Chapter 254: A lucky encounter

After half a month of surveying, countless holes were drilled within a five-mile radius of Laoyingzui. Finally, Professor Xu announced: There is a mineral vein, but it is not enough for mining!

Professor Xu specially held an explanation meeting, drawing a winding red line for the distribution of the underground mineral vein. The red line was about fifty meters long, as small as a capillary, and placed in the topographic map, like a red rope left behind by the Old Man under the Moon.

After listening to the report, County Magistrate Liu Qimeng flicked his hand and left the meeting venue without any statement, leaving the few of us looking at each other.

Not surveying the expected results naturally made me very disappointed. Although I had psychological preparation before, I still felt incomparably depressed when I got such a result.

Guo Wei was in high spirits and insisted on dragging me to drink with Qian Youyu.

I could understand Qian Youyu's happiness. Without a gold mine, his water plant could continue to be developed. Guo Wei's happiness seemed to be watching my joke. So I flatly refused their invitation and came to the Martyrs Cemetery alone, sitting in front of my father's grave, lowering my head and smoking.

Green grass had grown on my father's grave, which looked abrupt in the late autumn wind.

Beside my father's grave were buried the brothers who had been born and died with him. Their graves were sealed with cement and blue bricks, and not a single blade of grass grew. Originally, I also wanted to seal my father's grave with cement, but Zhu Shizhen firmly disagreed, quietly telling me that sealing the grave with cement would seal the feng shui? If the feng shui is sealed, no matter how capable you are, you can't achieve anything.

I was half-believing his words, but eventually gave up the idea of sealing it, just piling my father's grave high and planting a clump of grass on the top of the grave. This clump of grass was the grave's gallbladder. Now this gallbladder bloomed with a green that was out of place with the surroundings, making people feel vibrant.

After smoking two cigarettes, I got up to go back. Passing by the door, I saw shadows moving in the house where Old Zhu used to live, so I walked over and looked through the window. Inside was surprisingly Zhu Hua Yu.

I coughed lightly, and the sound made her turn back. Seeing me outside the window, she smiled shyly, opened her lips slightly, and asked me: "Brother Chen, why are you here?"

I pushed the door and went in. Old Zhu's room was the same as usual, except that the mat on the bed was covered with a layer of dust, and there were a few footprints left by mice.

"I came to see my father," I said, scanning the house, smelling a smell of mouse urine in my nose, so I frowned and asked: "Are your father's things still left here?"

Zhu Hua Yu's eyes blinked, and tears quickly filled her eye sockets, seemingly about to roll out. She turned her back, secretly reached out to wipe them away, and turned her face to look at me, a layer of faint red appearing on her fair face.

"My father left in a hurry, where could he take care of packing? Later, after coming out of the hospital, he went straight back to the countryside. A few days ago, my father told me that he had a few notebooks left here, which were his life's work, so I came to find them."

"Didn't call Qishan to come together," I asked without any scruples.

"Why would I call him? He is my leader, how can I call him to come?" Zhu Hua Yu looked at me strangely, her eyes blinking, revealing innocence.

Is this little woman pretending to be stupid? Or is it really not what Huang Qishan thought? I hesitated and stopped asking.

"Did you find it?" I asked, changing the subject.

"No. My father said it was in the drawer. I turned it over for a long time, but didn't find it," Zhu Hua Yu said helplessly, looking at the upside-down drawer, her brows locked together, having a unique charm.

"Just don't look for it," I said: "Have you eaten?"

She shook her head.

"Why don't we go eat first, and then come back to look for it after eating?" I said, taking out my phone from my pocket: "Call Qishan to come eat together."

"If you call him, I won't go," Zhu Hua Yu turned her body, lifted the mat covered with dust, and the house was suddenly filled with dust, choking my nose and making me sneeze happily.

"Then let's go eat together," I put the phone back in my pocket and walked out first. The house was full of dust, and I really couldn't bear the strange smell of urine.

She followed out, her face covered with dust. I held back my laughter, pointed to the faucet at the door, and said: "Why don't you go wash up quickly."

She stuck out her tongue shyly, walked to the faucet, bent down, reached out to twist the valve, filled her hands with water, splashed it on her face, and washed it carefully.

She had naturally beautiful skin, which should be thanked to Suxi's mountain spring water, which could nourish such a vivid and fragrant girl. The hem of her clothes at her waist was pulled up, revealing a white section of waist, as delicate as if bathed in milk. I quickly moved my gaze away, my heart beating violently.

She seemed to feel my gaze, reached out to pull her clothes down, but dared not turn back, and said softly: "Let's go."

I found a small restaurant and wanted a small private room. No one knew me here, and I was just an ordinary diner.

I ordered a few dishes and specifically wanted a bottle of white wine.

Zhu Hua Yu asked suspiciously: "Still want to drink?"

I smiled faintly and said: "Are you afraid to drink? If you don't want to drink, don't drink."

"Brother Chen, do you have something on your mind?" She looked at me nervously, her eyes full of concern.

"Nothing!" I pretended to be indifferent and said: "Really nothing. I just want to have a drink."

"You're lying to me," she stared at me: "You must have something on your mind! Is it because you went to see your father just now and felt uncomfortable?"

"No!" I said: "I'm a big man, how could I be so sentimental. Really nothing."

"You won't say it, right? Good, Brother Chen, I'll drink with you." She snatched the wine bottle from my hand, poured it full into the wine glass in front of her, and looked at me provocatively.

I smiled, took the wine bottle, and filled my own glass. I raised my glass and said: "Hua Yu, you just drink this one cup. This cup of wine, I wish you all your wishes come true."

Zhu Hua Yu smiled sadly, touched the glass with me, and drank it in one gulp without saying a word.

"Is work still going well?" I asked, putting a handful of vegetables into her bowl for her.

"Hmm," she answered lightly, putting the tip of her chopsticks on her lips, seemingly thinking about what to eat.

"The household registration is solved, right?" I once gave Huang Qishan an agricultural-to-non-agricultural indicator, and he told me it was to solve the household registration for Zhu Hua Yu.

"What household registration?"

"Agricultural-to-non-agricultural,"

"How would I know?"

"Qishan didn't handle it for you?" I was surprised. Huang Qishan promised to ask for it for Zhu Hua Yu. He said that Zhu Hua Yu was the girl he wanted to pursue, and he must help her solve the identity problem.

Zhu Hua Yu paused, blushed, twisted for a long time, and then said angrily: "I understand!"

"What do you understand?" I was even more surprised. Could it be that there was a story I didn't know?

"Brother Chen, tell me, what is Party Secretary Huang to you?" Zhu Hua Yu asked solemnly.

"Colleague,"

"Hmph!" She snorted with disdain: "Brother, go ask him yourself."

She lowered her head to eat, covering up her excitement, but her hands were trembling involuntarily.

"What exactly is going on?" I put down my chopsticks, took her hand, and held it.

Her small hand twisted in my palm, trying hard to break free. Helplessly, I held it too tightly. She struggled for a while, finally gave up, stared at my hand, and said softly: "Why are you holding me?"

"You tell me, what exactly is going on." I repeated the words just now, without relaxing at all. Holding her hand was like holding a piece of soft cotton, and I couldn't bear to let go.

"Let go, and I'll tell you." She suddenly laughed, her smile a bit sad: "You men, you're all the same."

She lowered her head and bit my hand. The pain made me release her hand. She rubbed it herself, not angry, but asked me: "Does it hurt?"

I shook my head and looked at her blankly.

Zhu Hua Yu is a beauty! Just like her name, a person who understands language. She is different from Xue Bing. Although they are both daughters nurtured by Suxi's mountains and rivers, Xue Bing has the intelligence of an intellectual woman, while she is like a piece of uncarved jade, simple and transparent.

"Drink first, and when you're happy, I'll tell you." She suddenly changed her past gentleness and actually wanted to drink with me boldly: "Let's drink together, no one is allowed to be lazy." ===== CHAPTER 255 =====