In the meantime, the Ming family has conducted an investigation and found that the crime was committed by the Ming elder and his son, but that the Ming master spared them. The Ming family hopes that the patriarch of the Ming clan will not blame the young master for the crime, and that the whole family will take the matter as a warning. Ming says that he only wanted his son to live with the Mings, but now that he has become so powerful, he wishes he could live in peace with the zhongs. He tells us that he met the Ming boy for the very first time because of the rift between the Ming and the yuefeng families, and the boy is afraid of him.