It's spring, and the countryside outside the city is beginning to grow lush and green. The master tells the young man that it's only a three-day ride from the city to the imperial city, and that the tians will attack them if they dare to attack them. The young man thanks the master for his kind words, but he's still not convinced that the man is a fool. He's drunk, he says, and he bought the medicine from a street vendor, not from a proper shop. The old man is all, "I said I was drunk" and "I drank fake wine" and so on and so forth. Finally, the old man says, "You look a bit familiar, damn it, stop running" and gives the man his money back. The older man tells the younger man that the thief is a crook and that he escaped from the bamboo forest where he'd been hiding. The elder man says that he thought the thief was the killer, but now he knows it was the man from the tea-house where he was tricked the last time. He tells the older man to have tea