Episode 6: Nim Chi Hopes to Find Her Savior's Daughter Episode 7: Yan Sou Uses Nim Chi to Deal With Ah Nin Episode 8: The Southern Ghost Puzzle Envelops the Gam Family Episode 9: Ah Yuet has an 'Evil' Wife at Home Episode 10: The Hair Pin and Large Boils are Clues
Nim Chi Hopes to Find Her Savior's Daughter |
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No one is interested in the vegetables on the table. | Ah Nin : "This steamed bun has no problems. You can eat it." |
To find the daughter
of the savior who saved Ah Nin's life, Nim Chi has everyone eating only
vegetables on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Everyone didn't
want to eat the vegetables and were trying to let someone else eat first.
Nim Chi gets angry.
Yuk Lou and Ah Yat have a fight over a game of Mahjong and one of the tiles fly dangerously to Nim Chi during the confusion. Luckily, Nim Chi manages to stop it before the tile hits her but Ah Nin isn't so lucky. The common people are complaining about building the lotus pool. Yan Sou sees an eldery man working hard to earn money. After talking to him, she understands about the pains of the people and how her wish for building the pools were affecting them. Yan Sou couldn't get used to the food that the workers eat. Ah Nin wouldn't let her go out to buy food, using the reason that she should be treated no different than a common worker. He still refuses when Yan Sou suggests treating every worker to some better food. He tries one of the steamed buns that were being served and says that nothing is wrong with it. But after Yan Sou tries one, she immediately vomits all over him. Yan Sou and Ah Sau (I'm not going to use Siu Yuen as the summary says since I think the people who've seen the Chinese version of this series recognize Ah Sau as the eunuch and not this Siu Yuen) arrive at an restaurant. An elderly woman teaches Yan Sou to take good care of her money and to cover it up well. Yan Sou, not thinking that the woman wanted to steal her money, gives the money she has to the woman to wrap up for her. In the end, Yan Sou nearly faints from hunger and Ah Sau tells her to leave first while he will wash the dishes as payment for the food they ate and couldn't pay. Unfortunately he breaks all of the bowls and dishes, getting Sek Mei (I thought it was Sek Tai who was there) angry. Yan Sou was worried about where she was going to stay when Nim Chi picks up a pawn ticket that she dropped. Nim Chi sees the name on the ticket and believes that Yan Sou is the one she had been searching for. |
Yan Sou Uses Nim Chi to Deal With Ah Nin |
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It's understandable that Nim Chi would be so astonished to see Ah Sau sleeping on Yan Sou's bed. | Yan Sou seems to be quite good at pretending to faint. |
Nim Chi believes that
Yan Sou is the one she has been searching for all these years and Yan Sou
tells a very sad story about being forced out of her family when they
fought over her father's property. Nim Chi feels sympathic to her plight
and tells everyone to treat her like 'one of the family' while letting her
live with the Gam family.
Yan Sou knows why Ah Nin was demoted and happily asks him if he regretted saying the wrongs things then. Ah Nin boldly and assuredly answers that he'd rather be where he is now. The family all describe the princess as being petty and poisonious, which makes Yan Sou angry. When she was eating, Yan Sou critizes all the food served and has Ah Sau try out every dish. He analyses each dish's ingredients and the degree of cooking it took. The group are surprised at the actions of the two during the meal and all start guessing the two's history. Nim Fu thinks that Yan Sou might be from the palace. Nim Chi goes to take Ah Sau to the servants quarters but discovers him sleeping in Yan Sou's bed. She didn't know that he was helping to warm up the bed for Yan Sou and is a bit taken aback. Yan Sou was assured that she had Nim Chi on her side and decides to get revenge on Ah Nin. She purposely pretends to do hard work in front of Nim Chi and acts like she feels very weak. This causes Nim Chi to force Ah Nin not to let her do any more hard work. Ah Nin arranges for Yan Sou to do her public service at the government office. While cleaning the rice, she adds a whole bunch of soap to it. This causes everyone to start vomiting bubbles when the eat the cooked rice. Ah Yat, Yuk Lou and Ying Gei are bored and ask Yan Sou to play Mahjong with them. After each of them continuously throws out four 'Sai' (West) tiles, Yan Sou throws out one that says 'Yat Tung'. Believing that it meant that 'Yat Tung Gwai Sai', (Play on words. The characters mean that everyone will all die and is based on the characters that the four had discarded during the game) the four are very worried. In the evening, something very strange actually happens. |
The Southern Ghost Puzzle Envelops the Gam Family |
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The Southern Ghost has returned and scared Ah Yuet and Yuk Lou out of their wits! | Using the torture of crushing fingers to get a statement from the suspected Southern Ghost. |
In the evening, Yan
Sou, Yuk Lou, Ah Yat and Ying Gei all get scared by the Southern ghost.
The other three blame Yan Sou for mistakenly discarding the 'Yat Tung'
tile during their game as the cause for the scares. Nim Chi, seeing that
everyone was worried, says that there are no such thing as a Southern
Ghost. Ah Nin helps her by agreeing with her sentiments while the two
decide to investigate the truth behind the scares.
Yuk Lou and the other three wanted to send the ghost off but mistakenly buries the 'Southern Ghost' next to a cemetary, which scares them to no end. In the evening, Ah Nin waits inside the room to catch the 'ghost' and find out the truth but gets knocked unconcious. The Southern Ghost appears again and Yuk Lou and Ying Gei have nooses around their necks. Nim Chi sees that there was something wrong in Ah Yat's room and goes inside to investigate. She sees Yan Sou trying to put the noose around Ah Yat and realizes that she was the Southern Ghost. The group try to find out more from Yan Sou and tries to use torture like squeezing the fingers to get her to talk. Yan Sou decides to reveal that she was the Princess but no one believes her. Ah Sau has no choice but to tell everyone that she has a type of sickness that causes her to do things while asleep. It only happens when she eats a certain type of cake. Only then is the puzzle of the Southern Ghost solved. Dai Chuen only thinks about gambling so Sek Mei had to go get payment in his place. Ah Yuet hears that there is a cricket with two heads that exists somewhere and goes to the brookside to search. Ah Mei gets bitten by a poisonous snake and faints by the brook. Ah Yuet didn't find any double headed cricket near the brook but gets bitten by leeches. He moves the leeches away and they happen to fall onto the place where the snake had bitten Ah Mei. He also drops his jade ring. Although he is frightened by the 'ugly' appearance of the fainted Ah Mei, he helps her extract the poison from the wound and later asks a blind woman to help take care of her. This is how a beautiful incident between the two begins. |
Ah Yuet has an 'Evil' Wife at Home |
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Yuk Lou finds out that Ah Yuet had private money hidden in the room! | The two are fighting over whether or not they should fear their wives. |
Yuk Lou is playing
Mahjong while eating expensive Swallow's Nests. Ying Gei complements her,
saying that Yuk Lou's skin is very smooth. Ah Yat doesn't think so and the
two start insulting each other's skin condition. In the end, they discover
that Yan Sou's skin is the most beautiful. Yan Sou says that she doesn't
eat anything special to keep it pretty when asked.
She also doesn't discard one of the 'Yat Tung' tiles due to fear of something bad happening but this makes it impossible for Yuk Lou to win the round. Yuk Lou angrily goes back to her room to tell Ah Yuet about Yan Sou's faults. Ah Yuet doesn't seem to care about this and Yuk Lou isn't happy about that. She also notices that he had returned from work for no apparent reason and finally uncovers the secret that he had hidden money in the room but doesn't take the money away from him. Ah Yuet had arranged to meet with Nim Fu and a friend to buy an expensive bird. But because Yuk Lou had found out about the money, Ah Yuet had no choice but to meet with the two and then comment that the bird was worthless. Nim Fu scolds him for only listening to what his wife says and the two have a fight over whether to be afraid of their wives. Unfortunately, this confused 'uncle' Wing, who wanted to take a break from work to visit his wife. Sek Mei's sister Sek Tai was heading towards a bank to deposit money when she meets with Ah Sau, who was returning the money he owed her. While they were talking, someone steals their money. Ah Tai fights them while Ah Sau clumsily tries to help but ends up hitting Ah Tai when he was supposed to hit the thief. Luckily, Sek Biu arrives to help them but Ai Tai is very angry with Ah Sau. Ah Nin wants Yan Sou to paint the rooms in the office. She overhears him commenting that the Princess didn't understand a thing about the pains and suffering of the people and that they should punish her first for them. Yan Sou decides to play a trick on Ah Nin. She paints a chair that he usually sits in and he later does sit in it, unknowingly. The quote that was posted on 'Ji Fa' booth (you win money if you guess correctly who the quote describes from a list of choices) for was "Duk Geuk Wu Ah Wan Sik Nan". (literally: The one-footed bird finds it difficult to get food) Ah Yuet usually would buy a vote with Nim Fu and would let him choose which person to buy. But after fighting with Nim Fu, he didn't know what to do or who to buy. In the end, he grabs Yan Sou, who was walking by, and asks for her opinion. They settle on a person and later win money through it. But this winning will also lead others to think they were having an affair. |
The Hair Pin and Large Boils are Clues |
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Smelly tofu is really tasty! (somewhat true...) | Yan Sou's danger almost led Ah Nin to get crushed. |
Ah Yuet asks Yan Sou
to take care of the 50 taels they won for him because his family has a
'strong thief' --- Yuk Lou. He takes her to try some smelly tofu, which
Yan Sou refuses to taste at first but loves it when she tries a piece.
The two eat the tofu until they're both full and when they return home, have no appetite for the meal the family were eating. Nim Fu wasn't hungry due to losing his money on the quote guessing while Ah Yuet is laughing at him in his heart. Yuk Lou returns the money that she took from Ah Yuet eariler but didn't spend. She tells him to continue saving money. Ah Yuet didn't have a chance to tell her of his winnings when she starts talking about wanting him to buy her a hair pin that costs 50 taels. Yan Sou is cleaning in the bookroom and nearly causes Ah Nin to be crushed by the frame that holds the books. Ah Nin is very angry and tells her to finish cleaning the whole room before leaving. She isn't very happy because she had arranged to go eat smelly tofu with Ah Yuet but had no choice but to tell him that she couldn't go. Yan Sou also asks him to Ru Yi Zhai and buy a hair pin for her since they were having a sale. She also gives him the money she held for him to buy it. Ah Yat asks Ying Gei to go to Ru Yi Zhai with her to buy some items. They find out from the owner that Ah Yuet had bought a jade hair pin. During dinner, the two keep an eye out on the accessories Yuk Lou was wearing in her hair but find nothing unusual. They are very surprised when Yan Sou arrives for dinner, wearing the jade hair pin. The two ask Ah Yuet about his whereabouts that day. He denies that he had even gone to Ru Yi Zhai, which makes the two think that something was up. The two use a trick to get Ah Yuet to reveal the truth but are stopped by Nim Chi. Although she didn't believe that there was anything between Yan Sou and Ah Yuet, Nim Chi became suspicious when Ah Yuet defended Yan Sou when Ah Yat and Ying Gei were talking about her. Ah Yuet and Yan Sou ate smelly tofu together and both developed a large boil on their mouths. This seemed to support the theory that they were 'involved' romantically. |