E24 - Jinshi and Maomao

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[01:31] Lakan
    Fengxian...
[01:33] Lakan
    I wanted to be with the daughter she left behind.
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[01:36] Lakan
    That was my only wish.
[01:41] Lakan
    It's only natural for her to hate me.
[01:44] Lakan
    But I still wanted her near me.
[01:52] Lakan
    At any rate, a bet is a bet.
    I'll have to try again another time.
[01:57] Lakan
    But that man...
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[02:00] Lakan
    I'll never forgive him.
[02:01] Lakan
    He put his hand on my daughter's shoulder
    three times during that match.
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[02:05] Lakan
    Now, I wonder how to take my revenge...
[02:09] Lakan
    Hmm?
[02:09] Old Lady
    Finally awake?
[02:11] Old Lady
    I hear you're trying to buy out one of our courtesans.
[02:14] Old Lady
    You realize it'll cost you more than
    a few thousand silver, right?
[02:19] Lakan
    I know. If ten thousand isn't enough,
    then twenty, thirty, whatever.
[02:24] Lakan
    A hundred thousand, though,
    might be a bit much.
[02:27] Old Lady
    Is that so? Then come this way.
[02:30] Old Lady
    I'll let you have your pick.
[02:34] Lakan
    Sheesh.
[02:59] Lakan
    Are you sure you want to include
    one of the Three Princesses?
[03:02] Old Lady
    I told you, you can have your pick.
[03:05] Old Lady
    Of course, you'd have to pay accordingly.
[03:08] Lakan
    This is troublesome.
[03:11] Lakan
    No matter how beautifully they dress,
    they all look like go stones to me.
[03:16] Lakan
    In that case, I guess I can request Meimei,
    since she's been so good to me.
[03:30] Meimei
    Master Lakan.
[03:34] Meimei
    I do hold pride in my work as a courtesan.
[03:38] Meimei
    If it is me that you desire,
    I will accept without hesitation.
[03:46] Meimei
    But...
[03:51] Meimei
    If you're going to choose, please choose well.
[04:00] Fengxian
    Sleep, my baby, sleep.
[04:07] Fengxian
    Little cuckoo sings as the sun goes down.
[04:09] Old Lady
    Meimei! I didn't allow you to open that!
[04:13] Old Lady
    What are you doing?!
[04:16] Old Lady
    W-Wait!
[04:23] Lakan
    A flower that retains its beauty
    even when withered!
[04:28] Lakan
    If that was supposed to be a message...
[04:32] Lakan
    Could it be?!
[04:34] Fengxian
    Sleep, my baby, sleep.
[04:38] Fengxian
    Where is she? She cries.
[04:46] Fengxian
    Little birds are so innocent.
[04:54] Fengxian
    Off they fly to somewhere far.
[05:03] Fengxian
    Sleep, my baby, sleep.
[05:10] Fengxian
    Sleep now, and I'll see you tomorrow.
[05:20] Old Lady
    What are you doing?!
    This place is for the sick!
[05:23] Old Lady
    Get out of here, now!
[05:24] Old Lady
    Hurry up and pick a courtesan from out there!
[05:28] Lakan
    Yes. I have to choose, don't I?
[05:32] Old Lady
    Are you listening to me?!
[05:43] Lakan
    I want this woman.
[05:46] Old Lady
    Stop this nonsense!
[05:48] Lakan
    You're the one who said
    I can pick anyone I want.
[05:51] Lakan
    I'll pay whatever you ask. A hundred thousand,
    two hundred thousand, whatever.
[05:57] Old Lady
    What are you talking about—
[06:32] Lakan
    Let's play go.
[06:48] Lakan
    Oh, so that's your move?
[06:51] Lakan
    Your moves are always so sudden and unexpected.
[06:54] Lakan
    Maomao must have gotten that from you.
[07:03] Meimei
    Big Sister, you should have been
    honest from the start.
[07:10] Meimei
    Why so late...
[07:17] Lakan
    I will buy out this courtesan.
[07:23] Lakan
    This woman, beautiful as a balsam flower.
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[07:39] Maomao
    Basen was the one that accompanied me to the Verdigris House to drop off that man.
[07:46] Maomao
    I'm tired.
[07:49] Maomao
    Hmm?
[07:50] Basen
    Dammit, the wicked father-daughter duo.
[07:55] Maomao
    That's Concubine Loulan.
[07:58] Maomao
    I guess they stayed out here
    after the garden party.
[08:01] Maomao
    So that must be her father,
[08:03] Maomao
    the one that pushed hard to get
    his daughter in the rear palace.
[08:08] Maomao
    At any rate...
[08:10] Maomao
    I really wish this guy would quit bad-mouthing
    high-ranked officials in public.
[08:15] Maomao
    If someone overheard, I might get
    mistaken for saying it right along with him.
[08:20] Maomao
    I guess he's still young.
[08:22] Basen
    Hey.
[08:24] Basen
    Master Jinshi wants to see you.
[08:30] Jinshi
    You must be tired.
[08:32] Maomao
    No, not really.
[08:34] Suiren
    Oh!
[08:36] Suiren
    Oh my, you've lost so much weight!
[08:39] Maomao
    I'm fine.
[08:42] Suiren
    Here you are, Xiaomao. Eat up.
[08:46] Suiren
    There's plenty more where that came from.
[08:52] Jinshi
    I thought you hated our master strategist.
[08:57] Maomao
    Master Jinshi.
[09:00] Maomao
    It's not that I hate him.
[09:02] Maomao
    After all, I'm here because
    he was able to land that shot.
[09:07] Jinshi
    Was there really no other way to phrase that?
[09:09] Maomao
    It's just facts. I'm not sure
    how you imagined it,
[09:13] Maomao
    but she wouldn't have gotten
    pregnant if she didn't want to.
[09:18] Maomao
    There's drugs to prevent
    or abort pregnancies.
[09:20] Maomao
    Ending it would have been easy, early on.
[09:23] Maomao
    She must have given birth
    because she wanted to.
[09:27] Maomao
    Rather, perhaps he was the one who was tricked.
[09:31] Jinshi
    The strategist?
[09:33] Maomao
    Women are clever.
[09:35] Maomao
    It's not hard to make a good estimate of
    when one is most likely to become pregnant
[09:39] Maomao
    by tracking blood flow cycles.
[09:41] Maomao
    As a courtesan, she was able to control
    the date of his visits by sending him letters.
[09:47] Maomao
    That must have been why she lost her
    mind when things didn't work out.
[09:53] Maomao
    So much so, that she was
    willing to hurt herself.
[09:58] Maomao
    Not only that, but she sent
    the baby's little finger as well.
[10:05] Maomao
    Master Jinshi, that man never talks to you
    outside your office, does he?
[10:12] Jinshi
    Now that you mention it...
[10:13] Maomao
    That man isn't able to recognize human faces.
[10:16] Jinshi
    Unable to recognize faces? What do you mean?
[10:19] Maomao
    He can tell the shapes of eyes and mouths,
[10:22] Maomao
    but he's unable to view
    the parts together as a whole.
[10:24] Maomao
    I hear that everyone's faces
    look the same to him.
[10:27] Jinshi
    That's unfortunate.
[10:30] Maomao
    Yes, that's what my adopted father
    told me too, when he explained it to me.
[10:35] (Flashback) Luomen
    He's an unfortunate fellow.
    It has troubled him all throughout his life.
[10:40] (Flashback) Maomao
    Huh...
[10:43] Maomao
    But, for some reason,
[10:45] Maomao
    he's able to discern my face,
    and my adopted father's.
[10:49] Maomao
    That's why he has that
     strange attachment to me.
[10:54] Maomao
    Master Jinshi,
[10:55] Maomao
    if that monocled face came at you and told you,
     "Call me Papa!", how would you react?
[11:02] Jinshi
    I'd be tempted to shatter that monocle.
[11:04] Maomao
    Right?
[11:07] Maomao
    He keeps stressing that he's my father,
    but he's a stud-horse, at best.
[11:15] Maomao
    I wonder if he understood the message
    behind the withered rose?
[11:20] Maomao
    Well, it's fine if he didn't.
[11:25] Maomao
    I do dislike him, but I don't hate him.
[11:28] Maomao
    I'm grateful that I was able
    to become Luomen's daughter.
[11:32] Jinshi
    You seemed pretty disgusted when you saw him.
[11:36] Maomao
    Master Jinshi, you still have a lot to learn.
[11:40] Maomao
    When I tried to stop
    that ceremony, he helped me.
[11:45] Maomao
    I think he had the feeling
    something was going to happen.
[11:49] Jinshi
    The strategist? I didn't think he knew
    anything about it at that point.
[11:53] Maomao
    He doesn't collect evidence
    to make predictions like I do.
[11:57] Maomao
    He goes off gut feelings to sense when
    something's not right, and he's rarely wrong.
[12:05] Maomao
    The annoying part is that he's too lazy
    to actually do anything himself.
[12:11] Maomao
    If that guy actually took action,
[12:15] Maomao
    I might have had the resurrection
    drug in my hands right now!
[12:23] Maomao
    I know this is just jealousy.
[12:26] Maomao
    He's so talented that my dad would
    praise him with no caveats.
[12:29] Maomao
    He doesn't realize how blessed he is.
[12:34] Maomao
    Hmph!
[12:36] Maomao
    He will never become your ally, but you
    shouldn't make him your enemy, if possible.
[12:41] Jinshi
    Understood.
[12:44] Maomao
    What's wrong?
[12:46] Gaoshun
    Nothing, just...
[12:49] Gaoshun
    Please remember that
    no father wants to be disliked.
[13:00] Maomao
    A few days after returning to the rear palace,
[13:02] Maomao
    Meimei sent me a package.
[13:06] Maomao
    Inside was a letter
    describing who bought out who,
[13:10] Maomao
    and a beautiful shawl.
[13:13] Meimei
    Listen, Maomao.
[13:15] Meimei
    When I get bought out,
    you have to dance for me.
[13:27] Maomao
    To be honest, I wanted to send off Meimei.
[13:33] Maomao
    That courtesan, kinder than anyone else...
[15:51] Maomao
    I'm surprised I still remember all of that.
[15:56] Jinshi
    Hey.
[15:58] Jinshi
    Wha—
[16:08] Jinshi
    What are you doing?!
[16:09] Maomao
    Master Jinshi? Why are you here?
[16:13] Jinshi
    I got a report that another weird
    woman was climbing the outer wall.
[16:17] Jinshi
    I had no choice but to respond.
[16:19] Maomao
    I thought I was being sneaky, but...
[16:21] Maomao
    Of course I'd get caught.
[16:24] Jinshi
    Stop causing trouble.
[16:26] Maomao
    Why'd you have to be the one to investigate?
    They could have just sent someone else.
[16:32] Jinshi
    A kind guard recognized your face
    and came directly to me.
[16:38] Jinshi
    You might think you're keeping a low profile,
    but not everyone agrees. Remember that.
[16:42] Maomao
    Understood.
[16:44] Jinshi
    Now, your turn. What were you doing?
[16:50] Maomao
    In the pleasure district, when sending off
    a courtesan who's been bought out,
[16:54] Maomao
    it's customary for the other
    courtesans to dance.
[16:58] Maomao
    What is it?
[16:59] Jinshi
    Well, I'm surprised you know how to dance.
[17:05] Maomao
    I was taught dancing as part of
    the bare minimum of education.
[17:09] Jinshi
    There were rumors on the outside
    that the weirdo was buying out a courtesan.
[17:15] Maomao
    I'm sure there were.
[17:16] Jinshi
    He also sent a notice of leave.
[17:19] Jinshi
    He's going to take a vacation
    for at least ten days.
[17:22] Maomao
    What a troublesome man.
[17:24] Maomao
    My elder sister told me that
    they're hosting a banquet
[17:26] Maomao
    not just for three days and three nights,
[17:28] Maomao
    but a whole seven days and seven nights.
[17:32] Maomao
    There's no way to know how much
    he spent on the courtesan,
[17:35] Maomao
    but just from the number
    of lamps being put out,
[17:37] Maomao
    it's only natural to assume
    it's no normal courtesan.
[17:41] Maomao
    But the actual courtesan being
    bought out is never seen in public.
[17:48] Maomao
    Rumors of the Verdigris House continue to grow.
[17:52] Maomao
    Just how old Grams planned it.
[17:55] Jinshi
    By the way, who did
    the strategist buy out, anyway?
[17:59] Maomao
    Who knows?
[18:02] Jinshi
    You do.
[18:04] Maomao
    No matter how beautiful,
    she will be no match for you.
[18:07] Jinshi
    That doesn't answer my question.
[18:10] Maomao
    But you still don't deny it.
[18:12] Maomao
    The woman who the man
    bought out won't last long.
[18:18] Maomao
    Nobody told me about the woman who
    birthed me during my days at the brothel.
[18:24] Maomao
    The old lady probably kept everyone silent.
[18:28] Maomao
    But those types of things tend to leak out
    from seemingly small cracks.
[18:33] Maomao
    That I was the reason the Verdigris House
    almost went out of business, once.
[18:38] Maomao
    My relationship with the woman who always
    chased me off, ashamed for losing her pride.
[18:45] Maomao
    That nightmare was a thing
    that really happened in the past.
[18:52] Maomao
    That woman has no memories of being a mother.
[18:55] Maomao
    All she has now is a crooked little finger.
[19:01] Maomao
    None of that matters to me anymore.
[19:04] Maomao
    I'm happy to be Luomen's daughter.
[19:09] Maomao
    Master Jinshi.
[19:10] Jinshi
    What is it?
[19:13] Maomao
    You can cut off the tip of a finger
    and it grows back.
[19:18] Jinshi
    Is now the time for that?
[19:21] Maomao
    Whoa!
[19:23] Jinshi
    W-What happened?!
[19:25] Maomao
    Looks like my wound opened up.
[19:27] Jinshi
    Sure looks that way to me, too!
[19:29] Maomao
    I guess the dancing got my body warmed up.
[19:33] Maomao
    I have a high pain tolerance,
    perhaps due to my drug experiments.
[19:38] Maomao
    It's fine, I'll stitch it right back up.
[19:43] Maomao
    Master Jinshi, I can't work like this.
[19:46] Jinshi
    Don't do that here!
[19:56] Maomao
    Um, Master Jinshi—Whoa!
[20:01] Maomao
    Please let me down.
[20:03] Jinshi
    You'll open up your wound further.
[20:05] Maomao
    What if someone sees us?
[20:09] Jinshi
    It's too dark to see, anyway.
[20:12] Jinshi
    Besides, this is the second time
    I'm carrying you like this.
[20:15] Maomao
    The other time must have been when
    I was knocked out from that injury.
[20:20] Maomao
    Master Jinshi.
[20:22] Maomao
    This may not be the best time,
[20:24] Maomao
    but there's something I've meant
    to say for a long time.
[20:27] Jinshi
    What's this, all of a sudden?
[20:30] Maomao
    It's a very important thing I have to say.
[20:42] Jinshi
    Out with it, already.
[20:46] Maomao
    Master Jinshi...
[20:55] Maomao
    I'd like that ox bezoar, please.
[20:59] Maomao
    Ow!
[21:03] Maomao
    Wait, you don't have it?!
[21:06] Jinshi
    Don't be absurd!
[21:08] Jinshi
    I don't even...
[21:10] Maomao
    How immature, headbutting me out of nowhere.
[21:15] Maomao
    But I guess he's easiest to talk to
    when he's being immature.
[21:41] Yinghua
    Maomao!
[21:43] Yinghua
    Master Jinshi's here to see you!
[21:46] Maomao
    Coming.
[21:50] Maomao
    Excuse me.
[21:55] Jinshi
    Are you feeling better now?
[21:58] Maomao
    Yes. Everyone's very nice to me
    at the Jade Pavilion.
[22:06] Maomao
    So, how may I be of service?
[22:10] Jinshi
    Well, something interesting came up.
[22:17] Jinshi
    I'd like to ask something of you.
[22:20] Maomao
    Oh, this again.
[22:26] Maomao
    So, what is it that you
    would like for me to do?
[22:36] Narrator
    Maomao's story has just begun.
[22:41] Narrator
    What kind of incident
    will she get mixed up in next?
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