"I picked it up when I was a kid, playing by the river with my cousin Yang Chunfang. When my cousin moved to Kyoto with her family, I asked a craftsman to carve our names and the large pear tree behind our house on it, hoping that my cousin would come back to visit me.
"But my cousin left for many years and never came back, and I... I also ended up living in the north because of family misfortunes.
Now that I see you wearing the round pendant, I want to ask you, where did it come from? Are you...are you my cousin's son?"
When Master Huang heard this, his expression changed, and in the end, only sadness remained, which made everyone feel a little uneasy.
Sure enough, he took a deep breath and said, "Can you let me see your round pendant?"
Yang Lihua handed over the round pendant without hesitation.
Mr. Huang compared them carefully and found that they were indeed identical. Moreover, the round pendant was obviously quite old and had been played with by others until it became very smooth. It was definitely not a forgery in a short period of time.
He tried hard to suppress his nasal tears and said, "Yes, my mother's name is indeed Yang Chunfang, and her ancestral home is from Yinan County, Shunde Prefecture. She married my father as a concubine twenty years ago. After giving birth to me, she became sickly and passed away when I was five years old.
"This round pendant is the only thing my mother left me. I remember when I was a child, my mother said that this round pendant was given by her sister. It's not jade and is not valuable, but she always carries it with her..."
Yang Lihua was extremely disappointed. When she recalled her childhood memories with her cousin, tears started to flow.
"Impossible! How could such a good person like my cousin become a concubine? She was so young. What disease did she have that made her die?"
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