Chapter 30: Is the human she broke her vow to sleep with He Cong?
That day, after Shang Youqing sent Shang You to kindergarten, she did not go back to Mingling Zoo directly as usual. Instead, she rode her electric scooter and turned through the bustling city center to an abandoned building area with relatively few people.
Just as he stopped the electric scooter, a blurry black dot appeared above the clouds, getting closer and closer. Soon, accompanied by a low cry of a bird of prey, a brown-black falcon spread its huge wings and flew down with a clear target, but finally hovered steadily in front of Shang Youqing.
As the claws loosened, several pieces of spare parts that looked like scrap metal fell down and were picked up by Shang Youqing.
Shang Youqing lowered her eyes slightly and looked over the parts in her hand. She heard the low-frequency and subtle cry of the falcon that was soaring and screaming in the sky just a second ago, which seemed to be urging her.
Shang Youqing raised her hand, and the falcon eagerly tilted its fierce head and landed in her palm. Shang Youqing stroked its head and said, "Thank you for your hard work. If you need to change your habitat next year, come find me and I'll help you choose a blessed place."
The falcon flapped its wings, and only when Shang Youqing had rubbed its head feathers until they felt comfortable did it finally decide to fly away.
After watching the falcon fly away, Shang Youqing reopened his palm and carefully screened and sniffed each component. Finally, he found something unusual on the back of a buffer.
Shang Youqing immediately took out the circular ring that he had put in his pocket and compared it. Sure enough, it was made of the same material as the gun buffer component.
Moreover, she found a string of numbers engraved on the bottom of the buffer. She picked up her phone and went to the dark web to check. Wow, she even found an acquaintance.
The number comes from the Asian arms dealer family 'Mu Jiuhan' in North America. Isn't this the "senior brother" who was expelled from the sect by her master and never allowed to return to Wutong Mountain because he violated the nine taboos of the sect when she was still practicing with her master in Wutong Mountain?
She was still a little phoenix at that time, and she didn't know the details of how Mu Jiuhan betrayed his teacher and destroyed his ancestors.
Later, I heard a few words from my fellow disciples, and I only knew that Mu Jiuhan later went abroad. As early as when she came down the mountain, she was already a famous warlord family leader in North America.
But that's not the point.
The point is, what is the connection between Mu Jiuhan and the human she is looking for who she has slept with?
Shang Youqing suddenly thought that since this extremely scarce spare parts material would appear in the country, it meant that Mu Jiuhan must have secretly traded with the domestic market for supply.
Fortunately, Shang Youqing's account did have the permission to query this information. She immediately looked through the relevant order records under Mu Jiuhan's name three years ago, and soon found a familiar name on an order information -
Ji Huaizhuo.
Shang Youqing stared at the name on the screen, then gently turned the white ring between his fingers. Looking at the bright letters "JHZ" on the white ring, the corners of his lips suddenly twitched, and he couldn't help laughing out loud.
Such an obvious direction...
It seems that there really is someone behind the scenes who is treating her like a fool and making fun of her.
Shang Youqing switched the screen of his phone to the address book page. His white fingertips paused slightly on Mu Weiting's name, and finally slid to Lu Jingchi's name and dialed it.
"Junior brother, I remember you broke a bracelet last year?"
Lu Jingchi, who was on the other end of the phone, was confused. "Ah, yes, Senior Sister, that bracelet was given to me by Master. I couldn't bear to part with it, so I spent a lot of money to find a famous restorer to restore it. What's wrong, Senior Sister?"
Shang Youqing rubbed the old marks on the inside of the plain ring with his fingertips, which had been erased and could no longer be seen. He said, "Send me the address of the restorer."
After she finished speaking, she began to plan her arrangements for the park in her mind, thinking that if the address was too far away, she would have to arrange everything that needed to be arranged and see if she could go directly there in a couple of days.
But Lu Jingchi said, "What a coincidence, Senior Sister, the restorer happens to be in Ning City, and it seems not far from your place. It's just that his shop is a little hard to find. The road is winding and the car can't drive in..."
Shang Youqing glanced at the small battery beside him, "Where's the battery car?"
“Battery cars are OK!”
"Okay, then send me the address now." After a pause, Shang Youqing added softly, "Jingchi, don't tell anyone about this for now. I'll find a chance to tell you in detail later."
Lu Jingchi was stunned for a moment. He realized that his senior sister wanted him to keep it a secret. He always listened to his senior sister. He immediately assured her again and again, "Don't worry, senior sister. I will definitely keep it a secret!"
Not long after she hung up the phone, Shang Youqing received the address sent to her by Lu Jingchi. She used the navigation and found that the place was indeed remote and there were not many shops around.
Before noon, Shang Youqing finally found the small shop without even a sign, which was behind a lush bamboo forest where few people visited.
A crooked price list of repair items was hung outside the door curtain of the hut. From rare cultural relics to... pressure cooker lids, everything could be repaired as long as the money was in place.
Shang Youqing stood outside the door curtain, dumbfounded, until a ginger cat with its tail cocked rubbed against her feet affectionately and called out to her in a coquettish voice: "Meow, meow~"
【People, come in. 】
Shang Youqing then walked in.
The room was crowded with several rows of shelves, piled with all kinds of messy items, leaving almost no place to step.
Shang Youqing reluctantly followed the orange cat leading the way through the rows of shelves, and next to the machine for cutting jade, he saw the restorer described by Lu Jingchi.
A woman wearing a blue and purple patterned skirt and black gloves.
The restorer was concentrating on carving something when she heard the orange cat meow a few times. She finally stopped what she was doing, looked up at Shang Youqing who was standing in front of her and greeting her, and said, "Let me see what you want to restore."
Shang Youqing didn't ask any more questions. She simply handed over the plain ring and stated her request: "The characters on the inside of the ring are newly engraved. I want to know if the old characters covered by these new characters can be restored."
The restorer took it, examined the ring, and flatly refused, "It can't be repaired. It's been maliciously erased and nothing is left."
Shang Youqing paused for a moment, then placed the prepared piece of phoenix jade on the table next to him, still speaking in a light tone, "Take another look at it."
As expected, the restorer was captivated by the jadeite that shone with a faint golden glow. She even took off her gloves, carefully picked it up, and examined it for a long time. When she looked at Shang Youqing intently, her eyes were filled with a hint of involuntary respect. "This jade... must be quite old."
Shang Youqing didn't say anything, but just repeated her previous question, "Can the ring be repaired?"
The restorer smiled and retracted his gaze. When he picked up the ring again, his expression had changed. "Let me try."
The restorer didn't say how long it would take, so Shang Youqing stood quietly under the porch waiting, occasionally touching the little orange cat who came to rub against her from time to time.
About two and a half hours later, the restorer inside called her, "Ms. Shang, come over and take a look."
Shang Youqing responded, walked in, and took the plain ring from the restorer.
"I tried my best, but this is the best I can do. Although the engraved lines don't connect completely, the two characters look quite similar—"
"H, C," Shang Youqing murmured as he stroked the restored blurred traces of the lines.
The restorer was stunned for a moment before nodding, "Yes, I guessed those two abbreviations as well."
"Thanks."
Shang Youqing thanked the restorer and her expression was still calm when she left, with no sign of any change. Until she had ridden the electric scooter for a while, she suddenly felt her fingers trembling a little, and stopped by the side of the road again.
Then, he took out the plain ring again, looked down at the two blurred characters that had been restored on the ring, and was in a daze for a long time.
H, C...
Is it He Cong?
She didn't know why, but after seeing these two characters clearly in the restorer's shop, the words "He Cong" popped up in her mind instinctively and subconsciously.
Are there really so many coincidences in this world?
It just so happened that He Cong had a wife who had passed away three years ago, and his deceased wife's figure and temperament were very similar to hers.
As if possessed by magic, she put the ring on the ring finger of her left hand.
The ring seemed to be tailor-made for her, fitting perfectly into her ring finger.
So...the human she broke her vow and slept with back then was He Cong?
Then where did He Zhimo’s child come from?
She had seen He Zhimo so many times, but she had never smelled the blood of the phoenix on He Zhimo. Was this the child born by He Cong and another woman?
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