Chapter 158
Renee hurried over upon hearing Margaret and saw a green carved jade lying in the deep hole. She picked up the jade and brushed away the dirt to examine it more carefully.
The jade was bright green and translucent. There was no trace of impurities, and it was cool to touch. Judging from the exquisite carvings on the gemstone, she knew immediately it was a priceless antique.
Margaret stared at the ornament in confusion. “This is strange. Since when was such valuable jade buried in the backyard? Hasn’t anyone discovered this before? Could it be that someone sneaked in and buried this here after the fall of the Everheart
family?”
Renee frowned as she tried to figure out an answer, and that was when her eyes were drawn to the pattern carved on the jade.
She had a feeling that she had seen this pattern before.
“I don’t think so.”
Margaret carefully recalled the past. “I have been guarding this house diligently since the incident. It’s impossible that anyone got in. Even if someone took the opportunity of my brief absence to sneak in and bury this, I would have noticed it. Anyway. who would hide such a high–grade jade in someone else’s backyard? Has he nothing better to do?”
Renee nodded in agreement.
Margaret was a meticulous person. There was no way she would not have found it if someone had touched the soil of the
backyard.
So, a stronger possibility would be that this jade was buried in the backyard for a long time, but no one had ever found it.
“Margaret, I feel familiar with this pattern but can’t remember where I have seen it before. Do you have any impression of it?”
“Let me take a look at it.”
Margaret even put on her glasses to see it clearly.
She looked at it carefully for a while and then suddenly remembered something. “I’ve seen this pattern before. When you were born, you were wrapped in a quilt. The embroidery of the lining is exactly the same as this. It resembles a combination of the
phoenix and the red spider lily!”
“Now that you’ve mentioned it, I remember it now.”
Renee had superb visual memory. She could remember almost everything she had seen.
She had a glance at the quilt when packing up her mother’s belongings. She locked it in a box with her parents‘ stuff and carried it wherever she went.
“So it seems this belongs to Mrs. Everheart.” Margaret said. But feeling that something was off, she added, “But if this belongs to her, why did she bury it here instead of passing it on to you?”
“I am not sure either. But this jade should be very meaningful. I have to keep it well.”
Renee clutched the jade tightly in her hand, hoping to figure out what it was as soon as possible.
She wanted to compare the jade pattern with the quilt’s embroidery to see if she could find any clue.
However, when she opened the box where she kept the quilt, it was no longer there.
“This is weird. I clearly put it in the box. Why can’t I find it?”
Renee frowned as she tried to recall the past.
‘Could I have left it in Sunup Residence and forgot to take it? Or is it still in Hunt manor?
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Regardless of where it was, she had to retrieve it if she wanted to figure out the origin of the jade. This meant she had to revisit
Sunup Residence or Hunt manor once more.
Renee brushed away the dirt and weeds on her body and said, “Margaret, I have to go somewhere, so you don’t need to prepare
lunch for me.”
“Where are you going. Miss Ren? Do you need me to accompany you?”
Margaret had lived in the basement for four years as a ghost, all in the name of waiting for her young mistress to return.
When she heard Renee say she wanted to leave, she feared that the latter would not return.
“Don’t worry. I will come back in the evening.”
Renee put on a loose–fitting purple dress and a pair of canvas shoes and tied her hair in a high ponytail. This made her look like a lively college student.
And she went to Sunup Residence. Though she had moved out, she could still enter freely because she was still the owner of this place since Liam bought it in her name.
To avoid running into Stefan, Renee decided to act quickly and leave in ten minutes.
However, when the elevator door opened, she coincidentally ran into Stefan getting off the elevator…
