When Ping'an arrived safely in the evening, she saw Guo Baiyu and Zhao Renshu still waiting for her at the dining table. Guo Baiyu is reading, Zhao Renshu is cleaning his sword.
Ping'an, "I brought dinner."
Zhao Renshu, "Good, we haven't eaten yet?"
Ping'an put four packs of food on the table and walked into the kitchen. After a while, she came out with three bowls and three pairs of chopsticks. She opened the package of food. The lovers sit at the table and have dinner together.
Guo Baiyu asked, "What's the matter? Why don't you eat anymore?"
Ping'an, "Oh, I have dinner with the children and Dachin. Dachin pretends to be very happy, but I don't think he is. His eyes are a little sad."
Guo Baiyu, "He miss Yaoting. It's been a year."
Zhao Renshu ignored them, but stuffed more food into his mouth.
Guo Baiyu, "Slow down, you may choke."
Zhao Renshu's mouth is full, "My mouth, not yours, I'm hungry."
Guo Baiyu, "You have to show more self-respect and table manners."
The two men argued back and forth, only then did Guo Baiyu and Zhao Renshu realize that Ping'an was spacing out. Zhao Renshu looked at Guo Baiyu and the two men stared at Ping'an.
Zhao Renshu stretched out his hand and pinched Ping'an's left cheek, "What's the matter, dear?"
Ping'an, "I'm just thinking about one thing."
Zhao Renshu, "What are you thinking about?"
Ping'an, "I'm thinking about Zhiqiang."
Guo Baiyu, "He wrote that he won't be back home for two or three months. Do you want Shan to check on him again?"
Zhao Renshu, "What did he do? Peizhi already cleared him."
Ping'an, "I met him at the shop today." She put down the bowl and chopsticks. "He was broken. He didn't tell me anything. He only told me that he was hurt and asked me why people made promises if they could not keep their promises."
Zhao Renshu, "Hurt? With his ability, ordinary people can't hurt him."
Ping'an, "Not that kind of hurt."
Guo Baiyu, "It must be very difficult for him to come home with a broken heart. It is best for him to figure it out by himself."
Zhao Renshu teased, "I hope he don't commit suicide." He laughed.
Guo Baiyu, "You won't understand, because you have never come home with a broken heart."
Zhao Renshu, "Who said that?"
Guo Baiyu became excited, "Oh, you came home with a broken heart too? When?"
Zhao Renshu, "Yeah, I did. I brought Ping'an back to you."
Ping'an, "You two, stop arguing. I believe Zhiqiang is a very strong person and he will overcome this obstacle."
Guo Baiyu said, "Mistakes are not always bad. Mistakes help us make better judgments. He showed us that the hardships he has experienced in the past will not affect his current decisions."
Zhao Renshu, "It's time to teach him the next level."
Ping'an, "Maybe it's a good thing for him."
Guo Baiyu, "This will keep him busy and divert his attention from personal issues."
Zhao Renshu, "Why are you so cruel to him? I don't remember my master being so cruel to me, but I turned out great."
Guo Baiyu, "If Master Zhao had known that you will turned out this way, he would had been harder on you."
Zhao Renshu, "So I could become someone like you." He shook his head. "No way."
Ping'an, "What's wrong with being like Baiyu?"
Zhao Renshu, "You want two husbands who only talk to you when you ask questions?"
Guo Baiyu frowned, "Ridiculous."
Ping'an and Zhao Renshu bursts out laughing at Guo Baiyu.
Old Shan suddenly appeared behind Zhao Renshu, "Renshu. "
Zhao Renshu, "What is it Lao Shan?"
Shan, "Tam Village."
Zhao Renshu, "How much?"
Shan, "Zero."
Zhao Renshu, "Lao Shan, you know I have a family to feed, I won't go."
Shan said, "I have told her, she refused to leave. "
Guo Baiyu, "What do you mean?"
Shan said, "It is a spirit standing outside your house who is asking for help."
The lovers turned to their front door.
Outside the main entrance of Peach Blossom Valley, a figure of a young woman stood. The apparition is so clear that the lover can't even see her face.
Guo Baiyu sighed, "Forcing yourself up the mountain will destroy your last preserve life energy. Your soul will be destroyed forever."
The woman apparition cried and said, "I know."
Zhao Renshu, "If you knew, why you have to forcibly climb the mountain? You should know that no ghosts can go in except Lao Shan."
The woman apparition pleaded, "Please help me."
Zhao Renshu, "Why do you think we will help you?"
The Woman apparition knelt on the ground, "I gambled with my soul that the Guozhao Hunters will help me because of theirs principles."
Guo Baiyu, "What is your story?"
The woman apparition said, "I am Tam Lin, I died two days ago. I am a teacher in Tam village. Our village is a peaceful village until an abandoned ship drifted up by our river pier three days ago. When the village chief and villagers went to investigate and found blood everywhere and dead bodies inside the ship. Not long after the ship was discovered, thirty people came in and took the ship away." Tam Lin cries.
Guo Baiyu asked, "What's next?"
Tam Lin sobbed, "The men left for two hours and they came back and began killing everyone. I was at school with the children. Another teacher came and asked me to hide the children. I entered the backyard with twenty-four students and I hid the children in one of the hidden rooms. The room could only be opened and closed from the outside. I had to close it and ran to ask for help, only to be found by those wicked people. They..." Tam Lin sobbed loudly.
Ping'an, "Stop, you don't have to say any more."
Tam Lin pleaded, "Please help the children. If they stay longer they will died. I beg you to help the children." Tam Lin's apparition slowly evaporated, and she continued to cry for help.
Ping'an, "Baiyu, how far is Tam village from here?"
Guo Baiyu, "Two days up North. We will leave tomorrow and we take Zhiqiang and Ah Bao with us."
Zhao Renshu, "She must have tremendous guilt that is why she sacrificed her soul."
Guo Baiyu, "Shan, you send a message to Zhiqiang and Ah Bao, get ready, we will leave early tomorrow morning."
Shan, "Yes, master Baiyu." Shan then despaired.