CHAPTER 597: CHAPTER 596: THE GUO FAMILY OF XUDU (2/3)

Leaving the Zhang family, Yang Chen immediately called Sun Yue.

"Hello, Sun Yue."

"Who is this!" Sun Yue snapped without any politeness.

Yang Chen felt a bit frustrated, he absolutely believed Sun Yue knew who he was. If an agent couldn’t even remember a phone number, that would be completely unqualified!

But Yang Chen helplessly answered, "Yang Chen!"

"Oh! So you’re the one who casually assigns tasks to me, huh!" Sun Yue said sarcastically.

Yang Chen felt helpless and asked in a deep voice, "Investigate those addresses for me."

"Relax! I’ve already sent someone to look into it; you’ll have results by tomorrow!" Sun Yue replied coldly.

Yang Chen nodded, he had great confidence in Sun Yue and their department’s capabilities.

"How’s the investigation on the photograph going?" Yang Chen asked.

"It’s not that fast!" Sun Yue said coldly, "I just sent you a message telling you to wait! Right now, we’ve used technical means to age the person in the photo, but so far, we haven’t found anyone with matching facial features. As for when this might happen, that’s up to fate!"

Yang Chen nodded, "Understood!"

After hanging up the phone, Yang Chen felt a bit heavy-hearted.

He understood that after so much time, especially with the age discrepancy in the photo, it wasn’t realistic to truly find his father Yang Yanyu, but he still held onto a sliver of hope in trying.

Driving home, Yang Chen saw Chen Siyan sitting on the sofa, snacking and watching TV with great relish, almost drooling over a young male idol.

Yang Chen shook his head helplessly and said to Chen Siyan, "Who was it that told me, if you’re looking for a boyfriend, you should find one with muscles to feel? Now you’re drooling over young idols?"

Chen Siyan immediately retorted, "Before finding the right boyfriend, can’t I just watch TV to have some eye candy! Don’t you guys look at photo albums too, so what’s wrong with me watching some dramas?"

Yang Chen raised his hands in surrender; he couldn’t win against someone so unreasonably stubborn.

At this moment, Yang Chen felt his phone vibrate.

Ever since having a phone, Yang Chen found business really busy; there wasn’t a moment when someone wouldn’t need him.

Taking out his phone, Yang Chen saw a phone number, and immediately recognized it as Gu Xijun’s number.

After a brief thought, Yang Chen answered the call, "Hello."

"Yang Chen, get to the old city quickly, there’s an old residential compound here. My dad said your dad seemed to have lived here!" Gu Xijun anxiously exclaimed.

Upon hearing this, Yang Chen’s eyes flashed with excitement, and he shouted, "Wait for me! I’ll be right there!"

After getting the address, Yang Chen dashed out of the room and got into the car.

Chen Siyan had never seen Yang Chen in such a hurry and couldn’t help feeling a bit worried...

The old city district.

It’s an area already heavily surrounded.

Though it’s called a neighborhood, it’s more like a courtyard.

The reason this compound has been preserved is because it was originally slated for demolition, but later the plans changed, and it was retained.

Now, no one lives there, and authorities are deciding whether to demolish it or keep it as a cultural site, given its historical connections to the red movement.

However, according to Gu Xijun, the likelihood of demolition is quite high.

Because Ningchuan now needs development, and its development is definitely not heading in the direction of becoming a tourist and cultural city, so the likelihood of demolition is rather high.

"This should be the place." Gu Xijun stopped at courtyard number three and said to Yang Chen, "My dad said your family seemed to have lived in this courtyard."

Looking at the weathered houses in front of him, Yang Chen couldn’t help but feel sentimental.

Though he couldn’t remember anything now, seeing these old houses gave Yang Chen an immensely familiar feeling.

He didn’t rush up to explore but looked at Gu Xijun and asked, "How did you get this out of your dad? Weren’t you told not to get involved in the investigation?"

Gu Xijun smiled mysteriously and said, "That’s my secret. Don’t ask, just see if you can find anything."

Yang Chen glanced deeply at Gu Xijun, nodded, and pushed open the door to enter the room.

Inside, there was an immediate smell of mustiness mixed with dust, clearly indicating no one had been here for a long time, let alone cleaned it.

The room was empty, with no furniture left, just peeling walls.

Yang Chen searched around but found nothing valuable as a clue.

After entering and observing, Gu Xijun said, "Let’s go to the residents’ committee; I’ve already coordinated with them. They have a records room; I think the stuff from this yard is stored there."

Yang Chen nodded but wasn’t hopeful because if someone wanted to process this information, the residents’ committee couldn’t have kept anything valuable.

Following Gu Xijun, they arrived at the residents’ committee’s records room.

Called a records room, it was actually a storage room with all sorts of things piled up.

An auntie led them there and said, "Things are a bit messy. I don’t know where what you’re talking about is, just look around and see!"

With that, she turned and left.

Helplessly, the two of them entered the room and began their search.

Yang Chen’s main target was some paper documents.

But these paper files were very old, and it’s hard to find anything out of them.

After searching for a while, Yang Chen suddenly noticed some information written in fountain pen.

A few short words written in the corner, not very noticeable, and the reason Yang Chen noticed this was because he saw the character ’Jie’.

The documents were already damaged, but Yang Chen could vaguely discern: Jie... Xudu.

What does this mean?

Could it be that his mother Guo Wenjie’s hometown was in Xudu?

Or perhaps Yang Yanyu and Guo Wenjie went to Xudu?

The more Yang Chen thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed, and immediately called Ye Kai.

Soon, Ye Kai answered the phone from the other side and shouted, "Hey, Brother Chen, I’m on the highway; I’ll be in Ningchuan tonight!"

Yang Chen said directly, "Ye Kai, help me ask the old man and just ask where my mother’s ancestral home is!"

"Oh, got it! Alright, I’ll call the old man right now!" Ye Kai cooperatively replied.

After the call, Gu Xijun came closer and asked, "What happened? Did you find any clues?"

Yang Chen showed her those three words.

Gu Xijun stared and murmured, "Jie? Could it be Guo Wenjie?"

In a moment, Yang Chen’s phone rang.

Seeing the landline number, Yang Chen answered the call.

"Xiaochen!" Elder Ye’s voice came through the phone.

"It’s me, Elder Ye. I just wanted to ask if you know where my mother Guo Wenjie’s family hailed from." This was Yang Chen’s main curiosity.

"Oh!" Elder Ye suddenly realized and said, "You might want to start with the Guo family in Xudu. Your mother is from the Guo family in Xudu. Perhaps they might know some clues!"

Hearing this, Yang Chen felt a glimmer of hope and nodded, "Got it! Thank you, Elder Ye!"