Leaving the Zhang family, Yang Chen imdiately called Sun Yue.
"Hello, Sun Yue."
"Who is this!" Sun Yue snapped without any politeness.
Yang Chen felt a bit frustrated, he absolutely believed Sun Yue knew who he was. If an agent couldn’t even rember a phone number, that would be completely unqualified!
But Yang Chen helplessly answered, "Yang Chen!"
"Oh! So you’re the one who casually assigns tasks to , huh!" Sun Yue said sarcastically.
Yang Chen felt helpless and asked in a deep voice, "Investigate those addresses for ."
"Relax! I’ve already sent soone to look into it; you’ll have results by tomorrow!" Sun Yue replied coldly.
Yang Chen nodded, he had great confidence in Sun Yue and their departnt’s capabilities.
"How’s the investigation on the photograph going?" Yang Chen asked.
"It’s not that fast!" Sun Yue said coldly, "I just sent you a ssage telling you to wait! Right now, we’ve used technical ans to age the person in the photo, but so far, we haven’t found anyone with matching facial features. As for when this might happen, that’s up to fate!"
Yang Chen nodded, "Understood!"
After hanging up the phone, Yang Chen felt a bit heavy-hearted.
He understood that after so much ti, especially with the age discrepancy in the photo, it wasn’t realistic to truly find his father Yang Yanyu, but he still held onto a sliver of hope in trying.
Driving ho, Yang Chen saw Chen Siyan sitting on the sofa, snacking and watching TV with great relish, almost drooling over a young male idol.
Yang Chen shook his head helplessly and said to Chen Siyan, "Who was it that told , if you’re looking for a boyfriend, you should find one with muscles to feel? Now you’re drooling over young idols?"
Chen Siyan imdiately retorted, "Before finding the right boyfriend, can’t I just watch TV to have so eye candy! Don’t you guys look at photo albums too, so what’s wrong with watching so dramas?"
Yang Chen raised his hands in surrender; he couldn’t win against soone so unreasonably stubborn.
At this mont, Yang Chen felt his phone vibrate.
Ever since having a phone, Yang Chen found business really busy; there wasn’t a mont when soone wouldn’t need him.
Taking out his phone, Yang Chen saw a phone number, and imdiately recognized it as Gu Xijun’s number.
After a brief thought, Yang Chen answered the call, "Hello."
"Yang Chen, get to the old city quickly, there’s an old residential compound here. My dad said your dad seed to have lived here!" Gu Xijun anxiously exclaid.
Upon hearing this, Yang Chen’s eyes flashed with excitent, and he shouted, "Wait for ! I’ll be right there!"
After getting the address, Yang Chen dashed out of the room and got into the car.
Chen Siyan had never seen Yang Chen in such a hurry and couldn’t help feeling a bit worried...
The old city district.
It’s an area already heavily surrounded.
Though it’s called a neighborhood, it’s more like a courtyard.
The reason this compound has been preserved is because it was originally slated for demolition, but later the plans changed, and it was retained.
Now, no one lives there, and authorities are deciding whether to demolish it or keep it as a cultural site, given its historical connections to the red movent.
However, according to Gu Xijun, the likelihood of demolition is quite high.
Because Ningchuan now needs developnt, and its developnt is definitely not heading in the direction of becoming a tourist and cultural city, so the likelihood of demolition is rather high.
"This should be the place." Gu Xijun stopped at courtyard number three and said to Yang Chen, "My dad said your family seed to have lived in this courtyard."
Looking at the weathered houses in front of him, Yang Chen couldn’t help but feel sentintal.
Though he couldn’t rember anything now, seeing these old houses gave Yang Chen an imnsely familiar feeling.
He didn’t rush up to explore but looked at Gu Xijun and asked, "How did you get this out of your dad? Weren’t you told not to get involved in the investigation?"
Gu Xijun smiled mysteriously and said, "That’s my secret. Don’t ask, just see if you can find anything."
Yang Chen glanced deeply at Gu Xijun, nodded, and pushed open the door to enter the room.
Inside, there was an imdiate sll of mustiness mixed with dust, clearly indicating no one had been here for a long ti, let alone cleaned it.
The room was empty, with no furniture left, just peeling walls.
Yang Chen searched around but found nothing valuable as a clue.
After entering and observing, Gu Xijun said, "Let’s go to the residents’ committee; I’ve already coordinated with them. They have a records room; I think the stuff from this yard is stored there."
Yang Chen nodded but wasn’t hopeful because if soone wanted to process this information, the residents’ committee couldn’t have kept anything valuable.
Following Gu Xijun, they arrived at the residents’ committee’s records room.
Called a records room, it was actually a storage room with all sorts of things piled up.
An auntie led them there and said, "Things are a bit ssy. I don’t know where what you’re talking about is, just look around and see!"
With that, she turned and left.
Helplessly, the two of them entered the room and began their search.
Yang Chen’s main target was so paper docunts.
But these paper files were very old, and it’s hard to find anything out of them.
After searching for a while, Yang Chen suddenly noticed so information written in fountain pen.
A few short words written in the corner, not very noticeable, and the reason Yang Chen noticed this was because he saw the character ’Jie’.
The docunts were already damaged, but Yang Chen could vaguely discern: Jie... Xudu.
What does this an?
Could it be that his mother Guo Wenjie’s hotown was in Xudu?
Or perhaps Yang Yanyu and Guo Wenjie went to Xudu?
The more Yang Chen thought about it, the more suspicious it seed, and imdiately called Ye Kai.
Soon, Ye Kai answered the phone from the other side and shouted, "Hey, Brother Chen, I’m on the highway; I’ll be in Ningchuan tonight!"
Yang Chen said directly, "Ye Kai, help ask the old man and just ask where my mother’s ancestral ho is!"
"Oh, got it! Alright, I’ll call the old man right now!" Ye Kai cooperatively replied.
After the call, Gu Xijun ca closer and asked, "What happened? Did you find any clues?"
Yang Chen showed her those three words.
Gu Xijun stared and murmured, "Jie? Could it be Guo Wenjie?"
In a mont, Yang Chen’s phone rang.
Seeing the landline number, Yang Chen answered the call.
"Xiaochen!" Elder Ye’s voice ca through the phone.
"It’s , Elder Ye. I just wanted to ask if you know where my mother Guo Wenjie’s family hailed from." This was Yang Chen’s main curiosity.
"Oh!" Elder Ye suddenly realized and said, "You might want to start with the Guo family in Xudu. Your mother is from the Guo family in Xudu. Perhaps they might know so clues!"
Hearing this, Yang Chen felt a glimr of hope and nodded, "Got it! Thank you, Elder Ye!"
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