Gaijiatun, Uncle Shen's household.
After Uncle Shen read his daughter's letter to his wife, he was so angry that he threw the letter on the ground and pointed at it, cursing, "How did I end up raising such a crooked-minded beast? She didn't learn anything good from going to the Capital, just picked up these sneaky little tricks. Day in, day out, she looks down on Yunfang, criticizing this and that about her. With her own mindset, who could she possibly appreciate? And now she even wants to stir us up into doing such unscrupulous things for her. She really has grown bold."
Uncle Shen grew angrier as he spoke until his hands started to tremble.
"Oh, can you keep it down? Afraid no one will hear you?" Auntie Shen got up from the kang and bent over to pick up the letter, brushing the dust off it and said, "Don't talk like that. There's some truth to what Yunxiu has said."
