Handan

Scholar Lu stretched, yawned and awoke, and found himself lying in the inn as before, with Old Lü sitting beside him; the innkeeper's millet was not yet cooked. 'Was it all a dream?' 'The ease of human life is just like this.'

Before the yellow millet is cooked, his clear dream will still be dark, and I will make him see the rivers and mountains changed and the sun and moon made new.

What is prized in the scholars of the world is that they relieve troubles, resolve difficulties and settle disputes without taking anything. One who takes something is a merchant, and I cannot bear to be that.

The reason I allied myself with you through marriage was for your noble honor in rescuing others in distress. Now Handan faces surrender while Wei relief comes not—where is your honor in aiding the desperate!

With his three-inch tongue, Master Mao was stronger than an army of a million.

I deserve to die.

The people of Zhou fled east, and its treasures, the Nine Tripods, entered Qin. Zhou was at an end.