Chapter 83: Fish Food Makes Peaches Fat

After listening to Ji Bochang's will from Ji Yunying, Seeing Lan Shiwen walked to the desk and pulled the unfinished calligraphy from under the paperweight.

"Better to eat without meat, than to live without bamboo? The meaning is good, but..." Seeing Lan Shiwen rubbed the paper in his hand and looked at the two siblings: "But Mr. Ji loved bamboo so much, yet it seems there is no bamboo planted in this manor?"

At least he didn't see any when he came in.

Ji Yunying nodded and said: "Yes, because of the environmental protection regulations of Yun Ducheng for Chuyun Mountain, plants with strong invasiveness and expansiveness, such as bamboo and eucalyptus, are not allowed to be artificially introduced within the scope of Chuyun Mountain."

"No." Seeing Lan Shiwen shook his head and said: "This regulation only restricts the nature reserves in the mountains; small-scale planting of ornamental plants in private residences is not restricted."

Environmental protection regulations cannot be the reason why not a single bamboo can be seen in Chuyun Shanzhuang.

"Maybe my father was too lazy to bother." Shi Yurou said so.

"Maybe..." Seeing Lan Shiwen put down the half-finished calligraphy in his hand and looked at the stack of spare paper on the table, his brows slightly furrowed: "Is this paper mulberry paper?"

Shi Yurou nodded slightly: "Yes, what's wrong?"

"No, it's not right, this is not right..." Seeing Lan Shiwen shook his head repeatedly. He walked to the wall, took down a painting, observed it for a while, and then hung it back up.

Seeing Lan Shiwen observed the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the four walls and said: "I have been a close friend of Mr. Ji for many years. As far as I know, he was extremely picky about the paper used for calligraphy and painting. Except for the hundred-longevity Xuan paper produced in Jingzhou, he almost never used any other paper to write or paint."

As he spoke, he took down another painting: "Look for yourselves, all the calligraphy and paintings hanging on these four walls are without exception made on Xuan paper."

Ji Yunying heard this and looked, and it was indeed correct: "Father favored Xuan paper and almost only used Xuan paper for calligraphy and painting, but what is on the table now is not Xuan paper, but another kind of paper mulberry paper."

Paper mulberry paper is also a relatively high-end paper. In ancient times, it was designated as the only paper for banknotes, but it did not fit Ji Bochang's personal preferences. Moreover, as his children, Ji Yunying and Shi Yurou knew nothing about when their father bought paper mulberry paper and put it on the table.

"The clue is hidden on this paper..."

Seeing Lan Shiwen looked around, his gaze lingered on the desk and tea table three times, and finally fell on the five rattan chairs in the room: "These chairs are not the same set as the furniture in the room, right?"

Ji Yunying nodded: "Indeed not. The matching chairs for this nanmu desk were several other grandmaster chairs made of yellow nanmu, but a year ago, father said that wooden chairs hurt the waist, so he sent the original nanmu chairs to the warehouse and purchased these soft rattan chairs to replace them."

Old people have bad waists, so changing chairs to sit on is nothing strange.

"This matter itself is indeed not strange, but if it is linked to other suspicious points, it is another matter." Seeing Lan Shiwen pulled a piece of white paper from under the paperweight and said: "Do you know what raw materials are used to make paper mulberry paper?"

"Uh... tree bark?" Ji Yunying was a little unsure.

"To be precise, it's the bark of the paper mulberry tree." Seeing Lan Shiwen continued: "The paper mulberry tree, also known as the mulberry tree, is a very common Moraceae plant, and there are many on Chuyun Mountain. The tender leaves and fruits of the paper mulberry tree can be eaten, the peeled bark is the main material for making paper mulberry paper, and the fine and tough branches can also be used to weave some handicrafts, such as wicker baskets, rattan chairs, etc."

"You mean..."

"That's right." Seeing Lan Shiwen put down the white paper in his hand and pulled the rattan chair out from under the desk: "This rattan chair is woven from the branches of the paper mulberry tree."

When Seeing Lan Shiwen said this, Shi Yurou's eyes widened suddenly. She suddenly remembered what Master Yeyao said to her not long ago: "Just before Mr. Master Yeyao left, he said that father hid his corpse and left a hint in the room, hinting for us to find his corpse..."

Paper mulberry paper, rattan chairs—the materials all come from the paper mulberry tree. Was Ji Bochang hinting that he hid his corpse in a place with paper mulberry trees?

But there are paper mulberry trees everywhere on Chuyun Mountain. This thing has extremely strong adaptability and is distributed in most parts of the country, spanning north and south, and can be seen everywhere like wild grass. "Hiss..." Seeing Lan Shiwen's face suddenly became very ugly: "Did he say anything else?"

Shi Yurou shook her head: "Mr. Master Yeyao said he would come again during the day tomorrow, the reason being that the visibility is better during the day, and there was nothing else."

Seeing Lan Shiwen's eyes became heavy, and a bad sense of crisis welled up in his heart.

"This Ascender named Master Yeyao likely already knows where Ji Bochang's corpse is hidden. How did he know?" Seeing Lan Shiwen was confused.

Seeing Lan Shiwen was a native of Yun Ducheng and had been friends with Ji Bochang for several years. He knew that after the other party died, he rushed over immediately to collect the corpse as invited, but he didn't expect that the one named Master Yeyao would come earlier than him.

As an old friend of Ji Bochang, he only discovered some suspicious clues, yet Master Yeyao, an outsider, suspected that he had solved the puzzle earlier than himself in such a short time?

"Who on earth is this Master Yeyao...?"

Need to check his background.

Seeing Lan Shiwen restrained his expression and said that since Mr. Master Yeyao said he would come during the day, he would leave first and visit again tomorrow.

After hurriedly saying goodbye to Shi Yurou and her brother, Seeing Lan Shiwen returned to his residence in Yun Ducheng, visited the Ascension Network, and began to query information about the Ascender codenamed Master Yeyao.

The results were somewhat beyond his expectations.

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Contrary to the unfathomable impression Seeing Lan Shiwen felt, Master Yeyao was not a well-known figure on the network. His fame was far worse than Tu Yu, Wealth Wu Tong, etc., and it could even be said that he was just an unknown little person.

Especially recently, a piece of news has been circulating in the Ascender circle—Master Yeyao is about to die.

"I see..." The moment he saw this message, Seeing Lan Shiwen cleared up the joints: "No wonder Master Yeyao ran to Yunzhou to attend Old Mr. Ji's funeral. It turns out he wanted to find hope for his own survival from 'Wealth Wu Tong'."

Ji Bochang, an old-school Ascender of the same generation as Tu Yu, used the codename 【Wealth Wu Tong】 on the Ascension Network.

Wealth Wu Tong's fame in the Ascender circle is very high, and it can even be said that he is one of the most famous Ascenders. There is no other reason, just one sentence:

—【Wealth Wu Tong】 can resurrect the dead.

Resurrection in the literal sense.

"Master Yeyao is about to die. He might want to find the rule controlled by Ji Bochang that can resurrect the dead before he dies, to extend his own life."

After thinking he knew Master Yeyao's intention, Seeing Lan Shiwen couldn't help but hesitate. Ascenders have a consensus, which is not to provoke an Ascender who is about to die. People with no way out can do anything.

Master Yeyao's arrival made Seeing Lan Shiwen hesitate. Should he continue to collect Ji Bochang's corpse?

After much deliberation, he decided to stay and see.

"If Master Yeyao fails to use Wealth Wu Tong to extend his life, I might have to deal with two Strange World events at the same time..." Seeing Lan Shiwen sighed, and the increased psychological pressure made his brows furrow tightly.

Everything will wait until tomorrow. According to Master Yeyao, to find Wealth Wu Tong's corpse-hiding place, it can only be done during the day.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 84 =====