Heroes Episode 28 Recap
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Cun Qing hoped that Prince Qi could endure for the sake of the country, the people, and the state, but Prince Qi believed that if he endured further, the foundation of the Great Qing dynasty would be in jeopardy. Cun Qing believed that when saving the Great Qing from distress, why care about that chair (the throne)?
He persuaded Prince Qi not to act stubbornly or disregard the three-hundred-year foundation of the Great Qing for his own selfish interests, but Prince Qi ignored Cun Qing's advice. Cun Qing was disheartened. After much contemplation along the way, he decided to secretly assassinate Prince Qi. He knew this mission was fraught with peril, so before Men Sandao departed for Fujian, he entrusted his golden waist token to him, which could be used to directly petition Regent Zaifeng.
He also instructed him not to reveal the secretly hidden information to anyone except the Regent. After bidding farewell to Mu Qing, Cun Qing drank heavily with Getai. He left his years of savings to Getai, telling him that if the mission failed today, Getai should find a way to escape.
That night, Getai led people to assassinate Prince Qi, but unexpectedly, Prince Qi had anticipated this and was a step ahead, easily trapping the Imperial Bodyguards of the Internal Affairs Department like turtles in a jar. Prince Qi captured the Imperial Bodyguards but did not immediately kill them, instead offering them two heartfelt choices.
Prince Qi believed that both he and Cun Qing wanted the Great Qing to be strong; Cun Qing put the royal family first, while he wanted to weaken imperial power. Prince Qi let Getai and his men choose to follow him or Cun Qing, stating that choosing to follow Cun Qing was equivalent to choosing death. Prince Qi led officers and soldiers to surround and capture Cun Qing.
Cun Qing still believed at this point that maintaining imperial power as a minister of the Internal Affairs Department was his sole responsibility and mission. Now learning that the Imperial Bodyguards sent by him had been subdued by Prince Qi, Cun Qing also hoped that Prince Qi could treat them well. Prince Qi promised not to execute Cun Qing's nine familial generations today, nor anyone else besides Cun Qing. He would leave Cun Qing a complete body.
Cun Qing's final plea was that Prince Qi, should his mutiny succeed in the future, would do his utmost to rebuild the prestige of the Great Qing. However, Prince Qi told Cun Qing that Regent Zaifeng had once told him that reform was too slow, that chaos required a sharp edge to be cut, and that turbulent times required the hand of a hero. Cun Qing was completely disheartened, his belief shattered.
Wang Jialuo saw someone buying and selling children on the street. He intervened to save the child and sent the human traffickers to the yamen. However, the yamen was not managing affairs and did not want to search for the child's family, as perhaps in this era, parents truly sold their children. Wang Jialuo believed that even a tiger does not eat its cubs and verbally pressured the constables to search for the child's family.
That night, based on the information he received, Wang Jialuo returned the child to her birth mother. However, the child's mother was herself a prostitute and could not raise her daughter, having sold her to an opera troupe. Now, she was also ill and could not be cured; sending her to the opera troupe might allow the child to survive and grow up. Lin Anjing confirmed the child's name was Shen Linglong and took the child away.
Afterwards, she and Wang Jialuo sent the child to the opera troupe. Before leaving, Lin Anjing told Shen Linglong that no one could help her, she could only rely on herself, and only by becoming stronger could no one bully her. Tears only make people weak; whenever she wanted to cry in the future, she should remember what she said today.
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