Chapter 7: Overacting

Lin Nuan let out a long sigh and quickly buttoned up her shirt.

She kept thinking about how to tell her mother that the jade pendant was missing.

She definitely couldn't tell the truth. The first thing she thought of was to hide the secret. If someone else knew about it, they would lock her up and slice her up for research. It was better to be careful.

He did it right away. He threw all the clothes in the closet onto the bed in a messy manner and opened every drawer. He also opened the iron box where he used to keep his coins and poured all the money out of it onto the bed.

It gives people the impression that he is anxiously looking for something but has not found it yet.

After packing up, he pinched his thigh until his eyes were red and tears welled up in them. Then he opened the door and ran downstairs anxiously, "Mom, my jade pendant is missing."

When she ran to Wang Xiaoli in the yard, the golden beans were already flowing out one by one as if they were free.

When Wang Xiaoli saw her daughter crying, she quickly stood up to comfort her. Then, thinking about how much her daughter cherished the jade pendant, she became a little anxious.

"Nuannuan, don't cry yet. Maybe you forgot where you put it? Don't worry, mom will go upstairs with you to look for it. Maybe you didn't look carefully enough just now."

Lin Nuan nodded with some hope and expectation in her tearful eyes, grabbed her mother's hand as if it was a life-saving straw, and walked into the house.

"Mom, can you come with me to look for it? I searched my whole house, all the clothes and small boxes where I put things, the cabinets, and the drawers, but I just couldn't find it. Maybe I was too careless. Let's look for it again, maybe we can find it."

Wang Xiaoli quickened her pace as she watched her daughter getting anxious. She went upstairs to her daughter's room. The door was open and not closed at all. She saw the messy clothes on the bed, some opened boxes, open cabinet doors and drawers. It felt like a thief had broken into the house and ransacked it.

Even so, she still shook out all her clothes carefully, thinking that maybe she hadn't noticed it somewhere, so she took out all her clothes, searched the cupboards and drawers, under the table and under the bed, and searched the entire house, but still couldn't find it.

I thought maybe it was really lost, or I didn’t bring it over from my hometown.

"Nuannuan, think carefully, did you forget the jade pendant at home and didn't bring it with you?"

Lin Nuan frowned slightly, thought about it carefully, and then said, "I can't remember clearly. It seems that after I fell, I don't have the jade pendant with me. After I woke up, my head was dizzy and I didn't pay attention. I don't think I saw the jade pendant when I was packing up."

As he spoke, his face turned pale. He looked at Wang Xiaoli sadly, pursing his lips as if he was about to cry again.

"Mom, I might have lost the jade pendant. How could I be so stupid? It was the only thing and thought my father left me.

If the underworld knew about this, she would be so angry that she would jump up to find me, and might even disown me as her daughter.

How can I have the face to go to the underworld and see my biological father after a hundred years?

He must think that now that I have a stepfather, I don't need him as my biological father anymore.

If I still have a breath left, I'll definitely lift the lid of my coffin and beat me."

As she said this, she hit her head hard, sat down on the ground sadly, and the golden beans fell down like they were free.

She didn't even think about the fact that her biological father had been dead for more than ten years, so how could he open the coffin to find her, unless he had turned into a zombie.

Wang Xiaoli could not care about anything else at this time. She only knew that her daughter was very sad. She did not even pay attention to what her daughter said. If the jade pendant really fell when she fell, she could not blame her daughter. Her daughter was dizzy at that time, how could she know whether the jade pendant fell or not.

I felt a little bit blaming myself, wondering why I didn't pay attention at that time.

"Nuannuan, this is not your fault. I believe your father won't blame you either. In fact, this is all my fault. If it weren't for... you wouldn't have accidentally fallen and fainted while running... and the jade pendant wouldn't have been lost."

As he spoke, his eyes began to turn red and he started to cry, even more sadly than Lin Nuan, as if it was his responsibility that the jade pendant was lost.

Lin Nuan cried out inwardly: Oh no, this is over the top.

She quickly got up from the ground and helped Wang Xiaoli wipe the tears from her eyes. "Mom, what are you talking about? How can I blame you? If you want to blame someone, blame me. You just care about me too much. I was dizzy at the time. How could you have the mood to observe whether there was a jade pendant on the ground?"

Wang Xiaoli still felt a little guilty, thinking it was her fault that Nuannuan lost the only jade pendant left by her biological father. That was her daughter's only thought of her biological father.

Seeing that Wang Xiaoli was still feeling somewhat remorseful, Lin Nuan didn't dare to cry anymore.

She had a guess before she entered the space. She was thinking about the jade pendant and her hand touched the mole, so she entered the space. The jade pendant should have turned into the mole on her chest. This means that the jade pendant was not given to me at all.

It really is true that if you tell one lie, there will be countless lies to cover it up.

She didn't dare cry anymore, for fear that she would overact. She had gotten such a big advantage, how could she let her mother blame herself?

I had prepared a lot to say, but now I don't dare to say any more nonsense.

"Mom, don't worry. I will not abandon my biological dad just because I have a step-dad. I will be filial to both dads. When I have time, I will set up a longevity tablet for my biological dad. During every festival, whether it is Qingming Festival or Ghost Festival, I will burn many gold ingot candles for him and make many delicious foods for him. He will definitely not blame me then."

Wang Xiaoli was amused by her naive words.

But it is still okay to set up a longevity tablet. In the past, feudal superstitions were cracked down on. Although it is better now, people still dare not talk about feudal superstitions easily.

Although she doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, it's good to have a thought.

She shook her head and gently poked Lin Nuan's forehead a few times, "You are so clever, you can just say this in front of me, but don't say it outside. Although the efforts to combat feudal superstition are not that strong now, those slogans are still clearly written on the wall, so you'd better pay attention to them."

Lin Nuan nodded obediently, "Then don't worry, I'll just say this in front of you. I'm grown up now and know the seriousness of the matter. I can do it secretly and won't let others find out."

Now she was living in a military compound. She was not foolish enough to practice feudal superstition in front of a group of soldiers. However, since she could travel through time, maybe there really were ghosts in this world. Even in the 21st century, weren't there still many phenomena that science couldn't explain?