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Chapter 969
That got everyone laughing.
Jenny walked over and looked at him angrily, “Still fragrant kid, also not shy, hurry down, don’t tire your aunt.”
Little Jingze was busy jumping down from Lu Lanzhi’s arms, Lu Lanzhi was smiling, “Might as well, our family’s good grandson, I like it.”
A group of people went to the dining room with great enthusiasm, during which the Ji family also sent gifts, after all, it was Jenny’s child, although not biological, but in terms of seniority, An’an also had to call Ji Yunshu a granduncle.
Jenny and Biden Lu also gave gifts, Jenny gave a little skirt that An An had always loved before, while Biden Lu was much more rude and simple.
It’s just a bank card, and when she’s old enough, it’s her private money to do with as she pleases.
Jenny looked at his straight man gift and cried.
Fortunately, the old lady and the old man were attentive enough to prepare her a hand-made snack.
Ann was so happy that she ate her snack and opened her presents.
When it was Lu Lanzhi’s turn, Ann tilted her little face up expectantly and asked, “Auntie, what did you get me?”
Lu Lanzhi smiled mysteriously, “You’re our Lu family’s precious little princess, and what your aunt gave you is certainly the best gift ever.”
I said, taking out an exquisite gift box.
Ann’s eyes lit up and she took it.
After unwrapping it, it turned out to be a beautifully crafted piece of pure, translucent quality jade lotus.
“What a beautiful jade pendant!”
Ann surprised the jade lotus by taking it out and Lu Lanzhi smiled, “How was it?Did you like your aunt’s gift to you?”
Ann nodded repeatedly, “I like it, thank you auntie.”
The old lady also smiled, “Lanzhi has finally been generous for once this time.”
Lu Lanzhi said coquettishly, “Mom, look at what you’re saying, when have I ever not been generous to Ann.”
The group of people laughed and joked, however, Jenny Jing, who was sitting next to them, changed his face slightly.
She stared at the jade lotus and was slightly distracted as her mind involuntarily recalled some very distant images.
She didn’t come back to her senses until someone shouted next to her.
“Jenny, Jenny?”
Jenny Jing was stunned and turned to look at Biden Lu, “Huh?What’s going on?”
In the meantime, Biden Lu’s brows were slightly knitted, keenly aware that something was wrong with her.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Jenny pursed her lips and shook her head, “I’m fine.”
He said, his gaze falling on the jade pendant in Ann’s hand, his eyes flashing with suspicion.
After the family ate, they chatted with the old lady and the old man for a while, and the birthday was over by midnight, when the cake was cut promptly.
On the way home, both gnomes were so sleepy their eyelids were fighting.
Jenny held little Jingze in her arms and let Ann sleep on the chair behind her, although she was only nine years old, she had inherited Biden Lu’s genes and was very tall, she was already one meter four at such a young age.
The little gnome crumpled in his chair and slept uneasily.
Jenny reached out, shook her hand, and tugged at the small blanket she was wearing, which settled her down.
The car soon arrived at Maple Bridge Cottage.
Jenny pushed Ann awake and got out of the car with the little competitor in his arms again, Ann confused and reaching out for a hug before her eyes opened.
Biden Lu came over, picked her up and walked to the house.
Auntie Liu.
Straight was waiting for them, knowing they would be back late today, and had a snack prepared.
How could Jenny and the others eat that?Tell Aunt Liu to go back to bed early, and then take the child back to her room.
After settling the kids down to sleep, this returned to his room.
Everyone was exhausted today and went back to their rooms and fell asleep on their own, not to mention for now.
Day 2.
It was already eight in the morning when Jenny woke up.
The two little ones were supposed to go to school today, but Ann suddenly caught a cold, and Jenny came downstairs to find out.
The doctor came to check her temperature. She had a low fever of 37.5 degrees.
The little gnome argued that she didn’t want to go to school, so Jenny had no choice but to call her and ask for a leave of absence, and then asked the maid to send little Jingze to the morning school before accompanying An to feed her medicine.
Biden Lu went out early in the morning, Jenny coaxed AnAn to finish her medicine and lay down again, which is why she smiled: “Such a big child, why is he still so incapable of suffering?So this little cold has knocked you down?Don’t even go to school, shame!”
Ann was embarrassed, her little face flushed scarlet, and her whole body shrunk under the little blanket, and she said crisply, “I’ll just play one day, Mommy, and I promise I’ll make up today’s schoolwork later.”
Jenny Jing knew that she was not yet removed from the joy of yesterday’s birthday and didn’t force it.
But went and got the two exercise books and put them by her bedside.
“Rest is fine, but you can’t fall behind in your studies, so when you feel better later, do these two booklets, okay?”
Ann nodded good-naturedly.
Jenny rubbed her head, “So good.”
Ann suddenly said, “Mommy, I want to see last night’s present.”
Jenny Jing was stunned, not only the Lu family had sent gifts last night, but the rest of the several families, as well as some of their relatives knew that it was Princess An’s birthday, and they had also asked people to send gifts over.
Some of it, it was delivered to the old house, but some of it was far enough away that they didn’t know they had gone to the old house last night, so things were still being delivered to the Maple Bridge villa side.
Auntie Liu didn’t like the boxes stacked in the living room blocking the place, so last night before they came back, they piled them all together in the storage room.
Jenny smiled, “Okay, can you get up now?”
“Can.”
At the mention of unwrapping presents, Anton was energized and climbed up from under the covers with a roll over.
Jenny couldn’t help but laugh, and had no choice but to go forward and help her dress.
After getting dressed, I laughed again, “I agreed that I can only stay home with you for half a day, and after I accompany you to open your presents later, I have to go to the office, so you’ll be home alone and do the questions, okay?”
Ann nodded and hugged her neck, baring her face.
“Mummy, you’re so sweet.”
Jenny shook his head in dismay.
When they went to the warehouse, they saw a mountain of gift boxes of all sorts of strange colours piled up on the floor in the middle.
Aunt Liu came in from outside and smiled awkwardly, “I’m sorry ah Madam, Missy, there were too many of these things coming all at once last night, and I didn’t have time to clean up, so I piled them all up here.”
An An replied in a serious manner, “It’s okay Auntie Liu, wait until I unpack it before you clean it up, or if you clean it up, won’t it be more trouble for me to do it?”
Aunt Liu smiled dryly, Jenny told her to get busy, then picked up a box and took a look at it, finding that it was from the Guan family.
She couldn’t help but smile, “Here, here you go, open it yourself.”
Chapter 970
Ann nodded, took the miter knife, and la-ho-ho-ho unpacked the front box several times at once.
Girls sure do have a thing for things like gift boxes.
On a normal day, even the most gentle and feminine girl can be transformed into an invincible scissor-arm, fast and accurate, when opening presents.
Ann finished unwrapping her presents and was finally satisfied.
Jenny stayed with her again, teaching her how to return her gifts to their proper place before leading her out of the treasury.
“Mommy, I’m done opening presents, so you can go to work without me.”
Jenny nodded and took a glance at the time, it was only 10:30 am, not too late.
She said a few words to Ann and was about to leave, when suddenly there was a ding and a piece of white stuff fell on the floor.
Ann exclaimed, “Yah, my jade pendant!”
When Jenny Jing turned back, she saw her picking up a jade pendant from the ground, and even leaned over to take a look.
Only to see that Hernandez was the piece that Lu Lanzhi had given her.
Last night, Jenny didn’t take a close look at the jade pendant, only a blurred glance through the light, and felt that it looked familiar, resembling a relic from his mother Mo Caiwei’s life.
But at that time, it was just a thought that crossed her mind, and she didn’t take it seriously.
After all, Mo Caiwei had died so many years ago, leaving nothing behind long ago, so how could there be a jade pendant belonging to her in Lu Lanzhi’s possession?
So, at the time, she just thought about it and revealed it.
But now, when seeing this jade pendant again and looking at the clear and bright lotus patterns on it, only then did I shudder.
That familiar feeling grew stronger and she couldn’t help but reach out and take the jade pendant in Ann’s hand.
“Mummy, what’s wrong?”
Ann was stunned and a little puzzled.
Jenny, however, did not answer, she carefully stroked the texture on the top of the jade pendant, turning it over and over, looking at it carefully for a long time, and finally, she used the sunlight coming in through the doorway to make out a small Chinese character in the very centre of the lotus flower.
The only thing I saw was the word ink.
She was not shaken hard!
How is this, how is this possible?
Outsiders may not know, but Jenny knows very well that back then, the Mo family was the number one family in Jin City, her grandfather, Master Mo, was a very powerful man in Jin City, and as Master Mo’s only daughter, Mo Caiwei naturally grew up with beautiful clothes and jade.
Because he wanted his daughter to be unique, Mo Laozi cultivated her various talents and hobbies since she was a child.
And the so-called marker is really quite simple, just a little ink inscribed on it.
It is engraved on everything from the smallest dish, to the book and pen, to the jewellery, clothing, and carriage.
Jenny Jing had thought that he might never see this word again in his life, but now he had seen it on a small piece of jade pendant.
Her face was faintly white and her whole body was drowning in memories of the past.
Ann, however, was so frightened to see her standing there as if she were foolishly still, and so anxious that she was about to cry.
Tugging on her sleeve as she yelled, “Mommy, Mommy what’s wrong with you?You don’t scare Ann.”
A hot, hot tear dripped on the back of her hand.
Jenny was scalded and finally came back to his senses, lost in thought as he looked at Anh.
Cold on the face.
The water sloshed past her, and she reacted with hindsight to the fact that she had, at some point, cried.
Mostly because Ann saw her crying and the baby was scared.
Jenny Jing was busy wiping away her tears and squatted down to reassure her, “Mummy is fine, don’t worry An’an, Mummy just thought of something.”
Ann deflated, tears falling like beads with broken strings.
“Mummy, don’t be sad, you’re sad Ann will be sad too, Mummy doesn’t cry oh.”
I said, taking the soft little hand and wiping her tears.
Jenny’s nose was sore, tears even heavier.
She managed to smile, “Well, Mommy doesn’t cry or feel sad, and we don’t cry for Ann, Ann is the prettiest girl in the world, and pretty girls don’t cry.”
Ann nodded.
Jenny Jing looked at the jade pendant on his hand and sighed.
Ann asked, “Mommy, are you crying because of this jade pendant?”
Jenny nodded, “Yeah, it reminds me of my mother, your grandmother, do you see, there’s a little ink character on it.”
She said, leading Ann to stand in the sunlight as well, turning the jade pendant over to show her.
Ann exclaimed in amazement, “There really is!”
Jenny Jing smiled, “This is the unique markings on the things your grandmother used, I always thought that there should no longer be anything of hers in this world, but now I realize that there is.”
Ann blinked, a little puzzled, “But Grandma’s last name is obviously Ji, so why would she carve an ink character?”
Jenny choked.
It occurred to her that Ann didn’t know that she used to be switched and marooned in Visterdem growing up.
Ever since Ann was able to understand these complicated relationships, she and Ji Yunshu had already recognized each other and had already recognized her own mother Ji Wan, so in Ann’s eyes, her mother’s own grandmother was naturally Ji Wan.
Jenny laughed to herself and explained, “That’s your other grandmother, a woman who raised your mommy as a child and gave her a second life.”
Ann seemed to understand, but tried very hard to comprehend.
“I understand that it’s all Granny anyway, and since it’s Granny’s stuff, we must treasure it and never lose it again.”
Jenny laughed, “Yeah, so An’an has to put her things away, so she can’t lose them.”
Ann winced.
“But…but I lose things too easily…what if I lose it?”
She furrowed her showy brow and suddenly her eyes lit up.
“Hey, why don’t you put it away for me, Mommy?I haven’t met this grandmother yet, so keep it and bring it to me when you meet your grandmother someday, and I’ll take it with me to meet my grandmother, and then she’ll be happier, won’t she?”
Jenny was stunned, his heart suddenly sore.
She didn’t know how she was going to explain to Ann that she was never going to see her grandmother again.
Because Grandma had died many years earlier.
Jenny sniffed, barely smiling.
“Yes, Mommy will keep it for you, and you will put it on the next time you see your grandmother, and then she will like you even more when she sees you wearing her things.”
“Then it’s settled.”
Ann happily handed her the jade pendant and went back to her room to read happily.
Chapter 971
Jenny Jing stood there, holding the jade pendant in his hand, but his heart seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
She stood for a moment, half-heartedly, before taking a deep breath and walking out with the jade pendant in her hand.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Inside the estate behind the gambling quarry.
Early in the morning, Quexu noticed that Mo Caiwei was a bit distracted throughout today and had been rummaging through the house looking for something.
He frowned and asked curiously, “What are you looking for?”
“Suku, I’ve lost my jade pendant.”
Quexu’s face changed.
“Which piece of jade?”
“It’s the one I grew up with, the one with the lotus pattern.”
Quexu’s face became more and more ugly, and he was busy searching as well.
As you look for it, you are comforted, “Don’t worry, I’ll help you look for it together, you also think about where you last saw it, and when you remember I’ll go with you to find it.”
Mo Caiwei stopped moving and thought carefully.
But after thinking about it for a while, I still had no clue.
She shook her head, “I don’t know, this jade pendant was given to me by my father, I’ve worn it all these years and have never taken it off, so I’ve never paid any special attention to it, it’s like it’s become one with me, I don’t even notice it’s missing, and I don’t know when I last saw it.”
Quexu frowned at the words.
He thought about it and said in a deep voice, “Look in the house first, if there’s none in the house, it’s likely that it was dropped over there at the gambling venue two days ago.”
Hearing him say that, Mo Caiwei paled.
“If it did fall over there, then surely…”
There was no need to say the latter, they both knew it by heart, and thus, they didn’t look too good.
In fact, the jade pendant itself wasn’t worth much, otherwise Lu Lanzhi wouldn’t have casually taken it out and given it to Ann.
But this jade pendant meant so much to Mo Caiwei, it was built for her back when Master Mo was still alive, and decades had passed, and this was all that Master Mo had left her.
To others, it is just a piece of jade that is not very valuable, but to her, it is a souvenir, a memory.
They searched the house, however, rummaging through the entire house and found nothing.
In desperation, we had to go out together and search along the places we had visited in the past few days.
They had searched the entire manor as well, but they hadn’t found the jade either.
In the end, there was no choice but to find Boss Yu.
Boss Yu was a little surprised to hear about it.
“Lost the jade pendant?What kind of jade pendant is it?”
Mo Caiwei anxiously described, “It’s a lotus-shaped jade pendant that’s about three centimeters long and three to four millimeters thick, and where the lotus pistil is right in the centre of the jade pendant, there’s a small ink character engraved, which is easy to identify.”
Boss Yu frowned.
He pondered for a while, “This matter is not easy, after all, you don’t know now when the jade pendant was lost, it’s really no different from finding a needle in a haystack for such a small object.”
How could Mo Caiwei not know this?But that thing was so important to her.
She didn’t know how it would be lost.
Come to think of it, it could only have been the day at the gambling stone venue when it collided with LuLangi, and it could have been knocked off.
While this guess, too, sounds a bit unbelievable, it’s the only most likely guess.
After hearing that, Boss Yu said in a deep voice, “Let’s put it this way, don’t be anxious yet, if you really lost it inside the venue, that’s a good thing, at least the venue is monitored and can be found at any time, if it’s lost outside that’s the hard part.”
Quexu also nodded, “That’s what I thought, so I’m just afraid I’ll have to trouble you a bit to pull up the surveillance for us to see.”
Boss Yu nodded, “It’s not a big deal, you guys wait a moment, I’ll have someone transfer over right away.”
I said, pressing an inside line to make a call, and soon someone brought in the surveillance footage from the past few days.
Boss Yu took a computer to them and said, “You guys watch it first, I still have some things to take care of, after you guys watch it, let me know if you find any clues, as long as it’s lost in the venue, I’ll definitely help you find it.”
Both Quexu and Mo Caiwei nodded, grateful, “Thank you very much.”
Boss Yu got up and left, and they sat in the office, concentrating on it.
Surveillance video from their first visit to the gambling venue, until today’s, there are several days in between, such a large venue, all angles, no need to think about how much workload.
But both of them knew the significance of that jade pendant and must not let it fall into someone else’s hands.
As a result, they are all watched with extra careful attention.
From noon until night, finally, Mo Caiwei’s eyes lit up.
“I found it.”
Quexu was busy bringing his body together, “Where?”
Mo Caiwei pointed to a point on the screen and pressed pause, “Do you see it, right here.”
Quexu set his eyes on the screen and saw that it was exactly when Mo Caiwei came out of the office, at that time Lu Lanzhi just happened to come to the office to look for Boss Yu, and left after talking to Boss Yu.
Mo Caiwei and Quexiu just followed and left as well, just then, on her way out Mo Caiwei tripped over the threshold and almost fell down.
It was at this second that the jade pendant slipped off her body and fell to the ground.
They were both a little excited and a little nervous.
Excited to finally find a clue, the jade is hopefully recovered.
The tension is that there’s no telling who will pick it up, and if the person who finds it doesn’t want to return it, it’s just going to be another problem.
Quexu just tapped the play button and let the recording continue to play.
Only people were coming and going in the picture, but no one seemed to notice the small jade pendant on the ground.
After all, it’s a gambling venue, everyone’s eyes have long been attracted by those big and bright jade stones, who would keep staring at the ground?
Just then, however, a familiar figure crashed into their line of sight.
I saw that it was indeed Lu Lanzhi.
By then, Boss Yu just happened to be coming out of his office, and Lu Lanzhi, who was coming from the other direction, stood there and said something to Boss Yu, then turned around and walked away.
After a few steps, he suddenly took a step back, then crouched down to pick something up.
Mo Caiwei held her breath as Quexu pressed pause, zooming in to see what was in her hand.
It was the lotus jade pendant of Mo Caiwei.
“Is she?”
Quexu’s face was pale, and between his eyebrows was an unbearable disgust, “It’s this woman again!”
Mo Caiwei’s heart was also a little worried, “She’s the eldest miss of the Lu family, she shouldn’t be looking at such a small jade pendant.”
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