While trying to sleep, Shaona hears her teacher on the phone, begging a doctor to delay her payment for another month and citing having to take care of her elderly mother and needing to recuperate after her abortion. Shaona does not understand but begins to cry because she is away at school for the first time and misses her parents. In the morning, Shaona’s kindergarten class gathers in the turnip field, and Teacher Shen says she will teach them how to gather purslanes, a type of herb. The children are excited, but while gathering purslanes, a fight breaks out between Weilan and Dabin. Shaona tells Teacher Shen that Dabin started the fight, and Teacher Shen sends him away for the rest of the afternoon. At dinner, Shaona looks forward to tasting the purslanes, as Teacher Shen had promised, but is extremely disappointed because the purslanes are nowhere in sight. After dinner, Dabin approaches Shaona, and being afraid of what he might do as revenge for her telling on him, she shares peanuts. Shaona cries again at night, missing her mother. The next day, the class returns to the turnip field to gather more purslanes and sees a wild rabbit, which Teacher Shen yells for them to catch. While the class chases the purslanes, Shaona has to use the bathroom and decides to urinate on the duffel of collected purslanes. The class catches the rabbit, and Shaona worries that they will be served the ruined purslanes for dinner but relaxes when she realizes that dinner is the same as always.