This chapter opens with a conversation between the young doctor and his friend . The young doctor tells his friend that he has seen a girl who looks like the girl he saw jumping into the river the day before. The girl is named Zhangzishan, and she is the daughter of the doctor's college friend. The doctor asks the girl if she is his girlfriend, and the girl says that she is not. He tells her that he does not know her, and that she has known him a long time. He asks her to keep her mouth shut if something bothers her.