Worried about his mother's fate, xia says she's going to search for master tan. He's the one who rescued her from the emperor's palace, and he's about to get angry if he doesn't treat her with respect. . Master tan tells xia that his mother was called Song Linwei, and that she died when her carriage fell off a cliff. She was saved by her son-in-law, old chen. He also tells linjin that if he wants to find out where his mother died, he can do so. Worried that he won't be able to help his mother if he stays in the country, xi says he'll wait until he passes the exams and enters the capital. He tells the story of a concubine named chen who got into a fight with a legal wife and had a miscarriage. The legal wife's husband was furious, and xi's mother wasn't related to chen, but she looked exactly like her mother.