The boss suddenly interrupted Ji Zhinan, causing her hand to tremble and some mineral water to spill out. Ji Zhinan quickly put the mineral water bottle on the table.
"Oh dear, Miss, why are you spacing out?"
The owner put the sandwich aside and then handed her a few napkins.
"Quickly wipe the water off your hands."
"Thank you." Ji Zhinan took the tissue.
The boss's gaze fell on the photo on the table. Upon seeing the familiar background, his expression changed.
"It's them?!"
Ji Zhinan was somewhat bewildered by his boss's sudden excitement.
The boss picked up the photo and became so excited that he was incoherent, even starting to gesticulate wildly.
"It's them, it's them!"
"..."
"They're the young couple I was talking about!"
"..." Ji Zhinan was initially puzzled, but when she heard this sentence, she was stunned.
The boss stared at the photo, as if recalling the past, and he couldn't stop smiling.
"Yes, it's this couple. They're the most well-matched couple I've ever seen in all these years. The guy is handsome, and the girl is beautiful. They're a perfect match!"
Ji Zhinan suddenly grabbed the boss's hand: "What else do you know about them!"
The boss was startled by Ji Zhinan's sudden excitement. He swallowed hard, not daring to hide anything, and spoke.
"Actually, I don't know anything else. My family lives nearby, and I used to run a small shop here, so I often saw them come here. They were dressed very well back then, and they always had a butler with them. They must have been young masters and ladies from wealthy families..."
The boss stared at Ji Zhinan's face, finding it strangely familiar, as if the faces of that young couple from twenty years ago had merged into hers.
A bold idea popped into his head, and the boss stared wide-eyed incredulously, asking, "You wouldn't happen to be that couple's child, would you?!"
"..." Ji Zhinan did not deny it.
She took the photo back from the boss; thankfully, it hadn't gotten wet.
Photos from over twenty years ago are nowhere near as good as those today; a little water or a crease can ruin them.
I carefully clipped the photo into my bag.
The boss kept carefully observing Ji Zhinan's face; it seemed so familiar.
“Yes, it’s so similar.” He kept nodding: “The nose is like my father’s, and the eyes and mouth are like my mother’s. I remember that the boys back then also had well-defined features. Although they had an Eastern face, their faces looked more three-dimensional than those of other Easterners.”
Ji Zhinan looked at the shop owner: "Do you know them?"
The shop owner smiled somewhat embarrassedly: "How could a small shop owner like me possibly know those rich young masters and ladies? As I just mentioned, I had a shop here more than 20 years ago, and I met them a few times back then. I even took this photo!"
It was because he took the photo, and because it was the first time he had ever seen a young master and lady from a wealthy family, and the first time he had ever met such a good-looking young couple, that the boss remembered it so well. Even after more than 20 years, his impression of it remained vivid.
"..."
Hearing the boss's words, Ji Zhinan's doubts were resolved.
The photo shows not only her parents but also her grandfather, proving that someone else took the picture.
Ji Zhinan originally wanted to use this to find the person who took the photos of her parents back then, but she didn't expect that the person she was looking for would be the small shop owner in front of her.
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