Huo Shaoheng looked at the plateau scenery of the Andes Mountains outside the car window and thought to himself, it seems that their selection process for field personnel will also include an environmental adaptation test.
You have to go to a plateau to know about altitude sickness.
Strong, healthy men are sometimes more likely to suffer from altitude sickness than thin women.
But he said nothing and remained silent all the way, following Xiao Cui into the small town of Uyuni.
This place is very rich in natural resources. In addition to the salt mines contained in the world's largest natural salt marshes, there are also rich lithium minerals under the salt mines.
It is said that the lithium ore here accounts for more than half of the world's lithium ore resources.
Xiao Cui introduced them to them familiarly: "Although this is a small country, it pays great attention to protecting its natural resources. Do you know about lithium ore? The main component of mobile phone batteries, lithium ore has suddenly become a hot commodity in recent years, but here The president does not want to be exploited by predators. But how can they resist the demands of the princely states in the Middle East and the big powers in Europe and the United States? It was the He family that came out of the blue and supported the local government behind the scenes, so that they could carry out small-scale lithium mining according to their own timetable. development.”
"So the main industries here are still tourism and salt."
Huo Shaoheng was slightly moved at this moment, thinking that the He family still had some sense...
A group of people sat in an off-road vehicle and stopped in front of a pure white hotel.
This is the most famous white sand hotel in the town of Uyuni, built entirely with white salt from the Salar de Uyuni outside the town.
Before they came, Xiao Cui had booked a room for them here.
After going in and joking with the swarthy plateau girl at the front desk of the hotel, Xiao Cui got the key card and took them upstairs to his room.
After settling in, the four of them pretended to be tourists, carrying backpacks, wearing dark sunglasses and khaki fisherman hats, and walked out of the gate of the White Sands Hotel.
When you first arrive, of course you have to pretend to be a tourist and walk around.
Huo Shaoheng and the others have been paying attention to this town for a long time, but they only found out two years ago that this was also He Zhichu's hometown.
The residents of the small town are simple, enthusiastic and very talkative. They have vivid memories of the He family's situation and have rave reviews.
They speak a local dialect but also Spanish.
Xiao Cui has been stationed in South America all year round and speaks fluent Spanish, so he acted as a translator for them.
Huo Shaoheng can actually speak Spanish, but at this time, he just pretends not to understand, just like a standard tourist from Asia.
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An Indian girl with long braids was selling home-made salted fish in front of her house. Her big eyes flickered and she said with a smile: "You ask the He family? They are very lucky!"
"lucky?"
"Yes! The He family used to live in the east end of the town, just a few families. They were not in good health and often fell ill. My grandmother said that they moved here from other places."
The old grandmother wearing a flowered headscarf sold them the little animals she made up, and said, "The He family? I know them, but they have all passed away." As she spoke, she pursed her lips in a certain direction.
"They're all dead?" Xiao Cui asked in surprise, "Isn't it..."
"Oh, not all of them are dead." The old grandmother said nonchalantly, "There was a family, it seems, a family named He moved away thirteen years ago. Later, the son of that family heard that he had made a fortune outside, and sent someone to I came back and renovated their cemetery.”
Huo Shaoheng and the others looked at each other and asked about the specific time. The old grandmother could not remember clearly.
I had no choice but to continue wandering around the town and asking questions.
In order not to arouse others' vigilance and attention, they did not ask about the He family's affairs every day.
Instead, I wandered around with other tourists, and then inadvertently met a local and asked again.
Over the next few days, they quietly visited the entire town, chatted and had meals with the police chief and mayor, and collected a lot of information about the He family.
It is similar to the information collected before.
In the evening, the four people gathered in Huo Shaoheng and Yin Shixiong's room to summarize the gains of the past few days.
"Judging from the information from the police station here, the He family came here from abroad to settle here decades ago. There are only three families." Zhao Liangze first said the information he found from the police station's computer, "But they are here All the names used here are Spanish, except for the surname, which can be used to identify the surname, it is difficult to match the names one by one."
Yin Shixiong also said: "What is certain is that the He family who moved here had a very average financial situation and were not rich. The men in the He family all had genetic diseases, and most of them died before they reached the age of thirty. The last family named He left here thirteen years ago and is said to have gone to Colombia."
Xiao Cui continued: "I think the family that moved away is He Zhichu and his father. According to the memories of the neighbors here, Mr. He said he wanted to treat his son, and he didn't want him to be like the other He family members. , passed away at a young age.”
"Then the family left and never came back. Until seven years ago, a fleet of cars suddenly came and built a luxurious cemetery here for the He family, built an ancestral hall, and hired local people to offer sacrifices on time every year. Here Only then did people learn that the He family that moved away thirteen years ago had become rich.”
After Xiao Cui finished speaking, he looked at Huo Shaoheng, "Master Huo, Professor He and the others left here thirteen years ago, and returned home seven years ago with a fortune, so it took them six years to become the underground godfathers of South America."
Huo Shaoheng frowned slightly, put his hand on his chin, and said calmly: "The family that left here thirteen years ago is said to be three people, Mr. He, Mr. He's son, and a nanny who brought him here since he was a child. big."
He raised his head and looked out the window, "Where is He Zhichu's father? Where is his nanny?"
Yin Shixiong wondered, "Are you so sure that the He family that moved from here is Professor He's family?"
"Besides their family, who else is there?" Zhao Liangze asked, "Every other family died of illness. Only the family who moved out survived, and they came back to build a cemetery. This is true. People in the town They say that the underground godfather of all South America is from Uyuni."
Yin Shixiong and Zhao Liangze argued with each other, but no one could convince the other.
Huo Shaoheng knocked on them one by one and said, "Stop arguing. The investigation of the situation is almost complete. Let's go to the cemetery tomorrow to take a look."
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Early the next morning, Xiao Cui took them to the cemetery in Uyuni Town.
A white salt path in the middle of the cemetery divides the entire cemetery into two.
The best place here is on the left side of the path, with the mountains behind and the lake. Seven or eight snow-white tombstones stand quietly under the blue sky on the top of the mountains.
The wind from the plateau blows from afar, carrying a whistling sound like the wail of the undead.
There are more and denser tombstones on the right, but they are uneven in size and crooked. They are completely incomparable to the seven or eight tombstones in the cemetery group on the left.
An old woman wearing a colorful plateau dress and a headscarf stood in front of a tombstone, covering her face and crying.
Xiao Cui pointed to the cemetery on the left and whispered: "... This is the cemetery of the He family. Seven years ago, Professor He's family sent people back to their hometown to worship their ancestors and renovated the cemetery here."
"No wonder the cemetery here is so new." Yin Shixiong whispered, clasping his hands together and bowing in front of the tomb.
The tombstone in front of the old woman was updated, as if it had just been erected here.
Because no one here understands Chinese, Huo Shaoheng and others did not lower their voices when they spoke in Chinese.
The old man who was crying in front of the tombstone heard it, paused, and looked back at them.
Huo Shaoheng's heart moved.
They had traveled almost throughout the town in the past few days and had never seen this old woman.
This old woman is obviously of Chinese descent.
Huo Shaoheng deliberately said hello in Chinese: "Hello, are you also a tourist?"
The old woman wiped her hands on her skirt, shook her head, and said stiffly, "No." After that, she left the cemetery and went to the town.
Huo Shaoheng looked at her back and winked at Xiao Cui.
Xiao Cui understood, pretending to look at the scenery, and followed him.
Huo Shaoheng, Yin Shixiong, and Zhao Liangze wandered around the cemetery for a while, taking photos of each tombstone, intending to take it back for study.
Xiao Cui followed him and turned back not long after.
He panted and said excitedly to Huo Shaoheng, "Mr. Huo! This old man just returned to the town yesterday. Who do you think she is?"
Huo Shaoheng's thoughts turned and he blurted out, "He Zhichu's nanny?"
Xiao Cui: "!!!"
"Master Huo, you are so awesome!" He gave Huo Shaoheng a thumbs up.
Huo Shaoheng's heart jumped excitedly, "How did she come back? Where did she come back from?"
Xiao Cui led them and said while walking: "I just asked this old man's neighbors. They said that a luxury car brought her back yesterday, and a truck brought two coffins, and she was just buried. The other party was very kind to her. Respectfully, let her live in the best house in the He family, and doctors and nurses will come to check her body."
"Professor He arranged it?" Yin Shixiong asked quietly.
"No." Xiao Cui shook his head, "I asked, and the person who sent her back was the big local family in Colombia, the same big family that the He family transferred all their property and power to."
Huo Shaoheng paused in his steps and suddenly had a bad thought in his heart.
He originally thought that he could just sit back and wait here.
As a result, He Zhichu never thought about returning to his hometown.
He even arranged for his own nanny, which shows that he is indeed going to live in seclusion.
The world is so big, where can we find him
Huo Shaoheng had a headache.
"Master Huo?"
"Let's go." Huo Shaoheng took a deep breath and went to talk to the old woman first.
A group of them arrived in front of the He family's mansion.
This place was also built seven years ago and is a typical Spanish-style building.
The old woman in gorgeous clothes was sitting next to the fountain pool in the center of the courtyard, staring blankly at the sculptures in the pool.
It was a naked little boy with wings on his back.
Huo Shaoheng gently knocked on the iron door that was half a man tall.
The old woman turned around and saw them. Perhaps because they were all Chinese, she asked gently: "Excuse me, what can I do for you?"
Huo Shaoheng directly took out a photo of He Zhichu that he had taken before and said, "We want to find this person. Do you know him?"
"Who are you looking for?" The old woman glanced at him curiously, then her eyes moved to the photo in Huo Shaoheng's hand, and she suddenly paused.
Tears suddenly welled up in her cloudy eyes. She took the photo from Huo Shaoheng's hand, crying and laughing tremblingly: "This is my young master, my little Ah Chu... Why do you have his photo?"
"We are his friends." Huo Shaoheng said patiently, "But he suddenly disappeared, so we are looking for him."
"Missing?" The old woman frowned, "How do you call it missing?"
"He suddenly said he was leaving. If he didn't come back, we would never be able to contact him again. We were worried that something had happened to him, so we came to his hometown to have a look."
While they were talking, a woman dressed as a nurse came out of the mansion and said to the old woman: "Uncle, are you tired? Do you want to go in and rest?"
"Uncle?" Huo Shaoheng raised his eyebrows, "Excuse me, are you He Zhi's great-uncle? How come we have never heard that he had an great-uncle?"
Didn’t everyone in the town say she was a nanny
How did you become your great-uncle
The old woman wiped her tears with her hands and waved to the nurse, "I'm not tired. You can go back first."
The nurse nodded and greeted Huo Shaoheng and the others politely before packing up the medicine box and leaving.
After she left, the old woman stood up and said, "You are right. I am not He Zhichu's great-uncle. In fact, I am his nanny."
"Then what..."
"Then why do those people say I am my great-uncle?" The old woman smiled bitterly, "Actually, I don't know how to say it."
She rubbed the photo of He Zhichu that Huo Shaoheng gave her and said, "Follow me."
She seemed to be hiding a lot of things on her mind and wanted to tell others.
Taking Huo Shaoheng and the others back to the cemetery where they had left just now, the old woman pointed to a smaller tombstone and said, "I don't know who the He Zhichu you are looking for is. I only know that my young master, My Ah Chu died thirteen years ago. He died in my arms."
"What?!" Yin Shixiong and Zhao Liangze shouted in unison.
A gust of wind blew over from the top of the mountain, and the cold wind blew in the cemetery.
Everyone couldn't help but shudder.
He Zhichu, who had been arguing in Huo Shaoheng's office a few days ago, now heard this old woman say that he died thirteen years ago? !
So who was He Zhichu who appeared next to Gu Nianzhi two years ago
"Are you mistaken? We saw him a few days ago." Seeing how old this old woman was, Huo Shaoheng didn't quite trust her memory. What if she got Alzheimer's disease
"Yes, yes, let me show you a video of him, which was taken a few days ago, and he lost his temper!" Zhao Liangze said, and showed the surveillance footage of He Chu that was downloaded to his mobile phone. The old woman looked.
The old woman only glanced at him, then wrapped herself in a shawl embroidered with flamingos, and said calmly: "I know this person exists, and I even went to look for him."
Huo Shaoheng remained calm, "Really? Where have you lived these years? Aren't you with him?"
"No." The old woman shook her head and said tiredly: "We left here because we wanted to seek medical treatment, but before we could find anyone, Mr. He passed away. Later, the young master also died. I have no money and no choice. Send them back for burial. I have been working outside, trying to save enough money to send their coffins back to China. Until last year, I saw a man on TV who looked exactly like my young master, also named He Zhichu!"
If her young master hadn't died when he was sixteen, he would have grown up to be like He Zhichu!
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There is only one update today, a big chapter of 4,000 words, Chapter 1449 "Secret Buried by Time (7)"
PS: This great-uncle came out before. Do you guys still remember it
If you don’t remember, you can read it from the beginning, so you don’t have to remind me to update it every day~\\\\(≧▽≦)/~.