The story opens with a description of a thirty-year-old bachelor who has rented a house to a young man named Lan yang. The bachelor is worried that the manager of the branch where he works is drunk and that the young man has been transferred to another branch. Lan yang asks the bachelor why he is there, and the bachelor replies that he has rented the house because he forgot to take something with him when he left it in the house. Lan Yang tells the bachelor that he is worried because the manager is drunk, but the bachelor does not believe him. The young man thanks the bachelor for his kind words and tells him that he heard that Lan Yang was in a very bad mood the day before. The two men laugh at each other's jokes, and Lan Yang pretends that he did not tell the young