This chapter opens with a conversation between a young boy and his mother. The boy tells his mother that he is going to visit her. He tells her that he has come to find out about the deaths of the villagers in the village. He suggests that they divide the village into two groups, one to follow the chief and the other to follow dashan. He says that they need to minimize their presence, but that one thing is very important, that they do not interfere in anything. The young boy says that he just passed by his house and that something happened at home, and that he knows he is not doing the right thing. He asks his mother if she knows who the man is, and she says he is the son of a village chief. She says that the village chief did not leave the house that day, and he is now on another man's property. He also says that his grandfather died, and they should dig a hole in the back of the mountain and bury him there. The girl says that she thinks that the villagers died from poison.