 The story of him trying to touch his father's concubine is deemed to be "implausible", with it more likely he ran away because he wanted to or his father kicked him out for delinquent behavior like his tendency to engage in constant fighting and vandalism in public.He was baptized as a Catholic in Macau, receiving the Christian name Nicholas Gaspard.His uncle asked him to take some cargo to Nagasaki, Japan, where he met a rich old Min man named Li Dan, the Japanese city's Kapitan Cina or Chinese headman, who became his mentor and possible lover.