In the Xu family home, after the guests left, everything was put away neatly. Families took their own bowls and chopsticks home, and even the leftover food was divided up among those who weren't picky.
Only then did Xu Changqing have a moment to go back to her room and take out the small gold bars, each wrapped in a strip of red cloth, that Grandma Shen and He Peiyin—the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law duo—had slipped to her when no one was looking.
Bai Xiulan was taken aback.
"Two of them?"
"Yes, one is from Grandma Shen, and one is from Mrs. Shen. First, Grandma Shen secretly slipped one to me, and then later, when no one was around, Mrs. Shen gave me this one.
She said the same thing as Grandma Shen—that it's hard to find someone to make gold jewelry these days, and that I should keep them to have made into jewelry to wear for fun when I get the chance in the future."
Bai Xiulan immediately looked at Xu Qiguang.
