Sanai becomes interested in him, and asks some questions like why eight of ten rich people are greedy and cruel, why the honest hard worker can't be rich, whether it is because of the actions in former lives in the Buddhist context, and whether it is because of the Will of Heaven in the Confucian context.
これに、左内は興に乗って、なぜ富めるものの八割が貪酷で残忍なのか、そして、真にすばらしい働き者の人がなぜ貧しいままなのか、これは、仏教にいう前業のせいなのか、儒教のいう天命のせいなのか、と質問をした。