Chong Jianzhi, who was on the other end of the phone, could only hear the sound of her waving the broom. Finally, the world was quiet. He breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the subordinate on the other side of the camera and said, "Go on."

His expression changed so quickly, and his tone and demeanor were completely different from the concerned and nervous look just now.

The meeting continued, and Chong Jianzhi forgot the time when he started working. When he turned off his computer, he found it was already late at night. He picked up his phone and saw that he and Nie Zheng had been talking for nearly six hours.

The phone still had 10% of its battery left, so he quickly found a charger to charge it. The call was still going, but Nie Zheng was silent.

He looked at the clock and it was already two in the morning. Chong Jianzhi called Nie Zheng on the phone, but there was no answer. He knew Nie Zheng was asleep.

After a restful night, when he woke up, the phone was still ringing. Chong Jianzhi got up very early, Richard was already waiting for him downstairs, his phone was still on, and when he packed up and prepared to go to the company, Nie Zheng had just woken up.

"woke up?"

Chong Jianzhi asked softly into the phone. Nie Zheng had just woken up, and the sudden voice of Chong Jianzhi in her ears made her feel as if she was still in a dream. She was dazed and thought it was still a dream. Chong Jianzhi asked her if she was awake, and her voice still carried the laziness of just waking up. She agreed and called him brother again.

elder brother--

Chong Jianzhi was stunned. After returning to Ningjiang, Nie Zheng seemed to have grown up. When she saw him, she would only call him brother. The 18-year-old Nie Zheng who called him brother was gone forever. When Chong Jianzhi heard her call him brother again, he felt dazed and his heart skipped a beat.

"Boss Chong?"

Richard, who was beside the car, called Chong Jianzhi back to reality.

"You should get up."

He finally decided to hang up the phone. When Richard opened the car door, he inadvertently saw the man hang up the phone. The call duration displayed on the screen was actually twelve hours... He tacitly did not say anything, but silently said in his heart, Chong Jianzhi is really crazy.

After packing up, Nie Zheng, Xiao Yun and Yuan Ye, led by a guide found by the village party secretary, went into the mountains surrounding Yutou Village to see wild agarwood.

Yutou Village is built on the banks of the mountains. Although the environment in such mountainous and rocky areas is harsh, it produces high-quality agarwood with deep and firm color and pure and beautiful flavor.

The guide was a young man. The village party secretary said that he was the son of the best guide in the village. He inherited his father's outstanding abilities and took tourists into the mountains to pick mushrooms and see agarwood in spring and autumn.

Upon hearing that Nie Zheng and the others were sent by Touyun, the young guide wrinkled his nose and muttered, "That sounds familiar."

Nie Zheng had sharp ears and caught what the young man said immediately, while the village party secretary beside her pushed his shoulder calmly, his eyes clearly warning him not to talk nonsense.

A few people entered the mountain. The young guide was very talkative. If you started a topic with him, he would continue to talk about it in more depth. A few people came to see agarwood, so he chatted with Nie Zheng about agarwood. He knew how to identify agarwood and which incense was the best.

The young man asked which agarwood in China is the most special. Nie Zheng is very good at this, so she answered: "The climate of Yinggeling in Hainan is special, and the agarwood produced there has a unique fragrance, with the fresh fragrance of green grass and full of mountain air. It is rare to come across it."

The young man looked at Nie Zheng with admiration, and his eyes did not move away from her for a long time. After a long time, he tilted his head as if he was lost in some memories: "I always feel that the name Touyun sounds familiar. When I look at you, I always feel like I have seen you somewhere."

"Mr. Guide, your way of chatting people up is too rustic." Yuan Ye couldn't help but teased at this time.

Everyone thought that the young man was just joking, or trying to get close to her.

Only Nie Zheng was very alert. When the other party said this, she immediately thought, is it possible that her father and mother had come here to cut agarwood? There are not many places in China that produce high-quality agarwood, and the closest place to Ningjiang is Huanshan.

"My father and mother also make incense. Perhaps you have seen them?" She pretended to mention it casually and took out a photo of her and her parents to show the young man, "These are my parents. Do they look familiar to you?"

The young man looked at the photo for a few seconds, then suddenly slapped his thigh, pointed at the photo and shouted, "It turned out to be them!"

As expected. Nie Zheng stared at the young man in front of him. More than a decade ago, if his parents came to see the incense, he would have been less than ten years old. Naturally, he couldn't be a guide... His father, his father!

"About a dozen years ago... I don't remember the details. It was summer vacation at that time, and I followed my father into the mountains. He brought a few expedition teams from the city, about three or four people, to the mountains to look at agarwood. Their company wanted to make a kind of incense stick, and they chose our Wanxiang tree, and the incense with insect leaks is the best. That couple knew a lot about incense... very well. I listened to them talk about incense along the way and respected them very much. Later..."

"What happened next?"

The more she listened, the more something seemed wrong. Perhaps it was a sixth sense, but Nie Zheng always felt that something must have happened to her father and mother on this mountain.

"Later, they went back and didn't use our incense."

The young man's story was anticlimactic and it seemed as if some important parts were omitted.

"That's it?" She wanted to see more hidden information from the boy's eyes, but she couldn't see through people's hearts, and staring at him was futile. "My father and mother's affairs have nothing to do with you?"

This was a test. The young man wasn't very scheming. If he really knew something, he would definitely reveal it.

Sure enough, the young man's face changed, and his eyes dodged, as if he knew he had said something wrong, and wanted to change the subject: "It will take another ten minutes to get there."

But Nie Zheng didn't give him this opportunity, and continued to ask: "What's going on? Explain it clearly."

The young man finally couldn't hold it in any longer, scratching his head with a distressed expression, "It happened a long time ago. At that time, my dad seemed to have some conflicts with your parents. I saw them quarreling... I really don't know anything else. They had agreed to continue going into the mountains the next day, but I had to go to town to play with my classmates, so I didn't go with them. Your parents didn't cooperate with us afterwards, probably because of this."

Nie Zheng realized that the young man probably wasn't lying, maybe that was all he knew.

"After you leave the mountain, can you take me to see your father?"

The young man glanced at Nie Zheng, puzzled.

"He is an old friend of my father and mother, and I want to go visit him."

accepted.

This trip was a good decision. The Wanxiang agarwood produced in Huanshan is of high quality with a rich and unique aroma. Nie Zheng took a liking to it at first sight.

This made her feel even more confused. Her father and mother came to see the incense, but finally chose to give up. Logically speaking, the quality of the agarwood was good enough and the price was reasonable, so there was really no reason not to cooperate.

Something must have happened in between. It might be related to Chong Yixing, or even to the accident that happened to them later.

After checking the news about Yutou Village again, Nie Zheng discovered that it had been a long time since the news about Yutou Village being haunted was released. It was exactly the time when her father and mother came to Yutou Village!

Coincidences, too many coincidences.

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