The next day, the narrator goes to dinner at a fancy restaurant. He asks the waiter if he'd like to try some of the food. The narrator tells the waiter that he's just come to visit his cousin, who's been released from prison. The cousin is rich, and the narrator tells him that the family lost a lot of battle in the war, except for him and his sister. He also tells the narrator that the young man has been acquitted in the trial, but there's still another trial to come in a month-and-a-half. He apologizes for being suspicious of everyone, and says he'll drink a glass of wine to show his apology. He'll also drink a poem by a famous poet named Su Dongpo. The poem is called "silk washing stream," and it describes a picnic in springtime. Su doesn't say much about the poem, but it's clear that the narrator is referring to spring. He says that if he could eat three hundred lychees a day, he wouldn't leave the house. He then asks if he still admires the bastard, and if he admires him, he says, "he's a good person." The narrator says that they can't be friends, because they're both good people, and that they helped each other find their purses, and rescued each other from injustice. He wants to know what hatred he has for his cousin.