【Movie】叔叔們都把她當沒見識的女人，殊不知她是商業奇才，西域富商都上趕着求合作！
Where is Zhou Ying? Why hasn’t she come to meet me? Zhou Ying is no longer the
Patriarch of the Wu Family She is not the Patriarch.
Can she not meet people? That’s not the reason It’s not appropriate for her to
appear in public because of her identity True I’ve travelled thousands of miles just to meet her here She does not want to see me Whatever you say, I insist on going in You can’t. You can’t – You mean it? – Hurry up. Stop her Let me take them all What are you doing? These are my account books If you don’t allow me in I’ll throw them in the
water vat accidentally I beg you, I beg you Go away Masters have ordered to ask Young Mistress of the Eastern
Courtyard to meet a guest in Liuchuan Hall Now I’m invited, but I prefer not to go in Tu Erdan, I’m here Zhou Ying, being one day apart
feels like three years have passed Tu Erdan Several hundred years seem to
have passed since we last met I didn’t expect to see you again so soon Shall we talk inside? No, no I’m not eligible to go inside Let’s talk here in the sunshine Come and sit down Okay Didn’t you say that you’d
come next year the earliest? Yes, I did But I said to myself that I must go to Shaanxi
, to Jingyang, earlier I want to visit Zhou Ying So I postponed all my other business and came earlier You’ve come at the right time I have something to discuss with you What to discuss? You’re in charge Really? Of course What if I ask you to spend a lot of money? You can spend my money any way you wish Agreed? Agreed But Zhou Ying I just heard that you were no
longer the Patriarch of the Wu Family Correct It was for you that I decided to give all my business to your Wu Family If you are no longer in charge I would feel a little worried In fact I often… Boss Tu, the fact is that Zhou Ying is still in charge but just not as many matters as before She still looks after your business Great. Okay We propose a toast to Boss Tu – Welcome. – Welcome.
– Welcome. – Thanks. Thanks – Welcome. – Welcome. – Welcome Boss Tu – Come on. – Please. – Please Boss Tu this time how long do you plan to stay in Jingyang? Thank you I came here for a very important business If it goes well, I’ll stay a few more days If not I’ll leave immediately May I ask Boss Tu what it is? Will you tell us? The Wu Family might even offer some help True Are you willing to help? Of course You must keep your word Rest assured We Shaanxi merchants always keep our word True, true I’ll say it then Zhou Ying I came to Jingyang this
time specially for you For me? What is it? I’m not married yet Will you marry me? Bring them up Zhou Ying, come here Brother, this… These 20,000 taels of
gold is to show my sincerity You said that you had never
seen a real snow lotus before This snow lotus was picked by me personally
on the top of Mt Tianshan Is this just for some words I said? No, it is for my love to you Weiquan Somebody come here Boss Tu there might be some misunderstanding You don’t know Zhou Ying’s status, do you? She is a widow of the Wu Family I know Her husband died long ago Since you know that… But she has no husband now I can be her husband You This is so inappropriate and so shameful! Zhou Ying will you marry me? I I’m totally confused Fulai give me some wine Come on, quick Boss Tu, please leave Boss Wu didn’t you say just now
that you would help me? Please help me persuade Zhou Ying Brother, will you really help him? How would I have known this wish of his? I know it is a big decision to make You don’t need to reply immediately Anyhow I’ll be in
Jingyang for a few more days But I hope you can give me happiness and joy I I… I need to think it over I’ll wait for your answer then I have drunk and said
enough, and I’m leaving Take away this dirty stuff! Weiquan Brother Drive him out of here immediately Weiquan all Wu Family business depends on Tu Erdan We can’t afford offending him Even if we offend him, so what? Brother look You all listen carefully What happened just now will
remain within these four walls You’re all dismissed Wang Shijun, come here Master Assign a few people to
guard the gold carefully Sure Zhou Ying please leave also As to how to deal with
what happened just now we’ll discuss later Let’s go Let’s go What’s your plan? What do you think? Accept his proposal Why? It’s 20,000 taels of gold He is wealthier than the Shen Family After so many years if there is ever a chance you still want to sell me I’m thinking for your own good Okay, okay, okay Look at this flower He climbed a high mountain to pick it and took pain to bring it to Jingyang He seemed very sincere You get both him and his wealth.
That’s great Uncle Si, Young Mistress is the dinner finished so early? What is this? Don’t touch it This is Tu Erdan’s heart Heart? This? What did Zhou Ying say? She neither accepted nor refused Mistress, this is not a trivial matter You should see the Masters and discuss as soon as possible Just showing off with his money! Made a trip to Dihua and flirted around A disgrace to the Wu Family! Everyone likes money But it’s a shame to
disgrace oneself for money We should have beaten him up rather than seeing him off so courteously Master, who are you cursing this time? Everyone In my view it’s pointless If Zhou Ying wants to get married no one could stop her Whatever! Who cares! The Wu Family doesn’t need her at all Master, to be honest Zhou Ying did an excellent
job managing the business She has done enough for the Wu Family If she wants to remarry it’ll be hard for me to object Stupid country woman Stupid country woman You Where are you going? To see my brother A stubborn old man! It’s absurd If Zhou Ying was a person of chastity she should have declined him on the spot But she was equivocating which made Tu Erdan still hopeful Zhou Ying was not a chaste
woman nor from a noble family She was barely a busker Only a few days ago she took a rehabilitated
actress as her sister She has no chastity at all! Master, Mistress of the
Eastern Courtyard is here Sister Weiwu Come in please Weiwu what shall we do? Sister, don’t worry I’m trying to find a solution Please take a seat Maybe you and Weiquan
should make a decision to break off with Tu Erdan and forbid him from visiting again I’m afraid we can’t do that Now all Wu Family’s
business depends on Tu Erdan You want to earn his money and he wants your people If your eldest brother was alive he wouldn’t allow others to bully us Sister, rest assured I will find a proper way to dispel Tu Erdan’s wishful thinking without offending him Brother, Sister You are here too Weiquan, you must help
the Eastern Courtyard Don’t worry If necessary, we and Tu Erdan break off! Weiquan! Stop saying that so irresponsibly If we really broke off with Tu Erdan we three Courtyards
will all have a hard time Brother you are afraid of offending Tu Erdan.
But I am not! I’m not afraid I just don’t think it is necessary Besides, the key person here is not Tu Erdan but Zhou Ying True. If Zhou Ying makes up her mind Even if Tu Erdan offers a gold mountain it would be useless What to do then? What about talking again with Zhou Ying about the principle of preserving chastity? It’s useless talking
chastity with Zhou Ying However, Zhou Ying
treasures her love for Wu Pin Probably from that angle she might be convinced But Wu Pin has been dead for many years In any case let’s find out first what Zhou Ying thinks Wu Yi and Zhou Ying are
close friends, aren’t they? Well, I’ll ask my daughter
to ascertain what she thinks That’s good Miss Yi I heard it Sister You’re here too Chunxing, bring tea here Will you leave the Wu Family? I’m very confused at the moment Do you really want to marry Tu Erdan? I have regarded him as a friend and a business partner I’ve never had any thought of marrying him That’s settled then.
Why are you still confused? But it’s 20,000 taels of gold which is 200,000 taels of silver With this money my mechanical weaving
bureau could be set up Is the bureau more important than
your lifetime happiness? A woman’s life is hard enough Rather than marrying a man I don’t love and live with him for my whole life I would die You You are my sister Surely I don’t wish you to be widow forever Therefore, I backed you
to look for another man But if I were you I would find one I love If not let alone 100,000 taels of gold even for a gold mountain I would not marry him No? No But if you like him no matter what you must catch him How? Who do you want to catch? Miss Yi, forget it Just wait for the day when your
parents put you in a bridal sedan chair You are not like us thinking about catching men every day Sis Yi what’s wrong? Will you tell me what’s
going on in your mind? Maybe I can help you The Leng Family of Gaoling
came to my family to propose The eldest son of the Leng Family? It seems to be But I’ve never met him before I met him once when I was discussing
business with the family He is not bad He is handsome and honest But I don’t like him You have never met him.
How can you say you don’t like him? It’s very simple She has another man in her heart Is Qianhong right? Tell me. Who are you fond of? You know him I know him? He saved me Saved you? Magistrate Zhao! Is he not good? Good. Very good He is only too stubborn What about him? How does he feel about you? My brother once asked him But he was preoccupied with the Bureau and was too busy to think about marriage Sis Yi, I have a way to help When you go back, encourage your dad to agree with me to invest in the Bureau Once the Bureau is up and running Magistrate Zhao will have time to think about his marriage And I don’t have to marry Tu Erdan It is ‘Killing two birds with one stone’ Aren’t you tired beating
around the bush like that? If I were you I would tell him directly that I like you I’m your girl and don’t fall in love
with other girls in the future That’s it Stop it Look, you’ve scared her I was telling the truth Let me tell you While I was at Chunfeng Shili if I liked any guest I must hurry up If not, he would be
taken away by other girls We’re not talking about Chunfeng Shili But isn’t it about the same
thing between men and women? Zhou Ying wished to
invest, and dad stopped her No I must talk to dad This is beneficial to
both the nation and people He must not obstruct Thank you, brother What for? You had other purposes Tu Erdan I’m disappointed Why? You came to Jingyang but did not come to see me I heard it from others that you were here I did want to see you but I was preoccupied You’ve come, relax and take your time Listen In Jingyang there are many interesting places I can take you around to enjoy them Let’s go to Xi’an if you wish even going to Beijing is no big deal I’m here this time for
a very important matter Before it is done I will not go anywhere What is it? So mysterious Tell me. I’ll help you You can’t help I can’t? In Jingyang there is nothing that
the Shen Family can’t help Even if you can you won’t Tu Erdan we are brothers Your business is my business Tell me and I will help you Tell me I can’t tell you You don’t regard me as your brother No, it’s not that Well, tell me if it’s not Hurry up. I can’t wait Hurry up. Tell me Tell me I want to propose to Zhou Ying Well… well what? I want to marry Zhou Ying You want to marry Zhou Ying? Well Zhou Ying Zhou Ying Zhou Ying! She is my woman Zhou Ying is not your woman I know What I mean is that though she is not my woman now she will be in the future But now she is not I know she is not now How do I explain to you? Let me tell you this way I like this woman very much. You know it I know So Why do you…? You can’t do this Do you mean I cannot like
her because you like her? If you could make her happy I wouldn’t disturb her Besides, the fact that you
like her is your business But she doesn’t like you Tu Erdan how do you know Zhou Ying does not like me? He might not like me now but she will like me in the future In the future? who knows what would happen in the future? I like her now When a man likes a woman the sincerest thing to do is to propose to her Did I do anything wrong? No, nothing Everything you’re doing is correct Listen Starting from this meal we’re no longer brothers and never will be! Let’s go You asked me to tell you Now you want to break off with me? Aren’t you contradicting yourself? Young Mistress Young Mistress, Young Master of
the Shen Family is asking to see you Let him in Yes Zhou Ying did you accept Tu Erdan’s proposal? What does this have to do with you? Don’t accept it Don’t Why shouldn’t I? He brought 20,000 taels of gold Well, if I give you 30,000 taels of gold would you marry me? I detest you. No What about 50,000 taels? No 100,000 taels? No I will not no matter how much you offer Alright. Marry him if you like But let me tell you no matter how many times
you marry in your life one day I will make you marry me willingly
without asking for one coin Young Mistress, are you alright? When Tu Erdan said that he would give me 20,000
taels of gold, I felt moved But when he said he would
give me 30,000 taels of gold I felt angry. Why? Probably Young Master Shen and Tu Erdan weigh differently in your heart Mom So early, Xing I have an extremely important request You must help me What is it? Mom, I’ve fallen in love with a girl Will you help me propose to her family? Now you’ve finally come around I have come around long ago Only our family business has been too busy Who have you fallen in love with? She is from the Wu Family The Wu Family? Although she is not from the
Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family her family name is Wu after all Although her cousin died too the idea of Yuesheng makes me feel… No, Mom, who are you talking about? You meant Wu Yi of the Western
Courtyard of the Wu Family, don’t you? Not her Who is it then? Mom Mom do you remember that we once had a maid? I was planning to take her as my concubine But she ran away I do remember that maid who angered me with
stomach ache for several days It’s her Her? Didn’t you say you’ve fallen in
love with a girl of the Wu Family? How come you’re talking about a maid? Right. She is not a maid of the Wu Family She is… She… After she left our family she married Wu Pin What? That widow Never Mom I’m really fond of her Xing, since you were a child,
you had everything you wanted But this time, it’s absolutely impossible If you don’t go to propose now she would agree to marry another person Thank God Mom, I’m imploring you Listen I can agree with anything you want But that you want to marry a widow of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family is absolutely impossible! Mom let me tell you this way If I can’t marry her I will never marry for my whole life! Xing Xing Hupo, Liuli go and inquire where Master is and ask him to come
home as soon as possible Okay Go and see if Dowager has got up or not Okay Where is Zhou Ying? We are here already but she hasn’t come Master Weiquan, I have
sent for Young Mistress Carry away these boxes! I hate to see them What? Young Mistress went out early this morning Where did she go? She went to visit Tu Erdan Look. She is offering herself This is so disgraceful Weiquan This damn box! About Tu Erdan’s crazy remarks what does Zhou Ying think? Master this kind of matter Young Mistress would never tell us Zhou Ying I’m planning to go to Buhar Khan next It’s remote and very barren at present And my next plan is to open a trade route there That’s fantastic Would you help me? No problem Excellent – This way please. – Please Let me also tell that the trade route… The tea I provided you last month was this All was picked from the same mountain Not bad The price I offered you was 20% lower than the marked price So cheap But they have a condition Next year we must buy from them again And buy 500 boxes more than this year I’ve promised them That’s good What if I don’t need that much? Didn’t you say next your
you wanted to open that… that Bulhar Khan trade route? It will need a lot of tea 500 boxes may not even be enough Zhou Ying, you’re really smart Come on. Let’s take a look at the silk Let’s go Once inside the shop you just start swearing at me Nothing is good. Nothing is satisfactory Then you slam the door and leave I’ll take care of the rest No problem Boss Tu, please Mistress Boss Tu look at the silk of this shop The silk of this shop has been my choice among
scores of silk family shops and is the best of the best Do you call this best of the best? This product of the Lu Family is of the same quality
as that of the Cao Family I told you many times I only want Cao Family’s product Do you want my business or not? Why don’t you take a look first? No Let’s go Why did you ask me to swear at you? If you didn’t how could I have managed to
save you 3,000 taels of silver? Did they agree to lower the price? And also gave me a
good quality handkerchief to wipe my tears Zhou Ying, you’re really smart Come in and have a look Hello, Mistress Hello Are these the goods I supplied？ Yes I remember that my supplies were whole skins These are all bits and pieces Do you call this bits and pieces? This is style Take a closer look Your whole skins were cut and made into
most fashionable products Look at the chapeau, the vest, the mantle It took me a lot of efforts to make your one whole skin sell for the price of two How could you brush it
aside as bits and pieces? Okay, I was wrong. You are right Later you have to drink three cups more Okay, okay Tu Erdan some time ago Shen Xingyi and I supplied
you some native cloth Are they sold out? All sold out Will you supply me some more? If I supply you more native cloth it will ruin you Why? Let me show you something Zhou Ying What do you think about the foreign cloth? Very good Actually, I did try
selling foreign cloth before But it was too expensive Back then the price was seven
or eight times higher than now So it didn’t sell well at all But with the current price it would definitely sell well What if it is only one third of the current price? Is there foreign cloth at that price? Sure Brother we can’t let them go on
willfully like this anymore Oh, my brother say something We must be decisive and do something Let me think it over Think over You always think over and think over If this became public it would be a big joke of the Wu Family Don’t push me! You’re patient? Okay. You sit here and wait I’m not patient! Get a few guys and follow me Where to? Is there foreign cloth
cheaper than this in the market? Yes But not now When then? Once we have our mechanical weaving bureau there will be So you mean we manufacture foreign
cloth ourselves, don’t you? Yes Presently Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau is under preparation The government is responsible
for ordering the machines and will give preferential
tax incentives and protection If we can invest 200,000 taels of silver we will have 80% of the shares Is this what you told me that you had important
matters to discuss with me? Yes, and I think it is very promising But I don’t have that much money Tu Erdan, are you willing
to invest together with me? Zhou Ying if you marry me let alone 200,000 taels I’m willing to give you 2,000,000 to spend Tu Erdan I believe whether in central
mainland or in Xinjiang there must be many women
who would like to marry you Why do you like me? Because you’re the most special
woman I have ever met But I’m a widow So what? In the eyes of those people around me I’m an ominous woman, a scourge I don’t care what the
people around you think But I know in my eyes you are my most beautiful snow lotus Tu Erdan don’t do this I can’t help it I, Tu Erdan have been a free eagle in Dihua But ever since you came to Dihua and then left me I have lost my freedom While I eat and sleep and even while I do
business, I think of you Originally, I planned
to visit you in September But I really couldn’t wait anymore Besides, Shen Xingyi
also came back to Jingyang The way he looks at you is the same as the way I look at you Honestly speaking I fear that you might be taken away by him Zhou Ying, I don’t want
to be like this either but I can’t help it This is really important Zhou Ying will you marry me? I… Master Weiquan Stay back! Uncle Weiquan Niece it’s time to go home I’m discussing business with Boss Tu Now Bro Weiwu is the Patriarch For any business matters Boss Tu, please talk with Bro Weiwu But we’re talking about private business Even for private business Come back with me I don’t want to go back Let her go! Boss Tu please don’t meddle in
our Wu Family’s business Uncle Weiquan why are you doing this? Boss Tu this is Jingyang Let’s go What do you want? What do you want? No one can take away
Zhou Ying in front of me Zhou Ying is a woman of the Wu Family Zhou Ying is my woman I’m nobody’s woman Uncle Weiquan, if I
really wanted to remarry you wouldn’t be able to stop me I’m your elder It’s perfectly justified
for me to decide for you Zhou Ying, what are you doing? Great! I like it Put away the knife or people would laughed at it Uncle Weiquan so long as I wish you can’t stop me Put away the knife Tu Erdan I like money You’re wealthy and generous I really wanted to marry you My original plan was to accept your proposal first to swindle your 20,000 taels of gold to invest in the mechanical weaving bureau I would then cop out on my acceptance But my late husband had advised me not to gain by cheating even more so by cheating
people who trusts me Hence, I must tell you honestly I don’t love you You don’t love me Is it because I’m not good enough? No You’re very good You’re forthright and upright If I met you ten years earlier I would do everything possible to marry you Well why don’t you love me now? Love for someone comes from one’s heart and my heart has been buried together with my husband Even if you marry me you would only marry a body Are you still willing? I am You are but I am not Why not? If I do marry I will marry a man I love I don’t want to deceive you nor to deceive myself Well in that case I will not invest with you and will stop all our business Tu Erdan business is business Personal affairs are personal affairs Why would you mix them up? Because if I keep in touch with you I fear that my heart would be very painful I must forget you As you saw just now I’m your best partner If you do not do business with me I’m afraid you would lose a lot I don’t worry at all I have enough money However for the Wu Family the loss would be huge Don’t you think you have some money so you can threaten the Wu Family Zhou Ying marry me even if it is for my money Zhou Ying, hurry up. Let’s go At the worst, we go back to our poor days Tu Erdan I know you’re not using your money to threaten me You simply do not want
to compromise yourself True So do I I understand it now Uncle Weiquan please go back What about you? I I’m going back too Let go Young Mistress What are you doing? Young Mistress, as long as we are around wherever you want to go
and whatever you want to do nobody can stop you Thank you I’m not going anywhere Please go back Shen Xingyi come out Young Master, Master is here Shen Xingyi, do you hear me? Come out Do you hear me? Don’t hide. Come out What to do? Go and call Dowager Okay Get out Why don’t you come out? Dad You’re here Stop Your mom said you wanted to marry the widow
of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family Her name is Zhou Ying Did you two hook up before going to Dihua? We didn’t hook up You didn’t? I was quite puzzled why Sanshou Clique kidnapped you two together I thought you met each other by chance on the road Now I believe you had agreed to go out together Am I right? No I would like to hook up with her.
But she had ignored me Don’t you lie! Listen You and that widow do
things stealthily outside I don’t care much and can ignore it However if you want to marry her legally and bring that widow into the Shen Family it’s out of the question In any case, as I said before I would not marry in my life if
you do not allow me to marry her Do you want put an end to the Shen Family? I can’t help it since
you do not allow me to marry Come on. Bring the family discipline! Master Hurry up! Among the many forms of unfilial piety,
being without offspring is most serious Today I’ll beat you to death,
you unfilial bastard! It is a peaceful day Why do you want to beat
up my grandson again? Grandma Mom, you Mom, why are you here? Who told you? No one needed to tell me You are so loud I heard it from the backyard Mom, this grandson of yours must be punished this time Just tell him if he has done anything wrong Don’t always use the family discipline Did your dad punish you like this back then? If you heard what he said just now you would be mad too Isn’t it about that widow? For such a trivial matter is it worth it for you both? He is bringing her home.
It’s no small matter Okay, okay, I know. I know You may go. Let me talk to him Mom Leave him to me Go, go, go Grandma, it’s painful You deserve it If you don’t drive your dad mad now and then you would feel you
haven’t lived, don’t you? Grandma, it’s windy outside.
Let’s go inside Grandma, grandma I I remember in your room there was a western clock A very old one Oh, that one? It disappeared long ago Because of that small toy you and your dad badgered
each other for many years But once you had it, you just ditched it Look at you Before you lay your hand on it you dream about it But once you have it you’ll ditch it immediately Do you understand what I mean? No, I don’t Don’t play dumb with me Your mom told me that the widow was the maid whom you wanted to take but ran away That’s right No wonder you’re so obsessed with her In my view if you really took her you would have disliked her soon Grandma, I wouldn’t I know very well your character Grandma this maid is different
from those other things What about this way? You help me marry that maid and see if I would
eventually dislike her or not Stop, stop You’d better quit. Do as I say Later, go and apologize to your parents I will choose a marriage
for you very carefully No No one would help you
next time you are beaten up Grandma Grandma, help me Let me think it over again Zhou Ying Brother, don’t worry All is settled How? In front of me, Zhou Ying declined Tu Erdan directly Zhou Ying I knew that you were casual on the surface but in your heart, you did respect chastity Chastity matters more than life Uncles I’m afraid we will all die of hunger Tu Erdan had said that he would withdraw all business Let him withdraw. I couldn’t care less In a couple of days he will come to take away
these two boxes of gold as well as settle all accounts Well don’t be afraid Do you have a way out? Zhou Ying if as you said investing in Shaanxi
Mechanical Weaving Bureau would recover all costs in one year
and double the profits in two years we the Wu Family will not need to worry about
losing Tu Erdan’s business Uncle Weiwu, you? I agree to invest 200,000 taels of silver in Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau! Brother, you are insane Weiquan now both the Eastern and Western
Courtyards have agreed to invest What about you? I didn’t say. I didn’t say anything It doesn’t matter It is two votes against one The matter is decided Later I will sell those that can
be sold in the Western Courtyard and pledge those that can be pledged to raise enough money It’s ridiculous You changed too fast
and without consulting me I haven’t agreed I never said I would I never said I would I never said Thank you, Uncle Weiwu.
Thank you, Uncle Weiwu You’re welcome A piece of cake Master You What are you doing, Master? Master, I’m asking you Master, what are you
doing, opening everything? Where is our joint stock contract? What do you need that for? I will withdraw our shares with
the Eastern and Western Courtyards Are you crazy? Having worked together with the Courtyards we’re just beginning to have a better life And now you want to break off with them You must be crazy Stop it For the sake of making
money, the two Courtyards have no respect to our ancestors and want to ditch the ancestors as well as their conscience I don’t want to go
along with their evil deeds Master What? Master, Master Weiwen is here I don’t want to see him Yes, he will see him Master, I beg you I said I did not want to see him Master, I beg you. Go and see him You Hurry up Meet him. Hurry up No, no, no Yes, yes Hurry up Hurry up Brother Hurry up Why are you here? Brother, you came at the right time Help me talk to him He was blowing up to break off with you I knew He always does that when angry That’s why I came to persuade him No need to persuade me I give up If you want to go back to the hard old days I would not persuade you If you still want to
make money and get rich listen to me, don’t break off.
We continue working together It’s okay to work together But we should not follow Zhou
Ying’s ideas on everything We must Why? Weiquan, you know that I’m also a proud man believing that I’m not inferior to anyone But now I have to admit Zhou Ying is much stronger
than us combined together The Wu Family cannot do without her I don’t understand it, brother Why would you say so? In the recent past, for business matters I could neither eat nor sleep well I realized that it was no easy matter to be
the Patriarch of the Wu Family Now looking back at what Zhou Ying had done those accounts and business exchanges those tricks and skills I could not even dream of I realized that the fact that our two Courtyards grew
so quickly in the last couple of years was all because of her True So you agreed to invest in the Bureau? I trust her vision Right. Brother is right We made money following Zhou Ying before and if we continue we surely will make more money What is it? I won’t stop you if you insist We’ll do it then Do you still want to withdraw your shares? Not any more Weiquan, regarding the
Patriarch of the Wu Family I have an idea When Jiangnan Manufacturing
Bureau first started people were also saying
that those who invested would be thrown into the chimney and some would be flatten to death But the fact proved
that they were all rumors Therefore the saying that foreign looms ate people were all lies Magistrate Zhao Wait a moment, everyone Okay Magistrate Zhao, I have
good news to tell you I also have good news to tell you You first then Three years ago, Guangdong planned
to set up a mechanical weaving bureau But when the ordered
machines arrived in Guangdong Zhang Zhidong, Governor-general
of Guangdong and Guangxi was reassigned as
Governor-general of Hunan and Hubei The matter was then suspended I went and inquired The machines are still there While they are not the latest model they are perfectly alright to operate They are willing to
transfer to us at a discount In other words with 100,000 taels of silver only it would be possible to set up the Bureau Magistrate Zhao Why buy old second-hand machines? We’ll buy the latest model Isn’t it just 200,000 taels of silver? The Wu Family will subscribe all of it This is great Magistrate Zhao thank you for talking to us for so long What about we all jointly subscribe one share? I’m sorry, everyone Just now all shares have been fully subscribed What? Zhou Ying subscribed all of the shares of the Bureau? Yes Miss I don’t understand Why did you withdraw all of a sudden? Get out Has the construction of the Bureau begun? Zhao Baishi defeated Du Mingli in the end Maybe not It’s not the end yet Dad if you did not obey Du Mingli but kept the investment the Shen Family would
be the one being proud now not the Wu Family It may be a blessing in disguise Whether the Bureau is
a misfortune or blessing is hard to say now I thought that by stopping
Shen Sihai and Hu Yongmei nobody would dare to subscribe How come Zhou Ying jumped out? Where did she get so much money? They say the three Courtyards of the
Wu Family put in everything they had We were negligent about it However we still have a card to play How are you doing with
Manager Tao of the Shen Family? Manager Tao is from Huxian He has some land back home As instructed I asked the local authorities to occupy his land I also found an excuse to get to know him and then helped him settle the dispute case Now he obeys every word I say Now is the right time to use him Come on. Hurry up Tu Erdan, what’s the matter with you? I haven’t put everything on the table yet You’ve started drinking already Stop, stop Give it to me Okay, stop Okay You keep drinking I’m hosting you today, anyway. Drink You’re my brother Don’t gloat over my misfortune Save it How dare I gloat? She at least had thought of marrying you As for me she firmly refused me
however much money I offered Here However I’ve told me grandma that I would go to
propose to her in a few days I don’t care whether she loves me or not I just want her to see my deepest sincerity She doesn’t love you nor does she have a heart Her heart followed her husband and had been buried Did she say so? My heart is broken Broken You take away the gold I would like to keep the snow lotus It has withered What’s of point of keeping it? The snow lotus has withered But your sincerity towards me will be kept in my heart forever Zhou Ying you could have had my heart forever I would always care about you Just as snow lotus
needs the care of glaciers your heart should belong
to a girl who loves you What about you? Do you still love your ex-husband? Yes I hate him But I also envy him If he was alive I believe you would be friends You definitely wouldn’t hate him But his love is like a prison He locked up your heart inside and your whole life Nothing will lock me up I choose to stay here myself Zhou Ying, go with me My business is much bigger
than that of the Wu Family The Wu Family’s business is small now It will grow in the future I believe that if I work hard the business will get bigger than yours Bring the wine You have been here for quite a while I didn’t host you for a drink Now that you’re leaving I propose a toast to you I wish you, as well as myself a huge success and wealth Cheers! Besides the love between married couples I also treasure the
attachment between friends If you agree I wish to be your friend forever Zhou Ying, I, Tu Erdan,
never compromise my wish In case one day I could
let go my love towards you I will come back to you Whatever you think I will always regard you as my friend I’m leaving Probably we’ll never see each other again Let me also propose a toast to you I would like to say that no matter how successful
your business will be you are a woman And a woman needs a matching man to make a complete life Good bye Don’t laugh at me lying
drunken in the battlefield I have no friends west of Yangguan Pass Zhou Ying get your heart back You may all go back Has Tu Erdan left? Yes, he has You will regret it I won’t Dad this piece of gold wants
to take a walk outside I can’t hold him back Okay, I’ll go with you. I’ll go with you Okay, okay I’ll go with you. I’ll go with you Yu Long Quan of the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu Family’s new Fu Tea is now available Good quality at bargain prices.
Please take a look, everyone The best Fu Tea available
in the whole of Jingyang Young Mistress, anything wrong? Yu Long Quan’s accounts are all very clear Manager Yan, you’re very capable Thank you, Young Mistress However I remember the goods sent to Qitai were 307 boxes of No. 24 124 boxes of No. 27 and 59 boxes of No. 39 Those sent to Shufu were 308 boxes of No.
24 one 139 boxes of No. 27 and 86 boxes of No. 39 Those sent to Hedian were 351 boxes of No.
24 251 boxes of No. 27 and 86 boxes of No. 39 Tu Erdan stopped his business with us this year But the due rebates should still be awarded to them Young Mistress has a very good memory I have been negligent That’s alright They can be added Don’t ever make people feel being forgotten I’ll remember it Thank you. We’re leaving I’ll see you off Have a look The best Fu Tea in the whole of Jingyang Thank you Sir, please try it This is the best Fu Tea
in the whole of Jingyang Please try it I need to stretch my body Young Mistress, are we going home? I’ll go get a cart No, no, no It’s not so easy for us to come out Shall we go and try some Shuipen lamb before going home? – Great. – Great. – Great Look at you Like hares just let out from the cage Aren’t you also? Let’s go Let’s go Smells so good Three portions of Shuipen
lamb and seven flat cakes Okay Chunxing, sit here to cover up for me Fulai, you sit over there If you see any acquaintances, let me know Okay Nothing is more delicious than lamb Nothing is more comfortable than squating This flat cake is not bad Nice Fulai Young Mistress You’re here too It’s you I heard that the shares of
the mechanical weaving bureau were taken up by you Congratulations I have to thank the Shen Family for this If you didn’t withdraw I would have no chance at all What about treating me
with some Shuipen lamb No problems Boss. Boss Another bowl please Okay Young Master Shen I remember we had a bet Correct Who has won then? Honestly speaking you have Young Master Shen, he who bets
must be ready to acknowledge defeat Are you happy? It seems you’re missing something All my mom’s nice jewelries are on me The headwear is not bad The face is a bit shabby What about this? Better? Not good enough You have a handkerchief. Give it to me I have it Young Master What about this? Or this? Young Master Shen when you are being mean to yourself,
you’re even more ruthless than I am What could I do? I lost to you Fulai From the South Gate to the North Gate which area is the busiest The Bell Tower The Bell Tower In that case, go to Wuwei
Restaurant opposite the Bell Tower and reserve a table for me Chunxing order some snacks and sunflower seeds Okay Young Master Shen shall we go now? It’s good here. Let’s sit here Make way. Make way Young Master Shen, this
is beautifying Unifon Have a look Go away Beautifying Unifon. Take a look I lost my bet. I lost to a woman Young Mistress, here he comes There, there, there I lost to a woman I lost my bet. I lost to a woman I lost my bet I lost my bet The dressing is quite nice I lost to a woman I lost my bet I lost my bet I lost to a woman – Bravo. – Bravo. – Bravo Wait. I’ll give you a surprise Go back. Go back It’s over. Go back It’s over. Go back. Go back Go away. Go away Grandma, have you thought about it? What? That I want to marry the maid You already agreed, didn’t you? Are you still thinking about that? I think about it every day Xing with our family’s power and status you can choose any girl
of well-known families Why do you bother about that maid? What’s good of girls
of well-known families? I want someone special Is that so? What’s special of her? Grandma, come here Tell me. Tell me I’ll show you something Look I drew this picture of her What is this? This… I haven’t finished yet When I finish, you’ll know how beautiful she is Do you call this beautiful? Grandma She is not only beautiful she is capable too I guarantee that once she is married into the Shen Family my dad will approve her because she is really
smart in doing business The business of the Shen Family will flourish undoubtedly I mean it, Grandma Grandma, I guarantee that once I marry her she will show filial respect for you and will have lots of
great grandsons for you They will run in the room like monkeys and she will attend to you every day. Okay? Grandma You agreed? Let me talk to your mom Great since the foreign machines have
arrived in the territory of Shaanxi Weiquan, why don’t you close
down your native cloth workshop? Close down completely? The efficiency of one machine one day exceeds that of your
workshop in half a month What’s the point of retaining it? What about those weavers? Dismiss them Dismiss? How can you say that? Last year you called them
in when you needed them Now you don’t need them
anymore, and just kick them away Is this appropriate? We agreed that each weaver would be paid five taels
of silver as compensation, didn’t we? Brother how long can five taels of silver last? Uncle we don’t want to be
difficult with the weavers but the fact is native cloth is out of date Even if we don’t have the Bureau your native cloth
workshop is doomed to close Zhou Ying, what you
said was quite reasonable We must change with times I understand it But, brother, you know that some of the workers have been working for me for many years I feel attached to them They would lose their means
of living all of a sudden I feel bad about it I feel bad Weiquan, you are a kind person I know very well But you must understand one thing Nothing in the wok, nothing in the bowl We have invested 200,000 taels We must move forward whole-heartedly so that we may earn money Okay. Let me think it over.
Let me think it over Okay, we’ll talk about that later Wang Shijun, anything else to discuss? Master Weiwu there is one thing to reply
to Magistrate Zhao immediately Go ahead As approved by the Imperial Court as the Vice-governor
of Shaanxi, Zhao Baishi will be the Director of
Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau We are the largest shareholder as well as the only merchant shareholder We need to assign someone
as the Vice Director The Vice Director is responsible
for all business matters What about making me the Vice Director? In principle the Vice Director must be the Patriarch of the Wu Family Zhou Ying I have already consulted with Weiquan The position of the Patriarch of
the Wu Family will be kept for you and you will also be the Vice Director Really? We have a precondition, Zhou Ying What condition? You must swear in the Holy
Hall of the Wu Family that you will never remarry in your life and will never leave the Wu Family Zhou Ying well I’m a straightforward person Hope you don’t mind You see As the saying goes Slanders engulf widows Only if you take an oath Only if you take an oath firstly it would stop the seduction by prodigals And secondly it would shut those loafers up This way you could have a peace of mind and manage the business of the Bureau This oath I will not take If you don’t take this oath to let you manage the big
family business of the Wu Family we don’t feel at ease I will not Why About one’s whole life who can foretell clearly? Do you… do you have other ideas? My uncles whatever happens in the future I will never do anything to let down the Wu Family I will make the business of the Wu Family boom and flourish Please believe me Zhou Ying Your family name is Zhou But I’ve been in the Wu
Family for so many years How did I treat the Wu Family? Don’t you know? Of course we do We have witnessed it Let me put it this way, Zhou Ying If you take the oath Weiquan and I, as well as your mom would feel more assured Right. If you take the oath to preserve chastity
for Wu Pin for your life we will wholeheartedly regard you as a member of the family After all you still don’t trust me We’ll trust you if you take the oath If I don’t like to do it nobody could force me Alright I will be responsible for the management of the Bureau Have you ever met that widow? I met her once long time ago Is she beautiful? Beautiful? Not really She was quite stubborn I heard she managed the then crumbling
Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family quite well She was quite capable If not she wouldn’t have made
Xing so crazy about her It was Qianhong before and now it is this widow How come Xing always encounters such women? Men work hard outside It’s quite common for
them to flirt with women As long as they keep
it outside of the house nothing is serious But this time he wants to bring her home That’s true I first thought he said it
in a fit of anger with his dad But surprisingly he asked me twice I must take it seriously now What do we do then? Xing can’t be suppressed but he may be persuade gradually Tell Sihai that in the near future he may let Xing travel a bit more If he is not in Jingyang and doesn’t see that widow he would slowly forget her I would also persuade him on the side You must arrange a good
marriage for him soon This would pass eventually What do you think? Boss Wu this is Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau’s certificate of appointment
for the Vice Director Magistrate Zhao I’m here today with a request What? In terms of age, experience
and seniority in the family no doubt I should take the position But in terms of competence and talent Zhou Ying is much more qualified than me But you’re the Patriarch of the Wu family The Patriarch position was forced on me in the circumstances I discussed with my brother the other day We would like Zhou Ying
to be the Vice Director as well as the Patriarch of the Wu Family Our only condition was that she
took an oath not to remarry forever But she flatly refused Did she refuse to be the Vice Director, or? She liked to but she refused to take the oath Since she is not willing to take the oath why do you force her then? Magistrate Zhao, you see If she doesn’t take the oath how could we hand over the
business of the Wu Family to her with peace of mind Magistrate Zhao my brother and I have
a presumptuous request We hope you could help us persuade Zhou Ying in the interest of the
situation and the Wu Family to accept our condition Me? Zhou Ying has a great respect for you She would listen to you Boss Wu, you see This is your Wu Family’s affairs If I intervene rashly wouldn’t it be a bit inappropriate? Magistrate Zhao the Bureau is critical to your career development and means all assets of the Wu Family We all hope it is a great success Therefore, about the Vice Director position the candidate must be the best of the best Of course So in the interest of you
as well as the Wu Family we must make Zhou Ying the Vice Director Yes, indeed Besides Zhou Ying is a young widow For the business of the Bureau she will travel a lot and
will often be in the limelight The oath would be a protection
of her reputation as well Foreign machines will
soon arrive in Jingyang The Bureau will start operation soon I’ve done something that nobody did before Wu Pin, you are proud of me, aren’t you? But there is another matter I feel troubled Wu Pin do you want me to be a
widow for all my life? Qianhong once said that I shouldn’t live like
this for my whole life How should I lead my life in the future? Besides business what else should I do? I don’t know Tu Erdan said I should take back my heart Wu Pin is my heart still retrievable? Magistrate Zhao? Your Uncle Weiwen came to see me He would like you to be the
Vice Director of the Bureau and asked me to persuade you Magistrate Zhao, no need Have you made a decision? I will be a widow if I want to If one day I change my
mind, no one could stop me Therefore, whether I take the oath or not means nothing to the Wu
Family as well as to myself If you don’t take the
Vice Director position about the business of the Bureau you wouldn’t just look on, would you? I made the Bureau happen Hence, I’m duty-bound
to be responsible for it But But what? If I tell others what to do on the side I’m afraid that you would think
I do not behave politely as a woman Why would you say so? Please don’t fool me In you men’s eyes chastity matters more than life A woman like me who has lost her husband and who travels a lot and
exposes herself in the limelight should simply be caned I did make a few unfriendly
remarks about you before But having dealt with you for some time I know now you’re a
strong and independent woman who should not be read in conventional ways It doesn’t matter Even if you still don’t
approve my behaviors I would still say what is to be said and go where I wish to go I highly appreciate your frankness I hope you will keep your
frankness and sincerity In that case Magistrate Zhao, allow
me to recall an old issue What? Many years ago the Eastern Courtyard of
the Wu Family was framed up on account of faking military
supplies which ruined the Wu Family I implore Magistrate Zhao
to order a retrial of the case You haven’t given up
the military supply case So long as the grievances of the Eastern
Courtyard of Wu Family are not redressed I will never give up Why are you so persistent? Two persons are buried there one I loved, and the other I respected It was them who taught me what was business and what was integrity If they ever cheated then today myself and everything I do are meaningless, aren’t they? Besides your confidence
in Wu Weiwen and Wu Pin do you have any evidence? Magistrate Zhao I’ll take you to see a person In prison I saw Master once But he was almost unrecognizable You all confessed to
false charges under torture Where is Manager Tong now? After Master died, he
was released from prison I have no further information about him I gather because he perjured to frame up Master he felt guilty and had gone away However, with your statement only it is insufficient to order a retrial Magistrate Zhao Hu Zhicun said Master had instructed him to use rosin to replace dragon’s blood But we eventually settled payment with him based
on the price of dragon’s blood If Master knew it was rosin but still paid him based
on the price dragon’s blood Don’t you think it was strange? Magistrate Zhao if the Eastern Courtyard of the
Wu Family really wanted to cheat they could have bought
rosin secretly themselves Why would they purchase from
Gu Yue Crude Medicine Shop? Wasn’t it better to confine
this kind of shady business to the least number of people? They also said Master killed Shen Yuesheng In all honesty the Eastern Courtyard didn’t even touch Shen Yuesheng Magistrate Zhao back then you ruled that there was no evidence to show the Eastern Courtyard was
responsible for Shen Yuesheng’s death But why later was the charge laid on
the Eastern Courtyard? Steward Yang was the medicine sent
to you last time helpful? Thank you, Young Mistress That medicine was quite effective Next time when Little Wu
comes over deliver some stuff I’ll ask him to bring some more Please don’t Young Mistress in fact here I raise chickens and plant wheat It’s enough for my living Please don’t send stuff every month You served the Eastern
Courtyard for so many years This is nothing Steward Yang the Eastern Courtyard
is not the same as before Have you ever thought of coming back? Those merchants I knew before are all working for the Shen Family Even if I come back I won’t be of much help to you I might as well spend my
remaining years in quietness May as well Magistrate Have you found the files of
the old military supply case? Mr. Jiang said that that case was examined by
the Ministry of Punishments and all the witnesses and testimonies
were sent to the Capital directly Therefore, not even one
word remained in Shaanxi Mr. Bo, what’s your view about the case? I’ve served as Secretary of
Jurisprudence for over ten years I can’t claim the case was unjustified but there are too many ambiguities I will submit a statement to the
Imperial Court to ask for a retrial – Master Wu. – Master Wu. – Master Wu Please don’t close the workshop I have a family of six.
How could they live? True Where do we make a living in the future? I have an old mom and two children Master Wu Master Wu, nearly all native
cloth workshops around Jingyang have been closed If you close it too we won’t be able to survive True, Master Wu Our families will all die of hunger Master Wu is our pay too high? We are willing to receive a little less Master Wu, I beg you Please don’t close it I’m willing to receive less pay Less work is also acceptable – Master Wu. – Master Wu. – Master Wu I heard that you planned
to do some small business True, but it’s easier said than done It will be easy if you find a way Among the projects of Young Prince the smallest one would let you make enough
money for the rest of your life The work assigned by Young Prince were all attended to
by my Master personally I have no chance Even if Shen Sihai is capable he is not able to take
everything by himself Boss Zha do you have any connections to help me get some blessings from Young Prince Connections are readily available However Boss Tao, you need to do me a favor Boss Zha, just let me know I heard you know the native
cloth weavers in Jingyang very well Yes I have been in the native
cloth business for many years and have good relationships with them Some of them are my relatives Please, please That’s good Good Young Mistress, Master
Weiwu, Master Weiquan excluding all costs last year our profits
from native cloth were 43,412 taels of silver Excellent This is much more than
I expected, Zhou Ying Zhou Ying was instrumental in this success Zhou Yin, didn’t you say we’d increase the number
of looms by five times? I’ll get on with it right now By next year our profits will not be
just 40,000 taels of silver but 200,000 taels We must not Why not? It was a fluke to be able
dispose of this lot of native cloth I gather by mid next year the latest foreign cloth will enter Dihua and native cloth will lose its
market share in Xinjiang as well Zhou Ying is right Wu’s Cloth Factory must also transform to give up native cloth
and sell foreign cloth Since opening two years
ago, Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop has made huge profits I have inquired Their supplies are provided by
foreign businessmen in Shanghai If we could link up
with foreign businessmen we would also make money I don’t agree In my view foreign cloth’s popularity is temporary Just like some time ago this lace is popular today and another lace is popular another day Once it’s popularity cools down people will come back to native cloth Zhou Ying, in my view we should meet changes with constancy Zhou Ying, what do you think? I don’t favor opening a
foreign cloth shop either and reply on foreign supplies passively Besides, in the process supplies have been changed hand many times There is little left to make a profit from Obviously I’m thinking since we can manufacture and
sell native cloth ourselves why don’t we manufacture and
sell foreign cloth ourselves What? What? What do you mean? Instead of buying foreign
cloth from foreigners to resell rather we buy machines from
them to make foreign cloth What do you mean exactly? I’m lost I plan to set up a foreign cloth workshop Young Mistress, how do you plan to start? I haven’t got a plan yet Zhou Ying, since you haven’t got a plan put it on the back burner Zhao Baishi, you have first-class
character and competence The only thing you
lack is decisive measures If I were you I wouldn’t care too much Once I decide, I will go ahead regardless Create conditions and overcome difficulties It’s not so easy as you think If I were you should the Governor not agree,
I’d go to see the Viceroy Should Viceroy not agree,
I’d go to see the Minister Should the Minister not agree, I’d
go to see the Grand Councilor of State If not again I could still submit a statement to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor Never give up easily Take me as an example I’ve taken exams for
many years without success If it was another person he would have given up long ago But I do not believe I do not believe my luck
will be so bad forever I’m not giving up I will keep on going You are right Never give up easily, indeed I’m confident So long as I keep on going sooner or later I will see that happy and glorious day I also believe that so long as I keep pushing Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau will be set up one day Cheers! Baishi you are remarkably successful now why are you still single? I’m so busy and haven’t
got time to think about it You saved my sister last time She has been thinking of you Thanks to Miss Wu for her concern But I’m busy with Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau and have no time to
think about other issues I understand We’re coming home finally! I can finally sleep in my own home Let’s enter the city 7:00 tomorrow morning Why? That’s the busiest time of the day Young Master Shen is coming home being warmly welcomed Young Master Shen you’re back from Dihua? Right How was the trip? Isn’t it obvious? Young Master is returning fully loaded Congratulations It seems Shen Xingyi had a fruitful trip He is too flamboyant of himself It’s even better like this He entered the city with so much noise Yes. There were ten or so trumpeters So imposing There. There. Look Dad, mom, grandma, I’m back Xing Xing you’re back. You’re finally back You’re back, Xing So noisy I thought you were awarded Top Scholar Dad, our family’s native cloth was sold out and I brought back with me an order in the value
of 200,000 taels of silver Excellent 200,000 taels made you so fanatical If you’ve ever made a big
business, would you go up the sky? Master, Xing is just back Okay, stop Sheng Xingyi, listen as a manager of the Shen Family when returning from a long
trip, what is the first thing you should do? No matter how tired
you are or how late it is the first thing is to
go at once to the shop to hand over the
goods and account books Look at you. You came home instead You’re good-for-nothing Once you hand over the account books go immediately to Chief
Secretary of Shaanxi Zhao Baishi is calling a
meeting of all rich merchants I gather it’s again
about asking for donations Is Zhao Baishi now the
Chief Secretary of Shaanxi? Last year, disregarding your safety he sent armed forces to suppress bandits and earned himself a new title That’s why Don’t ever act like a few years ago using my money to get publicity Rest assured, dad, I
dare not to do it again Okay, okay Xing, your dad was just
being harsh with words When he learned yesterday
that you were returning he didn’t sleep well
the whole night last night Exactly. Ignore him I’ll scold him afterwards to avenge you Not necessary, grandma.
I know his characters Well? Is everyone here? Almost everyone is here Let’s get started then Lord, Zhou Ying of the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu Family is not yet here Shall we wait a bit more? I didn’t inform her at all The Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family
is now considered to be a rich family They also have the capability to invest I know what I’m doing.
You don’t need to say it Yes You’re all early Magistrate Zhao is here! Magistrate Zhao Please sit. Please sit Please sit. Please take you seat Last year, Shanghai Mechanical
Weaving Bureau started operation This is the beginning of
our country’s self-reliance as well as to meet the need
of the people to improve lives Therefore Shaanxi is also planning to
establish a Mechanical Weaving Bureau Following Shanghai’s example it would use the government-supervision
and merchant-management approach to invite investments from the people This time a share is
valued at 100 taels of silver There’ll be 2,000 shares in total totaling 200,000 taels in value This will account for 80% of the total
shares of Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau Everyone has now received a
copy of the offer prospectus Please read it carefully
and for any questions please consult with Mr. Guo 100 taels is not so much I heard that in the tenth
year of Guangxu Dynasty the shares of Shanghai Mechanical
with the face value of 100 taels fell to just over 10 taels in the market Was that so? Magistrate Zhao, this is a major issue May I go back to have further discussions? Of course.
But the call for investment this time will end in fifteen days First come, first served Good bye Okay Bye I will also go back and discuss Me too I will also go and discuss Goodbye, goodbye Take care Goodbye, Magistrate Zhao Take care Goodbye Goodbye, goodbye Magistrate Zhao, goodbye Magistrate Zhao, goodbye Magistrate Zhao, goodbye Shen Xingyi Last time you asked for donations it was 300 taels of silver per family Everyone rushed forward Today it is 100 taels per share Not even one person showed interest Everyone has a heart to do good deed Today’s purpose is investment As businessmen there is nothing wrong to be
cautious in making decisions Alright In view of your achievements
in suppressing bandits and that you once saved my life the Shen Family will subscribe 1,000 shares But today I haven’t
brought with me enough money Our servants will deliver
them to you in a few days Magistrate Zhao, goodbye Last year our profit from selling
foreign cloth was this figure But if the cloth were manufactured by ourselves using local cotton and local labor our profits would be this figure at the least Shaanxi will set up a
mechanical weaving bureau It is now raising capitals publicly Are you interested? I want to give it a try How many shares do you
think are appropriate? If you want to subscribe, subscribe all But some say it’s risky It’s worthwhile even it’s risky Okay. I’ll make a trip to Xi’an again and subscribe as many shares as available Please excuse me then Please The Imperial Court has
proclaimed in writing that private people are
prohibited from setting up factories Even the foreigners
help us buy the machines it’s impossible to set up the factory There are such regulations! Yes Jiangnan Mechanical Manufacturing Bureau Jinling Mechanical Manufacturing Bureau Mawei Ship Building Bureau, and
Merchants Steamship Navigation Company as well as Lanzhou Weaving Bureau are all government-run Zhou Ying Get up – Zhou Ying. – Shen Xingyi? Don’t stop me Zhou Ying Let me go Young Master Shen Hurry up. Go to Zhao Baishi Young Master Shen, take a breath please Good news. Very good news Zhao Baishi is preparing to
set up a mechanical weaving bureau He is currently raising
capitals from the public I’ve already subscribed half of it leaving the other half to you How come I didn’t know it? That’s why I came to inform you Many are still hesitating Go quickly and subscribe
the remaining 1,000 shares How much is 1,000 shares? 100,000 taels of silver But I don’t have that much money Borrow if you don’t You must do it no matter what! You think so too? Not all foreigners are good people But we still can learn from them and use their good things Wang Shijun, how much cash do we have? Young Mistress you might want to discuss it with uncles Why? There is no time Subscribe first Okay. Subscribe first Dad Dad Dad When can you keep your equanimity? Dad, I again made a decision on my own How much did you donate this time? Didn’t you promise me not to seek the limelight again? How come you? Dad, don’t be upset. Let me finish Zhao Baishi plans to set up a government-supervision
and merchants-management mechanical weaving
bureau in Shaanxi He is raising capital
for 100 taels for one share I decided immediately
to subscribe 1,000 shares Wait According to what is written
on the offer prospectus The Mechanical Weaving Bureau will manufacture foreign cloth each year… Can I borrow it? The Bureau will manufacture foreign cloth each year of this much According to the annual profit
of Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop if we invest 100,000 taels our annual profit will be Just a moment This much In five years You’re in your twenties Look at how clumsy you are with the abacus Even a small child is better than you Am I wrong again? In five years it would be this much Ten times more? Yes Ten times You finally have done one thing right Miss Hu, long time no see True. Since you hounded my dad to death we seem to have not seen each other I’m very sorry about your dad’s death But don’t you feel your
dad was persecuted to death? The real murderer is still free Of course, it’s unjust Did you come for the Bureau? You don’t need to go There is no more chance As long as I am around you will not have any chance Many say Shaanxi people
are stubborn and conservative However, the 2,000 shares have been fully subscribed in two days The Hu Family has been engaged
in the business of foreign cloth No one knows better than Hu Yongmei about the profits of foreign cloth As to Shen Xingyi he probably is the kind of character who doesn’t take money so seriously Regardless of his character once the money is delivered the looms will be in place in three months And in six months the Mechanical Weaving
Bureau will start operation Magistrate Zhao Young Mistress Zhou
Ying of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu
Family is asking to see you Let her in please You’re excused Yes To subdue oneself and return to
the proprieties is perfect virtue To subdue oneself and
return to the proprieties for one day, virtues
are restored in the world For benevolence by oneself and by human Magistrate Zhao the moment I came back from Dihua I heard that Magistrate Zhao had been
promoted to Chief Secretary of Shaanxi But I have been preoccupied and had not congratulated Magistrate Zhao I beg for your pardon Magistrate Zhao, congratulations It was a fluke.
There is nothing to congratulate on Did I upset you again? Why do you say so, Mistress? You told me to stay in the house but I even went as far as to Dihua You told me to… those things But I didn’t do any of those No explanations are necessary I’m hopeless I know I’m an eyesore here I’ll be brief and then I’ll leave Magistrate Zhao, I’m here to register to invest in
Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau Mistress, the 2,000 shares
have been fully subscribed Not even one share is left? 1,000 shares were subscribed by Shen Xingyi Just before you arrived Hu Yongmei subscribed
the remaining 1,000 shares I’m one step late Magistrate Zhao, what about
issuing some more shares? It’s a major issue and not a baby game What about this way? You reallocate some to me even 100 shares I can’t help You’re to blame after all! Me? As a local magistrate how can you be so snobbish? It’s true that the Wu
Family is just starting up but we’re not resigned to being left behind You held a meeting to raise capital By all means you should have informed us You wiped out Sanshou Clique Didn’t I contribute to it? I thought we two … I’m saying no more Are you leaving? Is there any point to stay? In case I fly into a temper and offend you I would get the hitting She’s left Any possibility on the side of Hu Yongmei? She bitterly hates me and will definitely not give up her shares What about Magistrate Zhao? Magistrate Zhao? He dislikes me so much Zhou Ying would you mind sacrificing yourself to cotton up to Shen Xingyi again? Jiang Fuqi, what a lousy idea! – True. – Or let’s forget it this time But I’m not willing to Uncle Si, are you missing wine again? Why so urgent to see me? Uncle Si Zhou Ying? You? Indeed, I asked to see you What? Missed me? Young Master Shen, don’t forget we’re just friends I know Friends may also miss each other Take a seat I have important things to discuss with you Sit down Go ahead Well could you give up some of
your Shen Family’s shares? I went to see Magistrate Zhao but I was late The remaining 1,000 shares were all taken by Hu Yongmei That’s why It’s of course possible to
give up some shares for you But you must accept one condition Tell me. What condition? Be my woman Go to hell Byebye Shen Xingyi Is it funny? I think it’s great fun You know very well that I don’t like you But I like you Get out I’m really going Well What about this? You give me a kiss Go to hell Hold it How many shares will you give me? How many shares? One kiss for 100 shares Come over here Sit down Close your eyes Zhou Ying, you, you Don’t expect to get even one share from me Forget it. I’ll find a way myself Young Master Shen, enjoy yourself Don’t forget to pay the bill I Mr. Wen Boss Du, Boss Zha Please Please Please – Please. – Please I wonder what is so important to bother Mr. Wen to make a trip personally It is still about the
mechanical weaving bureau Those advocates of westernization movement say they wish to compete
with foreign merchants In fact, they want to
monopolize financial resources and to strengthen themselves I don’t mind them doing it in Shanghai But now they even are
interfering in Shaanxi How could Young Prince still remain cool? But is Shaanxi Mechanical Weaving Bureau Zhao Baishi’s own making? After Shanghai Mechanical Weaving Bureau Young Prince has already instructed Xiao Chaode to keep a tight control But unexpectedly Zhao Baishi bypassed the
Governor and the Viceroy and obtained special approval
directly from the Imperial Court to build it in Shaanxi Xiao Chaode is stupid and incompetent Forget about him Now Young Prince instructs you and Zha Kun to prevent the Bureau at whatever costs to be built in Shaanxi Yes As the saying goes He who gets the central Shaanxi
Plain gets the whole world Young Prince placed you in Jingyang It shows that he attaches
great importance to this region If you cannot contain Zhao Baishi and let him build the
Bureau in Shaanxi unchecked it would mean that Young
Prince’s most valued territory would be encroached by someone from behind As to its consequences I don’t need to elaborate, do I? I understand Moreover Zhao Baishi just by himself and without mobilizing any manpower got rid of Niu Shouwa whom
we controlled for many years just like that It seems this person is rather crafty Don’t ever take him lightly Mr. Wen, I will keep that in mind Take good care of yourself then I have to go back to the Capital to report Goodbye Thank you, Mr. Wen Didn’t you say that the Bureau would allow us to live happily
for the rest of our lives? How come Young Prince wants to stop it? What to do? What can we do? All subscribers are linked with us If Young Prince knows this… Young Prince should never know it Boss Du you asked to see me at this hour.
What happened? Yongmei tomorrow go and return
your shares of the Bureau What? We just do our foreign
cloth business quietly Don’t get into that muddy water Why not? Young Prince will not
allow the Bureau to happen If you invest it means you would set up
yourself against Young Prince If I don’t, I’ll set
up myself against money Yongmei, listen to me you’d better not offend Young Prince As to the Bureau I will never withdraw Yongmei, you Let me finish What I lack most now is manpower Once the Bureau starts operation I could hardly cope myself So I need a partner And the only person I trust is you In fact there is something I have wanted to tell you since long ago Leave Long Sheng He and switch to Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop Leave Young Prince and come to help me I can’t leave Young
Prince for the time being All parties will end Masters and managers
collaborate and separate It’s quite normal At Long Sheng He you are only a manager But at Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop you would be a half-boss Do you really plan to follow Young Prince all your life? Haven’t you ever thought about
setting up your own business or your own industries? Haven’t you ever thought about getting married? Yongmei what you said just now I’ve never thought about Then you may start thinking now Boss Du once we own the Bureau we will earn at least
a million taels a year By then we can do a lot of things together Together? Yes. Together Let me think it over Alright. I’ll wait for you So you are here What is it? It was not a happy talk
with Hu Yongmei, was it? Sit down Zha Kun do you plan to follow
Young Prince all your life? When we get old and are no more valuable wouldn’t Young Prince drive us out? Anything wrong? Is it possible that while we’re still young we leave on our own? Did Hu Yongmei say anything to you? She is unwilling to return the shares and wants me to leave Young Prince What do you think? It’s normal that masters and
managers collaborate and separate Wake up! Have you forgot how Little Guizi was beaten to death? And Eunuch Liang? There is still no trace
of his body till now Boss is our relationship with Young
Prince that of masters and managers? It is the relationship of master and lackey I don’t want to be a lackey Understand? But it’s not up to us It’s not up to us Zha Kun if I help Young Prince
finish this major task would he let me leave? Finish this major task… But first you must convince
Hu Yongmei to withdraw Are you sure you can do that? Even if you can convince
Hu Yongmei to withdraw and even if the Bureau fails and Young Prince kindly agrees to let us go where can you go? So long as I can be with Yongmei it doesn’t matter where That is because she doesn’t know yet your true identity If she finds out who you really are is she still willing to be with you Eunuch Du? No women would like to be with us We can never be together with a woman Cut your wishful thinking We have our fate Collect the receivables in advance Okay 5,450 taels Add the cash of the shops Okay 3,786 taels Young Master 100,000 taels of cash silver We have enough Dad, look Master Master, Boss Du is here He said he had very
important issues to talk to you Where is he? In the drawing room Dad, shall I go with you? Our investment in the Bureau has nothing to do with him, right? Dad If he wants a cut don’t ever agree I know what to do Boss Du Welcome. May I know what brought you here? You plan to invest in Shaanxi
Mechanical Weaving Bureau, don’t you? Yes, indeed But I suggest you forget
it as early as possible May I know why? There is no why I said, forget it Boss Du native cloth is already out of fashion Foreign cloth will dominate
the market in the future It’s right timing that
we change to foreign cloth I know very well what you’re saying But doing business is not only about money What else is it about then? Overall situation What is overall situation? Bro Xingyi it is very deep water Do as what I say now I think that setting up a
mechanical weaving bureau whether to the nation, to Shaanxi or to us business people is a good thing You think you’re being patriotic You think you’re only making money Actually, you’re being a tool of others Young Master focus on your business Why do you want to get
into the dirty water? I think what I’m doing now is exactly our business Xing wait outside Boss Du Xing is young. Hope you don’t mind So long as you don’t invest all would be fine Boss Du in the market today native cloth is losing its place To sell foreign cloth we can’t compete with Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop which
has been in this business for years If we give up the Bureau well our cloth business will probably come to an en Then let it end! It’s over 100,000 taels of silver Boss Shen is money important or is life important? Wu Weiwen made so much money What’s the use of it? With just a few words of Young Prince he even had no idea how he died Would you want to follow in Wu Weiwen’s footsteps? How did it go, dad? Forget it Why forget it? Young Prince does not agree Why not? Behind the scene it’s very complicated It’s hundreds of thousands of taels, dad Are you willing to give up? For me let alone hundreds of thousands of taels even with one tael less I would feel painful While the Bureau is highly rewarding Young Prince is the God of Fortune We can’t afford to offend him Dad since you began worshiping Young Prince as the God of Fortune yes, we Shen Family has made more money But have you thought about the costs? The military supply order nearly ruined the Shen Family’s long-lasting reputation As to that cotton business they did nothing but got a cut of our profit for nothing We couldn’t sell our native cloth and were bogged down They didn’t help at all Now we have a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of us They are forcing us to give up I know very well But this is the reality To give is to get Dad I think we should terminate all cooperation with Long Sheng He and completely cut off our
relationship with that Young Prince With our Shen Family’s strength without relying on any
government authorities we can do business and
make money all the same We can become the richest family in Shaanxi Believe me I, your son am not afraid of hardships or risks I will help our Shen Family make lots and lots of money Xing unless the Shen Family goes bankrupt otherwise we’ll never be able to extricate
ourselves from Long Sheng He Why? It’s better that you don’t know When did you come? Just now Have a seat About what I said to you yesterday have you thought it over? Thank you for your kindness But I can’t leave Young
Prince for the time being Why not? Let’s leave that for a moment, okay? I understand it now Yongmei Please trust me Don’t invest in the Bureau If I don’t invest other people will Why would l give such a good opportunity so kindly to others? Young Prince will not let off those people Doesn’t Young Prince own joint
stocks with the Shen Family? The Shen Family has withdrawn When? A short while ago Tomorrow all their returned shares will be bought by me Yongmei you’re courting death. Do you know? Does my death matter to you? Yongmei, I sincerely mean good for you Boss Du, I’m sincere too Yongmei since we knew each other for whatever matters so long as you asked I did all my best to help you Hence, please do listen
to me on this matter What if I don’t? If you insist on investing in the Bureau if anything happens I wouldn’t be able to save you Steward Hu Yes Coming See off our guest Boss Du, please Young Master Shen How is the pig head? Not bad It’s moderately salted and quite tasty exactly like what I dreamed of Do you want to try it again? Sure But the last one was too greasy Try a different one today Which one do you want to try? The one in front of me It seems you want to be kicked If you dare to kick me forget about the 1,000 shares then What did you say? I plan to give all our 1,000 shares to you Young Master Shen, what
tricks are you playing again? The Shen Family has decided to withdraw Why? My dad is a clever man but he is blinded in front of Du Mingli Du Mingli asked him to withdraw and he obeyed That’s a pity indeed But since you will have the 1,000 shares I do feel a little bit consoled 1,000 shares mean one 100,000 taels of silver This needs the agreement of my
two uncles of the Wu Family You are the patriarch of the Wu Family Can’t you decide by yourself? Anything concerning
over 1,000 taels of silver must be decided jointly by us three Why are you nagging with me here? Hurry up and discuss Don’t wait until they’re taken up by others Byebye Wait Why didn’t you mention
any conditions today? Since you will not
accept any of my conditions it’s better I don’t and this way you would owe me a favor Okay. So I owe you a favor then Take Merchants Steamship Navigation
Company, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Kaiping Mining Bureau for example Lessons from the rises
and falls of their shares are all well-known Moreover, train collision in Xinhe explosion inside the
ordinance facility in Anqing hand accident of a worker
at Lanzhou Weaving Bureau death of a worker at
Fuzhou Ship Building Bureau all are being publicized How is it on your side? Did the Shen Family agree to withdraw? They did What about Hu Yongmei? Since she doesn’t listen I’m afraid that you
have to take some measures I need some time You don’t have any Xiao Chaode has been removed
and would never be re-appointed? Just because he didn’t stop Zhao Baishi Young Prince found an excuse and punished him Xiao Chaode was a Second-rank Official Young Prince punished him just like that Any rabbles like you and me as long as Young Prince is irritated would probably lose their lives Hu Yongmei must not go on willfully to ruin Young Prince’s long-nurtured situation But she is Yongmei I can’t deal with her like this But how will Young
Prince deal with you later? And how will Young
Prince deal with her later? Zha Kun don’t I have any other choice? In order to live how much have you and I sacrificed? Just for the sake of a woman you don’t want even to live, do you? No Being alive is the most important thing Then we have no choice But being with her I feel happier That’s because she doesn’t yet know your true identity Once she knows that feeling is unbearable to you Within fifteen days is it possible to raise
200,000 taels of silver? I think so That’s good Boss, may I help you? Sir, what are you doing? – Sir! – Sir! – Sir, you can’t go in. – Sir! Sir, you can’t go in Sir Miss Miss Hu, I’d like to say
something to you in private You may go I’m going out If you have anything to say wait till I return from the
Chief Secretary of Shaanxi Once you hear what I’m going to say you will no longer need to go I know what you want to say Please kindly tell Boss Du that regarding the Bureau’s shares I’ve made up my mind I mean to say Sanshou Clique Steward Hu, you’re excused What do you mean? When Sanshou Clique was offered amnesty in Sanshou Clique’s den, the government found many evidences including a letter to Niu Shouwa The letter indicated that the Eastern Courtyard
of the Wu Family in Jingyang was in possession
of a large fortune It also indicated the routes of Zhou Ying, Patriarch of
the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family If you behave well I can guarantee that the
letter would never be made public But if you run counter to Young Prince I would have no choice then You’re threatening me I’m reminding you You, a Miss of a rich family had connections and dealings with bandits If others find out what would happen? Aren’t you also a friend of Sanshou Clique? If I got caught by the government you wouldn’t get away either Who can prove it? Just by what you say? Sorry It’s OK. I’ll apply some plaster Zha Kun, what’s wrong with you? Sorry, Boss That’s too bad My hand is scalded even before I start Zha Kun is illiterate It’s OK. I’ll write You? All these were schemed! How stupid I was I thought you were helping me We ARE helping you Miss Hu you should be grateful All these does he know? What do you think? Get out! Get out of here! Byebye Miss Miss What happened? Miss Your hand is cold Are you ill? Miss, I’ll get a cup of hot tea for you Magistrate Zhao, Young
Mistress of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu
Family is asking to see you Let her in Yes Magistrate Zhao Mistress If I guess it right the Shen Family’s withdrawal
is making Magistrate Zhao very upset How do you know? I can read physiognomy Since the Shen Family has withdrawn I now have a chance While you’re a dull person with regards to the mechanical weaving I’m very hopeful The Wu Family subscribes 100 shares I’ve brought with me the note 10,000 taels of silver Mistress, I can’t accept the note Why not? Am I late again? Were the 1,000 shares
returned by the Shen Family all subscribed again? Do you despise the Wu Family or do you detest me? Why are you always against me? Mistress, you misunderstand To you and to the Wu Family I have no prejudice at all But preparation of Shaanxi Mechanical
Weaving Bureau will cease It’s my honor to meet you today Oh, thank you You’re flattering me I’m not smart enough to seize opportunities not brave enough to make decisions not kind enough to take
and give up the right things and not strong enough to guard the border I just make a living by luck You advocate uprightness Advocate uprightness and… And… Boss Tong, our Young Mistress… Well, Boss Tong I’m just gonna say it You come to buy cotton, don’t you? Now I own all the cotton
in the central Shaanxi plain So long as you offer a fair price I’ll sell it all to you Boss Tong Sit down, please Uh, Boss Tong I bring you some samples Why don’t you have a look first? How much cotton of this kind do you have? 400,000 kilos, at least That’s too much. I don’t need that much Then how many kilos do you want? 100,000 kilos, at most If you offer a fair price I can try and take another 100,000 kilos Then what price do you think is fair? I buy cotton in other places at a price of 100 copper cash per kilo I have a connection with Jingyang I’ll give 120 copper cash Boss Tong my cotton sells at 240 copper cash per kilo Mistress, are you kidding me? Last year, the cotton price plunged Half cotton growers in the central
Shaanxi plain grew wheat instead Cotton fields in Zhili, Hubei and Hunan
provinces encountered natural disasters They almost reaped nothing at harvest time A thing is valued if it is rare Look at this quality It’s worth at least
240 copper cash per kilo Mistress! I’ve been buying cotton in other places over so many years But the price has never
gone beyond 200 copper cash Boss Tong, when water
rises, the boat rises with it Your Hubei cloth will sell at the highest
price ever this year 160 copper cash And I’ll take all your cotton Forget it if you don’t take this price I’d like to show my sincerity How about this? I’ll give a discount if you take all the 400,000 kilos 230 copper cash per kilo! Mistress, sorry I don’t think we can continue It doesn’t matter I believe cotton dealers from
Zhili, Hubei and Hunan provinces are coming to Jingyang in a couple of days At that time my cotton may sell at
300 copper cash per kilo Oh, Boss Tong on the freighter back to Wuhan you booked a shipping
space of 400,000 kilos And it starts out on the
eighth day of this month I think you’re going
back empty-handed this year Stop me! Stop me! Stop me! Mistress, please stay Boss Tong Mistress, could you give
me some more discount? Well… Uh… If you pay cash on delivery I’ll make it 220 copper cash Deal! Boss Tong Shen Xingyi? Why are you here? I’m here to discuss business with Boss Tong I’m Shen Xingyi The junior manager of
Cotton Shop of Shen Family and the young master Oh, you’re Young Master Shen Sorry I didn’t recognize you I’m visiting you on
behalf of my father this year Boss Tong Since the price is settled shall we sign the contract? Then I’ll arrange the delivery Okay This way, please Wait a second, Boss Tong I just heard you saying the cotton was sold at 220
copper cash per kilo this year And cash on delivery? What a coincidence! I have 400,000 kilos of cotton to sell you The quality is good And the price is also 220 copper cash per kilo However… you’ll have seven days for the payment You don’t need to pay cash on delivery Shen Xingyi where did you get 400,000 kilos of cotton? I own all the cotton in
the central Shaanxi plain You don’t need to know that If Boss Tong wants to cooperate with us we’ll deliver the goods in time You come to mess it up, don’t you? I come to discuss business with Boss Tong Boss Tong, let’s get in and chat Boss Tong you don’t need to I’ll make it 210 copper cash And we sign the contract right now Okay I offer 210, too Still seven days for payment 200 copper cash Well, me too Still seven days for payment Is she really the young mistress of
the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu family? Absolutely! It’s improper for a man and
a woman to touch each other Let go of me! Let go of me! Young Master Shen what do you really want? If you ruin my business I’ll ruin yours Do you think this works? I think so, at least for now At the worst I’ll quit the business I’ll give it to you I’d like to see where
you can get the cotton I can offer high prices for the
cotton in the central Shaanxi plain I don’t care for losing some money But I feel so happy to see you lose all the capital invested Shen Xingyi, you’re harming
me without benefiting yourself Yes, that’s me If you want to drive me away here’s some advice for you Sell all your cotton to me at 160 copper cash per kilo And I’ll sell it to Boss Tong at 200 Keep dreaming! Since so I’ll offer whatever you offer And I’ll give him seven days for payment I believe Boss Tang will choose me over you You can give him seven days for payment Why can’t I? No, you can’t I’ve asked around You only paid the down payment to cotton growers Once they deliver the cotton to you you must pay the rest within three days Or you’ll pay a double compensation You’ve even pawned your lands Where can you get the money? That’s why you want Boss Tong to pay cash on delivery Just be flexible! Sell all the cotton to me when the price is not too low Or I’ll compete against you to the end Think it over You buy the cotton at
130 copper cash per kilo and sell it at 160 You’ll earn 30 from me In total you’ll easily make over 10,000 taels After the hard work of three months I could only earn 30 copper cash per kilo But you’ll earn 40 by simply selling it Classifying, weighing, packing and loading need some cost, OK? Aren’t they worth 20 copper cash? Deal! That’s more like it You should’ve agreed earlier Damn you, you shark! Why kicking me again? Boss Tong I quit You may discuss it with Young Master Shen What… what’s going on? It’s OK, Boss Tong We may go on We’re not finished Yes We have a gambling Boss Tong Shen Xingyi Dad Master Come on. Put it down Did you take over 60,000 taels from the accountant’s office? Yes What do you need that for? I’m buying cotton! But cotton costs 10,000 taels at most You took over 60,000 taels! Calm down, Dad Sit down and I’ll explain Dad the cotton price has risen this year It sold 120 copper cash per kilo last year But 160 copper cash this year Even so, you don’t need that much Did you slip into your old habits? Did you make a decision
without authorization again? I bought 400,000 kilos of cotton this time Are you nuts? The price is so high Why did you buy that much? I’m not finished, dad. Don’t get angry! I’ve discussed with Tong Jingfu He’ll take all of our cotton All? And I sell at 200 copper cash per kilo 200 copper cash per kilo? And he agreed? He had to! Why? The cotton price declined greatly last year Many farmers grew wheat instead So the cotton production
dropped by half this year Cotton fields in Zhili, Hubei and Hunan
provinces suffered from natural disasters A thing is valued if it is rare The price rises naturally You kept an eye on Zhili,
Hubei and Hunan provinces? Sure I did To do business I think I should be observant and alert Besides, what do 400,000
kilos of cotton mean? It means we almost have all the cotton in the central Shaanxi plain Then we have the final say of the price Tong Jingfu has to take our price if he wants to deal the cotton Otherwise he’ll lose the business Dad through this I understand one thing Instead of bargaining little by little we’d better run the show Only when we run the show can we have the final say of the profit Dad I think we should do this in future business Even if we don’t make
money in the early stage even if we lose some money in early stage we must run the show first Shen Xingyi you are being arrogant again, aren’t you? How much money have you made? And now you ignore the cost? And thinking of losing money? You know what? You’re still wet behind the ears Dad, see you See you, Master Manager Shi I’m not finished Take another 5,000 taels
from the accountant’s office And book the cotton of next year Now? Yes, right now After deducing all the cost we earned 8,000 taels We should have earned 20,000 taels Shen Xingyi robbed most of it We’re not strong enough This is not bad for us Yeah Calculated by the cost Shen Xingyi only earned 20% But our money is more than doubled I must take the revenge! In fact, the largest profit
didn’t go to Shen Xingyi Then to whom? I hear the price of Hubei
cloth also rises a lot Tong Jingfu made at least 30,000 taels That much? Count it yourself One kilo of cotton
produces 3.3 meters of cloth How much profit is there? How is it going in the cloth
shop of the Western Courtyard and the native cloth factory
of the Central Courtyard? Both are rather depressed Little Wu go book the cotton of next year Okay. I’m going tomorrow If I guess correctly Shen Xingyi must have sent someone there You must set out now Okay, I’m going right now Don’t snatch with them It’ll be OK if you can book
half the amount of last year I see Grandma Here’s your midnight snack I put some fresh almond
in the sweetened gruel It helps to clear away the lung-heat Have a try What a good boy! Sit down and talk with your grandma Go You father came to me today He praised you a lot Did he? What did he say? Tell me He said you’ve really changed a lot Xing, you made money on the
cotton this year, didn’t you? Yeah, we’ve made more than we did last year Your father wore a smile I knew you must have made money Sihai said it didn’t matter how much we made Instead he thought Xing had different
insights and breadths of mind from ordinary guys He fails to make small profits But he has made big profits He can’t charge the enemy lines But he’s a born commander Your father said you
were a born commander, Xing It’s hard that Master could praise our son like that I told ya As long as Xing is enlightened he’ll be the best I didn’t make too much Someone else made over 10,000 taels with a cost of only 2,000 taels Who? You don’t know that person How impressive! Xing you should learn from that person I’ll not only learn I’ll compete Mom this is the 2,000 taels I borrowed from you And this is the interest And this is your bonus Why are you giving me bonus? Whenever I make money I’ll give you bonus Why? You’re my mother I should show filial respect for you But I’m not your natural mother You’re Wu Pin’s natural mother Then you’re mine What’s wrong, mom? So heavy? Tell me and I’ll help Okay. Okay Okay Here Keep this They’re worth something You shall decide to pawn or sell them From now on do whatever business you want I’ll just look after the house for you Mom don’t worry I won’t lose the money I trust you Put them away Put them away Mom your birthday is coming I want to get you a big birthday party Don’t bother You made some money this year But we’ll need money for many occasions I’ll save as much money as I can No We must hold a birthday party And a big one Put it away Come on. Put the money away Bravo Bravo One should find herself an intimate husband Young Mistress, Master Weiwu’s here Mom, Uncle Weiwu’s here Sister we come to offer birthday
congratulations to you Uncle, auntie Hi, Zhou Ying Sister Today is your birthday I have some gifts for you.
Please accept them Thanks. Thanks Grandma Uncle, why isn’t my elder brother here? The imperial examination is coming soon He doesn’t dare to waste any second He’ll succeed this time I hope so Sis Yi Sister You look more beautiful! Are you getting well? Yes, I’m fine now Auntie This must be Yusheng Yeah Look how much he’s grown! Yeah He is much taller than he was when he held the mourning pot for Wu Pin What are you talking about? He looks more and more like Wu Pin Sister, sister – My brother comes. – Sister I come with my family for
your birthday congratulations Wish you wide happiness and a long long life Bring the gifts up Kids, come over Say happy birthday to grandma Check how it is I just bought it Good. Beautiful! Grandma, wish you wide
happiness and a long long life Good boys. Get up What sweet kids! Get up. Get up Uh… What… It’s from grandma. Go buy some sweets Say thank you to grandma Come on Here you are This is Yucheng? Yes Grandma, take it Good boy Good 100 taels Sister, keep it for Yucheng Thank you Be good Sister Can I hold him? Be good, Yucheng Sister Look This is too much You’ll spoil the kids Sister, we can’t accept it Zhou Ying prepared all this Just accept it Hurry. Say thank you to your auntie Say thank you to your auntie Thank you, auntie It’s nothing I made some money this year I wanna have a good time with you – I’m going for the opera. – Go ahead I’m going too Okay. Okay Zhou Ying Uncle Weiquan How joyous we are! Just like we were in the past Uncle Weiquan, you’re right I’ll not only bring back the old joy I’ll also bring the old glory back Good. Aspiring! But I can’t make it alone! On my mother’s birthday party I invite you here because I have something important to discuss with you What is it? Let’s sit and talk. Sit down, please Here is the thing I made some money from dealing the cotton But it was nothing compared with the profits of
the cloth dealers from Wuhan They buy cotton from us at a low price deliver it to Wuhan,
make it into Hubei cloth and then sell back to
Shaanxi at a high price They even transfer the cloth
to border through Jingyang Through all this we can only earn 30% but they earn 70% Zhou Ying you’re right I do native cloth business I’ve witnessed it Cotton is made into cloth in Wuhan And the price rises by a few times when it’s sold back here Uncle Weiquan you run the Manual Weaving Workshop You know it best The native cloth in Shaanxi is as good But why can’t it rival Hubei cloth? That’s because of our limited production Yeah Exactly! This shop produces some
cloth with remaining cotton So does another shop No size or fame Travelling traders refuse to accredit it Zhou Ying you’ve got an idea, haven’t you? Uncle Weiwu, you can always see me through Come on. Cheers Here is the thing I do have an idea Look I have cotton You have a Manual Weaving Workshop And you have a cloth shop We can share a joint stock to set up Wu’s Cloth Factory My cotton will be directly sent to
the Manual Weaving Workshop and sold in the cloth shop after it’s made into cloth I made out the bill If we cooperate to market our own products we’ll produce 60,000 bolts of cloth Our income will be at least doubled What’s more, we’ll be famous if we grow After we develop Shaanxi native cloth into a big business we can share the market of Hubei cloth We’ll then get more profits Uncles what do you think of my plan? When your father-in-law was alive we ran a pawn shop together at best But now you want us to share a join stock
with most of our property This is too much To be frank, I’m not sure about that Weishuang what do you think? Zhou Ying I have a quick tongue.
So don’t take it personally It’s OK Uncle, just spit it out It’s not good that the
hen cackles in the morning Men of the Eastern Courtyard died So you ruled it But that’s because you had no alternative I don’t complain about that But you want me to hand the workshop to you which we’ve run for decades I don’t think I’ll accept that Here are things your father left in the
Ministry of Punishments They’re not valuable But I think they could remind you of your father I asked my friends to get them back Miss Hu you’ve really lost weight I don’t feel like eating in the daytime And I always dream of my father at night But you must look forward I just don’t understand Why would such a good man like my father end up like this? Maybe he was bullied just because of his great kindness Dad, why didn’t you tell me when you were wronged? Why did you head for your doom? Why did you leave me alone? Miss Hu, don’t be too sad It is impossible for a dead man to be alive But you still have me as a friend Thank you. Thanks Yusheng Come back, Yusheng You keep playing with swords.
Are you going to be an opera singer? Yutong Kids are the happiest today Here we are See you Uncle, auntie Goodbye – Bye, brother. – Bye Be watchful on the road Zhou Ying, do you like today’s opera? Yes I find it quite interesting Uncle Weiwu you’ve been doing cloth
business for so many years Do you think my plan makes some sense? To be honest I’ve never thought of what you proposed After listening to you I thought it over It made quite some sense Since you agree to it could you please help
me persuade Uncle Weiwu? He’s the most stubborn one in our family When your father-in-law was
alive, he may persuade him But I don’t think I can do that If he refuses to join me we two can cooperate Are you in? Zhou Ying since your father-in-law died you’ve been supporting
the Eastern Courtyard You did a good job I just told my wife yesterday you were really a woman of talents The Eastern Courtyard
will make more progress Thank you But I’m not sure how much progress you can finally make Well… If you manage to persuade Weiquan I’ll join you to set up Wu’s Cloth Factory If the Central Courtyard isn’t in neither is the Western Courtyard Is that OK? Okay You shouldn’t have
refused Zhou Ying so fast Why? Look how much she gave the kids 100 taels for each kid She’s more generous than her father-in-law So what? Think about it She made so much money within such a short time What does that mean? It means she’s really capable If we cooperate with her maybe we’ll make a lot of money too You… You have long hair but are short of brain What the… How could you say so! Your words are unreasonable Let me tell you the reasons Imperial families have disciplines His Majesty never pays
respects to a courtier Don’t blame your wife for laughing at you You were an oxherd How annoying! Concubine, how rude you are! Bravo! Bravo! Dad What’s up? I need you for something important The elder, the wiser! What is it? You went to Hu Yongmei? I send something for her Why didn’t you take me? Her father just died She is now alone and helpless A visit to her isn’t that much, is it? It isn’t I just wanna warn you Boss, why do we come here? But she’s useful to us I know But don’t forget what we really are! Good luck to you Where is the Polar Palace? Polar Palace? 1,500 meters south from here This way? Thank… Thank you Good luck to you Stop Good luck to you Priest Ask the way if you want But why do you wink? Am I freaking you out? No Sorry. I’m sorry Sorry for my inexperience Sorry No, no, no Priest. Priest Priest. Priest. Priest What on earth would you like to say? I… I can’t tell you No way, Priest You have to tell me today You have to Good luck to you Then I have to tell him Sir listen to me Go back home And do not come out as far as you can from now on Why? That’s the secret we will never tell Sorry, it’s the last thing I can tell you Good luck to you Good luck to you But I’m fine now, aren’t I? You just try to be mysterious You just try to be mysterious! What… What the hell?! Can’t I just walk through? Bad luck! I put up a fish wire three centimeters above the ground When he walked over he was stumbled over and fell on the ground face down When he was still dizzy I took away the fish wire Then he had no idea what happened There was no trace at all Then he had to get up And he had to lean against the
wall when he couldn’t stand firmly I set a trap on the ground When he stepped on it the bird’s nest would fall and hit on him Didn’t he even suspect that
someone played a trick on him? I’ve never failed whenever I play tricks Then what did he do? Then he went directly to the Polar Palace for your Uncle Zeng But Uncle Zeng didn’t show up as you instructed Dad, tell Uncle Zeng he may show up after tonight I don’t believe it! How is it? It’s weird! What? I divined three times. All were ominous! Uh… It should be taken with a grain of salt! I met a sorcerer today. He said What? Go have a look Where’s the cry from? Over there! Over there! We don’t keep cats Where are the cats from? We don’t know, Mistress Damn. Damn! What’s wrong? A pig brings poverty and a dog wealth A cat brings death Master, don’t scare me! Death! Always laughing in the world Why do you travel around? Cultivate myself through all the hardships And get rid of the secularity Priest! It’s you? I’ve been waiting here for two days You know it? Look Look at this All this happened after I met you last time I saw that coming! How weird it is! I divined three times last night All were ominous! Something is weirder! Last night, a herd of wildcats broke into my house Tell me about it What exactly is happening? Wow, the God of Evil is that powerful! What God of Evil? Oh, no… No, nothing Priest! Priest What is the God of Evil? Priest! Priest, please save me! Get up. Get up. Get up Well, I… I was too gossipy And asked for trouble This is not trouble! Save me and that’s a great merit Good luck to you Come with me – This way, please. – Okay Being held up by God
of Evil is most annoying But if you can find someone eviler than God of Evil and associate with him The God of Evil will be suppressed And you’ll make a big fortune Then tell me Who is eviler than God of Evil? A jinx, of course Where can I find a jinx? All right, one more tip for you Please Indigo blue below blue Blue above indigo blue Indigo blue is extracted from
the indigo plant, but bluer Always laughing in the world Indigo blue is extracted from
the indigo plant, but bluer? Zhou Ying – You’re getting… – Master’s back Master, where have you been? Zhou Ying has been waiting for a long time Uncle, I come to discuss about the joint stock of us I’ve got nothing to discuss with you I’m not in! Then you’ll miss a brass ring! It’s weird when a woman usurps man’s power It’s even worse to ruin ethics I heard that when Wu Pin’s grandpa
divided up family property four courtyards started
the business simultaneously But now you rank last The reason is simple You’re so superstitious that you’ve missed many brass rings Zhou Ying, you’re talking rubbish! Even though we declined
and made a new start we’re now living a better life than you What a pity on your wife! She’s spent all her life with you But look at her dress What? What’s wrong with her dress? If my eldest brother had listened to me and driven you jinx out
of the Eastern Courtyard the Eastern Courtyard
wouldn’t have declined What are you talking about? All right – Poor wretch! God of Evil! Jinx! – Stop I don’t think you’ll understand Chunxing, let’s go! It’s windy outside. Put this on Indigo blue below blue
and blue above indigo blue – Don’t be mad. – Wait I’m in! Okay Zhou Ying from now on the seal of Shiyi Hall
will be in your charge Hope you’ll work carefully and live up to our original
intention of the joint stock Here you are Uncles rest assured Our family will be prospering
with each passing day and get better and better Great! Sir, please enjoy your meal! Uncle Zeng Zhou Ying asked me to give this to you! I was just helping my niece I shouldn’t take the money It’s a present from your niece.
Just take it Besides, you’re going
outside the Shanhaiguan Pass You’ll need money! Since you put it this way I’ll take it Yes, please Have fun this time Don’t come back until
three or five years later I’m not coming back if I marry a girl there Come on, cheers Wonderful Great! Congratulations! Come on Thanks. Thanks Thank you, everybody Thank you Thank you Thank you, everybody Come in, please – Thanks. – Come in, please Come in and have a look Three Courtyards of the Wu
Family now share joint stock They seem to be staging a comeback I hear the widow takes the lead The woman who survived after
being thrown into the river? Also the woman preoccupied
with the military supply case Why can’t she just live a peaceful life? She insists on killing herself How would you like her to be killed? Someone wants to kill her more than we do Miss Hu What are you… The Wu’s Cloth Factory opens today, right? I’m going to give them a gift But why? My father has just died But she does business as if nothing happened She even opens a new shop I just can’t let it go You can’t go Why? It doesn’t make any sense But if I don’t wat else can I do? A lot more! If you really hate her you shouldn’t give her elegiac couplets You should take this up and stab her You’ll then avenge your father Get out of the way! Miss Hu you’re cruel enough but also stupid enough! You asked me to kill her, didn’t you? If you kill her like that you’ll avenge your father But you’ll also ruin yourself That’s a bad bargain Then what do you want me to do? Don’t you know? In Thirty-Six Stratagems one stratagem is to kill someone with a borrowed knife Zhou Ying are you suggesting to hire another 30 weavers? Yes Travelling traders are
coming early next spring We must have enough supply before they arrive in Jingyang But hiring them requires over 2,000 taels! We have enough money Zhou Ying but if we do that we’ll run out of cash Yes, we will But we still have enough to meet the need How about this? Use all the weavers we’ve already hired and sell however much they’ll have weaved What do you think? Then we’re back to the old situation We’ll have a lower risk With the small business we can’t seize the market or get famous Zhou Ying, listen to me this time Better safe than sorry! But I think since we’re all bullish about this we’d better not hesitate We should strain every nerve
to get an instant success Yes. Yes She’s right. Listen to her Right what? Weishuang! I said just listen to her! She’s absolutely right! Zhou Ying, I’m going
to hire weavers right now It can’t be delayed Thank You, Uncle Weiquan. Thank you! You’re welcome Thank you Zhou Ying did you enchant my brother? No, I didn’t Then why did he suddenly
change his attitude towards you? Maybe he just realized something Realized something? In the 18th year of Tongzhi Dynasty Shouwa Clique kidnapped Chen
Baiwan of Ningqiang County His family paid the full ransom But he was still killed In the 3rd year of Guangxu Dynasty Shouwa Clique kidnapped the
son of Zhou Family in Sanyuan He failed to go home alive What do you mean? It’s said that
destruction pursues the great Look how the widow is showing off! It’s not weird if
bandits want to kidnap her But bandits won’t be on my command You don’t need to command them What you need to do is to write to tell them
where they’ll find a hostage They’ll go Yes, Miss Hu I have a friend who
delivers letters to them How much money does it cost? None What do you want of me? You finally asked it! Boss Du you took nothing from me
when you saved my father And now you help me
avenge my father for nothing We’re not relatives or friends There is only one explanation: giving is the prerequisite of receiving You must be plotting something bigger Bingo! I do have a plan What’s your plan? Just tell me I’ll see if I can accept it I’m sure you can I plan to pay a debt of gratitude Years ago, a little boy was cold and hungry He failed to move a step further when he stopped at a house You can’t lie here. Go away! Get up! Get up! Greetings, Miss But just when the boy was dying the girl of that family gave the half steamed bun in her hand to the boy I was the boy And you were the girl I don’t remember that But you saved my life I would never forget that And that’s why I want to help you without taking anything What should I do? Dad, I have something to discuss with you I want to work in the native cloth factory You’re doing a good job in the cotton shop Why do you want to go to
the native cloth factory? The cotton business is too small I don’t have a chance
to distinguish myself! After consideration I think the native cloth
factory suits me best No way I’m expecting you to make money on cotton next year Dad, don’t worry I’ve arranged everything for the cotton shop I’ve booked 200,000
kilos of cotton in advance And I’ve reached an
agreement with Boss Tong You’ll make money without me What do you want to do
in the native cloth shop? I can’t tell you now But I promise I’ll give you a surprise! Auntie Yongmei why do you suddenly come to visit me? Auntie, I always wanted to visit you But… We were like a family But why do we end up like this? It’s our fate! Auntie my father died You’re my only family now What a poor girl you are! Come on and sit Auntie, how are you? I’m quite fine Zhou Ying is very filial to me Yongmei Zhou Ying and I feel sorry for your father We just wanted to know what had happened But we didn’t expect him… I don’t blame you It’s my fate! Let the bygones be bygones You must lead a good life! Oh… why don’t I see her today? Zhou Ying? She’s in the native cloth workshop of the Central Courtyard She goes there every day? Yes. They’re trying to expand the workshop and to hire more weavers She’s busy Every day? Yes She leaves home in the early
morning and goes back in the afternoon She even has lunch there Good. This is enough for us I’ll write to them right now Are you all right? Sorry, Boss. Sorry It’s OK I’ll apply some plaster Zha Kun, what’s wrong with you? Sorry, sorry, Boss That’s too bad My hand is scalded even before I start Zha Kun is illiterate It’s OK. I’ll write You? I’ll write what you tell me Okay Senior Brother Shouwa Boss The Eastern Courtyard of
the Wu family is wealthy Young Mistress Chunxing Guess who comes! Sis Yi Dear sister! I’ve made your favorite food Miss Yi came to give you some food when I was about to leave home She heard I was bringing lunch to you and she came with me Miss Yi This is not the right place for a lady like you My sister can come. Why can’t I? Am I right, sister? Show me what you’ve made me Roasted whole chicken! You said you liked it Yes, I like it So does your Bro Wu Pin Chunxing cut some chicken Let’s go visit Young
Master in the graveyard Make a nice cup of tea for him Okay, I got it Oh, Young Mistress Speaking of making tea I wonder where you found Young Master’s favorite tea cup After he died I searched everything for it but failed The cup? Where’s my father? He left home soon after you did Sis Yi I must leave for something important Take care of yourself Don’t you eat something? Young Mistress What’s wrong? No idea She always has a sudden inspiration We’re used to that You stole this cup? When did you steal it? The morning when Wu Pin died Chunxing, tea for Young Master please Young Mistress, I’ll get it Okay Are you hungry? I’ve had my meal Are you thirsty? Do you want to try? No, I’m not But I do feel a bit hungry I forgot all about it! Fulai? – Young Master – Bring the rice cake Come on. Your bet is set! Your bet is set Win more if you bet more. Come on Your bet is set Dad. Dad You’re right on time I have something to ask you Cast the dice for me Come out! Out! What are you doing? I’m having fun! Dad, tell me Wu Pin’s cup The one you stole when he died Where did you steal it? What happened then? Dad Yu Long Quan gave me a
few pieces of brick tea Why don’t you take
them to drink on the road Great Okay, I’ll go to get it now No, no, let me get it myself Seeing the mountain scenery
from the city gate tower I suddenly heard a hubbub in the city I see banners and flags flying around But… Wu Pin didn’t drink the tea Baolai made before he put the cup down Later you poured the tea and took away the cup I’ve given it back to you Bandits are coming! Bandits are coming! Magistrate Zhao Bad news, Magistrate Zhao Magistrate Zhao, bad news What’s going on? The Young Mistress of the Eastern Courtyard
of the Wu family was kidnapped by bandits What’s going on? Run! Bandits are coming! Why are there bandits in Jingyang? It’s true! The widow of the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu family has been kidnapped by them Get things back. Hurry up! Young Master Everybody, follow me Yes Hurry. Hurry Fall in! Uncle, what’s going on? Bandits are coming. Everyone is fleeing The widow of the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu family has been kidnapped by them! Why don’t you run? Go after them! Officers are coming! Get faster! Come on! Go after them! Put Mistress down! Come on. Don’t move Don’t move It’s OK. Don’t move All right. All right. It’s untied It’s untied. You’re free Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! It’s me! It’s me! It’s all right! All right! How do you feel now? Can you get up? Wang Shijun Wang Shijun Young Mistress Young Mistress, why are you back? It’s dangerous here What happened? We don’t know either Many bandits broke in Who was taken away? Miss Yi Where are they running? That way Hurry and get me a horse Okay Zhou Ying Are you all right? Yeah Where are the bandits? Little Wu, hurry! Come on Where are you going? Magistrate Zhao Magistrate Zhao Get off She was freaked out It may be a while before she recovers Sis Yi are you all right? Magistrate Zhao saved you? It’s fine as long as you’re OK Let’s get in It’s fine as long as you’re OK Shen Xingyi, why are you here? Oh I… Why am I here? I’ve checked these fields All are good! Master has been buried Your marriage shouldn’t be delayed The Qin Family of Fengxiang has a son of knowledge He’s a good match to you My father has just died I haven’t avenged him yet But you ask me to buy fields and get engaged as if nothing happened But that’s what Master
told us to do before he died Leave it alone until I avenge him Miss you don’t want to buy fields or get married but consume without producing It is not going to work How about reopening the Gu Yue Crude Medicine Shop? Can we? We can if we find old travelling traders from
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei and Hunan Where can we find them? They come to Jingyang for placing orders every spring and autumn It’s not difficult to find them A Boss Yang, Yang Jinlin comes from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area He’s in now Jingyang He still owes us 700 taels of silver Then let’s visit him first Bad news! Bandits came to Jingyang! Who did they kidnap? I heard they kidnapped Wu Yi of the Western Courtyard of the Wu family But Magistrate Zhao saved her back Wu Yi? Send a message to your senior brother Since they failed this time they should have a better plan next time They shall not fail again! They shall not fail again!
They shall not fail again! They shall not fail again! Yes They failed to kidnap the widow But they hurt Zhao Baishi badly We can at least account for Young Prince Zhao Baishi! Zhao Baishi! Sanshou Clique came and left freely in your jurisdiction What punishment do you think you deserve as the governor? I’m very much to blame! Last time you would have been dismissed
and never employed again But you were just demoted and transferred because of the mercy
from the Imperial Court If you’re a man who would try
harder after being humiliated you should have cringed
and worked carefully But look at you! You’ve made no achievement
in your official career And you had such an accident You’ll have three months to eliminate the Sanshou
Clique within your jurisdiction Or I’ll write a memorial
statement to the throne to dismiss you right here Yes, sir! It was Sanshou Clique Is the news reliable? Yes When did the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu family offend Sanshou Clique? No idea I was just told that their Boss Han Sanchun came personally It was obvious a big deal! How could Wu Yi be a big deal? They didn’t come for Wu Yi They came for you Me? Yes They said they want the widow of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu family Maybe they mistook Miss Yi for you because she was wearing fancy clothes I’m more worthless than Wu Yi Why would they kidnap me? But you’re known as the Patriarch of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu family But the Eastern Courtyard isn’t rich Maybe Sanshou Clique
isn’t aware of the decline They may think you have thriving business and tremendous property as Wu Weiwen did Young Mistress Young Mistress, Magistrate Zhao’s here Please sit, Magistrate Zhao We’re never an enemy to Sanshou Clique That’s wired! Magistrate Zhao something is weirder Wu Pin wasn’t killed by Baolai How could it be possible? Sun Yongquan confessed that Lady Liu instigated Baolai to poison Wu Pin’s with his tea I’ve investigated that Lady Liu put the same poison in Sun Yongquan’s wine as Baolai put in Wu Pin’s tea Baolai did poison the tea But Wu Pin didn’t drink the tea at all Are you sure? Yes Lady Liu didn’t kill Wu Pin Someone else did But who… Who poisoned him? I don’t know I made some money from dealing the cotton But it was nothing compared with the profits of
the cloth dealers from Wuhan They buy cotton from us at a low price deliver it to Wuhan,
make it into Hubei cloth and then sell back to
Shaanxi at a high price They even transfer the cloth
to border through Jingyang Through all this we can only earn 30% but they earn 70% Zhou Ying you’re right I do native cloth business I’ve witnessed it Cotton is made into cloth in Wuhan And the price rises by a few times when it’s sold back here Uncle Weiquan you run the Manual Weaving Workshop You know it best The native cloth in Shaanxi is as good But why can’t it rival Hubei cloth? That’s because of our limited production Yeah Exactly! This shop produces some
cloth with remaining cotton So does another shop No size or fame Travelling traders refuse to accredit it Zhou Ying you’ve got an idea, haven’t you? Uncle Weiwu, you can always see me through Come on. Cheers Here is the thing I do have an idea Look I have cotton You have a Manual Weaving Workshop And you have a cloth shop We can share a joint stock to set up Wu’s Cloth Factory My cotton will be directly sent to
the Manual Weaving Workshop and sold in the cloth shop after it’s made into cloth I made out the bill If we cooperate to market our own products we’ll produce 60,000 bolts of cloth Our income will be at least doubled What’s more, we’ll be famous if we grow After we develop Shaanxi native cloth into a big business we can share the market of Hubei cloth We’ll then get more profits Uncles what do you think of my plan? When your father-in-law was alive we ran a pawn shop together at best But now you want us to share a join stock
with most of our property This is too much To be frank, I’m not sure about that Weishuang what do you think? Zhou Ying I have a quick tongue.
So don’t take it personally It’s OK Uncle, just spit it out It’s not good that the
hen cackles in the morning Men of the Eastern Courtyard died So you ruled it But that’s because you had no alternative I don’t complain about that But you want me to hand the workshop to you which we’ve run for decades I don’t think I’ll accept that Yusheng Come back, Yusheng You keep playing with swords.
Are you going to be an opera singer? Yutong Kids are the happiest today Here we are See you Uncle, auntie Goodbye – Bye, brother. – Bye Be watchful on the road Zhou Ying, do you like today’s opera? Yes I find it quite interesting Uncle Weiwu you’ve been doing cloth
business for so many years Do you think my plan makes some sense? To be honest I’ve never thought of what you proposed After listening to you I thought it over It made quite some sense Since you agree to it could you please help
me persuade Uncle Weiwu? He’s the most stubborn one in our family When your father-in-law was
alive, he may persuade him But I don’t think I can do that If he refuses to join me we two can cooperate Are you in? Zhou Ying since your father-in-law died you’ve been supporting
the Eastern Courtyard You did a good job I just told my wife yesterday you were really a woman of talents The Eastern Courtyard
will make more progress Thank you But I’m not sure how much progress you can finally make Well… If you manage to persuade Weiquan I’ll join you to set up Wu’s Cloth Factory If the Central Courtyard isn’t in neither is the Western Courtyard Is that OK? Okay You shouldn’t have
refused Zhou Ying so fast Why? Look how much she gave the kids 100 taels for each kid She’s more generous than her father-in-law So what? Think about it She made so much money within such a short time What does that mean? It means she’s really capable If we cooperate with her maybe we’ll make a lot of money too You… You have long hair but are short of brain What the… How could you say so! Your words are unreasonable Let me tell you the reasons Imperial families have disciplines His Majesty never pays
respects to a courtier Don’t blame your wife for laughing at you You were an oxherd How annoying! Concubine, how rude you are! Bravo! Bravo! Dad What’s up? I need you for something important The elder, the wiser! What is it? You went to Hu Yongmei? I send something for her Why didn’t you take me? Her father just died She is now alone and helpless A visit to her isn’t that much, is it? It isn’t I just wanna warn you Boss, why do we come here? But she’s useful to us I know But don’t forget what we really are! Good luck to you Where is the Polar Palace? Polar Palace? 1,500 meters south from here This way? Thank… Thank you Good luck to you Stop Good luck to you Priest Ask the way if you want But why do you wink? Am I freaking you out? No Sorry. I’m sorry Sorry for my inexperience Sorry No, no, no Priest. Priest Priest. Priest. Priest What on earth would you like to say? I… I can’t tell you No way, Priest You have to tell me today You have to Good luck to you Then I have to tell him Sir listen to me Go back home And do not come out as far as you can from now on Why? That’s the secret we will never tell Sorry, it’s the last thing I can tell you Good luck to you Good luck to you But I’m fine now, aren’t I? You just try to be mysterious You just try to be mysterious! What… What the hell?! Can’t I just walk through? Bad luck! Open the door! I put up a fish wire three centimeters above the ground When he walked over he was stumbled over and fell on the ground face down When he was still dizzy I took away the fish wire Then he had no idea what happened There was no trace at all Then he had to get up And he had to lean against the
wall when he couldn’t stand firmly I set a trap on the ground When he stepped on it the bird’s nest would fall and hit on him Didn’t he even suspect that
someone played a trick on him? I’ve never failed whenever I play tricks Then what did he do? Then he went directly to the Polar Palace for your Uncle Zeng But Uncle Zeng didn’t show up as you instructed Dad, tell Uncle Zeng he may show up after tonight I don’t believe it! How is it? It’s weird! What? I divined three times. All were ominous! Uh… It should be taken with a grain of salt! I met a sorcerer today. He said What? Go have a look Where’s the cry from? Over there! Over there! We don’t keep cats Where are the cats from? We don’t know, Mistress Damn. Damn! What’s wrong? A pig brings poverty and a dog wealth A cat brings death Master, don’t scare me! Death! Always laughing in the world Why do you travel around? Cultivate myself through all the hardships And get rid of the secularity Priest! It’s you? I’ve been waiting here for two days You know it? Look Look at this All this happened after I met you last time I saw that coming! How weird it is! I divined three times last night All were ominous! Something is weirder! Last night, a herd of wildcats broke into my house Tell me about it What exactly is happening? Wow, the God of Evil is that powerful! What God of Evil? Oh, no… No, nothing Priest! Priest What is the God of Evil? Priest! Priest, please save me! Get up. Get up. Get up Well, I… I was too gossipy And asked for trouble This is not trouble! Save me and that’s a great merit Good luck to you Come with me – This way, please. – Okay Being held up by God
of Evil is most annoying But if you can find someone eviler than God of Evil and associate with him The God of Evil will be suppressed And you’ll make a big fortune Then tell me Who is eviler than God of Evil? A jinx, of course Where can I find a jinx? All right, one more tip for you Please Indigo blue below blue Blue above indigo blue Indigo blue is extracted from
the indigo plant, but bluer Always laughing in the world Indigo blue is extracted from
the indigo plant, but bluer? Zhou Ying – You’re getting… – Master’s back Master, where have you been? Zhou Ying has been waiting for a long time Uncle, I come to discuss about the joint stock of us I’ve got nothing to discuss with you I’m not in! Then you’ll miss a brass ring! It’s weird when a woman usurps man’s power It’s even worse to ruin ethics I heard that when Wu Pin’s grandpa
divided up family property four courtyards started
the business simultaneously But now you rank last The reason is simple You’re so superstitious that you’ve missed many brass rings Zhou Ying, you’re talking rubbish! Even though we declined
and made a new start we’re now living a better life than you What a pity on your wife! She’s spent all her life with you But look at her dress What? What’s wrong with her dress? If my eldest brother had listened to me and driven you jinx out
of the Eastern Courtyard the Eastern Courtyard
wouldn’t have declined What are you talking about? All right – Poor wretch! God of Evil! Jinx! – Stop I don’t think you’ll understand Chunxing, let’s go! It’s windy outside. Put this on Indigo blue below blue
and blue above indigo blue – Don’t be mad. – Wait I’m in! Okay Zhou Ying from now on the seal of Shiyi Hall
will be in your charge Hope you’ll work carefully and live up to our original
intention of the joint stock Here you are Uncles rest assured Our family will be prospering
with each passing day and get better and better Great! Sir, please enjoy your meal! Uncle Zeng Zhou Ying asked me to give this to you! I was just helping my niece I shouldn’t take the money It’s a present from your niece.
Just take it Besides, you’re going
outside the Shanhaiguan Pass You’ll need money! Since you put it this way I’ll take it Yes, please Have fun this time Don’t come back until
three or five years later I’m not coming back if I marry a girl there Come on, cheers Wonderful Great! Congratulations! Come on Thanks. Thanks Thank you, everybody Thank you Thank you Thank you, everybody Come in, please – Thanks. – Come in, please Come in and have a look Three Courtyards of the Wu
Family now share joint stock They seem to be staging a comeback I hear the widow takes the lead The woman who survived after
being thrown into the river? Also the woman preoccupied
with the military supply case Why can’t she just live a peaceful life? She insists on killing herself How would you like her to be killed? Someone wants to kill her more than we do Miss Hu What are you… The Wu’s Cloth Factory opens today, right? I’m going to give them a gift But why? My father has just died But she does business as if nothing happened She even opens a new shop I just can’t let it go You can’t go Why? It doesn’t make any sense But if I don’t wat else can I do? A lot more! If you really hate her you shouldn’t give her elegiac couplets You should take this up and stab her You’ll then avenge your father Get out of the way! Miss Hu you’re cruel enough but also stupid enough! You asked me to kill her, didn’t you? If you kill her like that you’ll avenge your father But you’ll also ruin yourself That’s a bad bargain Then what do you want me to do? Don’t you know? In Thirty-Six Stratagems one stratagem is to kill someone with a borrowed knife Zhou Ying are you suggesting to hire another 30 weavers? Yes Travelling traders are
coming early next spring We must have enough supply before they arrive in Jingyang But hiring them requires over 2,000 taels! We have enough money Zhou Ying but if we do that we’ll run out of cash Yes, we will But we still have enough to meet the need How about this? Use all the weavers we’ve already hired and sell however much they’ll have weaved What do you think? Then we’re back to the old situation We’ll have a lower risk With the small business we can’t seize the market or get famous Zhou Ying, listen to me this time Better safe than sorry! But I think since we’re all bullish about this we’d better not hesitate We should strain every nerve
to get an instant success Yes. Yes She’s right. Listen to her Right what? Weishuang! I said just listen to her! She’s absolutely right! Zhou Ying, I’m going
to hire weavers right now It can’t be delayed Thank You, Uncle Weiquan. Thank you! You’re welcome Thank you Zhou Ying did you enchant my brother? No, I didn’t Then why did he suddenly
change his attitude towards you? Maybe he just realized something Realized something? In the 18th year of Tongzhi Dynasty Shouwa Clique kidnapped Chen
Baiwan of Ningqiang County His family paid the full ransom But he was still killed In the 3rd year of Guangxu Dynasty Shouwa Clique kidnapped the
son of Zhou Family in Sanyuan He failed to go home alive What do you mean? It’s said that
destruction pursues the great Look how the widow is showing off! It’s not weird if
bandits want to kidnap her But bandits won’t be on my command You don’t need to command them What you need to do is to write to tell them
where they’ll find a hostage They’ll go Yes, Miss Hu I have a friend who
delivers letters to them How much money does it cost? None What do you want of me? You finally asked it! Boss Du you took nothing from me
when you saved my father And now you help me
avenge my father for nothing We’re not relatives or friends There is only one explanation: giving is the prerequisite of receiving You must be plotting something bigger Bingo! I do have a plan What’s your plan? Just tell me I’ll see if I can accept it I’m sure you can I plan to pay a debt of gratitude Years ago, a little boy was cold and hungry He failed to move a step further when he stopped at a house You can’t lie here. Go away! Get up! Get up! Greetings, Miss But just when the boy was dying the girl of that family gave the half steamed bun in her hand to the boy I was the boy And you were the girl I don’t remember that But you saved my life I would never forget that And that’s why I want to help you without taking anything What should I do? Dad, I have something to discuss with you I want to work in the native cloth factory You’re doing a good job in the cotton shop Why do you want to go to
the native cloth factory? The cotton business is too small I don’t have a chance
to distinguish myself! After consideration I think the native cloth
factory suits me best No way I’m expecting you to make money on cotton next year Dad, don’t worry I’ve arranged everything for the cotton shop I’ve booked 200,000
kilos of cotton in advance And I’ve reached an
agreement with Boss Tong You’ll make money without me What do you want to do
in the native cloth shop? I can’t tell you now But I promise I’ll give you a surprise! Auntie Yongmei why do you suddenly come to visit me? Auntie, I always wanted to visit you But… We were like a family But why do we end up like this? It’s our fate! Auntie my father died You’re my only family now What a poor girl you are! Come on and sit Auntie, how are you? I’m quite fine Zhou Ying is very filial to me Yongmei Zhou Ying and I feel sorry for your father We just wanted to know what had happened But we didn’t expect him… I don’t blame you It’s my fate! Let the bygones be bygones You must lead a good life! Oh… why don’t I see her today? Zhou Ying? She’s in the native cloth workshop of the Central Courtyard She goes there every day? Yes. They’re trying to expand the workshop and to hire more weavers She’s busy Every day? Yes She leaves home in the early
morning and goes back in the afternoon She even has lunch there Good. This is enough for us I’ll write to them right now Are you all right? Sorry, Boss. Sorry It’s OK I’ll apply some plaster Zha Kun, what’s wrong with you? Sorry, sorry, Boss That’s too bad My hand is scalded even before I start Zha Kun is illiterate It’s OK. I’ll write You? I’ll write what you tell me Okay Senior Brother Shouwa Boss The Eastern Courtyard of
the Wu family is wealthy Young Mistress Chunxing Guess who comes! Sis Yi Dear sister! I’ve made your favorite food Miss Yi came to give you some food when I was about to leave home She heard I was bringing lunch to you and she came with me Miss Yi This is not the right place for a lady like you My sister can come. Why can’t I? Am I right, sister? Show me what you’ve made me Roasted whole chicken! You said you liked it Yes, I like it So does your Bro Wu Pin Chunxing cut some chicken Let’s go visit Young
Master in the graveyard Make a nice cup of tea for him Okay, I got it Oh, Young Mistress Speaking of making tea I wonder where you found Young Master’s favorite tea cup After he died I searched everything for it but failed The cup? Where’s my father? He left home soon after you did Sis Yi I must leave for something important Take care of yourself Don’t you eat something? Young Mistress What’s wrong? No idea She always has a sudden inspiration We’re used to that You stole this cup? When did you steal it? The morning when Wu Pin died Chunxing, tea for Young Master please Young Mistress, I’ll get it Okay Are you hungry? I’ve had my meal Are you thirsty? Do you want to try? No, I’m not But I do feel a bit hungry I forgot all about it! Fulai? – Young Master – Bring the rice cake Come on. Your bet is set! Your bet is set Win more if you bet more. Come on Your bet is set Dad. Dad You’re right on time I have something to ask you Cast the dice for me Come out! Out! What are you doing? I’m having fun! Dad, tell me Wu Pin’s cup The one you stole when he died Where did you steal it? What happened then? Dad Yu Long Quan gave me a
few pieces of brick tea Why don’t you take
them to drink on the road Great Okay, I’ll go to get it now No, no, let me get it myself Seeing the mountain scenery
from the city gate tower I suddenly heard a hubbub in the city I see banners and flags flying around But… Wu Pin didn’t drink the tea Baolai made before he put the cup down Later you poured the tea and took away the cup I’ve given it back to you Bandits are coming! Bandits are coming! Magistrate Zhao Bad news, Magistrate Zhao Magistrate Zhao, bad news What’s going on? The Young Mistress of the Eastern Courtyard
of the Wu family was kidnapped by bandits What’s going on? Run! Bandits are coming! Why are there bandits in Jingyang? It’s true! The widow of the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu family has been kidnapped by them Get things back. Hurry up! Young Master Everybody, follow me Yes Hurry. Hurry Fall in! Uncle, what’s going on? Bandits are coming. Everyone is fleeing The widow of the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu family has been kidnapped by them! Why don’t you run? Go after them! Officers are coming! Get faster! Come on! Go after them! Put Mistress down! Come on. Don’t move Don’t move It’s OK. Don’t move All right. All right. It’s untied It’s untied. You’re free Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! It’s me! It’s me! It’s all right! All right! How do you feel now? Can you get up? Wang Shijun Wang Shijun Young Mistress Young Mistress, why are you back? It’s dangerous here What happened? We don’t know either Many bandits broke in Who was taken away? Miss Yi Where are they running? That way Hurry and get me a horse Okay Zhou Ying Are you all right? Yeah Where are the bandits? Little Wu, hurry! Come on Where are you going? Magistrate Zhao Magistrate Zhao Get off She was freaked out It may be a while before she recovers Sis Yi are you all right? Magistrate Zhao saved you? It’s fine as long as you’re OK Let’s get in It’s fine as long as you’re OK Shen Xingyi, why are you here? Oh I… Why am I here? I’ve checked these fields All are good! Master has been buried Your marriage shouldn’t be delayed The Qin Family of Fengxiang has a son of knowledge He’s a good match to you My father has just died I haven’t avenged him yet But you ask me to buy fields and get engaged as if nothing happened But that’s what Master
told us to do before he died Leave it alone until I avenge him Miss you don’t want to buy fields or get married but consume without producing It is not going to work How about reopening the Gu Yue Crude Medicine Shop? Can we? We can if we find old travelling traders from
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei and Hunan Where can we find them? They come to Jingyang for placing orders every spring and autumn It’s not difficult to find them A Boss Yang, Yang Jinlin comes from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area He’s in now Jingyang He still owes us 700 taels of silver Then let’s visit him first Bad news! Bandits came to Jingyang! Who did they kidnap? I heard they kidnapped Wu Yi of the Western Courtyard of the Wu family But Magistrate Zhao saved her back Wu Yi? Send a message to your senior brother Since they failed this time they should have a better plan next time They shall not fail again! They shall not fail again!
They shall not fail again! They shall not fail again! Yes They failed to kidnap the widow But they hurt Zhao Baishi badly We can at least account for Young Prince Zhao Baishi! Zhao Baishi! Sanshou Clique came and left freely in your jurisdiction What punishment do you think you deserve as the governor? I’m very much to blame! Last time you would have been dismissed
and never employed again But you were just demoted and transferred because of the mercy
from the Imperial Court If you’re a man who would try
harder after being humiliated you should have cringed
and worked carefully But look at you! You’ve made no achievement
in your official career And you had such an accident You’ll have three months to eliminate the Sanshou
Clique within your jurisdiction Or I’ll write a memorial
statement to the throne to dismiss you right here Yes, sir! It was Sanshou Clique Is the news reliable? Yes When did the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu family offend Sanshou Clique? No idea I was just told that their Boss Han Sanchun came personally It was obvious a big deal! How could Wu Yi be a big deal? They didn’t come for Wu Yi They came for you Me? Yes They said they want the widow of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu family Maybe they mistook Miss Yi for you because she was wearing fancy clothes I’m more worthless than Wu Yi Why would they kidnap me? But you’re known as the Patriarch of the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu family But the Eastern Courtyard isn’t rich Maybe Sanshou Clique
isn’t aware of the decline They may think you have thriving business and tremendous property as Wu Weiwen did Young Mistress Young Mistress, Magistrate Zhao’s here Please sit, Magistrate Zhao We’re never an enemy to Sanshou Clique That’s wired! Magistrate Zhao something is weirder Wu Pin wasn’t killed by Baolai How could it be possible? Sun Yongquan confessed that Lady Liu instigated Baolai to poison Wu Pin’s with his tea I’ve investigated that Lady Liu put the same poison in Sun Yongquan’s wine as Baolai put in Wu Pin’s tea Baolai did poison the tea But Wu Pin didn’t drink the tea at all Are you sure? Yes Lady Liu didn’t kill Wu Pin Someone else did But who… Who poisoned him? I don’t know Young Master Young Master, the monthly
meeting will be held today master asks you to attend I’m not eligible Master said You’ll have to attend
every meeting from now on and you will be informed of all the businesses of the Shen family My dad decides to put me
in an important position? Yes It’s the same as that when
the Elder Young Master was alive I finally catch up with my brother Lift me up Congratulations! Young Master Young Master Our inventory You go back, back But the demand and supply
are generally balanced Master, it’s the situation of the tea shop Will the native cloth of the Wu family impact our cloth shop? Certainly, Master However Young Master and I have
made three countermeasures Tell me I’ll start from the unwise one That is burn the workshop of the Wu family Absolutely no Then the next one I can contact the weavers of the Wu family If we provide more money I’m sure I can stop them weaving
cloth for the Wu family Then, the Wu’s Cloth
Factory cannot operate smoothly We’ll spend more money No Young Master Come, Young Master Tell master your good plan Master the native cloth of the Wu family is expected to come
into market this October So we should also advance our launch time of Hubei cloth and Henan cloth to October They sell their own products with much more competitive price than ours I’ve thought it over If their price is 20% lower than ours we can suppress them
with our fame and quality If their price is 30% lower than ours we can lower our price by 40% to beat them heavily Then we’ll suffer a deficit I didn’t finish When they are completely defeated we can purchase their
native cloth with low price and sell them with higher price Then we can make a lot of money from them Master Young Master and I made an account Till this business war finishes we’ll have to prepay
over 30,000 taels of silver But we can make over 50,000 taels at last A tiger father will not beget a dog son Young Master is really smart and capable Please Boss Du I’ll send you the account book and
bonus of this quarter later Thank you Boss Shen Young Prince’s reward will come soon Just wait for the good news Thank you See you Dad Why did he come to our monthly meeting? Boss Du has already become one
of our shareholders now When did that happen? Since your grandma was granted a title we’ve been sharing joint
stock with Long Sheng He by 7:3 But we’ve been doing well in our business why should we cooperate with them? I have my reason Shall I give them 30% of my profits from cotton business? That’s right But why?! Dad They brought the military supply order and they were responsible for delivery and settlement It was reasonable to give them 30% of profits from that But the cotton business is done by myself Why should I divide my profits to them? You do it by yourself? Then tell me can you earn the money without Tong Jingfu? Of course not Another question Who told you about the cotton businessman Tong Jingfu? It was you No It was Boss Du Do you know why our business is developing by leaps and bounds recently? We are engaged in crude medicine,
tea, horse, native cloth and iron In all these fields we have sufficient customers channels and supplies Do you know why? No All these are brought by Boss Du But you cooperate with people who can do anything for money You’re asking a tiger for its skin But Boss Du does have brought us a lot of profits Dad the Shen Family can’t afford Du Mingli’s tricks Xing you have to take a risk if you want to do big business We have enough money now I don’t know why we would need so much more How can you say that? Dad can we just operate our small business honestly and sincerely? Xing you have your merits but you’ll never catch up
with Yuesheng in one aspect Which aspect? You are not greedy enough I heard what happened
to Master Hu last year and intended to pay my respect but I had no time Although my dad has gone I plan to reopen Gu Yue Crude Medicine Shop So I come to you today for two reasons First I’d like to talk about
cooperation with you next year Second I’d like to settle the old debts Miss Hu, you don’t know I’ve switched to another industry now I sell foreign cloth instead of crude medicine I come to Jingyang to promote foreign cloth Why did you switch? It’s increasingly more difficult
to do crude medicine business It’s easier to earn money
by selling foreign cloth I didn’t expect it About the old debts I planned to repay it
after I make money this time But I didn’t expect that no one in Shaanxi is interested in foreign cloth I’m afraid I’ll return
without accomplishing anything So I have to delay the payment
of the 700 taels of silver I owe you Then when do you expect to repay it? Next year, the next spring Ok then I have to go now. See you Miss Hu I came there in a hurry and didn’t prepare any gift I’d like to give you these samples as a gift Please accept them Miss Yang Jinlin is looking
for customers in Shaanxi I think we may cooperate with him and sell foreign cloth in our shop He said there was no market in Shaanxi But he also said foreign cloth was popular in the south Generally popular things in the south will prevail in the central Shaanxi plain in half a year You’ll see it becomes popular in Shaanxi within half a year These cloths? I think we can do that Ok Zhou Ying is making native cloth We’ll engage in foreign cloth Young master, someone wants to see you Magistrate Zhao, you didn’t
cross over the wall today? About Wu Pin’s death I want to ask you several questions It was you who hurt Wu Pin seriously It was you who stayed at the beam of our shop Your arm was bitten by Fulai Your arm was scratched by me So I have the reason to suspect that you killed Wu Pin Magistrate Zhao I just scratched your arm not your head If you search your memory you should know Wu Pin didn’t die He survived at last and forced my maid to be his wife He and I helped you relieve the refugees I mean it was also you who poisoned and killed Wu Pin He was poisoned at the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu family What was my business? You hold the grudge that he grabbed your maid You threatened publicly that you‘d kill Wu Pin and revenge your brother Shen Yuesheng Then you can arrest me I don’t have the
evidence for your poisoning But I believe you’ll show your slip I’ll catch you Magistrate Zhao I know who killed Wu Pin Who? It was you, Zhao Baishi I don’t have the
evidence for your poisoning But you’ll show your slip some day I’ll catch you Nonsense You can slander me Why can’t I you? Uncle look at these cloths Guess which is from Hubei, which from Henan and which is Shaanxi cloth produced by us Let me see This cloth has fine texture, Hubei cloth This one is beautiful in color, Henan cloth This one is produced by us Shaanxi cloth Brother you’ve been selling
cloths for so many years! Let me tell you Henan cloth Hubei cloth and this is our native cloth Save it How can it mistake them
with my years of experience? These are weaved by my machines How can I mistake them? You muddled Uncles don’t argue any more These three are all Shaanxi native cloths Impossible No These were cut down from the weaving machines just now So high quality! They must be sold well
once launched in the market Yes, yes! Uncles we have other happy things Come on, follow me Look at the color It’s much brighter Look The variety, the color It was previously impossible Yes, yes, yes Uncles, come on, look Master Weiwu, Master Weiquan Look at the pattern. How beautiful! That’s right.
There was no such pattern before – Brother, brother, – Yeah, yeah these cloths will sell well, right? Uncle Weiwu Master Weiwu How much do you earn on
a piece of Hubei cloth? One copper cash at most But if you sell a piece of Shaanxi cloth produced by ourselves you can earn five copper cash Five! Calculated by this number this year we can earn… Over 20,000 taels? Next year, we can buy five
times more weaving machines and instead of selling
the cotton we harvest we produce them into native cloths Then we’ll make 100,000 taels of silver 100,000 taels We have good luck I’m so happy Everything goes well We’ll live a better life What’s up? Calm down. You freaked me out Good hexagram, the best hexagram I tell you The Priest was really talented He was right in everything What did he say? You’re so happy You looked woebegone a few days ago See how happy you are now What? What’s wrong? You’ve worn this dress for
more than ten years, right? Make a new one tomorrow No, make two with the best Jiangnan silk Master, you have a fever? No, I have fortune Miss, the meal is ready Coming 60,000 bolts of cloths this year 300,000 bolts next year I’ll be the largest
cloth businessman in Shaanxi What’s wrong with my dad? Come on He’s happy today and drank a little wine I think it was more than a little Wu Yi, sit down When I have enough money I’ll prepare more dowry for you which will make all women
in Jingyang admire you Dad, what are you talking about? Come on And you, Wu Ze I’ll support you to be an honest official that takes no bribe I’ll help you surpass your classmate Zhao Baishi in reputation. Come on Come, Master, don’t drink any more I’m happy today. Let me drink more Dad, you’ve drunk too much Dad, I help you You fool Ok Give me more Don’t drink too much Brother you know Magistrate Zhao? Yes, we’ve known each other for years Magistrate Zhao saved me and I haven’t got a chance to say thank you Brother, can you… I can When he comes to me next time I’ll inform you Thank you, brother Look at the way you sit Mom Come, sit down I made some tremella and lotus seed soup and brought it here Thank you, mom What’s this? I’m estimating this year’s
income of our Eastern Courtyard Mom, look This is the income from
cotton business this year This is the bonus of
Wu’s Cloth Factory for us this year So much It’s nothing After we earn money and reinvest our income will be this figure next year Then we Eastern Courtyard
will embrace a new life However, it can only come true after we sell out all the native cloths we are producing Can we sell them out? The old shops that sell
Hubei cloth and Henan cloth will not allow us to share their customers We may face a hard fighting But, I have countermeasures now And I believe with our quality and price we’ll never lose Then we needn’t live a nervous life Mom it’s all owe to your 2,000 taels of silver You were hit that time I deserved it I shouldn’t have done that Do you have any sequela? Look I’m fine Sit down, sit down I know you must criticize
me for my improper manner I won’t since it’s no use How can a woman behave like this?! Mom, didn’t you say you won’t criticize me? Bad faith Look, use this I’ll pour it for you We share it I’ll help you I’ll drink it from this Dad I’ll beat that woman all to pieces I’ll make her lose her foothold in Jingyang I’ve engaged in cloth
business for several decades I’ve never encountered such a situation What about the Qi Family in Wuhai Never show up The customers from Lanzhou? Elder Tang from Haidong? Old Tang only bought ten bolts Ten?! He always bought several
hundred bolts in the past years If I didn’t beg him he wouldn’t buy any How many bolts do we have in our inventory? 100,000 We only sold three bolts in the past month Even if Shen Xingyi tried his best to restrain us we shouldn’t have only
sold three bolts in a month Young Mistress the customers didn’t buy Hubei cloth and
Henan cloth from the Shen family What happened? A month ago a foreign cloth shop was opened in Jingyang Our customers nearly all went there We tried to guard against the Wu family who expected there came a Hu Family at last Right. It’s all because of the
foreign cloth shop of the Hu Family None of the cloths was sold out? What about my investment? Weiquan, we two courtyards
also invested a lot Bro Weiwu, I’m different from you Look I manufactured the yarns and weaved the cloth I did all what I should do About the selling th…that is your business Weiquan, sit down We are trying to find a solution Buy cloth? Which one do you like? I’ll buy it for you Not necessary I can afford it I forgot it you made over 10,000 taels of silver from me last year You made a mistake I helped you make over
20,000 taels of silver This piece is hard enough, just like you Good I choose one for you too This one is thick enough like your face Miss Hu, I’m from Guyuan please do give me 500 bolts today Miss Hu, I want 500 bolts I want 1,000 bolts I want 1,000 bolts Everyone, everyone everyone, everyone, listen to me We can meet all of your demands But there are too many persons we’re too busy to do it soon Please wait a moment Please wait Manager, receive everyone for me How arrogant!
The business is really booming Our business didn’t boom like this even in the peak Admirable I see it You didn’t come here to buy cloth You’re seeking a solution You’re also worrying about how to sell your native cloths, right? Inventory worthy of over
40,000 taels of silver and you? A little less Judging from this situation we must lose money this year A loss of tens of thousands of taels it’s a hair off a bull’s back to you If I lose that much I’ll come to an end It’s good if you do We need a maid to serve tea Young Master Shen I’m sorry to stamp on your foot Yo… Young Master, what’s up? Nothing This is called gabardine thin but durable and waterproof See? Guess how much a bolt costs Six taels Six taels?! And this cloth Look at the color It won’t dye on any common native cloth The only cloth that can compare with it is silk However can silk bear this? A bolt of silk in the market costs at least 20 taels of silver But this cloth only costs four taels Isn’t it cheaper than native cloths? Right The previous foreign cloth was flabby and expensive No one liked it So when Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop appeared no one noticed it But this cloth is totally different from the previous one so we can’t respond it timely We must try to restrain
Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop We can’t make it Dad, I have a presentiment When this foreign cloth comes into market no one will buy our native cloth any more So we must make a prompt decision I suggest selling all the 100,000 bolts of
native cloths in the inventory at the price of two copper cash each bolt Then, we turn to foreign cloths too We’ll lose over 20,000 taels If you don’t do this now when Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop occupies the whole market we won’t be able to sell one single bolt At that time, we’ll lose over 40,000 taels Over 20,000 taels No, it’s too much Dad, there is no time We have only one last chance in hand I’ll think of another solution What about lowering our price? Native cloth cost at least
6 taels per bolt last year Let’s offer a 50% discount There will definitely be customers According to my calculation even if we sell each bolt at 3 tales we still have profits It’s no use I’ve visited Gu Yue Foreign Cloth Shop The cloths are fine and soft with beautiful colors and large widths And the cheapest one costs only 3 taels If I am a customer I’ll buy that cloth instead of native one But if these native cloths can’t sell out the Eastern, Western and Central Courtyard will have no income this year Worse than that We will lose all the previous investment Then, our newly opened Wu’s Cloth Factory will be closed? You must give the silver to our
Central Courtyard in three days You Western Courtyard
should try to manage it If we don’t sell out these cloths how can I give you silver? We can’t work for nothing We lose all of our capital too Anyway, Zhou Ying is the only one to blame She stored up so many cloths How can we sell them out in a short time? What nonsense! Our Young Mistress Is doing this for the
benefit of you two courtyards What benefit? Our Master was right Your Young Mistress is a scourge You’re a scourge Bully! The Eastern Courtyard is bullying Let me go Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! – You’re a scourge. – Stop! Let go! Stop! Beat him severely Give him a good lesson Beat him Defeat the few with more people, right? Ok then. Who fears? Young Mistress Get away, get away, get away Move, move Off your hands! Let her go! Let her go! Hear me?! Move! What’s going on? Stop! Stop! – Stop! – Move! Move! Stop! Stop! What’s going on? Who did it? Who did it? Who did it? Stop! Stop! Absurd! As the Patriarch how can you fight with servants?! How absurd! How absurd! The cloths can’t be sold out Everyone is unhappy Fight is a good way to vent our anger Vent our anger? You should try to sell them out Will fighting help? Absurd! Master, let’s see a doctor Zhou Ying you fought with them instead of stopping it How could you do this as the Patriarch?! Let’s go! You’ve followed me for so long How could you do that? If you need to fight don’t do it at the territory
of the Central Courtyard Had the masters not come in time we would’ve got the worst of it They abused you They deserved the beating Yes, they did If we just do our cotton business we’ll definitely make money You opened the Wu’s Cloth Factory to help them But look what is happening A group of snobbish things There is a little problem and they turn hostile to you so quickly What’s wrong with you? Who beat you? Why didn’t you call me? What were you doing earlier? Enough! Stop it! It’s over We should figure out how to sell out the native cloths They beat us.
You still help them sell cloth? I have to, as the
Patriarch of the Wu Family Listen? Can you understand? I understand what you can understand and what you can﹑t understand Fine. Challenge The tutor says ﹒Expensive or cheap, it
rises and drops at the extremity‧ What does that mean? I know expensive and cheap But the rice‥ Rice! You heard that? You heard that? You heard that? She said rice Why not noodle Rice What are you laughing at? Is it that funny? Zhou Ying It is rises, not rice ﹒It rises and drops at the extremity‧ A thing goes to the summit and then falls down down to the floor and then rises ﹒It rises and drops at the extremity‧ A thing reaches its limit and then goes back Got it? Expensive or cheap I got it That is to say the price of goods does
not rise all the time It drops down after reaching a point But it does not drop all the time It goes up after reaching a point That is correct Hold on, hold on Zhou Ying, what did you say? Say it again What do you want? The tutor requires our comments on Business Wisdom of Fanli What you said is perfect You﹑ve got to pay No problem One copper cash for one phrase Say more for eight more copper cash Take it Listen up According to what I learned Get closer He didn﹑t pay According to what I learned ﹒It rises and drops at the extremity‧ has more implications The point is not it rises or drops You have to catch the point The point is just that point, isn﹑t it? – Yes, yes. – Zhou Ying Very impressive You brought more senses More than the tutor Call me sir Sir – Come on. Go on. – Listen Listen up Young Master What do you do with these? Zhou Ying will not come back Her stuff are laid aside I﹑d give them to the rough maids Who told you she will not come back? I﹑ll get her even she hides in the hell So, keep the stuff? Keep them I﹑ll get her and slash her to death Then throw her and her stuff out Wu Shengwen I, I﹑m here Put the money here Lu Zhonglin Coming Put the money here Zhao Hongwu Little Wu Coming, coming Put the money here Thank you Not paid I forget my purse. On credit Tomorrow. I﹑ll pay tomorrow Pay with interest Tomorrow it is not 18 It﹑ll be 20 copper cash Alright. Twenty is fine Tomorrow Sun Dexian The tutor is coming The tutor is coming He﹑s so early today Sir Sir, I didn﹑t expect you so early You had breakfast? I﹑ll serve you a cup of tea Hold there Stand straight My stomach Straight up Move your hands Put your hands down A ghostwriter, and got paid? Young Master Zhou Ying sends a message She needs you to save her I﹑ve been teaching in the
Eastern Courtyard for over a decade I﹑ve never seen such a misbehaving maid She﹑d be kicked out or there will be no school discipline in the Eastern Courtyard Hold on Dad She has no family in the world She will die out there She will not This damn girl makes money In just few days she earned hundreds of copper cash Look at this, look at this She wrote all these? Each and all I﹑ve check it out Out of the twelve apprentices ten have paid her for ghostwriting Some by oral Some by her own hands She gives different prices Monthly payment or five-day or retail Girl, did I wrong you? Dad this girl listened to the
lectures for just a few days Despite of much misspelling she gives novel views and makes accurate accounting She﹑s a genius You learnt this before? She gives flexible prices A good merchant Dad Look at the coins She﹑s good at making money Straight to the point The Eastern Courtyard
runs the apprentice workshop to find talents There is a talent right here Why kick her out? Dad I suggest she﹑d not be a maid Apprentice her Women don﹑t do business Master Elder Yang, what﹑s up? Master It﹑s about the military supply order Today is the deadline Got a message from Shen Sihai? Yes, they insist on their original offer Can we lower down the offer? No Dragon﹑s blood, one of
the ingredients, is costly Dragon﹑s blood is costly but you may replace it with azalea leaf My dad was stabbed and we couldn﹑t afford dragon﹑s blood I pasted azalea leaf on his wound It worked as well as dragon﹑s blood And it﹑s free Yes, yes, yes I﹑ve heard about it If this is possible we could give an offer ten percent lower than the Shen Family﹑s And we have profits But the order specifies plaster made of dragon﹑s blood The plaster is but black mess Who knows the ingredients? Get out Get out Since so we﹑ll give the same offer as last year We﹑ll lose the order Let it be We do not counterfeit Zhou Ying, think it over Did the Master say get out or kick out They make large difference I don﹑t care Anyway, before they formally kick me out I﹑ll go nowhere Master, Young Master Master, Young Master Zhou Ying Come here Master On your knees Zhou Ying I am known as a Tough Merchant Do you know why? No Tough personality, tough
quality and tough character Do you know what make the Eastern Courtyard
of the Wu Family thrive? Buying, selling, and business Wrong The Eastern Courtyard thrives because of honesty and credibility As to honesty we supply honest goods at honest prices As to credibility we maintain well-established credibility You proposed azalea leaf instead of dragon﹑s blood The effect is not impaired but that is counterfeiting which Wu Weiwen hates like poison Everyone in the Eastern Courtyard every housekeeper, store manager maid and errand boy must observe the rules of Eastern Courtyard That is, never tell a lie never commit a fraud Do you understand? Yes, I do Kowtow Not to me Zhou Ying three kowtows to Guan Yu Why? Dad must appreciate your insight and brilliance He﹑s decided to apprentice
you and let you learn business But Master just stormed at me He appreciates you He wants you to walk on the right way That﹑s the reason of the storm Really? Anywhere you go in the rest of your life Keep in mind the moral
of Shaanxi merchants: honesty and credibility Honesty and credibility They are in my mind Lord Guan, bless me Is it true? Yes It﹑s said the contract had been delivered
to the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family I can﹑t believe it That﹑s unfair and unjust How could they do that! Don﹑t you forget who﹑s
standing behind them What a shame! All plans come in vain Hope the Shen Family has someone behind us What? The order comes to us? Yes. It﹑s quite a surprise Our offer is much higher than that of the Shen Family Dad, did you communicate with your old friends? No Maybe they helped in secret You are thinking this way The Shen Family must be convinced we are throwing our weight about What on earth happened? I don﹑t have any idea Dad how about we sharing the order with the Shen Family? Think about it The order brings at most a few thousand taels of profit We split the profit and neutralize an enemy It﹑s worthwhile At the beginning you proposed a joint offer and they declined Now you raise such a proposal Do you think they will accept it? Now we have the order It﹑s a different situation Dad before we created all these we went through hardships and made enemies But now sometimes we need to step back for harmony so we can maintain the prosperity of the Eastern Courtyard You are suggesting we go fifty-fifty on the 10,000 plasters and fifty-fifty on the profit? Yes The bid must have made you annoyed However this order does not bring big money It could be a sting
between the two families That﹑ll be indeed annoying That﹑s why my dad made the decision Tell me We gave a better offer Why did the order go to the Wu Family? Bro Yuesheng Military supply calls for more than cost but also quality,
experience and credibility I suppose for a decade the Eastern
Courtyard of the Wu Family had secured every single
military supply order so we won the favor of the Ministry of Revenue Bro Yuesheng The Eastern Courtyard
has shown its goodwill Great. I trust you Great It is a partnership You are right This order does not bring big money I admire you and uncle Wu for the breadth of your mind In the partnership please favor me with your instructions You flattered us Bro Yuesheng You lead the new generation
of Jingyang merchants I look forward to your instructions Let﹑s skip the courtesy Please, to the partnership To the partnership Cheers Well, Bro Yuesheng Days ago we hired a maid Later we got aware that she was a runaway from you But but my mom just favors her I don﹑t think you﹑d mind a transfer That﹑s a small case Bro Wu Pin I suppose at the time of delivery the Ministry may be noted that the Shen Family is the deliverer But but the order is assigned to the Eastern Courtyard Sorry for the trouble I suggest it﹑s time to go I﹑ll let my brother know though he favors that maid she﹑d be presented to the eldership Bro Yuesheng I have a proposal At the time of delivery I will make a special note that this order is delivered with the support from
the Shen Family of Jingyang Great. Thank you so much That maid is but a few taels Don﹑t mention a transfer Since auntie favors her she﹑s auntie﹑s Take her as a gift from a nephew Thank you, Bro Yuesheng Cheers This is the essence The Business Instructions: heaven, earth, man, god, and ghost Heaven grants wisdom
that a merchant relies on Zhou Ying It﹑s very important Keep it in mind Zhou Ying I said you are the fastest accountant in the apprentice workshop Jing Fuqi said it was him That﹑s fine. Let him have the title But you are the fastest Isn﹑t she, guys? Zhou Ying, what do you mean? You are implying you are better? Come on. Challenge Accepted. Come on I﹑m busy Busy? Busy or afraid, coward? I give you an inch and you want a mile Challenge accepted Guys, a challenge Come on, come on The game is open, guys, come on Who questions? Xiao Wang you are a fair man. You question Alright, Xiao Wang is the one I trust Alright. You will have three questions Best two out of three No problem Certainly no problem Guys, I bet on Zhou Ying, ten copper cash Anyone bet with me? I﹑m in. Come here I bet on Little Jiang Bring it on Zhou Ying will win. I bet on her My twenty, on Little Jiang Here﹑s my twenty On Little Jiang On Little Jiang Little Jiang – You﹑ll see it. – Zhou Ying, come on Don﹑t let us down I﹑ll cover the loss and split the profit Great Are you ready? I﹑m waiting Xiao Wang, questions Ok. Question 1 There are 100 cakes and 100 monks Each senior monk gets three cakes and three young monks get one What are the numbers of
senior and young monks? Seventy-five young monks and twenty-five seniors Zhou Ying gets one point Bravo – Great. – Bravo It just begins Question 2 In the winter pine forest culvers rest at night If each tree houses three birds five birds are left homeless If each tree shelters five birds one tree remain empty Please figure out the numbers of birds and trees Six trees, eighteen birds Wrong Five trees, twenty birds Little Jiang gets one point Well done I made a mistake It﹑s fine There﹑s one more question Come on Question 3 The general drills his troop If every three soldiers
make a row, one man is left five soldiers make a row, two men left seven soldiers make a row, four men left thirteen soldiers make a row, six men left What is the minimum number of soldiers? – 487 – 487 487 is the answer and Zhou Ying was faster Zhou Ying wins I win, I win I said Zhou Ying was the fastest My money, my share My share, my share I﹑ll be rich Hold on. Drop it Little Jiang you are the winner A game is a game You won it Actually I did not Young Master gave me the answer Young Master You are faster than me. I mean it Zhou Ying you, you throw away our money Stay cool You﹑ll have it back I have your word Take it There are always winners and losers Young Master You won it. Why gave up? You have told me to keep in mind honesty and credibility Good Young Master, what do you come for? I have good news for you I﹑ve settled your
business with the Shen Family Shen Xingyi gives in? His older brother agreed So the gate is not watched? I think so So I can go to my family You, you are leaving now? Be gentlemen, please Right It﹑s not easy to become an apprentice Shall I finish the apprentice first? That﹑ll be good How could you give her away? I will buy you another one No, I want her What make you favor her? She﹑s cold, bad tempered She﹑s nothing good But this is a matter of dignity Where are you going? I﹑ll take her back I promised Wu Pin I﹑ll find and assign her indenture Brother This is a matter of Shen Family﹑ business Is your dignity above the family business? Auntie Duan I doubt if it is a trap Wu Pin appeared sincere I don’t think it’s a trap Maybe it is not a trap thenWu Weiwen is a snake Dad, why is that? He used government support to get the order That was demonstrating his force Then he split the order That was showing off his kindness Force and kindness He wants our submission and obedience But Wu Pin explained that we lost the bid not because we had no government support We have never been a military supplier The Ministry didn’t trust us You buy it? It sounds reasonable I insisted that the Shen Family would be on the list of suppliers When the next order comes the Ministry would consider us Wu Pin agreed? He took away one of our maids We are even now A maid for a title It’s a good business So it is done Master Bro Weiwen Zhicun, nice to see you I’m checking the books of last quarter with Manager Tong Nice, I need to have a word with you I need to have a word with you, too After you Come on, over here Please Go ahead I was told you got another military order You are always well informed What medicine? Traumatic plaster as usual Great, I just have dragon’s blood in stock finer than last supply priced as usual Deal, I’ll buy your stock Great Contact Manager Tong, please Thank you, bro Wenwen Here comes my word Yongmei visited the Eastern
Courtyard a few days ago My wife likes her so much Does she? She said the kids were grownups shall we find an auspicious date and marry them? That’s wonderful It’s all up to you. I agree So autumn, someday in autumn Autumn Wonderful. A wedding in six months Deal Deal Great The Eastern Courtyard is on it Nice, nice Gate opens Shen Family’ plaster delivered Delivery check Bro Wu Pin Bro Yuesheng Hu Family’ s crude medicine delivered Delivery check Hurry up, you Get this out of here Get to your work What are you doing here? Don’t you know? Young Master is getting married Work is assigned We’re preparing for the wedding Getting married? To whom? Miss Hu Who is she? Miss Hu of Gu Yue Crude
Medicine Shop in Jingyang Mr. Hu is an old friend of Master They’ve been partners for more than a decade Yes A perfect match of families More than that Miss Hu and Young Master fit each other Do they? Is she pretty? Not just pretty She’s enlightened and intelligent Master and Mistress
waited long for the marriage She’ll be a good assistant to Young Master Ah yes, Miss Hu is a calligrapher That’s her work I fetch water around the gate tower It felt like three months of
water since yesterday’s departure What’s that? I don’t know I don’t even read Got it It says you must fetch water everyday otherwise you’ll be punished You are not allowed to
drink for three months Just like the boxer or singers must practice everyday – Young Master. – Young Master It doesn’t read that way? Yes, it does Very meaningful phrases How do you comment the calligraphy? I’m not good at calligraphy Never mind, go ahead Just so so It’s wild makes me dizzy Young Master are you getting married? In half a year Congratulations It’s a shame that I would miss your wedding Why? In three months the apprentices will graduate We’ll depart and find jobs Do you have a plan? The tutor says you are one of the best in the apprentice workshop I suggest you work in the Eastern Courtyard Start from errands and perhaps someday you could be a manager I’m going to my dad Your dad? Well, I’m going to my brother What is next to meeting your brother? Next I’d run a small business And then? Then, I’ll have money I’ll go anywhere I want Like a bird in the
sky, a whale in the ocean You are leaving, after all Fine Ah The Shen Family did not find your indenture However, Shen Yuesheng gave his promise It should be settled You may go anywhere you want Young Master, you must have spent a lot Not a coin, but wit Thank you, Young Master Ah, I forget why I came here I need your instruction Today the tutor referred to a phase Here “Perfect articles, top quality” Actually I don’t
understand the boring words Little Wang usually does the translation But his mom is ill, he went home I need help Alright “Perfect articles, top quality” Young Master, time to bed Time to bed Yes, Young Master Just so so It’s wild, makes me dizzy Chunxing Please take it down Miss Hu’s work? Yes But you appreciated Miss Hu’s calligraphy and would put her scroll on Is it not good? Just take it down Young Master Young Master, Master
wants you in Longevity Hall The rest plasters are checked They are good Master, the residues of the plasters I checked them all There is nothing wrong Seal them up Yes And get all books and papers related to the military order and seal them up Yes. I’ll do it now Master Master Mr. Fu sent a message What’s it? He does not know the particulars But someone reported that the plasters were counterfeit His Majesty has ordered an investigation Who, who is the reporter? Not known It was a secret report The reporter is unknown We’ve been a military
supplier for more than a decade Crude medicine, cloth, grain We secured each delivery What happened at this time? The Shen Family delivered half of it I checked Shen Family’ delivery There was nothing wrong We checked deliveries at random We didn’t open each pack Military supply is grave The Shen Family can’t can’t be so reckless Don’t you remember Shen Family’ offer was
ten percent below the cost Shen Sihai is greedy He never lets go a single coin Dad I checked it out twice From the materials to the processing we were meticulous in every detail We made no mistakes If you want a pretense to whip a dog it is enough to say that he ate up the frying-pan I knew it Wu Weiwen is a snake He threw us poisoned apples It’s my fault I asked Wu Pin to note the merit of Shen Family We now can’t shake it off It’s not your fault The Wu Family planned everything Wu Pin proposed a joint offer then he split the order And the runaway maid may be part of the plan Dad What’s the consequence of
counterfeiting military supply? Banishment to decapitation and confiscation I’ll go to Longevity Hall
of the Eastern Courtyard What for? If I could find any evidence and prove they counterfeited we could clear our name You can’t They purposed to frame us and have arranged everything You go there and may not find evidence Even if you find evidence what would happen if they get aware of it But the Imperial Envoy will arrive tomorrow This is our last chance There is no chance Are we awaiting our doom? Don’t take any rash act I have to think it over Dad, I Back to your room Dad Back to your room Yuesheng do not take any rash act Master Who’s it? It’s me, Huo Xin – Master. – What’s going on? Elder Young Master told
us to wait in the alley and he went to Longevity Hall on his own Wait here I’ll check it out Do not come out unless I call you We waited for four hours Elder did not show up And we come back to report Four hours? You come to report after four hours? Master Where are you going? I want Yuesheng back Master I sent our men two hours ago Please stay still Did they go to Longevity Hall? Yes Send more to Wu Family’ Eastern Courtyard I’ll do it now Go for it now Yes I told him not to go You Yuesheng left at the midnight Why didn’t you hold him back? Master, forgive us Master, forgive us Forgive us, please The Envoy has left the post He will arrive before noon Where are the books of the materials They are safe Good, bring it with you Make sure they are available if the Envoy requires Got it Find a doctor Now Yes Bro Yuesheng Master Master, Master, Master Master Did you find Elder? Master, bad news Sir, the lock was picked Excuse us, excuse us Master How is it? Magistrate Zhao Baishi
is checking the scene No admission is allowed Where is Wu Pin? He’s in there Yuesheng Excuse us, excuse us, please Excuse us Yuesheng. Let me in. Yuesheng Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me in. Let me Bro Shen Let me in Bro Shen Bro Shen Who did it? Who murdered Yuesheng? Bro Shen The Eastern Courtyard will do everything to find out the murder You are the murder the Eastern Courtyard of the Wu Family It’s him. He is the murderer It was you Bro Shen The Eastern Courtyard is the murderer Bro Shen Make way, make way Wu Pin Are you alright Wu Pin? Dad, I’m fine How could a murderer feel fine? It was you – Bro Shen. – It was you – It was… – Back off Dad I’ll go to Yamen with Magistrate Zhao Please take care of here OK, go No, you can’t go – Back off. – You killed him – Back off. – Murderer – You killed him. – Murderer Master Magistrate Magistrate, we demand justice Who are you? He’s Shen Yesheng’s father, Shen Sihai A life for a life Magistrate, the murderer shall be executed We demand justice Be assured.
The law will be enforced impartially Thank you, sir Go home Go home Go home Master Go home Bro Shen Blood for blood Master, are we going to Yamen or… It was midnight Why did Shen Yuesheng
come to our warehouse? No idea Maybe it was about the plaster order Where is the Envoy now? He will arrive in two hours Let’s check it out Is the death wound identified? Yes, sir. Right here I’ve never seen a wound like this Did I miss anything in Longevity Hall? Check if anything is wrong Master something is wrong with this sack Look Look Young Master and I checked yesterday It was not sealed in this way Open it Master, this is not dragon’s blood It’s colored rosin I checked it two days ago It was a sack of dragon’s blood Why, why is that? Check again if there are more of this Master, I checked all This is the only sack replaced The Envoy is coming It must be disposed of right now I will throw it away No It must be related to Shen Yuesheng’s death Master I suppose Shen Yuesheng replaced it Master, the Envoy has arrived Master, Master Back door Master, is Wu Pin alright? Master, is Wu Pin alright? I just saw the Envoy out I know nothing about him The rumor goes he murdered Shen Yuesheng Nonsense. Impossible But he is thrown to Yamen I’m afraid he’d be tortured to confessing No, can’t be The Magistrate took him for questions No for interrogation But it’s been a whole day that I didn’t see him Please, do something Do something to bring Wu Pin home, please Don’t worry I’ve sent someone on it Master, Master, look Wu Pin Are you alright? Dad, I’m fine Mom Come in Fortunately I checked it again before the Envoy arrived Otherwise it would be a disaster Where is the fake dragon’s blood? I told Elder Yang to put it in a safe place We will examine it when the Envoy is gone If it was Shen Yuesheng who replaced it that is to say the counterfeit delivery was from the Shen Family There is no other possibility So who killed Shen Yuesheng No idea But one thing for sure Someone wants frame up the Wu Family Who could it be? I don’t have a clue We have to take one step at a time Dad The Magistrate has made a conclusion that we did not kill Shen Yuesheng But he was found dead in our warehouse We can’t shake it off In the eyes of the public it is a scandal What do you want? If we could find the murderer and prove he is not
from the Eastern Courtyard we’ll be paying respect to the dead and defending the honor
of the Eastern Courtyard The Magistrate can’t find a clue How could you find the murderer? I, I’ll try Magistrate, Magistrate Magistrate, Magistrate On your keens Magistrate, how could you set Wu Pin free He’s out on bail But Yuesheng was killed in
Wu Family’ Eastern Courtyard Here comes my question Why did Shen Yuesheng appear in the warehouse
of the Eastern Courtyard Yuesheng must have found the Eastern Courtyard did something evil They killed him to cover it and then reported the case Shen Yuesheng’s blood is dry It’s clear he died at the midnight If Shen Yuesheng found Wu Family’ secret the Eastern Courtyard could have killed him in excuse of burglary and reported a manslaughter They didn’t have to leave the body in the warehouse till this morning They murdered Yuesheng They murdered Yuesheng and must do something to hide it It took a long time till this morning If they wanted to hide it why did they leave the
body in the warehouse? Why not throw it to the wilderness? Magistrate, you’re partial to them I am sorry for not getting the murderer yet In the dispute between the
Shen Family and the Wu Family I dare not to say the Wu Family is clean but Shen Yuesheng’s death remains mysterious I can’t be arbitrary that Wu Family’ Eastern
Courtyard is the murderer Wu How much did Wu Weiwen pay you? I double it Please, I demand justice Shen Sihai if you’re unsatisfied with the verdict the prefecture and provincial
authorities are there You may appeal But you accused me for bending the law A Seventh-rank Official I am I cherish my name as my eyes I won’t let it slide Court closed Master Master What happened to the tiger? The tiger The tiger My dad killed it and cooked it You ate a tiger? How did it taste? Tiger Young Master’s coming Young Master Young Master, Zhou Ying has waited for long Have a talk with Young Master. I go for tea Chunxing Take some good tea It’s from Uncle Weishuang Zhou Ying will enjoy it Gong, Tian Chao, Rui Famous team Why? Wrong pronouncement again? Rui Gong Tian Chao The sequence does not matter Ok, it doesn’t Young Master I’ve heard about Shen Yuesheng’s death and about the military order Hope you’re fine I’m fine And the Eastern Courtyard? The Eastern Courtyard will be fine That’s good Ah, yes You just reminded me of your indenture Shen Yuesheng did not hand it over Now he is dead and the Wu Family and the
Shen Family become enemies I’m afraid they’d
make a big fuss about this For your safety go right away Now? Fulai Young Master Tell Steward Yang to make a wagon ready There is a trip to Henan in early morning Yes, Young Master Henan Isn’t your hometown Henan? And I’ll write you a slip Go to the accountant tomorrow You’ll get 110 taels of silver Ten taels are the travel expense You said you want to run a small business The 100 taels of silver are the startup fund Oh Steward Yang will give you some medicine made by the Eastern Courtyard native cloth, and Fu Tea Those are for your relatives at home Why? Don’t you want to leave? Didn’t you want your brother all the time? Young Master, actually I I know You want to finish the apprenticeship But the Shen Family has your indenture If they file a lawsuit you’ll have to go to the Shen Family and it will be your nightmare Anyway before they do something you’d better go It’s late Go for a rest Thank you, Young Master Tea is ready. – Where is Zhou Ying? She’ll be on a long trip tomorrow She needs to go to bed Where is she heading? Home Oh pack up the tea for her She may enjoy it at home And her favorite food, dress, whatever pick some And warm clothes She needs warm clothes It is quite a long way
and she may get a cold Yes. Young Master, your tea Gong Tian Chao Rui Famous tea She’s indeed a genius Young Master, I lied to you Why is that? I am not a refugee Henan is not my hometown I don’t have a mom, or young brother or an elder brother I have but a foster father We are buskers Everything I told you was a lie Everything was a lie? That man who extorted
me was not your brother? I didn’t even know him I saw his awkward show and could not help making a good ending I just wanted to sell you that pendant Can’t believe I didn’t see it I’m sorry, Young Master Beside this what are your lies? Tell the truth I’ve never seen a tiger I made up that tiger story Besides me, who did you lie to? Well too many of them Too many? I drifted with my foster
father when I was little We had to lie to make money We had to lie to feed ourselves, to survive Did you do anything evil? No, no, no We never did We got money for food and lodging That was enough Why are you confessing it to me? You saved me brought me here, and are nice to me I can’t forgive myself if I tell you more lies I must let you know the truth How could I know you’re now telling the truth or a lie? Young Master every word I’m saying is true Every single word is true If I told a word untrue I would have pocks, many pocks I don’t have money I owe you I owe the Eastern Courtyard I’ll pay back When I have the money I’ll pay back each coin. Can I? I’ll write an IOU Zhou Ying, Zhou Ying Do you ever know lies just bring little money Like you lied to me and got only five taels But if you don’t lie,
you may make big money Big money? Today the Eastern Courtyard is prosperous Why is that? We are honest Honesty means do not lie Do you understand? Could you promise me not to lie from this moment? No lie to anyone? Definitely Anytime, anywhere, anyone How about the bad guys? If bad guys hunt me and I have to lie to be safe Isn’t that alright? If I lie to bad guys to help the good isn’t that alright? I’ll put it in this way If it is necessary you can you can use some tricks But never lie to make money Yes, I promise
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