This chapter's epigraph is from a comic strip by the same name, which was published in the early 1900s. In it, a young boy is shown to be licked by his father, who is a wealthy merchant. The boy, who has been orphaned, is shown a number of necklaces, each with a different price tag. The first is a ruby and crystal collar from ancient times, worth sixty thousand rmb; the second is a emerald and diamond collar