Episode 13 recap, continuation:

The Prime Minister’s wife and some of the mothers are offended by what Saimdang said; they ask, “Are you saying that we look fancy, but aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith a lotus fruit, we don’t have substance?”

On Hwieumdang’s signal, the Prime Minister’s wife then says that Saimdang’s father was jailed during the Gi-myo incident. The other mothers begin saying that someone aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith a traitor aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith his family is not fit to be a student in Jungbu School. Saimdang defends her father by saying that he was found innocent aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith the charge aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith him. She then quotes aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith the Classic of Filial Piety: “Even if my father was guilty, a child hiding her father’s crime and not reporting it honestly, that’s compassion. How can you accuse a child aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith his father’s crime?’

(When Saimdang mentions her father’s name, Tae-ryong’s mother recognizes that Saimdang was her classmate 20 years ago.)

Hwieumdang and the Prime Minister’s wife call aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith a majority vote on Hyun-ryong’s expulsion. But the vote is tied 7-7. Hwieumdang then calls aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith a tea break. When Saimdang overhears aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith a mother that Hwieumdang slapped Hyun-ryong twice, she seethes aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith anger.

The Prime Minister’s wife whispers aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith the servant to spill tea aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith Saimdang’s silk dress. But Tae-ryong’s mother hears the instruction and trips up the servant. The tea is spilled aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith the silk skirt aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith the young mother sitting next to Saimdang. The young mother becomes hysterical and cries out that she only borrowed her silk clothes aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith her neighbor. The Prime Minister’s wife, Hwieumdang, and the other mothers are aghast by that sudden confession and say that the young mother has been deceiving them aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith being rich.

Saimdang realizes that she was the real target and pities the young mother; she orders the servant to get some ink and a brush. aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith some hesitation, Saimdang begins painting grapevines and grapes aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith the silk skirt. The mothers are stunned aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith Saimdang’s masterful and graceful strokes, aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith some remarking that she’s better than Hwieumdang. After Saimdang finishes the painting, she says that “there is no border aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith ugliness and beauty.” She and Tae-ryong’s mother tell the young mother that she can sell the silk skirt aboutAfteragainstatbetweenforfrominlikeofontowith a very high price.