Episode 3

Li Youzhen was very dissatisfied with the wing arranged by the Liu family. She launched an attack on the spot, accusing He Weifang of being incompetent in managing housework, which led to the assassination at the banquet.Mrs. Liu hurriedly explained that Liu Zishu did not like He Weifang and that she lived in a remote place and would not be in the way.But Li Youzhen didn't buy it. She demanded that all the attendants at today's flower banquet be severely punished, with eighty canes. He Weifang should also receive forty for his negligence.At this time, Liu Zishu happened to walk in and couldn't help being shocked when he heard Li Youzhen's words.Mrs. Liu felt that the eighty-year cane punishment was too harsh, so she pleaded for mercy for her servant, but this aroused even greater dissatisfaction from Li Youzhen.Upon seeing this, Liu Zishu stepped forward and said that he was also responsible for the oversight and should be punished as well.

However, Li Youzhen didn't really want to punish Liu Zishu. She saw that Liu Zishu didn't like her intervening in Liu family affairs, so she gave up.Mrs. Liu took the opportunity to leave with her servants.When there was no one around, Li Youzhen stroked Liu Zishu's brow in a very intimate manner, showing no signs of guarding between men and women.I think back then, when Liu Shen was working in Beijing, Liu Zishu and Li Youzhen fell in love with each other. However, King Ning disliked the low status of the Liu family and broke up the lovers abruptly.After Liu Shen was demoted to Luoyang, Li Youzhen married someone else, and Liu Zishu also married the daughter of a merchant.Now three years have passed. Although Li Youzhen still said she was kind to Liu Zishu, Liu Zishu felt that she had become a stranger.

In addition, Li Youzhen also revealed that she knew that Liu Zishu had a portrait of herself hanging in his room, and that he and He Weifang had been married for three years but had never had sex.Liu Zishu was shocked, because these were private matters of the Liu family. Since Li Youzhen knew about it, he must have sent someone to monitor or inquire about it.Liu Zishu didn't want to say any more, so he stood up and left.At the dinner, the official officials offered bribes to the flower and bird envoy Jiang Changyang, but Jiang Changyang accepted them all without rejecting them.When Liu Shen learned that Mudan was out, he was afraid that she would disrupt his plan to sell the shop, so he hurried to stop her.Yulu blocked Liu Shen's entourage for Mudan, but unfortunately she was knocked into the water and drowned.Mudan was distraught and determined not to be manipulated anymore.She began to take stock of the dowry and asked for the return of the items added to the county's main wing.Jiang Changyang's entourage wore a jade pendant of jade dew. After Mudan negotiated with him, Jiang Changyang agreed to return it the next day.However, after the county boss saw the rabbit that Liu Chang gave to Mudan, he had his servants beat him to death.Liu Chang was shocked when he learned about this and did not accompany the county leader to visit the lake that night.