The sight of Thako made me shrink back for a moment, but I overcame all hesitation, and making a low obeisance I took the dust of my elder sister-in-law's feet.
Xie Zhen then asked the under-jailer to take a letter to his aunt's daughter, married to Sun Xin, who was called Gu Dasao, 76 and who kept an inn outside the East Gate.
The Lieutenant General and his soldiers marched out to attack the brigands' camp about 3 A.M. When Song Jiang heard the news he assumed that Gu Dasao must have been arrested and their plans discovered.