In this chapter, we learn that the president is angry at his servant because he is so useless. He tells the boy that one day, he will erase him from the face of the earth. The boy tells him that if his mother marries him, he can stay with him every day. He also tells the grandfather that if he married his father, he would be able to live with him all day. The grandfather says that he will give the boy his jade pendant as a present on his fifth birthday. When the boy asks if he can see the pendant, the grandfather says no. He says that the jade pendant was given to him by his ancestors, and that the boy has the pendant in his hand. He asks the boy to go home and rest before he goes to practice.