Chapter Four: Shorting an Heir with a Receipt

Seller: Zhou Zhen, the third name on Qin's list. “What's the proof for an inheritance?” Lin asked. Su found an old report about the kidnapping of the Zhou family's only son twelve years earlier. Police claimed the boy had escaped alone. In the corner of the published photograph, half a convenience-store receipt protruded from his pocket. Qin understood. “The real Zhou Zhen hid in your father's store until dawn. Proof of that meeting establishes that he might have been adopted by the Lin family instead of inheriting the Zhous. The two lives cannot settle together.” Lin remembered his father's metal box of receipts too sentimental to discard. Since his death, it had remained above the storeroom ceiling at the convenience store.