"parking."
Yun Lian started chattering as soon as she got in the car.
"Father, you've finally finished court."
"Lian'er isn't at home. Why did she go out without any maids or servants? What if she gets bumped into?"
Yun Lian held up the jade pendant in her hand, her expression solemn: "Father, I just want to return the jade pendant to you as soon as possible. I'm afraid I'll accidentally break it."
The prime minister chuckled at her nervous little gestures.
"Just wear the jade pendant on your waist, how could it get damaged? You silly girl."
He took the jade pendant, but Yun Lian suddenly looked downcast.
“I have never worn a jade pendant. I feel afraid of losing it if I hold it in my hand or hanging it on my waist.”
"Your jade pendant..."
The prime minister was about to speak when he abruptly stopped.
She wanted to ask her why she hadn't had any problems wearing the jade pendant for so long, but then she suddenly realized that they had never given her the jade pendant.
Yun Lian shook her head in disappointment: "Father, Lianlian doesn't have a jade pendant. Only my sister has one. It has the character 'Na' on it, and it's so pretty. It also has a beautiful ruby pendant."
The Grand Secretary remained silent.
Yun Lian slowly raised her head, her eyes filled with tears and fear.
“Father, my sister said that only true children of the Yun family can wear jade pendants. Am I not your biological daughter?”
Was Lianlian not born as expected?
The Grand Secretary was startled.
All the maids and servants she had met when she was taken in were sold off.
Apart from him, his wife, and his eldest daughter Yunna, no one else knew that she was the adopted second daughter.
Everyone thought she was an illegitimate daughter whose mother was unknown.
The prime minister suppressed his doubts, torn between whether or not he should let her know the secret of his origins.
"How could that be? The reason we didn't give you the jade pendant back then was because your birth mother gave you a jade pendant of better quality, and your name was on the bottom of that pendant."
Don't overthink it; no child is born without their parents' anticipation.
Yun Lian asked at the opportune moment.
"Father, but I haven't seen that jade pendant you mentioned. Do you remember where it is?"
The prime minister fell silent. He had hardly paid any attention to his second daughter, so how would he know where she had put all her trinkets?
"Lianlian can look around your old room. There's a little tiger doll and a rattle drum. Those are things you really liked when you were little."
Those are all proof that you grew up surrounded by love; everyone in the Prime Minister's residence loves you.
Having gotten the answer she wanted, Yun Lian was too lazy to continue pretending and dropped her disguise.
"Yes, Father."
The Grand Secretary, seeing that she was not in high spirits, belatedly realized that he felt indebted to her.
"The Crown Prince's birthday celebration is in half a month. If you want to buy some clothes but don't have enough money, come to your father. What Na'er has, you will have too."
"Thank you, Father. I will certainly not be polite."
Upon arriving at the mansion, Yun Lian declined their invitation to have dinner with them.
The Prime Minister's wife didn't like her, and she had no value, so Yun Lian didn't want to waste her energy on the Prime Minister's wife.
She was going to find the jade pendant that could prove her identity.
But as soon as she arrived at the shabby little courtyard, she saw Yunna directing the maids and servants to ransack the place, and even the ground was being dug up with hoes.
Yun Lian leaned against the door frame, asking leisurely, "Sister, instead of having dinner, you came to my dilapidated little courtyard. Did you come looking for me but got lost?"
When Yunna saw her appear, she was worried that she would discover that Yunna was looking for her jade pendant and alert Yunna, thus arousing suspicion.
He stroked her hair ornament with his fingers, a dignified smile appeared on his face, and he walked closer to Yun Lian.
“I’ve already eaten. Who doesn’t know you’ve moved to the Treasure Pavilion? I’m not here to find you, I’m just here to find a jade hairpin that I dropped.”
That jade hairpin was part of my mother's dowry; it holds immense significance for me, and I must find it.
Yun Lian looked at the ground with a puzzled expression: "Did you find my sister?"
Do you need my help?
Yunna paused in her movements.
She really felt that Yun Lian had changed a lot; if it were before, she would never have dared to dig deeper.
But she could dream that Yun Lian was not her daughter, but the emperor's lost princess, born to his most beloved concubine, who had long since passed away.
Its gold content is self-evident.
Once she finds the jade pendant that Yun Lian had in her dream, it will prove that the dream was a prophetic dream, and she will be able to better plan her future.
But if she can have such strange dreams, it's normal for Yun Lian to be a little strange too.
Based on her current observations, Yun Lian still doesn't know her true background, but she can't keep resorting to beatings and scoldings like before; she can only maintain a facade of politeness.
Then find a way to kill her.
Yunna smiled broadly, yet with a hint of apology.
"No need, no need. It's too late today. Besides, we've practically searched the ground three feet deep, but we still couldn't find it. It's probably somewhere else."
I'll take them to look in other places first, and if we still can't find it there, we'll come back here.
Yun Lian stepped aside, making room for her to exit.
"Then why don't you go and see if I left it in your usual place? The Treasure Pavilion is nice, but I'm a bit of a light sleeper, so I'd like to come back and make do for the night."
"Alright, alright, you should rest now, we won't bother you any longer."
Yunna suddenly remembered the people she had brought, who had practically turned the courtyard upside down.
Feeling guilty, she asked, "Should I ask them to clean up the yard for you first?"
"No need, thank you, sister."
Okay.
Yun Na nodded in agreement. She knew that saying more would only lead to more mistakes, and for the time being, she didn't really want to talk to Yun Lian.
Only after they left in a large group did Yun Lian have time to look at the mess on the ground.
The once lush and green bok choy in the courtyard was now ruined, with dirt flying everywhere and the few pieces of furniture lying on the ground.
Even her little bed was turned upside down and made a mess.
The dirty little tiger doll that the prime minister had mentioned fell to the foot of the bed, and the rattle drum was broken and lay on the ground.
Yun Lian picked up the little tiger cloth doll and patted off the dust.
The clean fabric shows that the tiger cub is well protected.
Yun Lian held it in her hand and played with it, when she suddenly noticed something unnatural about the tiger's tail.
She violently tore it off, and sure enough, she pulled out the stuffing inside and saw a dragon-shaped jade pendant with the character "怜" (pity) engraved on the bottom.
It was almost identical to the jade pendant she had brought from Yunna.
“Strange. Logically speaking, he hadn’t even met her once before receiving news of her death. It’s impossible that he would return a jade pendant with an inscription to her beforehand.”
The answers to the riddles come one after another.
And who gave her that jade pendant?
Her probing revealed that the Grand Secretary was unaware of her true identity; otherwise, given his merit in saving the Emperor and being granted the imperial surname, it would be surprising.
If the Grand Secretary knew her true identity and raised her, he would definitely gain a lot of favor with the Emperor.
But the prime minister did not do that.
Therefore, it is only possible that the jade pendant was placed there by someone else.
She is very likely to be able to contact that person through other means.
Yun Lian struggled to drag a jewelry box out from under the bed. Any set of jewelry inside was of top-notch craftsmanship, almost enough to make everyone scramble for it.
Yun Lian laid out the jewelry one by one, but unexpectedly discovered the secret of the jewelry box.
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