After the second day of the second month, when they first met, Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian continue having illicit sexual relations with each other. By the end of the third month, the peddler, Qiao Yunge, is looking for Ximen Qing, to sell him cherries. In Redstone Road, he happens to run into the servant boy, Ximen Xing. Thus he gets to know the whereabouts of Ximen Qing.
西門慶與潘金蓮從閏二月初二見面勾搭成奸，直至三月底，因做小買賣的喬鄆哥找西門慶托銷櫻桃，來到了紫石街，巧遇書僮西門興，才得知西門慶的下落。