Chapter 1963 — The Secret of the Jade Pendant
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Apart from pure yellow jade, Wei Zhao also needed colored steel and blue crystal powder. Without those two as well, having the pure yellow jade now would do him no good, so there was truly no rush.
"Very well, in that case I'll just break the pendant open directly," Liu Weishan said.
"All right." Sun Jingyan nodded. She too was rather impatient to know what was actually inside the pendant.
Rather than cutting along the grain, he would simply force it apart — as long as the contents were preserved intact, it would be much easier. Liu Weishan took his cutting blade and scored several times around the pendant, and what was inside was revealed!
Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan both stared fixedly at the pendant in Liu Weishan's hands, not blinking. Wei Zhao was curious about the contents as well, so naturally he was not about to miss this.
Liu Weishan chiseled a few more times, then gave a slight pull inside the pendant with a pair of tweezers, and drew out a piece of silken jade fabric folded with extraordinary neatness. The silk was soft and thin, folded into a tiny bundle hidden within the pendant. Had Wei Zhao not chanced upon it, who knew how long that silk would have lain inside.
"This is the thing." Having drawn out the silk, Liu Weishan did not open it, but laid it directly on the table and spoke to Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan.
"Thank you, Elder Liu!" Wei Zhao hastened to express his thanks. He could see that Liu Weishan was an upright man — he seemed to have not the slightest interest in what was written on the silk, and instead turned to gathering up the pieces of pure yellow jade that had been cut from the workbench...
"It's nothing, a trifling effort," Liu Weishan said indifferently.
"Jingyi, open it and have a look!" Wei Zhao said.
"Mm..." Sun Jingyan stared at the silk on the table, overcome with emotion. On this tiny scrap of silk might be recorded the story of her parents and the mystery of her origins! She had asked her grandfather about her parents many times, but he had always avoided the subject. Curious as she was, she had seen that her grandfather perhaps had some compelling reason, and so she had stopped asking.
Now, to be able to find a clue on a piece of silk — Sun Jingyan's hands trembled slightly...
A map? In Sun Jingyan's mind, this silk was either a letter or a cultivation method. She had never expected it to be a map, and it left her with an odd, indefinable feeling. She wanted to ask Wei Zhao what he thought, but turning her head, she found that he was not looking her way, and she knew he was perhaps keeping his distance to avoid any suspicion of prying.
"Wei Zhao, take a look at this — it's a map..." Sun Jingyan took the initiative and handed the silk in her hands to Wei Zhao.
Since Sun Jingyan had shown it to him herself, Wei Zhao did not stand on ceremony and reached out to take the silk.