Chapter 3: Suspicious Potion
There are still words on the back of the letterhead, there are quite a lot of words, Jiang Chanji resisted the urge to tear up the letterhead and smash the bottle, after all, this is the first time in many days to contact his parents, although they have caused him to fall into such a situation, he still can't help but want to know their current situation, and even more want to know if they have lost their way.
If they can reform and come back to reunite with him, even if the three of them have to work to pay off their debts for the rest of their lives, at least the family can be reunited.
As long as the three of them are twisted into a rope, the family supports each other, and believes that there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome, and he is willing to forgive them, and go together to ask the creditors to extend the debt repayment period, even if they want to kneel and kowtow.
The sky was getting darker, and Jiang Chanji didn't dare to turn on the lights, because turning on the lights would expose the fact that he was in the house, and then it would attract the landlord's aunt to pull his ears and urge him to pay the rent.
He leaned over to the window and read the letterhead word for word.
"Machine ......"
Jiji - yes, that's the nickname his parents gave him.
When he was only a few years old, he didn't realize that there was anything wrong with this nickname.
Children of the same age often use the last word of the name as a nickname, which is normal, like Sun Yahui's nickname may be Huihui, and Li Nan's nickname may be Nannan, which is simple and easy to remember, and easy to accept, and can seamlessly transition to a big name when you grow up a little.
But there are always exceptions, and the last word of some people's names is not suitable for superposition, such as Jiang Chanji.
Some parents, raising their children as if playing games, in order to prove their unique taste, give their children all kinds of maverick and even shameful names, such as the surname Wang named the child "King of Glory", don't they consider that this may make their children ridiculed after school?
After his parents gave him the big name "Jiang Chanji" seriously, it seemed that all brain cells had been exhausted, and the nickname was casually perfunctory.
In fact, in retrospect, when his parents were lazy to use "Jiji" as his nickname, they should be vaguely aware of the fact that they had a hole in their brains - they didn't want to think about how much trouble this nickname would bring to Jiang Chanji in childhood?
When he was in kindergarten, the boys who played with him always laughed and called him "Jiji", and the girls of the same age avoided him and never played with him......
After he went to elementary school, he lost his temper with his parents several times for this nickname, and he just called him that at home, and he still called him that in public, did he lose face?
However, no matter how he lost his temper and made awkward things, his parents always taught him repeatedly, and even after he entered high school, even at the beginning of this letterhead after many days, he still used this sad and helpless nickname.
"Jiji, I wish you a happy birthday!"
"Mom and Dad only recently found out, it turns out that you have suffered a lot these days, Mom and Dad are sorry for you......"
Seeing this first sentence, Jiang Chanji's heart was sour, and he blinked vigorously, and his nasal cavity was also a little blocked.
That's right, today is his 17th birthday, and he forgot it himself, but his parents still remember, this is blood thicker than water, right?
No matter how bad they were, they were his parents after all, and in addition to going astray, they used to be good to him, and the anger in his heart unconsciously melted a little.
"But don't worry, if you don't lose a bet, your parents will definitely turn over, and they will definitely win a lot of money, and they will buy you a house and marry a daughter-in-law......"
I......
Jiang Chanji almost burst into foul language!
Sure enough, even if you believe that the sun comes out of the west, you can't believe that gamblers will change their ways!
"Jiji, my parents have had a lot of luck recently, they just won a good baby in a bet, it is this bottle of invisibility potion, although we also want to drink it to escape debts, but now you need it more! Drink it and run away with us!"
Jiang Chanji: "......"
"Speaking of this bottle of invisibility potion, if we don't explain it, you won't drink it, after all, it's suspicious, haha!"
You know it's suspicious, huh?
"That's right, recently we were playing with stones in Southeast Asia, and the two of us coincidentally picked a stone, and we both thought that there must be a peerless quality jadeite hidden in it, and after cutting it with a laser, there was only a thin layer of jadeite inside, and the jadeite was wrapped in this bottle, which was full of liquid, and there were strange words written on it. You know, in order to pick up the leaks, we learned all the ancient scripts known in the world, but they don't belong to any of the world's scripts, so we tried to translate them. ”
It's over! These two idiots have been completely poisoned by those treasure novels!
Jiang Chanji hid his face with his hands, unable to bear the cruel reality that his parents were both gamblers and fools.
After a while, he continued to look down, no matter what, he had to read the letter anyway, maybe he could know the current whereabouts of his parents, and he wanted to try to find them, and do everything he could to make them lose their way.
"It seems to be something similar to a product description, we don't know how the bottle got inside a whole stone, anyway we wrote down the translated text in its original format, including the notes at the back, as follows-"
Unstable invisibility potion.
(Warning: Due to the fact that this is an experimental new product, despite our best efforts, the chemical properties of this potion are not stable, it will decay over time, there is a certain chance of failure or partial failure, or there is a certain chance of unpredictable side effects, which is very dangerous, so we have decided to suspend the research and permanently seal it.) )
I rub!
What is this called paleography?
Would there still be scientific terms such as chemical properties, decay and side effects in ancient texts?
He stared at the words on the letterhead with black lines on his face, and had a sad premonition that his parents' brains were probably broken, either they had translated them indiscriminately, or they had been tricked by someone else, the latter of which was obviously more likely.
Originally, how could a bottle emerge from the inside of a complete stone?
How could the obscure ancient characters on the bottle be deciphered by two gamblers who had been defeated and ruined?
The deciphered text is almost the same as a modern product manual?
Even an eight-year-old child may not believe this bizarre fantasy, which means that their IQ is not as good as that of an eight-year-old today......
That was the end of the letterhead, and he rummaged through the cardboard boxes and found no other useful information.
As for that bottle......
The light in the room was very dim, and he really didn't notice the words in the bottle when he took it out just now, and at this time he held the bottle up to the window, and his eyes widened to make it carefully, and he really saw some ghost-like distorted marks, which did look a little like some kind of hieroglyphs.
Then, his heart moved, because he noticed a detail, and the words were not engraved on the outer wall of the bottle, but on the inner wall of the bottle.
The mouth of the bottle is not large, it is difficult to reach into the fingers, and the bottle body seems to be formed in one piece, and there is no splicing gap.
So how are these "words" carved in?