The narrator introduces us to Cang Shu, who has just returned from his first visit to his mother's house. He's super excited to see his old friend, but he's also a little worried about what he'll find when he returns home. He wants to make sure that he doesn't do anything creepy or weird in his room. He also wants to know where his mom is, so he asks her to change her cang. She's not at home, but she's still in her company, so she'll have to come home and sign some papers for her mom's business. The narrator asks if he can have a look around his room, and cang Shu tells him that his room is a mess, but that's okay, since he cleaned it up himself. Cang cang asks if they can have some food, and the narrator says that they can cook some eggplants. He tells the narrator that he loves eggplants, so they're going to have to cut them into pieces and stuff them into a pan with some oyster sauce, and then they'll cook them until the eggplants are soft. He asks if it's OK to have a takeaway, but the narrator refuses, saying that he only likes his food, so there's no need to worry about him being scared. He says that he plans to study hard in the future, and he wants to do something useful in order to get crackles, which is a fancy word for "cracks" in Chinese.