It is early summertime, and historian Yin Chang-i, a professor at Fujen Catholic University, accompanies the owner of a small grocery up into the loft above the store. The owner picks a case made of premium hsiaonan wood from among the dusty miscellanca, and opens it to reveal a stack of over 100 old contracts.
春夏之交，輔仁大學史學系教授尹章義跟著一家雜貨鋪老闆，爬上老房子的小閣樓，在滿布灰塵的雜物中翻出一口上好肖楠木箱子，裡頭有著一百多件的古契約。