Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty II To the West Episode 32

Li men’s tale

XiJun’s drawings have been very successful in tracking down the people they were looking for. Li men’s back and forth on wall😂 so from him they learn the letter received was not from him. It was pure chance they met in the hotel and his cousin was not particularly pleased to see him. They quarrel and Li men hits him with candlestick. He sees that is cousin is meeting for a tryst and he goes to fabric shop to tell on him. While waiting for the wife to wake up he eats and drinks as much of their food as possible. He tells the wife what he saw and expected a different reaction from her. She pays him two silver bars to go away and not return. She thinks he is spreading false gossip and say he should be ashamed of himself for telling her such lies and kicks him out of her home with the silver. He goes back to the hotel but sees a girl he knew to be dead and jumps out the window screaming ghost. So Chu Bin enters the picture. She and deceased were an item for a long time. She suddenly gets ill and dies and her lover marries the fabric store owner. The cousin had no more to add other than Chu bin’s death was odd. He then refers the court to his cousin’s friend. This person got the deceased hooked on cockfighting and introduced to the veiled woman who can imitate any female. He mediated their meeting and confirmed she was a dead ringer for the deceased girl. The veiled woman from the hotel confirms everything, but that she was disgusted by the transaction and closed it. She burned the letter because she didn’t want ghost of the deceased girl mad at her. Like Su, it’s a little too convenient for such a for this perfect encounter resulting in the death of the fabric designer. They now have the story of all three ingots and the wife verified that it was indeed from her funds and was a gift from her father. I find the veiled lady interesting and I feel sad for the sick fabric store owner. But I don’t find myself caring about her husband’s case at all. The serial murderer seems a better case study than this selfish man that took advantage of a very sick wife. And since both women he loved got mysteriously ill, does he have a part in that? I’m far more curious about the women than him. He is a cautionary tale of what not to be😝

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