Sun Dehai offers the high rate of 2.5 yuan per jin, while only 1.5 yuan remains at Qin Yumei's workshop. One by one, the workers leave, each with a perfectly clear conscience—who wouldn't want to earn an extra yuan? But that extra yuan is clawed back bit by bit from their gloves, their meal money, and the five days of wages withheld from them. In the end, it is taken from pairs of hands covered in festering wounds. Wu Xiaoyan records every single detail in her notebook, missing not a single entry, until she herself ends up in the ICU. Qin Yumei borrows 3,000 yuan in emergency money, then lays that ledger out page by page under the sunlight.