In this short scene, the young narrator is talking to a girl in green who has just plucked a flower off the ground. The girl asks the young man why he has plucked the flower. The young man replies that it is his honor to have the flower sniffed by him. He says that after being plucked by him, the flower will die. He then says that he has heard a man call a flower a dew, which means that the flower is crying. He compares this to the moonlit night on the mountain when he was a child. He notices that the girl has a smile as well, and he thinks that she is beautiful. He tells the girl that he is like the flower that was plucked off by the girl, and that he and the girl are both "humble and ordinary" . The four young men are from the same school as the girl. The leader of the group is from the peak of the mountain, and they are called "qi hao" from dragon head. The other three are unknown. They are called the "young generation" because they are unknown to the old generation. The narrator says that it has been a very long time since