The Gentle Crackdown

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, LO…

CHOW is vexed that he has offended WAI. WONG suggests him taking an early retirement and returning to his hometown with sickness as his excuse. The constables find MUI and LAU obstacles to their getting rich plan. They decide to set her up…

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. …

When he has come round, he makes it clear to WONG that he is not going to repay the money. What is more, he is reporting the case to Chancellor HO. Fearing that he will lost his job, WONG stops him at once. PING vents his anger on MUI and …

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 offe…

The letter was written by Mr LEE, the educational commissioner, of Man Chung College. LAU orders WONG and others to resume work. WONG does not have a clue what is going on. LAU accompanies HO to yamen. LAU has no idea at all as to how to c…

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 …

MUI receives an anonymous letter, stating that CHEE has been poisoned by the venom of the Tiger Head Bee, and that the Lion Head grass is the only antidote. Suspecting that PING, who is from Yunnan, is the culprit, MUI decides to go to Sam…

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…

LAI KWAN, FONG’s daughter, admires LAU. Rather reluctantly, LAU makes an engagement to her. LAU uses the horse given by the emperor as a Mounted Horse for the use of the mounted constables. MUI is promoted mounted countable, which she is v…

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 com…

On one hand, MUI takes care of YING without sleep or rest. On the other, she refuses to talk to her. YING is heartbroken. LAU sighs that MUI sees things very much in black and white terms. YING gives him a few words of consolation. FONG fi…

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 fo…

Seeing that LAU and MUI have cracked up cases one after one, the Criminal Department summons them to go to the capital in homely clothes for the investigation of a serial killing of imperial concubines. MUI gives LAU a good telling-off for…

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. …

The Book on a Healthy Life, which was a gift given by India, has been missing for thirty years. The emperor appoints LAU and MUI to look into the case. LAU confesses to FONG that he has fallen in love with MUI and requests an annulment of …

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 fra…

FONG tortures YING, forcing her to hand over The Book on a Healthy Life. LAU scolds him for carrying out a secret trial; he retorts that LAU shows favoritism to MUI. MUI plans to break into the jail to save YING and to run away with LAU. L…

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. LA…

KWAN hates LAU and MUI to the core. She asks FONG to kill them. However, she discloses accidentally that the two have visited PO TAI. The translation has been finished at last. Looking at it, YING knows at once that it is a book on a supre…