The Legend of Hao Lan (Mou Qin / 皓镧传)

~ Moonrise by Lu Hu & Huang Yali ~

The Legend of Hao Lan

Episode 9

This is a gift from Royal Descendant to me.

How could you give it to someone else?

Give it to me, Lu Buwei.

- Li Haolan. - Give it to me.

Think carefully. From when I bought you,

from your top to bottom, even a strand of hair.

all belongs to I, Lu Buwei.

Even if it's a fragrance pouch, it's not an exception too.

Lu Buwei, not only are you a tyrant,

also unchangeable after successive teachings.

I don't want the fragrance pouch anymore. Keep it for yourself!

Li Haolan! Li Haolan!

Lord, where do you have a Aunt?

For you.

Court people continues to fall ill.

All have high fever and vomiting.

Physicians are recommending to put all the sick patients to the infirmary hall.

lest they infect others.

The infirmary hall outside of the palace are lacking in medicine.

It also lacks a highly skilled physician.

Why not partition out a isolated area in the palace?

and hire a physician to treat the sick people.

What do you know?

Other palaces have no illness.

There are many sick people in Rising Sun Palace.

There are lots of rumors out there.

What rumors?

I dare not say.

Speak.

They are saying that,

there must evil currents in Rising Sun Palace attracting the unsettled spirits to take lives.

It's nonsense.

That's Hongye suggests that we should move all the sick people to the Infirmary.

This way it can eliminate them sullying Empress' reputation.

If you do this will cause others to gossip further

Complain that Empress is too cold and harvest, inconsiderate of server's conditions.

Even so, its better than spreading to more and more people.

Your Highness, physician Yin request an audience.

Let her in.

Yes.

Greetings, Your Highness.

Yin Xiaochu boldly requests that Empress be so kind.

Keep palace people inside the palace to recover.

Hongye much appreiciate Physician Yin's benevolent heart and skillful deeds.

But the disease is not a child's game.

Are you using the lives of the people in the palace as a joke?

They are vomiting and diarrheic, have headaches and dizziness.

No signs of infecting to each other.

If this was an infectious disease, then should already be widespread in palace.

How could there be only twenty to thirty people infected?

All physicians suspecting it is infectious.

You are stating this.

What if your analysis is wrong?

I'm willing to fully bear responsibility for this.

Empress, physician Ying is highly skilled and speak with evidence.

If we were to make a big commotion and move patients.

It's easier for others to misunderstand your good intentions.

Let's cordoned off an area for the patients.

Invite physician Yin to treat the patients.

I believe that everyone in the palace

Will be grateful to Empress' kind considerations.

If Empress still have doubts, Yin Xiaochun can make a military pledge.

The two of you are truly fearless.

What if something bad blows up, can you bear the consequences?

Enough.

I will give you full authority since you saying with certainty.

But if anyone is infected, your head will drop.

I will abide.

Physician Yin, you seem to have more things to say.

Don't you find it very strange?

Rising Sun Palace is so large but only the lowly servants are sick.

Not the Empress or the court ladies.

Every of the sick patient's condition is similar.

The symptoms are somewhat similar.

Vomiting, high fever, spots on the body.

Physicians think it's the flu.

If it is really the flu, should spread to the entire palace.

Hence, I speculate that

The source of the disease might be in the food and drinks.

- Food and drinks? - If there's really a problem with the food and drinks,

That explains why the disease is not spreading.

But people falls ill one by one.

All the attendants in Rising Sun Palace

uses the same water source.

Let's go.

What are you doing?

Sister Haolan.

Let's go and see the Empress.

Don't. I don't want to!

Lady-in-waiting Li. If I see the Empress, I will die.

Out of the twenty people who are sick in Rising Sun Palace, four have died.

Baihe, where did your conscience go?

I...

If I don't interrogate you now, the people from the Punishment Bureau will force the answer from you.

Take her away.

No, don't!

- It was Lady-in-waiting Xiao who instructed me to do this. - Xiao Hongye?

Yes, it's her.

She command me to do this in the well on the west side which is where the lower servants live.

Later she wants to do it to the east side well.

I'm scared. I'm really scared!

Why did she do this?

In order to frame you.

She said if I don't follow her instructions, she will take my life.

She is powerful in Rising Sun Palace, I can't resist her commands.

I have old and weak parents at home, my elder brother and sister in law are cold hearted.

They don't care of parent's condition, they rely on my wage to live.

If I lose my life, who will support them?

Maiden Haolan, I know you have a good heart.

Please spare me.

I will bow to you.

You have your parents to support but did you think about those innocent people in the palace who died?

They have parents too.

Even more so, if we let you off easily,

The main perpetrator will continue to kill people.

I will willing to compensate for my crime.

How will you do this?

I... I can let Lady-in-waiting Li catch the perpetrator red-handed.

I'm only beg that you spare my life.

Fine. I will trust you.

Thank you, Lady-in-waiting Li. Thank you!

Sister Haolan, do you think this Baihe is reliable?

Ah Yue.

Give this bamboo cone to physician Yin.

Be sure to ask her...

Empress, people are continuously getting sick.

Her Highness couldn't sleep.

Rising Sun Palace is so unharmonious.

No guarantee that someone is causing mayhem.

Your Highness, please order me to search the palace.

Whether it's human or ghost,

I will definitely flush her out.

My medicines are finished, Lady in waiting Xiao asked me

to wait here at midnight.

She will bring the new medicines with her.

- Right here. - Do you need us to hide?

I mean if she sees there are others here from far away.

she may not show up.

Li Haolan, still not sleeping at midnight.

What deals are you doing here?

Isn't Lady in waiting Xiao also here at midnight ?

I am here waiting to trap the bunny.

Will not put all my efforts in vain.

Catch a big live bunny like this.

What do you mean?

You will naturally understand when we are at Her Highness' place.

Take everyone along.

Yes.

Your Highness, as ordered, I searched everywhere.

Found Li Haolan with two palace maids hiding under east corner tree.

I wonder what secret transaction they are having.

Speak. What's going on?

Your Highness, Lady-in-waiting forced me to do this.

I didn't dare to disobey her instructions. Your Highness.

What nonsense are you spouting? Who's forcing you?

Shut up. Her Highness is here.

Since when it's your turn to talk?

Sssh.

I coincidentally bump into Situ Yue putting poison into the well.

Then I was threatened by them. I didn't dare to protest against Lady-in-waiting Li.

Can only pretend to be under their command and cooperate with them.

Your Highness, I received much kindness from you.

How could I possibly do something like this? Your Highness, please investigate this.

How could I dare to frame Lady-in-waiting Li?

They are using the maids to test their poison.

The real target is you, Your Highness.

I...I didn't dare to disobey.

When Lady-in-waiting Li saw that I was unwilling, she threatened me.

Also it's Situ Yue who coerced me to do it.

I often see Situ Yue sneaking around the palace.

She must be the one doing this.

Right, I also saw it. Baihe normally very careful.

Would she dare to commit such a great crime. Someone must have forced her.

When I went to investigate,

Baihe, you distinctly said that Xiao Hongye instigated you to do this.

And now...

I understand now.

It was your trap from the start

- to deliberately lure us into it. - You are the ones who committed the crime.

Now that you have been exposed,

you are blaming this on me instead.

Li Haolan, dared to do it but dare not admit?

Haolan, tell me. What's going on?

Your Highness, I'm innocent. Why would I want to harm you?

- There are no reason. - Because the King...

Originally wanted you to be a consort.

It was your Highness who made you a lady-in-waiting.

You naturally harbor dissatisfactory thoughts.

Xiao Hongye, every time you move your lips

so easily do you spew false charges against me. Where is the evidence?

All these eyes are watching you in the palace.

Empress is so kindly to you.

Is this how you repay her?

Your Highness, since Lady-in-waiting Xiao has the evidence,

please also allow Physician Yin to come to the palace.

Li Haolan, the truth is already revealed at this point.

How are you planning to further this struggle of a caged beast?