"Congratulations, Prince and Princess, you finally got your wish of having a son and a daughter!"
Seeing this, the people around congratulated him one after another.
"Congratulations!"
"This is a small gift from you, little doctor. I hope you won't mind." The governor of Qingzhou took out a black box from his sleeve and handed it to Ruanruan.
Ruanruan took it and opened the box. Inside was a white jade brush. "Hehe, thank you, Governor!"
"And this is a set of jewelry that my wife carefully made for the young doctor."
"I also have a gift for the little doctor, I hope you can accept it."
"Thank you, Ruanruan likes the gifts very much." Ruanruan placed all the gifts given by everyone on the table beside her. The small boxes almost filled up the table.
Everyone smiled and said, "As long as the little doctor likes it!"
All the guests came with gifts, except Xiao Qinbei and Xiao Shunan who came empty-handed.
Xiao Shunan glanced at Xiao Qinbei beside him and asked, "Dad, did you bring anything?"
Xiao Qinbei ignored him. He was in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Dad, you have to think of a way quickly. We can't come here empty-handed, right?" He had no idea that Prince Jin's Mansion wanted to recognize his relatives today. He didn't prepare anything, and the only precious dagger he usually carried with him was even soft.
Now he really couldn't find a single valuable item on his body that he could take out.
"I wonder what treasures Prince Xiao brought here today. King Xiao is a veteran of three dynasties of the Gan Kingdom, and Prince has followed the late emperor in ruling the country. He should have received a lot of rewards. It's not an exaggeration to say that he is rich enough to rival a country." At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly spoke.
"Prince Xiao, please stop keeping us in suspense and let us all see it for ourselves."
Seeing Xiao Qinbei and his son remain silent, the people nearby wondered, "Could it be that Master Xiao hasn't prepared anything?"
"They came here without any preparation. Are they really here to ruin things?"
"Dad..." Xiao Shunan felt that if they didn't come up with something, they would really be confirmed to have come to Prince Jin to sabotage him.
Everything his father said just now will become nonsense.
Xiao Qinbei glanced at him, his face turning pale. He didn't know about this before he came here, so how could he come here with a gift?
Under the gaze of his son and everyone in the lobby, he took off a necklace from his neck, with a black thread strung together the pendant below.
"This is a necklace made of a piece of red chalcedony that my father found in a mine when he followed the founding emperor to fight. I am giving it to you today." Prince Xiao handed over the pendant and stared at it intently.
He looked at Ruanruan again, as if expecting Ruanruan to discover something through the pendant.
"Yeah, thank you." Ruanruan reached out to take the pendant and put it in her cross-body bag.
When Prince Xiao saw that Ruanruan had no reaction, he felt a little disappointed. Could it be that Ruanruan had never seen this pendant before? That shouldn't be right.
My father specially had several of them made, and each of my brothers and sisters had an identical pendant.
"Dad, you really are willing to give it up." Xiao Shunan glanced at Xiao Qinbei, his eyes resting on the pendant.
He remembered seeing it in his uncles, and it seemed that his father's generation also had it.
And his father has been wearing it for decades.
He can even give this to Ruanruan. It seems that his father is really willing to give it all.
"Let's start the banquet." Prince Jin gestured to the people around him and spoke.
At this command, people outside came in carrying food boxes.
The maid opened the food box and took out a large two-layer cake. The first layer of the cake was covered with various fruits and decorated with cream.
It took two maids working together to get the cake out.
"Wow, what is this?" Zhao Yong looked at the cake on the table in surprise.
He leaned over and sniffed the cream on the surface. "It smells so good!"
This must be food from Ruanruan again, it’s so delicious!
"This is a cake, which is a dessert."
"This is delicious, but you can't eat too much because it's sweet and eating too much can cause cavities."
"Hehe!" Ruanruan's obsidian eyes turned, and her little finger touched the cream on the cake and pressed it on Zhao Yong's face.
Her uncle had someone order the cake last night and had it delivered early the next morning, saying that Ruanruan should bring it over to celebrate with everyone.
Zhao Yong licked the cream on his lips. "Delicious! Sweet and fragrant."
"I've lived for so many years, but this is the first time I've seen anything like this!"
"This dessert is really huge. How do I eat it?"
"What kind of snack is this? I've never seen or eaten anything like it before."
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Everyone gathered around and looked at the cake on the small table curiously.
"Of course this is to be cut into pieces and eaten, one portion per person," Ruanruan said.
Ruanruan climbed onto the chair, stood on it, and picked up a knife from the tray carried by the maid.
In order to prevent her from cutting her hand, Princess Jin stood up and came over to hold her hand. "How do you want to cut it?"
Ruanruan stretched out her other little hand and gestured on the cake several times, "Just like that."
Princess Jin held her hand and cut it several times.
"Okay." Ruanruan released her hand.
"Which piece do you want to eat?" asked Princess Jin.
Ruanruan licked her lips and pointed to the top layer.
She stared at the circle of red cherries in front of her and said, "Give them to godfather and godmother first, and then eat them after they become soft."
Ruanruan held the knife and tried to take a piece of cake off. She looked anxiously at Cuilan who was handing her a plate. "Sister Cuilan, please bring the plate over quickly."
Cuilan passed the plate to the place under the cake. Princess Jin took the cake down with Ruanruan's hand, and followed Ruanruan's instructions to get a piece for herself and Prince Jin.
"Oh, and little brother."
She looked at Zhao Chengqian's piece of cake on the plate, then looked at a piece of cake covered with cherries on the side.
"Ruanruan wants to eat the layer on top with lots of cherries."
"I...I want some too, Yong'er wants some too!" Zhao Yong, who was lying on the edge of the table, stared at the big cake on the table like a greedy cat.
Princess Jin first gave Ruanruan a piece, and then gave the two children two pieces.
Zhao Yong couldn't wait to hold the small spoon, scoop out a small piece of cream cake and put it into his mouth.
His eyes lit up instantly, "Wow, it's delicious!"
"It's soft, sticky and sweet. This is the best snack I've ever had."
The people around him all opened their eyes wide, staring at the cake in his hand, and they were almost drooling with greed.
Everyone wants to try it, even the young master of Prince Jin’s Mansion praises these snacks!
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