The next morning, the young master tells the housekeeper that he will not be returning anytime soon, and that he can have more women than he wants in the house. The housekeeper, however, does not believe him. The young master says that he did not give her any money and that she can use it however she likes. The butler is embarrassed that he made the housekeeper eat her rice, and he blames the butler for not telling him sooner about the incident. He says that it is his fault that the butler did not tell him sooner. He wants the housekeeper to come beg him, but the housekeeper does not want to do so. He feels that by all means he wants her to come ask him for money. The house is too large for him to live alone, so he draws. He wonders how a power outage could have happened, and how he could have been left alone in the dark when he was a kid. He tells us that after he moved into the house, his servant, Quianchu, would stay by his side whenever there were a blackout.