The patriarch asks if it's appropriate to be attacking his own people in the name of the enemy. The patriarch tells him that he's done nothing wrong, and that the family has been on the road to extinction under his leadership. He also tells the patriarch that he has secretly been working on a cure for his son-in-law's useless liver. He asks the patriarch not to blame him for dishonoring him, and the patriarch says that since the patriarch has treated him shabbily , he doesn't have to blame himself for his dishonor. He says that the patriarch's grandson has been trying to cure the useless liver, but the patriarch hasn't been able to do anything about it. He's powerless to stop the family from going down the same path as the patriarch, and his grandson is going to join his grandson's side against him. He calls the patriarch a "peculiar worm" and says that he