Mystic Nine Episode 14

Huo clan betrayal, 82nd Stockade and taming of the creature

Wu is staying alive and letting the creature understand he controls the food and quantity. Both are sullen. 😝 The bird Cui shows up and that encourages Wu some. Qi is singing the two lines he knows of a XiangXi song. 🙉 He finds out that Huo saved him by sending her maid to tell Zhang where he was. Qi is surprised and thankful. At the Huo clan the servant that told Zhang Qi’s whereabouts is being punished. They want Huo to confess and accept blame. The second in charge is willing to work with anybody that will let them keep their clan intact. She has lost sight of true allies vice extortionists that will end up owning them rather than assisting them. 🙄 3rdMaster is making headway in the underground waterway. The have evidence it runs from the tower to XiangXi. It diverges to two separate paths and the distance too great to determine where exactly in XiangXi the Japanese ended up at. The surmise something bigger than the tower is there but no clue what. A scheme has been set up for them to visit the 82nd Stockade under pretense of getting more troops and munitions to defend Changsha. We are taken to Wu’s prison and the Japanese are stepping up their game using compliant Unit 401 guys as bait. Wu bargains to find out creature;s favorite food , whistle and paper and pen. Really hating the smirk on Hatoyama’s face when he looks down on Wu as uneducated and not worth their time, but as a necessary evil in getting what they want from the creature. Zhang has at least figured out that their scientist has a specific requirement that only Wu can help him with. They have no clue about the creature itself but know that taming animals is Wu’s strong suit along with solving mechanisms without much else to recommend him. Going to Huo she sees the beginning of her clan in an embroidery shop. The women managed to get a royal sign that granted them freedom from forced marriages. However, the sovereign that rescued them also gave them an undo able task to enslave them within to avoid being enslaved without. Neither way served the women well. She wakes in the salt mines and finds Xiao Mei barely alive. Trying to rescue her she unleashes black plague victims on the salt mines. Kinda poetic for the men in charge but not so much for the women imprisoned there. Huo becomes a one woman army and wreaks havoc for all males in the mines. She escapes with her maid to find Wu’s golden whistle and most faithful dog waiting to help her. The irony of offering incense to the matron of the clan while trying to kill off her reincarnation.😝Huo did an excellent job of foiling her aunties great scheme, and Wu would be all smiles knowing his dogs assisted. She now knows they conspired with QianSui to kill her mother. They expected her to be the obedient daughter they’d been kind to. She spared them from the dogs so she could have the honors of finishing them. It was too quick after all they did, but Huo definitely made it clear that working with the Japanese was not going to be part of saving their house. And she spared her aunts of seeing her new vision for the clan.😝👏🏻

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