CHAPTER 305: CHAPTER 305: SOMETHING HAPPENED AT MY AUNT’S HOUSE

Lin Fu looked at the village in front of him, his eyes tightly fixed on the people at the village entrance, trying to find a familiar face among them.

Lin Xiaoyan looked at her dad, "Dad, what’s Auntie’s name? Should I go down and ask?"

Lin Fu snapped back to reality, "I’ll go ask."

With that, Lin Fu got out of the car and walked towards the crowd at the village entrance.

Soon, Lin Fu returned with a disappointed expression on his face.

Lin Mu looked at her husband and asked, "What’s wrong? Did we get the place wrong?"

Lin Fu shook his head, "The place is right, but I just asked around, and none of them have heard of my sister’s name, they don’t know this person."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaoyan glanced at the village and suggested, "Dad, why don’t you get in the car, and we’ll go find the village chief and ask."

Lin Fu: "Alright."

They continued towards the village and soon saw the village committee’s building.

Nan Xi parked the car, and everyone got out together and walked towards the village committee’s building.

"What’s going on here?"

As they stepped on the stairs, a woman came out of the house.

Lin Xiaoyan quickly said, "Hello, we’ve come from Sea City, we’re looking for someone..."

The woman waved her hand, "Can’t hear much."

The woman led them into the room, where two or three people were sitting. Seeing people entering, they all looked over.

The woman said a few words quickly in dialect, and then a young woman sitting near the door stood up, smiled, and invited them to sit down before asking their purpose in Mandarin.

Lin Xiaoyan said, "We came from Sea City to look for a relative."

"Looking for a relative?" Li Fang said this to the people inside the room.

The others immediately gathered around, surprised that someone came all this way to look for a relative in their area!

"Who are you looking for? What’s the name?"

Lin Fu hurriedly said, "I’m looking for my sister, she’s fifty-five this year, her name is Lin Shulan."

"From Yu Province." Lin Xiaoyan added.

Li Fang: "Lin Shulan? Are you sure she’s from our village?"

Lin Fu quickly said, "I’m sure. My sister sent me a letter back then, and the address was here."

"Lin Shulan?" A middle-aged man thought for a moment, unable to recall anyone with that name in the village, he looked at Li Fang, "Xiao Fang, check the village’s list on the computer to see if there’s such a person."

Li Fang nodded and told Lin Xiaoyan and the others, "Please sit for a while, I’ll check the computer."

"Okay, thank you."

Li Fang sat in front of the computer and started searching through the list...

Five minutes later, Li Fang said with a smile, "Found it, it’s from the Jin Family."

"Jin Family?" Others looked at Lin Fu and his group with complex expressions.

Seeing their expressions, Lin Fu felt a thud in his heart and quickly asked, "Is my sister... not here anymore?"

Li Fang: "She’s here, she’s here, but their family doesn’t live in the village now."

Lin Fu’s mood was first of joy, then it dropped again upon hearing that his sister wasn’t in the village.

Lin Mu patted her husband’s arm, silently comforting him.

Lin Xiaoyan asked, "Do you know where their family is now?"

"They..." Li Fang glanced at the others.

Lin Xiaoyan sensed something was off with these people’s faces, and asked, "Did something happen with my great aunt’s family?"

Upon hearing Lin Xiaoyan’s question, several village officials fell silent, looking at Lin Xiaoyan and her group, sizing them up.

Noticing that these people were dressed quite well, they hesitated on whether to speak.

Lin Fu also realized something was amiss, pulled out a packet of cigarettes from his pocket, and offered it to the men present, smiling and asking, "I didn’t catch your names, considering how far I’ve come, I just want to see my sister once.

When my sister left, I was too young and upset her. It’s been so many years, and we haven’t been in touch.

As I get older, I miss my family, hoping that in this lifetime, I can find my sister, see her, and see if she’s doing well..."

Lin Fu rambled on, and finally, one of the men spoke.

"Your sister’s family isn’t in the village now, as for where they went, we don’t know, but we have her husband’s phone number, you can call and ask."

Lin Fu was overjoyed, "Thank you so much, a phone number is great, I’ll call him right now, thank you!"

Once he got the number, Lin Fu couldn’t wait and went outside to dial the phone.

Lin Xiaoyan then turned to the various people in the room with different expressions and asked with a smile, "We’ve been here so long, we don’t know how to address you yet."

Li Fang smiled and said, "This is our village chief."

Lin Xiaoyan looked over, it was the same middle-aged man who had just given her dad the phone number.

"Here we have our secretary and the captain..."

After hearing this, Lin Xiaoyan knew that they were all leaders of the village.

She whispered two sentences to Sister Nan, and Nan Xi nodded, walking out the door.

Then, Lin Xiaoyan looked at the people in the room, smiled, and said, "Greetings to the leaders, we’re really thankful to you all today.

If it weren’t for you, we would have come all this way and probably still couldn’t find anyone."

"No problem, no problem, since they’re from our village, we must help you find them.

If they weren’t from our village, we wouldn’t be able to help." The village chief said with a cheerful tone.

At this time, Nan Xi came in carrying a few gifts from the car.

Seeing the things Nan Xi was holding, the people in the room couldn’t help but glance over.

Lin Xiaoyan placed the items on a table nearby, "We were in a hurry and didn’t bring much, these are just small tokens of our appreciation, thanking the leaders for their help in finding my aunt, we really appreciate it, hope you’ll accept them."

The village chief immediately said sternly, "It’s our duty, please take the things back, we can’t accept them."

Lin Mu smiled, "It’s a token of our appreciation, also thank you, village chief, for supporting my sister over the years, she married so far away, we didn’t know how she’s been all these years..."

At this point, the village chief’s expression became hesitant again.

Lin Xiaoyan glanced at her mom, Lin Mu’s gaze dimmed, she asked, "Village chief, is there something wrong with my sister’s family? Please feel free to speak."

The village chief thought for a moment, sighed, and said, "Please, sit down, let’s talk."

"Alright." Lin Mu pulled her daughter to sit down, while her husband was still outside on the phone, she decided not to call him, in case something happened to her sister-in-law’s family...

Li Fang brought over a few disposable cups and poured tea for them.

"Thank you."

The village chief began slowly, "It’s not a secret, everyone in our village knows, the Jin family has encountered some problems..."

"Jin Yi’s family, oh, that’s Lin Shulan’s husband, they have a simple household, the two elders passed away ten years ago, leaving just the couple and their two children.

The eldest is a daughter, she’s twenty-nine this year, married into the town.

The youngest is a boy, named Jin Le, he’s twenty-five this year and hasn’t married yet."