HUNG BING makes it clear that YAT-YUEN can hardly survive if he has to hand in a thousand silver dollars to NGAI CHUN within a few days, because YAT-YUEN does not want to burn down the medicine nor sell the machines. Having learned of the first aid that KAI-KEI gave to YAT-YUEN, SIK-KANG is impressed that KAI-KEI has such courage and wisdom at such a young age. Without warning, HUNG BING's mother HUNG YUET-HO returns home from Shanghai. When YAT-YUEN asks her whether anything happened to PIN-PIN, she replies that PIN-PIN will soon come back to Foshan as well. Claiming to be a mere puppet in the hands of SHUNG-MING, TUN-YU whines that he would not get himself tangled in such an insoluble dilemma if only his wife hadn't told him to get acquainted with SHUNG-MING years ago.… ...
