Recaps

Jiang Yingcheng and Jiang Yanchuan uncovered rebel schemes and a vast hoard in Quchun before entering Xian Town, where they took up several grievances and found a treasure map. The group reached Yuntong Mountain and secured permission to enter, while the search for its treasure lay ahead.

• Jiang Yingcheng exposed the Quchun magistrate’s rebel connections and hidden wealth, and Jiang Yanchuan seized the treasure, punished the magistrate, and distributed funds to officials.
• Jiao Hongmiao and other ministers demanded shares of the treasure, then accompanied Jiang Yanchuan’s party through a dangerous formation into Xian Town.
• Bandits attacked the party in Xian Town, and Jiang Yanchuan fought them while Jiang Yingcheng used hidden weapons to protect him.
• Yue Henqing presented evidence against the Zhao clan, and Jiang Yanchuan promised to pursue justice as more martial artists brought him grievances.
• Jiang Yingcheng discovered that Xun Xing had discarded a treasure map in a cave, and the party recovered it after a chaotic encounter involving a corpse and a skeleton.
• The officials followed the map to Tuobi County, where Ying Sinan offered to guide them up Yuntong Mountain and arranged their entry by bribing a guard.

Jiang Yingcheng exposed Tuobi County’s fake treasures, then turned a dangerous tomb expedition into a plan to find and market buried riches. In Jiangnan, Ding Ruihan’s warning revealed a Western Liang spy network, and Jiang Yanchuan ordered a covert search of its suspected bases.

• Jiang Yingcheng exposed the fake treasures in Tuobi County and uncovered Zhu Gang’s dispute with County Adviser Wen Ruxin over a broken artifact.
• Jiang Yingcheng led the officials to a hidden chamber, where a trap split their party and Ying Sinan’s group was also caught in the tomb’s mechanisms.
• After the officials were arrested, Jiang Yingcheng ransomed them and exposed Ying Sinan’s role in their troubles, including triggering the traps and stealing her Gold Beans.
• Jiang Yingcheng proposed a treasure-finding business with Ying Sinan and Ying Minxing, and Jiao Hongmiao and the Gu Residence’s men joined the plan.
• On the Spring Reliance River, Jiang Yingcheng learned Ding Ruihan had been trained as a Slender Horse and had been sent to approach Jiang Yanchuan, whom she recognized as Emperor Mingze.
• Ding Ruihan presented a letter revealing that the Ding family had prepared her to infiltrate Jiang Yanchuan’s party and pass on information, while Jiang Yingcheng identified Western Liang’s Second Prince among the infiltrators.
• Jiang Yingcheng named suspected spy bases in Wind Brocade Commandery, and Jiang Yanchuan ordered Xu Jiu to search them discreetly while Jiao Hongmiao urged Great Rui to use the affair as grounds to send troops against neighboring countries.

Jiang Yingcheng exposed Ding Ruihan’s schemes, uncovered a plot by Pingxu spies, and began investigating corruption tied to the Slender Horse trade. The arc left her at the government office as Xu Qi claimed someone had framed him over a stolen jade treasure.

• Jiang Yingcheng exposed Ding Ruihan’s plans to exploit wealthy suitors, while Jiang Lifeng realized she and Master Ding had swindled him and given away stolen treasures.
• Jiang Yingcheng secretly took Ding Ruihan’s purse, and Jiang Yanchuan pardoned Ding Ruihan and Jiang Lifeng while ordering Ding Ruihan to cooperate with his investigation into the Slender Horse trade.
• Jiang Yingcheng uncovered Jiao Hongxi’s scheme to steal money from the Jiao household, prompting Jiao Hongmiao to hurry home and stop it.
• Jiang Yingcheng and her guards rescued Jiang Lifeng from Pingxu spies who had planned to use him as leverage against the Prince of Nanyang, and she helped Jiang Yanchuan confront Pingxu’s envoy.
• Jiang Yingcheng exposed Zou Zi’ang’s connection to Ding Ruihan and the Slender Horse business after recognizing a family heirloom thumb ring among her possessions.
• At the government office, Zou Cailiang recognized a jade treasure in the dispute over Xu Qi, who claimed a mysterious person had sold it to him, and Jiang Yingcheng learned that he had been set up.

Jiang Yingcheng exposed schemes in court and uncovered tampered military medicine before learning that Jiang Yanchuan planned to lead the Beiming campaign. Determined to follow him, she ran away and recruited a bandit to write a ransom letter.

• Jiang Yingcheng helped expose Xu Qi’s forged ding and Ding Ruihan’s attempts to frame Jiang Lifeng, while Zou Cailiang sentenced Ding Ruihan and her accomplice.
• After Emperor Mingze made Jiang Yingcheng’s identity public, Jiang Yanchuan returned to the Capital, where Kan Ruifeng reported that inferior herbs had been mixed into the army’s medicine.
• Jiang Yingcheng considered selling replacement herbs to recover the officials’ losses, then learned that Jiang Yanchuan planned to lead the campaign in person and resolved to go with him.
• Jiang Yingcheng gave protective medicines to her family and soldiers, gave gifts to her siblings, and decided to hide in a provisions wagon to follow the army.
• Jiang Yingcheng visited Yan Yuebin and the officials’ herb shop, but the men distracted her from investigating their stockpiled medicine.
• Jiang Yingcheng sat beside Jiang Yanchuan as he worked through memorials, and he eventually told her he would march to Beiming and arranged for the Empress Dowager to supervise her.
• Jiang Yingcheng ran away with Liaochen and the others, learned her father planned to send her to Changning Palace, and encountered a bandit group outside the city.
• Jiang Yingcheng had the bandits take them to their hideout, where Liaochen and the others defeated the men and she dictated a ransom letter to a writing bandit.