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LAU infers from all the evidence that FONG is the missing small eunuch SIU CHEUN CHI. PO TAI Abbot has not finished the translation of the book yet. WONG suggests going to where the eunuchs were burnt to death for further investigation. LAU suggestion holding a banquet to patch up KONG and FONG; FONG is delighted. LAU is more convinced that there is something suspicious about FONG. He uses but fails to use a “drip one by one” test to find out their relationship. When WONG and YING arrive at the spot where the fire broke out, they are shocked to find eunuch Mr YAN there. Mr YAN confirms that FONG is indeed CHEUNG. They escort YAN, who promises to be their witness, back to the capital. Unfortunately, YAN dies in the middle of the long journey. LAU and others are frustrated but then a bright idea suddenly occurs to LAU.… ...

Seeing that LAU and MUI are so deeply in love with each other, FONG agrees to let LAU annul his engagement with KWAN. PAK has been killed, and the weapon that led to his death was the Eagle Dart. LAU suspects that someone was trying to frame Eagle. LAU discovers from the scrolls in the palace that a eunuch has gone missing after the disappearance of The Book on a Healthy Life. WONG is being very agitated. He takes his men to a casino on a mop up operation. The constables point out that he has actually fallen in love with SAU. WONG follows SAU and finds out that she has quitted gambling. He goes up and asks why she lied to him. He confesses his love for her; SAU is pleased. LAU finds that two eunuchs were burnt to death on the same day when PAK was killed. Meanwhile, he receives the news that Eagle has killed NAM. He returns to LEUNG CHOI County with MUI at once. LAU and MUI work with YING to ensnare the fake Eagle.… ...

LAI KWAN finds it suspicious that MUI and LAU are making sheep’s eyes to each other. LAU therefore lies to her that MUI’s fiance has just passed away. He also tells her not to mention about the engagement so as not to hurt MUI’s feelings. On the other side, he also tells MUI the same story. LAU finds that all the killings have three things in common. He has arrested NING’s make-up stylist, SAI FUNG, but he still believes that the killings are much more complicated. YAN uses ON again to demand money from SAU. Unwilling to see ON abused by YAN, SAU and WONG decide to give him money again. Meanwhile, they have learnt that ON has gone missing. YAN finds ON lying in a back alley later. According to the doctor, ON has caught a cold and been beaten by some wild dogs. The doctor has also told them that ON will not be able to live to tomorrow. YAN is willing to sell ON at 120 taels.… ...

YING teaches MUI all her Kung Fu skills so that she can protect herself. Finding it difficult to remember the formulas, MUI turns to LAU for help. He has no choice but to jot down the formulas for her. YING sighs that MUI knows only the formulas but not the skills. LAU and MUI come across a bandit. MUI is about to lose the fight when LAU calls out the relevant formulas. MUI beats the bandit up and puts him into arrest. WONG SING’s wife accuses his younger brother, WONG KWONG, of killing SING. WONG refuses to take the case because she can produce no corpse. With a view to seeing her son, SAU promises her ex-husband, LAI YAN, to help him with his debt, which amounts 200 taels. SAU steals some abalone, seafood and jewelry from YING and sells them out. She gets only 30 taels from it nevertheless. At her wit’s end, she goes to borrow money from LIU. Both WONG and MUI refuse to give her a hand as they presume she is gambling again.… ...

PING collaborates with the bandits of the Flying Tiger Citadel. Believing that MUI will not use ten thousand public funds to save LAU, PING plans to kill LAU and MUI and at the same time take the money. From the clues left by LAU, WONG comes to the conclusion that PING is the mastermind of the kidnapping, and that there is an informer in yamen. He therefore decides to turn PING’s trick against him. MUI goes to the Flying Tiger Citadel on her own to save LAU. She nearly gets killed by PING’s man. Fortunately, the masked YING helps her out with her unique Kung Fu, the Cloud Chopper. YING is seriously injured. SUM recognizes that the masked person is none other than the Hero Thief the Eagle. An imperial edict has been issue for the arrest of the Hero Thief the Eagle. MUI swears to arrest the Hero Thief the Eagle; LAU is worried. MUI does not let YING buy medicine for her injury. YING is a bit angry.… ...

KWONG’s father, MA YUNG, comes for the hearing. As soon as PING sees YUNG, he gives a different story. He lies that he has admitted his guilt just because he is under the tortures of LAU. YUNG tells LAU that if he does not let KWONG go, he will bring the case to the palace. LAU passes out as soon as he hears this. WONG points out that as CHEE is still in a coma, it is difficult to convict KWONG. LAU calls the court to order suddenly. In the court, he reveals that CHAN YEE KU, who is a midwife, has confirmed that CHEE is pregnant. Therefore, he suggests KWONG and CHEE’s future baby to have a “drip one by one” test, an ancient Chinese method of verifying blood affinity by dripping blood of son on his parents’ to see if they go together or not, after CHEE has given birth to the baby. YUNG feels helpless. Everybody in yamen suffered from diarrhea. Later, YING has found in a well come poisonous mushrooms.… ...

MUI asks CHEE about the incident. CHEE is every excited emotionally. MUI swears to bring her justice. KWONG denies having raped CHEE. He insists that he has only slept with a prostitute, which is only a minor offence, and at the worst, he will pay a penalty for it. Meanwhile, CHEE loses her consciousness because of an unknown bee poison. CHEE therefore cannot testify against KWONG. Though reluctant, LAU has to let him go. KWONG sues MUI for wrongly accusing him. In order to settle the matter, LAU decides to dismiss MUI from the job. People in the neighborhood regard SAU as the Magical Gambler. WONG is not convinced and challenges her to a gambling game. SAI loses everything and have to write an I.O.U. to WONG. MUI finds a dried flower bud in CHEE’s hair. YING loses in a deep thought.… ...

YING lies to LAU that it was in fact her late husband who was the Hero Thief the Eagle. LAU does not quite believe her. A masked burglar has come for the levies. With the furtive help of YING, MUI manages to fight off the burglar. LAU offers a 300% pay rise to the constables, on the condition that they sign a new contract. After deducting the salary tax, LAU gives the rest to yamen, instead of sharing it among the constables like in the past. The constables realize then that they have been cheated by LAU. CHOW YUK, a villager, alleges that LAM TUNG, who is also a villager, has taken away his ancestral property. TUNG, on the other hand, accuses YUK of breaching the contract. LAU decides that TUNG wins as both witnesses and evidence are available. LAU, however, later tricks TUNG into giving the house and money to YUK for free. YUK is grateful to LAU. All the constables except MUI are sick; MUI is exhausted from running around for work.… ...

A neighbor of MUI’s asks her to look after his child for a while. It annoys her to the core that the child just cannot stop crying. She can do nothing about it but to play a nursery rhyme with the flute, hoping that this can calm it down. LAU finds the rhyme familiar. He asks MUI about the flute when he sees the eagle carved on it. LAU invites YING to teach him Kung Fu, yet she takes him in on behalf of MUI instead so as to pair up the two youngsters. Under the pretext of learning Kung Fu, LAU tries but fails to find out about YING’s identity from MUI. YING, who sees through LAU’s suspicion, removes his doubts with a trick. PING beats LAU up and drives him out of the county. He is frightened when he learns that LAU is the new governor. To his relieve, LAU claims that he will let bygones be bygones. LAU requests a stock taking of the yamen for a smooth handover and also for the reinstatement of MUI.… ...

All the officials and constables in Leung Choi County are corrupt except female constable SHAP YEE MUI, who is very good at Kung Fu. SIR WONG’s house has been broken into. MUI has caught the burglar. Much to her annoyance, the governor, LOW CHOW, and his clerk, SZE KEI WONG, blame her for spoiling their chance of making money. KAM YING, MUI’s mother, brings some soup to pacific CHOW, WONG and others. MOK TAI MO, who is also a constable, advises MUI to be wiser and do what the others do. She refuses, claming that she will never do anything that will ruin the name of his father, whose nickname is “Wonder Cop”. WONG has been beaten by SHUI TUNG LAU, who is from somewhere else, in a couplet competition. LAU’s learning has won him the admiration of the educated locals. Hooligan CHAN CHAT has stolen LAU’s wallet. YIU TAI PING, a head constable, nevertheless, points out that CHAT was only picking it up for LAU.… ...