Rosy Business — Season 1, Episode 13: Episode 13
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 8.4/10
Episode synopsis
While MAN and KAU are quarrelling, millions of locusts have arrived, thus throwing the city of Wuxi into complete confusion. KEI asks the workers to go back home and stay with their families while she and KAU will continue to help out at Hing Fung Lin. Thinking that KIU may wake up soon, YEE needs MAN to look for the minister at once despite the locust plague. KEI is not aware that KIU has already come round from unconsciousness. CHING and YAU MAN who have just come back to Wuxi go to see KEI at Hing Fung Lin. MAN stays with KIU all day long, during which he emphasizes that it is he who has been taking care of the family business and combating against the locust plague. The price of rice increases sharply after the locust plague is over. MAN urges KEI to push up the price as the rest of the rice retailers do but this suggestion is rejected by KEI right away……
About Rosy Business
Set in Eastern China in the mid-19th century Qing Dynasty, the mercantile Chiang family and the ambition and jealousy surrounding the issue of who will inherit the family business when Chiang Kiu dies. Hong Po-kei marries into the Chiang family as Chiang Kiu's fourth wife. She gains ownership of Hing Fung Nin, the family rice shop, and guides the ambitious coolie Chai Kau to rise in the social status ladder.