"Mr. Munoz, do you know anything else about this person?"
After thinking for a moment, Shade asked again. The old gentleman considered it:
"My only direct contact with him was during that relic containment incident. After it was over, he paid me with a bearer bill of exchange from Candle Fort Bank. Candle Fort Bank is a local regional bank, and one of the first regional banks in the country.
"Bills of exchange from that bank are not common. If that bill was his own rather than something someone else gave him, then he must have had a large account at Candle Fort Bank."
Mr. Finch nodded:
"Candle Fort Bank only does local business. And more than twenty years ago, bills of exchange were not as common as they are now. Anyone who could produce one back then was indeed highly unusual. Since you know people from the Astley Family, you can ask them to investigate. You might be able to find clues from that angle."
The two old gentlemen had given excellent advice, so Shade chatted with them a while longer about the traitor and the "Construct Master," then returned to Fragrant Residence at three in the afternoon.
Wei Ge had also just returned from outside. When Shade mentioned bank accounts, she immediately nodded:
"When the Great Witch of Fate divined for me, she also helped me find some things in the basement of the family's old residence that I hadn't noticed before. There were some Candle Fort Bank documents there, but they probably weren't Father's. The family has dedicated bank accounts, and those documents were all transaction records for small private accounts."
Shade then offered his own thoughts:
"Then is it possible that your mother still has a bank account at Candle Fort Bank? Perhaps she rented a