Chapter 119
— The False Surrender: A Wit Scheme Becomes A Vain Plan; The Abdication: Later Seeds Learn From The Ancient.
The prisoner the mutiny is raised to rescue, and he survives it. One of the officers imprisoned in the Palace after the Feast of Lanterns, he weeps to Qiu Jian and asks only that his son be told — 'If I am to die, it will be with less regret if my son can be told' — and the letter that goes out is the whole hinge of the chapter. Later he passes word of the rising date to his fellow-captives inside.