I’m not sure whose room the soldiers are checking when Jeong-ho finds the flowers. It has to be either Lady Choe’s or Pansul’s. This would mean either that Lady Choe knew enough about Pansul’s activities to keep what I presume to be a main ingredient for a potion to cure the food poisoning, or Pansul kept it around in case the wrong person was poisoned.

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The envelope Yeong-ro had apparently came from Janggeum. For whatever reason, I take it she was due to prepare a meal for the ailing old man, but because she wanted to check up on Sin-ssi (and probably tell her that the criminals had been caught), the task was passed on to Geum-yeong and Yeong-ro.

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Things certainly have taken a turn for the worst for the Choe family. I know Jeong-ho headed Choe Pansul’s capture, but who was behind having Lady Choe and Geum-yeong imprisoned? They must have been taken in just in case they were working with Pansul.

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I’m glad to see the series didn’t try to go in the direction of Janggeum’s mother still being alive. When the yin-yang man said something about Janggeum’s charm, and presumably about her mother, he could have recognized the design and knew which village Janggeum was from.

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As I expected from the next episode preview from the end of the last episode, Hwan is one of the good guys. What I didn’t expect was the return of Haeya. Seeing the two side-by-side, they looked as if they could be siblings (or at the very least cousins), and I gather as much to be true by the reactions of the group when Hwan says something about the two of them.

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