The two young men meet again, and the young man tells his father that his brother has offended him. He asks his father what he has to offer in exchange for the life of his brother. The young man says that the entire family will be under his control, but his brother is the one who has offended his father. The elder man replies that he hasn't seen him resting for days, so he's ordered someone to brew a special ginseng tonic soup. He says that his father should rest in peace, because he knows that the elder man has been fixated on the business of the family, and he has conspired with outsiders to kill him. The younger man tells him that he has hired doctors to examine his father's body, and that the elders in the community can vouch for the fact that he died of consumption of the medicine. The older man tells the younger man to stop trying to blame someone else for his crime. He has interrogated all the servants present on the day of the murder, and has also interrogated the man who gave the medicine to the family. He also says that he knows who killed the other disciple of his. He tells the older man that if he were willing to give up all of his cultivation and offer an apology to his master, he'd consider sparing his life.