Chapter 46: Running Accounts And A Thousand Years Between The Mountain And The Sea

Chapter 46: Running Accounts And A Thousand Years Between The Mountain And The Sea

A few events will be briefly mentioned here. In fact, many things had happened in Xiamen. There were still some interactions between Zhang Haiyan, Zhang Haiqi, and He Jianxi, but these incidents will be skipped.

After Zhang Haiyan and Zhang Haiqi rested for a while, they set off immediately.

For Zhang Haiyan, reuniting with Zhang Haiqi was like a dream that ignited a new hope in his heart.

The train to Changsha was traveling through the southeastern mountainous areas in rainy weather. Even though vast mountains were covered in mist and the inside of the carriages felt cold and humid, Zhang Haiyan felt a warmth in his heart.

He looked outside the window, watching the frequent rain bursts and lightning strikes as he thought of Zhang Haixia. He had always assumed that Haixia wouldve been here with them.

Both Zhang Haiyan and Zhang Haiqis feelings were complicated, so neither spoke.

Zhang Haiyan carefully considered how he should interact with Zhang Haiqi. The easiest way to communicate normally was to talk about work. When he first saw her again, he was surprised and had too many questions, so the communication had initially been very smooth.

But once they had settled down, he realized that their relationship was a little distant. The mother and son hadnt seen each other for many years and it had been a long time since they lived together. His mother was the type of person who wasnt nostalgic and was unwilling to talk about family life. It wasnt easy for Zhang Haiyan to get along with her well.

If it were other people, Zhang Haiyan would normally go with the flow and not worry about it. But he couldnt do that when it came to Zhang Haiqi.Read latest chapters at nov(e)lbin.com Only

When they were little, every child who faced Zhang Haiqi wanted her love and attention. They would all use different approaches, but Zhang Haiyan was the one who was responsible for not letting the situation become awkward.

Zhang Haiqi had been reading over the materials again. The person they were going to visit this time was called Zhang Qishan.

Zhang Qishan was the head of the Mystic Nine, which referred to the nine tomb robbing families in Changsha (the Mystic Nines specific background is very complicated, so theres no need to know much about them here). Zhang Qishan was also Changshas defense officer. Not long after he took office, the Japanese activities in the southwest ramped up, so his transfer must've been related to confining the Japanese spies activities.

They werent looking for him because Zhang Haiqi knew him personally, but because Zhang Haiyan had recorded in the Flower Reef case report that the lieutenant had mentioned him. This was what had prompted Zhang Haiqi to investigate Zhang Qishan and learn something about him.

At that time, everyone already knew the name Zhang Da Fo Ye. But for Zhang Haiqi, a person whose surname was Zhang and had the word shan (1) in their name was someone she would definitely pay attention to in other aspects.

But Changsha was full of Zhang Qishans informants, and all the spies who went there to investigate were all tied up and sent out of the city the very next day. After this had happened twice, Zhang Haiqi received the Ningxiangs specialty Weishan Maojian tea that was sent from Changsha to the Dong residence. There was a note saying: I wont allow it to happen a third time.

As a result, she had stopped investigating him. Zhang Haiqi didnt know how Zhang Qishan had learned of her existence, but it was kind of futile to conduct more investigations on him since he was the incumbent defense officer and someone who the criminals in the Flower Reef case were wary of. Plus, she might ruin whatever he had planned by doing so. As a result, she also sent a gift back to him that consisted of candied olives from Xiamen.

He Jianxi began to look at all the money carefully and soon found that there were sketches on almost all of it. It looked like Zhang Haixia had drawn it all in haste, so the sketches werent as obvious as the one of the plague god. There were even English words on one of the sketches that read: Pls deliver letters.

He Jianxi sat up and realized that this was the information the man in the wheelchair wanted him to help deliver. But deliver to whom? Deliver them to the plague god?

He looked at the money and saw that the pictures were all different. Some had English words, while others only had patterns. He found one that had a lot of English words on it that read: Killers are not ordinary people.

Killers are not ordinary people.

What does this mean?

Did he mean those killers?

For He Jianxi, anyone who was able to kill people was definitely not an ordinary person.

There was also a picture beside the words on the money. It was a child with an adult on his back, and there was a bigger person on the adults back. A strange face had been drawn on the childs hand. No, it was actually a human face in the childs palm.

Children carrying adults? Adults carrying giants on their backs? Or is it a small person carrying an adult, and a very small person carrying a small person. What kind of symbol is this?

What is the human face on the hand supposed to mean?

He Jianxi was puzzled. He thought for a while and then started copying all the patterns that were on the money. He was going to find Zhang Haiyan.

The money he received from Zhang Haixia wasnt charity but a delivery fee, so he had to be sure to give the letters to Zhang Haiyan.

In this way, He Jianxi opened the riddle box Zhang Haixia had left before he died. No one knew how rich the information inside this box was. He Jianxi had just started to analyze and guess what it was, but the information he analyzed would change the course of this story many days later.

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TN Notes:

(1) Shan means mountain. Hai means sea in Chinese.