Receipt

From the autumn of 2018 to the spring of 2019.

At the end of the previous volume, he found his father's name in an old ledger: No. 0007, 87,000, November 3, 2009, deceased.

This volume is about a man taking that name and returning it to a real person.

He takes a list of 107 households back to the countryside, knocking on every door to tell them: You were never supposed to pay this debt.

Forty-four households believe him; sixty-three do not. One drives him away, one calls the police, and one hits him on the shoulder with a stick.

He sells his own car, then sells other people's cars too. He learns to ask one question: Could you please show me the proof of the debt assignment?

Later, he works his way up. To a portfolio of assets, to three computers at a debt collection agency, to an approval from 1999, to eleven signatures, and to an eighty-nine-year-old man.

The old man opens the door, looks at him, and says: You're Meng Qingfeng's son.

There is no victory in this volume. At the end, he gets a nineteen-page report. Its first page reads: Upon investigation, some of the reported circumstances are true.

Key characters in this volume: Zhou Guiying; Shen Zhao; Han Xiao; Zhang Dehai, a debt collector who makes two hundred calls a day; Guo Wanshan; Zhou Dehai; Wang Chengde.

At the end of the volume, his daughter adds a line in pencil to his map: My dad is looking into this.

Then she has another line to add: He hasn't finished yet.