This chapter opens with a conversation between a local shopkeeper and a woman named Miss Qin, who is the owner of a congee shop. The shopkeeper tells her that the red bean in the congee has been cooked too long and that the minced meat has been stewed for too long. The woman asks the shopkeeper if the red beans taste bad, and the shopkeeper replies that they do taste bad. He then asks the woman if she recognizes him, and she tells him that she does. She then tells the shopkeeper that she was originally from the town of Lianzhou, and that she heard that there was a miracle doctor there. She took her mother there to find the doctor and tried to start a business there, but she found out that the doctor would not see anyone who was not introduced to him. So this doctor really uses her recipes, so the shopkeeper asks her if she has any luck if she stays, but the woman says that she doesn't have any skill, and so she remembers the man during the festival and remembered him. She tells the woman that she is mad that she has already stolen the recipes, but that if she does good for the woman, she can also get more money. She says that after she saw that the shop was doing well, the woman told her cook that the cook should learn the recipes