Handsome Siblings Episode 1 Recap
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On the quiet mountain path, a carriage sped quickly. The driver, Jiang Feng, had handsome brows and bright eyes, as elegant as a jade tree in the wind, and his white robe was spotless. Suddenly, he heard a strange sound and couldn't help but sigh, pulling on the reins and stopping the carriage. He listened attentively, only hearing the crow of a rooster on a nearby branch. The woman inside the carriage behind him gently asked what was wrong.
He calmly said it was nothing, just a wrong turn, and then turned the carriage around. Jiang Feng continued to drive the carriage along the rugged mountain road. Suddenly, a pig blocked their path, and he couldn't help but stop the carriage again.
The woman inside the carriage asked if Jiang Feng had taken a wrong turn again, and why he bothered to hide it from her, as she had already guessed from the rooster's crow that the Twelve Zodiacs had found them. Jiang Feng said it was strange; how could they know about their journey, which was so secret? As they were speaking, the rooster's crow sounded again, and several strangely dressed people suddenly descended from the sky and appeared before them.
Jiang Feng cupped his hands and asked if the newcomers were the Rooster Messenger and the Black-faced Lord from the Twelve Zodiacs. The other party praised him for his sharp eyes, saying they were merely a rooster and a pig. Jiang Feng asked what they wanted. They said they wanted to ask the young master for something. Jiang Feng said he had left in a hurry and hadn't brought anything.
The Rooster Messenger said, "Who doesn't know that Jiang Feng is as rich as a nation? This time, you sold all your family property and exchanged it for rare treasures, filling up this carriage, didn't you?" He told Jiang Feng to leave the carriage, and they would give him a way out. Jiang Feng asked what if he didn't agree. Upon hearing this, the Rooster Messenger raised a chicken-head spear and fought with him.
The burly Black-faced Lord also leaped onto the carriage, smashing the roof with a heavy hammer blow. Yuènú, beautiful in appearance, inside the carriage, was startled and quickly protected her bulging abdomen with her hands. She quickly struck out, using her internal energy to block the fierce hammer blow, and then kicked the Black-faced Lord off the carriage. The Black-faced Lord fell to the ground, muttering, "Shifting Flowers and Connecting Jade, invincible to gods and ghosts."
Yuènú said she didn't kill them to accumulate good karma for the child in her belly, telling them to scram quickly. Hearing "Shifting Flowers and Connecting Jade," the Rooster Messenger also turned pale with fright and quickly fled. Jiang Feng returned to the carriage and asked Yuènú worriedly how she was. Yuènú said she was fine.
Jiang Feng said he had arranged to meet his elder brother Yan Nantian at Taibai Inn, thirty li away, and if he hurried, they would be there in no time. As he was about to drive, he saw Yuènú clutching her belly and painfully bowing her head. She said she was probably in labor and about to give birth. She told him to stop the carriage by the roadside and find a place with thick grass.
Soon, she gave birth to a pair of tender and adorable twin sons. At this moment, Yan Nantian, known as the greatest swordsman in the martial arts world, saw that his second younger brother Jiang Feng had not yet arrived, so he set off to meet him. As he was walking, he suddenly heard someone call him from behind. Turning around, he saw a young man dismount from his horse.
He claimed to be Jiang Feng's attendant, and that he and his master had exposed their whereabouts on the way and were targeted by the Twelve Zodiacs, but fortunately, they had avoided them. He said that Yan Nantian had gone in the wrong direction, not west but east, and that his master asked Yan Nantian to meet him at the Three Sages Temple. Yan Nantian hurried in the direction the attendant had indicated. Suddenly, several swordsmen blocked his path.
The leader was Shen Qinghong, the chief escort leader of the three great escort agencies: Weiyuan, Zhenyuan, and Ningyuan. He said he had taken on a valuable consignment of "red goods," but the Twelve Zodiacs had learned about it and threatened to rob the escort.
He knew that Yan Nantian was nearby, so he arranged for the Twelve Zodiacs to meet them in the vicinity, hoping that Yan Nantian would spare some time to give them a few words of warning, so they wouldn't dare to target the "red goods" again. With that, he instructed his subordinates to offer gold.
Yan Nantian said that even if all the gold in the world were placed before him, it would not delay the moment he reunited with his second younger brother for even a moment. With that, he hurried away. His subordinates asked the chief escort leader where he had arranged to meet the Twelve Zodiacs. The chief escort leader said it was the Three Sages Temple. Jiang Feng continued to drive the carriage.
Unexpectedly, the Rooster Messenger and the Black-faced Lord of the Twelve Zodiacs caught up with him again, bringing their men. Jiang Feng asked why they were back again, didn't they know the power of Yihua Palace of Embroidered Jade Valley, were they seeking death? The Black-faced Lord told him not to joke, saying that what the Palace Master of Yihua Palace wanted now was their lives.
The Rooster Messenger said that the woman on the carriage was merely a flower slave of Yihua Palace, a runaway traitor. Jiang Feng glanced at the weak Yuènú behind him, then quickly stood up and drove the carriage, charging towards them. The two bandits were knocked flying by the carriage and fell aside. The Rooster Messenger and the Black-faced Lord leaped onto the carriage and fought with Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng was no match and was stabbed in the chest by the Rooster Messenger's spear. Seeing this, Yuènú couldn't help but exclaim, "Jiang Feng!" Jiang Feng was severely wounded, and the horse broke free and fled. Yuènú told him to hurry and leave. Jiang Feng said he would live and die with her and would never abandon her. With that, he struggled to rush towards the enemies.
The opponents were numerous, and after a few moves, he was controlled by chains, unable to move his hands and feet. The Black-faced Lord walked to the carriage, grabbed Yuènú by the neck, and threw her off the carriage. As Jiang Feng struggled to break free from the ropes, he was thrown to the ground, blood staining his white robe. He painstakingly crawled towards Yuènú, and their hands clasped together.
The bandits stepped forward and stomped on their hands with their feet. The babies in the carriage cried loudly. Yan Nantian rushed to the Three Sages Temple but didn't see Jiang Feng, so he waited for him in the temple. Just then, Shen Qinghong arrived with his men. Yan Nantian wondered why they had come. Shen Qinghong said they had arranged to meet the Twelve Zodiacs here. Yan Nantian felt something was amiss.
He thought, could the Twelve Zodiacs be trying to feign an attack in the east while striking in the west? Thinking of this, he quickly used his qinggong to go and save them. Hearing the children's cries, Jiang Feng's heart was twisted as if by a knife. He said that the Twelve Zodiacs could kill him and his wife, but begged them to spare their children.
The Twelve Zodiacs asked if the couple thought they were foolish, waiting for the two children to grow up and seek revenge. They were about to kill the children but were stopped by a highly skilled woman who arrived gracefully. It was the Second Palace Master of Yihua Palace, Lian Xing. With a wave of her slender hand, the bandits fell to the ground, dead. The Second Palace Master asked Jiang Feng why he did such a thing.
Jiang Feng said he deeply loved Yuènú. The Second Palace Master said, "What about my elder sister couldn't compare to Yuènú? When you were injured, my elder sister brought you back and took good care of you. My elder sister has never been so good to anyone in her life, yet you eloped with her maid. And I also love you, but I dared not compete with my elder sister." Yuènú begged her to save Jiang Feng.
Just then, the First Palace Master appeared and said no one in this world could save him. Yuènú begged the First Palace Master to save Jiang Feng. The First Palace Master told her to die. To protect Jiang Feng and the children, Yuènú walked to the carriage, tearfully touched the children's small hands, then took out a dagger from under the blanket and stabbed herself. Seeing Yuènú commit suicide, Jiang Feng, heartbroken and distraught, lunged forward.
He wanted to grasp his wife's hand but was pushed away by the First Palace Master using her internal energy. She said, "Don't you dare touch her with even a single finger again." Jiang Feng laughed sorrowfully and indignantly, "They think they're so great. If I die, can they still stop me from being with Yuènú?" With that, he struck himself with a palm, committing suicide. Soon after, Yan Nantian arrived. Seeing such a tragic scene, he was furious.
Suddenly, he heard a child crying in the carriage, so he wrapped the child in cloth and carried him on his back, leaving with the bodies of Jiang Feng and his wife in the carriage. On the way, he saw a dog and a monkey from the Twelve Zodiacs fighting with Shen Qinghong. Burning with rage, he charged forward and took the dog's life.
Seeing this, the Monkey knelt down and begged for mercy, saying there was another mastermind behind the deaths of Jiang Feng and his wife. Yan Nantian said that after he killed the Twelve Zodiacs, he would naturally go and flatten Yihua Palace. The Monkey said it wasn't Yihua Palace that did it, but someone else who had made a deal with them. That person was Jiang Qin.
Yan Nantian said, "He's just an attendant, how could he have such great audacity?" Shen Qinghong also said that it was Jiang Qin who revealed Yan Nantian's whereabouts, and that arranging the meeting with the Twelve Zodiacs at the Three Sages Temple was also his idea. Only then did Yan Nantian realize that Jiang Qin had used them to delay him. He never expected Jiang Feng to die at the hands of an ungrateful servant.
He asked the Monkey where Jiang Qin was. The Monkey said he was in Villains' Valley in the Kunlun Mountains. Shen Qinghong said that Villains' Valley was extremely dangerous, as it was a gathering place for villains. Yan Nantian said that to seek revenge, he would brave even a mountain of daggers and a sea of fire. Afterwards, he drove the carriage towards the Kunlun Mountains. Unexpectedly, his path was blocked by several Daoist priests on the way.
