In the main room of the north courtyard, a lively sound came from the house.

Xu Zhiling, who was dressed in a gorgeous costume, walked in front of the old lady with a twist, grabbed the old lady's arm very intimately, and said with a complaining face: "Mother, your birthday is a big event, I said that you will be bigger than one, and the drama troupe and the restaurant, I asked Wei'er to show you a good look, but you pushed it!" Speaking of this, Xu Zhiling pointed to the old lady's house, and said with a disgusted look: "Look at your house? What did the stains~ look shabby? This person who knows, will say that you are thrifty and low-key, and you don't like extravagance and waste! Those who don't know will still say that we are ignorant and unfilial as children! Mother, what do you want your daughter-in-law to be? ”

As she spoke, Xu Zhiling looked like a little girl, pretending to be angry and turned her face to the side.

Cheng Lan knew that her daughter-in-law was doing this just to let her have a beautiful birthday banquet and make her happy! But I'm old, what kind of scene haven't I seen, what kind of limelight hasn't experienced life? She is a person who has buried most of her body in the loess, can she still account for these ethereal things?

Cheng Lan patted Xu Zhiling's arm, a faint smile appeared on her wrinkled face, and she said earnestly: "My mother has lived for such a long time, and I have earned it, and many 'old witches' of my mother's age are no longer in this world, but my mother is ......."

"Mother, what do you see? Why do you say such things on such a festive day, the hearts of those who listen are panicked! Xu Zhiling interrupted Cheng Lan's words, glanced at Long Hua, and smiled: "Mother's health will definitely be able to live a long life!" You say yes, sir? ”

"Ah~ Oh, that's it!" Xu Zhiling's words were a little abrupt, and Long Hua didn't react for a while, and his face was inevitably a little embarrassed.

"Hehe, live a long life? Don't count on it, don't count on it! Your mother and I are 'old witches' ourselves, if you are living a long life? Wouldn't you become an 'old monster'? Hehe, your filial piety, my mother has it! Mother is so old, I don't want anything, as long as you can be harmonious~"

Speaking of the word "harmony", the old lady Cheng Lan deliberately elongated her tone and glanced at Xu Zhiling, and then at Tian Xue, and their faces changed suddenly, which was very ugly. The meaning of the old lady's words, they naturally understood. In the end, Cheng Lan played a round with a smiley face. "Hehe, as long as you can come over from time to time to have a meal with my old wife, I will be satisfied! Satisfied! Haha~"

Seeing the old lady laughing, Xu Zhiling and Tian Xue laughed with embarrassment, but their laughter was reluctant and not very harmonious, and even Long Hua, who was often not in Longfu on weekdays, saw some clues.

At this time, Xu Zhiling, who has always been clever, suddenly turned around and made a color to his maid, who immediately walked forward with a tray of cloth.

"Mother, look at what this is?" Xu Zhiling opened a piece of silk in his hand with a mysterious face, and everyone immediately became blind.

It is a small rectangular silk cloth, and what is even more unexpected is that there is a lifelike image of Guanyin painted on it, Guanyin holds a willow branch in one hand and a net bottle in the other, which means to save suffering and save all sentient beings.

Cheng Lan immediately changed her smile into a look of astonishment, she had been fasting and chanting Buddha for many years, and she naturally liked it when she saw Guanyin, but how could this image of Guanyin still look shining, and she couldn't help but stretch out her rough old hand and touch it, her face was stunned: "Zhiling, what's the matter?" How can I touch this image of Guanyin as if I am touching a pearl? ”

"What, Pearl?" Everyone was stunned, and their eyes shot at Xu Zhiling's body like a sharp sword "whoosh".

Xu Zhiling smiled faintly, glanced at everyone with an arrogant face, his eyes finally fell on Cheng Lan's body, and said slowly: "Mother, you are really good eyesight!" This image of Guanyin was indeed pasted by the daughter-in-law with pearls! ”

"What? Sticking it with pearls? And in a moment the crowd began to talk about it.

"How many pearls do you get?"

"yes, what kind of adhesive glue can stick the pearls one by one? Such a small pearl is almost invisible to the naked eye, how many pearls does it take, and how much effort does it take? ”

Without waiting for Xu Zhiling to answer, a melancholy and seductive male voice suddenly came.

"This pearl Guanyin diagram is made of South China Sea pearls after three years and six months to polish them into 3,699 small pearls one by one, and then paste them one by one with Beihai super glue, which took my mother half a year to complete, in order to surprise your grandmother!"

With the prestige, a handsome and handsome man in purple walked in slowly with elegant steps, and then walked in the direction of the old lady.

"Weier?"

"Second Young Master?"

The crowd looked stunned. That's right, it was the second young master Long Tianwei who walked in. Long Tianwei smiled lightly, walked in front of the old lady, landed on his legs, and said very respectfully: "Grandson wishes grandma a long life and good health!" ”

"Hehe, get up! Weier is really getting more and more sensible! The old lady looked at Xu Zhiling while helping Long Tianwei up, obviously saying this sentence to Xu Zhiling.

Xu Zhiling's eyebrows glanced at Tian Xue, and saw that she had a dark face, as if someone owed her much money. But it's no wonder that the old lady was able to come up with such a valuable gift at her birthday banquet, and she dared to conclude that Tian Xue's gift was definitely not as good as herself, and it was not surprising that she lost her color.

To say that this pearl Guanyin picture was bought by Xu Zhiling's brother Xu Yuan from a foreign merchant at a high price. In fact, it is just good-looking, and pearls are just ordinary pearls, far less complex and precious than Long Tianwei said, it is just a trick made up by their mother and son to make the old lady happy.

And the reason why Xu Zhiling dared to do this was naturally because she knew the old lady and had already grasped the old lady's weakness. One is that she doesn't understand pearls at all, and the other is that she doesn't care about the value of pearls at all, she knows that what the old lady likes is the sincerity of worshipping the Buddha, because this picture is Guanyin, which is the Guanyin that the old lady Cheng Lan believes in the most. Therefore, Xu Zhiling concluded that she would definitely like it.

As the saying goes, you have to give a gift to your liking in order to get twice the result with half the effort. In these aspects, Xu Zhiling is many times better than Tian Xue.

However, Xu Zhiling is not a fool, although this pearl view picture is very ordinary, but it also painted her a thousand taels of gold. It's fake to say that you don't feel distressed, but Xu Zhiling's drunkard doesn't mean to drink, although she gave the gift to the old lady, but her ultimate goal is the master's opinion. If you can leave an excellent impression on the old lady in front of the old lady and make the old man's attitude towards Wei'er change, it will be worth it!

It didn't take long for her to know that she had made the right bet!