Possible Clues:

• Make bread from chips?
• Quit gambling, for now
• Trade chips for bread?
• Exchange for money; seize an advantage
• Realise, on his being falsely imprisoned in jail
• Realise the prison reform of his has gone through
• Make money as in most of China
• Profit from a cut of beef after onset of Christmas
• Realise calcium must be applied to scale
• Get ready for breaking chains