Jang-Geum notices Min Jung-Ho looking at her. Later, Jang-Geum practices writing and Min Jung-Ho sees that her brush is too think. So he looks for the little brush chain thing that the woman who saved him left by his side. He realizes he doesn’t have it with him because he changed his outfit.
Keum-Young and Min Jung-Ho exchanged looks and a few words. It turns out he is the one she has
secretly admired since she was young (when she was saying goodbye outside of Min Jung-Ho’s room because she has to be a palace woman and from that day onwards, she is a woman of the King and not the other man’s).
secretly admired since she was young (when she was saying goodbye outside of Min Jung-Ho’s room because she has to be a palace woman and from that day onwards, she is a woman of the King and not the other man’s).
Geum-Young realizes Jang-Geum and Jung-Ho know each other. She asks her about it and Jang-Geum tells her. he was the one she ran into on her way back from the herbal farm garden to the Royal Kitchen while delivering.
a letter. Jung-Ho asks Jang-Geum if she has read all the books he sent her. She says yes so he offers to give her new books to read in a few days.
Jang-Geum and Yeon Saeng are sent to a sub-division of the Royal Kitchen temporarily because they need help.
Actually Jang-Geum has been dreaming of going there because that’s where her mother’s secret recipe book is hidden. Jang-Geum goes out at night looking for the book in the kitchen. Yeon-Seng who share a room with Jang-Geum realizes something’s up with Jang-Geum.
Court Lady Choi gives Geum-Young a cursed silk and tells Geum-Young to hide it in the kitchen. The cursed silk contains an evil spell against the queen who is pregnant, which will change her fetus from a boy to a girl. Geum-Young tries to get out of doing such evil thing but she succumbs to Court Lady Choi and goes to the kitchen at night to hide it.
Yeon-Seng watches Geum-Young goes in the kitchen to hide the pouch and leaves. Then she sees Jang-Geum coming to the kitchen looking for something. Yeon-Seng confronts Jang-Geum and shows her where Geum-Young hide her thing. But Jang-Geum’s mother’s book falls from the ceiling rod and Jang-Geum grabs it and runs outside.
The kitchen lady finds the cursed silk in the kitchen, as it wasn’t well hidden anymore after Yeon-Seng messing with it, and finds out Jang-Geum was in the kitchen the night before from Geum-Young. Jang-Geum is confronted but she can’t say why she was there because her mother told her never to tell anyone, and the last time she told a secret, her father got killed. So Jang-Geum says nothing and she is jailed inside a room until she will talk.
Court Lady Jeong (Head of Royal Kitchen) later finds out what the curse is about. Meanwhile Yeon-Seng tells the Court Lady she saw Geum-Yeung hide something inside the kitchen, and Jang-Geum was looking for something not hiding anything. So the Court Lady Jung asks Geum-Young what she was hidding and what Jang-Geum was looking for. Geum-Young denies hiding anything and Jang-Geum refuses to say anything so both girls are locked inside the room. The Court Lady Jeong tells them tomorrow she will send them to investigation court, so they will speak. When the two are alone, Jang-Geum asks Geum-Young if she did it and Geum-Young says “No, You did it”.
Next day, the Court Lady gets ready to take them to be punished.
Next day, the Court Lady gets ready to take them to be punished.