“My lord, this old servant has finally found the woman that Master Huiming spoke of. Your fortunes will surely turn around from now on.”
The man frowned slightly, his eyelashes trembled gently, and his tightly pursed lips seemed to want to speak.
Seeing this, Granny Cui said to herself with a happy expression, "Thank God, the master is finally responding. Miss Su is indeed the master's lucky star. She has already taken effect before she even got married."
Without waiting for the man on the bed to open his eyes, she ran out to prepare for the wedding the next day.
Not long after she left, the man on the bed suddenly opened his eyes.
A pair of sharp black eyes, carrying a hint of coldness, were like ice shards on a snowy peak, sending chills down one's spine.
"It's like grasping at straws when you're desperate. How can a matching birth date and time cure an illness?" he muttered to himself.
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Su Wan did not return to the woodshed, but went back to her original room.
This was her insistence, and considering that she was getting married the next day and fearing she might cause trouble again, Madam Yang agreed. However, for safety reasons, Madam Yang still arranged for servants to stand guard outside.
The servants in the room had long since been sold off by Madam Yang. She glanced around the room; the furnishings were all typical of a young girl's boudoir—simple and clean, with an exquisitely carved canopy bed, brocade quilts and embroidered blankets, and small sachets hanging from the curtain hooks, emitting a faint fragrance.
There were many unidentified flowers on the windowsill.
One of the flowerpots had a particularly eye-catching flower, blooming like a large, round plate with golden petals and a greenish tinge in its yellowish-brown stamen. It was already filled with plump black melon seeds.
She walked over, bent down, and examined it carefully for a moment before confirming that it really was a pot of sunflowers.
Suiyang County is located on the border of the Great Jin Dynasty, and merchants travel between the two sides every day. But in her memory, it seems that not many people in the area grow these things. The original owner obtained these things by chance, and she never expected that they would grow into sunflowers.
This thing is a rare commodity in the Great Jin Dynasty nowadays.
She carefully broke off a melon seed, then used her hands to remove the seeds inside, wrapped them in a cloth, and put them in a box.
Once things are more stable, I'll plant some sunflowers in the yard. They'll be both beautiful and practical.
Just as she was about to break off the flowers from another sunflower, she suddenly noticed that the windowsill where the flowerpot was placed was a bit loose.
She looked at it carefully for a moment, then gently tapped the windowsill around the flowerpot a few times. The bricks made a dull thud, but there was one spot where the sound was hollow.
She found a knife and started tapping it back and forth, making a clanging sound that was especially loud in the quiet night.
Hearing the commotion inside, the servants guarding outside quietly asked the person next to them.
"Is Miss trying to break through the wall to escape?"
Another said, "No, the young master is still in the second madam's hands. Miss loves the young master the most, he won't run away."
"Should we go in and take a look?"
"Let's just forget about it. As long as she doesn't run away, why should we care about her? Anyway, she'll be getting married as soon as it's light."
While listening to the sounds outside, Su Wan gently removed the bricks from the windowsill, revealing a small empty space underneath, inside which lay a delicate sandalwood box.
The box appears to have been there for years, yet it shows no signs of fading.
She carefully took it out, wiped off the dust, and then sat on the edge of the bed, holding it as she opened it.
Inside was a crystal-clear Hetian jade pendant. She picked it up and held it in her hand, feeling its cool touch and smooth, delicate texture. It was indeed a top-quality jade.
The jade pendant is carved with a lifelike image of a magical herb, which emits a faint glow under the moonlight.
Only then did she remember that this was the thing the original owner's mother had asked her to carefully hide. As for what the jade pendant represented, the original owner had no idea.
If she hadn't been picking sunflower seeds from the sunflower tonight, she would have almost forgotten about something so important.
She rummaged through the box again and found a stack of silver notes, five of which were one hundred taels each.
She put the banknotes into her clothes, then put the box back in its place, and picked up the bricks to lay them down again.
Lying back in bed, Su Wan took out the jade pendant and examined it against the moonlight. After looking at it for a long time, she couldn't see anything special about it, so she strung it on a red string and hung it around her neck before drifting off to sleep.
She seemed to drift away and arrive at the place where she lived in her previous life.
It was a one-bedroom apartment, and a large chain pharmacy was located below it.
Pharmacies sell a wide variety of products, including not only traditional Chinese medicine, chemical drugs, antibiotics, and health products, but also medical equipment, daily cosmetics, and more.
Too lazy to touch those things, her consciousness drifted back to her apartment. Looking at the room piled high with unopened snacks, she was starving and instinctively reached out to grab some.
Unexpectedly... he actually picked it up!
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