After getting in the car, Song Fei said to Song Ci, "Set your phone location to Wuxi, Chongqing."
"Okay, that's it."
Song Tingyun grew up in Wuxi County. He left Wuxi County for Italy after his father was murdered when he was 15. He buried his father in the same place where he grew up.
The car drove on the highway for more than 20 hours before arriving in Wuxi County.
The two sisters found a hotel in the county town and had grilled fish that was highly praised by the locals in the evening.
After resting for a night, the two sisters drove to Shuangyang Township at dawn the next day.
Shuangyang Township is located in the eastern part of Wuxi County, bordering Shennongjia in Hubei Province. Song Tingyun said his father often went to Shennongjia to collect medicinal herbs. Shennongjia is home to countless valuable medicinal herbs.
The terrain in Shuangyang Township is quite steep. Song Fei's off-road vehicle was speeding on the winding mountain road. Song Ci fastened his seat belt and held the handrail above his head tightly with his right hand.
After driving for several hours, it was almost noon when the two arrived at Shuangyang Township.
According to Song Tingyun's account many years ago, Song Ci and her friends' grandfather should have lived in a small village called Lanying Village. Song Ci and Song Fei followed the navigation instructions and drove around for over an hour before finding Lanying Village.
There are not many people here, and even fewer young people. Most people have gone out to work, and those left in the village are mostly elderly people and children.
The arrival of Song Fei and Song Ci attracted the attention of many local farmers. The sisters were good-looking, drove SUVs, and dressed fashionably, so it was hard not to notice them.
Song Ci stopped a teenage girl and asked her, "Little sister, may I ask where the village chief's home is?"
The little girl was a little shy and had not seen much of the outside world. She blushed a little when Song Ci suddenly called her.
She pointed to the other side of the road and hesitantly said, "The village chief is over there, but he usually stays in the village committee office. The office is right in front. There's a piece of cement ground in front of the house. That's the one with the red flag."
The girl's Mandarin had a strong local accent, but Song Ci had a good talent for languages and understood her. "Thank you, little sister."
Song Ci got in the car and drove forward with Song Fei for another two minutes before they saw the village committee office.
As soon as Song Ci and Song Fei parked their car, a man and a woman emerged from the village committee building. The man, in his fifties, was the village chief, and the woman, in her early forties, was his wife, responsible for cleaning the office building.
Seeing Song Ci and the others, the village chief narrowed his eyes and asked curiously, "Girls, whose daughters are you?" The village chief thought that it was a villager's relative from the city who had come.
Song Fei leaned against the car body without saying a word. Wherever diplomacy was needed, Song Ci had to be relied upon.
Song Ci smiled at the village chief and asked politely, "Village chief, my last name is Song. My grandfather is Song Qingkuang, and my father is Song Tingyun. My sisters and I are back for the first time, and we would like to pay our respects to our grandfather. Excuse me, village chief, do you recognize Song Qingkuang?"
The village chief was stunned.
"Song Qingkuang..." The village chief slapped his thigh and said ecstatically, "Are you Brother Yun's daughters?"
It seems that the village chief has a good relationship with Song Tingyun.
Song Ci nodded and said, "Yes."
The village chief quickly pulled Song Ci and Song Fei into the office to sit for a while, and said to his wife, "Dafang, go cook. Make more. We have two rare guests today."
His wife quickly dropped the broom and went to cook.
The village chief told Song Ci: "My name is Song Kaiyun. I know your grandfather. I call him uncle. Your grandfather Song Qingkuang came to our village with Brother Yun when he was in his twenties. He settled in our village and became a village doctor."
"Your grandfather lived in our village for a while, and he changed his surname to Song along with us. Uncle Song is amazing! He can cure any illness that the villagers within a ten-mile radius have!"
"Brother Yun is also very capable. He studied medicine with Uncle Song. When he was twelve or thirteen years old, he treated people. What a pity..." The village chief shook his head with a look of regret.
Song Ci asked, "What's a pity?"
"It's a pity that Song Shufu had such a short life. He was murdered..." The village chief shook the ash from his cigarette and said, "That was the first and only murder case in our village. It has not been solved yet..."
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