The young master and Benefactress rush off to carry the wounded Linghua down the mountain, but the rain is too heavy and they have to stop. The master tells the young master that it is better to keep Linghua far away from the place where he was born. He tells the boy that he was just washing his hands by the river when a plague struck the village. Now that he knows the truth, he says, he would like to go back to his own world.