Dong Wenhua frowned deeply: "Xiao Ning, how do you know she's the old woman's granddaughter? What about Dong Lianxin? Is Dong Lianxin alive or dead? Where is she?"

Xu Xinning hates Lin Qingyan, and she also hates Dong Lianxin.

If that legitimate daughter comes back, I'm afraid I won't have any standing in this family anymore.

Xu Xinning's voice continued through the phone receiver: "Mom, don't be afraid, Dong Lianxin is dead. Fang Huilan said that Dong Lianxin had amnesia and died when Lin Qingyan was three years old."

Moreover, I suspect that the jade pendant must have been obtained by Fang Huilan and her daughter from Dong Lianxin. But now, the jade pendant is in my hands. Today, I successfully took it from Lin Sisi without her knowing that I took her jade pendant.

Mom, Lin Qingyan didn't go to the Dong family to acknowledge her ancestors, nor did she ask Lin Sisi for the jade pendant. She probably doesn't know where her maternal grandparents' home is, nor does she know about the existence of this jade pendant.

Right now, the most important thing is to stop her from having too much contact with the Dong family. You know, she's already quite familiar with my third brother, and she's also very close to the old lady. I'm just worried that if they spend too much time together, the Dong family might find out something over time.

"Xiao Ning, you and she are in the same military region. You need to be careful about this and try to prevent your third brother from having too much contact with her."

"I understand, Mom."

The mother and daughter talked about other things for a while before hanging up the phone.

As Xu Xinning was leaving the supply and marketing cooperative and preparing to return to the hospital, she encountered Lin Sisi, who was searching for the jade pendant.

When Lin Sisi saw her, she quickly ran over.

"Xinning, Xinning, when we were on the mountain and on the way back, did you see me drop anything?"

Xu Xinning answered decisively, "No, if I saw you drop something, I would definitely tell you, or pick it up and give it to you. Sisi, you seem very anxious, what did you lose?"

"I lost... I lost a few dollars." Lin Sisi lied. Since Xu Xinning hadn't seen it, there was no point in telling the truth. "That was several days' worth of living expenses for me. I'm quite heartbroken to lose it."

"Sisi, luckily you have a husband who is a military officer, a few dollars is nothing to him."

Lin Sisi was not interested in listening to her praise and remained depressed.

"Forget it, if I can't find it, I won't look for it anymore. Anyway, I can earn money again."

"That's right."

As the two walked back together, Lin Sisi kept glancing at the roadside, hoping that the jade pendant would magically reappear before her eyes.

However, the beautiful things always exist in imagination. In reality, she walked all the way, sighing in disappointment, and the jade pendant never appeared before her eyes.

She returned home anxiously, ate a quick dinner, and as soon as Gu Mingzhou came back, she pulled him aside: "Mingzhou, I went mushroom picking in the mountains today and accidentally lost the phoenix jade pendant Mom gave me. Mingzhou, that pendant is very valuable, and Mom wants me to return it to her later. I'm afraid there are wild boars in the mountains, so I'm afraid to go. Will you come with me to look for it?"

Gu Mingzhou was tired after a day of training, and his brows furrowed instantly upon hearing her words. "How could you be so careless?"

"I... I didn't want to lose the jade pendant either, but it's already happened, and there's nothing I can do about it."

"Lin Sisi, Lin Sisi, what can you do well? You stay at home all day doing nothing, and even when you're picking herbs, people look down on you. Now you've lost your jade pendant, and it's so dark, I have to go up the mountain with you to look for it."

Lin Sisi grumbled inwardly. When Gu Mingzhou went up the mountain to find Lin Qingyan, he was so energetic that even ten oxen couldn't stop him. Now, when she asked him to go up the mountain with her to find the jade pendant, he was so unwilling.

"Mingzhou, only you can help me now. Who else can I turn to? Those things belong to Mom. If we can't get them back, Mom will be unhappy."

"I'm just taking my anger out on you, it has nothing to do with me."

"But would you want to see Mom suffer?"

"Alright, alright! Stop going on and on." Gu Mingzhou waved his hand to interrupt her. "I can go with you to look for it. If we can't find it after one search, we'll come back immediately. I have training tomorrow, so I can't be too tired."

"I know, I know, let's go now."

She quickly grabbed a flashlight and went up the mountain with Gu Mingzhou.

They searched the mountain for over an hour but couldn't find the jade pendant, so Gu Mingzhou decided to go down the mountain.

"Let's go, it's not here at all."

Lin Sisi was unwilling to leave, but she couldn't disobey Gu Mingzhou. She couldn't find the jade pendant, which she could only attribute to the complex terrain of the mountain and the fact that it was nighttime, making it difficult to find.

But as they were preparing to descend the mountain, Lin Sisi suddenly noticed a thin, tubular object at her feet. When she picked it up, she discovered it was a very thin syringe.