The master incredulously asked him where he obtained fifty ryo, presenting him another fifty ryo, which was turned in to his place after it had been left in the place where Bunshichi went to collect the money and was so absorbed in Igo (board game of capturing territory), and Bunshichi hurriedly confessed the whole story.
それはおかしい、お前が遣いにいった先で囲碁に熱中するあまり、売り上げをそっくりそのまま忘れてきてしまったものを、先方は既に届けてくれて金はここにある、一体どこから、また別の五十両が現れたのかと、主人が問いただすと、文七はことの顛末を、慌てて白状する。