Chapter 293 - 293 Familiar
293 Familiar
Yue Jiaojiao looked at the small wooden box in her hand. The box was only the size of her palm.
Yue Jiaojiao sat in the room in the backyard and looked around for a long time before she slowly opened the box. There was a pendant inside. The pendant was about the size of Yue Jiaojiao’s thumb, and its texture was crystal clear. Yue Jiaojiao looked at it for a long time but didn’t find anything special, so she put it back into the box.
She was puzzled.
She felt that there was something wrong with Zhao Zhan’s father and that he was out of place with them.
The path of farming and getting rich had inexplicably turned into a search competition.
First, it was that painting, then he found this shop, and even knew her name and gave her a pendant… Could this be a wedding gift for Zhao Zhan?
“Jiaojiao.”
When Zhao Zhan returned, Yue Jiaojiao was still sitting in her room, deep in thought.
She came back to her senses when she heard his voice. “How did it go? Did you find him?”
Zhao Zhan sat at the table and drank a few glasses of water. After catching his breath, he shook his head. “I’ve searched the streets of the town and asked the beggars to help me guard the city gate, but I still couldn’t find him.”
“If we had known just now, we would have just asked him ourselves.”
“Forget it.” Zhao Zhan was anxious when he was looking for him on the street, but after finding nothing, he suddenly felt relieved. “He must have known that I was next to him at the inn just now.”
“He clearly knows everything, but he still chose not to say anything. Perhaps he’s hiding something that I really can’t know.”
“Zhao Zhan, when he left the inn, he came to the shop. He knew my name and gave me a pendant.”
Yue Jiaojiao opened the box and handed it to Zhao Zhan. “Look.”
The item in the box looked familiar.
Zhao Zhan’s brows furrowed. He clenched the pendant and looked at it carefully. “This is…”
Yue Jiaojiao’s eyes lit up. “You know what this is?”
“I can’t remember clearly,” Zhao Zhan said, trying hard to recall. “I might have been too young at that time, so my memory is a little fuzzy now. But I keep feeling that it…”
Zhao Zhan subconsciously took the pendant and walked into the courtyard. Then, he raised the pendant toward the sun and slowly turned it around.
“There are words on the ground! Zhao Zhan, don’t move.”
The light passed through the tiny holes on the pendant, reflecting the shape of the holes on the ground.
It was like a carving on a grain of rice, and it was not clear to the human eye if one did not pay enough attention to it.
Yue Jiaojiao turned around a few times, and the more she looked, the more confused she became. “Zhao Zhan… Why do I feel that it’s the word delicate?”
Zhao Zhan lowered his head, his eyes filled with surprise. “It does say that.”
“Zhao Zhan, you said that he knows what you look like now, and he also knows my name. Was that letter to your father actually meant for you to see? Maybe he wants you to see him instead or something…”
Yue Jiaojiao came to this conclusion.
If he really had not appeared by their side for so many years, but he knew everything, then things were going to develop in a direction they wouldn’t be able to explain.
He couldn’t possibly have gone astray in his studies and now knows everything and more, right?
It didn’t make sense.
“Jiaojiao, should we go to the shop that appraised our hairpins last time? I would like to ask the manager to take a look and see if he can roughly tell when this pendant was polished, or where it was made by the craftsman.
“The words carved on the pendant are so secretive that no one can find it. The person who can make such a thing should be famous.”