In this chapter, the young narrator is introduced to a new character, a young man named "Chiaki moriya" . Chiaki is the son of a farmer, and he and his father have come to live with the young man's father in order to help him support his family. The young man is eager to learn about his father's business, and Chiaki invites him to visit his father and the farmer's wife. The two men begin to talk, and the narrator tells Chiaki that he has a job for him to get started right away. He tells Chiki that he wants to get the vegetables sent to the city so that they can be sold there. Chiki tells him that he is the "newcomer" and that he needs to learn how to market the vegetables. He asks Chiaki if he would like to do some advertising for them, but Chiki says that she has never done such work before, and that it is difficult to increase the sales of vegetables. The narrator tells the two that they should find someone else to promote the vegetables, and they agree to do so.