A child tugged at her clothes.
Gu Nuan seemed to have just come to her senses and picked up the mobile phone in her pocket. It was Zhong Qiaohui’s number.
She answered the video call.
Zhong Qiaohui should have been in the office, with the background showing their team’s workspace.
"Where are you?" Zhong Qiaohui asked somewhat irritably, "Where have you run off to? Hey, how come they are saying you and the boss went off to have fun?"
"What? Really?" Zhong Qiaohui glared in disbelief, unable to believe that Gu Nuan would abandon work to have fun.
Gu Nuan first used her mobile phone to show her the scenery around.
Zhong Qiaohui, seeing only the sea and such, was infuriated, "Did you really go off to have fun? How brazen! Leaving me and Manager Fu behind, the two of us fools still buried in research."
"You didn’t notice anything?"
At Gu Nuan’s cool inquiry, Zhong Qiaohui paused and then asked, "Exactly where are you?"
"You see for yourself."
Zhong Qiaohui took a closer look at what was behind where she was standing, "Seems like a village—"
Being quite capable herself, Zhong Qiaohui realized, "It wouldn’t be a piece of land, would it? What, you two went for a field visit?"
"It’s said to be the most famous piece of land at the company," Gu Nuan explained, "You all should know it, at least my senior brother knows."
Zhong Qiaohui was already hastily communicating with Fu Yubo behind her.
Fu Yubo seemed to know about this, and immediately thought of that piece of land the company was most hopeful for, "That place, though just a small village by the sea, could be developed into a holiday resort, or seaside luxury villas of sorts. Besides these profitable options, I’ve heard it’s a geomantic treasure site."
Geomancy is something people in the country really believe in, not just locals, but foreigners who adapt to local customs believe in it as well.
When Gu Nuan arrived here, she hadn’t heard about any geomantic treasure site, only that there seemed to be a Dragon King Temple in the village. Otherwise, its outstanding geographical location definitely exists.
Thinking about the detour they had taken earlier, with all those already completed seaside resorts on each side, bypassing this village meant that the most beautiful coastline was effectively cut off in the middle, and moreover, transportation had also become incredibly inconvenient. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡⚑𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚⚑𝙣𝙚𝙩
Zhong Qiaohui was troubled, "You should have told us earlier about going for a field visit, letting us stay in the office would have been fine too, at least we’d know what we could do, right?"
Being sincere workers themselves, Gu Nuan understood completely.
"Actually," Gu Nuan said, "we hadn’t planned to come here. We just happened to pass by and then there was no car, following an old lady—"
Mr. Yebai had originally brought her out for an elopement.
As for why Xiao Yebai ended up driving here, that remains unknown.
Perhaps subconsciously, they both knew that this hurdle was something they had to face. Indeed, it was necessary to come here and see. Only by seeing it firsthand could they understand where their competition’s advantages lay.
Zhong Qiaohui seemed to grasp the meaning in her words and asked softly, "Is it like, you sensed something?"
"This project, if we don’t do it, definitely someone else has been eyeing it from behind already."
Zhong Qiaohui was completely bewildered.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in the distance, running towards them. The children saw it and shouted excitedly, "Who is that? Is that Liu Xiang?"
The Yebai dog dashed up the dirt pile like in a hundred-meter sprint.