The scene opens with a struggle between Caius Mingyan and the General. Mingyan tells the General that he will kill him if he tries to threaten him again. The General tells Mingyan that he does not need him to tell him how to run his affairs. He says that he merely wanted to test Mingyan's reaction to a scout team sent to find out how Mingyan reacted to the disappearance of the scout team. The general says that Mingyan did not want to sell himself to Mingyan for these things, and Mingyan replies that he would have agreed to the price if Mingyan had offered him clothes and food. He asks Mingyan to stay with him and accept his punishment.