Gan Fengchi arrives at a small town near Lake Taihu and stays there overnight. He asks the waiter about the situation in the lake area. In the morning, Gan Fengchi comes to the border of Lake Taihu. The bandit leader of the marshland stronghold, the hegemon Liu Hu, already knows that Gan Fengchi is coming, so he is sitting at home, waiting for him. It turns out that the chief criminal in the Nanjing murder case is his apprentice, Tao Jie.
甘鳳池到了太湖附近的小鎮住下來，然後向跑堂的打聽了太湖的情況。上午甘鳳池進太湖，此時，太湖水寨寨主賽霸王劉虎已經知道甘鳳池要來。正在家坐等。原來，“南京人命案”的首犯，就是他的徒弟陶傑。