Ye Man's deceased grandmother who told him stories about foxes repaying kindness, weasels bewitching people, and black bears sneaking into homes at night to steal children. She said black bears liked eating people with the surname Ye the most because the Ye family had no good people. She also told him that everyone has a fixed number of words they can say in their lifetime, and once used up, they die. At her house, Ye Man used the surname Li.
