The next morning, xia and zhuzi go to the fishmonger's shop to buy fish. xia says that he doesn't want to go back to the village because the people there won't let him study there. He also says that they'll show the people that they can still study and become champions by themselves. . The fishmonger explains that a few days before, some people from the mansion ate fish from the village that fell sick. Now, people don't dare eat fish anymore, and xia thinks that's because the fish didn't cause the people to fall sick. He thinks that if they put the fish back in the pond, it'll die. He wonders if linjin just wanted to go to a different village, but xia points out that all the fish in the village are there, and he can't think of a reason why he wouldn't go to another one. The two men decide to go with xia to buy the fish, but they're interrupted by the pharmacy owner, who offers to sell them fish for ten times the cost of the original price. The pharmacy owner agrees to let them use the tools at his shop to kill the fish and prepare the fish for sale. The shop owner says that if the boss at the pharmacy thinks the fish is good, everyone will come and buy it, and everyone will surely buy