Chapter 193: Studying the Jade Pendant Again
“Ah! Stop rubbing, or I’ll go bald!”
After being rubbed roughly by Ye Ziming, Lin Muqing immediately knew her good buddy was taking revenge because she had kept poking durian pancakes in front of him.
And not only that, she had even planned to take him to buy durian pastries.
“How could you? My technique is perfect.”
With a mischievous smile, Ye Ziming continued ruffling her hair like a cat, with no intention of stopping for now.
The two of them kept playing around. To outsiders, it looked like the playful teasing of a young couple, or just another public display of affection.
Watching this made Meng Wenwu so jealous and envious that he could only silently suffer.
Earlier, after being dragged away by the three Lin brothers, he had finally realized—
Lin Muqing was actually their younger sister.
Well, it made sense now why they had caught him and “educated” him. He had dared to have impure thoughts about his cousin’s little sister.
What he couldn’t understand was why Brother Ye was allowed to be so close to her, and yet the three uncles didn’t react at all.
“Remember what I told you.”
While Meng Wenwu was still feeling jealous, Lin Qiwen suddenly appeared behind him like a ghost, patting his shoulder as he spoke.
Then he patted his shoulder two more times with a bit more strength, giving him a warning look.
“Yes… Uncle.”
Sweat rolled down Meng Wenwu’s forehead. He felt an enormous pressure, because he wasn’t just dealing with Lin Qiwen alone—
And even if he felt it was unfair, he couldn’t do anything. After all, he couldn’t win against Brother Ye in any way.
“Don’t stare. You won’t ever learn.”
Seeing Meng Wenwu’s expression, Lin Qiwen gave a satisfied smile.
Before leaving, he glanced back at Meng Wenwu, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said one last sentence…
Meng Wenwu felt like hiding in a corner and never coming out.
When the temple fair was over, Lin Muqing went home with her good buddy, full and happy, holding several little trinkets in her hands.
There were two small wooden toys, a round fan with a landscape painting, and a pair of very pretty hairpins, all clearly girly items.
When she first received them, Lin Muqing felt a little embarrassed.
But since they were gifts from Aunt Lin, she didn’t refuse. Instead, she put them in a wooden box for safekeeping. Even if she wouldn’t use them, she could keep them as a little collection.
After getting home, she showered, changed clothes, and prepared to lie on the bed with her phone.
But tonight was a little different.
While rummaging through her bag to find her bra, she happened to touch the jade pendant she had kept in the same bag.
She stored it there because the clothes were soft, which made it safer than putting it in a schoolbag.
When she saw it, she suddenly remembered her late mother’s words—
“Use this jade to find your real mother.”
“But… how do I even use this to find someone?”
Holding the jade pendant in her hand, she sat down at the desk. After blow-drying her hair, Lin Muqing began studying the pendant again.
She had already done this many times before, but she never discovered anything. After all, she didn’t understand this kind of stuff at all.
“What are you doing?”
After a while, Ye Ziming came out of the bathroom, finished with his shower.
While looking for the hair dryer, he noticed Lin Muqing was staring at the jade pendant.
In the past, he wouldn’t have asked, he wouldn’t have thought anything of it.
But now it was different.
He had learned that the jade pendants they both owned were actually obtained together by his mother and Aunt Lin back in the day.
In fact, earlier this afternoon, he had secretly taken Lin Muqing’s pendant to show his mother—
And she had said it really did look like that jade pendant from years ago.
However, since she hadn’t seen it for over a decade, Mother Ye didn’t dare 100% confirm it.
To really get a final answer, they would have to wait until tomorrow to go to the hospital for the DNA test.
Thinking about this, Ye Ziming’s gaze toward Lin Muqing became a bit complicated, part happy, part worried.
“Big bro, I want to see your jade pendant.”
As she turned her head and made room for her good buddy to blow-dry his hair, Lin Muqing raised her jade pendant to him.
She had studied her own jade pendant many times, but she had never actually put the two pendants together to compare them.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Ziming figured that Lin Muqing wouldn’t discover anything anyway, so he took out his jade pendant and handed it to her.
Then, while drying his hair, he watched her widen her eyes and examine the two pendants together.
Just as he expected, she didn’t find anything special, and she quickly gave up.
Because his mother had told him to always keep the jade pendant in a small box and carry it with him wherever he went (except on lazy school days), Ye Ziming always had his with him.
As for Lin Muqing, he wasn’t sure about all the details, but he knew she also kept hers close, except when she wore her work uniform.
“Big bro, do you think maybe our jade pendants were originally made as a matching pair?”
After giving his jade pendant back, Lin Muqing rubbed her own pendant and asked her question casually.
“Maybe.”
Raising an eyebrow slightly, with a subtle shift in his expression, Ye Ziming answered calmly.
“Emmm…”
Looking at her jade pendant while thinking, Lin Muqing let out a few cute little sounds.
Ye Ziming finished drying his hair, and the room fell into a quiet atmosphere.
Neither of them spoke for a moment.
Just as Ye Ziming was about to put the hair dryer away, standing up to return it to the shelf, Lin Muqing suddenly spoke again:
“Big bro, do you want to hear the story of my jade pendant?”
Sitting in her chair for a long time, Lin Muqing decided that her good buddy was absolutely trustworthy.
And maybe he could even help her, by finding a reliable expert to examine the pendant, someone who could properly identify or study it.
It was a small hope, but she didn’t have any better ideas.
She had even thought about using the internet and posting the pendant online…
But after seeing a lot of similar jade pendants and a bunch of silly comments from netizens, she quickly gave up on that idea.
“I do.”
Ye Ziming didn’t hesitate, answering immediately, almost like he was afraid she might change her mind.
“Uh… wait a bit. I need to think about how to tell it.”
His quick reply made Lin Muqing open her eyes wide in slight surprise.
After arranging her thoughts and wording, she soon began telling the story.
Since her good buddy already knew about her family situation, she skipped some parts and only mentioned the key points.
When Ye Ziming heard that Lin Muqing wanted to use the jade pendant to find her biological parents, he couldn’t help feeling surprised.
But he controlled his expression well and didn’t let Lin Muqing notice anything.
“Big bro, do you think it’s possible to find them with just this thing?”
After finishing the story, Lin Muqing once again held the pendant up in front of her eyes, looking at it as she asked.
It had been over a year since she last mentioned her biological parents.
Now, her attitude was calm. If she could find them, she would.
If she couldn’t, she wouldn’t force it.
For now, her top priority was to focus on school and the college entrance exam. That was the most important task.