Chapter 1934 - 1932: A Blessing in Disguise
Chapter 1934: Chapter 1932: A Blessing in Disguise
However, Gu Qiaoqiao already had her own plans for this gold.
As for the other miners, she would let it go, but for those few miners who died because of the Barrier, she would secretly give their families some compensation. The thing was just difficult to execute, so she could only wait for a better opportunity.
Fortunately, Qin Yize had come back safe and sound. Seeing the look on Gu Qiaoqiao’s face, Qin Yize squeezed his wife’s cheeks and said unhappily, "You really underestimated me."
Gu Qiaoqiao gave an embarrassed little "hehe" laugh.
At this time, a convoy of fully armed vehicles and people drove in.
The ones who had been frozen by the Ice Arrow Talismans and were now slightly recovered were all taken away. These miners were finally rescued. The matter was a big news story and made the front page of the papers—of course, that happened a few days later.
This really was doing good without leaving a name.
No one knew what the two of them had done, not even Su Ye’s parents.
They were finally reunited with their daughter.
And Gu Qiaoqiao and Qin Yize were also getting ready to leave with Qin Xuan and his wife.
It was just that there were still some things to take care of before leaving. The first was that Qin Yize had already entrusted a friend to thoroughly investigate the information of the three miners who died at the Gold Mine Barrier Entrance.
Where those miners came from was all recorded in the ledgers those bosses kept. The ledgers were not public, but after this place was taken down, everything had been seized by the relevant departments. His friend had gone through a big detour to finally get the detailed addresses of those three people.
Two were Asian, and the other was from another country.
In this world there are countless open, bright roads, and plenty of narrow, twisting paths as well. For this matter, Gu Qiaoqiao and Qin Yize absolutely could not appear in person, but they could let Qin Yize’s friend handle it.
As for how to compensate and how much to give, Gu Qiaoqiao had no experience at all in this area, while Qin Yize and his friend often dealt with this kind of thing. So Qin Yize simply wouldn’t let Gu Qiaoqiao worry about it anymore.
Sometimes Gu Qiaoqiao’s thoughts were still a bit simple. For example, the gold nuggets in her space couldn’t be taken out for now.
At the very least, those gold nuggets could not be known to the people who had once destroyed the Barrier.
Otherwise, it would truly be a source of endless trouble.
Once Gu Qiaoqiao figured this out, she stopped worrying about it.
The plane tickets had already been booked; they would depart in two days.
By now she was also missing her two children.
Being a mother really was different. Wherever she went in the past, she had never felt this kind of constant concern.
Her little uncle still hadn’t come back. With such a long distance between them, Gu Qiaoqiao couldn’t sense anything unusual, but for some reason she always felt a trace of unease in her heart.
Her intuition told her that this flicker of unease was directed at Gu Junbai alone.
But exactly where the unease came from, Gu Qiaoqiao couldn’t explain.
Early in the morning, Qin Sisi and her husband took Qin Xuan out shopping.
Qin Yize went with his friend to deal with the business of those three miners.
This time, Elder Luo was going back with them, but Luo Fan had to stay here for a while. That way, Gu Qiaoqiao could pretty much be at ease, especially with Qin Sisi and the others also here.
They were practically all family.
As for how Elder Luo was going to deal with Luo Ye’s two unreliable parents, Gu Qiaoqiao had no idea.
At this time, Gu Qianqian was at school, and she wanted to go see her. Speaking of which, she had already been here for almost half a month, yet she’d spent very little time with her younger sister.
Gu Qianqian’s school was located to the west of the city center.
The environment here was very elegant; the teaching buildings were designed like an Ancient Castle and were said to be over a hundred years old.
On the vast lawn, many people were reading under the shade of the trees. There were many people coming and going; it was probably between classes, so it was very lively.
But just one look told you that the students here were all the studious, top-of-the-class type.
They very smoothly found Gu Qianqian. The two sisters hugged, then walked to the tree-lined path beside the teaching building.
Listening to Gu Qianqian talk about school, Gu Qiaoqiao quietly observed her little sister at the same time.
The little girl had grown up and was even a bit taller than her.
Their eyes looked very similar—one glance and you could tell they were sisters.
Gu Qianqian hadn’t been here long, but she already had a few acquaintances among her classmates. They greeted each other with cheerful smiles as they passed. Some people looked at Gu Qiaoqiao curiously.
After all, whether in temperament or appearance, Gu Qiaoqiao now was the most striking one in any crowd.
Even though she had deliberately suppressed her own aura, some things still leaked out unconsciously.
Hooking her arm through Gu Qiaoqiao’s, Gu Qianqian smiled with squinting eyes. "Sis, why don’t you stay here and keep me company? We can go to school together."
"I’d love to, but what would your brother-in-law and your two nephews do?"
"Hehe, I was just saying. Of course it’s impossible. But if you have time, you have to come visit me."
"If I have time I’ll definitely come see you. Besides, Luo Fan will be here with you this whole year, right?"
"Yeah, and it works out since he has to plan out the company here."
"His parents haven’t made trouble for you, have they?"
"No. I haven’t even seen them so far. I don’t know where they went, and I can’t really ask." Gu Qianqian wrinkled her nose.
"Oh right, Sis, Su Ye’s parents are back."
Gu Qiaoqiao had already learned this over the phone; she just hadn’t met them in person.
It was said that when the two of them saw Su Ye, they thought it must be in their next life.
Back then, Gu Qiaoqiao hadn’t known there were women miners here who also had to go work, although most of them cooked for the miners.
Of course, the food was practically like pig slop—grain of the worst quality, everything the cheapest, but at least it was enough to fill their stomachs. After all, aside from being thrown out when they were sick, if someone starved to death it would be a loss.
So many of the cooks were miners’ family members, and they lived in a cave outside the mine tunnel.
Qin Yize had known about this, but there were over a hundred miner family members. He couldn’t possibly go around asking one by one who Su Ye’s mother was, so he hadn’t told Gu Qiaoqiao and had just left directly.
You could say that Su Yue’s parents were relatively lucky.
Although their health wasn’t good, with some recuperation they could go on living, whereas the others who died weren’t that fortunate.
"Mm, I heard from your brother-in-law. Grandpa Luo arranged for the two of them to stay in the hospital room where Luo Ye used to live."
"They’ve been unlucky, but you could also say they’re lucky. Sis, you don’t even know—Su Ye’s dad had bought some stocks before. The money was gone, but the stocks were still there, and now those stocks have gone up dozens of times. His house has been given back to him too..."
Gu Qianqian continued, "I heard they’re also going to get compensation, so they won’t have to worry about their livelihood for the rest of their lives."
"Su Ye really has gotten through the bitterness and reached the sweetness."
Gu Qianqian went on sighing with emotion.
Gu Qiaoqiao nodded in agreement. The two of them had suffered a lot over the years; their house and money had all been taken away. Yet unexpectedly, the stocks that couldn’t be taken had become their greatest asset.