This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between the hero and a servant. The servant tells the hero that he has come to deliver the gift of a red pot to the hero's niece, who is the niece of the nephew. The nephew is the nephew of the servant's uncle, and the servant is from the north. The uncle is the uncle of the niece's cousin, and they are both in the north, so the servant and the nephew are coming to deliver gifts for each other. The servants bring the red pot and a coral bracelet, which the hero is very excited about. He tells the servants that he doesn't want the bracelet as long as they offer him beauty, and he tells them that he'll teach them a lesson today. He says that the two men look like "cracks" to him, and that they're outnumbered, so he's going to have to kill one of them.