In this chapter, we learn that alcohol can "provoke man to violence" and "nudge man to pain" . It can also numb the ego and "soften pain." In other words, alcohol can be a stimulant, but it can also be a pain-killer. The narrator says that he used to drink and celebrate every time he escaped death on the battlefield. Now, however, he can no longer do so. He has six bottles of alcohol, and his fiance still looks fine. He tells his mother that he is too drunk to do anything, and that he will never see his fiance again. His mother tells him to get some men to come over and fight, but he refuses, saying he will settle things with the "damned pair." He says that maybe he drank too much, but his chest feels funny, and he wonders if it is because of "yuxi shen." He asks his mother if she is okay, and she says that she should call her company president. He asks her to go find her fiance, but she refuses to do so, saying that he does not dictate what he does in his own time. He says he did