Recommended by FAI, YUEN becomes a guard at HIN’s house. YUEN’s mother comes to stop him but YUEN insists to take the job. PIK and the others believe that YUEN wants to get close to SUET again. LUNG realizes that YUEN is trying to protect HIN and he is enraged. With the help of SUET and YUEN, HIN successfully makes FAI stay at their salt store. FAI goes out to collect payment but he ends up gambling the money away. He then starts a quarrel with KIN and leaves the house angrily. YIN tries to prevent PIK and ON from meeting each other so that she could get close to ON… ON learns from PIK that HIN is seriously ill so he visits HIN with other salt merchants. Coincidentally, CHING arrives at the same time. HIN wants to meet the salt merchants. KIN and SUET stop him for they want him to take a good rest… CHING questions YUEN about LUNG’s case and LUNG tries to listen to them secretly…