Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn

Chapter 851: Chapter 13: Turmoil in Ge Village (Part 2)

"I asked Anna, who speaks Chinese, to inquire about it. The research center run by Dr. Luo Ke has had several lab incidents in the past few years. For instance, his previous assistant is still lying in the City Hospital right now, reportedly poisoned. The most terrifying part is, no one knows what poison he was affected by," Yiyi was stunned by this stream of information she gathered.

Today, she had been on edge all afternoon, worried about suddenly receiving some bad news.

"I just spent the afternoon over there tending to plants, feeling relaxed for inexplicable reasons. I’ll go again tomorrow to tidy things up. It’s no big deal," Xiao Xian waved his hand indifferently, ignoring Aisha’s angry glare.

After Xiao Xian and Yiyi walked away, Perry whispered beside Aisha, "Is it really as easygoing as she says? I also applied for the research assistant position at Dr. Luo Ke’s lab before but was warned by someone, saying he..." Although Luo Ke is quite reputable internationally, the projects he has messed up are innumerable. If not for Meng Mountain helping him clean up the messes on the side, he absolutely wouldn’t have received so much honor.

It must be said, the Jewish people’s minds seem naturally better than other races, though their temperament is more eccentric. Once they decide on something or someone, no matter what others say, they won’t change their stance, nor will they care about commercial value or company interests.

"Say what about him? Luo Ke is just a madman. I heard from my mother that he is developing a new project recently, strictly confidential to the outside world." Upon seeing Xiao Xian’s relaxed face, Aisha became angry instead of pleased. It seems sending this exchange student to Luo Ke’s place was a very correct decision. Without speaking of other things, it’s best if it ruins Luo Ke’s project, even better if Luo Ke blames the destruction on that exchange student.

Aisha had a cunning look in her eyes and an idea popped up in her mind.

After comforting Yiyi, Xiao Xian made a call back home.

She first tried calling Guizhou, but for some reason, no one answered the phone. She was struck with a bad premonition; the Zhuo Feng couple should have already gone to Yanqing. Xiao Xian looked at the time, accounting for the time difference, it’s still early morning back home. Zhuo Feng is still in confinement and likely already exhausted.

So Xiao Xian gave up the thought of calling Zhuo Feng to inquire about her grandfather. She then dialed Yezi.

Due to the time difference, what seemed like Yezi’s phone rang for quite a while without answer, and just as Xiao Xian was about to give up, Yezi’s sleepy voice faintly emerged from the other end.

"Xiao Xian, so early," Yezi became somewhat awake upon recognizing Xiao Xian’s voice. He already knew Xiao Xian went to the United States as an exchange student, but he wasn’t aware that Zhou Ziang, who seemed like a haunting spirit, was also in the United States. He too had been quite busy lately, as the Huang Family and the Xu Family started a new tobacco project, working day and night, and he arranged to meet with the Xu Family this Friday to sign a new project. It had been non-stop, making Yezi thoroughly exhausted.

"Your grandfather? Isn’t he doing well in Guizhou? No one answered the phone, it’s still just 6 in the morning, perhaps he’s out exercising. Later on, I’ll help you call Mama, actually forget it, I’ll just go back myself. I’m planning to visit Guizhou to check the market. Recently the Huang Family has a new project, I’ll just take the opportunity to go back once. How is America treating you?" Yezi glanced at the time on his phone; the new project of the Xu Family and the Huang Family was related to cigarette tobacco leaf procurement, so he’ll also take the chance to return to Guizhou. Most importantly, he wanted to locate Fiji.

Based on Yezi’s interactions with Aisha’s mother and daughter, he hasn’t had the opportunity to directly engage with Aisha yet. Yezi thought he might as well inform Fiji about the events that transpired over the years and see what his plans might be. In any case, with the tasks Fiji entrusted him, he managed to accomplish some, at least he had taught Huang Teng Chong a lesson.

"Xiao Que? Yeah, I’m fitting a hospital visit into my schedule today," Yezi said, slipping his feet into his slippers, he then asked some questions regarding Xiao Xian’s time in America before hanging up the phone.

"Xiao Xian, are you done with the call yet? It’s already evening, let’s go out for dinner," Yiyi was the type whose moods shifted fast, just moments ago with Aisha’s incident already pushed to the back of her mind.

"Coming," Xiao Xian thought it over, considering Zhu Shijun’s usual habits, he very well could be exercising or inspecting the fields. Since Yezi is planning to return, she might as well ask him to look into it. She changed into a jacket and headed out to eat with Yiyi.

Just past six in the springtime, at the village entrance of Ge Village in Guizhou, a group of people was already gathered.

Among the crowd were many familiar faces to Xiao Xian, like Uncle San Gouzi, the village chief, Sister-in-law Lian, and others, all showing signs of anxiety on their faces, intensely discussing the situation.

The usually non-smoking Uncle San Gouzi was smoking a cigarette, his eyes reddened: "Village chief, the provincial people are really being unfair, why did they take away the old man for questioning and have yet to release him, it’s been two or three days now, and it’s getting worrying."

The village chief remained silent, sighing: "What can be done, they claim that investigations have revealed another batch of problematic tobacco leaves linked to the old man. This time the province sent people to investigate, for us with such little influence, we really can’t provide much help."

"Hey, what can be done about this, just now the Zhu Family’s phone was ringing a long time, I didn’t dare to answer it, fearing it might be Xiao Xian calling back," Sister-in-law Lian was out of ideas too, the old man had left instructing, that if Xiao Xian called back, just tell her he went to Guizhou for a health check. Even this excuse, how long it could hold up is unknown.

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