Zhang Xuan is not a person who likes to show off. When she heard that Zhang Ailin's boyfriend prepared an expensive antique for her grandfather as a birthday gift. When she asked her what gift she had prepared, Zhang Xuan just smiled and said, "We didn't prepare too much, so we made some medicinal materials for our grandfather, hoping that her grandfather would prolong her life."

When Zhang Ailin heard this, she thought it was just an ordinary medicinal herb such as ginseng. She smiled sarcastically and said, "It's not that the wild ginseng you dug up the mountain in the countryside. You really have the intention."

Zhang Yi didn't want to argue with Zhang Yilin, and I promised Zhang Yi not to lose his temper with her grandfather's family, so Zhang Yilin was not very polite to us, but I could only bear it and pretend that she couldn't hear it.

A slap couldn't sound, and Zhang Ailin felt that her boyfriend completely crushed Zhang Yan's boyfriend, that is, me, and she felt a little proud, but the only thing that made her not very happy was me. I was obviously "smashed" by her boyfriend, but I was watching my nose and mouth, with a calm expression, and seemed to be indifferent to anything. She felt that I should just feel inferior in front of her boyfriend.

So, Zhang Ailin deliberately asked Zhang Xuan: "Zhang Xuan, will your boyfriend come to grandpa's birthday party tomorrow?"

Zhang Yan nodded and said, "Yes!"

Zhang Ailin's eyes rolled twice and said it was very good, not knowing what to do to pay attention to.

In fact, what Zhang Ailin thought was that I, an unemployed vagrant from a peasant family, don’t know how to be inferior to her boyfriend now. Tomorrow, on my grandfather’s birthday, in front of a group of relatives, her boyfriend completely compares me. Do I know how to be ashamed?

There was no speculation, so Zhang Ailin and others sat down with us and chatted for a while. Zhang Ailin and the others said they had something to do and said goodbye and left.

I and Zhang Xuan saw that it was not too late, so I wanted to go back to the hotel to have dinner with Zhang Xuan's father, so I left the teahouse.

On the way back, I couldn't help but say to Zhang Xuan: "Sister Huang, your cheap sister seems to be sarcastic about you."

Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "I'm used to it. When I was in college, I stayed at their house during my freshman year. Zhang Ailin looked down on me at that time and said I was a country girl and bullied me all day long."

I stopped talking after hearing this and thought to myself: Although I promised you not to get angry, I still hope that the people of the Zhang family will not go too far, otherwise I can't guarantee whether I will explode?

After we returned, it was already time to eat. The two of us went to the restaurant with Zhang Xuan’s father. Then Zhang Xuan’s father went back to his room to rest. I went to visit Shanghai with Zhang Xuan and we came back at night at around 10 o’clock in the evening.

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The Zhang family was originally considered a member of the upper class in Shanghai because Zhang Shunzhi, the old man of the Zhang family, was still a figure before he retired.

However, after Zhang Shunzhi retired, neither of his two sons were able to enter the power center and could not take over the stick in Zhang Shunzhi's hand and carry forward the Zhang family. On the contrary, because of Zhang Shunzhi's retirement, there was a lot of people leaving the tea and the Zhang family was not as influential as before.

This time, Zhang Shunzhi chose to hold a birthday banquet at the Four Seasons Hotel for his 70th birthday.

However, only a small hall was booked, with a total of five tables of banquets, and not many people were invited. In addition to inviting his closest relatives, Zhang Shunzhi's best friend was also invited, and some people respected by the Zhang family were also invited.

Zhang Xuan and I followed Zhang Tingsong and brought the Soul-Returning Grass to the Four Seasons Hotel and met Zhang Xuan's grandfather Zhang Shunzhi.

Zhang Shunzhi was wearing a white cloth dress and had gray hair, but he was a little fat and had a red face. He looked a little taller, but he was in good spirits.

"Asong is here!"

"Dad, Xiao Yan and I are here to see you."

Zhang Shunzhi's eyes turned to me and Zhang Yan, and when he fell on Zhang Yan, he smiled and said, "Haha, Xiao Yan is so old. Is this man next to him a boyfriend? Why don't you introduce him?"

Zhang Yan smiled and introduced to Zhang Shunzhi: "Grandpa, he is my boyfriend, and his name is Chen Zijin."

"Hello Grandpa Zhang, this is a small gift I brought to you, it's not a respect." I said, and smiled, took out a plastic bag, which contained a small box. The box contained a soul-recovering grass worth five million, but it looked very shabby.

Zhang Shunzhi, his other two sons, a daughter, and many relatives from the Zhang family looked at the plastic bag in my hand curiously and guessed what was inside, but when I opened the small box and found that it was a withered grass inside, everyone's expressions were not very good-looking.

However, Zhang Shunzhi was in a higher vocational position after all, so he could still maintain a superficial calmness at this moment. He asked me, "Xiao Jin, what is this for?"

I smiled and explained, "This grass is called Huihun Grass, used to make wine. Drinking this wine can cure all diseases and prolong life..."

Zhang Shunzhi was suspiciously playing with the dead grass in the box, but the people around him showed contempt. He probably thought that I was a liar who was a wild man who was walking around the world, and he would dare to fool people with the dead grass.

At this moment, someone came again. It was Zhang Ailin and her boyfriend Zhao Jun who came.

Zhang Ailin was wearing a dress, his boyfriend was wearing a suit and ties, and he was holding a blue and white porcelain in his hand, which looked like a vase.

"It's Xiaolin here!"

Zhang Shunzhi returned me the gift I gave him, and then he looked at Zhang Ailin and Zhao Jun with joy on his face. His enthusiastic appearance was completely different from the attitude of Zhang Xuan's father just now.

"Grandpa, this is Zhao Jun, the boyfriend I have always mentioned to you. Today I will bring him to celebrate your birthday to Grandpa."

"Okay, good boy."

Zhao Jun handed over the vase at the right time and said politely: "Grandpa Zhang, this is a small gift I have collected for you, blue and white porcelain from the Guangxu period."

Zhang Shunzhi took the vase, smiled like a chrysanthemum, and while playing with antiques, he said, "This gift is too expensive, I can't accept it."

When Zhang Ailin saw her grandfather like this, she knew that her grandfather must have liked this antique very much, so she smiled and said, "Grandfather, you have retired, and no one will say that you have accepted bribes after accepting it. Zhao Jun's family is a business in the ocean, and he himself is a project. This little money is nothing to him."

After hearing this, Zhang Shunzhi took the gift and carefully handed the vase to Zhang Ailin's mother. Zhang Ailin's mother asked curiously: "Old man, how much does this vase do?"

Zhang Shunzhi said unhappily: "Why do you always withdraw money? Isn't it vulgar?"

Zhang Ailin said with a smile: "Everything has a price, and antiques are the same. It does not mean that elegant things have no price, and withdrawing money is not necessarily tacky. After all, money is often a criterion for measuring the value of wealth. Zhao Jun bought this vase for 500,000 yuan and specially prepared for his grandfather."

Five hundred thousand?!

Everyone around was shocked and couldn't help looking at Zhang Ailin enviously, saying that Zhang Ailin had found a promising boyfriend!

I watched coldly, holding the resurrection grass that had been given to Zhang Shunzhi just now. I heard a long time ago that people in Shanghai are very rich, but they are also very philosophical. Today, I really opened my eyes.

When Zhang Shunzhi saw Zhang Ailin and Zhao Jun, he immediately left me and Zhang Xuan and left me alone. He even stuffed the gifts I gave him to me. However, he smiled at Zhang Ailin and Zhao Jun. When accepting Zhao Jun's gifts, he carefully gave them to his relatives and gave them to him. It was completely different from his attitude towards me.

Zhang Ailin saw me and Zhang Tingsong and a few of them, and then came over with a smile and said, "Zhang Yan, what gifts did you bring?"

Zhang Ailin's mother held the antique and put it in, and interrupted with contempt, "They just gave us a wild grass and deceived us and said that it could prolong our life. We were a little confused."

Zhang Ailin saw the resurrection grass in the box in my hand and said sneeredly: "Oh, you actually gave my grandfather a grass. Isn't that ridiculous?"

Grandpa Zhang also put on airs and scolded Zhang Tingsong and said, "Look at what son-in-law you are looking for, and compare it with Zhao Jun, is it decent?"

Zhang Tingsong and Zhang Yan and his daughter were flushed when they heard this, and I felt a little angry.
Chapter completed!