26] ---
her hands slowly became pig feet.
[13:28] ---
And…
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And three days ago,
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she grew a pig's tail, too.
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Why didn't you tell us earlier?
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A girl getting such a strange illness
[13:37] ---
isn't something to spread.
[13:39] ---
Yes.
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She refused to see a doctor.
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I had no choice.
[13:43] ---
I could only get detoxifying
medicine for her.
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And in the beginning,
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I wasn't sure if you guys could cure her.
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So you used Lady Ma to test us,
[13:52] ---
when you truly wanted to save your sister.
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I really do want to save Lady Ma!
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Relax.
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Since I can cure Lady Ma,
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I can save your sister, too.
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On her birthday,
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what did your sister eat,
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and where'd she go?
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She ate normal noodles and dishes,
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and went to a food stall in the village.
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And the garden!
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Only mention the places Lady Ma has been!
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Bamboo forest!
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On auspicious days,
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if you tie a red string to green bamboo
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and write your birth info,
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the wind is said to send
your wish to the Heavens.
[14:30] ---
Looks like that's it.
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And I think…
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she may have gone to the Wealth God's temple.
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Wealth God's temple?
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It's just a guess,
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as she wouldn't tell me,
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but I saw some locust flowers
that'd landed on her hair.
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There's a crooked locust tree at the temple.
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The well below the tree is said
to contain the world's essence.
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If you make a wish there under the moonlight,
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it'll come true.
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Many people have gone.
[14:54] ---
Lady Ma also went to that old well
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to make a wish.
[14:59] ---
It sounds pretty interesting.
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How's the incense at the temple?
[15:03] ---
It's suffocating.
[15:05] ---
Then that's the place!
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Ow!
[15:12] ---
Following the herd?
[15:13] ---
You think it's that easy to find the truth?
[15:16] ---
Then what do you think?
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Only two places left.
[15:21] ---
Let's go one by one.
[15:22] ---
So the bamboo forest and the old well.
[15:23] ---
Which one should we go to first?
[15:27] ---
The moon is bright tonight.
[15:28] ---
Why don't we go to the
old well to make a wish?
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The temple is two hundred steps to the north.
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Under the locust tree is an old well.
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North!
[15:49] ---
You're pointing south again.
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Tsk.
[15:53] ---
Of course I knew that.
[15:54] ---
I just wanted to see if you
would blindly follow me.
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Look, the locust tree is right over there!
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Dear customer, please be seated.
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Amitabha.
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Smells so good!
[16:49] ---
What tasty things do you have?
[16:50] ---
Tonight, we have vegetable
porridge with minced meat.
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Sit.
[16:54] ---
The porridge will be ready soon.
[16:56] ---
Is there vegetarian porridge?
[16:57] ---
Yes. We have everything.
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It's so late.
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Why are you working alone?
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I'm just an ordinary woman.
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I can't get business during the day,
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so I come out at night.
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Although it's a remote place,
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young ladies and lords
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often come to make wishes at that well.
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They say it's more effective
when there's moonlight.
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It's cold at night, and after making a wish,
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it's good to come and drink a
bowl of porridge for warmth,
[17:27] ---
right?
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Does it smell nice?
[17:35] ---
So nice!
[17:37] ---
Auntie Yun's skills are pretty good, right?
[17:40] ---
Let's get everyone a bowl.
[17:42] ---
Alright.
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This little dog is half white, half black.
[17:58] ---
How interesting!
[18:00] ---
I have some leftover bones.
[18:02] ---
Would he eat them?
[18:08] ---
He would.
[18:09] ---
My little dog
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eats anything.
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They really aren't picky at all.
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Eat as much as you like.
[18:32] ---
Auntie Yun has more.
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Auntie Yun.
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Where are you from?
[18:40] ---
How long have you had this stall?
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I'm from the north,
[18:44] ---
I came to this village with my husband.
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I've had my stall here for almost a year now.
[18:49] ---
You're working so hard,
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yet your husband doesn't help?
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He…
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He's very busy.
[19:00] ---
Miss, my porridge has to be eaten warm.
[19:02] ---
It's not good if it's cold.
[19:06] ---
That's right. Hurry and eat.
[19:08] ---
Don't let it get cold!
[19:09] ---
Eat it warm. It's good.
[19:12] ---
It's delicious!
[19:15] ---
Miss, don't worry.
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People who've eaten this porridge
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have all said it's good.
[19:23] ---
People who've eaten this porridge?
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Relax. It's tasty.
[19:35] ---
It's tasty!
[19:36] ---
Nobody says it's bad.
[19:38] ---
Hurry and eat.
[19:41] ---
Hmph.
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[Episode 13: Answer Bug (1)]
[Lower, a little lower.]
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♪ The wind slows ♪
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♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
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♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
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♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
[20:12] ---
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
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♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
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♪ No sign of stopping ♪
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♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
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♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
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♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
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♪ Evidence without reason ♪
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♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
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♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
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♪ Thousands of times ♪
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♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
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♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
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♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
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♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
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♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
[21:14] ---
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
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♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
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