"Don't Ask 莫问 (Mo Wen)" by Zhang Han 张翰
♫ Within a picture, the characters appear strong. ♫
♫ Withered flowers dance lightly stirring up the water of emotions silently. ♫
♫ Don't ask who weighs more in the heart. ♫
♫ Take up a pen and tell a thousand turbulent stories. ♫
♫ The rainbow streak across the horizon. ♫
♫ Does it know your whereabouts? ♫
♫ Pain spread throughout the land. ♫
♫ How long do we have to wait until it turns cold? ♫
♫ I wish. I hope. ♫
♫ Don't ask why I broke up the relationship in an instant. ♫
♫ I wish. I hope. ♫
♫ This hurdle is difficult for people to pass even in a thousand years. ♫
♫ I wish. I hope. ♫
♫ Don't ask for whom the lonely zither is playing for. ♫
♫ I wish. I hope. I sigh. ♫
♫ I wish. I hope. ♫
♫ Don't ask for whom the lonely zither is playing for. ♫
♫ I wish. I hope. I sigh. ♫
The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Legend of the Scarlet Shadow
The Azure Dragon Mysterious Lady and the Azure Dragon Heart Mansion only exist when the Azure Dragon is to be summoned.
The Azure Dragon cannot be summoned now,
so you are only a useless piece of trash.
Then let's make a bet.
We'll bet if she'll fall for me and forget you.
As for what we're betting with, it's this body.
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-You really don't want to live.-Don't kill him!
Beg me.
Miss, I'm asking you.
Why did you come here?
We were at Soup Valley before,
and then later near Soup Valley,
we were separated from our friend.
And then we went looking for him and got lost in the forest
and then came here.
She was able to get through our enchantment.
I think we should clear things up with her first.
Xiao Tao.
Granny.
Miss,
can you let me see your hand?
Miss, when is your birthday?
What are your parents' names?
Actually, I won't keep it from you. I'm a child of the river.
The Village Leader Old Dad took me home and raised me.
As for my real parents, I don't know who they are.
I don't know my birthday either,
because they didn't leave any clues.
So, I only know
that day Village Leader Old Dad took me back was the fifth of July.
The fifth of July?
Shun Hua!
You are Shun Hua!
Shun Hua,
you were born in the Guimao year, 2nd day of the the month, chen time (7-9am).
Your father is a musician.
Your mother is the best female silk weaver
here in Qing Chuan.
Granny,
how do you know who I am?
Because I've been looking for you!
Look.
Us people of the Green Village,
all the women have one strand of red hair.
Come.
I'll bring you to see something.
What is it? You're afraid of me?
No.
I just feel like it's very sudden.
Are you really my maternal grandmother?
Yes, yes!
Come. In a bit you'll know. I'll bring you there.
What is this place, Granny?
This is the place your parents once lived.
What is this?
This is the loom your mother used.
Then where is my mother?
They're not here anymore.
However, if they knew you could come back safely,
they would definitely be very happy.
Let's go up, I'll tell you slowly.
Shun Hua,
this is the necklace your mother once wore. I'll give it to you now.
I know. It's hard to have you accept this all at once.
But that's not a problem. You'll get used to it slowly.
If there's anything, come find me again.
Granny!
What?
You're still calling me Granny?
I originally thought there would be a good show to watch.
I didn't think that you could be so-!
So cowardly!
How am I cowardly?
You keep making circles outside Hong Ling's room.
I thought you were going to go in.
In the end? You backed off because you weren't brave enough.
You stinky brat!
Were you always watching me?
Don't make it sound so bad!
How am I watching you?
I'm just caring about you; caring!
You can call it sneaking a peek.
Did you want to tell Hong Ling something just now?
I want to tell her the words in my heart.
That's good!
Then why did you back off?
It's not the first day that you've known me.
If I could say it, I would've said it long ago!
Why would I need to wait until now?
Actually...you have one way.
I have a way?
-That's right!-Hurry and say it!
Wine!
Can't you talk after you drink wine?
No, no.
Drinking wine feels too terrible.
Yes, wine doesn't taste that great. But if you drink wine,
you can have the pretty maiden!
You choose!
Okay!
I'm going to go for broke.
-What is he?-That's right!
- Why is he like this?- That's right..
What does he want?
Don't move!
Granny.
Is he your friend?
I suppose he counts.
He is our guest, not an enemy!
Sir, what should I call you?
I am Heart Moon Fox.
We have offended you earlier, I hope you will be understanding. Xiao Tao!
-Granny.-Bring this sir to rest.
-Okay.-Wait a second!
Granny,
you don't know us.
How do you know that we're not bad people?
She is a member of our Green Village.
She's my granddaughter.
How could she be an enemy?
I found my granddaughter!
She is Shen Hua!
It's you?
What is it?
You want me to drink with you?
Let's go!
This is indeed good wine!
It's just a shame that it looks like you can't drink very well.
Enough, enough. Go back and sleep.
We have to get up early tomorrow-
Ah Su, you're drunk.
Don't go! Don't go!
Just now...did you talk?
It's me.
You can talk with women?
Of course.
I'm a man, a warrior!
Why can't I talk with women?
So you were faking all along?
You faked it quite well; I couldn't see through you.
It's fine that you couldn't see through it.
I'll tell you right now!
Tell me what?
I like you.
Okay!
You can like me.
But I
really, really, really like money.
Do you have money?
I do!
But I don't right now.
But as long as you believe me, I will work hard to earn money!
I will let you have an even better life in the future.
In the future?
Who knows about the future? Perhaps you won't like me anymore in the future.
No! I will always like you!
In the past I liked you, now I like you, and I'll like you in the future!
I only have you in my heart!
-Then swear.-I swear to the heavens!
I only like you, I-!
Stop it.
Because...
Because I won't believe you even if you say it.
The more promises a man makes, the less he can be trusted!
Just like how you say that you like me.
I hate that one can't scoop out one's whole heart.
But in the blink of an eye, you'll tell someone else the same thing.
Besides, words after wine
are just nonsense!
You can just say "I forgot" and push off all responsibility.
I'm different from other men!
I'm being truthful. Trust me!
That's right! I thought you were different from other men.
I hoped that you wouldn't spew flowery words, and won't swear and act trustworthy!
But in the end, I was the foolish one that let you trick me!
I didn't trick you. What I said is real!
What is real?
What is real? Tell me!
Why won't you talk?
You can't talk now, right?
You big liar!
Stop pacing here.
If you have nothing to do,
go find Ah Su to play.
I can't find Ah Su now.
He's telling Hong Ling the truth right now!
Telling her the truth?
Ah Su can talk with women?
Yeah! He can when he takes his medicine.
There's this sort of medicine? What medicine?
It's...wine!
You-! You're so loud!
After he drinks wine, he can talk with women.
H-H-He, what is he going to find Hong Ling to say?
Of course, he's telling Hong Ling his feelings!
You're so stupid!
Ah Su drank wine and went to find Hong Ling to confess?
This isn't a good idea.
What do you know?
What are you carving? Let me see!
Quit moving around.
Quit moving around!
I'll let you see.
This...!
Is this you and Baili Han?
No way. You still can't forget this person?
A person like him
isn't worth you being sad for him.
You'd best forget him quickly.
How can I forget?
I just remembered.
He's my big brother.
He's my only family member.
He didn't treat you as a family member.
The things from my childhood,
I only remembered a little of it.
I can't remember it clearly anymore.
However, it's like what my big brother said.
This might also be a good thing.
Because those memories that make someone unhappy and pained,
I didn't remember any of them.
I only remember when I was little, I took the cows out with him.
Caught crickets. Ate cherries.
Then you can't take the big brother of your memories
and mix it with the Baili Han of now.
People will change.
Actually, I'm sorry to him.
If I wasn't such a wimp when I was a child,
if I went to save him then,
he probably wouldn't have become the way he is now.
Xiao Bing!
Haven't we already talked about these things already?
You and Baili Han are balanced out already!
Baili Han chose and took his own path.
His heart wasn't righteous!
That's why he took the twisted path. It has nothing to do with you!
If everything didn't happen,
then it would be so great.
Then I could be with my big brother
and live together with him.
Without Baili Han as your big brother, you can call me Brother Pei Pei!
Brother Pei Pei!
Brother Pei Pei?
What nonsense.
You don't even know your place.
Besides me, look at you now!
There's Big Sister Hong Ling, that country girl Su Mo,
Shangguan Jin, Ah Su, Su Shui!
They're all your family members!
How can you say that you don't have family members besides Baili Han?
Pei Pei,
thank you!
Let me tell you. Stop right there.
I don't want anyone to see us men holding each other and crying!
It's shameful! Shameful, do you know?
Ah Su! You're finally back!
How was it? Did you tell Hong Ling?
In the end?
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Are you an idiot?
You still have to ask? By his expression, you can tell he was rejected.
Mo'er!
Why are you crying?
Why didn't my parents want me?
Is it because I'm a Calamity Star?
Child, you must not say that.
Your parents gave you up
because they had their reasons.
One day when you grow up,
we'll take you to find your parents together. Okay?
-Really?-Of course!
They're the same as us. They'll definitely love you very much.
Why don't you look happy that you found your family?
It's the same sky,
the same expanse of stars.
It's as if you're very close to your family members.
How do you know about those words?
I know a lot about you.
Fu'er told you?
She hates you so much.
How could she tell me about you?
It was Chi Yu.
-Chi Yu?-Look.
You're in such a panic when he's mentioned.
How about this?
Let's do a trade.
During this time, you have to live well with me.
As long as you answer what I ask you,
I will answer what you ask of me.
You can't be trusted.
Chi Yu couldn't have told you these things.
The two of you first met at Mt. Plume.
At that time, he took you as a man.
So...
Do you believe me now?
Why would he tell you all of that?
What happened between you two?
Where is Chi Yu?
Have you agreed to do a trade with me?
This is very good.
In your trade with me,
you won't lose out.
Did you kill Chi Yu?
Wait!
You haven't shown me your sincerity yet.
How can I answer your question?
What sincerity?
Can you answer me now?
I didn't kill Chi Yu.
-Then is he still alive?-That counts as a second question.
You have to answer my question first.
Why is it that now you've seen your family,
you're not happy?
I'm afraid.
From childhood I didn't know why my parents gave me up.
In these years,
I've always been comforting myself.
I said they didn't have a choice.
But I'm afraid.
If it's not like how I think,
-I-!-Actually, you only need to keep being Su Mo.
Haven't you lived well as a child of the river these many years?
It doesn't matter if you have them or not.
All parents are a source of disaster. Loved ones, too.
They will only drag you down and become your weakness!
This is what a person who has no family
and friends would say to comfort themselves.
Just leave the statement "All parents are source of disaster" to yourself.
Then I'll tell you!
Only weak people will form groups.
Family members are only a pointless existence.
Perhaps to you, the least important thing
may be the most important thing to others.
A person like you that has no friends or family
won't understand.
You haven't answered my question yet!
Our game will end here today.
You have to live well with me.
Wait for me to answer you slowly.
Look! There's so much mist; we can't see anything!
That granny couldn't have lied to us?
It should be here.
Who are you? Where are you from?
That wood puppet can talk!
You, child, are very rude.
I am Zou Li. I have a name.
You have a name? Then you're still a wood puppet.
It looks like this person knows the Art of Ventriloquism.
If you continue to be rude to me, I will take you down with my fists and feet!
Zuo Li,
don't be rude.
Greetings, I am Hong Ling.
If I may ask, is this Bu Zhou Mountain?
The Bu Zhou Mountain you want to go to is behind this mountain.
But have you asked my Lord Zhong Li?
So many people suddenly came, do you intend to break in?
If I may ask, are you the one they call cold words and silent teeth,
Lord Zhong Li?
Is he very famous?
It seems like you are very uneducated. You haven't even heard of Teacher's name.
You can clearly talk yourself,
why did you learn to have the wood puppet talk?
You act all gentle on the surface, but you're actually an unreasonable person!
You secretly attacked me? Don't block me!
Don't be rash.
Who told you to be rude to me.
You-! Are you a wood puppet or a human?
He's a wood puppet.
I once heard someone say that the wood puppets a good puppet master makes has life.
Also, it's not ventriloquism. It's the wood puppet talking himself.
Then isn't it a lot more amazing than normal puppet technique?
You know the puppet technique, too?
But, compared to my Lord Zhong Li,
you all are too below him.
Where did you get this hairpin from?
Of course, it's mine.
You lie!
I'll ask you one more time.
Where did you get this hairpin from?
I already told you that it's mine!
We... won it from the gambling den.
Gambling den?
Did the hairpin's owner
tell you to take this path?
I know that she hasn't given up yet.
But what needs to come will still come.
Zuo Li, let's go.
Sir, please wait!
Actually, we... we are Vermilion Bird Star Mansions.
I am the Chariot Mansion. They are the Well Mansion, Extended Net Mansion and Willow Mansion.
We got Daoist Lu Ya's guidance to come to Bu Zhou Mountain.
We came to find a way to summon the Vermilion Bird.
I think you're an understanding person.
So... I hope you can let us through.
You are a nag.
If you bring the official document here, anything can be talked over.
Official document?
What official document?
You don't even understand what the official document is?
It's the official document to let you pass.
Bu Zhou Mountain is a divine mountain, it doesn't belong to the human world.
The road to the Ninth Heaven is managed by the Road Ministry. With an official document from the Road Ministry,
only then can we let you pass.
You wooden person! You know we are mortals!
How can we have your Sky...whatever Ninth Sky or Eighth Sky things?
There's also that Road Ministry, and an official document? What a pain! Such a wooden person!
Without an official document, there's no need to discuss anything.
Without the official documents from the Minister of Roads, I have to maintain my extreme devotion to my work.
You all cannot go into the mountain.
-Zuo Li, send the guests away.-If it's like that,
we can only force our way through!
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Another came to help?
Shangguan Jin, you've finally arrived!
You can't accept it?
Do you have the ability to beat me?
Millionaire Granny!
How is it?
I finally beat you. Leave with me.
I knew you wanted to come.
You purposely gave them the hairpin and pointed them to this path.
Wasn't it just to tell me that you were coming?
But I can't leave with you.
Why?
That day you said, that if I beat you one day,
you would leave Bu Zhou Mountain.
You would leave with me!
But you didn't beat me.
Your life is in my hands. How else can it be considered a win?
Where is he? Where is he?
How could he be a wood puppet?
It's moving again!!
He was originally just a wood puppet.
It's just that the person who was making the magic died,
and he doesn't have a spirit either.
Zhong Li put his spirit into this wood puppet long ago.
That's how he created a body that would never die.
He not only can control a living person's will,
but can also give wooden puppets life.
This is the highest level of the Art of Deceive and Concealment.
30 years ago, beside the Qiong Liang Lake,
lotus leaves grow to the sky, unfiltered rice wine and green tea.
Ah Hui, I finally mastered a body that would never die.
You hid away from me for thirty years
to master such a monster?
I'm not a monster. I have a name.
I am Zuo Li.
Ah Hui, you should be happy for me.
I finally mastered a body that would never die.
Is this not good?
Happy?
Be happy that you made yourself a wood puppet?
Be happy that I wasted thirty years of youth for a wood puppet?
I just fulfilled my dream.
Your dream?
Then what about mine?
The oaths we made at Qiong Liang Lake, were they all fake?
Those matchless beautiful promises, were they all fake?
Your heart!
Is your heart also fake?
So what if a promise was made?
Old woman,
you thought I would, for you,
grow old with you
and die with you?
Your demonic magic to make yourself not old or die was always more important than me, right?
You still don't understand me.
I could give my heart to a wood puppet.
What else
can be more important than this?
I thought my leaving would make you understand.
I thought one day you would give up.
But why are you so stubborn?
White, white... Her hair is turning white!
These thirty years of yearning and youth
were just a misguided love in the end!
However, I still have a way.
I can change you into a wood puppet, too.
This way, we can be together forever.
If I became a wood puppet,
would we be together?
Look at the way I am now.
I don't have to worry about getting old, or getting sick, or dying.
We will always live.
We will always live in love.
Come.
How do you want to change?
The you of thirty years ago?
Or do you want to become even younger?
You're not my Zhong Li.
He's human. And you, are only a wood puppet.
Wood puppets don't need to talk about love.
I am a body that won't die.
I won't die, and I won't turn old!
Without a heart, you're not anything!
Ah Hui!
Granny!
No one guards Bu Zhou Mountain now.
You all can go in.
Granny, what about you?
I will bring him home.
But Zhong Li, he-
He's not Zhong Li.
It's just a heartless body shell.
My Zhong Li is here.
You can finally go back with me.
We can be together again.
Without the person,
what's the use of having his heart?
Without his heart, so what if his body is here?
Who cares!
Bu Zhou Mountain is ours now.
Let's hurry and go in!
That's right, Hong Ling. Where is Mo'er?
When the spirit pagoda broke apart, she went to save Heart Moon Fox.
What?
But don't worry, Su Shui is by her side. She'll be fine.
She's different from the past girl who always needed protection.
So we have to believe in her. She'll be safe and sound.
Let's go in.
This is Bu Zhou Mountain?
What is here? Zhong Li said this is a divine mountain.
It's not meant to be controlled by humans.
Hey, maybe we'll meet a fairy later!
There's something wrong with these stone walls.
Pei Pei.
"To quiet the Heavens and the Earth,
the four symbol calming magical chant."
Four symbols? Isn't that the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird,
the Black Tortoise, and the White Tiger?
"In the beginning, the emperor lives in the royal city.
in the purple forbidden closure in the Ninth Heavens,
with all the thousands of immortals.
All those that become immortals already have their hourglasses at their ends.
No more worries. There are 80,000 dissolving corpse immortals.
All understanding the unending right reasons.
When you get nothing, you measure friendship.
At this time, becoming pure because of the essence of the water fire.
Becoming fragrant because of the essence of the flowers and trees.
Boiling because of the Mysterious' lady's blood.
When the Vermilion Bird finally exits, it leaves the fire and becomes a phoenix.
Where the Azure Dragon exits,
it flies to the eighth extreme.
The White Dragon is revered with clean sound.
The Black Tortoise is the moon converted to life."
This should be the way to summon the four divine gods.
Then if it's like this, are the seven star mansions still needed?
It seems like it's not needed.
The water soul and essence is hidden in the West Seas.
The tree soul and essence is commanded by Yu Min.
Teachings protected for generations.
The sealed location is beneath the chilly ice of Mt. Kunlun.
As long as we can find the right method
and then merge it with the blood of the Mysterious Lady,
then we can accurately summon them.
Then the Divine Lady's blood... is it Su Mo's blood?
It shouldn't be.
Before the Vermilion Bird is summoned,
Su Mo can't be considered a real Divine Lady.
Then what you mean is
someone summoned the mythological beast in the past?
Even if they were summoned before, the Divine Lady probably isn't around anymore.
If they were still alive now, it'd be strange.
If I didn't guess wrong,
it's possible that we can find the descendants of the past Divine Lady and use their blood.
But... the Eight Desolation and Six Direction is so big,
it's not easy to find just one person.
It's that wolf from Dong Ling.
It wasn't easy for us to learn of this news but now they know it, too.
- Chase!- Really damned!
My old injuries haven't healed yet.
Yu Yang, hurry and go back first to look for General. Tell General.
I won't leave you behind. We'll go together.
There!
Hurry!
What do we do now?
They definitely heard our conversations.
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