Chapter 65 - 65 64 Help Me Recognize a Person

Chapter 65: Chapter 64: Help Me Recognize a Person Chapter 65: Chapter 64: Help Me Recognize a Person Hearing this familiar intonation, Wan Jian was very surprised.

“Eh? You’re from H Province too? A fellow townsfolk, eh!”

Wenyan still wore a smiling expression, “Strictly speaking, not exactly, but my grandma is from H Province.”

In the H Province dialect, grandma refers to one’s maternal grandmother.

Upon hearing this, Wan Jian said with a laugh, “Then you’re a quarter H Province person. It’s especially heartwarming to meet a fellow townsfolk when you’re away from home. Right, what did you want to tell me? I’ve got time now. I just finished visiting a sick friend and was about to head back when I ran into you.”

“That’s just perfect, how about we find somewhere with fewer people to talk?”

“Sure, when I was just taking my friend down for a stroll, I noticed that this hospital has a nice environment, with benches below, and it’s pretty quiet.”

True to Wan Jian’s words, the hospital inpatient building’s environment was nice, with great greenery everywhere, lush and verdant.

The two chose a quiet bench to sit down on.

Wenyan quickly started to get familiar with the man beside her, “Uncle Wan, which city in H Province are you from?”

“Z City.”

“Really? What a coincidence, my grandma is from there too.”

“I don’t speak the dialect very authentically, but I feel like the accent you have when you speak is exactly the same as my grandma’s. She’s from Dijiu County, what about you?”

“What a coincidence!” Wan Jian slapped his thigh excitedly, “I’m also from Dijiu County, I’m a mountain villager from my hometown.”

“My grandma too, she’s from Sishui Village by Bai Mountain, what about you?”

“Sishui Village! I know it, but I’m not from Sishui Village. Sishui Village is at the foot of Bai Mountain, my home is inside the mountain, I’m from the third team. We have six teams in total, from one to six, the higher the number, the deeper inside the mountain.”

What a coincidence! It was just too fortuitous!

It really lived up to the saying, “There are no such thing as coincidences that can’t make a story.”

Wenyan thought to herself, this world truly is like a novel.

“Then Uncle Wan, I wanted to ask you about something else.”

“What’s that?”

“About that day we first met in the supermarket, you suddenly asked a young girl whether she was Boss Zhao’s daughter. What was that all about?”

“Oh, that. Actually, I was not so sure afterwards. It’s just that she looked similar at first glance. She said she wasn’t, so I suppose I must have mistaken her for someone else.”

“Can I ask who this Boss Zhao is? A man or a woman?”

“A woman.”

“Do you know her name? It wouldn’t be Zhao Jing, would it?”

“Zhao Jing? I wouldn’t know about that. I only know her as Boss Zhao. When I met her, it was either six or seven years ago, or maybe seven or eight years ago. At that time, I was still living off the mountains in my hometown and hadn’t come out to work.

“This Boss Zhao came to our mountains to recruit workers, saying she owned a garment factory and was accompanied by a beautiful daughter, around fifteen or sixteen.

“She said it was winter vacation and she brought her child out to experience life. She wasn’t one of our mountain folks and wasn’t familiar with the villages there, so she found me through someone’s referral.

“She asked me to help contact people, and said she would pay me a referral fee per worker recruited. It was a good opportunity, so I agreed.

“Later, I did indeed round up about twenty people for her, and after that, I never saw her again. You seem quite interested in this Boss Zhao?”

After hearing all this, Wenyan found herself unable to smile.

Her brows furrowed gradually.

Because what Wan Jian and the Granny Zhou of Sishui Village said completely matched.

In other words, they were talking about the same incident.

Wenyan looked at Wan Jian, and her expression turned serious.

“Then Uncle Wan, I’d like to ask again. The twenty or so female workers you helped recruit, they were all female workers, weren’t they? Did they make any money afterward?”

“Yes, it was a clothing factory, for sure they only recruited female workers. Whether they made money, I don’t know, because many of them never came back.”

“Why is that? Do you know the reason?”

“I don’t know, how could I know that? But they all had one thing in common, which is that their families were very poor, and some were widows. Perhaps they earned money outside and didn’t want to return to those poor ravines. Now, there are hardly any people left in the countryside; everyone is out there trying to make a living.”

“But some have elderly parents and young children to take care of, are you saying they don’t care about their own kids and parents anymore?”

“Sigh,” Wan Jian heaved a sigh and suddenly lowered his voice, “That’s what the villagers were discussing at the time, finding it strange, suspecting they’d got involved in pyramid schemes or something. But I didn’t have anything to do with this, I have no connection at all.”

Wan Jian immediately disassociated himself, “Back then, I was just helping to connect people, and I told them right at the beginning, it was entirely up to them. I got fifty yuan per person for the referral, and in total, I didn’t receive much benefit.”

With so many people gone without a return, Wenyan couldn’t help but suspect there was something fishy going on.

“So, Uncle Wan, although you don’t know what that Boss Zhao’s real name is, if you saw her again, could you still recognize her?”

“I should be able to. To be honest, I have quite a deep impression of her. That day, the referral fee she gave me was over two thousand yuan. Just one day, I received more than two thousand yuan in one day, she handed it to me personally, I definitely can’t forget her face.”

“Great, I’ll send you a red envelope of two thousand yuan, can you help me go upstairs and identify someone?”

“Who?”

“Boss Zhao.”

Though two thousand yuan was tempting to Wan Jian, he was a shrewd man and became vigilant instantly.

“Why do you want me to recognize her? Has she done something wrong, are you investigating her? Miss, I don’t want to get involved in your business.”

“Not getting involved, not getting involved,” Wenyan hastened to reassure him, “I just need a word from you, yes or no, one word or two. I don’t need you to do anything else. Let’s add each other on WeChat, and I can transfer the money to you right now.”

Eventually, Wan Jian was persuaded by Wenyan.

They added each other on WeChat, and Wenyan kept her promise and transferred two thousand yuan to him.

After adding him on WeChat, Wenyan promptly took a screenshot of his WeChat ID for safekeeping, in case she got blocked later and couldn’t find him.

They then got up from the bench and left.

It was very quiet around at this time, with hardly any patients coming for a stroll.

But neither Wenyan nor Wan Jian noticed.

A person was hiding behind the dense greenery.

Soon, the two arrived outside the hospital room of Shen Zhirou’s adoptive mother, Zhao Jing.

The door of the hospital room was closed at that moment.

But through the glass on the door, one could still see the people inside clearly.

After giving Wan Jian some time to observe carefully, Wenyan led him to the emergency exit.

“How about it, Uncle Wan, did you see clearly, is that person on the hospital bed the same Boss Zhao you dealt with six or seven years ago?”