In this chapter, we learn that Renzhang's servant, Pa, has seen something similar to what we saw in the previous chapter. Pa tells us that the late emperor died from exhaustion, and that his soul will hope that the young man will be able to focus on governing his country instead of pursuing "imaginations". Pa slaps his majesty and tells him to stop fooling around. The late emperor, he says, was indeed dead from exhaustion. Pa says that his brother must have found some "unspeakable truth," and that the people who killed him wanted to keep it a secret. Pa is shocked, and says that the annals of his activities are a record of his brother's activities, behaviours and opinions. The snake, Pa says, his brother also looked for it, but someone wanted to destroy the evidence. In other words,