Heroes Episode 1 Recap
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On September 21, 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi and others launched the Wuxu Coup, Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned, and the Wuxu Reform failed, lasting a total of 103 days, historically known as the "Hundred Days' Reform. " On November 14, 1908, Emperor Guangxu passed away at the age of thirty-eight, the day before Empress Dowager Cixi's death.
Twelve years after the failure of the Wuxu Reform, on the twenty-sixth day of the third month of the third year of Xuantong, a stone tablet was washed out of the Yongding River and landed outside Zhengyangmen. The characters on the tablet were copied, and the text was in ancient seal script, reading "Dragon Shakes from Nine, Time Warps Heaven and Earth. " This event caused a sensation when it spread.
The literal interpretation meant that the world was about to change hands, which was undoubtedly a prelude to rebellion. As the Head Eunuch, Cun Qing could not sit still. He speculated that someone might start an uprising on the day of Mangzhong, so he immediately sent people to investigate. He learned that this was a rumor being spread by someone, but the person behind it could not be found.
After careful consideration, Cun Qing concluded that someone was preparing for a rebellion. He immediately dispatched people to broaden the investigation. Since Mangzhong ranks ninth among the twenty-four solar terms, he ordered people to investigate everything related to the number nine. Nine people died tragically in an inn in Daguzhen, Tianjin. Upon hearing the news, Constable Wang Jialuo immediately rushed to the scene to investigate. He discovered that most of the deceased had been poisoned.
In the wardrobe, he found a survivor, Lin Anjing. She said the deceased were her uncle, aunt, and cousin's family. She was studying in Japan and had just returned by ship from Japan with them yesterday. Today, they met with misfortune. This morning, she was changing clothes when she heard her cousin scream outside and her aunt shout to run. In her panic, she hid in the wardrobe and narrowly escaped death.
Wang Jialuo, analyzing the information, concluded that the perpetrators were skilled in using poison and wore foreign attire, so they must be those from Lengxi. He immediately decided to pursue the murderers, determined not to let them escape from his grasp. Soon after, he caught up with the culprits, who were indeed from the Lengxi Rongtian Sword Sect.
These people did not take Wang Jialuo seriously, but unexpectedly, Wang Jialuo took down one of them with his first move, which made them pay attention. After a fight, Wang Jialuo, outnumbered, saw the unfavorable situation and had to feign death by lying in the river to escape the pursuit. Head Eunuch Cun Qing spent his days listening to information gathered from various places, most of which was useless and gave him a headache.
So he thought of someone, known as "Three Blades of the Gate," Irgen Gioro Mu Qing (played by Qin Junjie). He was the former Imperial Guard of Emperor Guangxu and was implicated in the Wuxu Reform. Cun Qing knew his detective skills well and used freedom and the restoration of his official position as incentives to ask him for help in solving the case. Mu Qing decided to seize this opportunity to see the light of day again.
Inside a casino, Chen Wu lost everything. In desperation, he took out a pawn ticket hoping to exchange it for three hundred taels of silver notes, but was mocked by others because the pawned item was just a dog fur hat. However, someone actually paid to buy it. This person was the new leader of the Rongtian Sword Sect, Zhuo Bufan (played by Liu Yuning).
And the leader who killed the nine people returning from Japan was Zhuo Bufan's senior disciple, Yu Huanjie. Their use of the sect's techniques to kill angered Zhuo Bufan somewhat. Yu Huanjie claimed that extracting the information was the most important thing. The nine people returning from Japan were supposed to meet someone who had rushed back from overseas in the Shanghai French Concession on the third day of the fourth lunar month. This person was named Tan Xian.
As the senior disciple, Yu Huanjie resented Zhuo Bufan for not inheriting the leadership position. Zhuo Bufan constantly tolerated him to avoid causing conflict within the Rongtian Sword Sect, but the Master's wife felt he should not give in so much. Cun Qing talked with Mu Qing about the Net Altar Secret Treasure.
During the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Zhi, known as the "Five Peaks Ship Lord," who had been involved in smuggling with the Japanese for many years. It was no exaggeration to say he was as rich as a country. Legend has it that towards the end of the Ming Dynasty, the wealth left by Wang Zhi was found by a lay disciple of the Southern Shaolin Temple.
However, it was a time of chaos, so the Southern Shaolin Temple sealed the secret treasure. Later, this wealth was referred to by posterity as the "Net Altar Secret Treasure. " After Cun Qing took office as Head Eunuch, due to the empty state coffers, he had considered the Net Altar Secret Treasure but found nothing. Just after the rumor of "Dragon Shakes from Nine" appeared, the treasure map unexpectedly disappeared. He asked Mu Qing to investigate this matter.
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