Caray, Caray!

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Hi all! The Cliff Notes of Tuesday and Wednesday nights are as follows... A whole lot of shaking up is going on. Jacintas brother Sergio is shaking up the hacienda! Octavio is shaking up Remedios' heart... She thinks too much of her sons father, boo hoo. While Andres and Valeria are shaking up their hormones.

Octavio tells Remedios he is interested in her. He likes her. She argues with him telling him that it is not easy for her... boo hoo. Federico might get mad. Scary Scary to have your son telling you what to do.

Andres and Valeria get hot and heavy in an alleyway in town. Who should see their PDA? None other than the prodigal brother Sergio. He watches them then pauses to smoke a cigarette. As Valeria is running back home (literally) she runs into Tio Sergio. The tio learns that Valeria has been forbidden to date Andres because he isn't from a wealthy social family. Valeria explains that Jacinta wants her to marry the loser Rodrigo. Tio Sergio pipes up with a timely story of how Jacinta never would have been able to marry Pedro Valladolid if her father in law had had the same attitude. Valeria loves hearing this and says his stories about Jacintas past give her strength. Tio Sergio agrees to not say anything about seeing Valeria with Andres. He also says he will try and convince Jacinta to give up the idea of Illustrious Sur-Names for Valeria.

The gossipy ladies of town run into the nun Consuelo. (Strange we just saw Valeria kissing up Andres in town on a bright sunny day. Now we are in another part of town and it is cloudy and raining hard.) The ladies are all under umbrellas due to the storm. One of the gossipy ladies point blank asks the nun isnt it better to tell the truth? The nun agrees and then the gossip comes in for the kill. "If it is better to tell the truth then tell me what was it that obligated Maite Galan to marry Fico, the son of Jacinta?" The gossipy lady then says she cant believe what the nun has told her (we had a break to Sergio and Valeria so I guess this is when the nun filled her in). "I always thought that Fico was such a good boy! How could he have raped Maite?! " The nun answers that Maite suffered a lot, that Maite only married so her daughter would have a father and that Jacinta knew everything. The nun warns the gossip that now she knows the truth she hopes she will not use it to cause harm to anyone. Foreshadowing here....

Federico, Rodrigo and Omar talk about whether Rodrigo is ready to take over the business now that Gustavo is hurt. Omar wisely says he thinks that Rodrigo is not ready. Federico pushes his way around and makes it clear that he will help Rodrigo regardless of if he is ready or not.

When Tio Sergio and Valeria return to the hacienda his bags are packed and waiting for him by the door. Jacinta walks up and tells him he is leaving right now. The show cuts to an ad and the ad is for HERIDAS de AMOR! Handsome man is spotted and my hopes for a better novela are increased. Back to this one... Jacinta yells at Valeria and tells Sergio to Vete! Ahora Mismo! Valeria mentions that he can talk with one of the gossips to find a cheap place for him to stay in town. I guess the mere mention of the gossipy ladies frightens Jacinta and she agrees that Sergio can stay. She gets Sergio alone and says he can stay as long as he never brings up her past again nor can he call her Hermanita again. (The stories of her poor farm working past are fun. Plus Im liking the trouble he is stirring up by telling the stories.)

Jose and Maite are together again. When I saw Mondays episode I kept wanting them to see each others jewelry - to talk of their pasts! Then I remembered the advice/knowledge of the fellow bloggers that it is typical for relatives who dont know they are relatives to feel strange urgings to one another.... That the process of discovering just who each other are is a long (arduous) one. OK back to Jose and Maite. They continue to enjoy each others company not knowing why... Telling snipets of their past and getting interrupted when they are about to say something of consequence. Ahhhhhhh!

Jacaranda and her pals, the evil Rafael and the dumb blonde, help Jacaranda pack up her belongings from her dead husbands house. She is promtly kicked out with just one bag and a bag of jewels. Needless to say Rafael is not happy and he calls Jacaranda stupid.

Sergio admits to Valeria that he used to be a gigolo! Valeria doesnt seem shocked or disgusted. Instead she seems interested. Hmm very strange..... Manola and her father come to the hacienda to ask Jacinta to convince Rodrigo to go back to school. Federico butts in and says he will teach Rodrigo how to manage the farm instead. He more or less says that Rodrigo should be the involved in all manners of the business, and should assume the resonsibilties of Gustavo. Manola is not happy with Ferderico nor with what is decided... that Federico will help Rodrigo and that Federico will be involved in the cow farm. I guess all the better to stick his nose into their finances.

The gossipy ladies quickly discuss the new private information about Maite. Then they start laughing about how funny it was to meet Jacintas brother. (They like him. More hormones here with people I dont want to think about having hormones.) Remedios fantasizes about Octavio versus the unico hombre de mi vida. (The only man she has ever been with in a biblical sense.)

Sergio questions Jacinta about who is Federico. He asks Why do you treat him like a son? Who is his father? Jacinta gets mad refusing to answer who is the father of Federico. She tells him that "It is not necessary that you know more than what I tell you." No hace falta que sepas mas alla de lo que yo te diga. (Always good one liners are coming from her.) She then tells Sergio that if something disappears from the house she will hold him responsible.