The story opens with a description of thieves called the "people with three arms" . The narrator tells us that thieves are described as having three arms. The story begins with a street performer asking the crowd to guess which bowl contains a ball. Everyone guesses the right one, and the street performer offers money to the person who guesses the wrong one. The street performer's apprentice walks through the crowd and collects the money. Everyone pretends not to see the apprentice, who is carrying a bamboo container. The apprentice is the baby who was abandoned fifteen years ago. He was trained to be a thief by the performer who rescued the child. Unfortunately, the performer spent his life traveling around, picking up bad habits, and dying soon after. As luck would have it, the apprentice was able to take some tiles from the table and swap them under the table. The two street performers decide to go back to the master with the three arms and take care of him. They kidnap a beautiful girl from the nearby town and promise to bring her back to him as soon as possible. The master is so happy that the girl has never been seen with anyone before. He hates the name "monster" so much that he hates to be called a monster. The name of the monster pushed buttons on his buttons, and he tore off her clothes. He wanted to kill the girl later, but he was afraid of what people would say about him if he killed her. He turned to lao jiu and asked him if they were going to kill him as well. .