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features, he turns to Ci Yung. Wai Leung is delighted to know that Fai Yu is an admirer. She
warns about Ga Zi Do’s plot to send assassin to kill Fai Yu before mid-night. Wai Leung is
willing to help Fai Yu to escape.
3. At three garn (eleven o’clock), Ying Zung comes to the study with a sword to kill Fai Yu, but
his act is stopped by the ghost of Wail Leung. Wai Leung is about to lead Fai Yu to leave.
4. Ga Zi Do comes and ask why Ying Zung had not killed Fai Yu. Ying Zung tells about a lady
in red dress had come to help Fai Yu to escape. Leun Yee comes to report seeing Gong Seen
chatting with Fai Yu. Ga is furious; he orders his followers to bring Gong Seen to the Room of
Half Leisure to be interrogated.
Act V. Dialogue on the Ghost Podium
1. While Ga Zi Do is about to interrogate Goon Seen for secretly letting Fai Yu to escape at the
room of Half Leisure, Wai Leung’s ghost appears and prevents further interrogation. Wai Leung
says that she is the one who let Fai Yu leave. Ga is horrified at seeing Wai Leung’s ghost. Ga
wants to offer a 49-day ritual. Wai Leung does not accept and forces Zi Do into the Room of
Half Leisure to face the wall with his head bowed down to repent. At this time Wai Leung
brings Fai Yu away.
2. Leun Yee reports that after bringing Gong Seen back to her room, he went to buy medication
to calm himself down after the shock of seeing a ghost. On the way, he heard that the Lo Tung
and her daughter had fled to Yangzhou, and that the mad scene was a feigned one. After the
horrified incidence of seeing the ghost, it takes little time for the womanizer Ga to decide on
going to Yangzhou to find Ci Yung.
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