Footprints of Change Episode 9

Past and future collide

There is a reporter waiting in Cheng’s office with coffee ready. He informs him that the man they had arrested was Dalun’s guy. Cheng looks surprised at this. The reporter said he and Shen are on same side and Cheng denied it. The reporter laughed and said he wasn’t telling him the truth anymore. He lets Cheng know he will have a hard time trying to be neutral. Si Yun is in trouble with Mr Shen because she prescribed birth control to Mrs Shen. His retaliation resulted in the closing of her hospital. She could fight it in court but it would take months if not a year to get it back open. Mr Cheng gives her another option. There are pictures of him he would rather not be made public so they both agree to table his anger about the meds. Ao and Si Yun are becoming an official couple. They go to Mr Zeng’s bday party and he notes their hand holding and he lets them know he approves. The festivities are interrupted by a squad of policeman charging Zeng Dalun of dealing in opium. They have a search warrant to search the house. Opium is found on the premises and Dalun is brought in. When he gets out on bail he has a chat with Cheng where he said he learned he had filed the complaint. Cheng does not respond but waits for Shen to get in his office for them to have a chat. Shen reveals that he set up Dalun and used him as well. Cheng is outraged that Shen put him on the same side. He said there was a friendship until this matter but things have now changed. Dalun is trading with the Japanese and his father has caused strikes in the docks. He is told his father can play along and make money or get killed. Cheng meets with his father and lets him know he was not the one that filed the complaint. Dalun comes in and he and father have it out. His father is outraged he is dealing both in opium and with Japanese. Later Cheng goes to an old spot he and Dalun used to drink together, Dalun fesses up about his dealings and tries to get Cheng to go along. He tells him to let the communist stuff goes because that will get him killed and then goes on to tell him the benefits of Japanese products and cuisine. Cheng is outraged with him and says they are no longer brothers. After weighing matters, Mr Zeng calls Cheng in to rewrite his will. He now has his assets quartered rather than giving Dalun all of it. The winds of war are coming and the father is preparing. He wants both of his sons to survive and not kill each other. Hard lines are being drawn and they are all being divided by politics and beliefs or profit and opportunity.

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