Chapter 1411: The Truth

Seeing the commanders remain silent, someone spoke up: "Could this be the work of the same person as the incident at Nanyuan Airport?"

Another chimed in: "The scale is extremely similar, but who could possess such capability and such power?"

At this, the Senior Commander, who had remained silent until now, raised his hand to stop their speculation: "Regardless, they care for the people and the nation. Since they do not wish to reveal themselves, let us not probe deeper. What matters most right now is that half of the sheepskin map."

"We have urgently mobilized personnel from the Natural Resources Bureau, the Archives Office of the Minzheng Bureau, and the cultural relics appraisal and archaeological research teams from the Cultural Bureau, along with members of the Armed Forces Department, to form a task force. However, as of now, no news has been received from that side."

After this person stepped aside, another stepped forward: "In accordance with the donor's wishes, we have converted that batch of 'special' supplies into cash and remitted it to the Tang City side."

The commanders nodded in satisfaction: "You have done very well."

After giving some further instructions, they each went off to attend to their duties.

No one spoke further, yet everyone's mind was as clear as a mirror: at such a time, anyone willing to risk their life to donate so much wealth to the disaster area must be a person of great righteousness.

And early the next morning, after Fu Yan Cheng and Shen Kaiyuan finished their morning training and reported yesterday's events to the Division Commander, they ordered the interrogation of the Chen family members.

Locked up all night, their spirits were on the verge of collapse; without any methods being used, those people confessed everything they knew, spilling it out like beans from a bamboo tube.

Only then did they learn that someone had approached the Chen family, wanting Wang Sangyu's daughter to become a child bride, simply because that family had obtained Chen Tiantian's birth date and hour, and a master had told them it could shield their own daughter from disaster.

That family had said that if they could successfully take the girl away, they would give them five hundred yuan and a formal job quota.

The Chen family had three sons and one daughter, but only Chen Tiantian's father had a job. After the incident, the job naturally fell to the eldest son of the Chen family. Unfortunately, he lacked the talent for driving and was merely muddling along; the Transport Team had issued him a final ultimatum, giving him at most three more months. If he still could not learn, they would transfer him to another post, meaning he should stop occupying a latrine without defecating.

But there was only one job; with the eldest son taking it, the other naturally felt displeased. Now, with someone bringing a job to their doorstep, the Chen family matriarch was naturally overjoyed.

Yet this matriarch was also someone with a brain; she knew that the man her former daughter-in-law had married was not simple. Upon inquiry, she sought out the wife of Captain Sun, Mi Cuifang.

Speaking of it, this matter had some connection to Liu Chuxue and Fu Yan Cheng.

Since the incident where Mi Cuifang embezzled the supplements Fu Yan Cheng had given to his wife, Captain Sun had taken back control of the family finances. Although he did not force his wife to retrieve the items from her maiden home, he no longer showed any good face to her in-laws.

Mi Cuifang had returned home several times empty-handed, and her brothers' wives naturally showed no good countenance. Just at this moment, the Chen family matriarch approached her.

After feigning pity, the Chen matriarch expressed how desperately she missed her granddaughter and wanted to see her, begging Mi Cuifang to help notify them when the former daughter-in-law's current husband was not around.

Thinking that merely inquiring about Instructor Guo's whereabouts would earn her a basket of eggs, and further believing that the Chen matriarch would not deceive her, she agreed.

Realizing she had caused a major disaster, Mi Cuifang was so terrified when she saw the Chen family members being led away that she nearly lost her soul. Upon returning home, she immediately took her child and left the dependents' compound, heading to her second aunt's house in the city, thinking that if the person was not there, she could avoid the calamity.

One can only say she was far too naive.