I was pensive while listening to them. All their babbling was nonsense to me as it wasn’t related to the things that I wanted to know. Who had cast this golden bowl? Since when was it handed down in their family? Who was the first owner of this bowl?

When I asked them these questions, they shook their heads. They didn’t know anything about this, either. However, there was a book in their house that had been passed through generations along with the bowl and the chopsticks. Perhaps that book could help us out.

Since they were illiterate, the old couple didn’t know what was written in it. I was immediately interested in the book, so I asked them...