Chapter 1217: The Road to Good Fortune Is Never Smooth

The car caused a sensation as it entered the village, attracting many people to come and watch the commotion.

Since this was their first visit, and not knowing about the village situation, Xinyan opened the door and got out of the car: "Could you please tell me how to get to the village chief’s house?"

Hearing Xinyan’s question, a child shouted to the adults eating under the big willow tree not far away: "Village Chief, someone is looking for you."

The village chief heard that someone was looking for him, stood up, holding the bowl, and walked over: "Who’s looking for me?"

At this moment, Wei Fengyuan also got out of the car, walked forward: "Village Chief, could we speak privately?"

The village chief looked at the small car parked not far away: "My house is just ahead, let’s talk there."

The car couldn’t drive through, so Mr. Gu also got out and the group walked toward the village chief’s house.

Entering the courtyard, the village chief shouted towards the house: "Kids’ mom, we have guests."

Someone responded from inside: "Oh, I’ll be there."

The village chief led them into the living room and then asked: "What is it that you’re looking for me about?"

Mr. Gu took out a photograph from his pocket: "Was this photo taken in your village?"

The village chief took the photo and looked at it carefully: "Yes, it was indeed taken in our village, it’s been quite a few years now."

After looking at it, he looked up at Mr. Gu: "Is there a problem with the photo?"

Mr. Gu was quite excited: "Do you know the people in the photo?"

The village chief scratched his head and looked at it again: "This photo was taken when the village was digging a deep well, an exploration team came by, and a reporter happened to pass by and took it, the exploration team stayed here for a few days and then left."

Hearing his words, Mr. Gu’s hand holding the photo trembled a bit: "Where was the exploration team hired from?"

Speaking of this, the village chief was a bit embarrassed: "The exploration team wasn’t hired by us; they were sent over to Chicken Mountain by the authorities for exploration work, they happened to stay in our village for a while, heard that we wanted to dig a deep well, and voluntarily helped us."

He came over with great hopes, only to find it turned out like this.

Mr. Gu was still a bit unwilling: "Village Chief, please think again, is there anyone from the photo you can still contact?"

The village chief looked back at the photo, after a while directly shook his head: "Besides a few people from the village, the rest are all from the exploration team, they only mentioned that they were sent from above, and we didn’t ask for details."

Suddenly remembering something, he slapped his thigh: "Right, I saw their letter of introduction, it had the provincial exploration team’s official stamp on it."

The photo wasn’t very clear, although they wore work clothes, it was unclear where the work clothes were from, at that time many units had blue work cloth as their gear.

Although not directly finding someone, it wasn’t a futile trip.

They stayed overnight at the village chief’s house, and early the next morning left some money tickets as compensation, hurrying towards the provincial capital.

They spent most of the day on the road aside from lunch, thankfully they took turns driving, otherwise, it would have been unbearable.

By the time they reached Chengdu, the sky had already darkened.

They found accommodation closest to the exploration bureau, Mr. Gu was so tired he didn’t go out for dinner, it was brought back to him instead.

Fearing the old man couldn’t endure, Xinyan used Space Stream Water to make a cup of malted milk powder for him to drink before returning to her room.

The next day, Mr. Gu got up early, seeing Wei Fengyuan was still asleep, he went out by himself.

Upon hearing movement, Xinyan quickly got up to tidy up and chased after him: "Grandpa, I’ll go with you."

It was still early for others to start work, going now meant waiting around: "Grandpa, let’s find a place for breakfast first, afterward I’ll accompany you to get familiar with the area."

Mr. Gu understood that going now wouldn’t accomplish anything: "Alright."

Xinyan knew the old man’s thoughts: "Grandpa, don’t worry, at most we’ll have to spend more effort, we’ll surely find them."

How could he not worry, but he understood what his granddaughter said was right, he had to take care of his health, not to worry his partner and young lady at home, and not to trouble his granddaughter and Wei Zi.

At this time, breakfast vendors were just starting to set up, so Xinyan took him to get familiar with the area around the exploration bureau, after they circled it, they returned to find a place to eat.

Then, they brought some back for Wei Fengyuan before returning to the accommodation.

Wei Fengyuan had also gotten up by now: "Uncle Gu, I was just about to go out and find you."

Xinyan smiled and handed over breakfast: "Uncle Wei, we brought breakfast back for you."

Wei Fengyuan, being clever: "You went to the exploration bureau early today?"

Xinyan nodded: "Yes, we went to get familiar with the place first to avoid wasting time later."

Wei Fengyuan saw that Uncle Gu had taken out that photograph again, sighed inwardly, thinking: Hopefully, there will be good news today.

Waiting always seemed long, with half an hour before staff start work, Mr. Gu couldn’t sit still any longer: "Let’s go, at this point someone should have arrived."