It's about 5 a.m., and Lingyu wants to buy some wine. Lingyu tells him to take the wine home first, since he doesn't usually go to the jingshi temple. He also tells Lingyu that he can't stop her, since she's a disciple of a celestial master. He tells her that they only sell a barrel of wine every day, at a price of over a thousand gold pieces. He says they're using the wine as an offering to the gods, and that they'll help people rid their homes of evil if there's any strange occurrences in their homes. Lingyue is so hungry that she can barely keep her eyes open. She's so excited that she wants to help her father, who's been paralyzed and has no doctors or medicine to help him. She wants to give him some incense money so he can try to rid his home of evil, but Lingyu says it's too much for him to pay. He begs his sister to pay for his father's treatment, but she refuses, saying she has other things to worry about.