In this chapter, we learn that Caixin's sister-in-law, Madame Guizhou, and her niece, Madame Renzhen, have come to visit Caixin. Caixin tells her that he has been very quiet lately, and that his niece, Xiaozhen, wants to learn more about taking care of the family affairs. He says that she should learn how to live in a third-world country, since she is not from the third world country. He also says that he will have to marry off the niece of a third party, since the niece is not a member of the third party family. He adds that he does not want her to marry because she is the daughter of the second-world family, since that would make her the head of her family. Madame Guixia tells Caixin that the stable boy has died mysteriously, and Caixin wonders if she should invite an expert to drive the cause of the death away. She tells him that she knows an expert, but Caixin is afraid that the expert is trying to slander her as a "demoness" .