The elder shen-hong is having some disagreements with the brothers of the snow-wind family, but he doesn't seem to have much of a quarrel with them. One of the brothers had just met the young master and told him that someone had just assassinated the current city lord, and that he had already been killed. The elder says that he is unable to verify the truth, but that the masterminds of the whole thing were "deceitful and cunning people" who were trying to "outwit and confuse" the various patriarchs. He says that it is odd that the current lord hasn't shown up for the banquet yet. He wonders how someone could have been able to assassinate the current leader of the city. He also wonders how the elder sister-in-law can be so wicked. He thinks that if she had spread the rumor, the entire city would have been in turmoil. But she says that she has just met up with the elder brother, who is very energetic and is on his way to breaking through to the rank of "cultivation lord" . He tells her that he will be back soon.