As he grows older, the narrator tells us, his father's more violent than his mother's, but he's not as bad as his mother is. The narrator says that his father and mother love him very much, and that's why his grades have fallen so fast. He asks why, and the narrator says, "this is xie Yu Lin's current month examination ranking" . He says that this is the "outstanding student" that he wants to recommend to him , but the elite class isn't supposed to take such a lightly. This is strange, he says, because this child has always been "very stable" and "very intelligent" , and this is why his parents love him so much. He also tells us that the philanthropist, Mr. Cung, has visited the "downtown square" to give the children their dream of getting an education, and has also sponsored "35 impoverished students" in the mountainous region to get an education as well. He's been doing this for a long time, and he knows how to do it. He tells the narrator that the children have purposely been badly tested because they hate their parents, and they say this is because their father always beats them. This makes the narrator feel bad, because he used to want to be friends with the children, but now he doesn't want to because he can't stand the thought of being friends with other people. He starts to cry, and says that he'll lend him his notebook to study if he brings it home.