Countryside, a rural card room.
Four middle-aged men sat around a square table playing mahjong.
"Three of bamboo!"
"I've won!"
"Monkey, you're really lucky, winning three games in a row."
The man called Monkey was actually named Yuan Chu, Monkey was his nickname in the underworld.
His surname was Yuan, which sounds like "Yuan (ape)" in Chinese, and over time people started calling him Monkey.
Yuan Chu took a drag on his cigarette and collected the money, half-jokingly boasting, "What's winning three games in a row? Today I'm going to win until you guys are left with nothing but your underwear, haha!"
He was naturally ugly, with a scar on his face.
So, when he laughed, he looked quite sinister.
The plump man in the silver casual suit on his left said, "You? If you can win me down to my underwear today, I'll crawl out of here."
Yuan Chu teased, "You said it, if by then..."
Before he could finish, his phone ringing interrupted him.
