"Mr. Yan, this is a little thought from our family, please accept it."
Zhang Yuzhen also noticed that Mr. Yan did not reject Xu Tian's attitude.
She didn't want Xu Tian and the others to steal the limelight, so she hurriedly took out the birthday gift she had prepared in front of everyone.
"This is the ice jade Guanyin we found at the antique market. I hope you like it, grandpa."
This jadeite Guanyin was bought by Zhang Yuzhen after dragging on the relationship between her good sisters. The jadeite is well grown, and the market price is already hundreds of thousands.
The Yan family is a big tree to them, and they must curry favor with Mr. Yan.
And because Xu Tian's behavior just now made their family lose face, Zhang Yuzhen wanted to win the favor of Mr. Yan with this rare jade ornament.
"I'm determined."
Mr. Yan did not reach out to pick up the Jade Guanyin, but asked the waiter around him to place it on the table where gifts were piled nearby.
Although he said nothing, Zhang Yuzhen could still tell from his reaction that the old man was still satisfied with the gift.
Zhang Yuzhen breathed a sigh of relief, her back straightened, and she felt elated.
Su Weixin stared at Xu Tian who had nothing in his hand with disdain, and said sarcastically:
"Xu Tian, you came to see grandpa for the first time today. You didn't prepare any gifts at all. Did you come here empty-handed to eat for free?"
"Weixin, you must not be so ignorant of etiquette like him. No matter how valuable the gift is, the most important thing is the thought. Although the gifts we give are ordinary in the eyes of Mr. Yan, Mr. Yan can feel your filial piety.
Naturally I won’t dislike it either.”
Zhang Yuzhen saw that Xu Tian did not have a gift in his hand, so she naturally would not miss any opportunity to step on Xu Tian.
"grandfather?"
Xu Tian sneered when he heard this, and turned to look at Su Weixin: "Why didn't I know that you also changed your surname to Yan?"
As soon as Xu Tian said this, the surrounding guests looked at Su Weixin and others with subtle expressions.
Su Weixin and Zhang Yuzhen also looked disheveled and looked very embarrassed.
If we really want to compare, the Zhang Yuzhen family actually has nothing to do with the Yan family.
However, Su Weixin openly called Mr. Yan grandpa, which was indeed a bit suspicious of a relationship.
Just now Zhang Yuzhen openly and secretly mocked Xu Tian, his godson, as an outsider, but in fact even Xu Tian was considered by Su Weixin to be more qualified to call Mr. Yan grandpa.
"Xu Tian, you!"
Zhang Yuzhen was about to have a seizure, but was grabbed by Su Mingli beside her.
How many of them have the courage to quarrel in front of the Yan family?
Zhang Yuzhen was stopped by Su Mingli, and then she realized what the occasion was. When she thought that she had almost quarreled with Xu Tian just now, a layer of dense cold sweat instantly crawled up her spine.
"Su Weixin, aunt and relatives, it's better not to identify them randomly, otherwise others will laugh at our family for having no rules." After Xu Tian finished speaking, he ignored Zhang Yuzhen's family.
A family like the Yan family is indeed the most disciplined.
Compared to the Zhang Yuzhen family who are shameless in their relationships, even if Xu Tian is only Yan Jinsong's godson, if he is recognized by Mr. Yan, he can be regarded as half of the Yan family, which is indeed much more legitimate.
And no one can ridicule Xu Tian for clinging to the powerful. After all, Yan Jinsong is just an unpopular eldest son, and he was even kicked out of the Yan family company.
If Xu Tianruo really wanted to use the power of the Yan family to climb up, he would never choose him.
Zhang Yuzhen and Su Weixin stood awkwardly among the crowd. They could feel the mocking or contemptuous looks of the guests around them, but they did not dare to make any argument for themselves.
It started with Zhang Yuzhen, and the guests all presented their gifts one after another.
However, these gifts were either expensive supplements such as ginseng and deer antler, or commonplace items such as gold and jade, nothing unusual.
At first Mr. Yan would still say a few perfunctory words, but gradually he became impatient.
Except for the distinguished guests who gave gifts and exchanged a few pleasantries, the rest was left to the butler around them.
Xu Tian really didn't see any rare items on the antique street today. In the end, he picked the gold-sprinkled rice paper inherited from a century-old store in the shop on the street and packaged it together with supplements such as bird's nest and ginseng. Although he didn't care about it, he still didn't know how to do it.
An error occurred.
Because Yan Jinsong had not yet given the gift, Xu Tian could not give the gift he had prepared to Mr. Yan first, so he stood next to Yan Jinsong and did not go to the seat to get the gift box.
However, at this moment, Butler Xiao suddenly walked in from outside the banquet hall, holding a gift box in his hand.
"Master, this is the birthday gift given to you by Master Xu Tian. I don't know why it was placed in the security room outside the yard. I happened to see it and took it for him."
The smile on Xu Tian's lips froze for a moment.
It was a gift box that he deliberately placed in the security room. It was an item he bought from that strange young woman. At that time, he just picked a fancy dagger just to deal with her entanglement.
Naturally, such an unlucky thing cannot be given to Mr. Yan as a birthday gift, so in order to avoid trouble, he put the box in the security room outside and planned to take it back after the banquet.
He did not expect that the box he placed in the security room would be discovered by Butler Xiao, and he would take it into the inner house on his own initiative.
He looked sideways calmly, and out of the corner of his eye saw traces of the packaging and unpacking of his box.
Obviously, after Butler Xiao opened the box and inspected the contents, he found it was a dagger and deliberately took it to frame himself.
Giving away a dagger at an elder's birthday banquet would definitely make Mr. Yan furious.
Xu Tian looked at Butler Xiao's proud expression as his plot was successful, and a chill suddenly flashed across his eyes.
It seems that Butler Xiao must have benefited a lot from Yan Hongyu to do such a thing for him.
He came to the Yan family for the first time today. The other Yan family members must have a wait-and-see attitude towards him. Only Yan Hongyu, the guy who always wants to compete with him, would try to frame him and embarrass him.
Xu Tian wanted to take the gift box back, but Butler Xiao was faster and had already delivered the box to Mr. Yan before him.
"Master Xu Tian is here for the first time today. He must have prepared a generous gift."
Butler Xiao quietly raised everyone's expectations: "I'm also curious about what's inside."
"Master, please open it quickly and let us open our eyes too, right?"
When the other guests heard Butler Xiao's words, they all looked expectantly and focused on the box in Mr. Yan's hand.
Xu Tian has been subverting their perceptions since he entered the house. They can't wait to know what birthday gift Xu Tian will give to the old man of the Yan family.
So, under the expectation of everyone, Mr. Yan opened the exquisite gift box in his hand.
The moment the lid of the box was opened, the guests who were a few steps away from Mr. Yan took a deep breath.
Everyone looked unhappy when they saw what was inside.
Yan Jinsong and Su Xiuya leaned over and looked around curiously. When they saw the items inside the gift box, they trembled and their eyes were full of despair.
In the center of the gift box, there lay a shiny black dagger. The dagger was engraved with complicated patterns, which looked strange and sinister.
The next moment the dagger appeared in everyone's sight, everyone looked at Xu Tian with horror on their faces, as if they were looking at a monster.
After Mr. Yan saw the dagger clearly, his breathing suddenly became rapid and his body trembled slightly. He raised his head and looked at Xu Tian with sharp eyes like an eagle.
Before Mr. Yan could say anything, Zhang Yuzhen struck first.
"Xu Tian, you bastard, on a grand day like Mr. Yan's birthday party, you actually gave him a murderous weapon to celebrate his birthday. What are your intentions?"
"Xu Tian, you are too vicious. Even if he is not your biological grandfather, you can't curse him like this!"
Su Weixin was also afraid that the world would not be in chaos and he screamed, with such a heartbroken expression that even the best actor in China would be defeated if he saw it.
The old men sitting next to Mr. Yan are also prominent figures in Jiangshui City.
They also looked at Xu Tian in confusion, as if they didn't believe that this young man with a generous and decent manner could do such a rebellious thing.
Not to mention it's a big day like a birthday, even if you usually give gifts during holidays, you can't give a scary weapon like a dagger.
Xu Tian noticed Mr. Yan's anger, his heart sank, and he calmly explained:
"Grandpa, what is in this gift box is not the gift I want to give you.
"You still dare to quibble?"
Zhang Yuzhen jumped out again: "Butler Xiao and the housekeeper just said that this is your gift to Mr. Yan, do you still want to deny it now?"
"I really didn't expect you to be such a vicious person. Although the old man is celebrating his birthday happily, you gave him such disgusting things. Aren't you deliberately trying to cause trouble for others!"
Zhang Yuzhen was aggressive and even tried to involve Yan Jinsong and Su Xiuya.
"Sister, brother-in-law, how do you usually discipline your children? Are you doing something outrageous?"
"Or is it actually you who instigated Xu Tian to do this? You still hold a grudge because of what happened back then..."
"That's enough!" Yan Jinsong interrupted Zhang Yuzhen unbearably: "Don't slander me. How could I encourage Xiaotian to send a dagger to curse my father?"
He didn't expect that Xu Tian would give such a thing, so he turned his head and asked with a serious expression.
"Xiaotian, what's going on?"
Everyone's eyes fell on Xu Tian, as if they wanted to hear his explanation.
Xu Tian's face darkened slightly, but on the surface he was as calm as ever without any panic.
Yan Hongyu would plot against him on such an occasion, which caught him by surprise.
If he couldn't give a reasonable explanation for sending the dagger, there would definitely be no way to end today.
Just as Xu Tian's brain was racing and thinking about countermeasures, Mr. Song, who was sitting next to Mr. Yan, suddenly said:
"Bring me my reading glasses."
Mr. Song took the reading glasses handed to him by others, then reached into the box, as if he wanted to take out the dagger inside.
"Mr. Song, don't hold the unlucky things, let us throw them away!"
Zhang Yuzhen came over on her own initiative and reached out to grab the gift box, but Mr. Song slapped it away hard: "Don't move!"
Zhang Yuzhen retracted her hand nonchalantly, muttering in a low voice with an unconvinced look on her face:
"Isn't it just scrap metal? There's nothing interesting about it..."
Mr. Yan and the other old men around him also looked at Mr. Song in surprise, as if they couldn't understand what he wanted to do.
At this time, Mr. Song had already taken out the dagger from the box and looked at it carefully with his reading glasses.
After a while, Mr. Song suddenly slapped his thigh and shouted excitedly: