Yu Dahai waved his hand. "Her parents didn't want them either. They weren't valuable. I had them burned, along with a birthday cake. Oh, it seems like it was your birthday on the day you went on the mission. Maybe that cake was made for you."
"She was my soldier, isn't it normal for her to order a cake for me? She's gone now, so let's not talk nonsense. Please do me a favor. You have connections. Find out her master's name. The Housing Authority should have some information. Please."
"It's a small matter. I can do it for you right now. Wait, I'll call the army and have someone check the files. They'll know the address in a few phone calls. But why are you asking for her master's name?"
"Don't talk nonsense, just check it out. I'll tell you in detail when I find out." Wu Yanxu just suddenly thought that Jian Ning's Baicao Room and house were given to her by her master. A person who can possess the magical Baicao Room is most likely a time traveler. If she is really a time traveler, she might be Gu Guangming's great-grandmother.
As long as Jian Ning's master is also called Wu Yunzhu, and then he can adjust the photo and let Gu Guangming's family identify him, no, if he traveled through time, it would be a soul travel, how could he have the same name? But he should look similar. Although his name is not Ma Fuquan, he actually looks the same, and his surname is also Ma.
He and Gu Guangming found a clean patch of grass to sit on. Yu Dahai had been on the phone for nearly half an hour. When he heard him say on the phone, "Your last name is Qiao, Qiao Yujiao, right?"
"Ask if I can get some photos?" Wu Yanxu said, "If I have any, I'll send them to your phone."
There was no photo on the property title and household registration book, but the other party agreed to help find the ID card copy. The three of them came down from the mountain and drove to a nearby town to have a quick meal. After the meal, Yu Dahai took his bag to pay the bill, and the proprietress smiled and told the young man at the same table that he had paid already.
"You're just a trainee police officer and you only make a few bucks a month. You don't have to pay. I'll do it." After coming out of the small restaurant, Yu Dahai took out his phone and said to Gu Guangming, "Here, I'll scan it for you."
"No need. I will be the natural host in the vicinity of my hometown. I can still afford to treat two leaders with a few hundred yuan." Gu Guangming said with a smile.
Wu Yanxu pointed at Yu Dahai and said, "Chief Steward Yu is very wealthy, so just let him sweep it for you. No need to be polite to him."
"Young man, don't waste time. Hurry up." Yu Dahai said again.
Since neither of them wanted him to treat them to dinner, Gu Guangming stopped being pretentious. He took out his cell phone, opened WeChat, and handed it over. Yu Dahai had just transferred the money to him when a call came in.
"Hello... Oh, Grandma Wu... Okay, thanks. You've worked hard. I'll treat you to a drink next time we meet."
After hanging up the phone, Yu Dahai patted Wu Yanxu on the shoulder and said, "Old buddy, I found the photo and will send it to you shortly. Xiao Jian's master is very famous in the local area. Everyone calls her Grandma Wu, also known as the Ghost Hand Divine Needle. Like Xiao Gu's great-grandfather, she is a master of traditional Chinese medicine."
He chuckled.
"Isn't your surname Qiao? Why is she called Grandma Wu? And she's also a master of traditional Chinese medicine. Maybe she's actually a relative of my great-grandmother." Gu Guangming said, looking at Wu Yanxu, "Captain Wu, do you know something? Otherwise, why would you want that grandma's photo?"
"Yes, I want to know too." Yu Dahai asked, he was also puzzled.
Wu Yanxu changed the subject and asked Gu Guangming, "Where does your grandfather live now? Is his health and eyesight okay?"
"It's okay. My parents and my aunt's family all live in our hometown town, but my grandpa lives alone in an old bungalow at the foot of the cemetery. My great-grandmother and grandmother are buried in the back hill. That row of bungalows has never been demolished. My parents and my aunt wanted to take my grandpa to live with them, but he refused. He only went over for meals occasionally, and most of the time he cooked for himself."
As soon as Gu Guangming finished speaking, the photo of Grandma Wu was sent to Yu Dahai's phone via MMS. He downloaded it and gave it to Wu Yanxu. Wu Yanxu took a look and handed the phone to Gu Guangming, "Take a look. Does it look like your grandfather?"
The photo was scanned from an ID card and was taken in 1984. She was 42 years old. Her clothes were considered very fashionable and stylish for that era. She had big curly hair and wore a black flat velvet stand-up collar dress with a V-shaped peacock tooth on the collar. She looked very noble and had a very high appearance.
"Forgive my poor eyesight, but my grandfather's face has been covered in wrinkles ever since I can remember. I really can't tell how he looks like me." Gu Guangming handed the phone to Yu Dahai and said to Wu Yanxu, "My home isn't far from here, a twenty-minute drive at most. How about taking it to my grandfather to have a look?"
Gu Guangming was still driving. After getting in the car, Yu Dahai nudged Wu Yanxu with his elbow and said, "Tell me, why are you so interested in Xiao Jian's master? What's going on here that I don't know? Don't keep me in suspense, or we'll be done with each other."
"How should I put it?" Wu Yanxu patted his thigh, secretly pondered and organized his words, and then said: "Let me tell you this, I have been having intermittent dreams while I was unconscious. After waking up, some of the dreams are still so vivid in my memory that it is hard for me to believe it was just a dream. You see, in my dream, Jian Ning and I went to a natural stone cave in Jiguan Mountain to count weapons. In reality, there is a Jiguan Mountain and an air-raid shelter."
“Isn’t that because sister-in-law read you the essay written by Xiao Gu?”
"Don't interrupt me. Regardless of whether it was your sister-in-law who read it, I did go there in my dream. I also dreamed that Jian Ning told me that she had a magical herb room given to her by her master. Her herb room contained our army's weapons and medicine warehouse, and could also store anything. Whenever she went out on a mission before, she only had a simple backpack like the rest of us, but when she arrived at her destination, she could always take out a lot of stuff at any time."
"Oh my god! Are those novels on the Internet not just random? Are there really such things as portable space?" Gu Guangming interrupted.
Yu Dahai laughed, "He was just dreaming, and you took it seriously."
"Don't worry about whether it was a dream or not. I just want to find out one thing: was what happened in the dream a dream or did it really happen? As long as Xiao Gu's grandfather recognizes Grandma Wu in the photo, or in other words, Grandma Wu is Xiao Gu's great-grandmother, then I can be sure that the dream really happened."
With a "squeak", Gu Guangming braked suddenly, throwing Wu Yanxu and Yu Dahai, who were sitting in the back seat, off the car.
"Young man, why are you so excited about what he said in his sleep?" Yu Dahai waved his hand, "Drive carefully and concentrate."
"I'm sorry, I couldn't hold it in for a moment. It was too shocking." Gu Guangming said no more and concentrated on driving. In less than 20 minutes, they arrived at Jinping Town.
Jinping Town is an industrial town. To enter the town, one has to pass through an 800-meter-long natural stone cave. There is also a bottomless underground river on the left side of the cave. When the police car drove out of the stone cave and drove through the town to the foot of the grave mountain, Wu Yanxu saw from the car window that on the hill opposite the grave mountain, there was a row of wind turbines slowly turning.
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