shed this morning and picked up the wrong box for the jade! This piece is our family heirloom; it can't be given away. Please let them go back and exchange it!" Jia Yaoci's mother said to Lu Guozhang...Chapter 59: The Gift from Mr. Wan Hongguang and His Wife

Momentarily, Zhang Dapeng's mind cleared up, and with a sense of urgency, he pushed aside the crowd to walk up to Mr. Wan Hongguang: "Mayor Wan, you came without even giving me a heads-up! I could have arranged for the committee members to pick you up!"

At this time, Lu Guozhang also followed behind and walked over: "Mayor Wan..."...

Lu Guozhang was utterly confused at that moment. In his mind, he wondered if the secretary of the Ancient City Municipal Committee had come to attend his grandson's first birthday banquet only to be berated by relatives

The entire hall, including Jia Youcai who was just yelling moments ago, were all dumbfounded. Zhang Dapeng and Lu Guozhang both showed such respect to this person that it left everyone bewildered.

"Whoosh..."

At this moment, the civil servants in the hall and Secretary Li Delu of the Municipal Party Committee also recognized Wan Hongguang. They all involuntarily sucked in their breaths. When Li Delu looked at Lu Guozhang, his face changed entirely; he never expected that Lu Guozhang's hidden connections were so profound that they could get a secretary from Ancient City to attend his grandson’s full-year-old banquet. It should be noted that Ancient City oversees two county-level cities and seven counties, and Wan Hongguang is truly one of the city's local potentates.

Actually, Lu Guozhang was also puzzled about why Wan Hongguang would come to attend his grandson’s full-year-old banquet.

Lu Jianhong just stared at everything happening. He had recognized these people as his brother-in-law's friends when he saw them outside the hotel earlier and wondered how his brother-in-law managed to meet the secretary of Ancient City in such a short period of time.

"Jianhong, what’s wrong" Xiao Yu didn’t know what was happening and reached out to tug at her husband who stood there dazed.

Lu Jianhong snapped out of it and smiled, saying: "That friend of Xiaoyu's is the secretary of Ancient City!" He then pointed towards Wan Hongguang with his finger.

"Ah....."

Xiao Yu uttered a cry of surprise and quickly covered her mouth. Looking at Wan Hongguang, she then glanced at her brother. Xiao Yu felt that something about her brother had changed since he returned this time; he seemed very mysterious, having not only earned a large sum of money from some fortunate buys but also befriending the Secretary of the Ancient City Municipal Committee. Furthermore, yesterday her brother hadn’t done anything yet was experiencing shortness of breath and dizziness. All these changes were making it difficult for Xiao Yu to adjust.

However, Xiao Yu quickly adjusted herself; no matter how much Xioa Yue changed, he would always be her younger brother.

Wan Hongguang shook hands with Zhang Dapeng and then shook hands with Lu Guozhang who had followed behind. He said, "I came here today in a personal capacity to attend my nephew's first birthday banquet, so I didn't inform everyone."

The moment Wan Hongguang finished speaking, the people in the hall who were watching Xiao Yue and gloating over his misfortune immediately focused their gazes on Xiao Yue standing beside the main table. Just now, when Wan Hongguang said he was giving a gift to his nephew instead of his grandson or something else, everyone naturally guessed it had something to do with Xiao Yue.

Lu Guozhang’s expression changed several times like a Sichuan opera performer changing faces, as he always looked down on his daughter-in-law's family for their average background. But now the Secretary of the Ancient City Municipal Committee was here giving gifts to the child under the pretense of it being for his nephew; anyone could see that Wan Hongguang was trying to save face for Xiao Yue! And Lu Guozhang was merely an acting vice-mayor of a county-level city; he felt this slap from the Xioa family sting indeed!

When Zhang Dapeng looked at Lu Guozhang, his eyes revealed a strange expression. From the previous series of events, he knew that Lu Guozhang looked down on his mother-in-law’s family and allowed Jia Youcai to rant all he wanted without a care in the world. But did he not realize that if Jia Youcai humiliated his mother-in-law's family, wasn’t it tantamount to humiliating him

Moreover, there was also a powerful backer behind them; just now, Wan Hongguang, an acting bureau-level Secretary of the Municipal Committee, had immediately helped return the favor after their Lu Family had humiliated him.

Wan Hongguang took out a golden long-life amulet from his bag and hung it around the child's neck.

The people in the hall, including Zhang Dapeng and Lu Guozhang, all turned pale when they saw Wan Hongguang take out a golden amulet. They originally thought that even if Wan Hongguang brought gifts, they would just be symbolic tokens, but never did they expect him to bring such an expensive long-life amulet, which is usually only given by very close relatives.

"Commissar Wan, this really isn’t necessary!" Seeing the valuable gift from Wan Hongguang, Xiao Yu quickly said.

"Sis, have you forgotten You should call him big brother!" When Wan Hongguang heard Xiao Yu's words, he put on a serious expression and said.

"Brother Wan, it’s such an expensive gift..."

"Expensive or not, it's just a token of my appreciation!" Wan Hongguang waved his hand to interrupt Xiao Yu.

"That's right. Old Wan is giving the child a first birthday present. If you don't accept it, it won't be auspicious," Song Hualing walked out and said to Xiao Yu.

Immediately after, Song Hualing took off the jade bracelet on his wrist and placed it in front of the baby, saying, "Baby, this is an auntie's gift for you!"

Seeing that Song Huaping had taken off his own bracelet, everyone was puzzled. Yesterday when they talked about it, Song Huaping hadn't mentioned giving anything! Moreover, he gave away his own jade bracelet, which seemed very unlikely given how he usually acted. And judging from the way Song Huaping behaved before and after meeting Xiao Yu today, there must be something to do with Xiao Yu. But what caused such a change in him was unknown.

"Jadeite of ice variety" The moment Song Huaping put the bracelet on the table, an elderly man around sixty years old exclaimed in surprise.

The crowd immediately focused their attention on this elderly man. Someone beside the elderly man asked, "Boss Gu, what's going on"

As Boss Gu walked to the child and carefully examined the bracelet, he saw the jade Xiao Yu had given and the one Jia Yaocai had sent in a flash. Then, Boss Gu took out a magnifying glass from his pocket and scrutinized both jades several times before looking at Jia Yaocai with a strange expression.

Originally, when he saw that even Lu Guozhang couldn't provoke the official who came, and since he had just scolded them, Jia Yaocai hid behind the crowd. However, seeing Boss Gu examining the jade he sent, he jumped out again with a smug look on his face and said to Boss Gu, "Boss Gu, isn’t the jade I gave quite good"

"Indeed, indeed, it’s really excellent! The luster of this jade can rival that of glass!" With an odd expression, Boss Gu looked at Jia Yaocai. But since Jia Yaocai was also a celebrity in the city and Boss Gu didn’t want to offend him, he spoke like that.

Those who do not know Boss Gu or are unfamiliar with him all think that Boss Gu is praising the jade that Jia Yaocai sent as being good! But those familiar with Boss Gu know that he often speaks in this manner when saying something sarcastic. Therefore, a few people in the crowd who knew Boss Gu were taken aback upon hearing his words and then looked at Jia Yaocai, who was still boasting proudly about himself, with odd expressions.

"Boss Gu, what did you just say about the ice variety" One person asked when they saw Boss Gu return after looking over the items.

Boss Gu was taken aback and only then remembered that he had gone to look at something. He sighed and said, "The lady who sent this gift has a good eye! It’s an authentic jade bracelet from an old mine pit of the imperial variety with an ice-like appearance and bright green hues! Its market value is no less than three million yuan!"

"What!"

"Three million"

…………

The moment Boss Gu finished speaking, exclamations of surprise rang out throughout the hall. Lu Guozhang, Lu Jianhong, and Xiao Yu were all stunned by what he had said. The only thought in their minds was ‘over three million yuan ……’

Xiao Yu recovered first and quickly picked up the jade bracelet on the table to hand it back to Song Hualing: "Sister Song, this is too valuable! I can’t accept such a gift!"

"That’s right! Sister Song, you shouldn’t give us such an expensive bracelet," said Xiao Yu didn’t expect that Song Hualing would have given them something so precious.

Song Huiling held out her hand to block the jade bracelet Xiao Yu was trying to return and said: "Since you call me ‘sister,’ you should accept this gift from me. Moreover, this is a first birthday present for your child. Furthermore, it’s not much money for Yu." After saying that, she looked at Xiao Yu with significant meaning.

Xiao Yu had a hard time looking to his brother and after thinking about it for a while he nodded at his sister, signaling her to accept the gift. Xiao Yu reluctantly accepted the jade bracelet.ng Wang Jun was different; with Wang Jun's current momentum, advancing one or two steps further wouldn't be much of a problem. If Liu Yong kept working under Wang Jun for several more years, once he c...