The next day, tao tie checks the goods in his warehouse to make sure they're all packed up and ready to go. He tells jing that he'll treat him better the next time he comes to visit him. Worried that little jing might think he's lying, he tells him to have pity on the commoner like him. He says that he accepted the goods as a gift from the shanhua beast hunters because they were fresh and didn't need to be eaten. He's innocent, he says, because he spent so much money to buy the goods. He doesn't want to eat him, but he can't prove it, because it's illegal for a commoner to eat a fellow human being. Confused, jing asks if the goods are from the black market, and tao ties says they are. He explains that he bought the goods because he wanted to set them free so that he wouldn't have to pay for them again. jing says that's fine, he can ask if the man in the mask is a chef, and if he ordered the goods, and he can confirm that the man was