The next morning, the emperor rushes back to the city with soldiers. He leaves a message that someone will pick them up and take them to safety. He also leaves a note in the bun that says someone will come to help them escape. The guards refuse to let the women talk to each other, so the women are left alone. The uncle tells the women that they are the only ones who came through the village. He tells them that the emperor came to the village to supervise the war, but that the whole family has been killed. The emperor still needs the help of the tie family, so they have put the third and fourth grandmothers under house arrest