This scene opens with a conversation between General Lu and Hou Ming. Hou Ming is worried that he will not be able to defeat General Lu in battle. He begs General Lu to lend him 50,000 elite soldiers, but General Lu refuses, saying he will make his own decisions. He tells Hou Ming that he has lived half his life and that he cannot even show his ambitions. He also tells him that a man outside has brought a thousand gold taels, and that the man thinks he is General Lu. General Lu says that Hou Ming has come to beg him for mercy with the gold because he knows he cannot defeat him. He says that once he is dead, Hou Ming will be the biggest threat to General Lu, and he will take Hou Ming's life in the battlefield. He adds that the door of the city of Liaoyang will always be open to him when he thinks it through. The man named JIA wan is an ordinary man, but if the general is as good as he is, he would not have a problem conquering the whole world. He asks chan if he is moving by the gold, and wants to betray the general and seek another lord. chan says that he just wants to be with the general forever, and if he cannot win the general's trust, he will leave the field and retire. He then asks why the general hasn't yet come to meet him. His wife says that her husband has gone to sleep, and she will not blame him for not coming to meet her. She says that she is his subordinate, and her husband should be waiting for her. General lu made her wait, she says, and now that he is the one waiting, she will have to follow his orders. If she doesn't follow her orders, he'll send him