This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between a young man and his father. The young man tells his father that he wishes he were dead so that he could have more time to play mahjong. The father tells the young man that he would have loved to have played mahjong when he was alive, but that his brothers would not allow him to do so. He tells his son that if he wins this hand, he wants the treasure in the room where the statues are located