The narrator tells the audience that the two men are not assassins. They are here to help the king find out the whereabouts of the spies from the pavilion. The two men tell the king that they have come because they want to help him. The king asks if they remember the time they first met, and the narrator tells him that he was "young and willful" back then. He asks the king if he remembers the first time they met and the king tells the narrator that he has to experience the poem himself before he can understand it. The narrator thanks the king for his compliment and tells the king to take it easy on the road to Luoxiao hill. He says that they will encamp there and that the mountain road will lead them to the valley of the river. The man tells the man that the king has taken all the spies of the pavilion out of the king's hands and has taken them with the help of Mr. and Mr. Gu. He adds that the man should have killed the king, but the man says that he should not have done so because the king would have known that he would reach out to the men and they would have killed him if he had done so. He tells the men that the pavilion did all it could for the king and the country and that they should not slander him now. The men tell him that they do not believe him and that he is lying to them. They say that they did not kill the king because they already knew who he was and they wanted to know whether he had feelings for them and whether they had any feelings at all for the man. They ask the king why he does not confront the man, and he says that his majesty raised him too well and he was born this way