Nirvana in Fire: The Wind Blows in Chang Lin (Nirvana in Fire 2 / 琅琊榜之风起长林)

Subject Xun.

I am here.

Song Fu is already sure to be executed.

Hence, his testimonies cannot be fully trusted.

To prevent him from randomly ratting people out,

these names still must be carefully verified.

You are the court's head minister. This matter will then be handled by you.

I will accept the decree.

You! Send someone who is eloquent to the manor of the Prince of Chang Lin

and report the results of the initial investigation to the Prince.

But...Prince kept saying...

When Pingjing arrived here in the capital, Imperial Brother immediately handed over all the witnesses and material evidences.

He didn't ask about it anymore afterwards because he believed that I will be just in dealing with this matter.

He was not willing to interfere with the interrogations and trial but it does not mean that he does not care about this case.

Do you not understand the difference between the two?

I was quite slow. May Your Majesty forgive me.

And also, that what...that private assistant,

you must also immediately interrogate him.

Yes.

Miss, there is a guest outside. The wife of the heir of Chang Lin wants to see you.

Who?

Wife of the heir of Chang Lin.

If you compare the testimonies of Song Fu and Ji Chen when they were interrogated separately,

it looks a bit strange.

Isn't that right?

Despite facing so many evidences, Song Fu still refused to admit that he was conniving with the Shanliu Battalion.

But Ji Chen instead admitted it without much prying. It is unreasonable that any of them is lying.

What if...

both are actually saying the truth?

What brother mean is...

Although Ji Cheng believes that he is allying with Song Fu,

at the bottom of everything, the gifts, the letters, and the promises

were all relayed through the private assistant.

Song Fu and Ji Cheng are miles apart. I'm sure that they never have talked face to face.

If Song Fu's private assistant went to Qizhou to contact Ji Chen without the permission of Song Fu,

is that possible?

It might not be possible with the other private assistants, but with this private assistant...

That's right.

That is not an ordinary hired thug. It is Duan Tongzhou, one of the top ranked martial artists.

Maybe the person ordering him around is not just Song Fu

but someone else.

Although the House of Chang Lin cannot interfere with the trial, we can let Minister Wu,

the Commandant of Justice, know about it.

For Pingzhang to have successfully retained his life in Ganzhou, it was all thanks to you. I still haven't formally thanked you

and I am already disturbing you to come to our manor to do a follow-up treatment.

From Ganzhou to the capital, heir apparent is my patient. It is just right for me to check on him.

You actually do not need to personally come fetch me.

Your hall leader and my father have known each other for more than 30 years. There is no need for us to be such a stranger to each other.

Next time, stop calling me wife of heir apparent anymore. It makes us seem so distant.

I am older than you by a few years. Just call me older sister.

We can go now.

I am sure that older brother is very busy with government matters.

It has been long since you visited my palace.

I indeed have neglected

visiting Your Lady Highness and Crown Prince. May you forgive me.

I heard that after the Second Young Master of Chang Lin returned to the capital,

the court has been quite not peaceful.

Do you have anything that you want to tell me?

May Your Lady Highness be at ease. I have no relations

with this matter at all.

Really?

For Your Lady Highness and the Crown Prince, I will not be that careless.

Minister, you just got out of the palace and you already are rushing to interrogate this private assistant, you are really working too hard.

This case is an important court case. Who cares about working hard?

Of course, I must hurry to interrogate him.

Where is he?

Where is the criminal?

Minister, I really do not know.

How come things turn out like this?

Stop for a while.

- I, your disciple-- - Hurry and pull it backward.

I was reckless. I hope I did not scare wife of heir apparent.

I am fine. High Priest need not put it to heart.

Thank you for your mercy.

Commander Xun.

High Priest Puyang, wife of heir apparent.

Senior brother.

Did something bad happened?

A prisoner has escaped from the Heaven's Prison. We got information that he was spotted around here. We are barricading the streets to search for him.

Hope wife of heir apparent can take another route.

What does a prisoner escaping from the Heaven's Prison got to do with the Jin Guards? How come you are the one going after him?

When His Majesty heard about it, he was very mad. The criminal is also highly skilled in martial arts.

Usual people will not be able to capture him so he especially sent me to help.

- It is Duan Tongzhou? - Yes.

Disciple, hurry and move out.

Yes.

Thank you, High Priest. Senior, I will get going now.

I have disturbed you.

High Priest.

Where are you going that you are rushing like this?

Her Lady Highness has ordered me to go to the palace.

High Priest, please hurry and go.

I will take my leave.

Here. This way.

Once a Laiyang martial arts expert escapes,

I fear that it will be hard to find him again among a vast sea of people.

I heard that wife of heir apparent earlier...

I heard how you addressed Commander Xun earlier. He must be a disciple of Lord Meng.

Yes, he was personally trained by my granduncle.

But because he was too young, we officially made him a disciple of my father, instead.

We then call each other as brother and sister.

Elder Meng had previously obtained the top spot in the Langya charts.

Being under his personal tutelage, he must be very skilled.

I just remember that granduncle was biased towards boys.

He didn't teach me as seriously as he taught him.

Afterwards,

I was married off.

He then got conferred a government position and had been busy with official work.

We rarely meet ever since and now, we have become like strangers.

Okay already. Stop servicing me. You two can leave.

Yes, Master.

You really are so bold. Are you not afraid that I will call for people to take you into custody?

What benefit will it bring you if I get caught?

Minister Song got interrogated so many times

but he never mentioned you.

Are you not going to be appreciative of that?

I have never been involved in these matters.

There is nothing to be grateful about.

Minister said before

that the person who can understand the most why he did all these

was only you, Senior Grand Secretary. He even instructed me before

that if anything bad happens to him, I should serve and listen to your orders instead.

I do not have any orders for you. The Jin Guards are currently searching for you.

This is not a place that you should come.

Hurry and leave.

I also don't want to bring you trouble.

I only came today to notify you.

Once this scandal has passed, I will then serve you.

Master, Commander Xun is here to see you.

Uncle.

Feizhan, why are you in such a hurry?

An important criminal has escaped from the Heaven's Prison. The Jin Guards and the Patrol Guards are currently intensely searching.

I came to tell uncle to be careful for your manor's safety.

Okay. I will tell them to make preparations.

Go back to your work.

I will take my leave.

It was so hard for us to catch that Duan Tongzhou! Even sister-in-law had to interfere.

But what? In the end, he just escaped without a trace like that!

I even reminded Commandant of Justice Wu

that a Langya martial arts expert is not an ordinary people and that he must be more careful. Did he not hear it or he did this deliberately?!

Slap your mouth! So unruly!

You can even casually say such words?!

Father, calm down. Pingjing is just young.

Just teach him what his mistakes are. Father, please don't be angry.

Pingzhang, sit down.

Thank you, father.

Talk reasons with this unruly little brother of yours.

Yes.

It is easy to blame others than to blame oneself. Regarding the level of Duan Tongzhou's skills,

everyone was just able to hear some rumors.

Even a person who has fought with him like you may not be able to fully grasp the immensity of it.

The more it will be hard for Minister Wu who is just a scholarly minister.

Grumblings can be just light or grave. But if we seriously evaluate

the words you said earlier, the words 'deliberately'

can be considered as you accusing him.

What strong basis do you have that you are able to hurt people like this with your speech?

I know now.

I was making unreasonable guesses and said the wrong words.

It is good that you know. Hurry and get up.

Father, His Majesty already sent Xun Feizhan to lead the capture of the criminal.

In the capital, there is no one else more suitable than him.

As long as Duan Tongzhou will leave even a bit of tracks,

Feizhan will surely not let him go.

Good thing that Duan Tongzhou isn't the mastermind.

Although he has escaped, Song Fu is still around.

He did not really cause too much effect on the case.

Replying to Your Majesty,

the escaped prisoner is a jianghu martial arts master. It will not be easy to capture him. It is hard to have any results that fast.

Other than posting his portrait all over the city, I also ordered that the Jin Guards and Patrol Guards to help in

doing long term inspections. As long as the criminal is still in the capital's vicinity,

I believe that he will eventually fall into our net one day.

How is the checking of the names that Song Fu submitted going?

Your Majesty, I have already finished verifying them.

After investigating, some of the people there were just used

while some got tricked and fooled. But...

there were indeed 5 people who are accomplices.

Which also means that even if their reasons were different,

the degree of their involvement are different,

they are still all involved.

I think that since their reasons for getting involved is different,

we cannot punish all of them the same way.

In my court...

there were actually so many ministers...

who are greedy for wealth and status, lusting for power.

They even do not care about the safety of our state anymore.

Your Majesty, there are just a few them and their scheme did not really succeed,

Your Majesty, do not feel bad about it.

Subject Xun, you and the Commandant of Justice discuss it among yourselves and come up with a way to handle this matter.

Send it to the manor of the Prince of Chang Lin first.

Listen to the opinions of Imperial Brother and Pingzhang.

I will abide.

Your Majesty...

Hurry and call for the imperial doctor!

Hurry and call for the imperial doctor!

Yuanshi, hurry and go.

Imperial father...

What the gods told me is exactly similar to what the imperial doctor said.

His Majesty is like this because of the cold winds of the winter has entered his body

plus he was quite distraught these past days,

hence, initiating his illness.