SIAS Chapter 76.2

[You found the sign-in location of the abandoned tunnel in Tieling County. Do you want to use 1 sign-in point to sign in?]

[You found the sign-in location at Caishikou, Tieling County. Do you want to use 1 sign-in point to sign in?]

[You found the sign-in location of the old tailor’s house in Tieling County. Do you want to use 2 sign-in points to sign in?]

[You found the sign-in location of the Land God Temple in Tieling County. Do you want to use 2 sign-in points to sign in?]

[You found the sign-in location of the funeral shop in Tieling County. Do you want to use 5 sign-in points to sign in?]

[You found the sign-in location of the funeral shop in Tieling County. Do you want to use 5 sign-in points to sign in?]

The sign-in location for the abandoned tunnel was found in the corner of a small alley in a residential area. The sign-in location for Caishikou was at the intersection near the previous three-way intersection. The sign-in location for the old tailor’s house was at the gate of an ordinary courtyard.

The sign-in location for the Land God Temple was under an old locust tree.

Although the last funeral sign-in location was a bit unlucky, there were two sign-in marks at once, and the place name was the same. This was the first time Yi Qingqing had seen such a situation. There was no shop around the sign-in mark, but a relatively remote street.

Of these six check-in locations, except for the old tailor’s house which might be a place that exists at present, the rest should be things related to the past.

These types of sign-in locations should be relatively rare because the country has such a long history, so there should be countless things that have existed on this piece of land. However, they could still form sign-in marks across time, so they must have their own unique features.

Compared with other sign-in locations that exist at present, maybe something special could be signed out.

Each one made her very curious, just like she liked ancient furniture. Not only because the ancient workmanship was more exquisite, but also because of the feeling of traveling through time. When touching it, it seemed as if she was crossing time to have contact with the craftsmanship, aesthetics, and life of the ancients, which was very wonderful.

So, she was reluctant to give up any of these six sign-in locations.

Especially those sign-in locations that required multiple sign-in points. She had only seen the one in the back kitchen of the Tieling County State-owned Restaurant that required 5 sign-in points.

Therefore, she had to sign in at these two sign-in locations in the funeral shop even if the location looked a bit unlucky.

But these six sign-in locations required a total of 16 sign-in points, and now she only had 12 check-in points.

She was usually very stingy, but when faced with a situation like this where she wanted everything, she would also grit her teeth and make some impulse purchases.

In the end, she reluctantly decided to keep one of the two funeral sign-in locations and sign in next time.

Her hunting skills would be upgraded soon, so she wouldn’t have to wait long.

Then…

[You sign in at the sign-in location of the abandoned tunnel in Tieling County and get a gold-painted lacquer box containing small yellow croakers.]

Yi Qingqing: “!”

Who hid the small yellow croaker in the tunnel?

She opened the gold-painted lacquer box that appeared in the system space and saw ten small yellow croakers neatly arranged and wrapped in red paper.

Does the world’s consciousness make a mistake? She is the heroine, right?

The heroine didn’t pick up as many small yellow croakers from the earthen jar at the scrap station as she did, and it also caused her trouble.

Her sign-in was safe and secret, so she made a fortune in silence!

Yi Qingqing pedaled her bicycle quickly, looking forward to the next sign-in locations even more.

[You sign in at the Caishikou sign-in location in Tieling County and receive a ghost-head knife with a 20-year service experience.]

She looked at the big knife in the system backpack suspiciously. The blade was curled and there was a suspicious black object on the blade. It was called a ghost-head knife, but in fact, there was no pattern related to the ghost head on the whole knife.

Wait, Caishikou¹Caishikou (Chinese: 菜市口; pinyin: Càishìkǒu) is a neighborhood in Beijing, situated in Xicheng District. Part of it, known as Caishikou Execution Grounds (菜市口法场), was where most of Beijing’s capital punishments were carried out during the Qing Dynasty and were open to public viewing.

Caishikou is served by Caishikou Station, on lines 4 and 7 of the Beijing Subway.? Ghost-head knife?

Yi Qingqing’s heart skipped a beat. It was not what she thought, was it?

This made her suspicious. The more she looked at the black suspicious object, the more it looked like an old blood scab. When she thought about the sentence of twenty years of service, was it really not a beheading knife?

 

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Translator’s Little Encyclopedia:

Four Beauties in China (Part 2)

Diao Chan (貂蟬)

Diao Chan is a fictional character in the Ming novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Set in the waning years of the Eastern Han and the subsequent Three Kingdoms period, she was said to be so luminously lovely that the moon itself would shy away in embarrassment when compared to her face.

Chinese historical records indicate that the warrior Lü Bu had a secret affair with one of the warlord Dong Zhuo’s maids and he constantly feared that Dong Zhuo would find out. This was one of the reasons why he betrayed and assassinated Dong Zhuo in 192. The maid’s name was not recorded in history, but it is believed the story partly inspired the character of Diao Chan.

In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diaochan, a geji of Wang Yun, assists her master in his plot to bring down Dong Zhuo. She seduces both Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo and thus drives a wedge between the two, eventually having Lü killed his foster father Dong Zhuo. She then becomes a concubine of Lü. The fictional details about her life were added over the centuries.

 

 

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