After Ah Man left Harano's house, she searched for quite a while at the wine shops and stalls in New Wanjin, but still didn't find her old man. Instead, lured by the aroma, she swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva, hesitated a moment, decided to stop looking for now, pulled out the "support money" she'd swindled from Ah Qing, and shamelessly spent some of it on behalf of her old man, sipping two bowls of wine to moisten her throat.
Of course, she didn't dare to drink too much. Now that she was somebody—an important figure in Wanjin, a family elder of the Nozawa family—she couldn't brazenly brawl drunk in broad daylight at the bustling market. So she just enjoyed herself a bit, then unwillingly went on her way to look for him; she finally found her old man by the fields of Dannan Village.
