Chapter 155
Rongshu laughed mockingly, then took the key that her grandmother had given her and tried it room by room.
Finally, she managed to open the door to the utility room.
The entire villa had been sold by her step-sister for anything of value, so she knew that there could not be anything in any of the rooms except the utility room.
Rongshu pushed open the utility room and a puff of dust hit her.
She even covered her mouth and nose and stepped back, fanning one hand in front of her.
After fanning for a while, the dust in the air settled, and only then did Rong Shu let her mouth and nose go and turn on the light to enter.
“Oh my!” Looking at the cobwebbed and messy utility room, Rong Shu only felt a headache.
There was so much stuff, how could she find it?
She was tempted to back out.
But in the end, she let out a breath and went in with her head.
After all, if she didn’t find it this time, she would find it next time. With a flurry of rummaging, Rongshu’s hair, clothes and face were all dirty, like a little flowered cat.
But luckily, she also finally found a box that most likely contained the necklace her grandmother said she had.
It was a small leather case, unlocked, and Rongshu opened it easily.
There was a lot of stuff inside, and it was also very mixed, from lipstick and foundation from more than ten years ago, to earrings and bracelets and such.
Rong Shu rummaged through it and finally found a necklace.
“Is it this one?” She lifted the necklace and tilted her head to take a closer look.
There was no other necklace in the entire utility room except this one, so I guess this was the one.
Just what secret was hidden in a grey, puffy necklace?
Rongshu was puzzled as she put the necklace down and poked the red onyx on it.
Suddenly, she narrowed her eyes suspiciously and realised that the style of the necklace was so familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before.
Where was it?
Rongshu lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before her eyes snapped wide, “Madam Gu!”
Yes, it was Madam Gu, she had seen it around Madam Gu’s neck.
At that time, she thought that Madam Gu was too nostalgic to change her old necklace, which was so old and dull.
Now it seems that Mrs. Gu is wearing that necklace not only because she is nostalgic, but also for some reason.
I wonder if there is any connection between Mrs. Gu’s necklace and the one she is holding.
A mere similarity in style should not be possible, as the back of this necklace pendant has the word dt on it.
dt is one of the world’s top luxury brands and its jewellery is almost always unique, so it is impossible for two similar styles to appear at the same time.
Either that, or there must be a connection.
Thinking, Rong Shu put the necklace into her bag and quickly left the villa.
Half an hour later, she arrived at the mall and walked into the dt jewellery counter.
“Hello Miss, what do you need to order?” The counter girl asked with a smile.
Rongshu took out the necklace from her bag, “I want to ask about this necklace, is it from your family?”
The counter girl took the necklace and looked at it carefully for a while, smiling shyly, “Sorry Miss, this necklace looks quite old, I’m not quite sure if it’s our family’s, I’ll tell you what, you wait for a while, I’ll go and let our shop manager take a look.”
“Okay.” Rongshu nodded her head.
The counter girl poured her a cup of coffee and went to the back to find the shop manager.
Rongshu picked up her coffee and drank it while waiting patiently.
After waiting for about ten minutes, she saw the shopkeeper and the counter girl from before come out.
“Miss, is this necklace yours?” The shopkeeper asked.
Rongshu nodded, “To be precise, it was left behind by my father.”
“So it is.” The shopkeeper smiled and put the necklace on the black velvet cloth, “Miss, this necklace is indeed from our family, I just checked in our database, this necklace was specially designed by a gentleman surnamed Gu, who asked our designer to design it more than twenty years ago.”
“Surnamed Gu?” Rongshu thought of Madam Gu and her eyes flashed, “Gu Yaotian?”
“Yes, according to the information, Mrs Gu’s wife gave birth to a daughter at that time, so Mr Gu specially asked our designer to design a mother-daughter necklace for his wife and daughter, which is the one you are asking about, Miss, and the one you are holding is a daughter necklace.” The shop manager replied, but in his heart he was muttering.
The necklace was ordered by Mr Gu, and this young lady said it was from her father, so Mr Gu should be her father.
Instead, she called Mr. Gu by his full name, and her tone was a little cold.
Did father and daughter have a bad relationship?
Rong Shu’s eyebrows knitted together.
These two necklaces were indeed related, the one from Mrs. Gu was the mother, and the one in her hand was the daughter.
In that case, this necklace in her hand should be Gu Manyin’s, but why was it in the Rong family?
Did something happen between the Rong family and the Gu family twenty years ago?
Rongshu bit her lower lip.
It seemed that in order to find out the secret behind this necklace, she first had to find out what had happened between the Rong family and the Gu family twenty years ago.
Asking the Gu family directly was impossible, and the Gu family wouldn’t necessarily talk about it, so this was something that she could only find out for herself.
“I know, thank you, can I trouble you to help clean this necklace?” Rongshu asked with a smile.
The shopkeeper nodded, “Of course you can.”
She handed the necklace to the counter girl at the side and asked her to take it to be cleaned.
The cleaning process was quick, and Rong Shu didn’t have to wait two minutes before she was done, then she bought another pair of earrings and left.
Soon after she left, Mrs Gu arrived at the shop.
The shop manager personally entertained her, “Madam Gu, the bracelet you ordered last time has arrived, I’ll bring it over to you.”
“Okay.” Mrs. Gu nodded with a faint smile.
The shopkeeper went to open the safe and brought out an emerald bangle, “Madam Gu, take a look, is it still satisfactory?”
Mrs Gu took the bracelet and looked around, her smile deepened, “Not bad, I’ll put it on straight away.”
“I’ll help you.”
“No, I’ll do it myself.” Mrs Gu refused the shopkeeper’s help and put it on herself.
The shopkeeper didn’t force her, and kept a smile on her face.
At that moment, the shopkeeper saw the necklace around Mrs. Gu’s neck and said, “Mrs. Gu, I’ve long heard that Miss Gu is very beautiful, and when I saw her just now, it’s true, her eyes are exactly like yours.”
Hearing the shopkeeper praise her daughter, Mrs. Gu smiled more and more happily, “Thank you for the compliment.
Mangyin should be Miss Gu’s name, right?
Thinking, the shopkeeper nodded, “Yes, she came to ask about the necklace, and strangely enough, Miss Gu didn’t seem to know that her necklace and the one around your neck, were mother-daughter models.”
Hearing this, the bracelet, which Mrs Gu had not yet put on, just fell onto the counter with a crisp clattering sound.
When the shopkeeper saw this, a hint of flesh flashed across her face and she hurriedly picked the bangle up and examined it carefully to see if it had been bumped anywhere.
“What did you just say? You said Mangyin came to ask you with her daughter’s necklace?” Mrs. Gu asked with some urgency in her voice as she stared intently at the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper didn’t know what was wrong with her and nodded in confusion, “Yes.”
“This can’t be!” Mrs Gu shook her head repeatedly.
The daughter’s necklace, which she and Yao Tian had given to Mangyin, had eventually disappeared with Mangyin’s death, so how could Mangyin have it.
So the one who came to ask about the necklace could never be Mangyin, could it be Mangyi?
Could it be Man-Eng?
Once she thought of this possibility, Mrs. Gu grabbed the shopkeeper’s hand and her whole body became very emotional, “You just said that the girl’s eyes resembled mine, right?”
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“Yeah, it’s almost exactly the same.” The shopkeeper looked at his hand which was scratched red, and forced a smile back.
Mrs. Gu’s eyes instantly turned red as tears slid down her face, “It’s Man-Eng, it’s definitely Man-Eng, Man-Eng isn’t dead, Man-Eng is still alive, shopkeeper, where is that girl now?”
She asked with a trembling voice.
The shopkeeper replied, “Already gone, but only for a short while, probably still in the mall.”
Just as she finished speaking, she saw Mrs. Gu rushing out of the shop without even taking her bag, looking around this mall for the girl who could be her eldest daughter.
However, Mrs. Gu searched the entire mall, but could not find the girl who was wearing her daughter’s necklace and whose eyes resembled hers.
Mrs. Gu returned to the dt shop lost in thought.
The shop manager brought a cup of hot water, “Mrs Gu, have you found it?”
Mrs Gu shook her head in a lost voice, “No.”
“Don’t be discouraged, since the person is in the sea city, I believe Mrs. Gu can always meet them.” The shopkeeper smiled and comforted.
Although he didn’t know what the relationship between that young lady, whom Madam Gu called Manlove, and Madam Gu was.
But looking at the way Mrs. Gu attached such importance to it, one would think that the relationship should be very close.
“Thank you.” Mrs. Gu squeezed the corners of her mouth, then took out her card and settled the bill, taking the bracelet and hurrying back to the Gu family.
“Husband!” Mrs Gu shouted as she entered the door.
Gu Yaotian came down from upstairs, “Didn’t you go shopping at the mall, why are you back so soon?”
“Husband, Manlove is still alive.” Mrs. Gu looked at Gu Yaotian who came downstairs and said excitedly.
Gu Yaotian almost stepped on a slip, “What did you say?”
He held onto the railing and stared at Mrs. Gu in shock.
Mrs Gu’s two hands clasped together, “Mangyi is still alive, our eldest daughter is still alive.”
“Nonsense.” Gu Yaotian frowned and continued down the stairs, “You’re afraid you’ve met a liar again, some years ago, there were often liars who said our daughter was still alive, but in reality they were here to scam money.”
“This time it’s different, Man Eu took the necklace, it’s this ……” Mrs. Gu hurriedly took out the necklace around her neck, “Man Eu took her daughter’s necklace to dt and asked about it, the shop manager told me, she also said that Man Eu’s eyes and I She also said that Maneki’s eyes looked exactly like mine, Yao Tian, my intuition tells me that the girl the shopkeeper said was Maneki.”
Gu Yaotian was also confused, “But how is this possible? Man Eu was drowned by Rong Hao, we all saw it.”
“Yes, we saw it, but didn’t the police tell us later that they never recovered Man-Eng’s body, maybe Man-Eng didn’t die at that time after being thrown into the river, but was saved by someone downstream, otherwise how can we explain a girl with the same eyes as mine, appearing with her daughter’s necklace.” Mrs. Gu said as she gripped the necklace tightly.
Gu Yaotian held his forehead, “You let me slow down.”
“Dad, mum, what are you guys talking about?” At this time, Gu Manyin also came down from upstairs, seeing Mrs. Gu and Gu Yaotian’s perverse appearance, she couldn’t help but ask curiously.
Mrs. Gu pulled Gu Manyin, “Mangyin, your sister is not dead, she is still alive.”
“What?” Gu Manyin first froze for a moment, then her eyes widened, “Mom, you’re saying that Mangyin’s sister isn’t dead?”
“Yes, she’s not dead, she’s in Jiangcheng.” Mrs. Gu nodded her head repeatedly in delight.
Gu Mangyin lowered her eyelids, her eyes filled with gloom.
Gu Mangyin was actually not dead, this was too surprising.
If that was the case, then in the future, her mother would only have Gu Man’er in her eyes, and there would be no place for her.
No, she couldn’t let Gu Man’er come back, because if Gu Man’er came back, her inheritance, the Gu family’s property, and her parents’ love would all be split in half.
She definitely should not let this happen.
Gu Manyin bit her lower lip, smiled on her face and asked tentatively, “That’s really great, Ma, where is sister Man’er now?”
She wanted to ask about Gu Man’er’s whereabouts, and then get Gu Man’er away before her parents did.
Mrs. Gu’s eyes darkened a lot when she heard Gu Mangyin’s question, “I also learned by chance today that your sister is still alive, but where she is, we don’t know yet.”
“So.” Gu Manyin nodded, her brow furrowed.
Mum and Dad wouldn’t have been tricked, would they?
But whether or not they had really been tricked, she had to get to the bottom of this matter, and if the news that Gu Mangyin was still alive was false, then naturally it was fine.
If it was true, she still had to drive Gu Man’er away, she didn’t have the slightest affection for this so-called sister.
Thinking, Gu Manyin asked again, “Mom, how did you know that sister was still alive?”
“It’s this necklace.” Mrs. Gu said, and then told what happened in the dt shop.
Gu Manyin’s palms slowly clenched up after listening.
So it seemed that woman, it was really possible that she was Gu Man’er.
I didn’t think Gu Man’er would be so lucky, she didn’t even die like that.
“Mom, I’m going to Fu Gongguan for dinner tonight, so I’ll leave first.” Gu Manyin lowered her eyes and pulled her hand out.
She had to get Gu Man’er out first.
Otherwise it would be too late when Mum and Dad found out.
Mrs Gu nodded, “Go.”
Gu Manyin gave her a kiss on the cheek and walked towards the front door.
After Gu Manyin left, Madam Gu looked at Gu Yaotian, “Husband, let’s hurry up and find Man-er, I don’t know how Man-er has been living these twenty years, I can’t stop this heartache when I think that Man-er could have suffered a lot.”
She hammered on her heart.
Gu Yaotian heartily took her into his arms, “Don’t worry, I will definitely find our daughter and bring her back to us.”
“But I’m worried, Man Eui won’t come back, what if she thinks we didn’t want her and abandoned her and hates us?” Mrs. Gu said with both anticipation and fear.
“It won’t happen, since Man-er took the necklace and asked for it, it means she must be trying to find us too.” Gu Yaotian said back.
Mrs. Gu shook her head, “According to the shopkeeper, Man-Eng already knows that you had the necklace designed by someone in the first place, then Man-Eng should be clear that we are her parents, I’m just worried that she won’t be willing to come to us of her own accord.”
Gu Yaotian sighed, “Let’s wait for a few days first, maybe in a few days Man Eu will take the initiative to find us, if not, we can look for her again, just use this necklace of yours to find it, post this necklace of yours on the internet, when Man Eu sees that we are looking for her, she should understand that we have not abandoned her, maybe she will come.”
“That’s also right.” Mrs. Gu nodded her head.
Rongshu didn’t know that she had caught the Gu family’s attention by taking the necklace and asking about it.
After she left the mall, she drove to the hospital again, ready to see her grandmother and ask her, by the way, if she knew what had happened between the Rong and Gu families more than twenty years ago.
She didn’t expect the car to stall halfway through the run, and the tow truck, too, was late in showing up.
As a result, Rong Shu squatted on the roadside, suffering from the cold, and waited for nearly two hours.
“Mr. Fu, I’ve seen Miss Rong.” On the black Maybach, a*sistant Zhang said in surprise when he saw Rong Shu on the roadside in front of him.
The man in the back seat, whose body exuded an air of reserve, opened his eyes and looked out of the car window, also seeing the woman on the roadside, his eyebrows furrowed.
What was she doing?
Why was she squatting there when she was rubbing her arms in the cold?
“Turn around and drive over.” Fu Jingting ordered.
a*sistant Zhang responded, drove the car to the roundabout in front of him, turned around and drove towards Rong Shu.
When he arrived in front of Rong Shu, a*sistant Zhang stopped the car, rolled down the window and spoke to Rong Shu, “Miss Rong, get in.”