This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by the same author as the epigraph in this chapter. The poem is entitled "If Not for Master's Jade Shield, I Might Have Been Hurted by That Man" . In this passage, the author says that if not for the jade shield, he might have been injured by the man. He says that he never expected the man to be so powerful in a trash-yard like this. He suggests that the woman let him go. Otherwise, when his brother