Chapter 1960 — No Silver Buried Here
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"This pendant — it looks as though two halves have been joined together." Wei Zhao held it up before his eyes and studied it for a long while before speaking.
"Joined together?" Sun Jingyan was taken aback. She hurriedly leaned in and followed his gaze to the pendant, and could not help crying out in surprise as well — for there on the jade was indeed a fine line. And it was not an irregular one; it ran perfectly straight, as though the stone had been cut clean through with a single blade and then pressed back together...
Sun Jingyan stared in astonishment at the crack on the pendant, so absorbed that she quite forgot her own posture — cheek to cheek with Wei Zhao, in a pose that was rather intimate...
"It does look as though it was cut apart and then pieced back together, only it was done very carefully, so the seam hardly shows. If I hadn't needed pure yellow jade so badly, I doubt I'd have looked closely enough to see it," Wei Zhao said. The crack was invisible unless one held it to the light and studied it.
The discovery astonished Sun Jingyan. She had worn the pendant since childhood and had handled it often, yet she had never noticed the crack. To her it had always been a token, and so it had never once occurred to her that it might be two pieces fitted together...
"Then... why would anyone do that? Could the pendant have broken once and been repaired?" Sun Jingyan, thoroughly puzzled, studied the pendant in Wei Zhao's hand.
"I don't know, but accidental damage seems unlikely. Even if it had been dropped and shattered, it could never have broken into two such neat halves — and the seam runs down the exact middle of the pendant's side. What kind of force would it take to produce an effect like that?" Wei Zhao shook his head, dismissing her guess.
"So you're saying it was done deliberately?" Sun Jingyan asked.
"Very likely. But I can't imagine why anyone would do it." Wei Zhao said, "Still, I have a theory..."
"What theory?" Sun Jingyan asked urgently. It concerned word of her parents; of course she was anxious.
"If I'm not mistaken, there's something inside this pendant." Wei Zhao said, "It was cut open by some masterly means and then sealed back together. Perhaps something was placed inside it..."
"Ah! Then there might be something my parents left for me inside it?" Hearing this, Sun Jingyan grew excited...
"Of course, that's only my guess." Wei Zhao smiled wryly. "And once a pendant like this has been tampered with, it clearly won't be easy to repair... But I truly am not trying to get my hands on your pure yellow jade..."
Wei Zhao's words earned him a glare from Sun Jingyan. "Of course I know you're not. But the more you explain, the more it sounds like there's no silver buried here!"