The Legend of Hao Lan (Mou Qin / 皓镧传)

~ Moonrise by Lu Hu & Huang Yali ~

The Legend of Hao Lan

Episode 46

Today is the birthday of Her Highness.

You bought this hairpin just to gift her, right?

So what if you didn't know? So what if you knew too?

You!

Lu Buwei, I hate you.

I'm beginning to hate you more and more.

I'm telling you everything in the hope that you can untie the knots in his heart.

Why did you deliberately provoke him?

I didn't. Perhaps, this is what he thought.

I repaired this hairpin just to make him happy.

Even if he's gifting this to someone else,

I merely wanted him to be happy.

But that hairpin was personally made by him.

My Lady, your bath is ready.

Leave.

Who's there?!

Consort Mi is cleaning off your body.

It's for making the King happy?

Suan Zi.

I'm not going to eat you.

Wife of the Prince, this is Qin palace. You can't do anything you like.

Looking at you, that is truly like a flawless jade.

Evokes feelings of love.

Wife of the Prince, why are you here?

Of course, I'm here to talk about collaboration with you.

I only wish live normally and raise up Chengjiao peacefully. I will be satisfy then.

I think you found the wrong person.

How hard is it to live just having corn and vegetable broth?

But from now on forward, you live with melancholy during the daytime.

In the evening you are lonely.

One or two days is easily endure. But how to do so for eight or ten years?

Did you meet Empress Dowager Xia?

The best years wasted on waiting.

Now the wrinkles are all over her face.

Vicissitudes of life showing under her eyes.

Siluo, are you happy?

My dear, think carefully about what you should do.

Once you have thought it through, come and find me.

My Lady.

Where did you go?

You can't control me.

Men.

Starting from today, my wife will be confined.

Yes.

What are you doing?

If you don't let me go out, I will tear down this place.

Leave. What are you still doing here?

Yes.

Mark what I said.

You! Zixi!

I am telling you. I am not your exclusive domain, don't think you can imprison me.

If you can't do whatever you promised me, I will do it!

Thinking of locking me up?! No one can stop me!

Are you done smashing?

It is too late to worry about your treasures.

Tomorrow, I will tell them to deliver new ones. Continue to smash them.

You!

My treasure is only you...

Your baby inside you.

You!

Just tear it down.

Zixi. You bastard!

What is that?

His Majesty celebrated the birthday of Her Highness today.

- Prime Minister - We will speak tomorrow.

What happened that you are in such haste?

Prime Minister, someone just came to report. There is a fire in the storage building.

Where did you say the fire was?

Storage building. Soldier's pay and provision for battling Chou State are located there.

Prime Minister, storehouse was robbed.

What?

Original the side house caught fire,

I was afraid the fire will spread to storehouse, so I immediately send people to put out the fire.

But didn't expect it was trap to lure us away.

The entire storehouse had been emptied out.

Relay my order. Lock down the city now and conduct a search.

Yes.

Those gold were from Bashu.

Those were tagged for punitive expedition to Zhou State.

Now they disappeared, how do Prime Minister Lu explain this.

I am currently searching the entire city for them.

Prime minister, this lost of gold is your responsibility.

If you can not recover them, how would Prime Minister redeem yourself?

I will quickly find those gold and also the perpetrator behind all this.

I know that prime minister has own huge asset.

This time the lost fund is a big value.

You will not be able to fill this big loss, even if you used all your own money.

In case the money can not be recovered, the ten thousands of soldiers will have not have salary and provisions.

How do you expect them to eat and drink?

What will then be use to kill enemies and obtain army merits?

Lord Yangquan, please do not speak well of enemies and cut down our own prowess.

How did you know that I can't investigate the thief?

Investigate? How will you do this?

If you were to investigate for six months,

By then Lord Dongzhou's army will already besieged Han Valley Pass.

Your majesty,

my perspective is that even no thieves would dare to trespass the storehouse.

Unless someone is stealing own place.

One needs to speak with evidence.

Without evidence then it is called slandering.

This is not slandering.

If not, if we let prime minister be in charge of catching the thief.

I believe he wouldn't be able to capture them in one and a half year.

How is he going to do that?

That's right.

Lu Buwei is willing to make a military promise.

Minister Lu.

Minister Lu, what did you say?

Your majesty, I am willing to make a military promise.

Set a deadline to catch the thief and absolve my wrongdoing.

How long is your deadline?

The deadline is seven days. Minister Lu, dare to accept it?

Fine. Seven days then.

What if you can't find them?

By then, if I can't get back the gold,

I will return the prime minister's position and use my death to seek forgiveness.

Good, prime minister Lu, this oath is from your own mouth.

A gentleman must keep his words.

Deadline of seven days? How presumptuous!

Prime minister of the court, the foundation of a country. How important is that.

Imperial court doesn't allow you to use the prime minister's position in a bet.

Your Majesty, please don't worry. I will retrieve the gold within seven days.

Why is the Dowager Empress here?

Also the look of much anger.

You look at this yourself.

What is wrong with this lantern?

Many people said that beautiful women are trouble to a nation. I didn't believe it.

Until yesterday night.

Merely letting you have a birthday.

Yet leads to fire in the storehouse and lost of gold.

If you are allowed to continue this audacity...

then we do not know who will control the Great Qin.

Your majesty. - Consort Mi, why are you here again?

Your majesty, I came here today for the sake of the Queen.

The Queen?

Dowager Huayang believes that the storehouse fire was caused by the birthday.

She hastily went to Yongmen Palace. I think there's trouble there.

I just received the news and rush here directly.

Asking your majesty to quickly go save the Queen.

Your majesty, if you don't rush to Yongmen palace right now. I am afraid the Queen.

I know already. You may go back now.

Your majesty.

Such small matter, the Queen can take care of it well.

There's no need to get so anxious.

How is that a small mattter, your majesty.

Who in the palace is not afraid of the Dowager Huayang's reputation.

Your majesty.

Men, take her down.

Who dares?

What is the matter with you Dowager?

Is it necessary to draw swords at such small matter?

The thievery of the storehouse was caused by you.

If I don't teach a lesson.

How can I answer to the Great Qin's soldiers?

I am the Great Qin's Queen.

Without the King's decree, who dares to be wanton here?

When are the you master of the Great Qin's inner sanctum?

Last night was my birthday.

I didn't have a party or invited any guest.

It's only that the King personally made a few lanterns, did that angered the Dowager?

If we were talking about the troubles caused by a beautiful women.

Back in the days, when the former King had fresh fish delivered from Bashu, thousands of miles away.

The fishes were kept alive with water on the way. When they arrived Xianyang.

How many soldiers died from the exhaustion?

Until now their grieving spirits are still lingering on top of the Xianyang city.

Dowager, why would ask such a question?

Did I wrongly accuse you of the causing the storehouse fire?

Dowager look at this carefully.

What is this?

Dowager lived deep in the palace. Probably haven't been in a battlefield.

Did you never touched a Qin bow?

You must've at least seen a shooting ceremony?

One can clearly see when this lantern was in the sky.

It was shot down by an arrow.

Dowager has no evidence and dares to come here to make charges.

Isn't that laughable?

I really underestimated you.

A mere Zhao woman unexpectedly have such quick response.

I am not comparable to Dowager Huayang.

Always been living luxiously.

I have been on top of the Handang army gate house. Seen thousands of battle soldiers and horses.

Was almost a human shield.

I am not afraid of thousands of arrows, will I be afraid of a mere palace woman's tricks.

I am standing here speaking to you because I am respecting your elder position.

If the elder is not kind, then don't blame me for not being filial.

A person should be carried away by one's success.

A house sparrow at the top of the tree still remain a sparrow. can not be a phoenix.

As someone who had experience, Dowager must understand better than me.

A phoenix without a phoenix tree is worse off than a house sparrow.

Let's go.

Stop.

What is the meaning?

You are an elder, so can be wanton.

But they are not. Trespassing the Queen's sleeping quarters without reason must be punished by Qin Law.

Save us, Dowager.

Dowager.