The new kind of opium—the kind we put in Dream Horse products—was opium that had been distilled and refined to make two modern drugs: heroin and morphine. Heroin was cheaper and was the primary ingredient in our most popular product, Dream Horse Red. We also sold a more refined version for a more refined clientele, Dream Horse White, which contained morphine in addition. In the early days, there was another line, too, called Immortal Carp, which came in two colours: black and gold. There was a very special version called Carp’s Eye, which was glossy white. Each pill had a little black dot on it so that it looked like a 3-D cartoon fish eye. These incorporated special ingredients from a traditional recipe for an extra-potent elixir of immortality: mercury, arsenic, and strychnine. To smoke them was an immense pleasure. It made the smoker soar with phoenixes through the clouds. But after an old man from the village of Wong Nai Chung in Happy Valley died of a heroin overdose combined with heavy-metal poisoning, Father had to go to court. He was fined enough money to buy that man’s family a very nice house in the village of Tai Hang, while Father spent three months in Victoria Gaol. After that, we stopped making the whole Immortal Carp line. The cheapest one, Dream Horse Red, was what sold best anyway.