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1 Season
25 Episode
Sweetness in the Salt - Season 1 Episode 5
CHING suggests all salt merchants to compete for the chief salt merchant position by an open auction and KIN is very worried. HIN and SUET try to console him. YUEN discovers that his secret informer among the salt smugglers has disappeared suddenly. He tries hard to look for him and finally realizes that this informer has captured FAI as a hostage. With the help of CHING’s secretary WONG TUNG PING, YUEN catches the informer successfully. However, the informer is suddenly killed by an arrow when YUEN tries to question him. CHING realizes that YUEN is suspicious on him so he reveals his secret to him… HIN asks the salt merchants to withdraw from the auction for chief salt merchant. The salt merchants agree to do so on the surface but they start raising money secretly with ON. In order to win the auction, KIN asks all staff to help counting his family asset……
- Year: 2009
- Country: Hong Kong
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: TVB Jade
- Keyword: salt, early republican china, emotional, qing costume drama
- Director: Lee Tim-sing
- Cast: Tavia Yeung, Steven Ma, Halina Tam Siu-Wan, Samuel Kwok Fung, Ngo Ka-Nin, Joel Chan