The Longest Day in Chang'An (Chang An Shi Er Shi Chen / 长安十二时辰)

Evening.

Sunset.

" The Longest Day in Chang'an "

Episode 19

The Royal Escort is raiding the prison!

Captain!

Commander Zhao has been taken hostage by the convict!

A bunch of lies!

-Cui Qi is on their side! -What a liar!

The Royal Escort...

has purposely brought troubles to the Right Cavalries.

Hear my command. The Royal Escort...

has barged into the royal city armed to teeth with ill intention!

-Hand over your weapons at once. -Don't move!

Captain. We are just following orders to send Zhang Xiao Jing here.

But he accused us instead.

We should just break Zhang Xiao Jing out...

and go back to Peacekeeper Corps instead.

Idiot.

Do you think you are safe in Peacekeeper Corps?

For the moment, arrest their leader, Cui Qi first.

Drop your weapons.

-Captain! -Captain Cui.

Drop your weapons!

Don't move!

Get us out from the barbican entrance.

Don't go overboard. Do you think I'll do something that'll get me killed?

There's a layer of membrane between your spines.

If I stab through there,

you'll be sitting in a chair for the rest of your life.

Gan!

General Gan...

is going to come back after his night patrol.

Bring this convict to the...

counsellor's manor at once to be interrogated.

You are still useful to Peacekeeper Corps if you go back.

Kill Zhang Xiao Jing off!

Yao Ru Neng, you'll take the back!

-Why me? -Can he make it?

Those who are afraid to die won't die.

What kind of powder was that?

I scraped it from the wall.

Why do you have so many underhanded tricks?

Isn't it useful?

You use it just because it's useful.

Then, you are no more different than I am.

We just need to get out from the door later.

Someone should be coming to our aid when we get out.

Thank you.

Zhang Xiao Jing knows how to say thank you?

Thank you to you too.

This is a very dangerous place.

And yet, you are here.

I'm a descendant of Yao family after all.

Intruders!

-Chase after them! -Chase after them!

Riders.

No powder can save us now.

You can't hit woman.

Zhang Xiao Jing.

You had been the sleuth-hound captain for nine years. Don't you know me?

I am Gan Shou Cheng.

I especially love hitting women.

Ever since the Great Tang was established,

you are the first one who dares burn...

the Right Cavalries' office.

It's still isn't enough...

to repay even the tiniest bit of the kindness the government has shown me.

Pretty word from a traitor.

He has contributed to Chang'an today!

His Majesty is going to assess his service some other day.

If you bully official who has merits, you'll be throwing your future away!

What a liar. It's her.

She posed as Right Counsellor's woman.

Who are you really with?

Didn't he say that she's a liar?

If you want to know the truth,

ask me.

Did you see that?

He's protecting you.

You...

are quite pretty-looking.

But your hands are rough.

Tell me.

Whose slave are you?

If you treat Zhang Xiao Jing better,

I might tell you the truth.

Do you know how to dance?

Come. Dance for me.

Go.

Eunuch Guo.

Eunuch Guo. A scholar was making a ruckus outside of royal city just now.

He said that it's an honour to die for Chang'an.

He risked his life to send this letter to you,

saying that Li Bi, Chief of Peacekeeper Corps...

is the one who sent him.

I'm afraid that Chief Li is in trouble.

Or else, he won't come to you.

So, I brought this letter to you immediately.

Please don't blame me for it.

Just now, you saw with your own eyes that...

Gan Shou Cheng had arrested some people?

He had arrested three people.

Yao Ru Neng who's at the crown prince's side,

the female slave who is always with Chief Li...

and Zhang Xiao Jing who had made a din the whole day.

What do you mean by make a din?

Be more respectful.

Zhang Xiao Jing is really working hard today.

If he wasn't a death row convict,

I would like to have a few drinks with him.

Is it appropriate if I...

go to the Right Cavalries...

to ask for the arrested?

No.

Your Imperial Guard has power within the royal city only.

Outside of that, everywhere else...

is under the Right Cavalries' jurisdiction.

If you meddle with Right Cavalries' works,

I'm afraid that...

His Majesty will be suspicious of you.

Li Bi has written a letter to beg me.

He said that...

Zhang Xiao Jing can save Chang'an today.

It's better to put yourself first.

Today is just one day.

You still have a long life ahead of you.

You can't risk your future because of a day.

There's a very agreeable sentence in Li Bi's letter.

He said that...

if everything was easy,

it wouldn't be called a choice.

Send me to Right Cavalries' Yamen...

-to have a walk. -Please reconsider, Eunuch Guo.

Gan Shou Cheng is working under Right Counsellor's order.

He won't let go of them easily.

I...

I'll dance!

Good. Dance your best dance.

Look carefully.

If you fall down from that plate,

this man will have to suffer.

Don't listen to him.

I had stayed in a water cell for half a year.

This is a good treatment for me to warm up my body.

Good!

How courageous you are.

Who sent you to raid the prison?

General, he is from Peacekeeper Corps.

So, she must be related to Peacekeeper Corps as well.

But he said that he was with crown prince. So,

they must be related to crown prince too.

I am Commandant Yao Ru Neng from the Eastern Palace.

I have a higher rank than you. Release me at once.

Higher rank than me?

-How dare you ambush me. -Zhao Qi Lang!

Don't hit my hands.

Yao family...

is adept in both pen and sword.

The skills that I possessed...

have to be passed down to my descendants.

-Who sent you? -It's me.

It's indeed the Peacekeeper Corps' doing.

I was once the slave of Li Bi.

Today, I came into contact with Zhang Xiao Jing...

when I was working the case.

I gradually fell in love with him...

when he save the people...

so righteously and heroically.

So, when I heard that Zhang Xiao Jing...

was transferred to the Right Cavalries,

I stole my slave contract from Li Bi...

out of my love for Zhang Xiao Jing...

and barged into the Right Cavalries to save him.

I want to run away with him and live in incognito.

Really?

My slave contract is here.

" Tan Qi's Slave Contract "

Eunuch Guo.

I want to meet General Guo.

Inform General Guo about Eunuch Guo's arrival at once.

-Roger that. -Only the royalty...

can address General Guo like that. Who are you?

Please forgive me, General Guo.

He's here.

Greetings,

General of Cavalry.

Lin Jiu Lang has thrown...

this troublesome man to you?

His Majesty...

had commended Peacekeeper Corps just now.

He specially said that...

all officials in Peacekeeper Corps are Great Tang's contributors.

Now, you arrested one of them?

Are you bored about staying in Chang'an?

I am just following orders.

Lin Jiu Lang had given you this?

After the incident in Western District,

people from the Secretariat had sent this to us.

It has the stamp of the prime minister.