Chapter 269: Five Yuan Red Envelope
"Hey!" Hailey immediately knelt on the red carpet and kowtowed respectfully.
"Wishing Mom an abundance of blessings, longevity like the flowing East Sea, and a life as everlasting as the ancient pines on South Mountain!"
"Good! Very good!" Fiona waved her hand, and the butler quickly handed over the red envelope, which looked quite thick.
"Hehe, how much is it?" Hailey couldn't stop smiling and opened it immediately.
After counting, it turned out to be two thousand yuan. Hailey was extremely happy, "Thank you, Mom, you're so generous."
Taking advantage of the situation, Fiona said to everyone, "Regardless of whether they are descendants of the Ashford family or not, anyone who kowtows and wishes me a happy birthday will receive a red envelope!"
After hearing this, some people were eager to try, but they were stopped by the people around them.
Without anyone kowtowing, the situation became awkward.
"Where's Leo? Hurry up and let Leo earn a red envelope!" Fiona said with a smile on her face.
Hailey immediately went to look for Leo's figure and found him sitting in a corner with a low mood. She quickly pulled him up and said, "What's wrong with you? It's Grandma's birthday, pay your respects!"
Leo wasn't interested, but he didn't want to embarrass his mother and grandmother, so he walked to the red carpet and kowtowed sincerely.
"Wishing Grandma a long and healthy life of a hundred years more!"
"Hmm! Very good!" Fiona smiled widely and instructed the butler, "Leo is so well-behaved, give him two red envelopes!"
The obedient butler handed over two red envelopes, but Leo didn't take them and casually said, "Give it to someone else."
"This child!" Fiona was extremely helpless. Then she waved to Alexander, "Alexander, it's your turn! Your family of eight can kowtow together!"
"I'll prepare eight red envelopes right away," the obedient butler said, deliberately taking out the thinnest eight red envelopes.
However, because he had too many red envelopes in his hand, the newly drawn eight thinnest red envelopes accidentally fell to the ground.
One of the red envelopes wasn't sealed properly, and some notes stuck out.
It turned out to be a five yuan bill!
Five yuan? Everyone thought they must have read it wrong.
Fiona felt a bit embarrassed. She didn't expect the money to be revealed and questioned the butler with a composed face, "What's going on here? Who prepared such a small red envelope?"
"Probably... someone was joking..." the butler hurriedly picked up the thinnest red envelope and muttered, "I clearly instructed to prepare the smallest one with fifty yuan, how did it become five yuan?"
Fifty yuan? Fifty yuan isn't much!
No one could believe it. This five yuan red envelope was actually prepared by the old lady for her grandson, granddaughter-in-law, and great-granddaughters.
Since everyone had already seen the amount, Fiona didn't care about saving face and said with a stern face, "I just said that whether they are descendants of the Ashford family or not, they can kowtow and wish an old lady a happy birthday. However, there should be a distinction between family and outsiders. Hailey is my own daughter, Leo is my own grandson, and Alexander is my... grandson. Of course, their red envelopes should be more. As for the others, they are outsiders and naturally should receive a lesser amount in their red envelopes. Anyone would make this distinction, and it's also a way to show respect."
Everyone's emotions exploded upon hearing this.
"Are the others all outsiders? Isn't Ivy your daughter-in-law?"
"And aren't these six little girls your great-granddaughters?"
Fiona smirked, "I must confess, they really aren't!"
With that, she threw two paternity test reports in front of everyone.
"Now, everyone, open your eyes wide and take a close look. Both paternity test reports clearly state that Ivy's six children are not biologically related to my grandson Alexander. Those six children are not descendants of the Ashford family. If I give them red envelopes, that's already a generous gesture. Are you still concerned about the amount of the red envelopes?"
One by one, everyone looked through the results of the paternity tests. After reading them, their disdainful gaze shifted towards Ivy.
"Ivy..." Alexander called out in disbelief. How did Fiona end up with these two paternity test reports?
Was this not clearly meant to humiliate him?
"I'm going to step out for a moment to take care of the children!" Ivy didn't care at all. She grabbed Lily and headed towards the door.
Everyone thought that Ivy was running away in embarrassment.
But in reality, Ivy went to take care of Lily's father who was ill.
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