That night Fan Xian went home, and having learned that Yang Wanli and his group had come by, Fan Xian was not greatly concerned. What he had wanted to say to them was what he had said in the tavern: he asked them to be good officials, to love and protect the common people, and to work to rise through the ranks. Though Fan Xian was not some great hero of the people, if his own disciples could become such people, then he would be satisfied. As for any clandestine tasks he could give them to carry out, that was a matter for another time.
As he was about to depart, he naturally wanted to meet with his younger sister Ruoruo for a tearful goodbye, and to warn Sizhe about the issues of his money-making ventures. He paid his respects to his father and to Lady Liu, and then returned to his bedroom, preparing himself for bed, and comforting his own forlorn young wife... only to find that his brother-in-law, the simpleminded Dabao, was in his bedroom.
