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Xie Jingchen, after taking a shower, entered the room and saw his wife sitting on the bed with a colorful large carpet spread out in front of her, displaying various items on it, the most eye-catching of which were, of course, the shiny gold necklace and golden balls.
He promptly locked the room door, though most of the family had already gone to sleep, as these were their personal possessions that didn’t need to be known by everyone.
Seeing his little wife magically produce so many items... and, the items laid out on the bed were not cheap at all!
"Brother Chen, come here~" Zhang Shan Ni was feeling troubled about what to give to Xiao Si, as these two children were at a sensitive age, she couldn’t afford to treat them differently.
She noticed her husband entering the room, her worried almond-shaped eyes suddenly brightening!
"Choosing gifts?" Xie Jingchen guessed when he saw the items on the colorful carpet.
"Yes, I was thinking of preparing some little things to give away since our whole family will be going out. Brother Chen, what do you think we should choose for Xiao Si? It’s easier to pick for others, both women and men, but for Xiao Si, a boy under ten, it really troubles me! What should we give him?"
Speaking, Zhang Shan Ni’s eyebrows furrowed even more, clearly distressed.
"Xiao Si is still young, no need for something too fancy." Xie Jingchen frowned, thinking it’s not good for his wife to spoil the children too much, "Choose something practical, like pencils would be a good practical gift!"
While saying this, he picked up a women’s watch, which had a genuine leather strap and looked unremarkable, yet the watch face seemed to have a bit of gold plating?
"...I’ll think of it myself." Pencils, is that a gift?
Zhang Shan Ni was frustrated. Seeing her husband scrutinizing the watch she had prepared for her little aunt, she had chosen the most ordinary, common brand, seeing her husband’s furrowed brows, there shouldn’t be anything... unfitting, right?
She leaned forward to inspect but saw nothing unusual, so she directly asked, "Is there something wrong with the watch? I was planning to give it to our child..."
"This is, how much gold is used for decoration?"
"Uh, not gold, Brother Chen, gold has a darker yellow tone, this ring is rose gold, well, it’s just gold-plated for looks, it’s not valuable." Zhang Shan Ni explained.
Xie Jingchen stared silently at his wife, even just the ’watch’ itself was valuable. His wife always had some misconceptions...
He tenderly stroked his wife’s pregnant belly, his eyes a brooding deep, "As long as you like it, just make sure our child doesn’t flaunt it everywhere."
"Oh~" Zhang Shan Ni glanced at her husband, feeling that his mood seemed a bit strange... but seeing his gesture and casual demeanor, she didn’t think too deeply.
"Brother Chen, I’m planning to give Sister Xiaxia, Sister Yanzi, and Sister Fei each a small scarf, what do you think?"
Zhang Shan Ni pulled out the towels, all relatively old-fashioned ’classic styles’, this era of course did not have them, but relatively trendy cities weren’t without them either.
The one she held in her hand, a dull grey checked cotton towel, she had seen people using it in the county town.
Of course, others had genuinely worn theirs out, whereas hers were deliberately made to look old.
"Pick relatively ordinary colors, like these brightly colored ones should not be given away. It’s best to pick the towels." Towels can generally be handmade, so various styles appearing was still plausible!
But for things like silk or cotton scarves, due to the technology of the time not being up to par, the likelihood of their appearance was extremely low.
"Yeah, yeah, I’ll follow your lead."
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