Three days have passed since the fight, and the young man is hungry. He invites Lin to dinner at his house, but Lin refuses, saying that he and the other men at the house are too eager to meet him. The young man suggests that the person who gives him the most jade each month will be his "referral." He says that if other people give him more jade, he will keep it and use it to his own cultivation. He adds that he will take leave of Lin to search for the jade, and they will meet again. He asks Lin if he would like to join him for lunch, but he says that he already has plans. He tells Miss Ming that one of the "four most powerful men" in the city, wu-de, sent a man to his house with a proposal, but the man turned him down, and his parents received a bullet the next day