The Promise Keepers (The Classic of Mountains and Seas / Shan Hai Jing Zhi Shang Gu Mi Yue / 山海经之上古密约)

Guardians of the Ancient Oath

Episode 15

General, it’s getting cold.

Let me make you more fire.

Go now.

I’ll get back to you later.

I’m waiting for you!

Are you making fun of me?

Change back.

General, Bai Yi told me

to take care of you.

Get out.

You look unhappy.

You must be missing Bai Yi.

So I…

I said, get out.

Yes.

General, there is another accident at the border.

What is it?

More people died.

Again?

Because of the water?

No.

Not because of the water?

Then go to the officials.

Why me?

The village of the dead

is at the border between

Lang and us.

I think it’s serious.

So I came to report.

You are here?

Are you here for the Marquis?

He is dealing with something important

in the study room.

Don’t disturb him.

Then, I need to leave.

Since you are here,

come in and have some tea.

You have to predict

the other’s movement.

No hurry.

You need to learn to distinguish

human from puppet.

No hurry.

Observe carefully.

See the difference

in our breaths.

Good. You made progress today.

It all thanks to you.

We are friends.

No need to say that.

I’ve been out for long.

I gotta go now.

OK.

Or they will find it.

What’s your matter

for the Marquis

Nothing special.

I was hanging around

and passing by here.

Hongshuo hasn’t come back yet.

You must be bored here.

Hongshuo is not here, I have no companion.

It’s really boring.

Duke said days ago that

you just came back from Li City.

You must be not used to the solitude here.

He meant

I was used to being wild in Li City.

You talk funny.

You mean I’m rude, right?

No, I meant that

you have boyish ease.

I really admire that.

Admire?

Brother always said

that I have no manners,

not like you

who are always quiet

and like tea and reading.

I just came here.

There are many things I don’t know yet.

I still have to learn it from you.

Don’t say that.

Princess, you are so polite.

General.

What’s going on?

Someone passed by here

found the problem and then reported it.

It turned out that the whole family was killed.

All of them?

Yes.

Are they killed by Lang?

Lang’s people are good at sword.

If they did it,

there should be wounds

on them.

But their bodies don’t have any wounds.

I think it was not Lang.

General, as what we got,

they didn’t

get any hurt before they died.

It’s not like Lang did it.

Continue examining.

See if they were poisoned.

Yes.

This kid is?

We found the kid

in the rice jar.

He was still sleeping

when we found him.

I think he was not found,

so he survived.

Take good care of him.

Yes.

Give my order.

Step up security along the border

in case that Lang will cause trouble.

Yes.

There are many victims this time.

Such murders must be ascertained.

Yes. We will do our best.

-I wonder… -Well…

You first.

You first, please.

I wonder

if Duke has any other hobbies

besides busy with his official duties.

And his taste preferences.

I’m so ashamed.

As his wife,

I don’t even know

my husband well.

So, you want to know this?

Can you tell me something?

Just reading some books.

Then, what book does he like?

I know nothing about books.

I can’t answer you.

Maybe something

like art of war.

I’ve been here for not long,

but to be honest,

I really envy the relationships

between the three of you.

Your love is strong and you know each other well.

Sometimes when I see you

are together,

I really think I’m pretty far

from him.

Don’t be upset.

This is what my eldest brother

always be like.

He is different from Hongshuo.

Hongshuo?

I mean

Hongxuan is a slow-type.

You will get to know

him better later.

Enjoy your time.

I’m leaving now.

Just come in if you want.

I never restricted you.

You don’t let me out.

Isn’t that a restriction?

But I know

how important it is.

It’s not your fault.

Hongyi,

some things once started

cannot stop.

After

the impeachment,

He Yao was demoted.

But he seized control of the economy

in Ye City.

But he will also

reveal himself.

So it's not all bad

for us.

Brother, you got new evidence?

He who is unjust is doomed to destruction.

The head of Henei, Zhou Jingxing,

is a heeler of He Yao.

His occupation of good farmland over the years

displaced the refugees.

Land trespass is a felony.

So,

you want to use the land trespass

to remove He Yao’s heeler first?

So before this thing

is done,

people of us

should act

and speak carefully.

No wonder you have been pretending to be ill

for not going to the court.

Well, then I won’t

go out as you said.