Gao Yi eats good wontons, and it is already four o'clock. When the proprietress came up to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, he was trying to concentrate on the letter in his hand.

In addition to studying pear paste candy in the past month, Gao Yi has actually put more thoughts on Lao Gao Yi's diary and letterhead.

As an impostor, he must figure out if he will be in danger of being exposed while living in his current capacity.

At present, it does not seem to be a big risk, first of all, this era is not as strict as the identification documents of later generations. According to the experience of later generations, the only things that can be called identity certificates in the world are passports, ID cards, social security numbers, driver's licenses, and household registration books.

Although passports were issued in England as early as the 15th century, with the boom of train travel in the mid-19th century, faster trains, large numbers of passengers, and travel across many borders made it more difficult to implement a passport system. As a result, the most normal reaction of European countries is to relax the demand for passports.

So in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, passports were not a necessity. Even if someone has a passport, it is only a "passport" in the literal sense, not a passport in the later concept, and it is not universal. For example, because of the Chinese exclusion in the United States, I issued passports to students studying in the United States on public assignment to prove that they went to study and not to work as coolies. You don't need a passport to go to Japan, so a large number of young people buy a ticket and jump on the boat to study in Japan. Such a passport looks more like a temporary expedient measure.

Passports with photographs and full identification information in the modern sense did not appear until the First World War, when they were created as a tool for controlling foreigners in the country due to the security needs of the time, but this control continued after the war and became a standard.

Since there is not even a passport at this time, let alone an ID card, social security card, and driver's license that appear later than the passport.

If you live on British soil, you may also be subject to a settlement law that is incompatible with the hukou system, which stipulates that poor immigrants living in large cities who live in large cities with less than ten pounds of rent will be repatriated to their place of origin, so there should be a similar system of hukou administration in the UK.

But the Act only covers Britain's native cities, so for British citizens born overseas – especially in colonies or concessions with large populations such as Shanghai and Hong Kong – the only document that can prove their identity is a birth certificate.

However, Gao Yi is skeptical about what role such a birth paper can play. He had Xiao Gao Yi's birth certificate on hand, issued by St. Stephen's Church of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui - it seems that Mei gave birth to Xiao Gao Yi in the affiliated hospital of this church - the content of the birth certificate is very simple, nothing more than skin color, eye color, parents' names, addresses, ages, etc., not even a footprint. What can you prove with such a piece of paper?

If Gao Yi is a mixed-race orphan whose parents died and lives in the British colonies in the Far East, it is almost impossible to prove his identity with such a piece of paper.

However, now the situation is just the opposite, Gao Yi's identity has been recognized by others, even the patrol room, he does not need documents to prove who he is, he just needs no documents to prove that he is not who he is.

It is clear that there are currently no written documents against him.

Therefore, Gao Yi devoted a lot of time to reading Gao Yi's letters and diaries to confirm whether anyone still knew about the fact that Gao Yi's son had died.

Fortunately, Gao Yi's secluded life after moving to Guangzhou made his interpersonal relationships very simple. And more importantly, Mei and Xiao Gaoyi both died in the chaos of the plague outbreak. Mei passed away in Guangzhou City, and Lao Gaoyi's diary also mentioned her funeral, but when Xiao Gaoyi died and where he was buried, the diary did not mention it at all.

The last record of Xiao Gaoyi is that he fell ill on the way to Hong Kong. Although the diary records the whole process of their arduous arrival in Hong Kong, after arriving in Hong Kong, the diary is only the sad and sad whispers of Lao Gaoyi. It can be seen that Xiao Gaoyi died in Hong Kong. Considering that at that time, Hong Kong had isolated the epidemic patients and the corpses were disposed of in a unified manner, and later the Taiping Shan Incident caused the chaos of 100,000 Chinese fleeing Hong Kong, Gao Yi estimated that the old Gao Yi did not even know where the body of the little Gao Yi was buried, so there was no funeral record of the little Gao Yi in the diary.

This may have been a great misfortune for the old Gao Yi's life, but it was a kind of luck for Gao Yi, who carefully studied all the diaries and letters and was convinced that the old Gao Yi had not mentioned the death of the little Gao Yi to anyone. In fact, after the epidemic, Lao Gaoyi seems to have completely forgotten this once happy life, and never returned to Guangzhou, where he had lived for 12 years, but chose to go north to Qingdao, a city that he was not familiar with and was not under the rule of the British Empire. He lived there almost silently, until all his savings were gone.

Gao Yi's current focus has shifted to Gao Yi's relatives in his hometown in Scotland. He wondered if there was a relative whose interests would be harmed by his presence, and it was highly likely that such a relative would question his identity, which would lead to a series of speculations, rumors, and eventually a dangerous identity investigation.

So he now reads letters from before 1875 that he hadn't read before—old Gao Yi never had contact with relatives back home after the death of a distant uncle with whom he had corresponded. The last letter from Scotland mentions that the distant uncle left a piece of land to the elder Gao Yi as an inheritance, but only if the old Gao Yi had to return to Scotland to inherit, so the old Gao Yi simply gave up the inheritance, so the actual heir of the estate wrote to thank him.

Gao Yi closed the letterhead in his hand and let out a long breath, he got up from the rocking chair and reached out to open the window. The proprietress had already packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went out, but the smell of fat powder still remained in the room.

Gao Yi paced in the cold wind, his heart had not settled down since he came back from school. Although there are indeed a few female students who are good-looking, it doesn't make him so uncomfortable, and it's not that he hasn't seen the market, the reason is that the pressure was too tight a while ago, not only to survive, but also to plan for future development, and the sense of urgency is like a knife hanging over his head. Now that the problem of survival has been solved, the next step of development has also been seen, and the mood is relaxed, and some things buried deep in the heart before will inevitably be flooded.

Born in sorrow and dying in peace, the ancients did not deceive me. No, just after eating and dressing warmly, I was ready to move immediately.

Gao Yi walked to the newly bought dressing mirror, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy appeared in the mirror. The slender body like bean sprouts was something he had never had before. Since his height exceeded 1.9 meters, his weight has never dropped below 85 kilograms, and now his weight of 75 kilograms makes his figure even more youthful and long.

In addition to taking away his fat and hair, the process of crossing also ironed his skin, and there was not a single wrinkle on his face, which was smooth and tight like a baby, and his face without any fat was stretched on the skeleton, showing the most perfect contours. What's even more interesting is that after his hair grows out, he actually has a natural curl, and his eyelashes are also black and long, as if he is wearing two rows of false eyelashes, and they flicker in the slightest blink, and even he feels ashamed to look at it.

Gao Yi looked at the mirror for a while, and smiled at himself in the mirror with satisfaction, such a beautiful boy, only the girl in the flower season is a good match, the boss lady or something quickly retreated!