Chapter 170: The Hundred Years Painting and Everyone's Feelings

  Just as Yu Jia was about to go upstairs, everyone was guessing what kind of birthday gift she would give to Old Master Yu.

  You Chao Lin had thoroughly understood by now that the oil painting she gave to Old Master You was not well-received. She couldn't help but silently blame her daughter, You Qing, for sending such a thing. Why did she have to send an oil painting? Especially since before this, You Qing had said that this Josephine Wall or whatever her name was, was an outstanding figure in modern British oil painting, and that the painting full of magical style, "The Lake Fairy", was deeply loved by young people in Britain.

  In Yu Chaolin's view, whether British young people like it or not, she doesn't care. What she cares about is whether Old Man Yu likes it or not. Now it seems that although Old Man Yu hasn't explicitly said so, from his expression, you can tell he doesn't like this painting.

  "Ah... This year, the birthday gift that my siblings and I gave to Grandfather is probably the one he likes the least in our family." Yu Chaolin secretly sighed with regret. The corner of her eye suddenly caught sight of her third brother, Yu Chaosheng, and she thought: "Third brother is a workaholic and has never understood Grandfather's thoughts. Maybe this time, the birthday gift they gave to Grandfather will be even less to his liking than the oil painting I gave him..." The more she thought about it, the more possible it seemed, and her gloomy mood suddenly lifted. As long as she wasn't the worst, she would be satisfied.

  "Big brother, what kind of birthday gift do you think Third Brother will give to Old Master?" Yu Chaofu and Yu Chaogui were also whispering to each other, guessing what kind of birthday gift the Yu Chaoxiang family would give to Old Master. "Don't let them steal the thunder from your purple sand teapot."

  "Your golden Buddha can't even steal the spotlight from my purple sand pot, let alone the gift that Old Three and his family gave. How could it possibly steal the spotlight from my purple sand pot?" Yu Chaogui seemed confident, "Old Three is a workaholic, where would he have the time to buy birthday gifts for Grandfather? If I'm not mistaken, he must have asked Yu Jia to go to Yongcheng's antique street to buy antiques and paintings. And as far as I know, there's nothing in Yongcheng's antique street that can compare to my 'Pine Crane Longevity' purple sand pot."

  "Nothing is absolute, big brother, don't be too confident." Yu Chaofu said with a smile.

  His second brother's questioning made Yu Chaogui somewhat unhappy, and he hummed: "If you don't believe it, let's wait and see. Let's see if the birthday gift that Yu Jia gave to Old Master is more precious than my set of Songhe longevity purple sand pot!"

  Not only Yu Chaofu, Yu Chaogui and Yu Chaolin were waiting for the birthday gift that Yu Jia was about to take out, but also Yu Chaoxiang and his wife were anxiously waiting.

  Yu Jia's mother, Sun Xiaowen, bears a 70% resemblance to Yu Jia. Although she is over 40 years old, due to good maintenance, she doesn't look old at all and seems like a woman in her thirties with lingering charm. At this moment, she was quietly complaining to her husband: "I reminded you early on that we should prepare gifts for Old Master's birthday, but you forgot until last week when you asked Jia'er to buy gifts on Antique Street. Alas, I'm worried that Jia'er might have bought fake goods. Losing some money is nothing, what I fear is that it will displease Old Master and make your siblings laugh at us."

  Yu Chaoxiang sighed and said, "Things have come to this, we can only pin our hopes on Jia'er now. I don't expect her to buy anything good, just hope she doesn't buy fake goods. Alas, thinking about it, this is all my fault..."

  Just as everyone was guessing and whispering, Yu Jia finally came down from upstairs. Everyone immediately became interested, and their eyes all turned to her hands at the same time. In her hands, she was holding a scroll-like thing that looked like a calligraphy painting.

  Everyone couldn't help but start guessing what kind of painting Yu Jia had in her hand. As for Yu Chaoxiang and his wife, they were anxious because they were worried about the authenticity of this painting.

  "Grandpa, this is a birthday gift from our whole family." Before even reaching Old Master Yu's side, Yu Jia raised the painting in her hand and waved it around.

  "Oh, a painting?" Old Master Yu had already put on his reading glasses and saw the painting in Yu Jia's hand, couldn't help but chuckle and nodded repeatedly: "Good, good, you have filial piety, knowing I love paintings. Quick, quick, bring it over for me to take a look."

  "Grandfather, this is a longevity painting. We hope you can live to be 100 years old and always be healthy." Yu Jia said as she quickly walked in front of Old Master Yu, placing the rolled-up longevity painting on the table, then untied the small red string tied around it, slowly unrolling it on the table.

  "Baizhoutu? Not bad, not bad." Old Master Yu nodded and smiled.

  "I thought Third Brother had given Grandfather an antique painting, but it's actually something new." Yu Jia had just revealed the mounted part of the painting, and Yu Chao was already shaking his head with a gentle smile. Although he didn't know much about paintings, because Old Master Yu liked antiques and paintings, he had also done some research in this area. Now, seeing the mounting part of this longevity picture, he knew it was a new item. He couldn't help but put his mind at ease, thinking that the longevity picture Yu Jia took out was far inferior to his own "Pine Crane Longevity" Yixing teapot.

  "Something new? Hehe, I hope it's not a fake?" Yu Chao Lin also put down her guard at this time. Although the oil painting she gave to Old Master Yu was not popular, after all, it was still an authentic piece. If the longevity picture presented by Yu Jia Xiang was a counterfeit, then the one who would undoubtedly be at the bottom of the list this year would be the Yu Chao Xiang family. Just thinking about escaping her fate of being at the bottom, Yu Chao Lin was overjoyed.

  Yu Chaoxiang and his wife did not speak, but only looked at each other and then let out a long sigh.

  Mr. You raised an eyebrow when he saw the new painting, but his city was very deep and didn't show any dissatisfaction, still smiling.

  You Jia didn't notice the expressions and whispers of the crowd, she continued to unfold the centenarian picture at a steady pace.

  When they saw the rice paper, before seeing the words, Yu Chaogui, Yu Chaofu and Yu Chaolin, the three siblings, smiled again. Because they were deeply influenced by Old Master Yu, they could see at a glance that this rice paper was a product of modern times, and it was also very common, inferior rice paper that can be found in ordinary stationery stores.

  "There's no doubt that Third Brother bought a fake one this time." The Yu siblings whispered to each other, all of them looking at Yu Chaosheng with schadenfreude.

  Yu Chaoxiang and his wife's hopes were completely shattered at this moment, their faces instantly turned extremely ugly.

  At this moment, Yu Jia revealed the first row of longevity characters in the Baizhou painting in front of everyone!