Chapter 737 Enjoying Yourself

Zhang Yiren looked at Bai Yunxi's troubled expression and patted her hand, "Since Brother Yu said it, you can go ahead.

"Aunt Bai, just don't worry, no one dares to make trouble on grandma's birthday. Besides, I have already boasted in front of grandma. If you don't go, how shameless will I be?"

Xie Yu said this and bowed his head to Baiyunxi to the ground, full of sincerity.

"As for the aunt and nephew, Aunt Bai doesn't need to take it to heart. You are the honored guest I invited and it has nothing to do with them."

He is the eldest son of the family and the future head of the family. If the stepmother is kind, she can be raised in the family. If the stepmother is unkind, she will be raised in the same family, but the quality will be different.

Since he became an adult, Mr. Ma has also known this, and every day he has tried his best to pull things for himself and fight for the interests of his half-brother.

It's a pity that all she can move is the few things from the palace, and apart from the expenses of the palace, there isn't much left. Most of the remaining money is in the hands of her grandmother and father, and her father allocates money for the expenses of the house every month. Even if she saves money through her teeth, it won't be much.

As long as she could meet the expenses of the government, neither her father nor her grandmother would pay attention to her little tricks, so she would stare at the public accounts of the government every month and dig through them carefully to live her life.

Of course, people are greedy, and their appetites will grow bigger and bigger. From time to time, she wants to take advantage of his private property. Knowing her greed, unfortunately, she didn't get any benefits once or twice, so she didn't dare to Moved easily.

This time it was her grandmother's birthday, and she was also trying hard to make it big and show off her merits in front of her grandmother and father. She just wants people to trust her to be a good steward of the family and take advantage of the opportunity to get some benefits.

If she were smarter, she wouldn't dare to make any small moves on her grandmother's birthday, unless she wanted to be disliked by her grandmother and take back the power to run the family.

Listening to Xie Yu's thoughts, Bai Yunxi couldn't help but tremble at the corner of her mouth. Ma had been trying hard to establish the image of a good wife and mother, but it had long since collapsed in people's minds. I wonder if she knows it personally?

People didn't care at all about the things she had worked so hard to get. When she was so complacent and thought she was reaping the benefits, people tacitly allowed her to touch the things... I wonder if she would find it ridiculous once she understood this.

At this moment, Baiyunxi felt more and more the importance of education and knowledge.

After Bai Yunxi sighed, he raised his hand and pulled off the red sandalwood hairpin on his head, and couldn't help but chuckle,

"If I had known earlier that you would invite me to the birthday banquet, just to save trouble, I would have given up the hairpin."

Anyway, this thing is not necessary for her.

She simply couldn't stand Ma's green tea look and didn't want to spoil her.

"You can't say that, everything is fate, which proves that this hairpin belongs to you.

Zhang Yiren saw Bai Yunxi pretending to be annoyed, smiled, took the hairpin in her hand, and tied it in her bun.

"Brother Yu, what do you think?"

"My aunt said it naturally and politely. My stepmother may not know that my grandmother has a set of old red sandalwood hairpins and bracelets, which are rare and unique. My grandmother said that they were the bottom of the box that my grandmother gave to my mother. My mother felt that the red sandalwood was suitable for my grandmother. Just forward it to her.”

"Every time grandma takes it out and wipes it, she can't help but talk about it."

Xie Yu glanced at the red sandalwood hairpin on Baiyunxi's head. The color alone was lacking, and all it lacked was the moisture of time.

Now that the conversation had come to this point, it was inappropriate for Bai Yunxi to refuse any more. He looked into Xie Yu's eyes and cleared his throat.

"Ahem~, let's make an agreement first. I can go, and I can also ensure that we only have a low-key meal and don't cause trouble. But if someone comes in front of me, I may not be able to help it. If it disturbs your grandmother's birthday party, you guys Just don’t blame me.”

"Don't worry, Aunt Bai, no one dares to be so indifferent." Xie Yu thanked him with his hands, said a few more words, and then stood up and left.

Bai Yunxi sent the person to the door. Zhang Yiren put down the tea cup and sighed softly,

"This is the advantage of the eldest son. Although the stepmother is also a senior citizen, she still has to be polite in front of the eldest son. When Ma entered the Xie family, she chose the wrong path from the beginning. After that, she could only rely on My son, I’m afraid there is no hope for Brother Yu.”

Although the eldest son can call his stepmother mother, it is only a matter of seniority respect, and more of a respect for his father. If the quarrel with his stepmother is not good, the father's face will not look good either.

But as the eldest son, he can inherit most of the family's property, and then other children. The quality of the stepmother's life in her later years depends on the kindness of the eldest son.

Of course, if you are rich, it doesn't matter whether your legitimate son is filial or not. But if you don't take care of yourself, you will have to live dependent on others in your later years.

After hearing Zhang Yiren's emotion, Bai Yunxi thought about it and agreed. If you can't even rely on your own son, it's a joke to rely on an outsider.

"She has a son of her own, so why does she still want to rely on other people's sons to support her in her old age?"

"Then you have to rely on your own son. As the eldest son, Brother Yu can inherit 70% of the family property in the future, which will be used to maintain the family's growth, and the rest belongs to other brothers. If the family property is rich, 10% or 20% is also good. If you have many brothers and a poor family, as an old man, you will naturally want to live with your eldest son to ensure your life in your old age. "

Zhang Yiren looked into Bai Yunxi's eyes and sighed softly.

"Let's not talk about the Xie family's family background. The private property left to Brother Yu by his biological mother alone is enough to make others envious. Coupled with the Xie family's ancestral property, no one can shake his status. This is also the cause of the farce. "

It's a pity that Mr. Ma has a small plan. Even with the support of County Magistrate Xie, he can't hold back so much wealth.

Listening to Zhang Yiren's words with a hint of meaning, Bai Yunxi could imagine a drama of property disputes in her mind without asking in detail.

Anyway, in the end, Ma was defeated.

After seeing Zhang Yiren off, Bai Yunxi sat in the yard, poured herself a glass of water, and thought about the birthday gift she would give the day after tomorrow.

She didn't need to make elaborate preparations for the birthday of the old lady of the Xie family, as long as the meaning was good and auspicious.

Seeing that it was getting late, Bai Yunxi got up and stir-fried the half chicken left over from yesterday, and stewed it with small mushrooms.

Bai Yunxi was still worried until Du and Wenyou came back.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" She was fine when she went out, why are you worried?

Bai Yunxi told her about Xie Yu inviting her to the banquet, "Although I haven't met her, it's a birthday after all, so I still have to prepare a gift."

Hearing the tone of her mother-in-law, Du was stunned. Isn't Xie Yu's grandmother the mother of the county magistrate?

If they hadn't known Mr. Xie, they would never have seen the imperial family in their lifetime.

"If we had known in advance, we could have embroidered a birthday picture in advance. It would have a good meaning and wouldn't be difficult, but it certainly wouldn't be finished in one day."