The next day, the group is getting ready for the holiday. They decide to have dinner together, but they decide not to invite Mr. Liu, who is preparing to be an instructor for the national Olympiad for primary schools. They are worried that he will be disappointed when they leave him out of the last time they had dinner together. They wonder if they should invite him, but he is already preparing to teach the national competition. The two boys discuss the upcoming competition, and daodao says he will never lose, although all the other opponents look smart. He says that he and jiudao are "mortal enemies" because he has forgotten about him. They argue about whether or not they should call each other "uncles" , and the two boys mock each other's abilities. They say that they are always pitted against each other, but that it is not always necessary to separate winners and losers, and that the greatest thing humanity has lost is "competition, but love" .