E10 - The reclusive cook

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    Why the hell did this kid
    randomly bring a cleaver?
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    I'm really stuck!
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    Calm down, calm down.
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    Although they can't see me,
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    but if they discover that
    the cleaver can move,
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    they'll melt me straightaway!
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    No! I must find a way to get out of this.
[01:01] ---
    That's right.
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    The fastest way is for the
    owner of the knife to die.
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    Now!
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    Ah Long!
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    Ah Long, it's bad!
[01:24] ---
    Wa Pian got beaten up.
[01:26] ---
    Bullies again!
SIGN    Fairies Album In the Capital [Episode 10] The reclusive cook.
[02:09] ---
    Brat, I'm getting impatient!
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    I got those eggs out from the nest.
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    They're mine!
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    You dare ask for the eggs?!
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    Are you tired of living?
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    Stop!
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    It's Ah Long.
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    Let's run!
[02:24] ---
    He brought that broken cleaver again.
[02:25] ---
    Broken cleaver?
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    You're the broken cleaver!
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    I am Long Que!
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    Give back the eggs!
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    Ah Long's knife has tasted blood before!
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    Next time you bully people,
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    you'll find out!
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    L-Let's go.
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    The eggs that I tried so
    hard to find are all broken.
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    Why are you crying?
[03:05] ---
    I caught fish today.
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    Let's go back and have a good meal.
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    Here, eat this first.
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    Delicious!
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    I miss my mother.
[03:24] ---
    Me too.
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    Ah Long...
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    Come on, what are you crying about?
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    As long as the three of us are together,
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    there's nothing to be afraid of.
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    Even if you try harder,
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    what's the point of surviving
    like wild cats and dogs?
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    Why don't you free me sooner?
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    It feels so good!
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    It turns out that being sharpened
    is such an enjoyable thing!
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    Wa Pian, has this knife
    really killed someone?
[04:02] ---
    Of course.
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    It was left by Ah Long's father.
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    One year, bandits came.
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    He used this knife to cut his way out,
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    in order to save Ah Long's life.
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    Back then, I could only move
    this knife with both hands,
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    but it's not the same now.
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    As long as I have it,
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    I'll definitely be like my father,
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    protecting the people around me.
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    I caught you stealing, little thief!
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    Chop his hand off.
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    Wa Pian!
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    This little thief has partners.
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    Thief?
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    Sirs, my brother made a mistake.
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    I'm willing to be punished on his behalf.
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    You're willing to be punished?
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    Fine.
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    What--
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    Just now, that little thief clearly
    took a bag of gold from me,
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    but now it's turned into rock.
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    Tell me how you should be punished?
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    You tricked us!
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    You talk back despite stealing gold?
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    Unruly scoundrels!
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    It's my brother's fault for stealing,
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    but you blackmail people,
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    so you guys are also bad!
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    How dare those bastards
    use rocks to trick me!
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    Shut up!
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    Remember this.
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    No matter what you steal, a thief is a thief.
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    Ah Long,
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    I-I'm sorry.
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    I was starving,
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    so I wanted to get some
    money to feed you guys.
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    It's my fault.
[06:06] ---
    I shouldn't have involved you guys.
[06:08] ---
    Don't be like this, Wa Pian.
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    It's my bad,
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    not being able to take care of you guys.
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    Ah Long...
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    Why don't you guys practice
    martial arts with me?
[06:20] ---
    As long as we become more powerful,
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    then we don't need to live like this,
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    and won't be bullied again.
[06:24] ---
    Yes, yes!
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    I'd like to practice your
    fast knife technique.
[06:27] ---
    No problems.
[06:28] ---
    Hey, it's not him being fast.
[06:30] ---
    I helped.
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    Due to Ah Long bathing me,
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    ah no--
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    Due to his good knife sharpening skills,
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    I decided to wait for a few
    years before making a move.
[07:08] ---
    I didn't expect the wait to be so many years.
[07:29] ---
    You guys have messed with
    the Blackwater Faction.
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    We'll sort you out.
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    Wait and see! Wait and see!
[07:33] ---
    Just you wait!
[07:36] ---
    We'll slay all the evil spirits in the world!
[07:38] ---
    Even the human ones!
[07:41] ---
    They set up the Slaughter Evil Faction,
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    specifically to kill bandits and robbers,
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    stealing from the rich
    and giving to the poor.
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    For a while, the young heroes became famous.
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    Those were also their happiest years.
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    How is it?
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    Vermilion and colored glass match.
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    We can pass off fakes as genuine.
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    This is what I figured out.
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    No one else would think of this.
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    Why are you getting ideas like that again?
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    Be careful, or Ah Long will find out.
[08:13] ---
    How will he, if you don't tell him?
[08:24] ---
    Come back.
[08:28] ---
    Are you up to no good again?
[08:36] ---
    Stop being so stubborn, Ah Long.
[08:38] ---
    This might be our future livelihood.
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    Livelihood?
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    Yeah.
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    You don't even see the ways of the world.
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    What kind of people are doing well?
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    In recent years, we've
    done so many great things,
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    made so many connections,
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    but in the end, we've made so little money.
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    I should have changed careers long ago,
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    and did some business.
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    Even if you do business,
    you can't sell fakes.
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    Martial artists cannot have evil thoughts.
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    Ah Long, don't be angry.
[09:05] ---
    Wa Pian is also thinking about us.
[09:07] ---
    But, Wa Pian, Ah Long is right.
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    You can't do business that scams people.
[09:12] ---
    You guys are stupid.
[09:14] ---
    Scamming people makes money.
[09:16] ---
    If you're good at it,
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    then your hands are clean.
[09:18] ---
    If you guys are so picky
    about what you want to do,
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    sooner or later, we're going to get killed.
[09:25] ---
    Ah Long, what you've been insisting on
[09:28] ---
    is seen by the world as being up to no good!
[09:30] ---
    Nonsense!
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    Still, no good?
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    The tendon is broken.
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    You should be satisfied that
    this leg can still move.
[10:03] ---
    B-But, Doctor, please think of another way.
[10:07] ---
    Please find someone better than me.
[10:09] ---
    But you are the famous doctor!
[10:11] ---
    Doctor, doctor!
[10:14] ---
    Forgot it.
[10:15] ---
    It's pointless to force him.
[10:17] ---
    I don't believe it.
[10:20] ---
    We've already seen so many doctors,
[10:22] ---
    yet you still don't believe it.
[10:24] ---
    My leg can't be cured.
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    Wa Pian.
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    Didn't I tell you earlier?
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    This is what I deserve.
[10:35] ---
    Ah Long, you don't have to care about it.
[10:38] ---
    I wasn't a good fighter anyway.
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    It doesn't matter if this leg is crippled.
[10:45] ---
    No.
[10:46] ---
    Let's find another famous doctor.
[10:47] ---
    Let's go to Luoyang.
[10:50] ---
    Ah Long!
[10:52] ---
    It's not good.
[10:57] ---
    I heard that Shi Jingtang's
    army has destroyed Luoyang.
[11:00] ---
    The emperor has also been burnt to death.
[11:01] ---
    In this turmoil and chaos of war,
[11:03] ---
    the Blackwater Faction has
    gathered lots of people,
[11:05] ---
    saying that they want to wipe us out.
[11:07] ---
    They want to take advantage
    of the chaos to get revenge.
[11:09] ---
    We can't be reckless.
[11:10] ---
    They came prepared, with lots of people.
[11:13] ---
    And, I'm now like this.
[11:17] ---
    I'm afraid I'll hold you back.
[11:22] ---
    Why don't we leave via the secret passage?
[11:25] ---
    Yeah. The secret passage goes to
    the mountain outside the city.
[11:27] ---
    Besides the three of us, no one else knows.
[11:30] ---
    Wa Pian is the clever one after all.
[11:31] ---
    To prepare for a rainy day,
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    getting us to dig a secret
    passage a long time ago.
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    Don't I specialize in getting up to no good?
[11:39] ---
    Fine, let's pack quickly, and
    enter the secret passage.
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    I can see it.
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    The exit is just ahead.
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    Hurry, Wa Pian.
[12:02] ---
    Put in some more effort.
[12:09] ---
    Wa Pian.
[12:10] ---
    Ah Long!
[12:15] ---
    Ah Long.
[12:40] ---
    Ah Long!
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    Run! You can't help by staying.
[13:05] ---
    Ah Long.
[13:10] ---
    Wait for me at the old mansion!
[13:16] ---
    Ah Long!
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    Don't worry, brother.
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    I will protect you guys.
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    Ah Long!
[13:38] ---
    Ah Long.
[14:02] ---
    Ah Long!
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    I know what is most important to Ah Long.
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    I will continue to defend him.
[14:32] ---
    But compared with fighting and killing,
[14:33] ---
    Xiao Tian prefers to cook.
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    So from then on,
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    in his hands, the cleaver
    became an actual cleaver.
[14:41] ---
    But there's one more person
    you must kill, right?
[14:47] ---
    Besides the three of them,
[14:48] ---
    no one else knew the secret passage's exit.
[14:50] ---
    So we've been looking for
    that person for 40 years.
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    He's really careful too.
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    He actually found an expert
    to help him with disguise.
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    We've passed by Xingxiangzhai Gate several
    times over the years without recognizing him.
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    How did you recognize him this time?
[15:07] ---
    Because Miss Tao bought that fake vase,
[15:10] ---
    Old Zhang was able to recognize him.
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    H-Hero, if you have something
    to say, then say it.
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    Take whatever you want from here.
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    Please spare me.
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    If there's nothing you like here,
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    I have treasure in my secret room.
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    Even now, you still have the
    habit of digging secret rooms.
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    Despite changing your name and appearance,
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    you're still like your old self.
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    Wa Pian.
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    You!
[15:44] ---
    Could it be that you are... Xiao Tian?
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    You're still alive.
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    You were so scared back then,
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    not even daring to go back
    to check on our corpses.
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    You misunderstood me.
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    Xiao Tian, I never meant to hurt you.
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    We're brothers.
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    Wasn't Ah Long a brother?
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    Who rescued you back then?
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    He would rather starve himself,
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    and let you eat first.
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    Who would stand in front of you
    so that people couldn't bully you?
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    I didn't want Ah Long to die either.
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    I was just angry.
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    We could've been living a good life.
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    He was being stubborn.
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    And...
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    And this leg was also his fault.
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    When he hit me,
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    did he not consider me a brother?
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    Let me tell you.
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    From the day my leg became crippled,
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    I swore that someday,
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    I'd make Ah Long leave me completely.
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    I couldn't let him control my life anymore.
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    I never thought that
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    a person's hatred could be hidden so deeply.
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    But this isn't the only reason, right?
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    Back then, before the incident,
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    the boss of the Blackwater Faction
    approached you privately, right?
[16:59] ---
    No, no, no!
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    No such thing, I--
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    I've been looking for you for 40 years!
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    You know my nature!
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    Fine!
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    It's all my fault.
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    Come on, Xiao Tian.
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    Since you found me,
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    kill me if you want!
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    Wa Pian.
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    We were once...
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    ...brothers.
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    Surrender yourself to the authorities.
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    Confess to how you killed
    your brother back then.
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    I'll give you three days.
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    If you haven't surrendered after three days,
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    I'll be back to settle things with you.
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    Fine, fine.
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    I'll listen to you.
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    This is all because of my sins.
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    I deserve to go to jail.
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    It's no wonder that these days,
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    I always dream of the past.
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    I dream that we're practicing
    martial arts in the mountains,
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    carrying the water tank together.
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    Xiao Tian,
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    I also...
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    ...can't bear it.
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    So is the killer actuall you,
[18:27] ---
    or Old Zhang?
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    Is there a difference?
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    Yes.
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    According to my ears and eyes,
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    the authorities are already on their way.
[18:35] ---
    Should they arrest a person,
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    or catch a spirit?
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    You seem to be worried about us.
[18:41] ---
    No, no, no.
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    I just can't stand the fact that
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    a knife which has decapitated someone
    is hanging around the kitchen every day.
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    You are worried about us.
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    Don't be too self-conscious, little spirit.
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    You'd actually eat cold buns.
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    What kind of spirit are you?
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    A big spirit who can eat you!
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    Who let you out?
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    There's a Long Que in there.
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    So what?
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    I lost so much this time.
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    The culprit is dead.
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    I have to find some compensation.
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    Don't you know how rare Long Que are?
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    Catch it and seal it within a bladed weapon.
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    It would become a divine weapon,
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    and can sell for a lot of money.
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    If you touch it,
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    I will ruin Si Kuang Lan's face.
[19:31] ---
    Hey, how did Si Kuang Lan
    show up in our conversation?
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    You drool every time you see him.
[19:38] ---
    Do you think I'm blind?
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    Running away so quickly,
    who are you reporting to?
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    People who don't know would
    think you're busting for a wee.
[19:47] ---
    Is it really that obvious?
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    I was clearly being very subtle.
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    People from the House of Si can't
    be taken just because you want them.
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    Second young master, your cook, Zhang Tian,
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    is the biggest suspect in
    the Xingxiangzhai case.
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    Please don't make things difficult for us.
[20:06] ---
    It's not difficult.
[20:07] ---
    It's just that Zhang Tian
    has resigned and left.
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    Even if I want to help you,
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    there's nothing I can do.
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    He left?
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    How can this be?
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    Lord Shen, if you don't believe me,
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    you can search my house.
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    If I have lied,
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    I'll go back with you to be punished.
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    Since this is what you've said,
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    a search won't be necessary.
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    Excuse me.
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    There's no need to see me out.
[20:41] ---
    Where do you plan to go?
[20:42] ---
    I'll go wherever I go.
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    Then I wish you good luck all the way.
[20:46] ---
    Never get caught.
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    Okay, thank you.
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    Although we haven't known
    each other for long,
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    I taught you how to cook,
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    so there's a master and
    disciple relationship.
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    With a drink, let's consider
    that our destiny is fulfilled.
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    I suggest that you have another drink,
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    as there won't be anyone to drink
    with when you travel too far.
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    We should have a drink.
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    This time I left in a rush,
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    and there's no time to teach you
    the dishes that I was going to.
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    These are my recipes.
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    All the specifics are here.
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    I can tell that you're a smart kid.
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    One day, you'll be able to cook
    the best dishes in the world.
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    Thank you.
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    Oh yeah.
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    Didn't Ah Long die 40 years ago?
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    Couldn't you have left this
    cleaver a long time ago?
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    Yes, I could have left long ago.
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    But I can't forget the days
    that I spent with them.
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    Their youth,
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    sorrow and joy.
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    They seem to have become mine too.
[22:17] ---
    I want to keep defending like this.
[22:20] ---
    Then keep on defending.
[22:22] ---
    In this case,
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    there will be someone even
    if you travel too far.
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    The Fairies Album records that
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    the West has clouds,
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    and behind the clouds, there are Long Que.
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    Like a bird and like the wind,
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    they are said to be born from the first wind.
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    Although they became spirits,
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    they have a peaceful nature.
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    A blade that has a Long Que inside
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    will be as fast as the wind,
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    and become a famous weapon.
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    Unfortunately, the Fairies
    Album did not record that
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    there is a Long Que in the world,
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    which is willing to give up
    freedom to accompany an old man.
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    Excellent!
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    From today on,
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    the kitchen is my battlefield alone!