The soldiers are looking for the kidnapper of the princess, and the peasants are worried that they will not be able to meet her. The bastard says that he is the bastard of the kingdom of the chu. He explains that he escaped from the royal palace because he rejected the marriage proposal from his fiancee. He tells the soldiers that he has a plan to get to the kingdom. He says that the imperial notice was a lie because he was afraid that if he threw it away, the soldiers would find out where he had gone.