Chapter 103: Chapter 103: Diligence is Supre!
This day was March 23, 1986.
Two days later…
The phone in Gu Qingfeng’s hospital room rang.
At this mont, the one watching over the hospital room was Gu Qingfeng’s personal bodyguard, Old Su, who had followed Gu Qingfeng for twenty years. He was a veteran, and although he was almost forty, he was highly skilled.
He answered the phone.
Upon hearing the other person’s words, Old Su couldn’t help but raise his voice excitedly.
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“What, the young master has been found?”
Gu Qingfeng suddenly sat up from the hospital bed.
He turned over, got out of bed, and despite his physical weakness and dizziness, staggered into the living room.
Old Su had already put down the phone, his voice excited yet slightly trembling, “Old Patriarch, the young master has been found, he’s alive. He’s living in Sanwan Village, near our Gu Family Jade Mine in Diannan. Our people have already made contact with him, and he has the Lady’s jade pendant…”
At this mont, Gu Qingfeng’s old tears stread down his face.
Yet he was half-doubtful.
He urgently instructed Old Su to imdiately find a way to notify another group of people to follow Uncle Gu to Sanwan Village in Diannan.
The Jade Mine, ah.
It was discovered by accident when his son, Gu Kun, went to Diannan with his father.
He had actually been there all this ti?
At this mont, Gu Qingfeng’s mind was in complete turmoil…
Uncle Gu, who had just arrived at Qingshui City, imdiately received this ssage when he called Gu Qingfeng, and heard Gu Qingfeng’s hurried instructions, and Uncle Gu was sowhat stunned.
But the na and birthdate matched up.
And the man had the Lady’s jade pendant.
It was urgent; they needed to go to Diannan imdiately.
Skinny Monkey went to buy the tickets, Gu Lei went to pick up the photos from the photo studio.
But just as Gu Lei had just turned the corner of the alley, he heard the sirens of fire engines, followed by seeing a huge column of smoke and fierce flas coming from the direction of the photo studio…
The photo studio had caught fire.
Gu Lei couldn’t possibly get close.
And there were cries everywhere; it was a chaotic scene all around.
At this very mont, let alone the photos, the photo studio itself was about to be completely burned down.
Gu Lei returned to the inn and relayed the situation to Uncle Gu, who also had no ti to go to Stone Town then.
He could only suppress the inexplicable doubts in his heart and hurriedly boarded the train headed to Diannan with three of his subordinates.
anwhile, Qiaoqiao and her younger uncle had already arrived at the provincial capital.
Qiaoqiao’s older uncle had gained strong support from the village for the greenhouse project this ti, and Qiaoqiao had already handed over the money to her older uncle. The timber, plastic cloth, and red bricks were in place, and the greenhouse was already being built.
The technician from the Agriculture Bureau also went to Lian Family Village, saying it was a bit late, but if cultivated well, the vegetables could be brought to market a month earlier than those grown in open fields.
Then, under the technician’s guidance, grandma and aunt started sowing seeds in the house.
Qiaoqiao knew nothing about farming.
All she could do was resolve the concerns of her older uncle.
In the past few days, she and her younger uncle had run around the county and then the city; the prospects were very promising, and Qiaoqiao rembered that two years later, the country would start the “vegetable basket project.”
The focus was on enabling people to eat fresh vegetables all year round, and with the implentation of the first phase of the project, the long-standing shortage of staple foods in the country was quickly resolved.
And now, the timing was excellent; her older uncle could not only gain experience but also accumulate funds in these two years.
Two years later, with policy support, it would be like adding wings to a tiger.
So, the Lian family was full of confidence.
This ti, Gu Qiaoqiao wanted to see just how large the Luo Family’s Hotel was and understand the demand for vegetables.
If the demand wasn’t significant, there would be no need to go to the provincial capital; the city and Qingshui County could handle it completely.
The Luo Family’s Hotel was in the busiest district of the provincial capital.
The first floor housed the restaurant, and the upper two floors were a guest house, decorated with distinct European characteristics that, along with the nearby buildings, ford an architectural group with a foreign flair.
Seeing such a large hotel, both Lian Dongsheng and Gu Qiaoqiao were a bit surprised.
They thought they would have to talk more, but after Gu Qiaoqiao’s na was ntioned, the hotel manager quickly and warmly invited the two into a private room.
Although Gu Qiaoqiao tried to decline gracefully, she couldn’t resist the quick action of the manager and reluctantly agreed; to continue refusing would seem petty.
Lian Dongsheng, though a rural man, was adaptable and his eyes spoke volus, quickly engaging in lively conversation with the manager.
Of course, the issue of vegetable sales was resolved, and even without Luo Fan’s reminders, the hotel manager was indeed interested in these early-market vegetables.
After the al, they prepared to return to Stone Town, as it would soon be too late for the bus.
The hotel manager made an attempt to keep them a little longer, but then he didn’t insist.
After seeing them off, the hotel manager quickly dialed Luo Fan’s number.
When Gu Qiaoqiao and Lian Dongsheng got ho, it was just at sunset.
Lian Dongsheng didn’t return to Lian Family Village; Gu Tianfeng unusually invited him to stay for dinner and they had a drink together.
This made Lian Dongsheng feel sowhat overwheld with honor.
After all, this brother-in-law generally didn’t think much of him.
He disliked him for not wanting to do farm work and for being idle…
This only further strengthened Lian Dongsheng’s resolve.
He was determined to work hard alongside his brother to pay off their external debts this year and to ease so of his sister’s worries.
As night fell, the moon hung over the willow tips, and its watery light gently enveloped Stone Town, with occasional barking from Big Yellow in the distance.
This added a touch of remoteness and antiquity to the village.
In a room at the Border City Experintal Base’s family compound, Qin Yize put down the book in his hands.
He put on a coat and stood by the window of the dimly lit living room, quietly gazing at the bright moon outside.
More than once, in the silent depths of night when he was no longer busy, he found himself thinking of Gu Qiaoqiao.
Thinking of that capricious young woman.
This had never happened before.
It caused him to feel a fresh emotion slowly fernting in the depths of his heart.
Now, aside from his beloved career, he had another focus of attention.
He knew very well what this ant.
But the current dilemma was that Gu Qiaoqiao no longer harbored any love for him and really had no intention of coming to Border City.
Although her hatred had faded, she treated him as if he were a stranger.
Qin Yize was puzzled.
Yet, he also felt a fire burning at the bottom of his heart.
Qin Yize recalled a line he had just read in a book—”In the art of war, the supre act is to subdue the enemy without fighting!”
A dark gleam swept through his starry eyes, his thin lips slowly curved, and a non-committal smile spread across his face…
Ten days later, Uncle Gu and his group brought back a man in his sixties to the Imperial Capital.
When Gu Qingfeng saw the Jade Pendant, he fainted on the spot.
When he woke up, he was sitting on a hospital bed, his hand gently caressing the Jade Pendant that he had been searching for fifty years.
He had personally carved this pendant from fine jade, which had Lady Yu’s favorite orchids engraved on it, also their token of love.
But now, the owner of the Jade Pendant was no longer there.
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