When he comes back, the boy tells his father that he will make sure that he lives a happy life in the future, but that he died fighting on the battlefield, which is dangerous. He says that it is good that he was a soldier, because his mother told him that it was good to be one. He tells his grandmother that they should stop eating the meat buns at the market place and give the bandits the money they need to buy the buns. She tells them that they will suffer less if they are obedient, and they should give up their resistance and let the bandits loot them. Everyone rushes out to catch the thief.