The second uncle tells Lin that the boy looks just like his brother, who is a local official. Lin asks the second uncle why he is in the capital, and the man replies that he is there to entrust his father with the child. Lin tells him that the child looks very much like her brother, and that if anyone sees him, they will be suspicious. Lin says that he took the child to the mountains eight years ago and called him his grandson, but that as the child grows up, he resembles the man who raised him. Lin is afraid that she will find out about the child's resemblance to her brother.