Recaps

Reborn Zhou Jinian married Xie Ning and began caring for him while the newlyweds adjusted to life in the Zhou household. As they sought ways to earn money and manage Xie Ning’s illness, they discovered that the cave pool could provide fish and shrimp to sell.

• Zhou Jinian stopped Grandmother Zhou from striking Lin Jin, announced he would marry Xie Ning, and secured his family’s agreement to pay their share of the marriage costs.
• After Xie Ning survived his illness and the Zhou family’s broken engagement, Zhou Jinian proposed to him, and the two were married.
• Xie Ning’s burning skin eased in the cave pool, and Zhou Jinian pulled him out after he killed a snake there.
• Zhou Jinian sold herbs and obtained book-copying work, while Xie Ning and Lin Jin prepared steamed dried eggplant and worked together at home.
• Zhou Jinian comforted Xie Ning through his fear of the stray cat, and Zhou Dafeng was injured when wild boars knocked him into a ditch.
• Zhou Jinian and Xie Ning visited the Xie family, where Zhou Jinian helped Xie Yao study and began teaching Xie Ning to write his name.
• When Lin Jin’s back injury left him unable to work, Xie Ning gathered medicinal vine and learned to prepare his treatment, while Zhou Jinian took over brewing the medicine.
• Xie Ning caught fish and shrimp in the cave pool, shared a fish with Zhou Jinian, and asked him to go fishing there with him the next day.

Xie Ning and Zhou Jinian built a livelihood in town through food sales, moved into a courtyard, and consummated their marriage. Zhou Jinian passed the prefectural examination as its top scorer, while Xie Ning prepared to open a shop and Zhou Jinian left for a banquet at Plum Blossom Manor.

• Zhou Jinian and Xie Ning gathered and sold fish, earned money copying books, and chose a house in Upper North Alley as the Zhou family’s household split approached.
• Xie Ning protected Lin Jin during a quarrel with Grandmother Zhou, and Zhou Sanfeng demanded a household division before the family later agreed to divide things evenly.
• Xie Ning sold vegetarian jerky successfully, then developed fish wontons with Lin Jin and began selling them with Zhou Sanfeng in town.
• Zhou Jinian moved his family into the new courtyard with Xie Ning, and later consummated their marriage after taking him to the mountain pool.
• The family’s wonton stall drew steady customers as Zhou Jinian left with Xie Yao to sit the prefectural examination.
• Zhou Jinian passed as the top scorer, and the county magistrate later announced his result and awarded him a stipend.
• Xie Ning helped the busy stall and proposed opening a shop, while Zhou Jinian and Lin Jin supported the plan and Zhou Sanfeng agreed.
• Zhou Jinian and Xie Ning chose a shop near the market, and Zhou Jinian left with Xie Yao and Zhou Liufeng to attend Master Zhu’s banquet at Plum Blossom Manor.