Gunshots ring out while I-hsin visits KK, and everyone spends a tense night under his roof. I-hsin secures the pricing intelligence and undercuts the competition with a massive order, but the tea elders condemn her for undercutting the market. Stripped of his fertilizer plant, KK refuses to remain a mere translator and begins teaching farmers directly — until the Americans order him to abandon fertilizer altogether.
薏心來到KK家不久，窗外一陣槍響，眾人在KK家度過不安的一夜。 薏心成功取得底價，以低價搶下大單，卻被穆佬與茶郊大佬們責備破壞行情，只得單打獨鬥。 失去化肥廠的KK不甘做小翻譯，到北埔農會教農民用肥；然而迪克卻命令KK放棄化肥。 日光沒茶可收又遇外匯收款失敗，薏心找來文貴幫忙，文貴脅迫高價代工，薏心也盤算著文貴。
