When the five people heard Qingtian's words, they all immediately gathered around Qingtian and looked at her eagerly.

It’s not that they are greedy for anything. Nowadays, the four brothers of the Ye family live a good life and their children never lack food or clothing.

But the gifts that my sister prepared for them were something that several of them really wanted from the bottom of their hearts.

Qingtian took out a purse from his bosom with a smile, and poured it upside down on the small quilt he was covering himself with. Then many small jade pendants tied with red ropes rolled out of the purse.

But when the brothers saw that the gift Qingtian mentioned was actually a jade pendant, they all retracted their hands that had been stretched out.

Ye Changrui took a closer look and found that these jade pendants were not big, basically the size of an adult's fingernail.

There are seven jade pendants in total, which are carved into different shapes such as peach, lucky bean, gourd, peace locket, jade ruyi, etc.

"Sunny, where did you get this gift? Did you buy it? It must have cost a lot of money, right?"

Ye Changrui didn't know much about jade, and he just thought these jade pendants were beautiful. He didn't realize that although they were small in size, they were of excellent quality.

At this time, he was still worried that Qingtian might have been deceived into buying these things.

Ye Changnian asked directly, "Qingtian, there are only six of us. Why do you have seven pendants? Did you miscalculate the number of people and buy one too many?"

This kid doesn't study hard. Whether it's reading, writing or arithmetic, he can't compare to Qingtian.

At this moment, I felt that I had finally caught my sister's mistake, so I quickly pointed it out and felt very proud.

"Brother, don't worry, I didn't buy this, it's mine." Qingtian quickly explained to Ye Changrui.

This jade pendant was naturally brought by Qingtian from Prince Rui's Mansion.

Qingtian saw it by chance when Princess Rui took her to visit the warehouse.

These pendants actually come from the same piece of raw stone.

Prince Rui bought it when he was young while gambling on stones.

When I bought it, I wiped open the two windows and saw that it was really lush and green, with excellent water quality.

But when I took it home and asked someone who knew the business to cut it open, I found that what I thought was full of jade was actually mostly stone.

There were only seven pieces of jade, not much bigger than fingernails, scattered around and embedded in it.

And the two pieces that were wiped off, somehow just happened to be two of them.

Even the people who came to help cut the stone couldn't help but shake their heads, saying that the stone was too shabby.

There are a total of seven pieces of jade that can be used, but firstly, they are all small, and secondly, they are all relatively flat. They are not even thick enough to make a few large beads. In the end, we can only settle for the second best and take out the seven pieces of jade. According to their respective shapes, we try to carve them into jade pendants of different shapes with the least waste.

Although the pendant was of good quality, it was too small. Princess Sorui placed it in the storeroom, intending to give it to some relatives' children as a gift.

But later, because of the child's "death", all the relatives took care of the couple's feelings and rarely brought their young children to them, so there was no place for them to use their skills.

At this moment, Qingtian fell in love with this box of little things at first sight. After hearing Princess Rui's explanation of the origin of the jade pendants, he wanted them even more.

Princess Rui knew what she was thinking at a glance, so she took the box off and put it in her hand.

"These are not rare good things. If you like them, I will pick out a few good and large ones and send them to you.

"Just keep these..."

Princess Rui originally wanted to let her keep it to reward her servants.

Unexpectedly, Qingtian also rushed to ask, "Mother, can I give these jade pendants to my brothers?"

When Princess Rui heard Qingtian mention brothers, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue. But she couldn't react for a while, and the first thing that came to her mind was Madam Qin's three sons.

After all, Qingtian has not met the princes in the palace yet. Apart from the three brothers in the Qin Mansion, who else does he have?

Princess Rui subconsciously thought that Qingtian wanted to give a gift to Qin Hexuan, and included his other two brothers in the gift.

She had already started thinking that Qingtian's kindness was precious, but it was too inappropriate to give such a small thing as a gift. She should add something else to it.

But then Qingtian said, "These jade pendants are all polished from the same stone. I already have five brothers, and the remaining two are just right for my fourth uncle's little brother in the future.

"They are brothers, and it is fitting that they wear a jade pendant grown from the same stone."

Qingtian said this happily, and then suddenly realized that this was Prince Rui's Mansion, and he had to ask for Prince Rui's wife's consent before taking anything.

So she hurriedly and cautiously asked, "Mother, you just said I could take whatever I wanted from the storeroom. I don't want those jade or coral ornaments, nor do I want any gold or silver jewelry. I just want this box of jade pendants, is that okay?"

"Of course!" Princess Rui agreed without hesitation, fearing that her hesitation would cause Qingtian to misunderstand and she would never dare to ask for anything again.

Princess Rui even praised Qingtian for thinking about his brothers, and asked someone to find a purse to put all the jade pendants in so that Qingtian wouldn't have to carry a wooden box back to the village.

The family knew that Qingtian had found his biological parents. After all, the incident of losing the child had caused quite a stir at the time, and there was nothing to hide among family members.

So Ye Changrui and Ye Changxue quickly figured out the origin of this thing, and they were even more unwilling to accept it.

The three younger ones also remembered this question when they reminded them, and they all shook their heads like rattles and refused desperately.

It seemed as if as long as she accepted the jade pendant, Qingtian would be given to Prince Rui's Mansion and would no longer be their sister.

Ye Changnian even ran out and pulled Old Lady Ye in.

"Hey, Nian Nian, what are you doing?

"Go slowly, grandma isn't as nimble as you..."

As soon as Old Lady Ye entered the west room, she was so overwhelmed by the depressing atmosphere in the room that she stopped talking without finishing her words.

Seeing that her grandchildren's eyes had begun to turn red, Old Lady Ye was also confused.

She left her grandchildren behind and walked straight to the kang and asked, "Qingtian, what happened to those little brats?"

Without waiting for Qingtian to speak, Ye Changxue angrily grabbed the jade pendant and threw it onto the kang, saying, "Who wants this broken thing? Do you really think you can bribe us with these little favors and return my sister to them?"