It's lunchtime, and Yulan can't stand it any longer. She begs them not to do what they're doing to her. She's paying for half of the property that Yulan bought for her, and she doesn't want them to use it to pay for her husband's debts. She also begs them to let her cousin go. He's the only son in the family, and he's just died, so she's not going to let him go. She tells them that everything she has today is because of her.