Chapter 302: Looking down at the pattern on the tiles, Huo Chuchu always started crying. (2)
Chapter 302: Looking down at the pattern on the tiles, Huo Chuchu always started crying. (2)
“I haven’t seen you in such a long time. You are my VIP of the day. Just stay with me.”
Old Mrs. Chen held Grandma Huo’s hand affectionately.
“Just let me know if you see anything that interest you.”
She didn’t care much about her other collections. What she liked the most were Gu Shishi’s work. If the Huo’s were to take a couple with them. They would double as gifts from their daughter-in-law.
It was Old Mrs. Chen’s intention to help them with their relationship.
Only those who had experienced it in the past would know how difficult it was for a girl to prop up a family without the backing of her relatives.
Mother Huo and Grandma Huo were surprised at the treatment that they have received.
“We can’t take what you like.”
“Chuchu, come and say hi to Grandma Chen.”
“Ah, I was just wondering who is that beautiful girl. So it is our Chuchu. Come over here, let Grandma Chen have a better look at you. You look even prettier than the last time I’ve seen you. When was that? Like three years ago? Have you gotten taller as well?”
Old Mrs. Chen was very affectionate toward her.
“Grandma Chen…”
Huo ChuChu had been focused on the paintings up until now. She smiled awkwardly at Old Mrs. Chen.
She saw the Ink Painting Guru stamp as soon as she had walked in and had been feeling dazed since.
She was completely absorbed in the shock of “My son-in-law is so mighty”, “No wonder she could lecture me, she is so mighty”, “To think that I was looking down on her before”….
At that moment, she summoned up her courage and asked curiously, “Old Mrs. Chen, where did you get these paintings from? Did you buy them?”
She knew that Gu Shishi had a shop on Taobao. She had felt that it wasn’t grand enough and even talked to her about selling her work through official high-end channels for paintings.
Gu Shishi response was that she did not have a lot of work and, with the exception of auctioning them, the channels didn’t matter all that much.
Huo Sishen didn’t quite get it at the time. She even though she’d buy a few from Taobao to support her future son-in-law.
But she had never seen anything for sale and the shop always indicated that it was out of stock.
When she saw the room full of paintings and most of them were the ones that she had seen listed as out of stock on Taobao or posted to Gu Shishi’s friend’s circle as sold, she was shocked. She suddenly understood what Gu Shishi was saying.
The channel didn’t matter. She still ended up selling them to the wealthy families!
To think that Grandma Chen would buy things on Taobao…
“That is a long story.”
Old Mrs. Chen loved talking about it.
Holding Huo ChuChu with her left hand and hooking Grandma Huo with her right, she told the stories in details about how Chen Kexin had bought her her birthday gift and how she had subsequently asked her granddaughter to contact the guru and bought more of her work afterward, etc.
She did not mention Gu Shishi’s identity nor her streaming channel.
Old Mrs. Chen didn’t even know about the streaming channel herself.
Not wanting her grandmother to get addicted to the internet, Chen Kexin had never once mentioned it to her.
Even so, Huo ChuChu was still dazed by what she had heard.
No wonder she felt that Chen Kexin was acting strange during the pool party.
Chen Kexin had always been closed to Gu Wushuang and Luo Pingting in the past. When she returned from her study after four years, she was even more distanced with her other friends except for the two of them.
But that day, Chen Kexin hung around Gu Shishi and even let her drew the red plum on her back, thus bringing about the ‘tattoo’ trend afterward.
If Chen Kexin knew of Gu Shishi, then Old Mrs. Chen… knew about it as well?
Huo Sishen gave Old Mrs. Chen a surprised look.
She heard her mother chiming in. “I did see the Four Sons Offering Up Mythical Peaches the other day and was very impressed by it. The skill was mature, the strokes smooth, the characters were lively. I told my mother after I have returned that too. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to make your banquet that day and didn’t have the chance to see it for herself.”
Old Mrs. Huo wasn’t feeling well that day and didn’t attend the banquet.
Old Mrs. Chen’s eyes beamed. “Well, she will be able to see it today.”
Naturally, she wanted to show off for Gu Shishi.