All That is Bitter is Sweet — Season 1, Episode 9: Episode 9
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 30 episodes
Episode synopsis
HUNG BING makes it clear that YAT-YUEN can hardly survive if he has to hand in a thousand silver dollars to NGAI CHUN within a few days, because YAT-YUEN does not want to burn down the medicine nor sell the machines. Having learned of the first aid that KAI-KEI gave to YAT-YUEN, SIK-KANG is impressed that KAI-KEI has such courage and wisdom at such a young age. Without warning, HUNG BING's mother HUNG YUET-HO returns home from Shanghai. When YAT-YUEN asks her whether anything happened to PIN-PIN, she replies that PIN-PIN will soon come back to Foshan as well. Claiming to be a mere puppet in the hands of SHUNG-MING, TUN-YU whines that he would not get himself tangled in such an insoluble dilemma if only his wife hadn't told him to get acquainted with SHUNG-MING years ago.… ...
About All That is Bitter is Sweet
The Dou family of Foshan is an affluent family that owns and runs Sheung Chun Tong, the largest traditional Chinese apothecary in town. When an epidemic occurs in Foshan and the shop's medicine is found to be the cause, the shop owner is accused of murder and is imprisoned. In order to help release her father, the family's only daughter, Dou Gaai-kei, sets out to investigate.