the two-faced Adopted Girl Who Melted CEO's Ice-Cold Heart-Chapter 1033: Someone You Need to Decode to Contact
After sending off Nova Howard, Crystal Landon drove over to Uncle Hao’s place.
Uncle Hao is the person who taught her scattergun and shooting for over five years. He runs a small restaurant serving Hunan cuisine in the Imperial City, with a modest storefront and has taken on an apprentice.
A middle-aged man, skilled with firearms, running a restaurant in a chaotic area living an ordinary life—Crystal felt he was a man with stories. However, over the past five years, he has taught her a lot to the best of his abilities and has occasionally analyzed the different factions’ division of power for her.
Because of Richard Shaw’s connections in the Military District, she also intended to understand this information.
"Uncle." When Crystal arrived at the restaurant, it was empty, and Uncle Hao was making noodles. Seeing her, he immediately laughed, saying, "The young miss has arrived?"
"Yeah, Uncle, haven’t you had lunch yet?" Crystal always found his way of addressing her strange, but Uncle Hao was very stubborn, and he wouldn’t change no matter what, so she let him be.
"I’m making a bowl of noodles. Would you like a bowl too, young miss?" Uncle Hao’s face creased into a smile, looking no different from ordinary people in the neighborhood.
"Sure, I love your cooking the most, make it spicy."
"Alright."
The middle-aged man skillfully cut a large piece of his special braised beef, placed it on a small special plate, scooped a large spoonful of chili sauce, then cooked two bowls of chewy noodles, sprinkled with green onions and sesame oil, poured the braised beef broth over, and evenly spread the leftover braised beef on top. Although his legs were a bit inconvenient, he carried out two bowls of beef noodles with a cheerful smile, saying, "Eat it while it’s hot, young miss."
The middle-aged man also scooped a plate of pickled sour beans as a side dish along with a plate of beef.
Crystal was accustomed to having a bowl of hot delicious noodles every time she visited, and Uncle Hao was very meticulous, always using different bowls and chopsticks for her meals.
"Uncle, does your knee injury still hurt?" Crystal happily took a bite of the spicy noodles and, noticing his earlier inconvenience, quickly pulled out a supplement from her backpack, saying, "This medicine has a warmth-enhancing effect for joint pain. I had someone bring it back."
Uncle had a gunshot wound in his leg, and during the rainy season, his joints would ache severely.
The middle-aged man was a bit moved, his smile deepening as he said, "It was aching a bit during the heavy rains recently, but it’s all good now, thank you, young miss."
"This time, I’m going with my mentor on an expedition to the wilds of Southern Yunnan, and I might be away for more than a month," Crystal said with a smile.
Uncle Hao’s smile faded, and he asked, "Expedition to the wilds of Southern Yunnan, are the people you’re going with reliable?"
"The research guide is taking four students."
Uncle Hao pondered slightly, Southern Yunnan, ah, the area past there is the Golden Triangle, very close indeed.
"The Southern Yunnan area hasn’t been very peaceful recently, and there’s a secret military base. The skills I taught you for survival in the wild are sufficient for self-protection, but don’t venture deep into the dense mountains and forests. If you need a local guide, contact an old friend of mine, he will help you," Uncle Hao said, standing up to write down a series of numbers, saying, "I’ve taught you how to decrypt it."
Seeing his seriousness, Crystal memorized that series of numbers, but unless it was absolutely necessary, she wouldn’t seek out this person. Someone who required decryption to be contacted was inherently shrouded in secrecy.
She wasn’t clear about Uncle Hao’s background and wisely chose not to ask.
