Recaps

Jin Shanyao explained to Meng Anzhi how women’s lives were constrained by preference for sons and urged her to rely on her medical skills and independent judgment. Meng Anzhi passed the lesson on to Meng Anci, who mischievously used it to stir up a chase before heading to the academy.

• A man attacked Jin Shanyao after finding his mother and the midwife unconscious, but Jin Shanyao subdued him and confronted him about ignoring his wife and newborn daughter.
• The man reluctantly agreed to keep the baby, and Chunniang wept as she held her.
• Jin Shanyao told Meng Anzhi that women were exploited and encouraged her to gain independence through her abilities and clear thinking.
• Meng Anzhi taught Meng Anci that family members should contribute, and he concluded that he was a burden who needed to study hard.
• At dinner, Meng Anci blamed Meng Anzhi for calling him a burden, prompting Jin Shanyao to chase Meng Anzhi with a broom before Meng Anci left for the academy.

Jin Shanyao tried to sell her storybooks to Xie Chao but was waylaid by First Madam Zhao, who attempted to buy her horse for far too little. Madam Su intervened, helped Jin Shanyao turn the confrontation around, and later received Old Madam Su’s advice to treat Jin sincerely.

• Jin Shanyao set out for Hat Mountain with storybooks, wine, food, and dates to persuade Xie Chao to work for her.
• First Madam Zhao tried to buy Jin Shanyao’s horse for a hundred taels, while her maid blocked the cart and the crowd praised her supposed generosity.
• Madam Su recognized Jin Shanyao and stepped in, presenting the hundred taels as payment for five talismans and revealing that the horse was worth at least a thousand taels.
• First Madam Zhao left in embarrassment without retrieving her money, and Jin Shanyao asked Madam Su how to learn her way of winning without shedding blood.
• Madam Su recommended two books on political scheming and household favor, then corrected Jin Shanyao’s mistaken use of a family title.
• Old Madam Su praised Madam Su for helping Jin Shanyao and told her to preserve their friendship by treating Jin sincerely.

Jin Shanyao visited Old Madam Su to learn the hidden tactics of household rivalry, then proposed entering her seventy-year-old wild ginseng in a competition under Qingzhou Prefecture’s name. The Su family welcomed the plan, which could benefit both the prefecture and Anzhi Hall.

• Jin Shanyao brought Old Madam Su two books and a seventy-year-old wild ginseng root, asking her to explain passages about household schemes.
• Old Madam Su taught Jin Shanyao how apparent apologies, public praise, and indirect provocation could conceal attacks, and warned her not to retaliate in a way that fulfilled an enemy’s plan.
• Jin Shanyao tried to interpret Madam Su’s wary greeting and praised Su Wenqian, amusing Old Madam Su with her clumsy use of the lessons.
• Jin Shanyao asked Su Wenqian to enter her wild ginseng in the capital’s competition under Qingzhou Prefecture’s name, with Anzhi Hall identified as its source.
• Jin Shanyao proposed having Qin Baitang accompany the ginseng and left the choice of a representative from the prefectural city to Su Wenqian.

At Green Mountain Academy, Meng Anci provoked Zhao Yushan and got Master Cen to punish him. On Hat Mountain, Jin Shanyao left food and storybooks for the hidden Xie Chao, who secretly inspected them but remained determined to reject her.

• Meng Anci criticized Zhao Yushan for relying on his mother, then baited him into insulting Willow and Poplar County in front of Master Cen.
• Master Cen sent Zhao Yushan outside and later comforted Meng Anci, while Meng Anci mocked Zhao Yushan again after class.
• Jin Shanyao broke through a barrier on Hat Mountain and left Xie Chao local dishes, wine, dates, and storybooks.
• Xie Chao watched Jin Shanyao leave to gather medicinal herbs, then emerged to inspect the food and books and recoiled from their suggestive titles.
• Jin Shanyao happily collected herbs and imagined making Xie Chao her hired hand, while Xie Chao watched her depart and insisted he would never agree to her plans.

Jin Shanyao pushed Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci to study while arranging for Qin Baitang to take Old Medicine Zhou to a mountain ginseng competition. At Green Mountain Academy’s monthly rankings, Meng Anci placed first, Zhao Zhiyuan second, Zhao Yushan third, and Shiyan last, leaving Shiyan worried and Zhao Zhiyuan missing home.

• Jin Shanyao encouraged the children to study, secretly brightened their lamp, and gave them ginkgo-leaf tea.
• Jin Shanyao wrote to Qin Baitang, telling him to collect Old Medicine Zhou and take him to the capital for the mountain ginseng competition.
• Qin Baitang hurried to the capital, excited to represent Qingzhou Prefecture, as Green Mountain Academy posted its rankings.
• Shiyan found his name at the bottom, while Meng Anci and Zhao Zhiyuan placed first and second; Zhao Yushan came third and accused them of cheating.
• Meng Anci rebuked Zhao Yushan, and the three students left for class as Shiyan worried about disappointing Madam Shi.
• Zhao Zhiyuan quietly missed home, and Meng Anci wondered how to comfort him.

Zhao Yushan was punished for placing third in an academy exam, while Jin Shanyao used a divination to expose a con man courting Miss Zhang for her family’s wealth. Jin Shanyao talked Miss Zhang out of murder, though her unconventional advice left the young woman determined to vent her anger.

• Zhao Mingshu ordered Zhao Yushan to kneel in the ancestral hall after he came third in the exam, and Zhao Yushan blamed Zhao Zhiyuan and Meng Anci.
• Zhao Zhiyuan tossed Zhao Yushan a bag of pastries, but Zhao Yushan threw it back and cursed at him.
• Jin Shanyao used Miss Zhang’s birth characters to locate the man pursuing her and learned he planned to exploit her family’s wealth.
• Jin Shanyao warned Miss Zhang about the man, then chased her down and held her back when she misunderstood an expression as advice to kill him.
• Jin Shanyao advised Miss Zhang to have children without being bound to a husband, and Miss Zhang left saying she would vent her anger without ruining her life.

After witnessing Chunniang’s abuse and learning how her baby was killed, Meng Anzhi decided to open a charity home for unwanted baby girls. Jin Shanyao enlisted Xie Chao to help grow herbs on Hat Mountain, leaving him bound to a plan he reluctantly accepted.

• Jin Shanyao explained that Chunniang had been sold after Old Woman Cai strangled her baby, and Meng Anzhi decided to establish a charity home for abandoned girls.
• Jin Shanyao supported Meng Anzhi’s plan and considered building the charity home at the foot of Hat Mountain.
• Jin Shanyao broke through Xie Chao’s barrier, but after he rejected her advances, she clarified that she only wanted to plant herbs on his mountain.
• Jin Shanyao defeated and bound Xie Chao, then proposed a residence and herb-drying area and assigned him to grow ginseng.
• Jin Shanyao pressed Xie Chao’s bloody thumbprint onto a blank sheet, while Xie Chao later decided that helping her grow herbs was preferable to risking his chastity.

Meng Anzhi diagnosed Wang Xiaohua’s persistent facial sores and treated her with medicine and ointment, despite the doubts of Xiaohua’s mother. The sores began to improve, giving Wang Xiaohua hope that Anzhi Hall could cure her.

• Wang Xiaohua told Meng Anzhi that her fiancé had broken their engagement because of her facial sores, and Meng Anzhi examined her and promised to find a cure.
• Meng Anzhi recorded Wang Xiaohua’s symptoms and drafted prescriptions, then Jin Shanyao reviewed the diagnosis and confirmed the treatment.
• Meng Anzhi gave Wang Xiaohua internal medicine and applied ointment to her face the next day.
• Xiaohua’s mother suspected Anzhi Hall was using her daughter for practice, but Shopkeeper Wang defended Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi.
• After several days, Xiaohua’s mother noticed fewer bumps on Wang Xiaohua’s face, and Wang Xiaohua confirmed the improvement in a mirror.

Meng Anzhi cured Wang Xiaohua’s facial sores, bringing new customers to Anzhi Hall, and Jin Shanyao encouraged her to expand her ointment into a business. The chapter ended with Meng Anzhi agreeing to hire people to make and sell it after the second estate was built.

• Wang Xiaohua’s sores vanished, and she praised Anzhi Hall and Meng Anzhi’s skill to people around the prefectural city.
• Jin Shanyao took Meng Anzhi shopping, then picked up Meng Anci from Green Mountain Academy and celebrated Meng Anzhi’s success with a meal at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
• Wang Xiaohua continued promoting Anzhi Hall, and business at the shop boomed.
• While grinding ingredients, Jin Shanyao suggested that Meng Anzhi turn her ointment into face cream and hire people to produce it.
• Meng Anzhi agreed to hire workers to make and sell the ointment after the second estate was built, and Jin Shanyao offered to grow the medicinal ingredients she needed.

After Meng Anzhi prescribed medicine to a man with a cold while Jin Shanyao was away, the man died, and his family accused Anzhi Hall of killing him. Constable Wang took the corpse, the accusers, Jin Shanyao, and Meng Anzhi to the prefectural office to investigate.

• Meng Anzhi examined a man with cold symptoms and gave him a prescription while Jin Shanyao was away.
• Jin Shanyao reviewed Meng Anzhi’s case notes and prescription, found nothing wrong, and reassured her.
• The next morning, the dead patient’s wife and several men stormed Anzhi Hall and accused the clinic of killing him.
• Jin Shanyao used her Spiritual Power to examine the corpse, restrained the intruders, and sent Qing Yang to summon the authorities.
• Jin Shanyao identified herself as Anzhi Hall’s shopkeeper, while Meng Anzhi admitted she had prescribed the medicine and tried to take responsibility.
• Constable Wang ordered everyone involved, including Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi, to accompany him and the corpse to the prefectural office.

Jin Shanyao arranged a public trial to prove that Anzhi Hall had not poisoned Yang Kui, summoning his ghost before the crowd. The chapter left her holding Yang Kui in front of Su Wenqian as he prepared to question the spirit.

• Madam Yang accused Jin Shanyao and Anzhi Hall of poisoning Yang Kui, but Jin Shanyao denied the charge and asked for half a day to prove her innocence.
• Su Wenqian agreed to resume the trial after dark at the yamen gates, and Jin Shanyao reassured Meng Anzhi while they waited in jail.
• Meng Anci announced the nighttime trial to the city, drawing a crowd to the yamen.
• Jin Shanyao performed a ritual and used Spiritual Power to let the crowd see Yang Kui's ghost above his corpse.
• Yang Kui tried to attack Madam Yang, and Jin Shanyao grabbed him and presented him to Su Wenqian, who asked whether the medicine had caused his death.

Su Wenqian questioned Yang Kui’s ghost and learned that Madam Yang had killed him after he discovered her affair, clearing Anzhi Hall and freeing Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi. Jin Shanyao’s ghost-catching fame brought a crowd to Anzhi Hall, but her high prices sent everyone away.

• Su Wenqian questioned Yang Kui, and Jin Shanyao struck him whenever his anger raised chilling winds.
• Yang Kui explained that Madam Yang had killed him after he caught her leaving a cornfield with the village’s old bachelor.
• Su Wenqian confronted Madam Yang, who confessed, and the authorities arrested her while releasing Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi.
• Meng Anzhi and Qing He and Qing Yang recovered their voices with Jin Shanyao’s Spiritual Power-infused ginkgo drink.
• Su Wenqian panicked over ghosts at home, while Old Madam Su and his brothers took back or claimed his protective talismans.
• A crowd sought Jin Shanyao’s fortune-telling and ghost-catching services, but they scattered when she announced her fees.

Jin Shanyao’s attempt to attract customers turned into a public scandal when she mistook an old man’s need to untie his belt for something indecent. After the crowd quieted, the old man explained that he wanted her to summon his daughter’s spirit and discover how she had died.

• Jin Shanyao tried to lure Jiang Jinshu over for a fortune-telling, but Shopkeeper Jiang took his daughter inside to keep her away.
• An old man arrived seeking a divination, and Jin Shanyao tied his belt shut before learning that he needed it undone to reach his money.
• A passerby accused Jin Shanyao of pulling down the old man’s pants, and the crowd condemned her until she slapped one loud critic to the ground.
• The old man explained that his daughter had drowned at twenty despite being an excellent swimmer, and that the authorities had repeatedly ruled her death an accident.
• Jin Shanyao urged him to seek help from Lord Su, but the old man said he had witnessed her ability to summon spirits and begged her to uncover the truth.

Jin Shanyao helped Shen Gensheng expose Cao Wentian as the murderer of his daughter, then received Su Wenqian’s reward for solving the case. After Qin Baitang returned with business orders, Jin Shanyao rewarded him with a rare ginseng plant and reinforced his loyalty to Anzhi Hall and Lush Mountain.

• Jin Shanyao learned from the trees that Cao Wentian had drowned Shen Xiaoman and told Shen Gensheng to report the murder and dig beside the dried channel.
• Su Wenqian’s men unearthed a clay jar containing Cao Wentian’s jade pendant, and further investigation led to Cao Wentian’s conviction and execution sentence.
• Su Wenqian received a court commendation and gave Jin Shanyao his three-hundred-tael reward along with Shen Gensheng’s divination fee.
• Qin Baitang returned with orders from the capital, and Jin Shanyao sent face cream home for his wife and gave him the prized ginseng plant Xiaoqi.
• Jin Shanyao told Qin Baitang that she trusted him to manage Anzhi Hall and Lush Mountain, and that night she used her Spiritual Power to water the mountain’s plants.

After Zhao Yushan was beaten for placing third, he saw the Shi family celebrating Shiyan’s exam results and broke down before throwing himself into a river. The next day, First Madam Zhao asked Jin Shanyao to help her son, who had become unresponsive and suicidal after being rescued, and Jin Shanyao prepared talismans to investigate.

• Shiyan celebrated placing twelfth, while Zhao Zhiyuan discovered he had beaten Meng Anci on the examination.
• Zhao Mingshu beat Zhao Yushan for placing third and ordered him to kneel in the ancestral hall.
• Zhao Yushan followed the Shi family and saw their warmth toward Shiyan, then witnessed Meng Anci smiling at Anzhi Hall.
• Zhao Yushan stood on a bridge and plunged into the river when First Madam Zhao came to bring him home.
• First Madam Zhao told Jin Shanyao that Zhao Yushan had become unresponsive and tried to harm himself after being pulled from the river.
• Jin Shanyao agreed to investigate for a fee and prepared five talismans.

Jin Shanyao discovered that Zhao Yushan’s despair came from his father’s harsh treatment, not ghosts or possession, and asked Meng Anci to talk with him. Meng Anci’s outrageous advice sparked a fight and helped Zhao Yushan reconcile with Zhao Zhiyuan and commit to studying together, while Meng Anci quietly negotiated a higher payment.

• Jin Shanyao examined Zhao Yushan, found no possession or illness, and told the Zhao family that Zhao Mingshu’s beatings and scolding had driven the boy to despair.
• Zhao Cheng asked Jin Shanyao to help Zhao Yushan, so she sent Meng Anci to speak with him.
• Meng Anci joked about Zhao Yushan’s suicide attempts and suggested he run from his father’s punishments, provoking Zhao Yushan to attack him and Zhao Zhiyuan.
• Zhao Zhiyuan comforted Zhao Yushan by admitting his own fear of Meng Anci and explaining that he had learned to treat him as a rival rather than resent him.
• Zhao Yushan and Zhao Zhiyuan agreed to study together and try to surpass Meng Anci, who left while signaling Zhao Zhiyuan to raise his promised payment from two taels to five.

Jin Shanyao rescued Zhao Zhiyuan and Meng Anci from Zhao Mingshu’s pressure, then sold Zhao Cheng talismans before realizing she had pushed the children too hard with their studies. She took Meng Anci and Meng Anzhi to Hat Mountain and showed them their newly finished estate, where Meng Anzhi could establish a charity hall.

• First Madam Zhao reunited with Zhao Zhiyuan, and Zhao Cheng thanked Meng Anci and Jin Shanyao for helping the children.
• Jin Shanyao pressured Zhao Cheng into buying five talismans for a hundred taels, and he asked whether she would take him as a disciple.
• Jin Shanyao felt guilty about making the children study so much and took Meng Anci and Meng Anzhi to Hat Mountain despite their protests.
• Jiang Jinshu watched Jin Shanyao carry the children away and feared that she was an old monster who ate children.
• At the finished second estate, Meng Anzhi admired the grounds, and Jin Shanyao offered the third courtyard for her charity hall.
• Jin Shanyao proposed taking the children to pick mushrooms and hunt pheasants, then offered to teach them to hit birds with stones.

Jin Shanyao took Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci to Hat Mountain to gather mushrooms and hunt pheasants, while Xie Chao watched them and questioned her bond with the children. After the children shared honey-roasted chicken with him, Xie Chao accepted the mountain ginseng seeds Jin Shanyao gave him to plant.

• Xie Chao sensed the children and discovered that Jin Shanyao had made protective ginkgo-leaf necklaces for them.
• Jin Shanyao taught Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci to hunt pheasants, and they gleefully gathered mushrooms and fought Xiaoli for its honeycomb.
• Jin Shanyao remembered her promise to care for the children and regretted having pushed them too hard in the past.
• At the springs, Meng Anci challenged Xie Chao, and Jin Shanyao revealed that she had hired him as Hat Mountain's keeper.
• Jin Shanyao gave Xie Chao mountain ginseng seeds to plant, and Meng Anzhi offered him a honey-brushed chicken drumstick and promised to bring red dates next time.

Jin Shanyao spent the night coaxing Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci to sleep, then the children went back to their routines the next day. A fire broke out at the Brocade Workshop, and Meng Anzhi evacuated the household as the flames threatened the street.

• Jin Shanyao asked Xie Chao to watch over the estate at the foot of Hat Mountain, and he reluctantly agreed.
• Jin Shanyao used a Method Formula to put Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci to sleep while they lay with her.
• Wang Xiaohua told Meng Anzhi that her mother had arranged a match for her, while Meng Anzhi noticed a spark-covered tabby cat fleeing the Brocade Workshop.
• The Brocade Workshop caught fire, and Meng Anzhi rang a gong and tried to organize the neighbors into a bucket line.
• Jin Shanyao told Meng Anzhi to evacuate with Qing He and the others, and Meng Anzhi fled with the cash box as Qing He and Qing Yang carried bundles of books.
• Qing He ran back into the courtyard after realizing the old ox was still there.

Jin Shanyao helped save the third shop from the fire that destroyed Brocade Workshop, then warned her family not to risk their lives for possessions. That night, Shopkeeper Jiang's ghost appeared at Anzhi Hall, asking Jin Shanyao for help.

• Jin Shanyao ordered everyone to protect the third shop and used her whip to stop the fire from spreading, while rescuing Jiang Jinshu.
• Su Wenqian learned the fire began when Jiang Jinshu's tabby cat got into the stove, and Madam Jiang mourned her husband and the loss of her shop.
• Jin Shanyao found Qing He, Qing Yang, and Meng Anzhi preparing to flee with belongings and told them that saving their lives mattered more than money or possessions.
• Meng Anci returned home safely, but Jin Shanyao made him help grind medicinal powder instead of going straight to study.
• Shopkeeper Jiang's ghost called to Jin Shanyao from outside Anzhi Hall, and she brought Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci with her to confront him.

Jin Shanyao let Jiang Fu'an’s family speak with his ghost briefly, then helped his widow and daughter after their home burned down. Three days later, at Jiang Fu'an’s funeral, his mother demanded Madam Jiang give the family shop to his nephew.

• Shopkeeper Jiang offered Jin Shanyao his hidden savings in exchange for seeing his family, and she accepted a copper coin to let him appear before Madam Jiang and Jiang Jinshu.
• Jiang Fu'an revealed where he had hidden money and urged Xiu'er not to remain a widow, but Jin Shanyao ended their meeting when his ghost began to fade.
• Jiang Jinshu paid Jin Shanyao another copper coin and wished for her home to be restored, so Jin Shanyao told Madam Jiang to keep an earthenware basin as her daughter's meaningful keepsake.
• Jin Shanyao took Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci back inside while Jiang Fu'an remained outside, grieving that he could no longer live with his family.
• Three days later, Jin Shanyao and the two children attended Jiang Fu'an’s funeral, where his mother pressured Madam Jiang to surrender the shop to the eldest son's family in exchange for a nephew carrying the funeral banner and smashing the basin.

Jin Shanyao interrupted Su Wenqian’s ruling that Madam Jiang’s shop belonged to the Jiang clan and redirected the case to the valuable dowry basin Jiang Fulu’s family had broken. Su Wenqian began reconsidering the case, though he wondered whether Jin Shanyao had understood the real issue.

• Madam Jiang offered twenty taels for a Jiang clansman to carry the funeral banner and break the basin, and Fu’an’s eldest brother arranged for his son to do it.
• Jiang Fulu took Madam Jiang to court, claiming that funeral customs gave his family the shop, and Su Wenqian ruled that the law awarded it to the clan because Madam Jiang had no male heir.
• Jin Shanyao angrily challenged Su Wenqian’s ruling and argued that Jiang Fulu should pay for breaking the basin.
• Su Wenqian asked whether the broken basin was the funeral yin-yang basin, and Madam Jiang revealed that it was a precious dowry basin inherited from her mother.
• Su Wenqian turned his attention to the broken basin, while Jin Shanyao dismissed him as a muddleheaded official and he wondered whether she had intended to guide Madam Jiang.

Jin Shanyao helped Madam Jiang win compensation and sever Jiang Jinshu’s ties with the Jiang family, then returned to Anzhi Hall as business grew increasingly busy. When Jin Shanyao considered buying help, Qing He worried she might be replaced, and Jin Shanyao left to hire people.

• Su Wenqian exposed that the broken basin was not the yin-yang basin, and Madam Jiang demanded seven thousand taels in compensation.
• Jiang Fulu transferred his shop to Madam Jiang and obtained an officially stamped document severing Jiang Jinshu from the Jiang family in exchange for the remaining debt.
• Madam Jiang and Jiang Jinshu thanked Jin Shanyao, while Jiang Jinshu offered her savings and promised to fill her purse with embroidery earnings.
• Madam Jiang rebuilt the Brocade Workshop with help from her natal family as Anzhi Hall’s divinations, treatments, and face cream sales kept the household busy.
• Qing He clung to Jin Shanyao when she announced she would buy workers, and Jin Shanyao reassured her before heading out to hire people.

After Qingzhou Prefecture’s wild ginseng competition brought new business to the city, Jin Shanyao bought twenty servants to expand the family’s medicinal herb operation. Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci assigned them to the estate or Anzhi Hall, then admitted how nervous they had been while managing the group.

• Old Medicine Zhou told Jin Shanyao that counterfeit goods had been delivered to Anzhi Hall in Willow and Poplar County, and Jin offered to supply his pharmacy with herbs from Hat Mountain.
• Jin Shanyao bought twenty servants and brought them to Anzhi Hall, where Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci assessed their skills.
• Wu Yong identified himself as a former household steward, several servants demonstrated farming skills, Chen Guini offered her domestic skills, and Zhou Xiaosi displayed an exceptional memory.
• Meng Anci kept Chen Guini, Zhao Caigu, and Zhou Xiaosi at Anzhi Hall, while Meng Anzhi appointed Wu Yong steward of the estate and sent the other servants there.
• Qing He and Qing Yang took the servants to their quarters, while Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci admitted to Jin Shanyao that they had been nervous managing the group.
• Meng Anci explained that he kept Zhou Xiaosi at Anzhi Hall to observe his character and use his memory to recognize customers, rather than expose him to confidential ointment formulas at the estate.

Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi ran Anzhi Hall’s monthly free clinic, treating a starving family who had fled to Qingzhou Prefecture after the blind grandmother’s son was falsely imprisoned and died. The old woman began explaining their plight, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Jin Shanyao showed her new household the medicinal herb gardens on Hat Mountain, where Meng Anzhi taught the servants to identify and harvest herbs.
• A boy begged Jin Shanyao to save his sick younger sister, and Meng Anzhi and Jin Shanyao examined the children and their blind grandmother.
• Meng Anzhi diagnosed the girl with a chill and hunger, and the boy with indigestion after he admitted eating tree roots and Guanyin clay.
• Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi gave the family porridge, buns, and medicine, and learned that officials had wrongly imprisoned the grandmother’s son and confiscated the family’s home and fields.
• The blind grandmother recounted her family’s losses and began describing how the three survivors ended up begging on a street corner.