The chapter opens with a description of the director of agent's department in a town in central China. She is a rival of an "youqing" , or manager, who manages the town. The director says that she has pledged all her resources to help the town organize a big concert, but the town does not have the money to do so. She says that the company has told her that there will be no money for the concert, and that she will kill him if he does not come back with the money. She tells the others to come back after they have come back from the concert. They do, and she tells them to go ahead and finish their work.