Seeing Tang Chen looking down and out lately, with a much smaller appetite, A Yuan couldn't help but feel a bit worried. She was working with the kitchen staff to make a few new snacks for Tang Chen to try. Upon entering the room, she saw Tang Chen, heavily pregnant, searching for something. The two maids behind her followed her closely, fearing she might accidentally bump into something.
A Yuan hurriedly put the snacks away, walked over quickly, and said, "Madam, what are you doing?"
Tang Chen asked as he rummaged through the boxes and drawers, "Have you seen the clay figurines I put in a small box? Inside the box, I remember there were also a few hairpins and a mutton-fat jade bracelet."
A Yuan looked up and recalled for a moment. Surprisingly, she actually recalled the existence of the entire small box in her mind: "Oh, that one! I know, I'll go get it right away."
After A Yuan had someone move a chair to the bookcase, she stepped on the chair and reached to the top of the bookcase, and found the treasure box that Tang Chen had accidentally remembered.
Tang Chen took a look and realized that it was no wonder she couldn't find it no matter how hard she looked and thought it was lost. It was so high up that no wonder she couldn't see it: "Wow, why is it placed so high?"
A Yuan explained, "I thought Madam might not need it recently, so I put it away. Why did Madam suddenly think of this clay figurine today?"
After Tang Chen took the small wooden box from A Yuan, he happily walked to the bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed, ready to share his collection with A Yuan. "This little box contains a small gift from Li Xinzhai. Before I got married, he joked that he would leave it to my children as a family heirloom. I never thought that in the blink of an eye, I would actually become a mother."
When A Yuan heard that it was from that person, she suddenly became curious. She had heard that Wang Yanzhou was jealous of him before, and she was also curious about what kind of fun treasures a man like Li Xinzhai would give to a girl: "Madam, madam, why not open it and take a look!"
After Tang Chen opened the small box filled with things, A Yuan took out the clay figurine out of curiosity. It looked quite unique, something that had never appeared before in the world, and no one knew who made it. But when he looked closely, he saw so many cracks on it. Was it because the clay had dried out after being stored for too long?
"Oh, ma'am, look, this clay figure is broken."
Tang Chen took the clay figurine and examined it carefully. Da Vinci's tortoise shell was riddled with cracks, as if it would break in two with the slightest movement. "Maybe it's too dry. It's okay. I'll ask him to buy a few more some other day. You don't know, this guy has been around a lot. Even though he's a grown man, he has a discerning eye for these little things."
As she spoke, Tang Chen carefully put the clay figurine down and picked up the hairpin. She was about to ask A Yuan to try it on her, but when she fiddled with it, she realized it was broken. The candle wax and the hairpin had completely separated. They had promised that this ancient craftsmanship was superb. This thing deserves a decisive negative review.
Tang Chen looked at the hairpin that was broken into two pieces and said with some distress: "...Oh my god, it's such poor quality. It shouldn't be broken like this!"
"Let me take a look," A Yuan said after studying the broken part of the hairpin. "It's okay, it can be connected. I'll find someone to fix it later."
"As long as it can be repaired, I'll have someone take a look and put it back in a while."
After carefully wrapping the hairpin and putting it away, A Yuan continued to examine Tang Chen's small wooden box. There were quite a few strange and bizarre things inside, with shells and pearls covering the bottom of the box. However, the most eye-catching thing was the jade bracelet in the box that looked very expensive. "Madam, this bracelet is really beautiful!"
Tang Chen nodded in agreement and said, "Yeah, I think so too. It's just that my hands are too rough now. I can wear it after I give birth to a baby. Although I liked it before, I was afraid that your grandfather would get jealous after wearing it, so I didn't dare to wear it. Now it's different. We are tied together for life, so I'm not afraid of him getting jealous."
A few days later, A Yuan brought the repaired hairpin back to Tang Chen: "Madam, the hairpin is repaired. I also found a clay figurine maker and made a few more in the same style as the previous ones. Take a look."
Tang Chen took the hairpin that looked almost useless and the Ninja Turtles that looked like they were made of. He couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow, that's amazing! Although you can still see a few traces if you look closely, the repairmanship is really impressive!"
As soon as A Yuan got the things back, Uncle Wang came running over in a hurry and without any image: "Madam, they are back, back!"
Although Uncle Wang didn't directly say who it was, Tang Chen already understood what he meant. He didn't even have time to put down the things in his hands before he was ready to go out: "Ah, that's great! Let's go and pick it up!"
Tang Chen was about to leave the house when Wang Bo, for some unknown reason, suddenly used a flash to stop her: "Madam!"
"What's wrong?" Uncle Wang's abnormal behavior and the subtle expression on his face made Tang Chen's soul, which was still in the human world, fall to the ground.
Tang Chen's expression changed, and he asked with wide eyes, "Uncle Wang, tell me honestly, is this mission not going well? Is there something wrong with someone?"
Uncle Wang shook his head and sighed before saying, "Madam, the mission went smoothly. It's just that you, you need to be mentally prepared."
The hairpin that had just been repaired, at this moment, broke again in Tang Chen's hand without any warning. Tang Chen looked at the hairpin that was broken into two pieces in his hand, as if he had a premonition: "No, it's not him; tell me, it's not him, right?"
Uncle Wang nodded slightly, and after a while, he said only one sentence: "Madam, I am sorry for your loss..."
"No, impossible, impossible!" As he spoke, Tang Chen threw the hairpin that was broken into two pieces in his hand, along with the clay figures that A Yuan had made, to the ground, and made a gesture to rush out: "All of you get out of my way, get out of my way!"
Seeing that Tang Chen was furious, everyone did not dare to stop her and had to let her go to the front hall. Tang Chen looked at the solemn faces of the people and counted the number of people one by one. However, no matter how hard she looked, the person was not there.
She was about to go up to Mo Yu and ask him about it, but when she looked down, she saw the square black cloth package in his hand. Tang Chen's eyes widened, and he couldn't catch his breath. Tears filled his eyes, but he couldn't let them out. As expected, he fainted.
"Madam, madam!"
The shouts of the crowd kept lingering in Tang Chen's ears and mind. She kept trying to distinguish the familiar voice from it, but for some reason, the more anxious she became, the harder it was to find it. The harder she couldn't find it, the more painful her heart became.
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