In this short scene, we learn that the young woman, who has awakened from her sleep, has been woken up by the smell of her uncle's "sniffing" . The uncle has come to find out what has been going on between her and the young man, and he wants to "decapitulate" her, but he doesn't know what to do. He tells her to stay away from him, or else he'll ask his father to beat her to death. He says that since he helped her awaken, she's been bothering him every day, and if this is his price to pay , then she should also compensate him by telling him how to devour her. He's not sure how she can have so much to think about at once, and one moment she'll be thinking about food and the next about pretty girls, and so on and so forth. The young man is late for class, and the narrator sympathizes with him for a moment, but then he's interrupted by teacher Boqi, who's about to start "ringing." The young woman says that teachers are violent, and that they shouldn't be using corporal punishment on their students. She also says that she was beaten by teacher boqi, and she can't understand why he would hit her, even though she has a handsome face.