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The two hailed a taxi at the entrance of the residential compound and headed straight for the city center.

Because there were outsiders present, Shen Weilan reverted to her aloof and icy expression, and said to the driver in a cold tone:

"Master, go to Vivi's Bakery in the city center."

Jiang Feng sat next to her and glanced at Shen Weilan's phone screen with some curiosity.

That's when I realized she had already ordered the cake.

"Wei Lan, you...you ordered Mom's birthday cake in advance?"

Jiang Feng asked, somewhat surprised.

Shen Weilan turned her head away, rolled her eyes at him, and snorted coldly, "If we take a taxi there now to buy it, the driver won't have enough time to cook it, and we'll have to wait in line for several hours."

"You definitely need to agree on the style and pay a deposit in advance!"

Finally, she added smugly, "You really are a complete idiot!"

"Well……"

Jiang Feng scratched his head awkwardly.

Fine, I've inexplicably gained the nickname "pighead."

Oh well, for the sake of my sister, I'll let her be a pig-headed ...

"You've already ordered the cake, so what should we buy for the birthday present?"

"Mom has worked so hard all these years, how about we go buy her a big gold bracelet?"

No older generation of women dislikes gold.

Although a large gold bracelet costs more than 20,000 yuan, Jiang Feng thought that as long as it made his mother happy, this amount of money was nothing!

Shen Weilan nodded.

"We can buy the gold bracelet; Aunt Liu will definitely be very happy."

"I'm also planning to buy Aunt Liu a set of toiletries, and then pick out a few anti-fatigue and moisturizing face masks and hand creams."

As she said this, a hint of heartache flashed in her eyes.

"I noticed that Aunt Liu's hands were rough and chapped from carrying goods in the supermarket every day."

"Aunt Liu usually tries to save money when buying blood-nourishing medicine for us, and she can't even bear to use a bottle of Dabao that costs tens of yuan."

Hearing Shen Weilan's meticulous words.

Jiang Feng's heart skipped a beat, and an indescribable feeling of emotion instantly washed over him.

Yes!

Even he, as the son, didn't notice these details!

Wei Lan saw it all and remembered it.

Jiang Feng took a deep breath, looked at Shen Weilan earnestly, and said in a low and sincere voice, "Weilan, thank you."

"Thank you for being in this family, thank you for being so good to Mom."

Shen Weilan simply shook her head, gazing at the traffic outside the window, her voice soft yet firm: "No need to thank me. It's Auntie's birthday, so it's only right that I do these things."

How could she not be grateful?

For more than ten years, she has lived in the Jiang family as an orphan with no blood relation to them.

Uncle Jiang and Aunt Liu never treated her like an outsider, and gave her countless warmth and care!

Even though the Jiang family was just an ordinary family, they always treated her and Jiang Feng equally in terms of the allocation of resources for martial arts cultivation.

Sometimes, because she was a girl and had a weak constitution, Aunt Liu would even put the best piece of meat from the exotic beast into her bowl.

They never slighted or mistreated her in the slightest because she wasn't their biological daughter!

Shen Weilan recalled an incident that happened a few years ago.

That time, my aunt came to visit.

At the dinner table, the snobbish woman openly and subtly mocked Jiang Jianguo and Liu Aifang, saying they were senile.

"Aifang, I'm not trying to be mean as your sister-in-law!"

"Your family is already poor, why did you waste all those qi and blood tonics on a woman from another family?!"

"No matter how beautiful or talented Shen Weilan is, she'll still marry into someone else's family and become someone else's wife—a money-losing burden!"

"You've invested so much in her now, will you even be able to recoup your investment in the dowry later?!"

Shen Weilan remembered it clearly.

That day, Aunt Liu, who was usually very amiable, actually got so angry that she snapped back at her!

"Our Weilan isn't a commodity!"

"If she gets married in the future, neither of us will accept a single penny of dowry from anyone else!"

"However, if Weilan meets a man who truly treats her well in the future, Lao Jiang and I will prepare a generous dowry for her, even if we have to sell everything we own!"

"Let her marry into her husband's family in a grand and glorious manner; we will absolutely not let her suffer the slightest grievance in her in-laws' home!"

That night.

Shen Weilan locked herself in her room and cried all night, covering herself with the blanket.

That was the time she cried the most in all these years.

Aunt Liu's words were deeply imprinted in her heart, and she would never forget them for the rest of her life!

……

After half an hour.

The taxi stopped on the pedestrian shopping street in the city center.

Jiang Feng and Shen Weilan first went to Weiwei Bakery to pick up a three-tiered handmade fresh fruit cake. The cake also had a blessing on it: Happy Birthday, Mom!

Next, the two went to Chow Tai Fook jewelry store.

In this era of advanced martial arts, although the price of gold is not as high as other scarce resources, it has still reached 1,000 yuan per gram.

Jiang Feng didn't even blink, and immediately spent 30,000 yuan to pick out a 30-gram gold bracelet for his mother!

Looking at the 30,000 yuan that had been deducted from my WeChat balance.

He, however, seemed completely unconcerned.

Money? You can always earn more after you've spent it!

After leaving the jewelry store, Shen Weilan went to a beauty store and carefully selected a set of face masks and hand cream worth over a thousand yuan.

Shen Weilan wanted to pay, but Jiang Feng paid first.

His explanation was that since you paid for the cake, I should pay for the face mask and hand cream instead!

Shen Weilan did not refuse.

So the two of them, carrying their bags, prepared to take a taxi home.

While passing by a Heilan Home menswear store on the street corner.

Jiang Feng glanced at the clothes in the shop window, and suddenly the image of his father Jiang Jianguo's faded old jacket flashed into his mind.

"Dad hasn't bought any new clothes in almost a year. Since my uncle and his family are coming today, he has to dress smartly."

Without saying a word, he pulled Shen Weilan into the store, and with a flourish of his pen, spent over two thousand yuan to pick out two sets of clothes with crisp fabric for his father.

The two carried their belongings and walked along the pedestrian street toward the intersection.

When passing by a large chain of high-end martial arts clothing stores called "Martial Arts Edge".

Jiang Feng suddenly stopped and turned around to ask, "Wei Lan, shall I buy you a new martial arts uniform too?"

Shen Weilan glanced at the luxurious storefront, quickly shook her head, and refused outright: "No need, I still have two sets of martial arts uniforms issued by the school, which is enough for my usual training."

The clothes in these high-end boutiques are absolutely astronomical in price.

Jiang Feng curled his lip: "You've been wearing those two martial arts uniforms for over a year, and the cuffs are all pilled from washing them."

Without saying a word, he grabbed his sister's hand and walked straight into the store.

"Teacher Li mentioned in class that he would officially begin teaching us martial arts next week!"

"We'll be doing real sparring then, so we definitely can't keep wearing school uniforms; we'll have to change into martial arts uniforms."

"Let's each buy a brand new martial arts uniform today!"