The Phantom Butterfly of the Republic of China

Lin Junshan and Jin Yu calmed down after being surprised. Lin Junshan said, "By the way, it's best not to take out all the things you have now. The base is very short of money now, but a lot of them are still daily necessities and medical supplies. As for the money, I think giving half of it is already a lot."

Jin Ling thought that he had more than ten tons of gold and it was not appropriate to take it out, but silver was still okay, so Jin Ling gave the things to Lin Junshan and asked him to do it himself. As for the things of the Jin family, they were returned to Jin Yu. After all, Jin Yu was the eldest son of the Jin family, so it was reasonable for these things to be in Jin Yu's hands.

The Jin family didn't have anything special, only the treasure map was interesting. Lin Junshan was very curious and asked, "Have you never thought about figuring out the treasure map?" Jin Ling and Jin Yu looked at each other. They didn't seem to have this idea. They shook their heads together. Jin Yu said, "Why do we need to understand this thing?"

Lin Junshan was speechless and said: "After all, they are treasure maps, there must be a lot of things in them." Jin Ling looked at Lin Junshan and said: "You also know everything about the Jin family. Have you seen talented and capable people in every generation of the Jin family?" Lin Junshan was stunned by Jin Ling's question and was a little unresponsive.

Jin Yu looked at Xia Muminnan and Lin Junshan and explained, "You think too much. There is no gold, silver or jewelry in the Jin family's treasure map. Otherwise, it would not be possible for these things to be passed down for hundreds of years. They may have been spent a long time ago. Our great grandfather was a heavy smoker. You think he would not find some things and use them up."

Lin Junshan also knew that Jin Yu’s great-grandfather was indeed a heavy smoker. If it weren’t for this great-grandfather and his old mother, this man might not have had any descendants, because all the family members were smoked to death by him, and the Jin family was almost wiped out.

Xia Muminnan, who was listening to this, left a drop of non-existent sweat, and sighed in his heart that smoking was not good and could not be touched. Moreover, this smoke was not the cigarettes mentioned in later generations, but the poisonous opium, which was a contraband and life-threatening thing in the past. That was why there were so many smokers because the country was in turmoil and there was no other way.

But the facts also proved the authenticity of this thing. Jin Ling was actually quite curious whether there was any elixir of immortality in it. Xia Muminnan was also curious. Xia Muminnan really wanted to know what people in ancient times used to prolong their lives, like blood transfusions, soul transfusions, etc. as written in the books.

Xia Muminnan said directly: "Brother Ning Jin, there is no gold, silver or jewelry in it, so is there something else?" Jin Yu looked at Xia Muminnan puzzled and said: "Isn't the treasure map used to hide these things? What else?" Xia Muminnan coughed twice and said: "Ahem, didn't Tan Jiahui say before he died that your family has a secret recipe for immortality?" Jin Yu looked at Xia Muminnan and said: "Do you think this is true? The longest-lived person in our family is my third grandmother, who is exactly 80 years old this year. Do you think there is something?"

Xia Muminnan shook his head when asked this question. Nowadays, every family has a few 80-year-old grandfathers. There may be 90-year-olds, so this 80-year-old is not so strange. Xia Muminnan looked away and said, "Why do you say that? And Tan Jiahui seems to be very sure that there is such a thing." Not only Xia Muminnan felt that there was something, Jin Ling also felt that there was something.

Jin Yu looked at Jin Ling with a face that said Jin Yu was lying, which meant he was speechless. In fact, Jin Yu was also very curious about the Jin family's treasure map at the beginning, and finally ran to ask Master Jin. Master Jin sat on a chair and thought for a long time and said, "That treasure map, there is nothing special about it. It just tells us who the ancestors of our Jin family are. It's just a family tree."

Jin Yu touched his nose and said, "In fact, the treasure map is the genealogy of the Jin family for hundreds of years." Jin Ling was puzzled and said, "No, what's wrong with this ancestor? Why would he hide a genealogy? There shouldn't be anything shameful in it." Jin Yu thought for a while and said, "Maybe the person the ancestor married was someone who was not allowed to be seen in public. Or someone who was hunted by others, or someone who was feared by the people in power at that time."

Jin Ling had been looking forward to this thing, but after Jin Yu's explanation, he understood why his ancestors had hidden it. It was no nonsense, as no one wanted to let others see their dark history, especially in an era where one could kill all nine generations of one's clan at any time.

Lin Junshan heard this and said, "Could it be that simple? Isn't this thing in your hand? Why don't you open it and take a look?"

Lin Junshan's words awakened the three of them. They looked at each other, but no one thought of opening it. Jin Yu also wanted to know what it was, so he took the box containing the treasure map. Jin Yu looked at the Luban lock on the box and said in embarrassment, "It seems that there is no key to it. Who of you knows how to open it?"

As soon as Jin Yu finished speaking, he saw Jin Ling and Lin Junshan looking at Xia Muminnan, and then Jin Yu also looked at Xia Muminnan. Xia Muminnan twitched his mouth and said, "Okay, I'll try it. I don't know if I can open it. If it breaks, it has nothing to do with me." Jin Yu gave up his seat to Xia Muminnan. Xia Muminnan walked to the box and fiddled with it for a while. Everyone heard a click and the lock opened.

Jin Yu and Jin Ling were very excited, they could finally see the so-called treasure map. Jin Yu opened the box, which was full of books and envelopes. The four of them were puzzled, and Jin Yu was even more puzzled and said, "No, it's not a treasure map, why are there only books and envelopes?"

Jin Ling picked up the book, looked at it, shook his head and said, "I don't know, brother, how about you translate it for me." Jin Yu was puzzled by what Jin Ling said. He took the book and saw that it was in small seal script. No wonder his sister couldn't read it. Jin Yu could still read it. And it was Jin Yu's best. Just when Jin Yu wanted to read it out, he was interrupted by Jin Ling and said, "Wait a minute, I asked Cheng Yi and the others to prepare food, we can talk while eating."

They realized that it was already 8pm, and it was time for dinner. Jin Yu touched his stomach and said, "I'm really a little hungry. I feel like I can eat a whole cow now." Lin Junshan and Xia Muminnan nodded in agreement.

The four of them were in the warehouse attic, eating dinner while preparing to listen to what was in the box and why the elders of the Jin family said it was a treasure map.