The dew from Pu'er Mansion's Mao hour is still condensing on the copper scale, and Su Tang has replaced the twenty-four baskets of "Menghai Chunjian" with three tea leaves stamped with rouge seals. When the guards of the Mianning Department detained the Su family's horse team for the third time, she finally saw clearly the numbers circled in cinnabar in the account book - her father had been paying for the missing tea tax for ten years.
Purpose: The daughter of a tea merchant revitalizes the family