759. Congratulatory gifts
It would be too rude to open the gifts in front of the guests, the old lady hesitated slightly, Liu Dagongzi intended to show off his own generosity, and also echoed Song Lanzhi said, "Grandmother, take it apart to see if it suits grandmother's wishes, if you don't like it, catch Ming'er and send it to grandmother who likes it!"
"It's okay!" the old lady nodded, signaled Silk String to step forward and open the gift box, everyone saw this and came close to stretch their necks to probe into the gift box, and sure enough, they saw Silk String take out an antique picture scroll from it, and called Yueqin to come over to take a hand, and the two of them held the picture scroll and slowly unfolded it.
When the scroll was first unfolded, Zhan felt a little familiar, and when it was a quarter of the way out, the familiar picture made Zhan's heart begin to beat wildly, and his face began to stiffen, but the others were unaware of it, only staring at the scroll, and then looking at the old lady, the old lady's expression was not surprised by the others, and it was obvious that she had not yet recognized the painting.
Seeing that most of the painting had been unfolded, and the final nomination was about to be revealed, Zhan's heart was even more panicked, and he subconsciously wanted to retreat and leave, only to take half a step back and bump into someone, and when he looked back, he found that he had been surrounded by people watching the excitement, and he couldn't get out of it, looking at Zhan's panicked appearance, Zhou and Yao Keqing looked at each other and smiled.
The picture scroll was finally fully unfolded, revealing the powerful font "Winter Banquet Picture", which may not be familiar to the people of the Song family, but there are few people in the Song family who have not heard of these words, before Song Lanxiang and Song Lanzhi had a dispute over this painting and tore up the painting, which led to the fake.
"How...... How is ...... Is this painting ......" Song Lanzhi's jaw was about to fall in shock, and she couldn't help whispering, she was too familiar with this painting, she had borrowed it from her grandmother to observe it, although she only borrowed it as a fake.
The old lady was also shocked, this painting was obviously her own, how could it fall into the hands of the Liu family, what happened in it? Thinking of the pair of glass plates, the old lady turned back to look for Zhan, and sure enough, she saw Zhan's panic on his face, and his face was suddenly covered with dark clouds.
Liu Dagongzi originally wanted to show off his generosity, but he didn't expect the picture scroll to unfold, but everyone's expressions were not like amazing, more like fright, especially his mother-in-law, as if he had seen a ghost's expression, and he felt something strange so he asked people to roll up the picture scroll and reload it into the gift box, "This is the true work of the painting saint, it is the treasure of my father, and I hereby honor my grandmother, and I hope that my grandmother will not dislike it!"
In front of so many guests, no matter how angry the old lady was, she could only endure it, took the gift box and said with a smile, "You have a heart!" Although she smiled, she no longer had the same enthusiasm as before, Song Lanzhi sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, and hurriedly pulled her husband away, "Let's go and say goodbye to my father!"
Song Lanzhi and his wife left in a hurry, the old lady looked at the gift box and swept the Zhan family, and suddenly fell on Yao Keqing, "Qinghe's daughter-in-law is a person who knows how to paint, I will leave this painting to you for safekeeping!"
The old lady had something to say, but Yao Keqing understood, and stepped forward to take the gift box under Zhan's gaze, "Yes, granddaughter-in-law must keep it properly!"
The old lady nodded, "Then you go back first, and you will send it back when I want it back!" Just in case, the old lady didn't let Yao Keqing stay any longer.
Yao Keqing went down with the gift box, and Zhan could only watch!
Jiang is still old and spicy, the old lady seems to feel that the people in the Hou Mansion can no longer be trusted, before her paintings can be replaced by people unconsciously, and now others can also repeat the old tricks, so this painting can't leave her eyes, but she still has to socialize all day, can't hold the painting all day, and has no time to investigate the painting at all, but staying in the Guogong Mansion She is worried that the Zhan family will destroy the evidence, and the only way to send things away is the safest.
And Yao Keqing is the only one who has nothing to do with the people in the Hou Mansion, and will not help anyone, although the old lady does not like Yao Keqing, but she still recognizes Yao Keqing's character, so she is relieved to hand over the painting to Yao Keqing for safekeeping.
The painting was given to Yao Keqing, Zhan was desperate, but Zhou was relieved, and thoughtfully helped the old lady and said softly, "Grandmother is tired for a long time, but you want to go down to rest?"
The old lady nodded, remembering that because of Zhou's lack of appearance over the years, she had listened to Zhan's words, and she didn't want to see Zhou, she felt guilty, and patted Zhou's hand, "You are a good boy, I have wronged you all these years!"
Zhou smiled softly, "Being able to serve her grandmother is the greatest blessing for her granddaughter-in-law, and her granddaughter-in-law doesn't feel wronged at all!"
The old lady was greatly moved, and when the Zhou family became closer and closer, she would be by Zhou's side throughout the next time to show her love.
Liu eldest prince was left by Song Si to speak, Song Lanzhi went to find his mother Zhan, after the old lady went down to rest, Zhan also hurried back to the room, fidgeting and thinking about countermeasures, seeing his daughter coming, his eyes lit up, grabbed her and said hurriedly, "Go to your fourth sister-in-law, just say that you still want to see that painting, and then take the opportunity to destroy that painting!"
"What painting?" When the old lady handed over the painting to Yao Keqing, Song Lanzhi and his wife had already left, so Song Lanzhi didn't know that "Winter Banquet Picture" was already in Yao Keqing's hands.
"It's the one my uncle brought just now!"
Song Lanzhi was stunned, "Mother, what's wrong with you? It was a congratulatory gift from her husband to her grandmother, how could it be ruined?"
Zhan paused for a long time, the family affair was completed, there was no room for regret, and there were no scruples, and finally decided to tell the truth to his daughter, "This painting is actually the old lady's!
Song Lanzhi was stunned for a moment before she realized that the painting she borrowed from her grandmother was the one she brought from Liu's family as a congratulatory gift today, but how did her grandmother's painting get to Liu......'s family?
When she saw Zhan's face, Song Lanzhi suddenly understood, "It turns out that my mother asked me to borrow the painting from yesterday just to drop the bag, right?
Zhan asked Song Lanzhi to borrow the painting again, and deliberately led Song Lanxiang to make trouble, took the opportunity to destroy the painting, and proposed to let Yao Keqing repair it, in order to blame Yao Keqing for the crime of dropping the bag, but he didn't expect the fake to be recognized by Yao Keqing on the spot, the plan failed, but Sun's got the fake and sold it, she went to great lengths to let people buy the painting, but the silver was taken, but the painting was swept away, and now I think about it, I still feel birthday.
"Now is not the time to say!" Zhan stabilized his mind and continued to persuade his daughter, "If this painting is not destroyed, the old lady will definitely pursue the matter after the banquet, and then your mother and I will ......."
Zhan played a bitter card, Song Lanzhi couldn't bear it, but she didn't agree, "Mother first tell me why you dropped Grandmother Bao's painting, and why did the painting appear in Liu's house!"