The narrator introduces us to the bazaar in downtown Shanghai in the late nineteenth century. There are no large-scale shopping malls or wholesale markets in those days. The bazaar is a liveliest place, where you can find almost everything. There is a fortune-teller hanging a flag in the center of the bazaar, and a forty-year-old woman asks him about her familys physical condition. The man sees the woman take the money out of her pocket and sighs deeply. He does not know if the woman is blind or if she is pretending to be blind. The narrator tells us that the man is a lazy idler, who looks exactly like the lazy man from the village where he came from. He even steals a blind man. The two of them go to the bakery to buy some walnut cookies. The bakery owner is an expert at making walnut cookies, and he tells them how to make them. They sit down and enjoy the cookies, but they do not pay much attention to the secret recipe of the bakery owner. They do not even bother to look at the ingredients of the walnut cookie. They go back to the village at midnight. They come to the mountain and dig a hole in the ground. After an hour, they become very respectful and bow to the man like a dog. They are selling their treasure to a foreigner. The white rat is also nodding and waving its claws at the fortune teller. The fortune teller has no idea what has happened, so he kicks the rat off and shouts at it. The rat runs away, but it does not stop and nods at the teller. It turns out that the rat knows the rat spell.