The book that I am reading is the five ancestors by Jeff stone and what happened today was that the main character Malao was stopping some bandits from killing monkeys and he was captured but was given a deal that if malao beat hung the bandit leader then he can do whatever he wanted to him and if hung beat malao then hung would be able to do whatever he wanted to malao.During the fight malao was in a position called the monkey stance and was able to maneuver around hung during the fight.After malao won the fight and hung was down,malao took hungs pouch full of gold instead of killing him.Once malao left he immediately went  to go look for mushrooms to eat because he had gotten a firestone from hungs pouch.