Chapter 227 Delivery of the Jade Seal

Just before entering the ward, Jiang Wanning and her second brother had already prepared many words to comfort the old man in their minds.

However, they didn't expect that when they entered the ward, the scene they saw still made them stunned for a moment.

Chen Canghui woke up earlier than they expected.

Also standing beside her bed was Chen Haishu, who had just received the news and rushed over.

At this time, the stubborn old fox who always deceived Jiang Wanning and his group stood silently in front of the bed.

As if shrouded in immense sorrow, the old man's originally straight back became unnaturally hunched at that moment.

If you look closely, you will find that his hands are hanging at his sides, and his fingertips are trembling violently.

It seemed as if he looked dozens of years older in an instant. At this moment, Chen Haishu probably wanted to lie on this hospital bed instead of Chen Canghui.

He would rather suffer and lose his worthless life than see his lover suffer.

On the contrary, after the old man Chen Canghui woke up again, his mentality seemed to be much better than Chen Haishu's.

Seeing her lover silent, she even wanted to reach out to comfort him. When she was about to move, she realized that her hands could not move at the moment, and she sighed helplessly.

"Okay...what's the point of just standing there?"

"Isn't it okay for me?"

She didn't need anyone's comfort, as she seemed to have come to terms with everything she had gone through.

Instead, he exuded the optimism of someone who had survived a catastrophe: "Haishu, I've thought about it. This isn't a bad thing."

"My hands can no longer carve jade. From now on, I will just be an ordinary person and won't be targeted by those people anymore."

"You're a grown-up young master, and you've been hiding with me all these years. You've actually suffered a lot... After I'm discharged from the hospital, we'll rent a small courtyard by the sea and live in complete seclusion."

"When I have nothing to do, I can grow vegetables and flowers... Oh, and get that dog you've always wanted to get. Then we can live like an ordinary old married couple. How nice is that?"

Perhaps because Chen Canghui had just woken up from a coma, her tone of voice was slow.

Yet, it makes one feel inexplicably comfortable, and one is unconsciously drawn into the pastoral life that she enjoys.

"Cang Hui..."

At this moment, Chen Haishu finally collapsed as if he could no longer control himself.

His whole old and hunched body began to tremble uncontrollably, and in the end he choked with sobs silently.

"I'm sorry... If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have suffered like this...!"

The old man who had stood straight all his life was now like a child in front of his lover and could no longer straighten his back.

Chen Canghui continued to soothe the other person's emotions in a gentle voice. At the same time, she also noticed Jiang Wanning and Jiang Qingyan who were standing in front of the ward door, and expressed her gratitude with her eyes.

Jiang Wanning silently pulled her second brother over and walked out of the ward.

It seems that the two old people have their own way of reconciliation. They just need to leave each other some space to be alone.

Unexpectedly, this problem, which originally seemed a bit tricky for Jiang Wanning and Jiang Qingyan, was solved so easily.

The two of them retreated outside the ward and waited for a while before they saw Chen Haishu push the door and come out again.

"Cang Hui just took medicine and now she's asleep again."

Chen Haishu's eyes turned red as he glanced at the two of them and said, "Come with me."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Wanning and Jiang Qingyan looked at each other. Seeing that the latter had no objection, they followed.

The few of them found a secluded corner of the hospital. Chen Haishu glanced around and made sure that no one noticed them before he took out a seal he had prepared long ago from his arms.

"No matter what the process was, you all helped me find Cang Hui. This is what I promised to give you before."

Jiang Wanning took the seal handed to her by Chen Haishu and held it in her palm, examining it carefully for a moment.

She saw that it was a jade seal made entirely of polished jade, less than half the size of her palm, but it was engraved with extremely exquisite and intricate patterns.

If Jiang Wanning hadn't known its use in advance, she would probably have just regarded it as an exquisite work of art.

Looking down along the seal, the content engraved at the bottom of the seal made Jiang Wanning's pupils shrink slightly for a moment.

It turned out that what was engraved on the bottom of the seal was not Chen Haishu's name, but a lifelike and somewhat strange tree-like figure.

It was exactly the same as the tattoos on the black-clad men that Jiang Wanning and the others had accidentally seen before! Yet, there seemed to be some subtle differences.

At this moment, Chen Haishu changed the subject and looked at Jiang Wanning inexplicably.

"You youngsters, you must have dug up a lot of my past these days, right?"

"With that kid from the Xie family here, I'm afraid you've already guessed my identity, right?"

Seeing Jiang Wanning's awkward smile, the old man immediately blew his beard and glared: "I knew it, that boy is the most unreliable guy!"

However, after he finished speaking, the old man seemed to recall some past events. After pausing for a moment, he slowly told the story again to the two of them.

"Since he guessed it, I'm afraid it's pretty close. I, an old man, have nothing to hide anymore."

"Wan Ning girl, I want to apologize first. The story I told you about Cang Hui and I at the Jiang family villa last time was actually all made up by me."

Even though she had known for a long time that she had been deceived, Jiang Wanning still felt inexplicably angry when she heard Chen Haishu say it with her own ears.

Perhaps Chen Haishu is the only person Jiang Wanning knows who can lie so confidently.

Thinking of something else, Chen Haishu sneered inexplicably: "Even the names of Cang Hui and I are fake."

"Of course, there's nothing much to talk about between us two old guys about those trivial things."

As he spoke, Chen Haishu reached out and tapped the jade seal in Jiang Wanning's palm: "Wanning girl, you saw the pattern on this jade seal just now. It feels familiar, right?"

"Um."

While Jiang Wanning nodded, she also asked others about the doubts in her heart.

"It looks very familiar, but it seems a little different from the ones I've seen before."

“It’s right to be different.”

A dark light flashed in Chen Haishu's old eyes: "In our Chen family, there are nearly twenty such seals."

"Twenty?!"

Even though she was mentally prepared, Jiang Wanning was still uncontrollably shocked when she heard the number from Chen Haishu.

Seeing this, the old woman looked disdainful, as if she had never seen the world before: "Only twenty coins. Do you know how many years the Chen family has been around since the end of the Yuan Dynasty?"