Bound By a Promise (九龙挎刀去白马)

Xiang

Did you catch any fish?

Look! I got one!

You've trampled all the rice seedlings

Now we'll go hungry again.

We'll have fish soup tonight!

Come on!

Shisan!

Hurry! Go back now!

Something's wrong at your place!

-Fu! -Chenfu!

Stop!

Are you alright?

-Father! -Chen Fu!

Master Wu, what are you doing?

You owe the Zhao's money.

Three months overdue, no interest paid.

This is just a warning.

If you still don't pay

I will burn your house down.

How dare you!

Master Wu!

Fu.

Master Wu.

Move!

Out of my way!

Father!

So you are still a cripple.

I will give you three days.

If you still can't pay

Your wife and daughter will be sent to the Zhao manor

as slaves.

And you will leave Jiulong Town forever!

I'm not afraid of you!

Yun Niang!

Yun Niang.

If you don't have the money in three days

You and the girl will become Zhao manor's slaves.

Let's go!

Mother!

Wife and daughter sold as slaves.

Yunniang!

Go.

Father.

Let's just use the old one for now

and make a new pair when we have money.

How much do we still owe?

I paid..

I paid some of it.

Otherwise, how would we buy feeds and seeds

and medicine for Chen Xiang.

Keep the family fed or pay the debt

I... I had to make a choice.

You should have discussed it with me.

Yunniang.

Don't worry. I'll find a way.

Leave everything to me.

Fu, what are you doing?

-What are you doing with.. -Mum!

Do not stop me.

Fu.

What are you trying to do?!

Fu.

Fu!

Brother Su!

Brother!

If you scare my butterflies away again

it won't be ink that runs down your neck, but blood.

Zhao Jiulang's gold and silver

Can that buy back my butterflies?

You once said

ill-gotten wealth is fair to take.

A cart full of gold and silver.

Zhao Jiulang hired

the top road guards from Mianzhou to escort it.

Hu Liu and Ye Lizi are leading the team.

Equipped with crossbows.

You, go home.

Go home?

Go back and just watch

my sister get tied up to pay the debt?

You are scared of Zhao Jiulang!

I am not scared!

I want them to know.

The Chens are not all cowards.

Who are you calling a coward?

You, Chen Shisan.

I will never be like you.

Fu!

You stop right there!

Papa.

Papa.

Papa.

With that little wit of yours

Going there would get you killed.

This blade

was not made for that.

Stand alert.

Only wild dogs hide and never show their faces.

Papa.

It is the White-Robed Bandit.

Brothers

Let's fight our way out together!

Looks like they all served in the army.

All tough fighters.

Hu Liu.

I know you were a soldier from Longyou.

Drop your blade, and I will spare you.

Having more men doesn't guarantee victory.

So many of them,

the White-Robed Bandit could be in danger.

Not necessarily.

He is pretending to be weak to lure them in,

then wipe them out once they gather.

Let's go home.

Hurry up, move!

OK.

Go!

Don't come here.

Such a good blade.

Papa.

This gold is enough to pay off our debts.

Who said we are using this to pay debts?

Brother, the cart is full of gold!

Take it.

Give me back my blade.

I paid for it,

so the blade is mine,

unless you have got the guts to take it back.

This blade means everything to me.

Father.

Please, return it to me.

This is General Gao's sword.

You, a crippled farmer.

What use do you have for it?

Help me.

Save me.

Take me to Zhao Jiulang.

You wil be well reward.

Papa.

Should we have him?

What time is it?

It is mid-afternoon.

Perhaps the road guards got delayed.

Hu Liu from Mianzhou,

Ten taels higher.

A well-known name in the underworld.

Reporting, Master.

The gold and silver were robbed

by the White-Robed Bandit'e men.

Where did it happen?

At Jiulong Mountain.

Master,

Who exactly is this

White-Robed Bandit?

A bandit chief who writes poetry.

They say Zhao Jiulang also runs overseas business,

selling Kunlun slaves to the nobles of Chang'An.

His mansion is filled with treasures.

This bit of silver

is hardly worth mentioning.

Brilliant.

Draw the tiger from its den.

Brother.

What about the Zhao family?

Shall we kill them?

Let them go.

I never kill unarmed people.

He... He's...

Papa.

That gold is enough to pay off our debts.

That gold is not us.

It was given to us by the White-Robed Bandit.

He took the blade.

Remember

Never take ill-gotten wealth.

Better to thirst than drink from a thief's spring.

I should have sent you to a school long ago.

Was it you who tipped off the White-Robed Bandit.

No, it was not me.

Stop!

He has nothing to do with this.

He saved me.

It was you who saved him.

Master Zhao.

The money I owe you

could you give me a few more days of grace?

Chen Shisan.

I gave you my best field.

Yet you still can't even pay the interest.

Jiu lang.

What I owe you.

I will not short you a single coin.

Well.

I'll give you five more days.

If you still don't pay,

your wife and daughters will be enslaved

for three years.

A debt is a debt.

I, Chen Shisan, will never break my promise.