Chapter 185 The red cotton quilt was embroidered by Aunt Mei.

Just as Yu Yan was about to ask more questions, the phone rang.

Shao Mushi called and initiated a video call, which Shao Muyan answered.

As soon as the camera switched on, there were quite a few people on Shao Mushi's side. Yu Yan was just about to greet her second brother and sister-in-law when she suddenly saw the two people standing next to Lin Miao and was clearly taken aback.

Shao Muyan was also surprised that his second brother could bring the red quilt directly to Nan Song and the others, and the veins on his forehead throbbed.

Second brother, oh second brother... why do you always seem to want to stir up trouble?

This was the first time Yu Yan had met Nan Song and Yu Jinwen in person. Although she had seen them countless times in the news before and their names were very familiar to her, seeing them like this through a phone camera still felt a little unreal.

Since they're all friends, we should introduce them.

"Nan Song of the Nan Group, and President Yu of the Yu Group."

Shao Muyan's introductions were very formal at first, but when he introduced Yu Yan, he changed his tone: "Gentlemen, this is my girlfriend, Yu Yan."

This was the first time Shao Muyan formally introduced her as his "girlfriend" in front of his friends.

Not to mention Nan Song and Yu Jinwen, even Yu Yan herself was momentarily stunned.

"Hello Professor Yu, I've heard so much about you."

Nan Song waved to Yu Yan immediately, and Yu Jinwen also smiled politely at the camera, but was quickly pushed aside by Nan Song.

When faced with a beautiful woman, Nan Song always takes a positive stance.

Nan Song leaned close to the camera, and his beautiful, cold eyes made Yu Yan's heart tremble. She suddenly remembered a photo that had gone viral online before.

It seems like it was right after Nan Song's divorce. She returned to the Nan Group and turned the tide, her beautiful and cool demeanor moving countless people.

When Yu Yan made up her mind to get a divorce, it was because she saw that photo that she gained tremendous strength and support.

She felt that's how women should live.

Divorce is simply the beginning of another chapter in life.

Yu Yan didn't know why President Nan and President Yu remarried later.

She left for three years, changing her own life's script, and it seems that others' scripts have changed as well.

Yu Yan greeted Nan Song and Yu Jinwen one by one. She was not good at talking, but she always behaved gracefully in such social situations.

Shao Muyan, unusually impatient, appeared somewhat agitated and had no time to chat with his old friend. He went straight to Shao Mushi and asked, "Second Brother, did you get what I asked you to get?"

"Got it."

Shao Mushi was quite confident: "You can rest assured that I can handle things."

As he spoke, he turned the camera around and pointed it at a red quilt on the small bed. The camera panned to a pretty woman wearing a white gauze Hanfu, who was busy packing a first-aid kit.

The first-aid kit is the same model as the one previously carried by Mesuri and Su Rui, both of which have a delicate "Su" character printed on them.

When Yu Yan heard the pretty girl call her "Auntie" and Lin Miao call her "Su Yin", she realized that she was Su Rui's daughter.

I saw them all today.

"Is this the little blanket?"

Shao Mushi focused the camera on the embroidery on the red quilt, and his voice came from beside him: "Xiao Song asked me to bring the quilt over. She said the embroidery on this quilt is very different."

Upon hearing this, it seemed as if fate had struck a chord in Shao Muyan's mind once again.

"How are they different? Where are they different?"

He knew that Nan Song possessed extraordinary skills and knew many things that others did not, so perhaps he could really see something.

The camera shakiened again, cutting to Nan Song's face.

Nan Song was very dissatisfied with Shao Mushi's erratic camera movements, so she simply took the phone into her hand.

"Third Master, I can tell you're anxious, so I won't waste any more words. A few days ago, Ah Jin and I went to Meisuli and heard Brother Rui tell a story about a genius boy. On our way down the mountain, we ran into Old Master Yu and the old lady, so we went in for a while. Suddenly, it dawned on us that the genius boy Brother Rui was talking about was Shao Yun, the child Shao Min adopted."

Upon hearing Su Rui mention Shao Yun, both Shao Muyan and Yu Yanxin jumped, suddenly realizing something.

Shao Muyan, in particular, tensed up completely.

"Rui-ge has a big flaw: he doesn't say what he should say, and he doesn't say what he shouldn't say either!"

Nan Song was also very frustrated. They were listening to the story on the mountain when it suddenly stopped. Su Rui slowly took a sip of tea, said "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed", and refused to say anything more.

Nan Song was so angry that he almost threw the tea in his cup in his face.

Heavenly secrets my foot!

Yu Jinwen chuckled to himself in a corner where no one could see him.

Shao Muyan and Yu Yan wholeheartedly agreed with Nan Song's complaints and were eager to nod in agreement.

Right now, my heart is in my throat, wondering what Nan Song will say next.

Could it also be about Shao Yun's background?

Yu Yan thought to herself: Could it be that Nan Song already knows that Shao Yun is Uncle Yan's biological son? Could it be that... he has also met Yun Yun's biological mother?

Putting everything else aside, Yunyun's biological mother must be a beauty.

Great beauties are still a rare sight in real life.

"Don't think I'm meddling. If it were someone else's business, I really wouldn't bother. But we want to help the Shao family if we can."

Without saying another word, Nan Song focused the camera directly on the embroidery on the red quilt, and had Yu Jinwen hold the phone for her, explaining the needlework techniques to Yu Yan and Shao Muyan up close.

"This red cotton quilt looks ordinary, no different from the quilts used by ordinary people, but the embroidery is very exquisite. It is hand-embroidered, and the technique is obviously Suzhou embroidery."

Nan Song spoke methodically: "Suzhou embroidery is known for its exquisite and elegant style. The plum blossoms above are done with flat stitch, which is the basic stitch of Suzhou embroidery. The lines are evenly and neatly arranged, without showing the background or overlapping. The small flowers, leaves and branches here are also done with the wrapped stitch in Suzhou embroidery, also known as the wrapped stitch. And the gold thread, random stitch, and seed stitch here all remind me of someone."

Shao Muyan and Yu Yan listened carefully, and were just as surprised by Nan Song's familiarity with Suzhou embroidery, when they heard the last sentence, and their brows twitched again.

...Now I understand why Su Rui and Nan Song are siblings. They have the same storytelling style—they focus on making people's hearts race.

"Who is it?" Shao Muyan asked anxiously.

Yu Jinwen's hand was much steadyer than Shao Mushi's. The camera didn't shake at all when it was pointed at Nan Song, and it captured her absolutely beautifully.

Unlike Su Rui, Nan Song didn't try to be mysterious and simply said, "It looks like it was embroidered by Aunt Mei."

The word "Aunt Mei" startled Shao Muyan and Yu Yan.

They couldn't help but exchange a glance, their pupils shrinking in unison.

Nan Song noticed their reaction and raised an eyebrow: "So, you know each other?"

"I don't know him very well, I've only seen him before."

Shao Muyan's heart was in his throat. He gripped his scalding hot phone tightly and continued to ask Nan Song, "Do you know this Aunt Mei?"

"I'm not very familiar with it either."

Nan Song said, “I used to have an aunt in my family who was my embroidery teacher. She and Aunt Mei were from the same hometown. When Aunt Mei was working as a maid in Nancheng, she would often come to my aunt to learn from her in her spare time, hoping to master another skill so that she could support her husband and children.”

"The reason I was able to recognize it is because the goldwork technique is so similar. If this plum blossom wasn't embroidered by my aunt, or by me, then it could only have been embroidered by Aunt Mei."

Aunt Mei.

Shao Muyan and Yu Yan were both wondering if the Aunt Mei that Nan Song mentioned was the Aunt Mei they knew.

"However, I know her daughter."

Nan Song met the eyes of Shao Muyan and Yu Yan who looked up at the same time, and made a definitive statement: "Aunt Mei's daughter is named Mei Nan."