Sweetness in the Salt
NIP CHI YUEN (Ma Steven), who works in the anti-smuggling camp, is determined to wipe out the Tau’s Fort, which is the stronghold for salt smugglers. He pretends to be a down-and-out scholar. TAU SING SUET (Yeung Yi), daughter of the chief smuggler, sympathizes with YUEN and puts him up in the village. Later, they even become fond of each other. During an anti-smuggling operation SUET is badly hurt and has since been separated from YUEN and her family. Fortunately she is saved by WU TING HIN (Wong Ho Yin), son of salt merchant WU KIN (Kwok Fung). HIN takes her home. One day, SUET is horrified to see the dead bodies of her parent being hung on the wall of the city tower, and that the official standing on the top of the tower telling the public not to sell smuggled salt is none other than the man she misses day and night. She is heartbroken, and her love for YUEN turns into hatred that moment on...
Overview
NIP CHI YUEN (Ma Steven), who works in the anti-smuggling camp, is determined to wipe out the Tau’s Fort, which is the stronghold for salt smugglers. He pretends to be a down-and-out scholar. TAU SING SUET (Yeung Yi), daughter of the chief smuggler, sympathizes with YUEN and puts him up in the village. Later, they even become fond of each other. During an anti-smuggling operation SUET is badly hurt and has since been separated from YUEN and her family. Fortunately she is saved by WU TING HIN (Wong Ho Yin), son of salt merchant WU KIN (Kwok Fung). HIN takes her home. One day, SUET is horrified to see the dead bodies of her parent being hung on the wall of the city tower, and that the official standing on the top of the tower telling the public not to sell smuggled salt is none other than the man she misses day and night. She is heartbroken, and her love for YUEN turns into hatred that moment on...
Episodes
1. Episode 1
The big salt merchant in Yangzhou, WU KIN, sells salt tickets (official certificate for transporting salt) to small salt merchants. One day, the small merchants join hand together to fight for a reduction in the ticket price. KIN doesn’t know what to do and he turns to his second son TING HIN for help. HIN is an invalid but he is very clever. He gives a surprising advice by asking KIN to increase the ticket price… On the other hand, members of the anti-smuggling camp have successfully taken over Tau’s Fort, the stronghold for salt smugglers. Leader of the fort TAU MANG tries very hard to escape with his family members but his daughter SING SUET’s lover NIP CHI YUEN has been missing since then. As all salt smugglers are arrested, the small salt merchants have no choice but to purchase the salt tickets from KIN in high price. HIN suffers from diabetes……
2. Episode 2
SUET pretends to be the daughter of Dr LUI and she follows HIN all the way to Yangzhou. KIN believes that SUET can help cure HIN’s disease so he treats her really kind. KIN’s third son TING FAI misconceives that SUET is a prostitute and SUET scolds him angrily. KIN’s younger sister asks SUET to check the ingredients of a “Forever Young Drug”. During the process, HIN discovers that SUET knows nothing about Chinese medicine. HIN asks his people to follow SUET and they find that SUET stands expressionlessly in the temple for one whole day. HIN decides to question SUET. In the meantime, SUET suddenly learns that the officials have hung the dead bodies of some drug smugglers on the wall of the city tower. She rushes to the city tower and is horrified to see her parents’ dead bodies there. Surprisingly, the official who announces the guilt of her parents is her lover YUEN……
3. Episode 3
SUET doesn’t want to take everything for granted and she voluntarily asks to work in WU KIN’s salt store. HIN takes good care of SUET in every way and HIN is pleased to see this. Mr CHU, the manager of KIN’s salt store, goes to YUEN’s mother Mrs NIP’s soya sauce store in the evening. He has collected some leftover salt for Mr NIP secretly… YUEN is injured while trying to catch the salt smugglers. Mrs NIP is very worried about him. Her good friend, KIN’s younger sister CHOI TIP, suggests her to find a wife for YUEN so that YUEN will not devote himself completely in his job. TIP suggests Mrs NIP to marry YUEN to KIN’s youngest daughter TING YIN. They bring YUEN to WU’s family to meet YIN without telling YUEN their actual intention. YUEN discovers the truth later and he firmly rejects the plan……
Cast & Crew
Tavia Yeung
Steven Ma Chun-Wai
Raymond Ho-Yin Wong
Halina Tam Siu-Wan
Samuel Kwok Fung
Ngo Ka-Nin
