The next morning, nianbing wakes up and tells his brother that he is worried because his father has told him that he can get close to him because he values him so much. Worried, he decides to treat his brother like a friend. He wishes him the best, and hopes that he will survive and return to find him. . The narrator tells us that the news of the defeat of the dacheng palace by the qingfeng palace has already spread throughout the city. The phrase "the magic chef of fire" has spread to all corners of the city, and the prosperity of the palace reflects the decline in the number of guests. The man who is supposed to be the "magic chef" of the ice and fire is out of sorts, and he looks distracted. The master once told him to leave immediately if he shows his cooking skills in a public place, but , he says, he will finish the work in this month. He says he will pay for the one dish that he prepares every day, and his father will let him stay for a month if he wants. He asks his brother why he came back so soon, and says that he thought he would have stayed another hour.