Chapter 2510 Meeting Gift
Manbao and Baishan knelt before Old Madam Liu. Manbao offered her tea and said in a crisp voice, "Greetings, Grandmother. Good morning, Grandmother."
Madam Liu had already calmed down. She looked at her lovingly, nodded, and smiled, "Good child."
She took the tea and drank it, then placed it on the table and asked Madam Liu to give Manbao a box. She smiled and said, "Inside these are the jewellery your great-grandfather gave me when I got married. I don't need them now, so I'm giving them to you now."
Nanny Liu opened it and showed it to Manbao. Everyone in the Bai family looked at it and couldn't take their eyes off it. Inside was a complete set of jade ornaments, and the top pair of jade bracelets were emitting green and yellow colors.
The third old lady looked at it with a sharp gaze. She knew this set of jade ornaments. As sisters-in-law for decades, she naturally knew what the dowry jewelry that Old Lady Liu was most proud of was.
Unexpectedly, she was reluctant to give it to Zheng twenty years ago, but today she is willing to give it to her granddaughter-in-law.
This is a set of Lantian jade jewelry, which includes not only jade bracelets and jade pendants, but also a jade hairpin worth a thousand gold coins, a jade hairpin inlaid with gold, and all the jade in it is of the best quality.
Old Madam Liu's family only had this one legitimate daughter. It was said that when she got married, she took away almost half of the family's property. Mr. Liu even spent a lot of money to go to Lantian to buy jade, and brought back a lot of Lantian jade to make jewelry for her, including jade step-shakes and even jade belts.
Now, more than forty years have passed, Lantian jade has become increasingly scarce, and these things have become even more precious.
Even with this, how could their family still be short of money?
The third old lady couldn't help but look at Bai Min.
Bai Min reluctantly looked away. Regardless of whether she was really short of money or pretending to be, the relationship between the two families had to be repaired.
Bai Min felt better after comforting himself in this way.
Manbao was also shocked by the contents of the box. As he often hung out with Changyu, who loved gold, silver, and jade, Manbao naturally knew how valuable the jade in this box was.
She held the box and looked at Old Madam Liu. Old Madam Liu smiled at her and asked, "Why, you don't want it?"
Manbao immediately hugged the box and smiled sweetly, "Thank you, grandma."
Manbao reluctantly handed the box to Wuyue behind him, then stood up and walked to Zheng and knelt down, looking up and smiling sweetly, "Mother, please have some tea. Good morning, mother."
Zheng nodded with a smile on her face, took the tea and drank it. She also gave Manbao a set of jewelry, which were gold jewelry with exquisite styles. Manbao liked them at first sight.
She stood up holding the box, turned around and handed it to May, then went to meet the guest on the left.
Old Madam Liu said, "This is your third grandmother."
A maid brought up the futon, and Manbao understood that this meant he had to kneel, so he knelt down with Baishan, offered tea, and said with a smile, "Greetings, Third Grandmother. Good morning, Third Grandmother."
The third old lady smiled and nodded, took the tea and drank it, then asked the maid behind her to give the red envelope prepared early in the morning to the couple. After thinking about it, she held Zhou Man's hand, took off the jade bracelet that had been worn on her wrist and put it on her hand.
Manbao looked at Madam Liu hesitantly.
Old Madam Liu smiled and nodded at her, and Manbao accepted it, lowered his head slightly and smiled as he thanked her.
Then they paid their respects to their third uncle Bai Min and his third wife, and their fifth uncle Bai Heng and his fifth wife in turn, and received four red envelopes, and then to the two peers they brought with them.
This requires Manbao to give a gift, but fortunately she has prepared it.
The gifts from Mrs. Qian and Mrs. Liu were mixed together, and the little girl got two pairs of shoes, a purse filled with silver coins, and two handkerchiefs; the young man got a set of stationery, two pairs of shoes, and a purse filled with silver coins.
After giving the gifts, everyone felt refreshed and moved to the dining room to eat.
Manbao conscientiously helped to set the dishes and chopsticks. As soon as they were done, Madam Liu smiled and waved, saying, "Alright, let the servants take care of these things. Come and sit down. They were all very noisy at the wedding yesterday. You must be tired too, right?"
Manbao smiled and said, "I'm not tired," but still walked over to sit next to Old Lady Liu.
The third old lady's eyes flickered slightly, and she smiled and said, "Auntie really loves her grandson's wife. She is reluctant to set up such a rule for a day."
Old Madam Liu smiled and said, "We have a small family, unlike yours, which is large and has so many rules. I envy your mother-in-law. The rules you have are excellent even if the elders don't mention them. But this child is different. She grew up with Shanbao, and I know her well. I know what rules are good and what are bad, so there's no need to test her."
Zheng nodded slightly and assisted, "That's right. He hasn't been able to learn it in our presence for over ten years. It's useless to teach him now. I think it's fine the way it is now."
The Third Wife and Others: ...
The two young ladies from the Bai family glanced at Zhou Man secretly, their eyes full of envy.
Madam Liu picked up a piece of vegetable with her chopsticks and said with a smile, "Hurry up and have breakfast. You've been waiting so long. You must be hungry now, right?"
There were many people here at the moment, and everyone followed the rule of not talking while eating, so everyone ate breakfast in silence.
Manbao and Baishan both had good appetites. They ate two steamed buns first, and then took small bites of meat porridge mixed with some pickles. After finishing the meat porridge, they picked up the small steamed buns to eat.
The steamed buns made in the kitchen are different from those in restaurants. The steamed buns in restaurants are very affordable and very solid. If they are frozen and hit on the head, they can make people faint.
The steamed buns made at home are white and fluffy. Each one is half the size of a palm. You can easily pinch it off and it is just the right size for a bite. They are soft, sweet and delicious.
Manbao and Baishan all like it very much, even though it doesn’t have fillings like the buns.
The Third Madam and others standing by watched her eat, stunned and extremely surprised.
Especially the two little girls who were not much younger than Manbao, after looking Zhou Man up and down, they were particularly envious and felt that she must have a secret to maintaining her figure.
She eats so much, but she is not fat. On the contrary, she is well-proportioned, round and cute. The two of them were immediately envious.
After breakfast, Old Lady Liu asked Bai Shan and Zhou Man to take four people of the same generation to play in the garden, while she dealt with the third old lady and others.
The two parties were not familiar with each other, so they could not play for long. Before noon, the other party said goodbye and left. As soon as they left, Manbao threw himself on the soft couch and sighed, "It's so comfortable~"
Bai Shan couldn't help laughing, and sat on the couch with her. There was no one else in the room, so he simply kicked off his shoes and huddled together with her, whispering, "Tomorrow when we return home, we'll send someone to the county government office to sign the marriage certificate."
Manbao nodded.
Seeing her nod, Bai Shan whispered to her, "So you are really satisfied with this marriage?"
Manbao elbowed him and said with a red face, "If you say such shameful things to me again, I will withhold the marriage certificate from you tomorrow."
Bai Shan immediately shut up.
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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