In this chapter, the narrator tells the story of a rat-faced man who used to live in a village in Zhejiang province in the early 1990s. The narrator tells us that the man's name was "Zhang hu" , and that he was a "ruthless b* stard" who could summon animals and use martial arts to do so. One day, a cobbler named "chen" was helping the cobbler when they heard an earthquake coming. The cobbler and the cobbler's father were shocked by the sound, and they saw a mouse looking at the man fiercely. The villagers heard the mouse's screams all night. The next day, Zhang hu gathered his friends and took them to the house of the cobbler.