The ghost tells pengtao that he has committed many sins, and that he deserves to be punished for them. He tells her to tell him what she has done over the past few years. She tells him that when she was young, she mistreated her mother in law. She says that when the workers came to ask for money, she asked her brother to hire men to break her mother's spirit. The ghost has not forgiven her for her sins, she says, and she tells her mother that her life is more important than her husband's. She adds that she has had more than thirty affairs since she married him. The director asks her if she wants to continue the digging, but she says that it is her call.