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Wasn’t her father an orphan who grew up eating food from hundreds of families?
Orphans were a popular term. The villagers outside called them beggars and cowherds.
“Now we do!” Old Master Su said.
Su Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded.
Su Xiaoxiao asked, “Dad, how much did you spend on it?”
“I didn’t buy it. I probably... picked it up,” Old Master Su recalled.
Su Xiaoxiao was puzzled. “What do you mean by ‘probably’?”
Old Master Su explained, “I don’t remember either. Ever since I can remember, I have had this jade pendant on me. It looks like it’s worth a few dollars. I thought that if I really couldn’t survive anymore, I would pawn it!”
How much was it worth?
Did he have some misunderstanding about a few? If this piece of jade was sold, it could support a few large villages, okay?
What luck did her father have to pick up such a treasure?
Su Xiaoxiao carefully looked at the shape of the jade pendant and said to her father, “Dad, this jade pendant looks like part of a half?”
“Half?” Father Su muttered. “Did I pick up a piece of broken jade?”
Su Xiaoxiao hurriedly shook her head. “What I mean is that it’s a pair of pendants. This is the left piece. There should be another piece on the right. When combined, it happens to form a complete shape.”
Father Su said, “I only picked this up.”
Su Xiaoxiao looked at the jade pendant and asked, “Dad, do you remember where you’re from?”
Father Su shook his head. “I don’t remember.”
He had wandered into Willow Village 30 years ago when there was a famine. At that time, he was only six years old, and his memory was almost blurry.
Su Xiaoxiao had also heard about some things back then. The disaster in Willow Village was more serious than in Apricot Flower Village. Apricot Flower Village was supported by the Su family, and dozens of people in Willow Village had starved to death.
Su Xiaoxiao asked, “Weren’t you about to starve to death? Why didn’t you exchange it for something to eat?”
Old Master Su thought for a moment. “Perhaps I was young at that time. I didn’t expect it.”
Actually, there were a few times when he couldn’t go on anymore. He didn’t sell this jade pendant and gritted his teeth to survive.
Why didn’t he sell it?
He couldn’t tell.
....
When Su Xiaoxiao put away the jade pendant and returned to the east room, Wei Ting was also there.
She was about to ask why he was in her room when she remembered that this guy’s bed had collapsed and he had officially moved in with her!
Wei Ting was sitting by the bed, appreciating a couplet on the table under the light from the window paper.
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