Recaps

Jin Shanyao expanded Anzhi Hall, helped Meng Anci enter Green Mountain Academy, and bought Hat Mountain despite its reputation. There she subdued the immortal Xie Chao and tried to recruit him, while she and Meng Anzhi rescued a mother and newborn from the Cai household.

• Jin Shanyao located Shi Chang'an and the jade Buddha, helped rescue him, and earned a five-year escort contract with the Shi Household Escort Agency.
• Jin Shanyao thwarted Shiyan’s kidnappers and reorganized Anzhi Hall’s herb harvest with pay based on quantity and quality.
• Jin Shanyao built First Manor, expanded her herb business, and accompanied Meng Anci to Qingzhou Prefecture for his examination.
• Meng Anci passed the examination and gained admission to Green Mountain Academy, while Jin Shanyao hired Qin Baitang and bought Hat Mountain for her expansion.
• Jin Shanyao moved to the prefectural city, opened Anzhi Hall, and clashed with Su Wenqian over books before discovering that Xie Chao had been confined to Hat Mountain for five hundred years.
• Jin Shanyao overpowered Xie Chao, patrolled Hat Mountain for herbs, and tried to persuade him to become her follower.
• Meng Anci used Jin Shanyao’s water trick to impress Master Cen, while Zhao Yushan challenged him and Shiyan over cuju and Black Grand Marshal.
• Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi delivered Chunniang’s baby and stopped Old Woman Cai from killing the newborn girl.

Jin Shanyao expanded Anzhi Hall and her work on Hat Mountain while helping the children around her grow more capable and independent. The arc ended with Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi treating a starving family whose home and fields officials had taken, as the grandmother began explaining how they had been reduced to begging.

• Jin Shanyao persuaded Xie Chao to help cultivate herbs on Hat Mountain, and Meng Anzhi planned a charity home for abandoned girls.
• Meng Anzhi cured Wang Xiaohua’s facial sores, bringing Anzhi Hall new customers and inspiring plans to produce and sell her ointment.
• After a patient died, Jin Shanyao summoned his ghost during a public trial, and Yang Kui revealed that Madam Yang had murdered him.
• Jin Shanyao helped Zhao Yushan face his despair, and he and Zhao Zhiyuan agreed to study together and try to surpass Meng Anci.
• Jin Shanyao took Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci to Hat Mountain, where they hunted, gathered mushrooms, and met Xie Chao, the mountain’s reluctant keeper.
• When the Brocade Workshop burned, Jin Shanyao stopped the fire from spreading and let Jiang Fu’an’s ghost briefly visit Madam Jiang and Jiang Jinshu.
• Jin Shanyao helped Madam Jiang keep the Brocade Workshop by exposing the truth about the broken basin, and Jiang Fulu transferred the shop to her in exchange for severing Jiang Jinshu from the clan.
• Jin Shanyao bought twenty servants, assigned them to Anzhi Hall and the estate, and took them to Hat Mountain to learn about the medicinal gardens.
• Jin Shanyao and Meng Anzhi treated a starving boy and his sick sister, then heard their blind grandmother begin recounting how officials had taken the family’s home and fields.

Jin Shanyao helped contain an epidemic, settled trouble with the apothecary shopkeepers, and prepared to travel after Qiao Qingran asked her to examine her father-in-law. The arc left Jin Shanyao, Meng Anzhi, and Meng Anci on their way to the capital, carrying winter clothes for Madam Su’s mother.

• Jin Shanyao used Ghost One and Ghost Two to frighten counterfeit medicine dealers into confessing, then sent the ghosts and their loved ones to the Underworld.
• Jin Shanyao took Lin Mo’s family in, corrected Meng Anci’s unfair contract, and treated Fan Er and the students when plague struck.
• Jin Shanyao helped control the epidemic at Green Mountain Academy, while Old Madam Su died and later taught Jin Shanyao 341 lessons before departing for the Underworld.
• Jin Shanyao reviewed Anzhi Hall’s accounts and praised Meng Anci’s insight, then Meng Anzhi outwitted bandits hired by rival apothecary shops.
• Jin Shanyao confronted the shopkeepers, and Meng Anzhi forgave them after they promised to act honestly, and the bandits later helped a freezing woman and child whom Anzhi Hall sheltered.
• Qiao Qingran asked Jin Shanyao to examine her elderly father-in-law because her twin sons became distressed around him, and Jin Shanyao agreed to travel to the capital for an extra fee.
• Jin Shanyao set out with Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci, raised her fee after hearing Nanny Qi disparage her, and accepted winter clothes from Madam Su to deliver to her mother.

Jin Shanyao exposed Master Ji’s life-borrowing array, then helped Shen Yan uncover the truth about the twenty-eight soldiers and send their spirits onward. Back in Qingzhou, she reopened Anzhi Hall and resumed helping locals while planning to leave for the capital someday.

• Jin Shanyao reached the capital with Qiao Qingran and the children, then exposed Master Ji’s plan to steal years from his descendants and helped bring him into custody.
• Jin Shanyao refused the Third Prince’s attempt to have her killed, spent time with the Fu family, and departed the capital with Meng Anzhi and Meng Anci.
• Jin Shanyao rescued Shen Yan from the shadow guards and showed him the twenty-eight Earthbound Spirits he had been seeking.
• Jin Shanyao revealed that the soldiers had been sacrificed beneath the official road, then performed rites and opened a Ghost Gate for them.
• Jin Shanyao returned to Qingzhou Prefecture, reopened Anzhi Hall, and resumed giving fortune-telling advice to locals.
• Jin Shanyao told Xie Chao she and Meng Anzhi would eventually leave for the capital, then attended Wang Xiaohua’s wedding celebrations.
• Jin Shanyao advised a young master about his feelings for his sister-in-law before learning he had gone mad during the provincial examination.