Qin Jin drags a purifier soldier's corpse eight hundred paces to the ferry. His right shoulder gives out, but he refuses to take apart this worthless dead body, marked in red in the ledger as salvageable. Ma Liu blocks the alley with his men and says it belongs to no one, so Qin Jin should move aside. Qin Jin pulls out the ledger and presses it to the corpse's chest, making the words glow with a value of thirty thousand cun. He bites his index finger and presses it down beside the words "collateral owner: Qin Jin." Then he invokes Master Zhao: if Ma Liu takes what belongs to someone, he'll owe double, sixty thousand cun. That shuts him up. At the very bottom of the ledger is a small note: A Zhi. Qin Jin recognizes the name, but can't remember where he's seen it.
