The family is having a pie supper, and the father tells his wife that he wants to bring some food to the boy next door. The boy is smart, and his mother died last year. The father asks his wife if they can adopt the boy, and her response is that she is so cute that she will go first thing in the morning. He tells her that the family has been very urgent in changing their workers, and that the second prince's mother is a "bastard" . He says the family will not go into the muddy water, but that he saw that the elder prince likes the son, and he thought he could use the boy to get closer. He also says that the snow wolf clan has also been affected by the elder being taken away and that a new leader is coming soon. The mother is worried, but the father says he will go and get her some hot water