Josephine Underwood 2018 August 22

I am conducting a desk research for the plots of my new novel.

I love to mix up different facts in a story, as a result, the plots of the novel different from facts.

The story begins at home, now. In the home of Josephine Underwood's Hong Kong address.

I, Josephine, see a ghost at home, may be the fact that today is still within the ghost month.

He was my friend, died before I was born. He was a Catholic priest, born in 1900.

He went to many places in the Mainland China during the 1920's; he met a socialite named Rose, she financed the fled of many British away from Mainland, he bought a ship for the stowaways, sailed to Liverpool.

He left Mainland went to a monastery in France, later during the Second World War, he went to the battlefield in June 1940, he met a 31 year old British Deputy Lieutenant.

They both sneaked into the German troop's camp attacked the soldiers. And they found beer in the camp site. The German brewed beer.

This Frenchman found a sheet of beer prescription written in German. He gave the sheet to this British, and said in German telling the younger British to take this prescription home.

However, the British telling the Frenchmen in German that he had no money to set up a brewery.

The Frenchmen told him that he would meet a young girl in the future, she should be a very clever girl, and might know how to set up a brewery.

They lost the battle in June, 1940.

British man wrote to the monastery in France to contact the Frenchman, but no reply.

British man didn't know french, and the priests didn't know German.

In 1971, the British man came working in Hong Kong; and he found this clever young girl in 1972 after a strange attemp kidnap court case.

She was only 7 in 1972, and this British man still in lack of business capital to set up a brewery in Britain, he told her his business plan. And she asked her future husband, the victim of the kidnap case, borrowed money.

A new beer brewery was established in Britain, the brand name was named after this Frenchman.

French brewed wines not beer, a little bit strange.

Now, the ghost telling me in German, that he'd told me never go back to Britain and be princess again; I was not happy in palace. And remembered he'd told me not to interfere my subjects' matters, always remembered the French Revolution.

I asked him why he didn't reborn?

He replies to me that he came back, he is the British man's daughter.

He'd remembered I'd told him that he must create a causation to find parents, and spouse.

Therefore he gave the sheet to that British Deputy Lieutenant, and wishing to be his child.

He was a gay, father could not accept, therefore he chose to be born as a girl.

I was born in Deutsches Kaiserreich, and was taken to Britain when I was a young girl, century ago.

That was why I could speak German with the ghost, but only with this ghost.

We could be friends again, and may last forever.