The narrator tells us that he's staying at the pavilion because he doesn't want to go out. He's not a member of the pavilion, but he does have some friends from the valley. The narrator asks the guy if he can pass along a message to Long Kui. The guy says he'll pass it on to her. He also tells the narrator that a rich guy is waiting outside. The rich guy asks the narrator to promise that he won't leave the pavilion until he meets him. This is a big deal, because the narrator has been proposing to Long since he was ten years old. The fat guy says that he hasn't changed his mind, and he has been asking Long for a thousand times. Long says that the fat guy admires him so much that he should cherish him. Long tells the story of how he and Kui ended up in the woods together. The three of them fight and get ambushed.