Siheyuan, a comfortable life under Zhengyang Gate

Chapter 97 A Gift for Daughter-in-law
Xu Jingping said she wanted to eat roast duck, so Yang Yukun took her to the Quanjude Qianmen Store after school to have a delicious meal.

It's still early to eat and drink enough to see that it's still early, so I happened to go for a stroll at the nearby Liulichang to digest food.

After strolling for a while, the two stopped at a shop called Baoyuxuan.

This is a shop that mainly sells jade and jade, thinking that the two of them have been engaged to a baby girl since they were young, and they have never given her a decent gift for so many years.

Just came here today, and Yang Yukun planned to pick two jade articles for Xu Jingping as gifts.

"Yang Yukun, look."

"what happened?"

"Aren't those two people the two hairy bear country girls we saw at the entrance of the Imperial Hotel yesterday afternoon?"

"It really is."

Yang Yukun took Xu Jingping into the store and found that there were other customers in the store.

Yesterday afternoon, Han Chunming invited guests to the Imperial Hotel for dinner, and saw two Maoxiongguo girls at the entrance of the Imperial Hotel.

At that time, he was still making a bet with Mao Tutu, and Mao Tutu even went up to strike up a conversation in order to get him to help with some jars of fine wine.

So Yang Yukun was quite impressed with these two Mao Xiongguo girls.

I didn't find it here in Liulichang, and I will meet these two people.

The two of them should have taken a fancy to something and were negotiating with the manager of the store.

"broken."

"What's wrong, what's broken?"

"Brother Tu said he went to get me some wine this afternoon. I wonder if he has passed?"

"Yang Yukun, why don't we stop shopping and go back?"

"It's okay, let him wait."

Going shopping with your wife is more important than other things, let Mao Tutu wait first.

Wait for him to go back in a while, and then bring him the wine.

Yang Yukun didn't bother the bargaining manager and the two Mao Xiongguo girls, and took Xu Jingping for a stroll in the store.

This shop mainly sells jade articles, with a small amount of jadeite added.

Most of them are new items, very few old items.

However, the value of jade and emerald has little to do with whether it is old or new. It mainly depends on the material and craftsmanship.

Of course, this is not absolute, but relatively speaking.

Some ancient jades are of immeasurable value, such as the Qing Qianlong White Jade Round Seal in front of us.

Yang Yukun looked at the price, it was not expensive, only a few hundred dollars.

Originally, I just wanted to come in to pick out two gifts for Xu Jingping, but I didn't expect him to come across such a good item, and it would be a pity not to keep it in his pocket.

"This jadeite bracelet is also good, Xu Jingping, try it."

Yang Yukun picked up a jade bracelet and put it on Xu Jingping's wrist.

"Just the right size."

"it's beautiful."

"Like it?"

"I like it, it's too expensive."

This jadeite bracelet is full of emerald green, very beautiful, Xu Jingping likes it very much, but the price is too expensive.

"nice! You love it."

Yang Yukun walked around the shop and found another white jade pen holder and a string of emerald necklaces in his hand.

The four things together cost more than 300 yuan.

That Qianlong white jade round seal was the most expensive, costing more than 500 yuan.

Among these four items, except for the emerald necklace from the Republic of China period, the other three items are all old items from the Qing Dynasty.

"Xu Jingping, here it is for you."

"Send it to me, it's not a year or a festival, and it's not my birthday, why did you give me something?"

"At any rate, we have been childhood sweethearts since we were young. Thinking about it, we haven't given you any gifts for so many years. These three things should be regarded as my token of love for you."

"Hee hee...Yang Yukun, you also know that you haven't given me any presents in so many years, so I won't be polite."

"Which one of us is with whom? If we don't talk about each other, why are you being polite to me?"

Yang Yukun gave the pen holder, jade bracelet and jade necklace to Xu Jingping.

This pen holder is a white jade Helu Tongchun pen holder from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is very exquisitely carved and very beautiful.

The pen container on the desk in Xu Jingping's room is a bamboo tube.

With this white jade pen holder, that unpretentious bamboo holder can be thrown away from now on.

The jadeite bracelet is also an imperial green jadeite bracelet from the Qing Dynasty.

The emerald necklace is a necklace composed of emerald beads, rubies and diamonds.

At the top is a top-quality ruby ​​surrounded by diamonds, matched with 29 imperial green emerald beads with a diameter of [-] mm.

As for the round imperial seal inscribed with white jade by Qianlong, Yang Yukun plans to keep it for himself.

In this store, apart from these four things, other things are also good.

But Yang Yukun didn't buy all the things in the store.

One is that the remaining items are not very valuable for him to collect, and there is no need to collect them.

The second is that he is almost out of money in his pocket now, and it seems that he has to find a way to earn some money.

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When Bao Yuxuan came out, it was getting late, and the two of them were not going to continue shopping.

Just when the two of them were about to leave Liulichang and go back to the alley, they ran into the two Maoxiongguo girls whom they met in Baoyuxuan just now.

"Hello."

The two Maoxiongguo girls took the initiative to greet Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping.

Yang Yukun asked suspiciously, "Call us?"

"Could you please take a picture for us?"

"Student Xu Jingping, what do you think?"

"can."

"Our family leader agreed, okay, I'll take pictures for you."

Yang Yukun took the camera and snapped a few photos of the two Mao Xiongguo girls.

Unexpectedly, the two Mao Xiongguo girls were not satisfied and insisted on inviting them to take a group photo together. Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping took a few more group photos with them.

"Thank you, my name is Aurora and her name is Adelina."

"Yang Yukun, this is my daughter-in-law Xu Jingping."

"Your daughter-in-law, you got married at such a young age?"

"Baby, when we both reach the national legal marriage age in a few years, we will register for marriage."

"Doll kiss?"

"It was when we were both very young that our parents made this marriage for us."

"Wow, you really are a match made in heaven."

"Thank you, so to speak, we are childhood sweethearts who grew up together."

Aurora said, "Yang Yukun, Xu Jingping, you two are the first friends we met when we came to Xiaguo. We can make you two friends. Our trip to Xiaguo is very successful. We will leave early the morning after tomorrow. Mao Xiong is in the country, tomorrow afternoon we will treat you to dinner at the Imperial Hotel to celebrate our friendship."

Yang Yukun shook his head, "Not tomorrow, my master will celebrate his birthday tomorrow."

When someone treats a guest to a restaurant, Yang Yukun usually agrees.

Not tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month, and his master is celebrating his 55th birthday. As an apprentice, he has to drink a few glasses of wine with his master.

"Your master celebrates his birthday, can Adelina and I have dinner together?"

"Of course, my master will be very happy if he knows that there are two such beautiful ladies going to celebrate his birthday. Courtyard No. 130, Qianmenlouzi Rouge Hutong, you just say they are my friends in the past."

"Okay, then Adelina and I will go there tomorrow, just before we leave, to feel the folk atmosphere of the Xia Kingdom."

During the conversation, Yang Yukun and Xu Jingping learned that one of the two hairy Xiongguo girls was named Aurora and the other was Ajielina.

Both of them are from the Port of the Five Seas of Maoxiong Country, graduated from the Port of the Five Seas University, and are journalists.

The two of them were very curious about Xia Guo, so they took a trip to Xia Guo when the relationship between Xia Guo and Mao Xiong Guo was slightly relaxed compared with before.

They planned to stay in the imperial capital of the Xia Kingdom for a week, and tomorrow would be their last day in the Xia Kingdom, and they would leave for the Port of the Five Seas early the morning after tomorrow.

The two volunteered to attend his master's birthday banquet, Yang Yukun naturally would not refuse.

He has to go to school tomorrow and has no time to pick them up.

When the time comes, the two of them can just go there directly, and just report his name directly when they go to the place.

"Yang Yukun, Xu Jingping, see you tomorrow."

"Aurora, Adelina, goodbye."

Before they knew it, it was getting dark and the four of them separated at the intersection of Liulichang.

Aurora and Ajielina went back to the Imperial Hotel, Yang Yukun dragged Xu Jingping back to the alley.

"Dad, Mom, we're back."

"Uncle, aunt."

Xu Huizhen said, "Where did you two go? Why did you come back so late? It's already dark. If you two don't come back, your dad is going to go out to find you."

"Yang Yukun and I went to Quanjude to eat roast duck, and then went to Liulichang for a while."

Seeing her second daughter twisting something in her hand, Xu Huizhen asked, "What's in your hand?"

"Yang Yukun gave me a gift." Xu Jingping entered the room, "Master Niu, Master Pianer, you two are here too."

Master Niu said, "It's okay to be idle, come over to chat with your parents, Jingping, show me the object in your hand."

"Give."

"White jade pen holder, imperial green bracelet, imperial green necklace, good things, Xiao Kun, you kid gave the dowry so early?"

Yang Yukun smiled and said, "That's right, the betrothal gift is down now, and in a few years we will directly receive the certificate and hold the banquet. Then please always be the witness for us two."

"Okay, on the day you two get the certificate, the witness will write my name on the marriage certificate."

Master Pian'er smiled and said, "Xiaokun, Jingping, I also want to be your witness."

"Succeed, please ask your two elders to witness the marriage for us."

Two witnesses are also fine, so I will ask Master Niu and Master Pian'er to be witnesses for him and Xu Jingping.

The officiant, when the time comes, let the master and his old man come.

But it is still too early to say these things. According to the current legal marriage age, males are twenty and females are eighteen, and he has to wait four years before turning 20, that is, in [-], which is still early.

"Mom, where are Eldest Sister and Jingtian, where did they go?"

"Going to play, I went out after dinner, I should be back soon."

"I'm going home first."

Xu Jingping took the white jade pen holder, imperial green jadeite bracelet, and imperial green jadeite necklace back to her room and put them away.

This is a gift from Yang Yukun to her, and she must cherish it carefully.

She is still a student now, and the bracelets and necklaces are not suitable for wearing out, so put them away first.

This white jade pen holder, Xu Jingping was reluctant to use it to hold a pen, put it on the desk as an ornament to admire.

(End of this chapter)