[Yummy, Yummy? Yummy!]
[Episode 23]
♪ Better and better ♪
Xia? Xia.
What are you doing?
All the dishes have been served.
I need to quickly cook the dumplings.
I previously bought you a carriage.
You didn't like it.
You scolded me for it.
Before that, I bought you a ring
but the size was wrong.
You scolded me again.
I bought you another ring today
to make up for it.
I hope you can stop scolding me.
Happy Chinese New Year.
[Xianshanqiong Pavilion
Your Highness, it's getting late.
How about I go back first?
I won't delay you from entering the palace.
Her Highness understands
you don't have time to return home,
and it's hard to spend
Chinese New Year's Eve alone away from home.
Thus, Her Highness declined other invitations
and invited you here for a gathering.
I can't afford the travel expenses
to return home.
This news has somehow reached you.
I feel that entering the palace is more boring.
It's better to stay here,
enjoy tea and play Go with a close friend.
There are also night outings during the festival.
I haven't been to a lantern festival in years.
Why don't you go with me?
It's a copper coin!
Awesome!
- You got it.
- I ate the one with a copper coin!
Does eating a dumpling with a copper coin mean
during the Chinese New Year,
I can have whatever I want?
Yes.
What do you want for Chinese New Year?
Grandpa, I wish you prosperity.
Give me the money.
- This girl.
- All right.
I prepared this earlier for you. Here, take it.
Thank you, Grandpa.
Grandma, I wish you prosperity.
Give me the money.
I forgot about this today. What should I do?
She feels aggrieved.
I prepared this earlier.
- Thank you, Grandma.
- You're welcome.
Happy Chinese New Year, Aunt.
Happy Chinese New Year, Yangyang.
Thank you, Aunt.
A'Yuan, Happy Chinese New Year.
- I've one, too?
- Of course.
You're also part of our family.
Thank you, My Lady.
Xiao Ming, look.
Vice Magistrate, Happy Chinese New Year.
I really didn't prepare anything.
Take it all.
- That much?
- Vice Magistrate, this is too much.
Considering that it's from Liu Chang and me,
it's not much. Here, take it.
Yangyang, you should kneel
to the Vice Magistrate.
Thank you, Vice Magistrate.
May everything go smoothly for you.
- This kid.
- Go ahead.
Yangyang.
Look at what this is.
This is...
This is the lucky money from my father.
- My father even sent a letter.
- Here, take it.
Let's open it and read it.
This is written by Gongcai.
- Let me see.
- Here.
This is really written by Gongcai.
Let me read it to everyone.
Family members, when you read this letter,
I'm on my way to the peak.
Don't worry. With my charisma, wherever I am,
I will be warmly sought after.
Ladies and gentlemen,
this kind of talk show is probably
something you haven't heard of.
You shamelessly dragged us here.
Didn't you say you don't want money
and will provide tea and snacks?
- Where are the items?
- Where are they?
Where are the items you promised?
Everyone, calm down.
I'll definitely provide them.
But if you think I speak well,
I hope everyone can reward me
with some coins.
That's him.
I saw him nearby yesterday.
He talked about gender equality,
ladies should be independent and self-reliant.
He even told my wife to divorce me.
He misled the public!
- I didn't.
- Is that so?
- Hit him.
- Beat him to death!
- Hit him!
- Don't run!
- Stop!
- Stop him!
- Stop!
- Don't run!
I'm fine, except that I miss Yangyang.
Yangyang, you're the daughter
I'm most proud of.
In the future, you must be like me...
- Be...
- Are you performing?
- quick-witted, and enterprising.
- Coming soon.
And innovative.
I've many fans in Yong'an,
and achieved some small successes.
But I never became complacent.
Instead, I keep seeking
new entrepreneurial directions.
Life is just like this, full of possibilities.
Dear Yangyang, do you know
I'm doing well in my job now?
High income, honorable, stable.
When dealing with colleagues at work,
I've always worked with an attitude
of cooperation and mutual benefit.
Thus, I can get along easily with everyone.
You don't need to worry about me.
Great!
Are you going to fight?
- Hurry up.
- That's right.
- Start fighting.
- Do it!
Don't just stand there and look.
Hit him!
Do it!
Didn't you eat?
- Didn't you eat?
- All right.
You can hit me anywhere, except my face.
Otherwise, my female fans will be unhappy.
Great!
It's almost Chinese New Year.
I wish my family a Happy Chinese New Year.
If there are any other developments,
I'll write again to inform you.
May you all be safe and sound.
Do not miss me.
Applause.
- Give him an applause.
- Great.
Gongcai has finally grown up and improved.
Don't cry, Yangyang. You should be happy, right?
Come, let's keep eating.
Let me tell everyone.
There are quite a few good fortune items
in these dumplings.
Let's see what each of you can get.
Come, start eating.
- All right, let's eat.
- All right.
Come, Vice Magistrate.
Try this filling.
- Thank you, Aunt.
- You're welcome.
By the way, I want to announce something else.
Our restaurant's renovation
will be finished soon.
- We'll open after the Chinese New Year.
- Great.
Come, everyone. Let's eat.
Let's eat.
Let's eat.
Have an auspicious Chinese New Year.
Happy Chinese New Year.
The Princess Royal has arrived.
[I'm in Yong'an. I miss you.]
Greetings, Your Highness.
Today is Chinese New Year's Eve.
No need to be constrained by these formalities.
Are you about to go out?
Imperial Censor Pei and I just finished
admiring the lanterns.
I was thinking of coming here for hotpot.
Looks like it's bad timing. Isn't that so?
It's not. Yangyang wants to see the lanterns.
My parents have already brought her there.
I'm not interested in those things. It's fine.
A'Yuan.
You've been talking
about the huge turtle lanterns all day.
- Go and catch up with them now.
- Huh?
A'Yuan, go ahead.
I will stay with your lady.
Liu Chang is here, too. It's fine.
Your Highness, come in and take a seat.
Please.
The newly heated Tusu wine.
Drink some first to warm up.
Lady Shen, your tofu is quite peculiar.
I have never seen it before.
Why are there so many holes?
Cut the tofu into square cubes, blanch with salt,
and holes will form.
It becomes like this
after freezing it in the ice cellar.
If you add it into the soup,
it will be especially flavorful.
It's really delicious.
- Delicious.
- I'm glad you like it.
Lady Shen, let's not conform to status today.
Why not sit down with us?
Let's drink, sing together,
and have a lively time.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Here.
- Auspicious Chinese New Year.
- Auspicious Chinese New Year.
Vice Magistrate, you've poor alcohol tolerance.
You should drink less.
- All right.
- Lady Shen,
you said Brother Anran
has poor alcohol tolerance?
His alcohol tolerance...
Brother Anran, did you lie to Lady Shen?
Twelfth Master, what nonsense are you spouting?
Is it nonsense?
I heard that Anran can drink,
and never gets drunk.
I wonder how Second Master Huan offended Anran.
His uncle hosted a banquet and invited you.
He said Anran drank
all their Jiannan Shaochun Wine
and didn't even change his expression.
It's all old news.
Don't mention it.
Vice Magistrate, I was wrong.
- Lady Shen.
- I'll never dare to do it again.
What happened last night?
I don't remember.
I remember we ate mooncakes together.
I became a tree hole,
and we drank wine together.
After that, I can't remember clearly.
Did something bad happen?
Lady Shen, this is Jiannan Shaochun wine.
It's very strong.
You shouldn't drink like that.
You will be...
Your alcohol tolerance isn't good.
Yes. I'm not good at holding my liquor.
Unlike you, you remember everything.
I'm going to hold a few banquets
during the Lantern Festival.
I'll let your restaurant do the catering.
What do you think?
Thank you very much, Your Highness.
Imperial Censor Pei, it's really delicious.
Lady Shen, please don't mind.
I'm just curious...
about frozen tofu.
I'm curious about how frozen tofu is made.
I'm delighted that you like it.
How could I mind?
Please have a look.
So, this is frozen tofu.
What's that over there?
That's our storeroom
for commonly used ingredients.
May I take a look?
I want to see if there are
any suitable ingredients for the banquets.
Of course.
Your Highness, please.
Light the candles first.
Your Highness.
Your Highness.
What are you looking for?
A crowbar.
I wonder if Her Highness mistook us.
It's not a solution for us to keep staying here.
You're afraid to stay with me?
I am not.
Her Highness likes to play tricks.
If we go out now,
it'll look like we were displeased.
We'll hurt her feelings.
Let's wait for a while.
Did your family also eat dumplings
with amaranth fillings in Qingyang?
My family actually didn't eat that much of it.
So, you made that special trip?
There's not much I can do.
We're family.
I only made something
you like to eat to cheer you up.
No matter what happens,
if there are people
who always support you, you'll get through it.
It's very delicious.
I like it very much.
Thank you.
Don't make a sound.
So beautiful!
I didn't do it on purpose.
I didn't do it on purpose.
Actually, you remember
that night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
I remember it, too.
♫ Why not fully savor
the unfinished mortal realm? ♫
♫ Swallowing the pain is a song,
talk about it when it’s the end ♫
♫ Don’t let true love wait in vain ♫
What are you doing?
Let me go.
♫ Awake or insane, it’s all in the future ♫
♫ Can we not devise any schemes? ♫
♫ No extravagant hopes, no looking back ♫
So, do you understand what I mean?
I know.
You want to match Brother Anran with Lady Shen.
Anyone can see they've feelings for each other.
For some unknown reason,
they're unwilling to make it clear.
They are like this.
What about you?
In fact, ever since the Prince Consort
fell seriously ill,
I have been living each day in a haze.
I've never dared to hope
there could be someone in this world
who would walk hand in hand with me.
We...
I fear I'm unable to accept your favor.
When you and the Prince Consort got married,
it was a state affair and not a pleasant matter.
I know this matter has weighed
on your mind for years
but my abilities are limited.
I'm not the one who can make you happy again.
So, putting aside the chaos of the world,
have you ever...
even for a moment...
had genuine feelings for me?
Please do not make things difficult for me.
[Lin Yan]
It wasn't written by me.
I didn't ask.
What about these injuries?
They weren't caused by you, either?
It wasn't me.
Shen Shaoguang.
Are you going to use this method to keep enduring
and controlling yourself?
You obviously have me in your heart.
Why must you do this?
If you're worried what I'm doing now
will implicate you all,
I promise...
after the matter is settled,
I'll ask your family again.
I will definitely reassure them...
and make them agree for us to be together.
All right?
Lin Yan, do you know?
Actually, I'm not the one who's betrothed to you.
My family has never lived in Qingyang.
What are you talking about?
I've been deceiving you all along.
The situation was urgent at the time.
Fearing that you might actually k*ll us,
I made up this lie.
Later, to take advantage of you,
I continued to lie
in order to stay at Yunshui Manor.
I thought I could deceive you for a long time.
But this time,
at the border between Qingyang and Shi'an,
I ran into the person
who was really betrothed to you.
Lady Zheng.
In the Qingyang accent,
the pronunciation of Shen and Zheng is similar.
I used this to fool you.
But I'm not blind in my heart and eyes.
All along, you can't fake how you treated me.
Shen Shaoguang.
- In your heart, you clearly have...
- No.
I have never ever.
Vice Magistrate Lin,
I impersonated another person.
I am utterly shameless.
The fiancée that your parents hoped you would
take good care of before they passed away
is someone else.
I am sorry.
I'm really very sorry.
♫ Like a sunken boat in a dark current
not a single night fire is seen ♫
♫ It’s hazy ahead,
light and darkness intertwine ♫
♫ Sadly, the heart was with toyed by fate
several times and left hanging in the air ♫
♫ Falling into a fog, I pursue in confusion ♫
♫ If not for the thoughts stirring the heart,
creating conflicts ♫
♫ How could I know it’s unpredictable? ♫
♫ Had I known it would bond us,
we should never have met ♫
♫ The pain won’t stop until it ends ♫
♫ Persistently walking deep inside,
I realize how thick the fog is ♫
♫ Who knows where to go? ♫
♫ Passing through the mortal world,
looking back at the dream ♫
♫ Is it still there? ♫
Old friends, past acquaintances,
familiar mountains and rivers.
New spring, new joys, new home.
[The banquet table is full and you're still here]
The banquet table is full and you're still here.
With blessings at the door,
guests come naturally.
- Excellent!
- Excellent!
Shen's Restaurant reopens after Chinese New Year
with renovations and a new menu,
Little Spring Platter.
Great!
That's great!
We welcome everyone to come
and taste the delicacies.
For today's customers,
all dishes are at half price.
Half price!
Great!
I now announce the opening ceremony
of Shen's Restaurant officially begins.
- Great!
- Great!
The auspicious time has arrived.
One, two, three.
[Shen's Restaurant]
[Shen]
[Shen's Restaurant]
Dear customers, please come in.
Please come in.
Welcome to Shen's Restaurant.
- Please come in.
- Please come in.
Please come in.
- For today's guests,
- Please come in.
all dishes are at half price.
Please come in. Please come in.
[Pickled bamboo shoots, fermented cucumbers]
[Laba garlic, tender ginger sprouts]
[Radishes, celeries with vinegar,
sweet garlic, eggplants]
[Laba garlic]
Auspicious Chinese New Year, everyone.
Good luck in the Chinese New Year.
Good luck in the Chinese New Year.
Lady Shen, your restaurant is really beautiful.
Thank you. Auspicious Chinese New Year.
Auspicious Chinese New Year.
- So comfortable.
- Happy Chinese New Year.
May everything go as you wish.
Lady Shen, good luck in the Chinese New Year.
- Good luck in the Chinese New Year.
- Happy New Year.
This is modeled after the
spring platter in the royal palace.
It's called the Little Spring Platter.
- Enjoy your meal.
- Lady Shen.
Spring just started, and it's not warm yet.
Where did your restaurant get
so many fresh melons and vegetables from?
- That's right, Lady Shen.
- Tell us.
Temperature control and wind protection.
Only the greenhouse can do it.
Greenhouse?
What is a greenhouse?
Why did she leave?
Manager Liu! Manager Zhao! Over here, quick.
- Good Blessings for the Chinese New Year.
- Good Luck for the Chinese New Year.
Thank you.
- Take your seats.
- Let's sit.
- Take your seats.
- Lady Shen.
We saw the sign outside with a signature dish
called the Little Spring Platter.
- Could you get one for us?
- All right.
- Mother, one serving of Little Spring Platter.
- All right.
Do it yourselves.
The dishes are coming.
A'Yuan, prepare more vegetables.
All right.
The fish for you two.
- Enjoy your meal.
- Thank you.
Mother, look at me.
- Lady Shen. Happy Chinese New Year.
- Happy Chinese New Year.
- Happy Chinese New Year.
- Your place is really unique.
- The kids are willing to play here.
- Yes.
It's good as long as they like it.
Children, want to drink soy milk?
- I want to drink it.
- Aunt.
- I want to drink it!
- I want to drink it!
Darling Yangyang.
I want to drink it!
- Line up.
- Be careful.
Look.
These naughty children only listen to Yangyang.
- Yes.
- Come here, children.
Be careful, it's hot.
- Aunt.
- Good girl.
After hearing that I attend
Hongwen Academy, they admire me.
Shouldn't you be a good role model and lead them?
The master said you are a promising talent.
If you can take the right path,
you'll achieve great things.
Then, at the beginning of spring, should you...
I'll study hard and make progress every day.
Be careful, it's hot.
Your master has been busy
for days with relocating the ancestral grave.
Everything has been sorted out?
Yes, Jingzhao Prefecture issued a new order
stating that all matters concerning
- the people must be resolved in seven days.
- Be careful, it's hot.
- In case of dereliction of duty,
- Thank you.
the people may beat the drum
to report it to Jingzhao Prefecture.
My family's matter was delayed for several years.
Various bureaus kept pushing the case to others.
If not for Vice Magistrate Lin's decisive action,
we wouldn't know how it would end.
No wonder everyone praises him.
He's a rare and admirable official.
Yes. With him here, we'll worry less
in the future.
[Jingzhao Prefecture]
- Wait a minute.
- Here.
Vice Magistrate Lin will be out soon.
Add some hot water.
- Be careful.
- Thank you.
The Lantern Festival is not over yet
and they dragged me here.
Stop complaining.
Let me tell you. Although I can't read,
I remember clearly every single word
said by the Vice Magistrate.
Matters of the people, whether big or small,
should be reported.
Whatever is reported, it must be resolved.
Look. Everyone in Yong'an praises him.
Even His Majesty speaks well of him
and praises our Vice Magistrate
as the Zhao Guanghan of our dynasty.
Think about it. His Majesty even said that.
From now on,
if anything happens in Jingzhao Prefecture,
it'll be much easier for us
to ask various departments for help.
Well, that's true.
But he hasn't gone home
these past few days, either.
He wakes up earlier than the roosters every day.
It's just like when
Third Master Wang divorced his wife.
He could only immerse himself in official duties.
Don't worry. Even if it's the Wei family
from Guanzhong,
the Jingzhao Prefecture will never harbor them.
Your farmland will surely be recovered.
- Thank you, Vice Magistrate.
- My pleasure.
Don't talk nonsense.
I definitely haven't seen
Vice Magistrate's cousin for a long time.
I'm telling you, these past few days,
the Vice Magistrate...
Could it be that...
it's really like what you think...
- Vice Magistrate.
- Vice Magistrate.
What's the penalty for criticizing your superior?
We should be... Just punish him.
It's fine as long as you don't dock my salary.
Vice Magistrate, it wasn't me who said that.
All right.
I'll punish you...
to go rest first and conserve your energies.
You still need to follow me to deal
with the matter of Master Wei forcibly occupying land.
We can really rest?
Hurry up and go.
- Thank you, Vice Magistrate.
- Thank you, Vice Magistrate.
[Sweet garlic, Laba garlic]
So beautiful!
Although I still miss my hometown,
after experiencing those recent incidents,
I seem to like it here more and more.
There is no curfew during the Lantern Festival.
The city with lights will be even more beautiful.
When that time comes,
I'll take you to see it again.
Time really flies.
It's already the Lantern Festival.
Young Master.
Come in.
Young Master.
- I investigated.
- How is it?
Lady Zheng, as Lady Shen said,
who's really betrothed to you,
currently resides in Shi'an County.
I went there to inquire.
This Lady Zheng indeed moved from Qingyang.
And in the Qingyang dialect, the pronunciation
of Zheng and Shen is very similar.
Thus, the Shen family
could deceive us for so long.
Young Master, well...
Let it go.
From now on, let's cut off all dealings
with the Shen family.
We'll never fall for their tricks again.
Today is the Lantern Festival.
It's a holiday.
You've worked all day. You haven't eaten, right?
Look at what I brought for you.
There is no curfew during the Lantern Festival.
The city with lights will be even more beautiful.
When that time comes,
I'll take you to see it again.
Look, it's still warm.
Have a bite.
Once the official business is done,
let's go to Shi'an first.
A'Ji, why are you still awake?
Did I wake you up?
No. I woke up to go to the latrine.
Have you not been sleeping well
these past few days?
It's fine. I can't sleep anyway.
I'm arranging the pickles
for us to serve them faster tomorrow.
Enough. Stop doing this.
- It's fine.
- Go back and sleep now.
- You-You go to sleep.
- Give me the knife.
- It's fine.
- Give it to me.
- Hurry up, A'Ji.
- Be careful.
Let me have a look.
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Team @Viki.comA'Ji, I can understand you.
As long as you're human,
you'll feel pain and also need to vent.
But there are many ways to vent.
I don't want you to hurt yourself. Understand?
I didn't do it on purpose.
I only wanted to use this desensitization method.
Whenever I couldn't let it go,
I would tighten the rope.
People are afraid of pain.
If it hurts, I'll stop thinking about it.
I'm in so much pain.
I've no backbone. I still keep thinking about it.
My silly girl.
Silly girl.
Who says you have no backbone?
You like someone so sincerely.
That's so courageous!
It's just a pity that...
you both don't have a choice.
But you know what, A'Ji?
You're brave in cutting your losses.
You've done very well.
I'm useless.
Don't cry, don't cry.
Stop crying.
Don't hurt yourself again next time. Okay?
Come here.
Don't cry, it's okay.
I'm here.
Your crying sounds like water boiling.
Who do you take after?
[Shaoguang's Food Notes]
[Place Yong'an's spring on the Spring Platter]
[Spring Platter, as the name suggests,
is a platter of spring dishes.]
[Arranging pungent vegetables such as
scallions and garlic in the first lunar month
on a Five-Spice Plate
is for k*lling bacteria and detoxification.]
[In Yong'an, at the start of spring,
there are spring pancakes
[with milder-tasting radishes
and vegetable leaves.]
[As mentioned in the poem,
the "Beginning of Spring",
the spring platter features tender fresh greens.]
[As spring begins, the salad
is becoming more and more delicious.]
[By today, the accompaniments
for the spring pancakes have increased.]
[There's no preference between
meat or vegetables, hot or cold.]
[Just wrap whatever tastes good.]
"Where to Go" - Wang Weiyi
♫ Like a sunken boat in a dark current
not a single night fire is seen ♫
♫ It’s hazy ahead,
light and darkness intertwine ♫
♫ Sadly, the heart was with toyed by fate
several times and left hanging in the air ♫
♫ Falling into a fog, I pursue in confusion ♫
♫ If not for the thoughts stirring the heart,
creating conflicts ♫
♫ How could I know it’s unpredictable? ♫
♫ Had I known it would bond us,
we should never have met ♫
♫ The pain won’t stop until it ends ♫
♫ Persistently walking deep inside,
I realize how thick the fog is ♫
♫ Who knows where to go? ♫
♫ Passing through the mortal world,
looking back at the dream ♫
♫ Is it still there? ♫
♫ Like a sunken boat in a dark current
not a single night fire is seen ♫
♫ It’s hazy ahead,
light and darkness intertwine ♫
♫ Sadly, the heart was with toyed by fate
several times and left hanging in the air ♫
♫ Falling into a fog, I pursue in confusion ♫
♫ If not for the thoughts stirring the heart,
creating conflicts ♫
♫ How could I know it’s unpredictable? ♫
♫ Had I known it would bond us,
we should never have met ♫
♫ The pain won’t stop until it ends ♫
♫ Persistently walking deep inside,
I realize how thick the fog is ♫
♫ Who knows where to go? ♫
♫ Passing through the mortal world,
looking back at the dream ♫
♫ Is it still there? ♫