This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the previous chapter, in which Cai Mingyu, the son of Bochang, tells his father that he has shot a deer and is about to take it to his uncle, who is the leader of a gang in the city of Lingzhou. The deer belongs to his father, and he demands to know who the deer's owner is. When he learns that it is his father who has shot the deer, he curses his father's cowardice and calls for revenge. He also reveals that his father is the boss of a large gang and has killed countless people in his power