Linchaoyang tells his daughter that he has come back from the war and that he will soon be able to help the old woman. He tells her that she must take care of herself, but she tells him that she is afraid he will leave her. She tells him about how her mother was exiled and how the second aunt was beaten and locked up. She says that she cannot eat the food brought for her by her grandmother. She asks about her mother's death, and she says that shan yuan, the murderer of her mother, was living at Fango's house before he left. She accuses him of disrespecting the elderly, and he slaps her father. She calls him a "disrespectful old bat" and tells him to shut up.