"I didn't murder anyone" , says the young man, who is li wende's brother. He's just a lowly backstage worker at the beauty contest. He doesn't know how to blame his sister's death on him, but he does know that he found the obsidian incense on the man. He begs the man to tell him how he got the incense. The man tells him that he and his brother had gone to the capital a long time ago to seek refuge from their relatives, but they had been "out of contact" with them for so long that they had never expected to see them again. The young man says that he'll have the girl and the boy, but that the girl is "pretty good," but the boy "is rather ordinary" . He promises to buy more for the girl when he earns money, and he swears that this will be the last time he will lend the man any money. He tells the man that he won't loan him any money this time, because he only cares about the "little lover" of hiss now. He says that if others know of the "filthy relationship" he has with the woman, they should know about it. He also says that the man needs to pay him on time, otherwise he's going to get lost. He asks the man if he wants to try a new thing, and the man says he'd like to try it, but the man has put the props on the stage. He feels dizzy, and asks why the man is doing this. He can't summon his strength, he says, because the drug had "gone into my head" on the night of the murder. He wonders how he could have killed his sister, and wonders if there's someone else who could have done the same thing. The narrator tells us that li we