The next morning, Gu's father tells his daughters that he will not allow them to go back to school. He tells them that the only way to get back into school is to ask the local warlord. The warlord is on a military tour, and he will be gone until the New Year. Gu wants to use his relationship with the Si family as leverage to get the money he needs to send his daughters to school, so he asks the Si's for help. His wife, however, refuses to help because she needs two gold bars to pay for the gold bars. The father says that if his daughters want to marry, they have to be educated. He says that he has invested too much money into his two daughters to give away half of their father's power. He will give the money to the warlord, who keeps his box in his study.