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Chapter 338 Chapter 358: The Journey to Find Gu Worms (3)

In the evening, Xia Tong stood in front of the window watching the sunset. The sunset in the mountains was particularly beautiful and red, and the entire sky was rendered bright red, which was spectacular and shocking.

But the sunset was especially fast in the mountains, and soon after nightfall, Anasha, the wife of the patriarch, came to ask her to have dinner.

Xia Tong walked out of the room and saw that Xiaoying was already waiting outside. The two followed Anasha down the Diaolou and walked to the main hall. There was already a long table there, and the steaming food on it was not usually seen. passed.

"Miss Xia, please come over for dinner." Su Liqing smiled and motioned to them, and when he looked at Xiaoying, he asked again, "I wonder what this gentleman's name is?"

"He..." Xia Tong remembered that he forgot to introduce Xiaoying, so he turned his head and looked at him, but stopped, not knowing how to introduce him.

She knew Xiaoying was just his code name, not his real name, so she hesitated how to tell the elder, could it be that he was Mr. Xiao?Just call him by his first name! ?
"My surname is Shi," Xiaoying suddenly said while he was thinking, "...Shihe."

"Oh, hello, Mr. Shi." With a simple and honest smile on Su Liqing's square face, he led them to sit down at the table, and warmly entertained them for a meal.

The food of the Miao people is very special, and it is natural that they can’t eat such authentic food in ordinary times. The white rice is also packed in wooden barrels, which is very large.

Where could Xia Tong eat, he gave half of it to Xiaoying at the beginning, and Xiaoying was young and vigorous, so he ate it all in one bite.

There were only four of them for this dinner. Xia Tong asked Elder Su and his wife if they had any children. Su Liqing smiled very proudly and said that they had a son and a daughter. They both went to college and left this small mountain village. Now they are in a big city outside. He got married and had a grandson and a granddaughter.

Xia Tong asked them why they didn't live with their sons and daughters, so that they could enjoy the blessings of their children?
The elder sighed a long time, and said that he knew the bed, and he would not be able to sleep when he went out, and he was used to life in the countryside, so he didn't want to go to the city.

So every year during the holidays, his children would come back to accompany them, and after he suffered from cancer a few years ago, he cherished life even more and did not want to leave the place where he was born and raised!
Feeling in Xia Tong's heart, she finally understood why he cooperated with her so actively.

Back then, when a professor of Chinese descent at the Institute of Washington Medical School approached Su Liqing, he was not willing to provide help, and the professor had to spend a lot of time to persuade him.

Su Liqing is familiar with the terrain of Miaojiang mountainous area and the habits and habits of Gu worms. He helped to find five of them. Although the number is very small, they are quite remarkable.

You must know that Miaojiang Gu worms are very rare, and the body fluids extracted from these five precious Gu worms can already provide what the laboratory needs for a year of research.

But in the end, due to the scarcity of Gu worms, it was even difficult to find them, so this research was put on hold, which made Xia Tong feel a pity...

Now that the project is restarted and the funds are sufficient, she must go all out.

So she wrote a check to the elder, hoping that he would mobilize the people in the village who knew more about Gu worms to search for Gu worms together.

Su Liqing looked at the six-digit check. For an honest old farmer like him who grew up in the mountains, the figure was simply astronomical!
He didn't delay, accepted the check, and promised to give her at least ten Gu worms.

Xia Tong was overjoyed, and immediately went back to her room to rest. Xiaoying was worried about the unfamiliar place, so she guarded outside her room door and did not leave until the early morning...

(End of this chapter)