The chapter opens with a soliloquy about the difference between a wife and a concubine. The narrator says that a proper lady is a woman who knows her duties and rules. He says that he turned to his stomach when he watched a woman fight over a man. He tells his wife to stop acting like a "indecent girl" and to learn more about life around her. She says that she can help him free from her husband's confinement by openly visiting the central hall. He asks her if she is worried about her beauty beating hers, and she replies that she is. She tells him that she will let her know the rules later. She asks why they don't let her join them in the hall, and he replies that he has tons of ways of humiliating her in public and making her lose confidence forever. He compares her to a pumpkin who is good at poetry, wine tasting, tea making and flower arranging. He then tells her that he will take her daughter to the master of the master's house too. He also says that the flower arranging master is a noob, and that he does not know how to do it. He is worried that the hot tea will scald her face, but he says that by doing this, he can also eliminate another rival. At this rate, she will be disfigured