Min Jung-Ho finds Jang-Geum who is exhausted and broken from the recent events. Jang-Geum asks what she did wrong to deserve this and states she tried to endure it all but now she has no energy nor patience to go on. Min Jung-Ho replies saying she cannot give up and asks her to hang on for him.
The two travel back but they’re met with hostile civilians who attack Min Jung-Ho since he is an officer. The citizens are angry that no one will treat their illness and they’re not allowed to leave the village although they’re not sick. Jang-Geum stops the beating saying she’s a medicine maid and she has medicines. Jang-Geum starts to treat the ill but she runs out of medicine and the citizens become angry again. They capture Min Jung-Ho again but Jang-Geum says they can get more medicine if they let go of Min to make the trip to the place where she went to get medicine before. The men agree but gives Min only one day or else they will kill Jang-Geum.