Chapter 1449: The Secret Buried by Time (7) (Large Chapter)

Looking at the plateau scenery of the Andes Mountains outside the car window, Huo Shaoheng thought to himself, it seems that they need to add an environmental adaptation test to the procedure for selecting field personnel.

The matter of altitude sickness, you must get the altitude to know.

Strong men in good health are sometimes more prone to altitude sickness than thin women.

But he didn't say anything, remained silent all the way, and followed Xiao Cui into the small town of Uyuni.

This place is very rich in natural resources. In addition to the salt mine contained in the world's largest natural salt marsh, there are also abundant lithium mines under the salt mine.

It is said that the lithium mines here account for more than half of the world's lithium resources.

Xiao Cui introduced them familiarly: "Although this is a small country, it pays great attention to protecting its natural resources. Do you know about lithium ore? Lithium ore, the main component of mobile phone batteries, has suddenly become a hot commodity in recent years, but here The president of China does not want to be exploited by predators. But how can they resist the demands of those princely states in the Middle East and those big countries in Europe and America? It was the He family who came out of nowhere and supported the local government behind their backs, so they can carry out small-scale lithium mines according to their own schedule development."

“So the main industries here are still tourism and salt.”

Huo Shaoheng was slightly moved at this time, thinking that the He family still had some vision...

The group stopped in front of a pure white hotel in an off-road vehicle.

This is the most famous white sand hotel in the town of Uyuni, all built with white salt from the Uyuni Salt Flats outside the town.

Before they came, Xiao Cui reserved a room for them here.

Go in and chat with the dark plateau girl at the front desk of the hotel. Xiao Cui gets the key card and takes them upstairs to her room.

After settling in, the four of them pretended to be tourists, carrying backpacks, dark-colored sunglasses and khaki fisherman hats, and walked out of the gate of the White Sands Hotel.

If you are a newcomer, of course you have to pretend to be a tourist and visit everywhere.

Huo Shaoheng and the others have been paying attention to this town for a long time, but only found out two years ago that this is also He Zhichu's hometown.

The residents in the small town are simple, enthusiastic and very talkative. They still remember the situation of the He family and have received rave reviews.

They speak a local vernacular, but they also speak Spanish.

Xiao Cui has been stationed in South America all year round and speaks fluent Spanish, so he interprets for them.

Huo Shaoheng can actually speak Spanish, but at this time, he just pretended not to understand, just like a standard tourist from Asia.

...

An Indian girl with long braids was selling homemade salted fish at the door of her house, her big eyes flickered, and she said with a smile: "Ask the He family? They are very lucky!"

"lucky?"

"That's right! The He family used to live in the east of the town. There are only a few families. They are not in good health and often get sick. According to my grandmother, they moved here from other places."

The old grandmother wearing a floral turban sold them the small animals she wove, and said, "The He family? I know them, but they are all dead." As she spoke, she pouted in a certain direction.

"They all passed away?" Xiao Cui asked back in surprise, "No way..."

"Oh, not all of them have passed away." The old grandmother said casually, "There is a family, it seems that there is a family named He, who moved away thirteen years ago. Later, the son of that family heard that he made a fortune outside, so he sent someone to Come back and renovate their family's cemetery."

Huo Shaoheng and the others looked at each other, and then asked the exact time, but the old grandmother couldn't remember clearly.

I had no choice but to continue wandering around the town and asking questions.

In order not to arouse the vigilance and attention of others, they did not ask about the He family every day.

Instead, I travel around with other tourists, and then inadvertently meet a local and ask another question.

After a few days, they quietly visited the whole town, chatted with the sheriff and the mayor here, had dinner, and collected a lot of information about the He family.

Similar to the data collected before.

In the evening, the four of them gathered in the room of Huo Shaoheng and Yin Shixiong to summarize the gains of the past few days.

"Judging from the information of the police station here, the He family came here from abroad decades ago. There are only three of them." All the Spanish names are used here, except for the surname, which can tell 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 is in a mediocre financial situation and not rich. The men in the He family all have 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 then said: "The family who moved away, I think it is He Zhichu and his father. According to the memories of the neighbors here, it was Mr. He who said that he wanted to treat his son. I don't want him to be like other He family members. , died young."

"Then the family left and never came back. Until seven years ago, a convoy suddenly came and built a luxurious cemetery for the He family here, built a ancestral hall, and hired local people to worship on time every year. Here Only then did people know that the He family that moved away 13 years ago became rich."

After Xiao Cui finished speaking, he looked at Huo Shaoheng, "Young 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 godfather of South America."

Huo Shaoheng frowned slightly, put his hand on his chin, and said lightly: "The family who 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 childhood. big."

He looked up out of 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 away from here is Professor He's family?"

"Who else is there besides their family?" Zhao Liangze asked rhetorically, "The other He family members died of illness, only the family who moved out survived, and they came back to repair the cemetery. This is true. People in the town It is said that the underground godfathers in South America are from Uyuni Town."

Yin Shixiong and Zhao Liangze argued with each other, but neither could convince the other.

Huo Shaoheng knocked on them all by himself, and said, "Stop arguing, the investigation of the situation is almost done, let's go to the cemetery tomorrow."

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Early the next morning, Cui took them to the cemeteries in Uyuni Town.

A white salt trail in the middle of the cemetery group divides the entire cemetery into two.

The left side of the path is the best place here, with the mountain behind and the lake facing, seven or eight snow-white tombstones stand quietly under the blue sky, on top of the mountains.

The wind from the plateau blows from a distance, with a whirring sound, like the whimper of the dead.

There are more and denser tombstones on the right, but they are uneven in size and crooked, and they cannot be compared with the seven or eight tombstones in the cemetery on the left.

An old woman wearing a gorgeous plateau dress and a hood is standing in front of a tombstone, covering her face and crying.

Xiao Cui pointed to the cemetery on the left, and said in a low voice: "...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 the cemetery was rebuilt here."

"No wonder the cemetery here is so new." Yin Shixiong said in a low voice, clasped his hands together and worshiped in front of the tomb.

The tombstone in front of the old woman was renewed, as if it had just been erected here.

Because the people here don't understand Chinese, so when Huo Shaoheng and the others spoke in Chinese, they didn't lower their voices.

The old man who was covering his face and crying in front of the tombstone heard it, paused, and looked back at them.

Huo Shaoheng's heart skipped a beat.

They have traveled almost the entire town in the past few days, but have never seen this old woman.

The old woman was obviously of Chinese descent.

Huo Shaoheng intentionally said hello in Chinese: "Hello, are you a tourist too?"

The old woman wiped her skirt with both hands, shook her head, and said a little stiffly: "No." After speaking, she left the cemetery and went to the small town.

Huo Shaoheng looked at her back and winked at Xiao Cui.

Xiao Cui understood, pretended to look at the scenery, and followed.

Huo Shaoheng, Yin Shixiong, and Zhao Liangze wandered around the cemetery for a while, taking pictures of each tombstone, intending to take them back for study.

It wasn't long before Xiao Cui followed and turned back.

Panting, he said excitedly to Huo Shaoheng: "Young Master Huo! This old man just returned to the town yesterday. Who do you think she is?"

Huo Shaoheng thought about it, and blurted out, "He Zhichu's nanny?"

Xiao Cui: "!!!"

"Young Master Huo, you are amazing!" 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 walked with them and said, "I just asked this old man's neighbors, and they said that a luxury car brought her back yesterday, and another truck brought two coffins, which had just been buried. The other party treated her very well." 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 in a low voice.

"No." Xiao Cui shook his head, "I asked, the person who sent her back was the big local family in Colombia, that is, the big family that the He family transferred all their property and influence."

Huo Shaoheng paused, and suddenly had a bad association in his mind.

He originally thought that he could sit on the sidelines here.

As a result, He Zhichu never thought about going back to his hometown.

He even arranged for his own nanny, which shows that he is really going to live in seclusion.

The world is so big, where can I find him?

Huo Shaoheng had a headache.

"Young Master Huo?"

"Let's go." Huo Shaoheng took a deep breath, and went to talk to the old lady first.

A group of them came to the door of the He family mansion.

It was also built seven years ago, a typical Spanish-style small building.

The gorgeously dressed old lady was sitting next to the fountain pool in the middle of the courtyard, staring blankly at the sculptures in the pool.

It was a naked little boy with wings growing from his back.

Huo Shaoheng lightly knocked on the half-human-high iron door.

The old woman turned her head and saw them, maybe because they were all of Chinese descent, she asked very gently, "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 looked at him curiously, then her eyes moved to the photo in Huo Shaoheng's hand, and she suddenly stopped.

Tears welled up in her cloudy eyes. She took the photo from Huo Shaoheng, crying and laughing tremblingly: "This is my little master, my little Ah Chu...how do you have his photo?"

"We are his friends." Huo Shaoheng said patiently, "but he disappeared suddenly, so we are looking for him."

"Missing?" The old woman frowned, "What do you call missing?"

"He said suddenly that he was going to leave, and if he didn't come back, we would never be able to contact him again. We were worried that something happened to him, so we came to his hometown to have a look."

As they were talking, a woman dressed as a nurse came out of the mansion and said to the old woman, "Grandmother, are you tired? Do you want to go in and rest?"

"Granduncle?" Huo Shaoheng raised his eyebrows, "Excuse me, are you He Zhichu's great-uncle? Why haven't we heard that he has a great-uncle?"

Don't everyone in the town say they are babysitters?

How did she become an uncle and grandmother?

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, greeted Huo Shaoheng and the others politely, then packed the medicine box and left.

After she left, the old woman stood up and said, "You are right, I am not He Zhichu's great-uncle, but I am actually his nanny."

"Then why..."

"Then why do those people say I'm an uncle?" The old woman smiled wryly, "Actually, I don't know how to say it."

She stroked the photo of He Zhichu that Huo Shaoheng gave her, and said, "Come with me."

She seemed to have a lot of things on her mind that she wanted to tell others.

Taking Huo Shaoheng and the others back to the cemetery where they left just now, the old woman pointed to a relatively small tombstone and said, "I don't know who this He Chuu you are looking for is, I only know my young master, My Ah Chu died thirteen years ago. He died in my arms."

"What?!" Yin Shixiong and Zhao Liangze yelled in unison.

A gust of wind blows from the top of the mountain, and the cemetery is cold.

Everyone couldn't help shivering.

He Zhichu, who was arguing in Huo Shaoheng's office a few days ago, now heard from this old woman that he died thirteen years ago? !

So who is that He Zhichu who appeared next to Gu Nianzhi two years ago?

"Did you make a mistake? We met him a few days ago." Huo Shaoheng saw that the old woman was already old, and he didn't really trust her memory. What if she got Alzheimer's?

"Yeah, yeah, I'll show you his video, it was taken a few days ago, and he lost his temper!" Zhao Liangze said, and gave the surveillance footage downloaded to his phone, which recorded He Zhichu. The old woman looks.

The old woman only took one look, then wrapped her shawl embroidered with flamingos tightly, and said indifferently: "I know there is such a person, and I went to find him."

Huo Shaoheng remained calm, "Really? May I ask where you have lived all these years? Didn't you stay with him?"

"No." The old woman shook her head and said wearily: "We left here to seek medical treatment, but before we could find anyone, Mr. He passed away, and then the young master also died. I have no money, no way 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 When did it begin!"

If her young master hadn't died at the age of sixteen, she would definitely have grown up like He Zhichu!

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There is only one update today, with a large chapter of 4,000 words, Chapter 1449 "Secrets Buried by Time (7)"

PS: This great-uncle came out before, do you still remember?

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~\(≧▽≦)/~.