Man in Charge

Official CHU from Hangzhou reports to the government that he has cultivated 800 acreages of farmland and Inspector CHENG comes to check out the area. As recommended by official advisor CHOW PING, CHU asks CHENG to wait for him in the brothel. CHU arrives to find luxurious food and pretty ladies all around. He is enraged and scolds all the government officers there for their misbehaviors. On the next day, PING informs CHENG that CHU wants to report the case to the government and CHENG realizes that he has been framed. CHENG reluctantly goes to check out the “farmland” with PING. CHU tries to bribe CHENG and agrees to bring him the pretty prostitute he met earlier. Later, PING is shocked to realize that the pretty prostitute is his wife CHIU YUK HING. HING is a suspicious wife. She...

HING requests NGA TO to give her the medicine to cure PING. TO reminds HING that she is a spy of the government and he warns her not to fall in love with PING. HING has no choice but to try curing PING with all kinds of medicine… CHU is being fired and PING honestly reveals that he is the one who informed the government about his false report. CHU is enraged and he spreads rumors of PING. PING can no longer stay in the officialdom. PING’s master YAU KUNG scolds him angrily but he gives him financial assistance. HING and PING go to join KUNG’s birthday celebration. HING is sad to discover that all officers are laughing at PING. The tycoon of Jiangsu province, SHUM CHEUNG LUN, brings his son KWAN POK to KUNG’s birthday banquet. LUN reveals that POK will become a government official soon and...

TO wants to kill PING again and HING risks her life to rescue PING. HING worries that PING will desert her after knowing her real identity so she leaves him secretly. PING is overjoyed to be free in the beginning but he starts to worry about HING after a while. LUN and KUNG invite PING for a meeting because of POK’s career problem. PING returns to discover HING and HING wants him to change his job. As invited by KUNG, PING goes to Jinshan County to assist POK. PING wants POK to invite him by himself but POK refuses. LUN asks PING to stay in the government house first. POK tries to exercise his authority over PING. PING is enraged and he leaves angrily. PING discovers that people are playing his favorite ballgame in Jinshan County as well. He goes to Jizou House to play the ballgame....

PING is impressed by HAN’s skills in playing the ballgame as well as her beauty. PING tells HAN that he knows she has played tricks to win LONG and HANG is annoyed. LUN informs PING that POK is missing suddenly and he believes that the salt smuggler has captured him. PING asks LUN to send money to the two government officials in order to gain support from them. However, the two officials return the money to LUN. PING openly announces to everybody that POK is missing and he asks official CHIU to help rescue POK. HUNG and SHEUNG worry that the news will be spread to the central government so they ask the salt smugglers to release POK. HUNG and SHEUNG go to visit POK. PING requests them to catch the salt smugglers. PING reports the case to the government. Official YIM KWO receives the report...

PING plans to return to his hometown but he decides to watch the ballgame again before leaving. PING is invited to play the ballgame with HAN and they win the contest together. HAN starts to appreciate PING. KUNG reveals to PING that he is POK’s real father and he wants PING to continue assisting POK. PING finally agrees to stay. POK laughs at PING secretly after realizing that PING falls for HAN. POK fires all the other official advisors and asks PING to do all the works. POK carries out his promise to give PING a new house but PING discovers that the house is empty. PING goes to Jizou House to get close to HAN. They hear some noise in the kitchen and they capture a thief together. PING returns to his new house to discover that all the furniture is in place. He misconceives that POK has...

Shanxi Official WONG CHING comes to Jinshan County and he wants POK to hand over the important criminal YAN CHEONG SHING to him. POK discusses the case with PING and PING realizes that the thief he caught has actually murdered 7 people. POK and PING go to question SHING. SHING used to be the supervisor of a granary in Shanxi. He reveals that he is framed by some Shanxi officials after realizing that they have committed corruption. POK wants SHING to give him the evidence on the case so that they could report it to the government. CHING comes to look for SHING and PING tries to hold him up so that POK could leave secretly. SHING is very demanding during the journey and POK tries hard to prevent him from running away. SHING plays trick at the restaurant so that he could run away. PING’s...

POK and the others need to stay in the ship for one night since the weather is not good for sailing. CHING tries to sneak away but somebody in black suddenly arrives to capture him. This person also ties POK and the others up in the ship. PING meets Mrs DIU and he realizes that FAI has been decapitated because he failed to help relieve the disaster. PING is heart-broken and he decides to help uncover the corruption case with POK. Somebody rescues POK and the others from the ship. POK tells this person about his plan to fight against the corruption case in Shanxi. PING and POK meet at inn. They discover SHING’s dead body in POK’s room. Official WU refuses to handle the corruption case. He even puts POK and PING in jail. Senior Official LI comes to Shanxi to deliver the emperor’s letter to...

HUNG HING NAM learns that POK is appointed to be a special inspector on the corruption case. POK and PING try to carry out investigation in Shanxi secretly. However, HUNG comes to welcome them openly on the main street and their plan is ruined. POK thinks that HAN has caused the trouble. He scolds PING angrily and they break up in discord. POK decides to carry out investigation on his own but NAM’s subordinates tail after him all the time. POK wants to investigate the granary and the bank. NAM set up the place carefully and POK fails to find any evidence. HING suddenly arrives to stop PING from getting intimate with HAN. HAN is heart-broken and she leaves sadly. PING starts a quarrel with POK angrily and POK fires him. HING blames HAN for seducing her husband in front of everybody. HAN...