Chapter 2341 — She Is Your Daughter
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Hm? That's right—this is only half a map. You went to the Ulonghot Mountains to hunt for treasure? But half a map is useless, isn't it?" A sudden thought struck Uncle Qing, and he asked in puzzlement, "And you surely couldn't have the other half..."
"I shouldn't have had it, no. But just before I set out for the Ulonghot Mountains, I unexpectedly discovered the other half of the map—and that is exactly why I went to the Ulonghot Mountains!" Wei Zhao said.
"The other half of the map?" Uncle Qing sprang to his feet, so overcome with emotion that his words came out stammering and unsteady. "You... where did you find the other half of the map?"
"On a certain person," Wei Zhao said. "Uncle Qing, I went to the Ulonghot Mountains accompanying someone else. Granny Sun should know who that person is..."
"Who is it?" Uncle Qing was taken aback. Sun Luoying had only said that Wei Zhao had gone out with a friend; where he went and with whom, Uncle Qing had never asked. Now he turned to Granny Sun and put the question to her.
"Sun Jingyan of the Sun family—she would count as a relative of ours, I suppose..." Granny Sun, unaware of the hidden circumstances, answered truthfully.
"Sun Jingyan... what? Her?" Uncle Qing was thunderstruck, tears welling up beyond his control—a happiness beyond words, the moving joy of one who has survived a calamity. "Xiaoyi, are you trying to say..."
"Sun Jingyan has a jade pendant, and the map was taken out of that pendant..." Wei Zhao said. "And this time, in the Ulonghot Mountains, I met the Heaven-rank madman again. Once, when he was lucid, he suddenly realized I was not Li'er and meant to do me harm. But when Sun Jingyan tried to stop him, he called her Yue'er instead, and let me off... Who she is, I think you understand, Uncle Qing. That is also why I sought you two out in private to tell you this..."
"Luoyue, Jingyi is our daughter!" Uncle Qing gripped Sun Luoying's hand in his excitement and said with great joy, "So our daughter never died—she has returned to the Sun family, she truly never died! No wonder, when I first saw her, I thought her face so familiar, and took it for the resemblance of kin. Little did I think she was our own daughter!"
By now Sun Luoying was dazed as well. She might not remember that chapter of the past, but she knew she had once had a daughter who was killed by her enemies, and the thought of it still darkened her heart with grief. Yet never had she imagined that the daughter had not died!
"Not dead—and she is Sun Jingyan?" Sun Luoying was astonished, disbelief written across her face, though it was quickly replaced by a joyful smile. Whatever else, whether she remembered or not, it could only be good news that her daughter was alive...