The next day, the local authorities and gentry went to the imperial envoy to ask him to marry one of the beauties. The emperor accepted everything, and the four beauties were given to him as gifts. The narrator thinks that the emperor probably made a "secret promise" to a "beautiful girl" in the world, and that is why he keeps rejecting the other beauties. He tells the narrator that he will go to Japan if there is a chance, and he says that there are some "samurais" there who are trying to rob the Ming empire. He says that they need a "multipronged approach" to solve the problem, and asks the emperor not to worry too much if he lets her down. He then tells the emperor to drink tea to relieve the heat of the summer. The tea tastes better than the tea served in the imperial palace, and it turns out the emperor drank it because it was a "customary rule" of the palace.