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8 - Marsh Fairy - Part 2

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[00:07] ---
    Grandma!
[00:13] ---
    Grandma.
[00:15] ---
    You came back earlier than usual.
[00:21] ---
    Grandma, we've got some guests.
[00:27] ---
    Hello, Madam Wang!
[00:30] ---
    ♪ Unwilling to listen to others ♪
[00:33] ---
    ♪ The wind blows. We walk
    through the snow together ♪
[00:38] ---
    ♪ Good will bloom ♪
[00:40] ---
    ♪ Forget the pain ♪
[00:45] ---
    ♪ Blame the bell ♪
[00:48] ---
    ♪ Couldn't wake up the
    indistinguishable soul ♪
[00:53] ---
    ♪ Wait till dawn ♪
[00:56] ---
    ♪ Clear black and white ♪
[01:01] ---
    ♪ Gods are dumb during the showdown
    between justice and evil♪
[01:06] ---
    ♪ Forget sorrow and joy ♪
[01:09] ---
    ♪ Pawns in the game correlates
    with right and wrong ♪
[01:13] ---
    ♪ Who will break the deadlock ♪
[01:18] ---
    ♪ Hard to heal the mind,
    at least there is a heart ♪
[01:26] ---
    ♪ Mantra is missing in
    requimem to gain peace♪
[01:34] ---
    ♪ Endure a stormy period in exchange
    for the comfort of my life♪
[01:45] ---
    ♪ With your support, my
    will will never change ♪
[01:52] ---
    Fairies Album Season 1
    ♪ With your support, my will will never change ♪
[01:54] ---
    Fairies Album Season 1
[02:08] ---
    Wang Daxian...
[02:10] ---
    I haven't heard of the name for decades.
[02:13] ---
    Do you know him?
[02:15] ---
    Here is water.
[02:18] ---
    Amitabha. Thank you, Xiaoniu.
[02:22] ---
    A friend of mine is Wang Daxian's relative.
[02:24] ---
    He asked us to come for a visit
[02:25] ---
    when knowing we'd pass by Lizhou City.
[02:28] ---
    The boy lives in Wang Village.
[02:30] ---
    His father is Wang Daxian.
[02:35] ---
    Wang Daxian was really something before.
[02:39] ---
    He could cure the sick and defeat fairies.
[02:42] ---
    He helped many villagers here.
[02:47] ---
    But he died at an early age.
[02:50] ---
    His wife and son had a hard time.
[02:54] ---
    Is his son still living here?
[02:57] ---
    No, he is gone.
[02:59] ---
    He's gone?
[03:01] ---
    If I miss her some day,
[03:03] ---
    I'll ask you to send a letter to her.
[03:05] ---
    Now we've got a deal.
[03:06] ---
    Come meet me at Jinghua Marsh.
[03:08] ---
    I'll wait for you.
[03:10] ---
    OK.
[03:14] ---
    So...
[03:15] ---
    Do you know
[03:17] ---
    where Xiao Yu went?
[03:19] ---
    Xiao Yu?
[03:21] ---
    Oh...
[03:23] ---
    I remember a girl named Xiao Yu.
[03:25] ---
    But her family moved to
    the north a long time ago.
[03:28] ---
    I heard she married to
    a high-ranking official,
[03:30] ---
    and they had several kids together.
[03:34] ---
    What a shame!
[03:35] ---
    The god of destiny makes fools of people.
[03:38] ---
    Seems we can't find them.
[03:42] ---
    Madam Wang, is Wang
    Daxian's house still here?
[03:44] ---
    I want to pay a visit.
[03:47] ---
    It is.
[03:49] ---
    Are you looking for something particular?
[03:52] ---
    Yes.
[03:55] ---
    Whether I can find it or not,
[03:57] ---
    I can give my friend an explanation.
[04:01] ---
    Xiaoniu, search under my bed.
[04:04] ---
    Take the books out of the old wooden box.
[04:06] ---
    OK.
[04:08] ---
    The house was cleaned up.
[04:10] ---
    But before Mrs. Wang left,
[04:12] ---
    she had brought me some books of her son's.
[04:15] ---
    My kids don't know how to read.
[04:17] ---
    So I've never shown the books to them.
[04:22] ---
    Miss.
[04:23] ---
    All of the books are here.
[04:25] ---
    Thank you.
[04:36] ---
    What is this?
[04:51] ---
    Madam Wang.
[04:52] ---
    May I take the dairy with me?
[04:58] ---
    Tao Yao,
[05:00] ---
    are we leaving Lizhou City like this?
[05:03] ---
    What else could we do?
[05:04] ---
    No one wants to live in the mire.
[05:06] ---
    But you only gave Marsh Fairy the diary
[05:09] ---
    without writing the real prescription.
[05:18] ---
    Habit cures habit.
[05:21] ---
    Moreover,
[05:24] ---
    the diary
[05:25] ---
    is good enough to be the
    prescription to save his life.
[05:30] ---
    People think fairies are omnipotent.
[05:33] ---
    But they don't know
[05:35] ---
    some fairies are capable of nothing.
[05:39] ---
    They can't even beat loach spirits.
[05:42] ---
    However, they're willing to
    keep a promise for a lifetime
[05:45] ---
    regardless of the cost.
[05:53] ---
    Humph.
[05:54] ---
    How silly they are!
[05:56] ---
    No wonder they will die easily.
[05:59] ---
    Just like you.
[06:04] ---
    Tao Yao,
[06:06] ---
    would Marsh Fairy
[06:08] ---
    have kept his promise
[06:10] ---
    if he had known it a long time ago?
[06:14] ---
    He would.
[06:17] ---
    Maybe the silly fairies believe
[06:20] ---
    what they are meant to do
[06:22] ---
    is to keep their words.
[06:26] ---
    On October 7th,
[06:27] ---
    My dad brought one more Marsh Fairy home.
[06:30] ---
    Now we have eight of them.
[06:35] ---
    Dad said
[06:36] ---
    all of them were born in water.
[06:57] ---
    Kiddo.
[06:58] ---
    Why are you staring at me?
[07:01] ---
    Dad, Dad!
[07:03] ---
    This Marsh Fairy looks so weird.
[07:07] ---
    Marsh Fairy,
[07:09] ---
    don't play tricks on him.
[07:10] ---
    Kiddo, I'm your father's friend.
[07:13] ---
    So you should address me
    as "Uncle Marsh Fairy".
[07:19] ---
    Uncle...
[07:20] ---
    ...Marsh Fairy.
[07:27] ---
    Dad,
[07:28] ---
    what are we doing at Jinghua Marsh?
[07:33] ---
    Sit down.
[07:37] ---
    Kiddo,
[07:39] ---
    do you remember the article
    I asked you to memorize?
[07:42] ---
    Yes, I do.
[07:44] ---
    Guan Zhong wrote in his
    article "Water and Earth":
[07:47] ---
    "Marsh Fairies are born in places
[07:49] ---
    where crops thrive and water doesn't dry up."
[07:51] ---
    Exactly.
[07:52] ---
    Jinghua Marsh gathers the
    essence of Heaven and Earth.
[07:54] ---
    So a lot of fairies are born here.
[07:57] ---
    The Marsh Fairy I brought home
[07:58] ---
    was born in the marsh.
[08:01] ---
    But... Xiao Yu and I hang out here often.
[08:04] ---
    Why haven't we seen any Marsh Fairy?
[08:08] ---
    Marsh Fairies
[08:10] ---
    hide themselves in water.
[08:12] ---
    Only when humans shout out their names,
[08:14] ---
    they can turn into human shapes from nothing.
[08:17] ---
    Since there are wars everywhere
    and all places have dried up,
[08:20] ---
    it's really difficult
[08:21] ---
    to find Marsh Fairies.
[08:23] ---
    If you're fortunate enough
    to meet one of them,
[08:26] ---
    remember to keep it with you.
[08:28] ---
    They are cash cows for us.
[08:31] ---
    OK, I'll remember it.
[08:39] ---
    On November 2nd.
[08:41] ---
    Dad asked Marsh Fairies to deliver letters.
[08:46] ---
    My dad is a witch doctor in the village.
[08:48] ---
    We call him "the living god".
[08:51] ---
    My family members make a living by doing it.
[08:53] ---
    So I hope I can inherit it as my career.
[08:57] ---
    However, I was born in poor health.
[08:59] ---
    Dad doesn't want to teach me witchcraft.
[09:03] ---
    But he's willing to teach me everything
[09:05] ---
    about Marsh Fairies.
[09:07] ---
    He tells me we will make a good living
[09:10] ---
    if we can make Marsh Fairies work for us.
[09:13] ---
    The childe is in the capital
    city, which is 1,000 miles away.
[09:16] ---
    We'll reward you if the letter
    can be delivered in 3 days.
[09:20] ---
    Consider it's done.
[09:22] ---
    If I do some witchcraft,
[09:24] ---
    the letter will be delivered today.
[09:28] ---
    See? Time to give full play to my talents.
[09:32] ---
    Marsh Fairy.
[09:34] ---
    Traveling 1,000 miles a day
    is our greatest strength.
[09:38] ---
    I promised your father I'd
    deliver letters for him.
[09:40] ---
    Now comes my show time.
[09:45] ---
    I saw the view of Marsh Fairy's back.
[09:48] ---
    Seemed he was very happy.
[09:50] ---
    I watched him disappearing in the rain.
[09:58] ---
    On that night,
[09:59] ---
    the rain got heavier and heavier.
[10:02] ---
    Marsh Fairy came back by then.
[10:20] ---
    The letter is delivered.
[10:40] ---
    Let's go.
[10:42] ---
    We'll bury him somewhere.
[10:56] ---
    Dad...
[10:58] ---
    Could we
[10:59] ---
    save his life?
[11:01] ---
    Marsh Fairies are good at traveling.
[11:04] ---
    They'll be OK if they
    travel at a normal speed.
[11:06] ---
    But when they travel at the fastest speed,
[11:09] ---
    no one can ever save them.
[11:13] ---
    What if
[11:15] ---
    we can get more of them!
[11:18] ---
    Do they ever know
[11:20] ---
    they will die from this?
[11:23] ---
    They are silly fairies.
[11:25] ---
    So they don't know about it.
[11:28] ---
    Everything is mortal.
[11:29] ---
    You don't need to feel sad.
[11:31] ---
    Let's go home.
[11:32] ---
    Keep yourself warm since you
    are prone to catch a cold.
[11:37] ---
    Dad always said
[11:39] ---
    everything was mortal
[11:41] ---
    and death awaited all men.
[11:44] ---
    But I never expected
[11:46] ---
    he would get sick
[11:48] ---
    so soon.
[11:51] ---
    He applied his witchcraft all the time.
[11:53] ---
    So he got punished eventually.
[11:55] ---
    I guess
[11:57] ---
    maybe it's his fate.
[12:03] ---
    On June 8th.
[12:05] ---
    It's the third year since my dad passed away.
[12:09] ---
    After I had paid my respects to him,
[12:11] ---
    I went to Jinghua Marsh unknowingly.
[12:21] ---
    Jinghua Marsh gathers the
    essence of Heaven and Earth.
[12:23] ---
    So a lot of fairies are born here.
[12:25] ---
    The Marsh Fairy I brought home
[12:27] ---
    was born in the marsh.
[12:30] ---
    If you're fortunate enough
    to meet one of them,
[12:32] ---
    remember to keep it with you.
[12:35] ---
    Marsh Fairy!
[12:38] ---
    Marsh Fairy!
[12:41] ---
    Marsh Fairy!
[12:49] ---
    It didn't work.
[13:02] ---
    Marsh Fairy!
[13:04] ---
    Child, were you looking for me?
[13:08] ---
    Yes, yes.
[13:09] ---
    That was me.
[13:10] ---
    It's true that
[13:11] ---
    Marsh Fairies are born in water.
[13:17] ---
    Yes.
[13:18] ---
    I was drifting under Jinghua
    Marsh for a long time.
[13:20] ---
    If it hadn't been you,
[13:22] ---
    I couldn't have come up here.
[13:23] ---
    Thank you very much.
[13:27] ---
    You look like...
[13:30] ---
    Like what?
[13:33] ---
    Nothing.
[13:37] ---
    You must have been bored when
    being stuck in the water.
[13:40] ---
    Since you've turned into the human shape,
[13:41] ---
    why not leave for somewhere else?
[13:44] ---
    No, I can't.
[13:45] ---
    Since you've called me out,
[13:47] ---
    I'll have to deliver a letter for you.
[13:50] ---
    Though I'm short,
[13:51] ---
    I can travel 1,000 miles
    and come back in one day.
[13:55] ---
    I'm pretty awesome!
[13:57] ---
    Traveling 1,000 miles a day
    is our greatest strength.
[14:01] ---
    I promised your father I'd
    deliver letters for him.
[14:04] ---
    Now comes my show time.
[14:07] ---
    But...
[14:09] ---
    I don't have anyone to write a letter to.
[14:12] ---
    Maybe you'll have such a friend one day.
[14:14] ---
    It's OK. I'll wait till that day.
[14:19] ---
    In the following two years,
[14:20] ---
    Marsh Fairy
[14:22] ---
    was waiting for me at Jinghua Marsh.
[14:24] ---
    But I didn't ask him to
    deliver letters for me
[14:27] ---
    or tell anyone else about him.
[14:31] ---
    When I had some time,
[14:32] ---
    I'd visit him at Jinghua Marsh.
[14:35] ---
    We laughed at funny things together.
[14:37] ---
    We shared food together.
[14:40] ---
    And we enjoyed the starry night together.
[14:43] ---
    I didn't remember when
[14:45] ---
    we became close friends who kept
    no secrets from each other.
[14:48] ---
    I even told him
[14:51] ---
    I had feelings for Xiao Yu.
[14:54] ---
    I thought that
[14:56] ---
    the happy time we had
[14:58] ---
    would last forever.
[15:01] ---
    Till that day.
[15:03] ---
    I remember it was March 22nd.
[15:05] ---
    Xiao Yu left.
[15:16] ---
    Xiao Yu left.
[15:20] ---
    After seeing her off,
[15:22] ---
    I sat at Jinghua Marsh for the whole night.
[15:26] ---
    I know that
[15:27] ---
    she has feelings for me, too.
[15:29] ---
    If I had asked her to stay,
[15:31] ---
    she would have done it for me.
[15:34] ---
    But...
[15:35] ---
    For her,
[15:37] ---
    leaving here is the best choice.
[15:44] ---
    Because my mom told me
[15:45] ---
    someone revenged on my dad
    when she was pregnant with me.
[15:50] ---
    I was cursed by my dad's foe.
[15:52] ---
    So I may die at the age of 14.
[15:55] ---
    Whenever I thought of it,
[15:57] ---
    I couldn't ask her
[15:59] ---
    to stay here for me.
[16:03] ---
    I should let her go.
[16:05] ---
    If I could live longer than 14 years,
[16:08] ---
    I'd go look for her.
[16:12] ---
    On December 20th.
[16:14] ---
    Now I'm taking more and more medicines.
[16:16] ---
    But my condition is getting worse and worse.
[16:19] ---
    I'm 14 now.
[16:21] ---
    Maybe I can't survive
    the winter of this year.
[16:37] ---
    Take care.
[17:04] ---
    At any time,
[17:05] ---
    if you ask me to come back,
[17:07] ---
    I'll return no matter how far away I am.
[17:17] ---
    Xiao Yu.
[17:18] ---
    Xiao Yu.
[17:19] ---
    Don't go, please.
[17:21] ---
    Be with me,
[17:22] ---
    OK?
[17:25] ---
    I love you.
[17:34] ---
    I love you, too.
[17:35] ---
    I love you.
[17:37] ---
    I love you very much.
[17:42] ---
    Xiao...
[17:43] ---
    Yu...
[17:46] ---
    I really...
[17:47] ---
    ...want to see you again.
[17:51] ---
    If Marsh Fairy was here,
[17:53] ---
    he'd ask Xiao Yu to come back.
[17:56] ---
    I'm wondering
[17:58] ---
    if he's still waiting
    for me at Jinghua Marsh.
[18:03] ---
    But when they travel at the fastest speed,
[18:06] ---
    no one can ever save them.
[18:11] ---
    Forget it.
[18:14] ---
    It won't work if I ask
    him to deliver a letter.
[18:18] ---
    Besides,
[18:20] ---
    Marsh Fairy's life matters.
[18:24] ---
    Marsh Fairy.
[18:26] ---
    You little silly fairy.
[18:29] ---
    You must have forgotten about our deal.
[18:32] ---
    Maybe
[18:35] ---
    you'll forget me soon.
[18:59] ---
    It's true that
[19:01] ---
    he'll never come back.
[19:06] ---
    Marsh Fairy.
[19:08] ---
    I'll leave soon.
[19:10] ---
    Don't you want to deliver
    a letter to Xiao Yu?
[19:12] ---
    No.
[19:16] ---
    My mom has arranged me to pick
    up some carpentry skills.
[19:19] ---
    So...
[19:20] ---
    I can't visit you often in the future.
[19:23] ---
    I got it.
[19:25] ---
    But I'll help you whenever
    you want to deliver a letter.
[19:28] ---
    I'll do it as fast as I can.
[19:35] ---
    What happened?
[19:39] ---
    Thank you.
[19:45] ---
    Now your life belongs to me.
[19:48] ---
    Without my permission,
[19:49] ---
    you can't deliver letters for others.
[19:52] ---
    The human world is much
    bigger than Jinghua Marsh.
[19:54] ---
    You can go anywhere you want.
[19:56] ---
    You must have been bored when
    being stuck in the water.
[19:59] ---
    Since you've turned into the human shape,
[20:01] ---
    why not leave for somewhere else?
[20:06] ---
    I think...
[20:07] ---
    I can go somewhere else.
[20:11] ---
    In this life,
[20:13] ---
    you didn't take my life.
[20:16] ---
    I didn't break my promise.
[20:18] ---
    We have no regrets left.
[20:24] ---
    ♪ There are hundreds of faries ♪
[20:30] ---
    ♪ All can distinguish good from evil ♪
[20:39] ---
    ♪ Humans only have one heart ♪
[20:46] ---
    ♪ But it's unpredictable ♪