In this chapter, we learn that the last time Yulan worked for Mr. Yang was when his father passed away. He asked Yulan to take his father's car and walk around the city in his clothes, telling him that the more the people see him, the better. Yulan tells us that he's worried about his father, because if he gets too close, he'll "bring disaster to you" . He tells Yulan that he knows him very well, and that he used to have a wife named "Moqian" who died without a specific reason. He asks Yulan if he knows why he made the statues, and Yulan says that he doesn't know, but that the names on the statues remind him of curses. He wants to know why the statues were made, but Yulan can't tell him. He says that the statues are supposed to say, "That statue is, no ! That statue is not, it's just a pile of mud." Yulan wants to destroy the statues as he was ordered to do, but the statues themselves are automatically carving themselves.