usatvline Chapter 24: Did Cheng Du find the woman from that night?
Chapter 24: Did Cheng Du find the woman from that night?
Si Xue lingered at the door for a moment and "accidentally" made a noise.
Cheng Du, who was in the room, heard the noise and shot out the door with his eagle-like eyes.
When her eyes met Cheng Du's, Si Xue ran away like a frightened little rabbit.
"Snapped!"
The jade pendant fell to the ground.
Cheng Du opened the door and saw the jade pendant dropped at the door.
There was a flash of surprise in his cold eyes.
When he looked away, he caught a glimpse of Si Xue's quickly fleeing figure.
He picked up the jade pendant on the ground and took out another jade pendant hidden inside the lining of his clothes.
Two jade pendants, one yin and one yang, form a Bagua diagram.
"boom!"
The door of Si Xue's room closed with a loud noise, which attracted Cheng Du's attention.
Si Xue's expression when she escaped back to the room was different from the panic she showed. She curled her lips slightly.
Everything is under control.
The jade pendant in Cheng Du's hand was dropped by Zhou Zhizhi when she rescued Cheng Du. She also overheard it when Cheng Du was chatting with Zhou Zhizhi later.
Thinking of Cheng Du's bad attitude, she thought smugly that if Cheng Du knew that the white moonlight he was looking for was her, would he regret having been so bad to her before?
"Boom!"
There was a knock on her boudoir door.
Everything is under Si Xue's control.
She opened the door, lowered her head, and was somewhat afraid to look at Cheng Du.
Si Xue was wearing a competition dress today and had not had time to change out. She lowered her head, bit her lip, and played with her fingers helplessly.
"elder brother……"
"What are you doing sneaking around my door?"
Cheng Du looked at her coldly, and he felt annoyed when he saw her weak and helpless expression.
Women are the most troublesome creatures in the world, except the little mute and the woman who saved him.
Other women are annoying.
Si Xue shed tears and said, "Brother, you found out."
"I'm not blind." She made such a loud noise that it seemed as if she was deliberately trying to attract his attention.
If he didn't come, it would be a shame for her plan.
"I...I...I didn't mean it, brother, I'm sorry..."
Si Xue bit her lips nervously, her fingers almost bleeding, "Mom asked me to go upstairs to call you for dinner. I wanted to call you after I went upstairs, but I was worried that you hated me, so I hesitated at the door and didn't dare to go in."
"You reminded me before not to get close to your room. I saw that you noticed me, and I was afraid of you... afraid that you would scold me, so I left."
After she finished speaking, she lowered her head even more, as if she wished she could bury it in the ground.
"Speak properly." Cheng Du felt that it was really hard to talk to her. "Say a sentence several times. It's not like you're stuttering."
Although the little mute doesn't speak, he speaks concisely and expresses himself clearly.
Some people would be better off not having a mouth.
What's more, she pretends like this.
I really thought she was her mother and was deceived by her pitiful appearance.
"Oh." Si Xue pouted aggrievedly, "Since my brother hates me so much, why did he come to me?"
Cheng Du found the jade pendant that the woman dropped that night, and asked her sternly, "Is the jade pendant yours?"
"what?"
Si Xue looked at the jade pendant in his hand in astonishment, "Isn't this the jade pendant I just dropped a few days ago? How did it end up in your hand?"
"yours?"
Cheng Du looked at the jade pendant in his hand. He deliberately showed her the jade pendant he picked up that night. Unexpectedly, she did not say that it was dropped just now.
she……
I do recognize this jade pendant.
"Well, the jade pendant on your hand is actually only half of it. The other half is still with me. I accidentally dropped half of it before, and I searched for it for several days but couldn't find it."
Cheng Du looked down at her, expressionless.
The excitement he had just shown disappeared completely, and he looked at Si Xue's reaction with scrutiny.
Cheng Du was tall, and Si Xue could only see his chin when she raised her head. Such an excellent jawline made her swallow unconsciously.
"If you don't believe me, I'll show you the other half."
Si Xue tried to touch the jade pendant on her body, but after searching for a long time she couldn't find the other half.
She was a little anxious, "I clearly hung it on my body, how come it's gone?"
"Maybe it fell during the game."
Si Xue was anxious to go back to look for him, but Cheng Du stopped her.
"Si Xue."
Her name sounded so beautiful coming out of the man's mouth that Si Xue's bones went soft.
She looked up at him in surprise, "What's wrong?"
Cheng Du happened to have the jade pendant that had just fallen on his hand. "Is it this?"
"That's it." Si Xue took the jade pendant from his hand and asked him puzzledly, "Why is it here with you?"
"Found it."
Cheng Du stared at her, trying to see something in her eyes.
She pretended so well that Cheng Du couldn't see any flaws.
Si Xue patted her chest and said, "It's okay, it's okay. If it was lost, I don't know what to do."
Cheng Du suddenly lost his patience, "Where did you get the jade pendant from? You'd better tell me the truth."
He didn't like Cheng Sixue's lack of etiquette. She had no sense of boundaries when facing the people of the Cheng family, which was very disliked.
Although Zhou Zhizhi is from Hongxing Village, she has a strong sense of boundaries and will never take the initiative to cross the boundaries set by others.
"Brother, the jade pendant is mine."
Si Xue looked at him in confusion.
Seeing that he was already impatient, she had to explain to him: "When I was a child, I slept in a cemetery and happened to save an old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest felt that the magnetic field in a cemetery was not good and was afraid that it would affect my life span, so he gave me this jade talisman to protect myself and keep unclean things away from me."
These were told to her by Zhou Zhizhi. At that time, she thought Zhou Zhizhi was crazy for believing the Taoist's nonsense.
If there really were unclean things, she would have become a meal for evil spirits after sleeping in the cemetery for so many years, and she would not be alive until now.
She thought that the Cheng family was a noble family and would hate such heresy, so she explained: "I don't believe in these things, but I kept it all the time. This jade pendant looks valuable. I was poor at that time, and I thought that when I left Hongxing Village, I could sell the jade pendant and get a lot of money."
"When I really left Red Star Village, I no longer needed to sell jade talismans. My brother and mother gave me a happy family and a life without worries about food and clothing."
Si Xue said a lot, but there was no trace of flaw in her words, as if the jade pendant was hers.
Each of her reasons was perfectly reasonable and flawless.
Seeing Cheng Du's suspicious look, she handed him the jade pendant and said, "You can put the two jade pendants together to form a jade talisman of the Bagua diagram."
Zhou Zhizhi broke half of the jade pendant for her to protect herself, but she knew that the jade pendant could be put back together.
Si Xue's words were flawless and there was no trace of any loopholes.
What's more, these things are indeed what she has experienced.
No one knew about it except her and Zhou Zhizhi.
Oh, and there’s Zhou Zhizhi.
Zhou Zhizhi is a dangerous existence in Liangcheng.
When we bring her back to Red Star Village and make sure she can never leave, no one will know this secret anymore.
Cheng Du took the jade pendant and found it could be put together. He had already done it before.
Si Xue stretched out her hand and motioned for him to give her the jade pendant.
Cheng Du gave her the jade pendant.
Si Xue put the two jade pendants together and pushed them inside with all her strength.
With a "click", the jade pendant buckled together and became completely one piece.