The guests discuss the plan to go to Dingzhou in disguise and the time it will take to get there. The weather is bad, and the ship has to return to the port in the prefecture of Quinshan. The guests decide to go hide on an island near the port. When they arrive at the island, they find dead bodies. The dead bodies are those of the plum flower guards, the bodyguards of the seventh and eighth prince. The wounds are the same, so the murderer must be the same one. They decide to ignore the dead man.