Chapter 56 Chapter 56 Hong Guo couldn't help but worry, Zheng Hu...
Hongguo didn't want to touch the stone now. Stones wouldn't move away, and there were enough raw stones in the store, so this one wouldn't be a big deal. While he was still excited, he asked about what he had just thought about.
After talking with her second uncle, Hong Guo was no longer worried. With a smile on her face, she asked, "Chang Zong, don't you even ask what my second uncle asked me?"
Gu Changzong looked calm. "I wanted to ask you this. I was mincing meat and buying fish at the market. I kept thinking about this question. I didn't want to give Lao Zheng the opportunity to say that I didn't think things through. When I saw you were calm and composed, I felt relieved. Whatever it is, you must have talked to your uncle about it, right?"
Gu Changzong spoke calmly, but in fact, the bag of salt in his hand shook and poured a little too much, but fortunately it was salvaged.
Hongguo pretended to be calm, saying that coarse salt was not easy to dissolve and could be removed. Changzong seemed calm on the surface, but he was actually worried, right?
He was not worried about his uncle or anyone else, but he was afraid that she would hear some news and become estranged from him.
Hong Guo knew everything, so she sat next to him and got close to him before she said, "Chang Zong, it's nothing. My second uncle came to me to tell me two things. One was that Yu Hai went through a lot of twists and turns to find people to tell you, Mom, you can be cured. You don't have to worry about it. My second uncle has already taken care of it. Then my second uncle said that a history professor named Cheng Wusheng asked for your help through a connection he couldn't refuse. I thought to myself, you don't know him, so I asked for his phone number and planned to call him to ask."
After Hongguo finished speaking, she looked up again and saw that Changzong's worries were gone. Seeing his smile, Hongguo also smiled and deliberately complained to her second uncle: "It's just a small matter. You can just tell him over the phone. Why did you have to call him back?"
Gu Changzong was considerate of his uncle for once: "Maybe in his mind, this is a big thing that can only be discussed in person. Guoguo, you are the only one who is considerate. Otherwise, who would care about my uncle? If he doesn't care, he won't be able to handle the things that others ask him to do. But I really don't know that history professor."
Not to mention the current Changzong, even the former Gu Zhiqing was not recognized, so Hong Guo guessed that it was because of other things that this history professor noticed the incident in 1983, and he followed the passenger list of the bus and found them one by one. As long as he didn't lose his composure, he would be fine.
Hong Guo smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know. I'll call now and ask what's going on."
Changzong stayed in the kitchen to fry New Year's goods, and Hongguo went to the room to make a phone call. At the beginning, Changzong drove a car and often called back at night. Hongguo stayed in bed waiting for his call, so the phone was installed on the bedside table.
Hongguo called the number given by her second uncle, but unexpectedly, it was Lao Jiao who answered the call.
Hongguo was very surprised and asked Lao Jiao how he could receive her call?
Lao Jiao was equally surprised and asked Hong Guo how she knew the phone number of his whereabouts? He hadn't had time to tell her yet.
Hongguo guessed that Lao Jiao happened to be staying at Professor Cheng's place, so he said that he wanted to look for Professor Cheng Wusheng.
Lao Jiao said that it was unfortunate that Professor Cheng had gone to the countryside and would not be back for a day or two. He asked Hongguo if there was anything important. If it was urgent, he would ask Guizhi to go and look for him.
Hong Guo said, "He was the one who contacted us. He asked for information from his connections and found Changzong's second uncle. He wanted to know why Changzong didn't return home after the bus overturned in 1983. I think he was asking about something else. It was inconvenient for the second uncle to pass on the message, so I called him myself."
As long as it involves the incident in 1983, Lao Jiao will understand.
He did know a little bit, and said, "Did you receive the stone I sent you? Professor Cheng has been studying that piece of jade ore for a long time but has not found anything. Since you know something about stones, I said you might be able to give it a try. Professor Cheng said he didn't know you and didn't want to trouble you, so he gave it to me. I will pass it on to you. Take a look at the stone first. I'll call you when Professor Cheng comes back."
Hongguo and Lao Jiao knew each other tacitly, so there was no need to explain anything extra. Hongguo already knew that the stone was probably the one that Professor Cheng had obtained and studied but had yielded no results, so he sent it out to try other methods.
Hongguo asked about Lao Jiao and Guizhi's recent situation in the past few months. Lao Jiao said that everything was fine. With Guizhi around and having met Professor Cheng and being able to chat with him, he was very content.
"The climate here is good, Guizhi and I plan to settle down here." Lao Jiao invited Hongguo to visit when they have the chance.
Hong Guo agreed. Just as she put down the phone, Chang Zong came over with some freshly fried meatballs and put one into Hong Guo's mouth. He was still thinking about the professor whom he had never met on the other end of the phone, and asked, "Why do I hear you talking to Lao Jiao?"
In fact, when Hongguo called, Changzong pricked up his ears and listened. When he heard that it was Lao Jiao on the other end, Changzong stopped paying attention and concentrated on frying New Year's goods.
Hongguo tasted the meatballs and found that they were a little overcooked. Changzong started to worry again.
She repeated what Lao Jiao had said, telling him not to worry: "I don't think Professor Cheng is looking for you specifically. It's because of something he has going on that happens to overlap with what you've been through, but it's not too important. Let's just wait for him to call back."
When Hongguo relaxed, Changzong also relaxed. He put down his bowl and chopsticks, with a gentle and relaxed smile on his face, and told Hongguo to take a break: "Guoguo, I will continue to fry meatballs."
Hong Guo nodded: "Then I'll go unpack the package. If I find something about the stone, I'll tell you."
The kitchen was filled with the aroma of fried New Year's goods. Hongguo took a sip with satisfaction. After touching the stone, he went to the kitchen to tell Changzong so that he wouldn't worry.
She opened the package and found the stone inside was the size of a bowl. Its surface was no different from an ordinary jade shell. It felt like a piece of medium-quality glutinous jadeite raw stone. It couldn't be sold at a very good price even if it was made into a bracelet.
Hongguo was originally very excited, but was a little disappointed when she touched it. She didn't feel anything, which was not a common situation. She hurried to the kitchen and told Changzong that she felt it shouldn't be like this.
"Changzong, how about I send it to Xiao Zheng and let him cut it open to feel the jade?" Lao Jiao said that the jade was hers now, so it was okay to cut it open.
Hongguo had tried this method once when she was cutting materials before, and she was able to see more, but the scenes were very boring, and remained the same for thousands of years. Later, she learned that the formation process of jade veins takes millions of years or even longer. Hongguo understood that in millions of years, no matter how important or unimportant a thing is, it is all just a passing cloud for these jade mines. Fortunately, after she became pregnant, she suddenly gained the ability to automatically screen the scenes, otherwise she would be exhausted to death.
It was New Year's Day and there were a lot of people on the streets and the buses were very crowded. It wasn't something so important that it had to be done right away, so Changzong was reluctant to let her go and said he would drive there after frying the New Year's goods.
Hongguo was in the kitchen, eating freshly fried fish balls, meat balls and vegetable balls. After frying two large pots of various meatballs and tofu, Changzong took Shitou to Xiao Zheng's place to pick up the little one.
Hongguo had just eaten so much that she felt sleepy after waiting for a while at home. It was New Year's Day and it was afternoon, so she had nothing to do, so she fell asleep immediately.
When I woke up again, it was just getting dark. The cut jade material was already placed on the bedside table. The house was very quiet. The little one couldn't stay still. Changzong must have taken him out to play. He should be back for dinner soon.
Hongguo held half of the jade in his hand, touched the smooth cut, and then he saw the scene.
She saw a jade pit that was dug vertically downwards. Workers went down the pit to dig stones and suddenly dug out a person. The worker was frightened and went crazy. Then the pit collapsed. It took a day and a night to rescue the person, but the person was still alive. It was too dark in the pit at the time. Hongguo guessed based on the sound and the light from the shaking headlights. Could it be that a fellow villager from Changzong came over?
Hongguo thought that Changzong's visit was accidental, and since he was from the same hometown, would local people like Hongguo be affected in the future?
Hongguo couldn't help but worry. Just as she was thinking about all sorts of things, she heard Changzong coming back and quickly put the jade down.
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