Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 163 Poor parents in the world
  I stood up again and searched all over the bookshelves in the study. I took out all the books, opened them, briefly read them, and then put them back.

Parchment paper, I still want parchment paper, or how to make parchment paper.

There are several young ladies in the Li family. Whether they are real or fake has nothing to do with me. What I want is actually the leather paper.

But I don’t know where this thing is, so I can only search aimlessly like this.
  I was a little upset. The moment I opened the "Notes on Common Cases of Reptiles", the things in the book fell to the ground. I looked at it carefully and saw another letter.

This letter is different from the previous two letters. The postage is stamped on the letter, the address is complete, and the letter is not even opened.

The front of the envelope is also stamped with two contemporary postmarks. One postmark is the postmark used to certify the letter when the post office accepts it.

The other one was a postmark of a scrapped letter. The postmark printed a huge word 'Return'. Under these two words, there was a series of small letters that said 'Unknown address, unable to be delivered. ’

Apparently, this was a letter that had been delivered to the post office and then returned for some reason.

Another unknown recipient
  I carefully cut the seal with the blade of my sword, and then took out the letter.

What shocked me was that this letter was not written by Zhu Shang, but was signed "Li"——

[Ren’s personal message:
  How has Ren Zhi been spending these years abroad? Is your work life going smoothly?
  Long time no see, I wrote a letter to express my longing for you.

Although I don’t know if you are still at the original address and whether this letter can reach you, I must write this letter.

Firstly, I want to express my longing for you, and secondly, I want to ask Ren Zhi, for the sake of our good friends for many years and my father having sponsored your studies, please, please help me.

This year has been a year of great calamity for the Li family. First, at the beginning of the year, my wife died of illness, and in the middle of the year, I was diagnosed with tuberculosis. I won’t go into detail about the sadness.

Since my health has been deteriorating, I have been thinking about my only daughter, Sisi.

I thought about it for a long time and came up with a good way, which is to find a son-in-law for Sisi before I die.

As for who to call, everything should be based on the young man she likes. She is a good girl with ideas and thoughts. If she is with a young man who has read many books, she will definitely have something to talk about.

I spent a lot of energy, picking and choosing among the people who came to seek wealth, and finally picked out a young man named Zhu Shang who had seen it before and had a good appearance.

Yu Zi thought that he and Sisi were both talented and handsome together.

If things ended here, then I could leave with peace of mind, but things are far more than that.

I had already set a wedding date, but Sisi said she wanted to pursue freedom and decided to run away from the wedding yesterday.

And the destination, I checked again and again, is the Maple Leaf Kingdom where Ren Zhi is.

I really couldn't sleep at night and felt a dull pain in my heart.
  But I am just a daughter, how can I blame her?
  As a father, his only job is to clean up the mess.

I stayed up all night last night, thinking about it again and again. I thought that she would have to go away for many years. It would be difficult to maintain the family fortune. When she wanted to return to her roots, she still had to have a place to go.

So I didn’t publicize the matter, nor did I cancel the engagement. I found a little girl in our house who could test vellum and could sing a few shadow puppets. After asking for her consent, I asked her to replace Sisi and Zhu Shang three days later. marriage
  Then, I non-stop wrote letters to all the old friends who could help Sisi on her way out of the country, using up all the face I had accumulated over the years.

But fortunately, my old friends are all very considerate. Those who can help give me the green light, and those who can help give the things I prepared for Sisi to Sisi’s friends are also a big help.
  I said a little more, but in short, it was only at this time that I happened to remember that Ren Zhi was also in Maple Leaf Country.

I hope that after Sisi arrives in Maple Leaf Country, Ren Zhi can give her some help as a senior.
  Gratitude should be engraved in your heart and engraved in your bones, and you will never say thank you again.

Please, please be sure to take a look at Sisi and send two 'little goldfish' with the letter. Please accept it with your smile. ----plum. 】

it is as expected!
  The real and fake Miss Li turned out to be a trick done by Father Li himself after his daughter escaped from marriage and went to Maple Leaf Country! No wonder Zhu Shang felt that Miss Li was ‘not worthy of her name’. The ‘Miss Li’ Zhu Shang married was actually a son of a family who worked for the Li family.
  The real Miss Li ran away from her marriage before her marriage. When Li's father was ill, he wrote letters everywhere asking for help to take care of his daughter. He thought of this good friend, but unexpectedly the letters were returned.
  This can be regarded as a disguised proof of the authenticity of the content of Zhu Shang's letter.

But there is always an ominous premonition in my heart, not for me, but for Ah Chi and Ah Chi.

Since the real Miss Li has already traveled across the ocean, the only person who died here and is still familiar with shadow puppetry is the fake Miss Li.

Can the fake Miss Li know the gold bars that Father Li left for his daughter?
  Even with my belly button, I know it’s impossible!

The original talk about asking about the whereabouts of the ghost gold bars was obviously in vain, but now we just have to hope that they can find something by themselves.

I shook my head, put down the letter, and continued to search for what I was looking for.

No, no, none of it.

Not to mention the manufacturing method of the leather paper, I didn't even see the fourth letter.

Are we going to leave empty-handed today?

I lingered in the study for too long. After flipping through the last book, I raised my hand and glanced at my watch. The shorter hour hand on the dial had already passed the number 10 and was approaching 11.

The three of us entered Li's abandoned building at around seven o'clock and made an appointment to meet at noon.

It has been more than three hours now and I still have found nothing.

I stepped out of the study, making sure that I had done nothing wrong on the second floor, and then walked up the steps to the third floor.

There were still only three rooms on the third floor, so I started searching from the room closest to the stairs just like I did downstairs.

This first room is rewarding.

In the well-furnished bungalow, I found a safe embedded in the wall, hidden by the curtains.

The safe is an old-fashioned one, very small, no more than two hands long and one hand high, but it can obviously contain good things.

I was refreshed and immediately began to test the knob above——

As expected, there was no solution.

Even though it was coming, I was not discouraged. I took out the knife and inserted the blade along the edge of the safe embedded in the wall. Then I carefully fiddled with the wall for a while, and finally pried the safe out.

Just because you can't open it now, doesn't mean you can't take the safe out and open it!

The moment the safe left the wall, it brought out countless stone chips and dust, but the moment I got the safe, I knew that I most likely found the right thing.

The safe is relatively light to buy, weighing only about a dozen kilograms of the shell.

When it shook, there was no sharp knocking sound from anything inside, but you could hear the slight muffled sound of the book paper inside being turned.

Nine times out of ten, this is the important thing I'm looking for about where the Li family's destiny lies.

Going up to the third floor is really not a loss!
  There are only two rooms left. There is still a little time. Do you want to go?
  　The "little goldfish" during the Republic of China were the old one-tael gold bars cast during the Republic of China. So gold bars are also called little goldfish.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)