As Jiu'er's wedding party crosses a field of sorghum, they are attacked by a bandit. One of the men hired to carry Jiu'er's sedan chair manages to fight off the assailant. After Jiu'er safely reaches the distillery, her rescuer, whom she has been eyeing during the trip, disappears. During Jiu'er's trip back to her parents' village, a bandit with a masm jumped out of the sorghum field and, after chasing down Jiu'er, carried her off into the sorghum stalks. Jiu'er ran away at first, then the bandit took off his mask and revealed himself to be her rescuer, at which point she stopped resisting his pursuit.