The chapter opens with the narrator explaining that he has been looking for a job ever since he returned from the airport. He tells the audience that the company that he used to work for, fengqi, has gone bankrupt seven years earlier. The narrator explains that he cannot find out the cause of the company's failure, but he does know that it must have been caused by poor management. He says that he would like to find a way to help his cousin, who is still a freshman at college, by working for the company.