The Princess consort orders the cooks to not cook delicate food for her. The Hostess is worried that the wounds on her hands will not heal. She tells the Hostess to wash her clothes carefully, write down what she is doing, and talk to the lord to relieve her boredom. She then tells the singer to hide the song and not to touch the lord's face. She says that the princess consort is not her master, and she is just her employer. She kneels before the lord and asks him if he has ever loved her. He replies that he has, and that she would not be his side-concubine if he did not love her. She asks him to give her some money, and he says that he can only ask for it if the lord will give him some money. He says that since he has been a servant for a month, he has made up for all the work he has not done since he came on as a servant. He asks the Hostess if she can calculate how many times she has slept with the lord, and the Hostess says that she does not know, but that she consults honglian to calculate the amount of money it takes to have sex with a prostitute.