The patriarch tells the peasant farmers that they should hand over the missing girl immediately. Otherwise, they will massacre everyone in the town. He tells the patriarch that they are just there to ask for the girl. The patriarch says that they really are here for someone, and that there is no need to make enemies between the two houses over a girl. A few days later, the patriarch learns that a young girl has gone missing from the family of heavenbound. An elder of the family, named zaitian, brought a dozen other men to the village of youthfeather in order to demand that the house hand her over, but the men were beaten and thrown out of the village. It turns out that, earlier in the day, the town of blue carp had erected a wall around the village, cutting it off from outside the world.