Yan Zhanjin, "The time of the two lovers flies by. Their last supper, Cao Fengge, announced that he would return to the capital, which broke Li Liqin's heart. The two met for the last time. Yan Zhanjin continues his story.
Lying in a wooden shed. Cao Fengge held Li Liqin tightly in his arms. Cao Fengge said, "Liqin, I will report to eunuch Sun after returning to the capital, and I will come back for you. We will run away together."
Li Liqin kissed Cao Fengge. She said, "Cao ge ge, I will wait for you." She reached out and grabbed her robe, and then a small bamboo tube fell off. She picked it up and handed it to Cao Fengge. "This is what you want."
Cao Fengge said, "This is the last job I have to do for Sun eunuch. After giving this to him, I am a free man, and I no longer owe him anything."
Li Liqin asked, "When will you come back for me?"
Cao Fengge hugged Li Liqin tightly and said, "I will be back in three months."
After Cao Fengge left Li Liqin, she waited at the door every day from dusk to dawn. After two and a half months of living in seclusion, Chen Fa successfully made his corpse powder and finally got out of the medicine room.
Li Liqin didn't really care about Chen Fa's successes. He walked out with joy and dance around the house, but Li Liqin remain seated at the front gate and watch the road.
That night, Li Liqin cooked dinner for Chen Fa. Li Liqin stared at Chen Fa and put the plate on the table. She sat there quietly, without even looking at Chen Fa.
Chen Fa grabbed a piece of chicken and put it in Li Liqin's bowl. Chen Fa said, "I am very happy that I successfully invented the corpse preserve powder. From now on, we will become rich." He put a small wooden box on the table. He smiled at Li Liqin.
Li Liqin pulled her bowl away and said expressionless, "I don't feel like eating chicken."
Chen Fa smiled and said, "How about pork?"
Li Liqin looked at the pork. She suddenly felt sick and then vomited.
Chen Fa grabbed her right wrist. He breathed quickly and asked angrily, "Who is the child's father?"
Li Liqin said, "Does it matter to you?"
Chen Fa shouted, "Of course it does. You are my wife."
Li Liqin scoffed and said, "I didn't know that I am your wife. I thought you marry me so you can have a free maid to cook and clean after you and your mother."
Chen Fa slapped her face, "Who is it?" He thought for a moment. "Cao Fengge?" He shook her severely. "Is the bastard child inside you belong to Cao Fengge?"
Li Liqin shouted loudly, "Yes it is. The only bastard I see is the one standing in front of me."
Chen Fa shouted loudly, "You are my wife, you should be faithful to me." He slapped her again.
Li Liqin shouted angrily, "I never knew I was your wife. When I married you, I dedicated myself wholeheartedly to you, but your dedication is with your plants. ''She burst into tears. "It's my own fault that I committed adultery, and when I am committing the crime, I knew it was wrong, but I was willing." She pointed to herself. "I'm just an ordinary woman who needs love, attention and dedication. I am a married woman, but when I grow rice in the rice fields like other married women, my husband is not by my side. I am a married woman, but when I walk along the village market like other married women, my husband is not by my side." She step forward to Chen Fa. "I am a married woman, but my husband did not lie next to me like other married women's husband do at night." "Chen Fa stumbled as he flinched. He happened to back into a chair and sat down. "I was wrong, but you were also wrong. You are the one who pushed me into another man's arms. If you love your plants and herbs so much, why not marry them? Why do you keep me here, knowingly that you can't be a husband to me."
Chen Fa screamed, "You shout your mouth." He sat there loss of word. He stood up and grabbed onto Li Linqin's front collar. "Why? Why?"
Li Liqin scoffed, "Because he saw me for who I am. In front of him, I am a person not a thing. He makes me feel special. He pays attention to me. He loves me. He is different from you." He pushed him away. "You love your pants and herbs. In front of them, they are your precious one."
Li Liqin angrily took the wooden box with the new invented corpse powder preserver. She grabbed a pot of oil and a firewood from the stove. She threw the oil pot at Chen Fa's medicine shed. Then she threw the fire stick in the small shed. The shed burned quickly. She grabbed her bag she packed the night before and ran out of the front door. The fire quickly spread to the entire house. When the villagers came out to investigate the fire, Li Liqin already fled the the scene.
Yan Zhanjin finished his story and said, "My shifu never saw her again. Then there were rumors that she was dead. It took him many years to invent the corpse powder preserver. He ruined his marriage for that powder, but in the end he got nothing, so he went crazy and left Chen village."
Bazar Batu, "What a pitiful story? I'm not sorry for your shifu. He deserves it." He looked at Kuo Lok. "Lok ge ge, is your strength back yet?"
Kuo Lok, "About eight percent."
Bazar Batu, "Can you walk?"
Kuo Lok nodded.
Bazar Batu then said, "Let's go, unless you two want to spend the night here." Kuo Lok grabbed Bazar Batu's hand. Bazar Batu looked at Kuo Lok and asked, "What are you doing?"
Kuo Lok, "I am carrying you on my back."
Bazar Batu smiled and said, "Lok ge ge, I'm fine. I can walk."
Then, the four friends started walking along the mountain road to the village