Chapter 82: Flipping through memories
Finding the key didn’t make Lingxuan that happy. Her heart was also not calm; she had summed up all the memories from both lifetimes, yet she didn’t recall her mother giving her anything with lock. Thus, at the moment, her brows were creased to the extent that they could squeeze a mosquito to death.
Seeing her elder sister’s appearance, Lingyan’s heart filled with worry. She quickly urged Cha’er to say something. Cha’er racked her brains to think hard, but she couldn’t come up with anything substantial.
“Second young lady, don’t make things difficult for this servant. If furen had given eldest young lady anything with a lock, not just this servant, even eldest young lady would have profound memory of it.” After racking her brains for half a day, Cha’er pleaded for forgiveness.
夫人 (fūren): Lady/madam/mistress of the house
After thinking about it, Lingxuan felt Cha’er’s words were reasonable. If mother had given her something special or had said something special about it, she would have surely remembered it.
In her memory, all the things her mother personally gave her or had Lin mama send to her could be opened and didn’t have any oddity. Thus, she never thought the doll that her mother gave her would have such a mystery over the years.
In the end, what had a lock and needs a key in her hand?
If her mother had talked about it a bit, she would have certainly remembered it. After all, that was what her mother had specifically talked about. For the mother to hide the key in her doll, was it because she was didn’t believe in her? But why would she do that? Wasn’t she afraid that she might have given that doll to Shangguan Yunlan?
Suddenly a scene flashed in her mind. It was during her childhood when she had flaunted her doll in front of Shangguan Yanlan. Mother was also there at that time.
She remembered, at that time, a trace of disdain flashed in Shangguan Yanlan’s eyes when she said that this doll was a present given to her by her mother and was hand-made by her; thus, even if she (Shangguan Yunlan) liked it, she (Yun Lingxuan) wouldn’t give it to her. When seeing this doll, Shangguan Yunlan expressed disgust, but when it came to delicate, precious, unique, and unmatched jewelry and treasures, Shangguan Yunlan showed interest
Probably because Shangguan Yanlan showed her dislike towards this doll, that’s why her mother must have felt reassured.
“Eldest young miss all the things that furen gifted you, have all been properly put back. Could it be that it is not present in your room but somewhere else?” Cha’er, after mulling over for half a day, finally squeezed out these words.
“Elder sister, could it be in father’s place?” Lingyan said quite earnestly, even though, to her it was a mystery what there were looking for, and she didn’t even have an inkling of it.
“That’s not possible.” Lingxuan shook her head, and replied, feeling touched by her earnestness, “If it was at parent’s place, it would have been already rummaged by those people long ago, yet they didn’t. How big could that thing be unable to find it even after three years?” This key is so small; how big could that thing be? Finding it must be easy!
“Yeah, you have a point,” Lingyan bit her lip, feeling somewhat perplexed and not knowing where to start.
“It’s not at eldest young lady’s place, it cannot be at laoye and furen’s place either, then, in that case, it can only be at eldest young master’s place,” Cha’er muttered with uncertainty.
老爷 (lǎoye): lord / master
Elder brother? Remembering her elder brother, who had gone missing for three years, a glimmer of hope flashed through Lingxuan’s pair of eyes, Lingxuan thought of her eldest brother who had disappeared for three years, and a glimmer of hope flashed in her eyes, thinking her parents might have hidden important thing like this in her’s and elder brother’s places separately.
“Elder sister, perhaps that thing is truly at elder brother’s place; let’s go and check!?” Seemingly something important was about to be found, Yun Lingyan became particularly excited.
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