Just then, a rustling sound came from a nearby bush, which immediately reminded Lin Sisi of the time she encountered a wild boar on the mountain.
I couldn't help but feel scared, and I began to regret not having learned from my previous experience and that I shouldn't have come to the mountain at all.
“Xin, Xinning, listen to that sound, could it be a wild boar? I encountered a wild boar when I came to the mountain to pick mushrooms with other people last time, and we heard this kind of sound then.”
Xu Xinning was trying to move to another place quickly while Lin Sisi wasn't checking the jade pendant around her neck, and she was also very afraid of wild boars.
"Then we need to get as far away as possible."
"But I don't even have the strength to stand up right now," Lin Sisi said weakly.
"No, you have to run even if you don't have the strength. If you can't, I'll try to see if I can pull you."
She "struggled" to stand up, then pulled Lin Sisi up as well, and tried to run in the opposite direction from the wild boar.
After they had run for a while, no wild boars came after them, and even the rustling sounds disappeared.
They were now about 200 meters away from where they had just fallen. The mountain path was rugged, and the actual distance was even greater.
Not seeing any wild boars chasing them, Lin Sisi wanted to rest, but Xu Xinning said, "Sisi, it's too dangerous here. What if a wild boar really comes after us? I think we should hurry down the mountain."
"Okay, okay. Let's go down the mountain." Lin Sisi readily agreed to the suggestion. She even forgot about the mushrooms and hurriedly went down the mountain with Xu Xinning back to the military region.
When they arrived at the entrance of the family compound, Lin Sisi had fully recovered. Xu Xinning said goodbye to her, "I'm too tired today. I want to go back to my dormitory to rest. You should go home and get some rest too."
"Okay, we'll talk again when we have time."
"Um."
Xu Xinning turned and left, and Lin Sisi also walked towards her home. She took out her key from her pocket, opened the door, and returned home. Suddenly, she remembered something, raised her hand to touch her neck, and found that her neck was smooth and there was nothing there.
Jade pendant?
Where is her jade pendant?
She panicked instantly.
The jade pendant was lost; she actually lost the jade pendant again.
But when was it lost?
She felt it was most likely lost on the mountain. She first recalled the terrifying moment when she rolled down the mountainside, and then the time she spent running away from wild boars. Compared to other periods, her activity was more intense during that time, which likely led to the loss of the jade pendant.
She looked incredulous and instinctively rummaged through her pockets, but it was just a pointless, self-deceptive search; she couldn't find anything.
She recalled the time she lost her jade pendant in Mopan Village, because it was in her pocket. This time, she was wearing it around her neck, yet it still got lost.
Furthermore, she tied the jade pendant's string very securely, but it still disappeared.
This jade pendant was given to her by her mother-in-law, who wants to take it back later. However, the jade pendant has disappeared and her mother-in-law has found it. How should she explain this to her mother-in-law?
She instinctively wanted to go back up the mountain to find the jade pendant, but fearing the wild boars on the mountain, she dared not go back and could only search along the path she had passed at the foot of the mountain.
Frustrated and lost, she went out to look for the jade pendant, while Xu Xinning, in the hospital staff dormitory, was in an extremely happy mood.
After she returned, she changed out of the clothes she had gotten dirty on the mountain, wiped herself down, and was now lying on the bed, holding the jade pendant she had snatched from Lin Sisi. She was admiring it carefully, stroking its smooth and delicate surface with her fingers, and liking it more and more as she looked at it.
However, she liked not only the surface of the jade pendant, but also the significance of its existence.
"What belongs to Dong Lianxin also belongs to Lin Qingyan, and now it belongs to me."
She hadn't called Dong Wenhua since discovering two days ago that Lin Qingyan was actually the Dong family's granddaughter. Now she couldn't wait to tell Dong Wenhua the news and that she had already snatched the jade pendant.
She couldn't easily carry the jade pendant with her, and she didn't want outsiders to see it, especially fearing that Dong Yue would see it and question its origin. So she put the jade pendant in her suitcase.
Instead of going to the hospital's reception area, she went to the military region's supply and marketing cooperative to call Dong Wenhua.
These days, Dong Wenhua has been eagerly awaiting Xu Xinning's call to report on Lin Sisi's situation, so she spends every spare moment by the phone, answering it as soon as it rings.
"Hello."
"Mom, it's me, Xiaoning."
"Xiao Ning, is there any news again? Don't worry, they've all gone out, and I'm home alone."
Xu Xinning: "Mom, there's news again, but there's good news and bad news."
“Tell us one by one, start with the bad news.”
"Mom, I was wrong from the start. Lin Sisi is not Grandpa's biological granddaughter, and her mother is still alive. Her name is Fang Huilan. A few days ago, Fang Huilan went to the military region to see Lin Sisi. I found that Fang Huilan and Dong Lianxin don't look alike at all, but the mother and daughter look very alike. So they are not Dong Lianxin and Dong Lianxin's daughter at all."
I asked Lin Sisi about the origin of the jade pendant, and she said that it was passed down from her maternal grandmother to her mother, and then her mother gave it to her.
Later, I discovered that Fang Huilan had remarried into the Lin family with Lin Sisi in tow. She also had a daughter in the neighborhood named Lin Qingyan, who was the girl the old woman had been longing for.
"Mom, do you know why the old woman's ghost liked her so much and kept thinking about her? It's because she's the old woman's own granddaughter."
Xu Xinning's tone became noticeably agitated when she spoke the last part.
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