Chapter 277 - 0277 String-Pulling Trade 1_1
Shen Feihong waved to them, took his bag of flour, hopped on his bicycle, and rode off into the distance.
The mule carriage continued in the opposite direction. Lu Tianjun touched the bracelet in his hand, his eyes full of nostalgia. After a while, he said to Feng Qingxue, "Auntie, you must be curious why I wanted to trade bracelets with him, right?"
Feng Qingxue responded by patting his head, "I guess it’s something from our Lu Family."
Guan Cheng, sitting next to them, nodded in agreement. He too thought the same. If he came across the jade pendant that Aunt Xu gave him now, he would recognize it at first glance. Shen Feihong did not come across as a good person, reminding him of the rogue gangsters he often encountered during his time begging for food. He wasn’t sure how Feihong had gotten hold of the bracelet, but they were already fortunate that he had proposed a trade rather than forced a theft.
"It’s my mother’s dowry," Lu Tianjun said, looking down at the Dragon and Phoenix Bracelet in his hand. "When I was a child, she often wore it and told me that when I grew up and got married, she would give this pair of bracelets to my bride as a family heirloom. But, during the family raid, the bracelets were stolen. It was chaotic at that time, and we didn’t know who took it. In fact, I recognized it not only because I spent my childhood with this bracelet, but also because one of the phoenix eyes on the bracelet is missing a gem. I heard from my mother that when I was two, I was quite mischievous. I loved to make a mess and would throw anything in my hand to the floor. I loved to bash things too, which often infuriated my father. I was the one who pried the gem off the phoenix eye on the bracelet, though I don’t remember how I did it!"
Only today did he realize how deep and engrained his childhood memories were.
Feng Qingxue quietly listened and softly said, "Your mother must have loved you very much, planning for you from such a young age."
Other than that, she didn’t know what else to say to comfort the young boy before her. To him and Guan Cheng, the past was filled with pain.