On the three-hundred-li journey along the river, Gu Shi Yi rescued several citizens who had collapsed on the riverbank from the cold. With Pu Yanlan's medicine, their ailments were quickly cured, and then he gave them Silver to return home. This delay caused them to arrive in Wenxing City ten days later.
Gu Shi Yi found a house outside Wenxing City. The owner was a local gentry who had only one son and one daughter. The son was doing business out of town, and the daughter was married elsewhere. The Fox used a little Illusion Technique, making the gentry couple believe that their far-married daughter had returned home with her husband and child. Even the Buddhist-chanting toddler thought he was their son doing business outside, letting their daughter take care of their grandson, bringing them great joy. Gu Shi Yi took the opportunity to inquire information about the city from his pretended father-in-law.
