A man from the Xu family in the city who worked at the cotton mill. He came to the Leng household to claim the 200 yuan bride price back after Leng Zhaodi died. He was impatient and angry, fanning himself in the sweltering heat. He did not believe in ghosts and suspected the Leng family was staging a fake ghost trick to avoid refunding the money. He threatened to report them to the police for fraud.