The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 983 Fractured Half

The jade pendant is shaped like a strip, surrounded by fertile soil. Apart from this, there is nothing else, except for the two characters "fourteen" engraved on the back of the pendant. It is made from a single piece of green jade and carved into a green soil jade pendant about half the size of a palm.

The two characters are engraved vertically, but the jade pendant is incomplete.

It is quite obvious that the strip shape is only half of the jade pendant, with one edge being very flat and the other edge being uneven.

The uneven side is the edge created when it was broken off from the complete jade pendant.

Huang Jing's next words confirmed Meng Shisan's guess: "My father told me that the jade pendant in this painting is an incomplete jade pendant, only half of its appearance."

"What about the other half?" Meng Shisan thought of the Qingrang Jade Pendant that he had placed inside the main body of the Ancestor's Cave Temple.

Qingrang was originally a complete jade pendant. When she was undergoing a thousand-year tribulation of lightning, she was seriously injured and fell from a great height. Qingrang was broken in two.

Originally a strip-shaped jade pendant, it broke vertically when it broke. So the remaining half, like the half jade pendant in the painting that Huang Jing's father handed to Huang Jing, had one complete edge and one incomplete edge.

Her green soil and the jade pendant in Huang Jing's painting can be considered as one, just by looking at their shapes.

And most importantly, the half of the jade pendant in the painting looks exactly the same as the jade pendant that Li Shou had shown her earlier.

Whether by coincidence or by divine will, Li Shou named the half of the jade pendant he dreamed of "Qingrang".

She stared at the two characters "Fourteen" on the back of the half-jade pendant in the painting, silently waiting for Huang Jing's reply.

“If you don’t have the other half, you only have this half.” Huang Jing noticed that Meng Shisan’s gaze was fixed on the characters on the painting. “Don’t you think it’s too much of a coincidence? The Meng Ying you’re investigating has the character ‘fourteen’ in her small handwriting, and the old object that my clan is looking for also has the character ‘fourteen’ engraved on it.”

“It’s quite a coincidence,” Meng Shisan agreed, then asked, “Does it have a name?”

Huang Jing looked at Meng Shisan in surprise: "You're the first person to ask if this jade pendant has a name! How did you even think of asking if it has a name?"

Meng Shisan frankly said, "I also have a jade pendant that has been with me for a very, very long time, named 'Qingrang'."

Upon hearing this, Huang Jing's expression immediately turned strange: "What a coincidence!!"

Meng Shisan realized: "Could it also be called 'Qingrang'?"

"Exactly!" Huang Jing stood up excitedly, looking down at Meng Shisan as she slowly ate her millet porridge. After a while, she sat down again and continued eating her favorite shrimp dumplings. "Don't you find it strange?"

"There are countless strange things in the world, but this is just a coincidence, nothing unusual." Meng Shisan finished eating and put down his chopsticks. "Did your father or any elder in your clan ever tell you about the origin of this half of the jade pendant?"

Huang Jing said, "I asked them, and they all didn't know. The only thing passed down was that generation after generation had to come to the capital to fish out this green poison from the Kuangguang River."

Meng Shisan seemed to be deep in thought: "The origin of it has not been passed down..."

“You’re right. There are too many strange things, and with so many, they become less surprising.” Huang Jing also felt that it was really unreasonable and extremely strange that not only had her Huang family’s old artifact been lost in the Kuangguang River and could not be found, but even the origin of the jade pendant had not been passed down. “What do you think? Do you have any suggestions?”

She didn't forget her original intention in telling Meng Shisan about the painting, so she quickly asked him about it.

“Your Highness has one,” Meng Shisan said casually.

"Huh?" Huang Jing paused for a moment before slowly confirming, "You mean to say that the reason I've been looking for that old item from my Huang family has been missing is because it's no longer in the Kuang Guang River, but has ended up in His Highness the Crown Prince's hands?"

“His piece is fake,” Meng Shisan added.

Huang Jing was taken aback: "What do you mean?" Meng Shisan explained: "His Highness had a dream in which there was this half of a jade pendant. After His Highness woke up, he still clearly remembered what the jade pendant looked like. He drew it exactly as he saw it, and then had someone find a piece of green jade and carve a brand new jade pendant exactly like the one in your drawing, and even gave it a name, 'Qingrang'."

Huang Jing was completely stunned.

This can no longer be described as a mere coincidence.

Finally, Meng Shisan suggested that she go and look for it.

So today, the two-person search team has become a three-person search team.

Just as Meng Shisan and Huang Jing, along with the water snake, got off the bus at Kuangguang River, Li Shou received the news.

Chang Qing said, "It is said that Miss Meng saw that Master Huang had not been able to find the old object he was looking for, so Miss Meng offered to help him, and so they went together."

Li Shou stood on the platform outside the Wenhua Hall: "Did Yaoyao bring anything useful?"

"Suitable?"

"She wants to help find it, but how exactly does she want to help?"

Chang Qing then understood what Li Shou meant by "satisfactory": "No, Miss Meng only brought Baozhu, a food box of freshly made pastries, and a pot of tea that Shang Chun personally brewed. That's all."

Li Shou couldn't help but laugh upon hearing this: "She's going for a spring outing."

“That’s right.” Chang Qing also smiled.

"Go tell Fu Feng to send men to Kuangguang River to keep an eye on Yaoyao from a distance. Just make sure she's safe and sound, and don't disturb her enjoyment." After giving the instructions, Li Shou turned and entered Wenhua Hall.

He had only come out for some fresh air, and after hearing the orders, he should return to the palace to continue reviewing the memorials he saw every day.

Upon receiving Li Shou's oral instruction relayed by Chang Qing, Ji Kuan waved his hand and ordered Bai Zhuo to lead four Eastern Palace guards in disguise out of the palace and rush to Kuang Guang River to secretly protect Meng Shisan.

The Kuang River was quite large. Meng Shisan stood in the middle of the riverbank, looking left and right, but couldn't see the end on either side. She frowned: "How am I supposed to find it?"

Huang Jing and Xiao Qing both fell silent.

At this moment, silence truly speaks louder than words, perfectly expressing the helplessness of both the man and the snake.

"Should I go down and touch it? Try my luck?" Meng Shisan turned to ask the tall man and the snake.

The water snake shook its head violently: "No!"

Huang Jing also felt this wasn't a solution and echoed the negative sentiment: "No way."

There weren't many people on the riverbank at the moment; there were only about ten people scattered across both sides of the river.

Meng Shisan really thought it was worth a try to go into the water and see if anyone could see him: "You guys cover for me, I'll go down and swim around, if I can't find it, I'll come back up."

The water snake immediately swam to Meng Shisan's feet: "Let me go into the water, senior!"

"If you could find it by going into the water, you would have found it long ago. Why would I need to come here in person today?" Meng Shisan didn't even look at the water snake. Her gaze swept across the river surface, trying to find the best place to enter the water.