: Ximen Qing orders his servants to bring a coffin over to the Wu family. The body of Wu the Elder is placed in the coffin, and the coffin is kept in the house. Granny Wang and Pan Jinlian are afraid of being haunted by the ghost of Wu the Elder, so they are on tenterhooks. Ximen Qing bribes the undertaker, He Jiu, to burn the coffin with Wu the Elder in it.
西門慶指使家丁，將一口棺柩擡到武府，將武大郎收屍入殮，停放在家。因王婆、潘金蓮疑心武大郎鬼魂作怪，整天提心吊膽，西門慶便買囑土工何九焚燒武大的棺材。