It smells so nice.
What is she cooking?
I want to taste it.
My sister is braising something delicious again.
What is it?
I'm not telling all of you.
Changning.
Tell Madam Zhao not to make dinner.
We will send them Pork Intestine Noodles.
Go.
I want to eat it so badly.
What a glutton. Go.
Madam Zhao.
Changyu told you not to make dinner.
She will make you Pork Intestine Noodles.
=Pursuit of Jade=
(Adapted from Tuanzi Laixi's novel, "Pursuit of Jade")
=Episode 2=
Time to eat.
Mister Zhao made you a crutch.
Thank you.
No pig's tail.
We'll eat "meat gourd" for today.
Tomorrow, I'll braise the pig's tail.
Have you forgotten the rules Mother taught us?
That's rude. Guests should eat first.
Mister, you should eat first.
Thank you.
You've been eating porridge for the last few days.
Is a bowl of noodles not enough?
A bowl of noodles
is enough...
You are recovering.
Eat more.
Thank you.
Is it delicious?
Yes.
What is
"meat gourd"?
Pork intestine.
Large intestines of a pig.
I thought you weren't used to eating offal.
I'm relieved to see you enjoy it.
Don't worry.
I cleaned the poop inside...
I...
I cleaned the intestines well.
Mister Zhao prefers intestines that have only been washed once.
He says the smell is what makes it delicious.
You scared me.
What are you doing?
Should I report to you before I sneeze?
You scared me!
How could I control that?
Are you done eating?
There's so much left.
I'm weak,
so I'm full.
Are you really full?
I am.
Having leftovers is a waste.
Eat.
Do you usually
eat this?
How can we afford to eat this every day?
The Chinese New Year is almost here.
When other people slaughter pigs,
they will send some offal to Changyu.
I haven't had Intestine Noodles for a long time.
Thank you for your noodles.
There's a pig tail tomorrow
because Changyu is going to slaughter a pig...
- You know how to slaughter a pig? - No...
I'm just a frail girl.
How can I slaughter a pig?
She's just saying nonsense.
Don't believe her.
Stay here and don't make a noise.
Changning, come here.
I'll play hide and seek with you.
Open the door.
Open the door!
(She is a pig butcher.)
You're a good swine in this lifetime.
Be a good person in the next!
I'll butcher pigs to take care of you.
Changning, wash your face.
Come here.
Changyu, where is your silver hairstick?
I pawned it.
You pawned the silver hairstick Mother gave you?
She won't be happy about it.
Don't worry. I made a promise with Manager Luo.
I'll redeem it immediately after I make some money.
Is Young Lady Fan around?
Young Lady Fan,
Chef Li sent me to get half a pig.
Sure.
This is the money for the pork.
Thank you.
Take care.
When did you slaughter a pig?
I slaughtered it at dawn.
Stop telling others
that I'm a pig butcher.
Did you pawn the silver hairstick
to keep the handsome man alive?
Shush.
Keep it down.
Don't let others hear you.
I did it to save him.
However, Madam Zhao was right.
It's expensive to keep a man.
I must work harder to make money.
(South Market)
(Meat)
(Fan Er Meat Shop)
You're full of sweat.
Am I great?
Mother. Father. I'm here to deliver food.
Look.
You're full of sweat just like your father.
Let's eat.
- All right. - All right.
Let's go.
Here you go, Father.
Mother.
Here.
What do you think, Father?
Delicious.
I love your cooking.
Changyu,
are you going to reopen your family's meat shop?
Yes.
Just like my parents.
(Guo Jiu Meat Shop)
Coming.
(Fan Er Meat Shop)
What do you think about this piece?
This is fresh.
(Yan's Soup Pastry) It's guaranteed fresh.
(Fan Er Meat Shop)
How much is your offal?
Madam.
We don't sell our offal today.
Our shop just opened today.
If you buy a catty of pork,
I'll give you a tael of offal for free.
First-come, first-served.
That's such a good deal.
Give me five catties of pork belly.
Sure.
Our pork belly is 20 coins per catty.
You are our first customer today.
I'll charge you 18 coins.
You are good at doing business.
I'll buy from your shop again next time.
Here you go.
Hold your pork well.
Sure.
This is your free offal.
- Take care. - Thank you.
- Here's the money. - Sure.
Thank you.
Come again.
- Sure. I'll visit again next time. - Sure.
- How much for the pork belly? - How much is this?
Their meat is fresh.
Pork belly is 20 coins per catty today.
Give me a catty.
If you buy a catty of pork today,
you'll get a tael of braised offal for free.
This is for you.
- Changyu! - Thank you. Here you go.
Changyu, stop selling!
Mister Guo.
You can't break the rules
of doing business, right?
It's your shop's opening
but why are you giving out free things?
Mister Guo,
I'm giving out free things to get a blessing
due to my opening.
Which rule have I broken?
This is breaking the rule.
Who sells pork while giving out free offal?
Enough, Guo Dali.
Why are you being so petty with a little girl?
She's only selling half a pig.
What does this have to do with you?
That's right, Mister Guo.
Are you bullying a lonely girl like me
because my parents passed away?
Exactly.
Why are you like this?
You're bullying a little girl.
You are ridiculous.
Fine.
Just today.
Don't give any freebies tomorrow.
Sure.
I only planned to do it for one day anyway.
Go ahead!
You are always such a busybody.
I still need to sell them.
Fan's Meat Shop is opening!
Free offal for buying pork.
20 coins per catty!
They are very fresh!
Pork belly is 20 coins per catty.
How much do you want?
- Give me one catty. - One catty?
(Fan Er Meat Shop) Three catties.
270.
280.
290.
Changyu!
Mister Zhao, let me tell you. I made...
Stop.
Your Uncle Daniu is bringing the gambling den lackeys
to your house to search for the deed.
What?
Scoundrels.
Changyu!
Why are you bringing your cleaver? Don't do something foolish!
This is bad. Someone will die.
Song Yan, open the door!
Song Yan!
Song Yan. Fan Er and his wife treated you well.
Come out and help Changyu.
Song Yan!
Song Yan! Open the door!
I know you are inside.
Song Yan!
This is urgent!
Song Yan!
Sit down.
Focus on studying.
Song Yan!
- Mother. - Open the door quickly!
Changyu's family is in trouble.
I need to go and take a look.
Fan Daniu is Fan Changyu's first uncle.
After all,
that is the Fan family's problem.
What does it have to do with the Song family?
How can you clean the kingdom if you don't clean your house?
If I ignore what happens in front of me,
what's the point of becoming an imperial scholar
and an official?
If you walk out of this door,
just forget about becoming an imperial scholar in the future.
Song Yan!
Did all your knowledge go down the drain?
Your father's bones might break
from Fan family's coffin because of karma!
Yan,
we spent a lot of effort
to cancel the marriage with that jinx.
If you help her today,
the people who gossip
will ruin your reputation for no reason.
Stop shouting, Zhao.
Changyu's marriage was cancelled.
There's no need for the two of them to help her.
Enough, Madam Kang.
- Cut it out. - Losing her parents is pitiful?
I lost my mother at a young age, as well.
Did anyone pity me?
Enough.
Song Yan!
Song Yan, open the door!
Madam Zhao!
What's wrong with Changning?
She can't stop wheezing.
Changning!
Don't be scared.
Here. Calm down.
Calm down.
She's here.
She's even holding a cleaver.
Will she kill a few people?
His brother just died
and he's already trying to take advantage of the two daughters.
Even a rabbit bites when it is cornered.
Changning.
- Are you all right? - Changyu.
Lady Zhuang. Madam Zhao.
Take good care of her.
All right.
Let's go.
Let's see if we can help her out.
Stop!
Changyu, you are finally back.
(Mister Jin)
Young Lady Fan, you're back.
Leave my house
with your men.
The gambling den is just doing this according to the rules.
Fan Da told us this house is his.
I'm here to find the deed
to pay for his debt.
You said this house was yours?
Changyu,
I was forced and had no choice.
Changyu,
help me out.
Use this house to pay my debt.
In the future,
I will treat you and Changning
like my own daughters.
All right?
Why didn't you use your own house to pay your debt?
If I pay with my house,
where would your aunt and I live?
If you and Changning get married in the future,
you won't have any use for this house.
Who are you to care about
what I do with the thing my parents left to Changning and me?
You hear that?
This isn't his house.
I am your uncle. I...
Come here!
- Mister Jin! - Don't move!
Mister Jin!
If you don't hand over the deed today,
I'll just chop his hand off
to fulfill my duty.
I'll count to three.
One,
two...
Use this cleaver.
It is sharp.
With one swing,
the skin, flesh, bones, and tendons will all break.
It makes my uncle suffer less.
You...
Are you joking?
All of you are the ones who started it.
Fan Changyu!
You cursed your parents to death.
Are you going to curse me to death now?
You are a girl whose marriage was cancelled.
Who are you to occupy this house as your dowry forcefully?
Go and see which daring person wants to marry a jinx like you?
You'd better
go back immediately.
Otherwise, they can take your hand,
but I will kill you!
I'll first kill you
before killing myself to apologize to Mother and Father!
Young Lady.
The gambling den is reasonable.
According to the Law of Great Yin,
if a family doesn't have a male, the house goes to the closest relative.
The brother will inherit the house.
Even if you report it to the officials,
the house still belongs to Fan Da.
That's right.
The people at the gambling den are reasonable.
Since the Law of Great Yin states that the house is mine,
why are you still standing around?
Go and...
Keep searching for Mister Jin.
Search carefully.
(Tablets of Fan Erniu and Meng Lihua)
Father,
if I break your precept,
don't be angry.
Changning,
turn around and count to ten.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Are you going to leave now?
Eight.
Fools, let's attack together!
Nine.
I only counted to nine.
If a girl can chase me out of her house,
I'll be too embarrassed to stay in this line of work!
Look out!
Bullying an orphaned girl in broad daylight!
Are you even...
My Lord.
All the broken items have been recorded.
If you pay for these things,
you'll be forgiven.
Jin Yuanbao,
you are 27 years old this year.
You're causing trouble every day
instead of working and starting a family.
Can you even face your grandmother?
If we paid for her loss,
who would pay for our medical fees?
The four of you can't even beat a girl.
- I... - How dare you ask for medical fees?
Get lost.
Hold it!
(Tablets of Fan Erniu and Meng Lihua)
All of you flipped my parents' tablets.
You can only leave after you apologize.
My Lord,
this house should be mine.
If you want to ask for this house,
write a petition yourself and send it to the yamen.
I...
However, after damaging other people's tablets,
you'll be flogged 20 times
after entering the yamen.
Mister Fan Er.
Madam Fan.
- Sorry. - Sorry.
Be magnanimous.
We were wrong.
Here's the money.
Go.
- Come on. Let's talk in private. - I...
Mister Jin.
Mister Jin!
Sir.
Keep it for your sister.
I knew
calling you was the right choice.
Fan Er might be dead
but the bond between you two still exists.
But the dispute with this house
isn't over yet.
Changyu.
Changyu?
A little girl has no choice but to support the whole family.
How unfortunate.
(Tablets of Fan Erniu and Meng Lihua)
Father.
(Tablet of Meng Lihua)
You told me not to use the Glaive Technique
(Tablet of Fan Erniu) in public
unless my life is in danger.
I broke my promise.
Father. Mother. Please don't blame me.
Your father won't blame you.
You are injured.
Why are you out here
instead of focusing on your recovery?
It was too noisy.
I couldn't help it.
(Tablets of Fan Erniu and Meng Lihua)
Fan Erniu.
Not only does your father know how to slaughter pigs
but he also knows martial arts.
You heard everything?
My father was an escort
before he became a butcher.
Your mother's name is Meng Lihua.
Is that her real name?
My mother was amazing.
She can read, write,
and make fragrance powder.
Other butchers' houses
smell badly
whenever they slaughter pigs
but my house wasn't like that.
After my house's laundry is cleaned,
it'll be cleansed with my mother's fragrance powder.
It doesn't smell at all.
Everyone, there's nothing to see here.
Stop watching.
Just leave.
Go. Go home.
Thank you.
They were wrong today.
However, they were right.
If Fan Da submitted his petition,
Changyu won't be able to keep this house anymore.
What can she do?
These two girls are so pitiful.
You must help them no matter what.
I didn't say I wouldn't help them.
There's indeed a way.
(Tablets of Fan Erniu and Meng Lihua)
How did your parents pass away?
They encountered bandits.
Father's neck was slashed
and he died on the spot.
Mother was still alive when they sent her back.
She held on for eight hours
just to speak to Changning and me.
However, she couldn't utter a word.
She only gave me her hairstick.
I'm sure they won't blame you.
This gauze has no blood on it.
It's clean.
Thank you.
Compared to me,
your parents grew up with you, at least.
You still have a close sibling,
your sister.
At least,
you have a house that you've stayed in for so many years.
When I was a child,
my parents were already gone.
How did your parents die?
They died in the war.
Both of us are orphans, then.
Yet, we are comparing to see who's the more pitiful one here.
Sorry
for reminding you of your sad past.
You know now.
I'm just a pig butcher who's full of brute strength.
Laugh all you want.
Not only did you save me,
but you even gathered money
to support me.
If I laugh at you,
I'll be an ingrate.
Changyu!
Madam Zhao is calling for you.
Don't tell them that I cried.
Let's go.
Careful.
Is he fine? Will he recover in the future?
There might be an issue with his legs
but the rest won't be affected.
Mister. Madam.
Changyu, you're here?
Come here, quickly.
We have something to discuss with you.
Look at the snow on your head.
What is it?
Why act so secretly?
Madam Zhao, go ahead.
I'll do everything you say.
Asking someone to marry into my family?
This is Constable Wang's idea.
He won't be wrong.
If you do that,
your father will have a descendant.
This house will be protected.
Fan Da won't be able to take it away.
Your parents
only left this house behind for both of you.
If you lose this house,
how will both of you survive?
Indeed. Every woman marries the person
their parents choose for them.
Changyu has a hard life.
Which good man would marry into her family?
This is the last resort.
If she wants to protect this house,
she has to have a matrilocal marriage.
What is a matrilocal marriage?
In the future,
we'll find a man
whom your sister can live with forever
so he can take care of both of you.
I want the handsome man.
He won't do.
How so?
I've been matchmaking for more than a decade.
He is a good man.
Madam Zhao, you just said
no good man would marry into my family.
She has been a matchmaker for more than a decade.
She has seen more men than you have seen pigs.
You need to listen to an expert about this.
Besides, the war is dire in Chongzhou.
I heard they have been recruiting soldiers again.
Every family is preparing for a wedding
so that they can have descendants.
Finding a matrilocal son-in-law
is harder than ascending heaven.
Anyway, he won't do.
How so?
He just won't do.
How?
He...
Enough. Not so loud.
Yan Zheng
might have a slightly serious injury,
his leg might have an issue once he makes a recovery,
and he doesn't have any status,
but
he is
readily available. Right?
Changyu, you are killing two birds with one stone.
You're helping each other.
No one is being taken advantage of.
- But... - Exactly.
You said you'd do everything
I told you to.
Madam Zhao.
Stop it.
Mister Zhao.
I know both of you are doing this for Changning and my sake.
But let me consider this again.
What's there to consider?
- Changyu! - Changyu!
Why are you sighing?
Changyu,
tell me.
What's so bad about that guy?
Is he...
Is he unhealthy in that way?
It's fine. I'll ask Zhao
and see if his condition can still be treated.
I don't mean that.
Don't get carried away.
What if he doesn't want it?
The daughter of the Fan family is so pretty.
You can also support a family by butchering pigs.
How dare he have any complaints?
Besides, he doesn't even have a status.
After he is married,
he won't be recruited
into the Vanguard Corps because he is a refugee.
I just saved him
and forced him to marry into my family.
That's hoping for something in return for helping.
Putting his intention aside,
he might become the next Song Yan
if it goes on for a long time.
Scholars have always been jerks.
He is not a scholar.
He is different from that ingrate, Song Yan.
Madam Zhao.
Yan Zheng
is like a piece of premium white jade
I found in the snow.
Pretty,
smooth,
and valuable.
However, it's not mine.
Even if you carve my name, "Fan Changyu" on it,
it is still not mine.
Just carve your name on it and use it for now.
When someone comes looking for it,
we can only return it when the time comes.
He said
he would leave after he recovered from his injury.
With a virtuous and capable wife like you,
will he feel like leaving
after living a stable life?
He might not even leave if you chase him away.
Madam Zhao,
you are forcing him to marry a pig butcher.
A melon you harvest forcefully isn't sweet.
It doesn't have to be sweet. It just has to quench your thirst.
If he dares refuse,
I will chase him away.
Even a rescued donkey comes back on its own
and helps with the mill.
If you won't say it, I'll say it.
Don't!
I'll go and tell him myself.
Is something wrong?
Come in and talk.
I...
I want...
I want to help you clean your clothes.
These are...
You're welcome.
Clean clothes.
Where did you get these clothes from?
I snatched them.
I'm going to wash them.
Let me help you.
Here you go.
Yan Zheng,
can you
marry into my family?
When I recover,
I will pay you.
I don't want money.
I want you.
If you don't agree to it,
I'll beat you up.
If you don't kill me,
you'll have to pay more to treat me.
You...
Don't squeal.
Be serious.
You are now playing the role of Yan Zheng.
Be serious.
Yesterday, Uncle failed to get the deed.
He will
probably deliver a petition to the yamen next.
If I want to protect this house,
the only way
is to find a matrilocal son-in-law.
Father and Mother are dead.
They only left this house behind.
Even if it's for Changning's sake,
I must not lose this house.
I'm not forcing you to marry into my family.
I'm just here
to ask you about it.
The weather is dry.
Be careful of fire!
Come in.
Mister and Madam Zhao are asleep.
I'm worried no one will bring you water.
Your body constitution is cold from losing blood.
The tea is cold so you shouldn't drink it.
I boiled soup for you.
Thank you.
This is...
Pork Liver Soup. It nourishes your blood.
Since there's a bucket of offal left from yesterday's pig,
I boiled this soup for you.
It's a little too hot.
I'll drink it later.
You don't like offal, right?
You only took a few bites
from yesterday's Intestine Noodles.
You did the same to the Liver Soup.
I don't really hate it
but I'm
not used to it.
But...
I don't have anything better.
Pig Liver Soup nourishes your blood.
It's good for you.
Just drink it as medicine.
I'm leaving.
Young Lady Fan.
I agree.
Drink it while it's hot.
I mean,
I agree
with marrying into your family.
Sure.
If you stay,
I'll support you by butchering pigs.
♪Hooves in a war-torn land♪
♪Who remains in wind and snow?♪
♪How many lives♪
♪Hang by a single thread♪
♪Smoke rises from our homeland♪
♪Who can stand apart from the world?♪
♪The sun sets, I say nothing♪
♪Autumn colors fall♪
♪Who steps lightly on maple leaves and leaves♪
♪Rain on parasol trees♪
♪Swallows carry mud beneath the eaves♪
♪The warmth of life in this ancient town♪
♪Who was I meant to meet♪
♪We vowed to stand through life and death♪
♪May our oath be fulfilled♪
♪I hold our fate with care♪
♪I will not let go♪
♪Yet war drums and pounding hooves♪
♪Shatter the ending♪
♪In this mortal world we come and go♪
♪You turn away, brows drawn♪
♪You leave with your sword♪
♪Taking every secret with you♪
♪I hold our fate with care♪
♪I will not let go♪
♪Yet we always meet♪
♪On battlefields in flames♪
♪In tangled destiny, the memories you gave♪
♪Are gentle as jade♪
♪After countless battles♪
♪May we return to where we first met♪